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Rhys tells all about solo album number seven
All photos: Mark James
It was, as they say, a different time. Back in October 2018,
Gruff Rhystook his band on a three week tour of California. Their mission was to knock a series of songs that Rhys – sometime
Super Furry Animals frontman, sometime solo artist – had penned into shape before heading into the studio.
“We had three weeks before recording when we were doing gigs every night and trying out the sounds live and rehearsing them in soundchecks and things,” he recalls, looking back on this time from his front room back in Wales towards the end of lockdown number three. “It’s something that would be difficult to get into that kind of shape during lockdown.“
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Review: Single Asian Female, Auckland Theatre Company
5 May, 2021 12:00 AM
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Kat Tsz Hung is a powerhouse as Pearl in Single Asian Female. Photo / Andi Crown.
NZ Herald
The gloriously realised set of
Single Asian Female is visible before the show begins – rows of beautiful lanterns glowing behind a luminous neon sign for the Golden Phoenix Cafe, the biggest example of the rich red that permeates the set.
Then once the lights dim, the sign transforms into a karaoke machine, and we are introduced to our heroine Pearl belting out
I Will Survive in broken English, drawing the audience into her story with a boisterous, bitter monologue sang to the tune of Gloria Gaynor s hit.