Gruff Rhys

Huge thanks to the Truck Festival gang for bringing the Hotel Shampoo travelling roadshow to their festival this year.

JULY.

The hotel staff will be checking in between the 22nd and 24th of July, and hopefully, will also get to watch Jonny and John Grant at the very least.

Stop Press: In more surf related revelry, Thanks to @futurexwives for bringing in a VHS copy of John Carpenter’s 1974 space surfing smash Dark Star to the Frankfurt show for signing, unfortunately Mr Carpenter couldn’t attend.

Pledge produces plastic palm perfection.

Gruff Rhys and Y Niwl were inundated by Surf themed memorabilia on their recent tour in the U of K.

Having signed the Surf Pledge at the start of the tour, the first surfboard arrived in Liverpool, whilst shows in Bristol, Cambridge and London all featured plastic Palm trees that measured up to the 2 meter plus requisite.

Currently on tour in central europe, who knows what the magical mainland will produce in the coming days!

Niwl guitarist and solo star Alun Tan Lan measures up a tree at the Cambridge Palm Measuring Academy the CPMA a few days ago.

Separado! At SXSW

Separado! The pan-continental, parallel universal fantasy music documentary movie by Gruff Rhys and Dylan Goch, has been selected for this year’s SXSW film festival. Better still is their decision to screen the film during the SXSW music festival. If you’re headed that way or resident in the awesomely outlandish outlaw city of Austin, Texas, you can catch the film at these cinemas:

SXSW – Austin, Texas

Wednesday – March 16 -
10pm – Rollins Theatre

Thursday – March 17 -
8:30pm – Regal Arbor

Friday – March 18 -
9pm – Alamo Ritz 2

More Info Here

Separado! Returns to Mexico.

Meanwhile, after having the best time ever in Mexico City last year, the Separado! team return to their spiritual home for the Ambulante festival.

Ambulante is a travelling documentary film festival that tours 12 cities in Mexico with a selection of over 50 documentaries shown in over 140 venues from February to May 2011. Check here to find out where and when Separado! is screening.

Gruff Rhys and Dylan Goch will be in Guadalajara, Mexico from the 4th – 7th April for the screenings there.

ARGENTINA!

Having won the sound and vision award at Copenhagen’s CPH:DOX festival in 2010, Separado! has been selected for competition at the BAFICI film festival, Buenos Aires, Argentina in April 2011. Screenings to be announced soon. You can also get your eyes on a Soda Pictures DVD of the 80 minute film from somewhere on this web site, probably towards the  right of the screen…