Performance and Cocktails

Performance and Cocktails
LP by Stereophonics
Released	March 8, 1999
Recorded	various (see article)
Genre	Rock
Length	50 min 55 sec
Record label	V2
Producer	Marshall Bird
Professional reviews
Q	3 stars out of 5	link
NME	6 out of 10	link
Allmusic.com	3 stars out of 5	link
Dave Veitch – Calgary Sun	”Kinks-y qualities that elevate this band above the classic-rock hordes”	link
Stereophonics Discography
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)

Performance And Cocktails is the Stereophonics second album. Released by V2 March 8 1999.

The album was a surprise commercial success giving the phonics 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.

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

Recording

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

Track listing

1. "Roll Up And Shine"
2. "The Bartender And The Thief"
3. "Hurry Up And Wait"
4. "Pick A Part That's New"
5. "Just Looking"
6. "Half The Lies You Tell Ain't True"
7. "I Wouldn't Believe Your Radio"
8. "T-Shirt Sun Tan"
9. "Is Yesterday, Tomorrow, Today?"
10. "A Minute Longer"
11. "She Takes Her Clothes Off"
12. "Plastic California"
13. "I Stopped To Fill My Car Up"

External link

• Homepage of the Stereophonics