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==Album cover==
==Album cover==
The cover photograph was taken by [[Scarlet Page]] in autumn 1998 at a football pitch under the [[Westway (London)|Westway]] in London, and was inspired by an earlier [[Annie Leibovitz]] photograph of a couple kissing outside a prison. The British journalist [[Tony Barrell (journalist)|Tony Barrell]] did extensive research in 2007 to find the female model in the foreground. In the ''[[Sunday Times]]'' on 11 November 2007, he identified the model as 23-year-old Lucy Joplin. In an interview with Barrell, Joplin explained that the "faraway look" in her eyes was the result of an evening consuming [[absinthe]] and [[opium]], and that she was paid £75 in cash for the shoot.<ref>{{cite web|last=Tony Barrell |url=http://www.tonybarrell.com/cover-stories/ |title=Cover Stories |access-date=2014-09-06}}</ref>
The cover photograph was taken by [[Scarlet Page]] in autumn 1998 at a football pitch under the [[Westway (London)|Westway]] in London, and was inspired by an earlier [[Annie Leibovitz]] photograph of a couple kissing outside a prison. The British journalist [[Tony Barrell (journalist)|Tony Barrell]] did extensive research in 2007 to find the female model in the foreground. In the ''[[Sunday Times]]'' on 11 November 2007, he identified the model as 23-year-old Lucy Joplin. In an interview with Barrell, Joplin explained that the "faraway look" in her eyes was the result of an evening consuming [[absinthe]] and [[opium]], and that she was paid £75 in cash for the shoot.<ref>{{cite web|last=Tony Barrell |url=http://www.tonybarrell.com/cover-stories/ |title=Cover Stories |access-date=2014-09-06}}</ref>
==Reception==
===Critical response===
{{Music ratings
|rev1      = [[AllMusic]]
|rev1score  = {{Rating|3.5|5}}<ref name="allmusic">{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/performance-and-cocktails-mw0000245407 |title=Performance and Cocktails – Stereophonics |publisher=[[AllMusic]]|last=Damas |first=Jason |access-date=4 July 2013}}</ref>
|rev2      = [[laut.de]]
|rev2score  = {{rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Fetzige Rocksongs und Balladen zum Mitsingen |url=https://www.laut.de/Stereophonics/Alben/Performance-And-Cocktails-931 |publisher=[[laut.de]] |access-date=4 July 2022 |language=de |date=1997}}</ref>
|rev3      = ''[[NME]]''
|rev3score  = 6/10<ref name="nme">{{cite web |url=https://www.nme.com/reviews/reviews/19990203132630reviews.html |title=Stereophonics – Performance And Cocktails |website=[[NME]]|last=Cigarettes |first=Johnny |date=3 March 1999 |access-date=4 July 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000817175804/http://www.nme.com/reviews/reviews/19990203132630reviews.html |archive-date=17 August 2000}}</ref>
|rev4      = ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]''
|rev4score  = 4.4/10<ref name="pitchfork">{{cite web |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/7507-performance-and-cocktails |title=Stereophonics: Performance and Cocktails |website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]] |last=DiCrescenzo |first=Brent |date=25 May 1999 |access-date=4 July 2013}}</ref>
|rev5      = ''[[Q (magazine)|Q]]''
|rev5score  = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.qonline.co.uk/reviews/server.asp?id=17536 |title=Stereophonics: Performance & Cocktails |website=[[Q (magazine)|Q]] |last=Rees |first=Paul |access-date=14 April 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19990913213427/http://www.qonline.co.uk/reviews/server.asp?id=17536 |archive-date=13 September 1999}}</ref>
|rev6      = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
|rev6score  = {{Rating|2.5|5}}<ref name="rollingstone">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/stereophonics/albums/album/237354/review/5942086/performance__cocktails |title=Stereophonics: Performance and Cocktails |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |last=Walters |first=Barry |date=30 September 1999 |access-date=4 July 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090807064417/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/stereophonics/albums/album/237354/review/5942086/performance__cocktails |archive-date=7 August 2009}}</ref>
}}
''Performance and Cocktails'' received generally mixed reviews. At [[AllMusic]], Jason Damas criticised the album for not being as consistent as ''[[Word Gets Around]]''; he did however praise "T Shirt Sun Tan", "She Takes Her Clothes Off" and "[[Pick a Part That's New]]", calling them the highlights of the album.<ref name="allmusic"/>
