Stereophonics w/Tour, Album, Reissues

Sixth studio album Pull The Pin arrives Sept. 9.

By Blurt Staff

Over the past eleven years, the Stereophonics (Kelly Jones, Richard Jones and Javier Weyler) have released five smash albums, scored twenty-one Top 20 hits and eleven Top 5 hits in the UK, racked up multi-million sales and toured relentlessly all over the world.  On September 9^th, Stereophonics will release their latest album, Pull The Pin, here in the U.S.

Pull The Pin, their first new release in America since 2005, is the band’s sixth studio album. Written by Kelly Jones and featuring the impressive lead single “It Means Nothing” the album combines the band’s rockiest and most melodic aspects in one blazing LP that comes out fighting on all fronts. A 12-track tour de force, it has already been called one of the definitive albums of their incredible decade plus career.

Produced by Kelly and Jim Lowe (Foo Fighters, Manic Street Preachers) and mixed by Spike Stent, (U2, Depeche Mode and Massive Attack) the album is instantaneous and razor-sharp, "In these times - when you can download a track before it’s even released - one song can’t be weaker than another, you have to make 'em all stand their own ground," enthuses Kelly Jones.

“I wanted to say something on this record, to start making story songs again – but with everything I've learnt in the past ten years. It was not to make a political comment, but just to observe what was going on around me in working class, real environments.  I think we've achieved the best parts of the band over the last ten years on this one record,”

“When you have been in a band so long, you tend to know what the next step is going to be before it happens,” commented bassist Richard Jones. “We trust each other, we’re all on the same page. We all just went in and played, and it was like going with the flow.”

With the collapse of their US record company V2 America, Stereophonics and Universal Music Group have decided to re-release their entire studio back catalogue through the band's imprint Vox Populi (Fontana/Universal) this fall.

All five of the band’s pervious studio albums (Word Gets Around, Performance & Cocktails, Just Enough Education to Perform, You Gotta Go There to Come Back & Language, Sex, Violence, Other? will be made available again during September and October. Kelly Jones first and only solo album Only The Names Have Been Changed will also be released for the first time in the U.S. this fall.  (See the full detailed release schedule below)

The Stereophonics will also return to these shores to celebrate their entire career with their first North American tour since 2005.  Beginning in Boston on September 5^th, the twelve city tour includes performances at Toronto’s Virgin Music Festival, Webster Hall in New York and the Henry Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles.

Stereophonics 2008 North American Tour Dates:

Sept 5^th                        Boston, MA                             Paradise Rock Club

Sept 7^th                        Toronto, ON                            Virgin Festival

Sept 8^th                        Philadelphia, PA                       Wold Café Live

Sept 9^th                        New York, NY                        Webster Hall

Sept 11^th                      Washington D.C.                      9:30 Club

Sept 12^th                      Pittsburgh, PA                          Mr. Small Theatre

Sept 13^th                      Chicago, IL                              The Metro

Sept 16^th                      Los Angeles, CA                      Henry Fonda Theatre

Sept 17^th                      San Francisco, CA                   Great American Music Hall

Sept 19^th                      Portland, OR                            Wonder Ballroom

Sept 20^th                      Vancouver, BC                        Commodore Ballroom

Sept 21^st                      Seattle, WA                             Showbox (Market)

Stereophonics U.S. Release Schedule:

September 9^th

Pull The Pin

September 23^rd

Word Gets Around & Performance & Cocktails

October 7^th

Just Enough Education to Perform & You Gotta Go There to Come Back

October 21^st

Language, Sex, Violence, Other? & Only The Names Have Been Changed (Kelly Jones Solo Album)