Tuesday 6 October 2009

kings of Cardiff Castle stereophonics


THE best way to look a band is on their home turf.
Seeing the STEREOPHONICS in their own manor in spectacular surroundings was even better.
And the band were on top form. New single Guiltness is a belter and the old hits in the set list got the 7,000-strong crowd singing along.
I shared a lift to the gig with KELLY JONES and he gave me a tour of his old stomping ground, including a pub where STEVE McFADDEN and ROSS KEMP former EastEnders Phil and Grant Mitchell saw the band before they had a record deal.
Where he bought me his showed his first guitar and joked about the High And Mighty clothes store where he got his threads as a kid.
Kelly said: "A local cafe we went on Friday and the bloke offered us his homemade lager. At another cafe the woman asked if we were famous. I said we were Artexers. She said, 'I thought you weren't'. It's good to be home."
The post gig tear up ended in the small hours.
Innocent is out on November 9, album Keep Calm And Carry On a week later.

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