Brent DiCrescenzo from ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]'' had a generally negative review of the album, comparing Stereophonics to [[Oasis (band)|Oasis]] and by summarising the album as, "Basically, what ''Performance and Cocktails'' boils down to is loud music engineered and crafted for Britain's summer festival circuit that practically guarantees a perennially muddy experience."<ref name="pitchfork"/> Similarly, Barry Walters of ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' also compared the band to Oasis, stating, "[they] sound like Oasis trying to be [[Radiohead]]."<ref name="rollingstone"/>
===Commercial performance===
''Performance and Cocktails'' gave Stereophonics three straight top five singles in the British charts with "[[The Bartender and the Thief]]" reaching number three, and both "[[Just Looking (song)|Just Looking]]" and "Pick a Part That's New" reaching number four. The album itself was a success, topping the UK Albums Chart selling 119,954 copies in its first week and going on to become the fifth best selling album in the UK in 1999. Such was the album's persistence, that it re-entered the UK charts over four years after its initial release, reaching number twenty-five in January 2004.<ref>{{Cite web|title=UK Top 40 Hit Database |publisher=Every Hit |url=http://www.everyhit.com/searchsec.php |access-date=2010-02-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081012195559/http://www.everyhit.com/searchsec.php |archive-date=12 October 2008 }}</ref>
==Legacy==
With sales of over 2.5 million, ''Performance and Cocktails'' is the Stereophonics' second best-selling album (after ''[[Just Enough Education to Perform]]'', which has sold over 3.5 million).{{efn |Sales figures are based on certifications only.}}<ref name="p&c uk sales"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ifpi.org/content/section_news/plat2002.html |title=IFPI Platinum Europe Awards - 2002 |publisher=[[International Federation of the Phonographic Industry|IFPI]] |date=2002 |access-date=21 July 2013}}</ref> The record has been certified 5× Platinum in the UK and Platinum in Europe.<ref name="tsort">{{cite web |url=http://tsort.info/music/a9px4c.htm |title=Album artist 832 - The Stereophonics |publisher=Tsort |access-date=3 July 2013}}</ref> It has spent a total of 101 weeks in the UK top 100 charts.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/_/stereophonics/ |title=STEREOPHONICS Albums |publisher=[[Official Charts Company]] |access-date=28 July 2013}}</ref>
The album is seen as one of the best British rock albums of the 1990s. At the ''[[Kerrang!]]'' awards in 1999, ''Performance and Cocktails'' won the "Best Album" award and Stereophonics further won "Best British Band" the same year.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.intro.de/news/newsfeatures/23000291/the-winner-takes-it-all-kerrang-awards-gewinner# |title=The Winner takes it all |language=de |publisher=Intro |date=17 August 1999 |access-date=21 July 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105114532/http://www.intro.de/news/newsfeatures/23000291/the-winner-takes-it-all-kerrang-awards-gewinner |archive-date=5 November 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref> On their "Albums of the Year" list, the record was placed at number five.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/kerrang.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060216032059/http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/kerrang.html |url-status=usurped |archive-date=16 February 2006 |title=Albums Of The Year 1999 |website=Kerrang! |publisher=Rock list |access-date=21 July 2013}}</ref> Listeners at [[Absolute Radio]] voted for their album of the decade and ''Performance and Cocktails'' ranked at number 27. On the radio's shortlist it was included as one of the albums that helped define the sound of the 90s along with ''[[Word Gets Around]]''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.absoluteradio.co.uk/djs_shows/absolute_90s/poll.html |title=Album of the 90s |publisher=[[Absolute Radio]] |access-date=21 July 2013}}</ref> At the [[Mercury Prize|Mercury Music Prize]] awards, the album was nominated for the 1999 prize but was only listed as a "Shortlisted nominee."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.everyhit.com/awardmer.html |title=Mercury Music Prize award 1999 |publisher=everyHit |access-date=21 July 2013}}</ref> "Pick a Part That's New" was used in a [[BT Group|BT]] advert for their unlimited broadband deal.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tvadmusic.co.uk/2013/03/bt-totally-unlimited-broadband/ |title=BT – Totally Unlimited Broadband |last=Paul |publisher=TV Ad Music |date=6 March 2013 |access-date=21 July 2013}}</ref>


