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"The Bartender and the Thief"

Single by Stereophonics

from the album Performance and Cocktails

Released

November 9, 1998

Format

CD, 7", MC

Recorded

1998

Genre

Rock

Length

2 mins 54 secs

Kelly Jones

Steve Bush & Marshall Bird AKA: Bird & Bush

Stereophonics singles chronology

"Local Boy in the Photograph (re-issue)"
(1998)

"The Bartender and the Thief"
(1998)

"Just Looking"
(1999)

"The Bartender and the Thief" is the first single from rock band the Stereophonics taken from their second album Performance and Cocktails. It was released on November 9, 1998. It reached #3 in the UK charts.

The song is track 2 on Performance and Cocktails. A live version from Cardiff Castle is available on CD2 of "The Bartender and the Thief" singles. Another live version from Sheffield Arena is on the "Moviestar" single. A bar version of the song is on CD 1 of the "I Wouldn't Believe Your Radio" single.

The music video features the band playing at Kanchanaburi Province,Thailand and is based on the Francis Ford Coppola movie, Apocalypse Now.

The song, which is one of their heavier tracks, is frequently played amongst their live sets. During live performances, vocalist Kelly Jones has been known to utilise the two bars without vocals before the final chorus to reference the Motorhead song "Ace of Spades". The lyrics therefore are "THE ACE OF SPADES. THE ACE OF SPADES. The bartender and the thief were lovers..."

Strangely the songs full length intro only featured on the CD1 single (and in the music video), it was edited off on the Performance & Cocktails album.

Track listing

CD: V2 / VVR5004653 (UK)

"The Bartender and the Thief" - 3:09
"She Takes Her Clothes Off" - 3:57
"Fiddler's Green" (The Tragically Hip)- 4:08

CD: V2 / VVR5004663 (UK)

"The Bartender and the Thief" (Live from Cardiff Castle) - 3:28
"Traffic" (Live from Cardiff Castle) - 6:07
"Raymond's Shop" (Live from Cardiff Castle) - 3:56

v • d • e Stereophonics

Kelly Jones · Richard Jones · Javier Weyler · Adam Zindani Stuart Cable

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) · Keep Calm and Carry On (2009)

Live albums	Live from Dakota (2006)

Compilation albums	Decade in the Sun: The Best of Stereophonics (2008)

Singles	"Local Boy in the Photograph" · "More Life in a Tramps Vest" · "A Thousand Trees" · "Traffic" · "Local Boy in the Photograph" (re-release) · "The Bartender and the Thief" · "Just Looking" · "Pick a Part That's New" · "I Wouldn't Believe Your Radio" · "Hurry Up and Wait" · "Mama Told Me Not to Come" · "Mr. Writer" · "Have a Nice Day" · "Step on My Old Size Nines" · "Handbags and Gladrags" · "Vegas Two Times" · "Madame Helga" · "Maybe Tomorrow" · "Since I Told You It's Over" · "Moviestar" · "Dakota" · "Superman" · "Devil" · "Rewind" · "Bank Holiday Monday" · "It Means Nothing" · "My Friends" · "You're My Star" · "Innocent" ·

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) · A Day at the Races (2002) · Language. Sex. Violence. Other? (2006) · Rewind (2007) · Decade in the Sun: The Best of Stereophonics (2008)

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