Word Gets Around - Stereophonics

Most people who have heard of The Stereophonics will know that they're Welsh. For anyone who hasn't heard of them, these 3 blokes are in a "band" and they're "Welsh". Not by choice, like most of the Welsh-cum-Kiwi Rugby team, who qualify as a welsh national by visiting an old person in Ysbyty Gwynedd or buying some tissues in a welsh petrol station once. These three chums are truly welsh, and you can tell by their names too. Kelly Jones is the distinctively-enunciated one who sings and has nice eyebrows, Bassist Richard Jones is the one everyone confuses with Drummer Stuart Cable, until they notice how silly Stuart's ...  Read the complete review

I have been an avid phonics fan ever since the tender age of 12, where courtesy of my father, i saw them at the v festival 97 playing on the NME stage. Seeing I was fixated by them (and not the spicegirls, my dad was impressed!) and bought me this album for my 13 birthday later that year,and i still have it and play it to death still. The album was written by the three founding members of the band, Kelly Jones (lead guitar and vocals, Richard Jones bassist and Stuart Cable, on the drums). Most of the songs are written about general everyday life in their hometown of Cwmanam. More life in a tramps vest, was written by Kelly when he worked at a local ...  Read the complete review

Well they started out as The Tragic Love Company playing at the Working men’s clubs in South Wales in and around Cwmaman in South Wales. They decided a change of name was in order and so switched to the Stereophonics after seeing the name on Stuart’s Grandmothers old gramophone. They were all working full time jobs with Kelly writing songs while he spent his days working on the market stalls. The whole of this album was written on paper bags while he past the days on the fruit stall and then came the big break, Richard Branson heard of them and persuaded them to sign for his record label V2. Within weeks they were in the studio recording this there ...  Read the complete review

Released August 1997) Label: V2 Number of Tracks: 12 Play Time: 42.03 Genre: Alt Rock/Brit Pop The Band Kelly Jones (Vocals, Guitar) Stuart Cable (Drums) Richard Jones (Bass) Tony Kirkham (Keyboards) Scott James (Guitar) This is the debut album from the welsh rockers and it will juts blow you away. The band who started out in the small town of Cwmaman, in South Wales, under the name 'Tragic Love Company', soon changed to 'Stereophonics' and where singed in 1996 by V2. What makes this debut album so special is the raw energy and completely breath taking lyrics penned by Kelly Jones. He ...  Read the complete review

Following on from my review of 'Just Enough Education to perform' by the Stereophonics here I review their first album Word Gets Around. ~ History ~ Although I have written this before I will say it again for the persons not in the know. In the early to mid-nineties the band went under the guise of 'Tragic Love Company' having been formed many years earlier as kids. In 1996 the band picked up there first record deal. The band consists Kelly Jones, Richard Jones and Stuart Cable. In August of 1997 they released this album 'Word Gets Around'. After this album they went onto release 'Performance and Cocktails' (I might get time to review this ...  Read the complete review