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Super Furry Animals are to release their first recorded work together for seven years – a Euro 2016 single entitled BING BONG.

After reuniting last year, the band's first new music since 2009’s Dark Days/Light Years album, was recorded in Cardiff late last year and will be released on Friday, May 13 - a month before Wales kick off their Euro 2016 campaign in France.

Described as 'a reinvention of the totemic, communal anthem', further information on the single is to be announced in the coming weeks, with music, live performance and video remaining under wraps until the band conclude a series of imminent festival dates in the United States.

A band statement said: “Let’s come together this summer, in song and let that song be BING BONG. Please await further transmissions.”

The announcement of the Furries' single comes as the band confirmed they are to headline a festival in Toulouse days before Wales play their final Euro 2016 group match.

(Image: Huw Evans Picture Agency)

The self-confessed Welsh football fanatics will top the bill at the Rio Loco Festival in the French city on Saturday, June 18 – two days before Wales play what could be a vital final group game against Russia.

The Celtic-themed festival, now in its 21st year, will feature performances from musicians from Ireland, Scotland, Isle Of Man, Cornwall, Brittany and Wales.

Also playing the five-day festival, held at La Prairie des Filtres are Mercury Music Prize-winning Young Fathers, Irish folk legends The Chieftains, and US punk band The Dropkick Murphys.

Despite recent online reports that the Furries were to play a show in Bordeaux ahead of Wales’ opener against Slovakia the band have denied this was ever the case.

“Bordeaux was never on the cards,” said Super Furry Animals’ Cian Ciaran. “It was never happening.

“But we’ll all be over in France watching the matches,” added the Wales and Manchester City fan.

“I’m flying out to Bordeaux out on June 9 – I’m going to go up to Lens and then back down to Toulouse. Then off to the knockout stages and the final! Who knows.

“Look at Leicester who have stormed the Premier League. Manchester City could even win the Champions League , so it could be our year.”

Tickets for the Rio Loco Festival in Toulouse are available from www.rio-loco.org

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