ARTIST · ROCK / ALT

Stereophonics

Small-town ballads with arena lung capacity—every lyric smells like rain and chip shops.

Rock
Alternative rock

Updated 27 October 2026

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Biography

Performance and Cocktails sharpened UK pub-rock empathy for stadium translation.

Dakota reignited US alternative curiosity long after Britpop headline wars.

Intimate acoustic sets prove dynamic control beneath overdrive default.

High-bitrate streams expose Marshall grind, tambourine slice, and vocal rasp texture.

Kelly Jones, Richard Jones, and Stuart Cable grew up together in Cwmaman, a Welsh mining village. Word Gets Around (1997) included A Thousand Trees and Local Boy in the Photograph, and Performance and Cocktails (1999) brought them to the top.

Just Enough Education to Perform (2001) included Have a Nice Day, and Language. Sex. Violence. Other? (2005) included Dakota. Cable died in 2010. The band continued with Kind (2019) and Oochya! (2022).

Stereophonics: recent news, 2020–2026

2022 Oochya!, their 12th studio album, was released in September.

Interesting facts about Stereophonics

01 Welsh rock band formed in Cwmaman in 1992; Kelly Jones is lead vocalist and guitarist.
02 Performance and Cocktails (1999) included Pick a Part That’s New and Just Looking.
03 Language. Sex. Violence. Other? (2005) included Dakota as a UK number-one single.
04 Drummer Stuart Cable died in 2010.
05 Oochya! was released in 2022.