Thursday 26 August 2010

Stereophonics re-visit Early Album


Stereophonics band to re visit their first two albums of special concerts. Stereophonics has arrived just as the flames of Britpop were dying down. Boys of Small town are writing about small town life, their possibility blast of material retains a marked innocence. 'Word Gets Around' and 'Performance And Cocktails' by fans are still much loved, with Stereophonics band return to their roots of unusual concerts.

The Welsh rockers their first two albums will play in full taking place on October 17th and 18th. One album per night, the band will rampage through early material alongside other tracks at the time.

The concerts come as the band mourn original drummer Stuart Cable. Stereophonics members played on both their opening albums but group the left after a fall out with Kelly Jones.

The two soon patched things up, and when Stuart Cable unhappily died kindly this summer the frontman gave an emotional eulogy at his funeral. Speaking about the forthcoming concerts, Kelly Jones said: “Since the first two albumsits over ten years were released. Listening back to them and all the b-sides and live tracks brought back a lot of memories."

"At Hammersmith Apollo to celebrate the albums will be playing two night every track and a selection of B-sides, in a live experience something we have never done. There's a lot to learn but it's gonna be rocking!”

Stereophonics band to play the following concerts:

October
17 London Hammersmith Apollo (Word Gets Around)
18 London Hammersmith Apollo (Performance & Cocktails)