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Doubts remain over Stereophonics

By John Aizlewood, Evening Standard  16.11.07
 
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Crass: Kelly Jones hardly helped the cause with sour between-song mutterings

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They may be the 21st-century Status Quo but Stereophonics have five Number One albums to their name and the pulling power to warrant two Wembley Arena nights.

Yet doubts as to their substance and quality remain, hardly assuaged by last night's somewhat flat response to all but their best loved hits, Just Looking and Dakota. It was as if both band and audience had some fear of excitement.

When singer Kelly Jones wasn't idiotically suggesting that "we all go to the pub next door and get smashed" and indulging in lowest common denominator chanting, he hardly helped the cause with some sour and dour between-songs muttering: "They're all bastards," he mumbled, vis-a-vis some unspecified enemies before Pass The Buck.

Much worse, introducing It Means Nothing, a fairly thoughtful response to the 7/7 bombings, with a snide spot of silly London baiting was as boorish as it was crass.

For all the meat 'n' potatoes, black-and-white grind of the dreary Roll Up And Shine and the abysmal Mr Writer, their relentless but curiously admirable approach had its moments.

Deadhead was an exhilarating slice of punk thrash, Jones's voice is unique and believable, but the real epiphany came at the end with the swirly but spry Dakota, the only moment the keyboards were audible and a sign that had they the courage to shed their complacency, they could do much better. I live in hope.

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