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1). The Peth ("The Thing") is a Welsh band formed in 2008 by Dafydd Ieuan (drummer with Super Furry Animals) as "an excuse to spend large chunks of his time in a recording studio" while other members of the Super Furry Animals were busy with solo projects. Ieuan asked former Super Furry Animals lead singer (and actor) Rhys Ifans to provide vocals for several tracks he had written, and recruited eight other people for the group, including Super Furry Animals bassist Guto Pryce, Meilyr Gwynedd, Osian Gwynedd, Mick Hilton, Dic Ben (was in an early incarnation of the Super Furry Animals) and Kris Jenkins (who frequently plays percussion for the Super Furries and has appeared on all the group's albums since 2001's Rings Around the World as well as contributing to the 1999 single "Northern Lites").

The group played their first concerts in 2008 in low-key venues in Wales before gigging in London and performing at that year's Green Man Festival.

Debut album "The Golden Mile" was released in August 2008. The album was recorded sporadically over a two-year period and tells of locations, characters and personal tales in a mile-long stretch between the studio and the Grangetown area of Cardiff. According to Ifans, everything needed to 'sustain' the recording was available on this stretch of road he dubbed The Golden Mile.

Written primarily by Ieuan, ‘The Golden Mile’ features ten tracks that range broadly between retro-psychedelic pop and muscular stoner rock with titles including ‘Stonefinger’, ‘Shoot on Sight (Flock of Zeigheils)’, ‘Turbotank’ and ’69 Fanny Street’.

2). 'Peth' is a 70's inspired occult stoner rock/psychedelic heavy rock band from Lago Vista, Texas formed in 2020.
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