==Track listing==
==Track listing==
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==Reception==
===Critical response===
{{Music ratings
|rev1      = [[AllMusic]]
|rev1score  = {{Rating|3.5|5}}<ref name="allmusic">{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/performance-and-cocktails-mw0000245407 |title=Performance and Cocktails – Stereophonics |publisher=[[AllMusic]]|last=Damas |first=Jason |access-date=4 July 2013}}</ref>
|rev2      = [[laut.de]]
|rev2score  = {{rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Fetzige Rocksongs und Balladen zum Mitsingen |url=https://www.laut.de/Stereophonics/Alben/Performance-And-Cocktails-931 |publisher=[[laut.de]] |access-date=4 July 2022 |language=de |date=1997}}</ref>
|rev3      = ''[[NME]]''
|rev3score  = 6/10<ref name="nme">{{cite web |url=https://www.nme.com/reviews/reviews/19990203132630reviews.html |title=Stereophonics – Performance And Cocktails |website=[[NME]]|last=Cigarettes |first=Johnny |date=3 March 1999 |access-date=4 July 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000817175804/http://www.nme.com/reviews/reviews/19990203132630reviews.html |archive-date=17 August 2000}}</ref>
|rev4      = ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]''
|rev4score  = 4.4/10<ref name="pitchfork">{{cite web |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/7507-performance-and-cocktails |title=Stereophonics: Performance and Cocktails |website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]] |last=DiCrescenzo |first=Brent |date=25 May 1999 |access-date=4 July 2013}}</ref>
|rev5      = ''[[Q (magazine)|Q]]''
|rev5score  = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.qonline.co.uk/reviews/server.asp?id=17536 |title=Stereophonics: Performance & Cocktails |website=[[Q (magazine)|Q]] |last=Rees |first=Paul |access-date=14 April 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19990913213427/http://www.qonline.co.uk/reviews/server.asp?id=17536 |archive-date=13 September 1999}}</ref>
|rev6      = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
|rev6score  = {{Rating|2.5|5}}<ref name="rollingstone">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/stereophonics/albums/album/237354/review/5942086/performance__cocktails |title=Stereophonics: Performance and Cocktails |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |last=Walters |first=Barry |date=30 September 1999 |access-date=4 July 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090807064417/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/stereophonics/albums/album/237354/review/5942086/performance__cocktails |archive-date=7 August 2009}}</ref>
}}
''Performance and Cocktails'' received generally mixed reviews. At [[AllMusic]], Jason Damas criticised the album for not being as consistent as ''[[Word Gets Around]]''; he did however praise "T Shirt Sun Tan", "She Takes Her Clothes Off" and "[[Pick a Part That's New]]", calling them the highlights of the album.<ref name="allmusic"/>
Brent DiCrescenzo from ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]'' had a generally negative review of the album, comparing Stereophonics to [[Oasis (band)|Oasis]] and by summarising the album as, "Basically, what ''Performance and Cocktails'' boils down to is loud music engineered and crafted for Britain's summer festival circuit that practically guarantees a perennially muddy experience."<ref name="pitchfork"/> Similarly, Barry Walters of ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' also compared the band to Oasis, stating, "[they] sound like Oasis trying to be [[Radiohead]]."<ref name="rollingstone"/>
===Commercial performance===
