STEREOPHONICS MAKING NEW ALBUM, GET BEST OF BOTH WORLDS

Stereophonics may just be in studio mode, having finished a majority of their touring in support of Language, Sex, Violence, Other?. While the band is working hard at their next effort, the band did book a light touring schedule that includes the Bangkok Festival on February 19, and a date to kick off Scotland’s branch of U.K. radio station XFM on January 22. They also have dates planned with Oasis.

Richard and Kelly Jones talked about the need for the balance between live work and studio work.

[Richard] “Holiday from touring is going into the studio and a holiday from the studio is going on tour. It’s kind of… I don’t find any of it… I don’t find making records stressful or I don’t find touring stressful, I just find that, if anything, on different days you’re tired and on other days you have an amazing time. That’s kind of it, really. I wouldn’t want to do any other job.”

The Oasis tour starts later this month and hits France, Austria, Switzerland, and Italy. Of the tour, Kelly Jones wrote in his online diary, “[I] spoke with Noel [Gallagher, and I think it’s going to be more of a bender than a tour – I think it may get messy!”

The band promises to have a live record and a studio record out in 2006.