The Albums That Made Me
Word Gets Around (1997)
“We made the songs as tight as possible.”
“We’d been back and forth to London in [late drummer] Stuart Cable’s yellow ex-BT van for four weeks of meetings, and then signed with V2. Basically they didn’t have a record company, just an office within Richard Branson’s house near Holland Park. They said, ‘Go off, do some shows, and by the time you come back from that small tour, we’ll have a record company for you to work with’. And that started everything for Stereophonics. We had all the songs, already developed through gigging for the previous few years, so it was just a matter of capturing the performance. Marshall Bird and Steve Bush, the producers, wanted to