''Performance and Cocktails'' gave Stereophonics three straight top five singles in the British charts with "[[The Bartender and the Thief]]" reaching number three, and both "[[Just Looking (song)|Just Looking]]" and "Pick a Part That's New" reaching number four. The album itself was a success, topping the UK Albums Chart selling 119,954 copies in its first week and going on to become the fifth best selling album in the UK in 1999. Such was the album's persistence, that it re-entered the UK charts over four years after its initial release, reaching number twenty-five in January 2004.<ref>{{Cite web|title=UK Top 40 Hit Database |publisher=Every Hit |url=http://www.everyhit.com/searchsec.php |access-date=2010-02-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081012195559/http://www.everyhit.com/searchsec.php |archive-date=12 October 2008 }}</ref>
==Legacy==
With sales of over 2.5 million, ''Performance and Cocktails'' is the Stereophonics' second best-selling album (after ''[[Just Enough Education to Perform]]'', which has sold over 3.5 million).{{efn |Sales figures are based on certifications only.}}<ref name="p&c uk sales"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ifpi.org/content/section_news/plat2002.html |title=IFPI Platinum Europe Awards - 2002 |publisher=[[International Federation of the Phonographic Industry|IFPI]] |date=2002 |access-date=21 July 2013}}</ref> The record has been certified 5× Platinum in the UK and Platinum in Europe.<ref name="tsort">{{cite web |url=http://tsort.info/music/a9px4c.htm |title=Album artist 832 - The Stereophonics |publisher=Tsort |access-date=3 July 2013}}</ref> It has spent a total of 101 weeks in the UK top 100 charts.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/_/stereophonics/ |title=STEREOPHONICS Albums |publisher=[[Official Charts Company]] |access-date=28 July 2013}}</ref>
The album is seen as one of the best British rock albums of the 1990s. At the ''[[Kerrang!]]'' awards in 1999, ''Performance and Cocktails'' won the "Best Album" award and Stereophonics further won "Best British Band" the same year.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.intro.de/news/newsfeatures/23000291/the-winner-takes-it-all-kerrang-awards-gewinner# |title=The Winner takes it all |language=de |publisher=Intro |date=17 August 1999 |access-date=21 July 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105114532/http://www.intro.de/news/newsfeatures/23000291/the-winner-takes-it-all-kerrang-awards-gewinner |archive-date=5 November 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref> On their "Albums of the Year" list, the record was placed at number five.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/kerrang.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060216032059/http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/kerrang.html |url-status=usurped |archive-date=16 February 2006 |title=Albums Of The Year 1999 |website=Kerrang! |publisher=Rock list |access-date=21 July 2013}}</ref> Listeners at [[Absolute Radio]] voted for their album of the decade and ''Performance and Cocktails'' ranked at number 27. On the radio's shortlist it was included as one of the albums that helped define the sound of the 90s along with ''[[Word Gets Around]]''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.absoluteradio.co.uk/djs_shows/absolute_90s/poll.html |title=Album of the 90s |publisher=[[Absolute Radio]] |access-date=21 July 2013}}</ref> At the [[Mercury Prize|Mercury Music Prize]] awards, the album was nominated for the 1999 prize but was only listed as a "Shortlisted nominee."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.everyhit.com/awardmer.html |title=Mercury Music Prize award 1999 |publisher=everyHit |access-date=21 July 2013}}</ref> "Pick a Part That's New" was used in a [[BT Group|BT]] advert for their unlimited broadband deal.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tvadmusic.co.uk/2013/03/bt-totally-unlimited-broadband/ |title=BT – Totally Unlimited Broadband |last=Paul |publisher=TV Ad Music |date=6 March 2013 |access-date=21 July 2013}}</ref>


