Wednesday, March 24, 2004
March 23: Stereophonics - Performance and Cocktails
Home country: Wales
It may have had next to no impact in the U.S., but the Welsh rock scene is really big in Europe and the UK. I don't actually own any albums by Welsh bands that actually sing in Welsh, like Super Furry Animals and Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, but I do have this second album by the Stereophonics (whose name was a direct influence on the Animatronics, my band with Chris Friend in the summer of '99). If you've heard their more recent stuff, you may have a bad impression of the Stereophonics as a bad soft-rock band with a Rod Stewart fetish, but this album, the one that broke them in the UK, rocks. Very raw, hard power trio stuff. I recommend "Roll Up and Shine" or "Pick a Part That's New."
It may have had next to no impact in the U.S., but the Welsh rock scene is really big in Europe and the UK. I don't actually own any albums by Welsh bands that actually sing in Welsh, like Super Furry Animals and Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, but I do have this second album by the Stereophonics (whose name was a direct influence on the Animatronics, my band with Chris Friend in the summer of '99). If you've heard their more recent stuff, you may have a bad impression of the Stereophonics as a bad soft-rock band with a Rod Stewart fetish, but this album, the one that broke them in the UK, rocks. Very raw, hard power trio stuff. I recommend "Roll Up and Shine" or "Pick a Part That's New."
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