Performance and Cocktails

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Performance and Cocktails
Studio album by Stereophonics
Released	March 8, 1999
Genre	Rock, Britpop
Length	50:55
Label	V2
Producer	Marshall Bird
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link NME (6/10) Pitchfork Media (4.4./10) link Q magazine Rolling Stone link
Stereophonics chronology
Word Gets Around (1997) Performance and Cocktails (1999) Just Enough Education to Perform (2001)
Singles from Performance and Cocktails
"The Bartender and the Thief" Released: November 9, 1998 "Just Looking" Released: February 22, 1999 "Pick a Part That's New" Released: May 23, 1999 "I Wouldn't Believe Your Radio" Released: August 23, 1999 "Hurry Up and Wait" Released: November 8, 1999

Performance and Cocktails is Stereophonics second album. It was released by V2 March 8, 1999.

The album was a surprise commercial success giving the Stereophonics three straight top ten singles in the British charts with "The Bartender and the Thief" reaching number three, and both "Just Looking" and "Pick a Part That's New" reaching number four. The album itself was a big success, topping the UK Albums Chart. The album was sponsored by Fender guitars used throughout the album, a brave move from an "indie" band.

All three members of the band were given equal credit for writing all the songs on this album.

Contents 1 Recording 2 Album cover 3 Track listing 4 External links

[edit] Recording

The songs were variously recorded at Real World Studios in Bath, Parkgate in Sussex and Rockfield in Monmouth.

[edit] Album cover

The cover photograph was taken by Scarlet Page in autumn 1998 at a football pitch under the Westway in London, and was inspired by an earlier Annie Leibovitz photograph of a couple kissing outside a prison. The British journalist Tony Barrell did extensive research in 2007 to find the female model in the foreground. In the Sunday Times on November 11, 2007, he revealed the previously unknown identity of the model as 23-year-old Lucy Joplin. In an interview with Barrell, Joplin explained that the "faraway look" in her eyes was the result of an evening consuming absinthe and opium, and that she was paid just £75 in cash for the shoot.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Roll Up and Shine" – 3:58
2. "The Bartender and the Thief" – 2:54
3. "Hurry Up and Wait" – 4:40
4. "Pick a Part That's New" – 3:33
5. "Just Looking" – 4:13
6. "Half the Lies You Tell Ain't True" – 2:55
7. "I Wouldn't Believe Your Radio" – 3:50
8. "T-Shirt Sun Tan" – 4:04
9. "Is Yesterday, Tomorrow, Today?" – 4:02
10. "A Minute Longer" – 3:46
11. "She Takes Her Clothes Off" – 3:55
12. "Plastic California" – 4:30
13. "I Stopped to Fill My Car Up" – 4:29

[edit] External links

• Homepage of the Stereophonics

v • d • e Stereophonics Band Members: Kelly Jones • Richard Jones • Javier Weyler • Tony Kirkham • Adam Zindani Studio albums Word Gets Around (1997) • Performance and Cocktails (1999) • Just Enough Education to Perform (2001) • You Gotta Go There to Come Back (2003) • Language. Sex. Violence. Other? (2005) • Pull the Pin (2007) Live album Live from Dakota (2006) Singles Please see the full discography DVDs Live at Cardiff Castle (1998) • Live at Morfa Stadium (1999) • Call Us What You Want But Don't Call Us in the Morning (2000) • Day at the Races (2002) • Language. Sex. Violence. Other? (2006) • Rewind (2007) Record labels: V2 Records • Vox Populi Records (US) • RMG Chart (Ireland) • Sony Music (France) • Rough Trade (Germany)