Editing Gruff Rhys (section)

===Ffa Coffi Pawb===
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As a teenager in 1985, Gruff Rhys played drums for the North Wales band, Machlud, appearing at the Pesda Roc festival in Bethesda.<ref>{{cite news|last=Naylor|first=Tony|title=Fidget, schranz, doom – what? Folktronica not leftfield enough? Try this beginner's guide to obscure music genres|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/apr/17/tony-naylor-guide-to-obscure-music|newspaper=The Guardian|access-date=21 May 2014|date=16 April 2010}}</ref> After playing drums for the band Emily, Rhys found fame in Wales as the front man of [[Ffa Coffi Pawb]]. Translated, the name means 'everyone's coffee beans', though if said quickly in Welsh, it can sound like 'fuck off everyone' in English and Welsh combined.

On signing to [[Ankst]]musik, Ffa Coffi Pawb became one of the leading bands on the Welsh music scene during the [[Cool Cymru]] movement, and released three albums – ''Clymhalio'', ''Dalec Peilon'' and ''Hei Vidal!''.<ref>{{cite book|last=Owens|first=David|title=Cerys, Catatonia and the Rise of Welsh Pop|date=2011|publisher=Random House|isbn=9781448116362}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Elfyn|first=Bethan|title=Pre-Cool Cymru: the pioneering bands|date=9 July 2013 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/wales/posts/Pre-Cool-Cymru-the-pioneering-bands|publisher=BBC Wales|access-date=16 May 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Buckley|first=Peter|title=The Rough Guide to Rock|date=2003|publisher=Rough Guide, Penguin|location=London|isbn=1843531054|pages=[https://archive.org/details/roughguidetorock0003unse/page/1034 1034–1035]|edition=3rd|url=https://archive.org/details/roughguidetorock0003unse/page/1034}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Hill|first=Sarah|title=Blerwytirhwng?: The Place of Welsh Pop Music|date=September 2007|publisher=Ashgate|location=Cardiff, Wales|isbn=978-0-7546-5898-6|page=200}}</ref>

Rhys plays the guitar in an unusual style. Although he is right-handed, he learned to play left-handed on his brother's left-handed guitar. Once his brother left home, Rhys only had access to a right-handed guitar. As he had already learned to play left-handed, and rather than invert the nut and re-string it, he taught himself to play the right-handed guitar upside down so the bass strings are on the bottom. Today, Rhys still plays left-handed on an upside down right-handed guitar.<ref>[http://www.planetmagazine.org.uk/documents/PunkRockinBethesda-MalcolmLewis.pdf ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081202223925/http://www.planetmagazine.org.uk/documents/PunkRockinBethesda-MalcolmLewis.pdf |date=2 December 2008 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p018xtlj |title=BBC Radio 6 Music – Mary Anne Hobbs, Gruff Rhys returns, Gruff Rhys: Key of Life interview with Mary Anne Hobbs (Extended Cut) |publisher=Bbc.co.uk |date=12 May 2013 |access-date=13 August 2014}}</ref>