==Re-release==
==Re-release==

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Performance and Cocktails is the second studio album by Welsh rock band Stereophonics. It was released by V2 on 8 March 1999. The name of the album comes from lyrics in the album's first song, "Roll Up and Shine", just like the previous album's name, Word Gets Around came from lyrics in that album's final song.

The album was a surprise commercial success for Stereophonics but it received mixed reviews.

Recording

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

Album cover

The cover photograph was taken by Scarlet Page in autumn 1998 at a football pitch under the Westway in London, and was inspired by an earlier Annie Leibovitz photograph of a couple kissing outside a prison. The British journalist Tony Barrell did extensive research in 2007 to find the female model in the foreground. In the Sunday Times on 11 November 2007, he identified the model as 23-year-old Lucy Joplin. In an interview with Barrell, Joplin explained that the "faraway look" in her eyes was the result of an evening consuming absinthe and opium, and that she was paid £75 in cash for the shoot.[1]

Reception

Critical response

Template:Music ratings

Performance and Cocktails received generally mixed reviews. At AllMusic, Jason Damas criticised the album for not being as consistent as Word Gets Around; he did however praise "T Shirt Sun Tan", "She Takes Her Clothes Off" and "Pick a Part That's New", calling them the highlights of the album.[2]

Brent DiCrescenzo from Pitchfork had a generally negative review of the album, comparing Stereophonics to Oasis and by summarising the album as, "Basically, what Performance and Cocktails boils down to is loud music engineered and crafted for Britain's summer festival circuit that practically guarantees a perennially muddy experience."[3] Similarly, Barry Walters of Rolling Stone also compared the band to Oasis, stating, "[they] sound like Oasis trying to be Radiohead."[4]

Commercial performance

Performance and Cocktails gave Stereophonics three straight top five 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. The album itself was a success, topping the UK Albums Chart selling 119,954 copies in its first week and going on to become the fifth best selling album in the UK in 1999. Such was the album's persistence, that it re-entered the UK charts over four years after its initial release, reaching number twenty-five in January 2004.[5]

Legacy

With sales of over 2.5 million, Performance and Cocktails is the Stereophonics' second best-selling album (after Just Enough Education to Perform, which has sold over 3.5 million).Template:Efn[6][7] The record has been certified 5× Platinum in the UK and Platinum in Europe.[8] It has spent a total of 101 weeks in the UK top 100 charts.[9]

The album is seen as one of the best British rock albums of the 1990s. At the Kerrang! awards in 1999, Performance and Cocktails won the "Best Album" award and Stereophonics further won "Best British Band" the same year.[10] On their "Albums of the Year" list, the record was placed at number five.[11] Listeners at Absolute Radio voted for their album of the decade and Performance and Cocktails ranked at number 27. On the radio's shortlist it was included as one of the albums that helped define the sound of the 90s along with Word Gets Around[12] At the Mercury Music Prize awards, the album was nominated for the 1999 prize but was only listed as a "Shortlisted nominee."[13] "Pick a Part That's New" was used in a BT advert for their unlimited broadband deal.[14]

Track listing

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Re-release

On 24 August 2010, Stereophonics announced on their website that Performance and Cocktails, along with Word Gets Around, were to be re-released.[15] To accompany the re-releases, Stereophonics performed all the songs on both the albums at the Hammersmith Apollo on 17 and 18 October 2010. They were released on 18 October 2010[16] and were made into two forms:[15]


Deluxe: The original album on one disc and a bonus CD featuring 12 b-sides and rare tracks. Template:Track listing
Super-deluxe: The album on one disc (as listed above) and two bonus CDs (one with 15 b-sides and the other includes 10 rare tracks), artcards and a replica of Kelly Jones' notebook.[17]

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Personnel

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Charts and certifications

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Certifications

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Notes

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References

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