Gruff Rhys is a songwriter, producer and award-winning storyteller from Bethesda in Wales who has consistently sought a variety of outlets for the spectrum of muses behind his creative flights. Formerly most well known as the frontman of Super Furry Animals – a band that has been able to achieve that rarest of mixes, artistic adventure with popular devotion – he blended fuzz-filed rock, pure harmonies and cutting edge electronics, while with his other band, Neon Neon, Rhys has documented the lives of maverick car maker John DeLorean and Italian activist and publisher Giangiacomo Feltrinelli in widescreen style.

His solo career has seen him reach new heights – the Top Ten charting Seeking New Gods climbed lyrically and musically on to totally new terrain, having created a conceptual record about his own mountain that became his most critically and commercially successful solo album yet. His recent album ‘Sadness Sets Me Free’ was released early 2024 and received rave reviews with a consensus of it being amongst his finest records.