Performance and Cocktails

Performance and Cocktails
Studio album by Stereophonics
Released	8 March 1999
Recorded	Late 1995 – late 1998
Genre	Rock, post Britpop, indie rock, alternative rock
Length	50:55
Label	V2
Producer	Steve Bush & Marshall Bird AKA: Bird & Bush
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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: 9 November 1998 "T-Shirt Sun Tan" Released: 17 January 1999 "Just Looking" Released: 22 February 1999 "Pick a Part That's New" Released: 23 May 1999 "Half The Lies You Tell Ain't True/I Wouldn't Believe Your Radio" Released: 23 August 1999 "Hurry Up and Wait" Released: 8 November 1999

Performance and Cocktails is Stereophonics' second album. It was released by V2 on 8 March 1999. The album was sponsored by Fender guitars which were used by the band on the album.^{[citation needed]}. The name 'Performance and Cocktails' comes from lyrics in the first song of the album 'Roll Up and Shine'.

The album has been re-released as a deluxe (2 discs) and super-deluxe (3 discs); the deluxe version features 25 songs (the original 13 and 12 b-sides and rarities) and the Super-deluxe version features 38 songs (the original 13, 15 b-sides and 10 rarities). It has been released on the 18th of October 2010.

Recording

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

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 11 November 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, opium and potatoes, and that she was paid just £75 in cash for the shoot. The name of the then 23-year-old male model is Kipp Burns on loan from Mannique models, King's Road.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Kelly Jones.

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

2 Disc Deluxe Re-release (Out Soon)

CD 1 as original

CD 2 (B-sides and Rarities)

1. "The Bartender and the Thief" (Live at Cardiff Castles)
2. "Sunny Afternoon" (B-side on Just Looking)
3. "Positively 4th Street" (B-side on Pick a Part That's New)
4. "Fiddlers Green" (B-side on Bartender and the Thief)
5. "Angie" (B-side on Hurry Up and Wait)
6. "The Old Laughing Lady" (B-side on I Wouldn't Believe your Radio)
7. "Something in The Way" (B-side on Pick a Part That's New)
8. "Half the lies you tell ain't true" (Live at the Belfort Festival)
9. "She Takes her Clothes Off" (Live at the Hippodrome)
10. "Roll up and Shine" (Live at the Hippodrome)
11. "Local Boy in the Photograph" (Live for the BBC) (B-side on Just Looking)
12. "Just Looking" (Live from the Hippodrome)

3 Disc Super-Deluxe Re-release

CD 1 as original

CD 2 (B-sides)

1. "Sunny Afternoon" (B-side on Just Looking)
2. "Positively 4th Street" (B-side on Pick a Part That's New)
3. "Fiddlers Green" (B-side on Bartender and the Thief)
4. "The Old Laughing Lady" (B-side on I Wouldn't Believe your Radio)
5. "Angie" (B-side on Hurry Up and Wait)
6. "Something in the Way" (B-side on Pick a Part That's New)
7. "Local Boy in the Photograph" (Live for BBC Radio 1) (B-side on Just Looking)
8. "Same Size Feet" (Live for BBC Radio 1) (B-side on Just Looking)
9. "In My Day" (B-side on Pick a Part That's New)
10. "Bartender and the Thief" (Live At Cardiff Castle) (B-side on Bartender and the Thief)
11. "Raymond's Shop" (Live At Cardiff Castle) (B-side on Bartender and the Thief)
12. "T - Shirt Suntan" (Live at Morfa) (B-side on I Wouldn't Believe your Radio)
13. "I Wouldn't Believe Your Radio" (with Stuart Cable singing)
14. "Postmen Do Not Make Great Movie Heroes" (B-side on Just Looking)
15. "Nice To Be Out" (Demo) (B-side on Pick a Part That's New)

CD 3 (Rarities)

1. "Roll Up and Shine" - Live at the Hippodrome 1 March 99
2. "Just Looking" - Live at the Hippodrome 1 March 99
3. "Half the Lies You Tell Aint True" - Live from Belfort Festival
4. "She Takes Her Clothes Off" -Live at the Hippodrome 1 March 99
5. "Bartender and the Thief" - Live Newcastle Uni 98
6. "Is Yesterday Tomorrow Today" - Live Newcastle Uni 98
7. "Pick a Part That's New" - BBC acoustic session 99
8. "I Wouldn't Believe Your Radio" - BBC acoustic session 99
9. "Plastic California" - Live at the Hippodrome 1 March 99
10. "Sunny Afternoon" - Live from Morfa Stadium 1999

Reception

Performance and Cocktails was a surprise commercial success, giving the Stereophonics three straight top five 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 selling 119,954 copies in its first week and going on to become the 5th best selling album in the UK in 1999. To date, it has sold over 2 million copies worldwide. Such was the album's persistence, that it re-entered the UK charts over four years after its initial release, reaching #25 in January 2004.^[2] It spent 98 weeks in total in the UK top 100 charts, the most for a Stereophonics album, in the process being certified 5x platinum.^{[citation needed]}

References

External links

• Homepage of the Stereophonics