Performance and Cocktails

Rock · 1999 · 15 tracks

Performance and Cocktails

Gravel-voiced anthems and cinematic small-town sketches. A high-octane blend of post-britpop grit and stadium-ready melodies built for long motorway drives.

February 27, 1999 · V2

A gritty, high-octane mix of small-town restlessness and big-city ambition.

Tracklist · 15 Tracks

01

Roll Up and Shine

3:58

03

Hurry Up and Wait

4:40

04

Pick a Part That’s New

3:34

05

Just Looking

4:13

06

Half the Lies You Tell Ain’t True

2:56

07

I Wouldn't Believe Your Radio

3:50

08

T‐Shirt Sun Tan

4:05

09

Is Yesterday, Tomorrow, Today?

4:02

10

A Minute Longer

3:46

11

She Takes Her Clothes Off

3:56

12

Plastic California

4:31

13

I Stopped to Fill My Car Up

4:30

14

Check My Eyelids For Holes (Live At Cardiff Castle)

2:39

15

The Bartender And The Thief (Live At Cardiff Castle)

3:15

16

T-Shirt Sun Tan (Live At Cardiff Castle)

4:06

Moments Worth Listening For

The explosive drum fill and jagged guitar riff that opens Roll Up and Shine.

The sudden shift from the intimate, acoustic-led verses to the soaring, stadium-sized chorus of Just Looking.

The cinematic, eerie organ swell and noir-ish storytelling that anchors I Stopped to Fill My Car Up.

Reviews

Sputnik Music

Pitchfork

NME

AllMusic

web.archive.org

Where This Album Departs

How does Performance and Cocktails sound next to the rest of Stereophonics's catalogue?

Defiant+1.6σ

Defiant saturates this record notably more than the artist's norm.

If you loved this album for itsSound & genre

Pull the Pin

The Balance

Catfish and the Bottlemen

Elocation

Comes and Goes

Elocation

Cassette uses generative AI to enrich its catalog. How we use AI →