Super Furry Animals Reunite for First Live Show in a Decade at Dublin's 3Olympia

Super Furry Animals returned to the stage for the first full live show in ten years last night, taking over Dublin’s 3Olympia Theatre on Wednesday, May 6 as the opening date of their long-anticipated 2026 Supracabra tour.

For a band whose career was braided into the ’90s indie resurgence, the evening felt deliberately backward-facing: the Cardiff crew played a 22-song set drawn almost entirely from their earlier catalogue and did not include anything from the past 23 years. That curatorial decision kept the night rooted in the records and era that established their reputation rather than presenting new material or recent experiments.

After going on hiatus in 2010 — a break briefly punctuated by one-off reunions in 2015 and 2016 — Super Furry Animals announced last September that they would reconvene for the Supracabra tour in 2026. In the intervening years frontman Gruff Rhys pursued solo work while other members formed a new project, Das Koolies; the Dublin set made clear the reunion is more archival conversation than reinvention.

They opened the show with a quartet of familiar favourites: Wherever I Lay My Phone (That’s My Home), (Drawing) Rings Around The World, Do Or Die and Golden Retriever. From there the band moved through a string of early highlights — Hello Sunshine, Northern Lites, Play It Cool — threading deeper cuts and b-sides into the running order and closing the night with the ’90s b-side The Man Don’t Give A Fuck.

Setlist

Wherever I Lay My Phone (That’s My Home)
(Drawing) Rings Around The World
Do Or Die
Golden Retriever
Something 4 The Weekend
Focus Pocus / Debiel
If You Don’t Want Me To Destroy You
Ice Hockey Hair
Hello Sunshine
Northern Lites
Ymaelodi â’r Ymylon
Run! Christian, Run!
Juxtapozed With U
The Piccolo Snare
Fire In My Heart
Play It Cool
Receptacle For The Respectable
God! Show Me Magic
Mountain People
Slow Life
Night Vision
The Man Don’t Give A Fuck

The tour continues with back-to-back nights at Glasgow’s Barrowlands on Friday, May 8 and Saturday, May 9, before dates in Llandudno, London, Manchester and Cardiff later in May. Beyond those shows the band are billed for a one-off in Bristol in late June and festival-style appearances at Alexandra Palace Park and the TK Maxx Presents Live at Llangollen Pavilion in July. Visit here for tickets.

Outside the live dates, the group have been active on the reissue front: in October their seventh album Love Kraft was reissued on Cardiff label Strangetown Records, remastering the original 12 tracks and pairing them with rarities, including a previously lost track titled Rock N Roll Flu that features drummer Daf Ieuan on lead vocal.

Conversations about the band’s past surfaced elsewhere too. In recent months Super Furry Animals explained why they turned down offers to support Oasis and U2, as well as a proposed slot on Glastonbury’s Pyramid Stage, and they revisited an infamous Late Night With David Letterman appearance that involved a backstage altercation with Max Weinberg, then Letterman’s bandleader and Bruce Springsteen’s drummer.

Last night’s Dublin show did not attempt to rewrite the band’s history. Instead it presented a concentrated version of it: a setlist leaning into the records that made them singular in the ’90s, and a reunion that feels, at least for now, more archival stewardship than a forward push.