Kelly Jones, Richard Jones and Stuard Cable started their career in UK, in 1992. They were originally known as Tragic Love Company, a name inspired by their favorite bands Tragically Hip, Mother Love Bone and Bad Company. They started out as a teenage cover band but in a few years they changed their style and also their name, becoming Stereophonics.
In August 1997, the band released their first studio album “Word Gets Around”, which reached #6 in the UK charts and was promoted by 5 singles. Two years later, Stereophonics received a Brit Award for the Best New Group. The next two albums “Performance and Cocktails” and “Just Enough Education to Perform” went directly to No. 1 in the UK charts, singles like “The Bartender and the Thief” and “Just Looking” being very well received by the public.
“You Gotta Go There to Come Back” is their fourth album, which was released in 2003 the year when they lost their drummer, Stuart Cable. Soon he was replaced by the present drummer Javier Weyler. Their fifth studio album, “Language. Sex. Violence. Other?”, was released in March 2005 and it marked their first recording in their new band formula. The band achieved their first UK number 1 with “Dakota”, the first single from “Language. Sex. Violence. Other?”
After headlining international festivals like Glastonbury, Isle of Wight, Rock Ness and V Festival, this year Stereophonics will join Manic Street Preachers, Nelly Furtado, Kaiser Chiefs and Roisin Murphy for B'ESTFEST 2008.
