OK Composers: Stereophonics: Performance And Cocktails (V2)
Johnny Cigarettes, New Musical Express, 6 March 1999
WE NEED bands like Stereophonics. Or so the cynical consensus would have you believe. Because, even if you couldn't pick them out of a post-Britpop identity parade, they provide an important service as one of those decent, if unspectacular, bands that keep the music scene ticking over in the breathing spaces between the high rollers.
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