PERFORMING concerts in the middle of the desert and having a final song that people walk out on is not normally the way to break the lucrative American market.
 But for Super Furry Animals their route to success has never been conventional. Yet the group from Wales are still a success and continuing to grow. Next month sees them release a remix album of their tracks and before then they play Liverpool Royal Court on March 27. They have always had a wheeling and dealing side to them and this illustrated all too clearly by the fact their new LP, Phantom Phorce, has been released at all. It is a selection of songs remixed from their Phantom Power album that was out in the summer of 2003. Guitarist Hew "Bunf" Bunford explains: "We asked them to do remixes for our DVD last year but the problem was that we couldn't really afford to pay them for it. "So we decided that the best thing to do to pay them was to do a compilation of all the remixes for the album and put that out separately. "Remixes cost a fortune. I shouldn't be in a band I should do that for a living instead." Liverpool is part of the last leg on their promotional tour that has taken in a large portion of the US. Rather than concentrate on big city gigs the band simply played everywhere. Bunf says: "It may look like we have not been playing in the UK for a while but we been all over the place. "We spent about two months over in America playing all over. It was the best tour that we have had over there. "It can be soul-destroying when you are playing all these places and no-one is turning up. You can look around and think, 'why the hell are we even here?' "This time we were playing these small clubs, about 500 people, but we were filling them. "Once we finish though I don't think we are getting a break. We want to start writing material for the next album and hope to get something out by the end of the year." | 
