One problem about calling your new album Keep the Village Alive, as Stereophonics are finding out, is having the village take you up on the offer. On the day I meet singer and guitarist Kelly Jones and bassist Richard Jones – the two founding members of Stereophonics – the group are in a BBC News headline. Cwmaman Institute, the Victorian-era working men’s club in the village they grew up in, and host to their earliest gigs, is six figures in debt and likely to close. “We’ve written to Stereophonics but haven’t heard back from them yet,” the chairman of the trustees is quoted as saying. “We’d be pleased if they said they could help us.” “I only found out the club was closing down the day...
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