Stereophonics

Stereophonics will follow up their hotly anticipated appearance at V Festival (16 & 17 August) with a UK greatest hits tour and album.

The band are set to play a total of twelve arena shows, including a concert at The NIA on Monday 15 December 2008. Tickets priced £29.50 plus booking and transaction fee.

The tour will revisit all the best moments from the band’s ‘decade in the sun’, from early classics like The Bartender And The Thief to songs from their latest UK no. 1 album Pull The Pin. This impressive canon of hits will also be brought together for a first ‘best of’ collection, released 17 November on V2.

Entitled Decade In The Sun: The Best Of Stereophonics, this is a timely collection that brings together all the band’s most memorable tracks. Available as single CD, deluxe double CD (set in hardback book) and DVD, Decade In The Sun spans all six of the band’s studio albums, five of which reached number one in the UK charts.

Kicking off with the 2005 UK no. 1 smash Dakota, the hits come thick and fast in an opening section that includes three top five singles -The Bartender and the Thief, Have A Nice Day and Handbags and Gladrags, as well as great songs from the band’s debut album Word Gets Around - Local Boy in the Photograph and A Thousand Trees.

A Decade In The Sun also features many of Stereophonics’ recent chart successes, such as It Means Nothing (taken from last year’s UK no. 1 album, Pull The Pin), Devil and Rewind, both of which appear on the 2005 no.1 album Language. Sex. Violence. Other?

The collection ends on a high, pairing 2001 songs Mr Writer and Step On My Old Size Nines, before closing with the 1997 classic Traffic. The album also features two brand new tracks (You’re My Star and My Own Worst Enemy), of which You’re My Star will be released as a single later this year.

In addition to the twenty tracks featured on the single CD version, the deluxe double CD set includes additional Stereophonics singles, fan favourites and rarities, while the DVD version includes all Stereophonics videos and exclusive bonus footage.

Stereophonics - Kelly Jones, Richard Jones and Javier Weyler – are one of the UK’s most successful bands. Originally formed in Cwmaman, South Wales in 1996, the band have transcended their Britpop beginnings to become giants of the British rock scene, amassing 11 top five hits, 21 top twenty hits, and 9 million worldwide album sales.