{"id":528976,"date":"2026-04-13T18:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T18:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/528976\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T18:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T18:50:08","slug":"spider-man-actor-rhys-ifans-backs-film-project-about-90s-bands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/528976\/","title":{"rendered":"Spider-Man actor Rhys Ifans backs film project about 90s bands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Newly-found footage of rock bands from 1990s Wales is to be screened at a film festival as part of a Rhys Ifans-backed project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Hollywood star will join youngsters from the CellB youth programme when rare material from the so-called &#8220;Cool Cymru&#8221; era will be shown at the British Film Institute&#8217;s Rip It Up festival, at London&#8217;s Southbank Centre on 3 May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The &#8220;priceless&#8221; footage includes bands Ffa Coffi Pawb, Catatonia and Super Furry Animals. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ifans, originally from Ruthin, was the singer of Super Furry Animals before his acting breakthrough in 1997 crime caper Twin Town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newly-found footage of rock bands from 1990s Wales is to be screened at a film festival as part&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-528976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}