Stereophonics add second Cardiff date to greatest hits tour

Stereophonics have announced that they will play a second show at the Cardiff International Arena on the 7th December as part of their Decade In The Sun Greatest Hits tour, having sold out the first date in less than a week.

Beginning at Glasgow’s SECC on December 2nd, the band play a total of thirteen arena shows, climaxing with a huge closing date at London’s flagship live venue, the O2 Arena, on December 20th.

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 November 17th 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. 1album, ‘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.

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All tickets are priced at £29.50 (subject to booking fee).