Hitless soft-rockers remain pure class

Who doesn't like at least one of Stereophonics’ dozen hits? The Welsh-born soft-rockers may not enjoy the seismic fandom of contemporaries like Coldplay or Snow Patrol, but Have A Nice Day, top five in 2001, hogged every radio that summer.

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Handbags And Gladrags, another top five, eclipsed the original late-sixties versions by Chris Farlowe and Rod Stewart, and Maybe Tomorrow, top three in 2003, was like a despairing John Lennon song sung by an eternally-hopeful Paul McCartney. However, their only Number One single, Dakota, was in 2005 and the two decades since have produced no further hits of note. To date, there have been eight Number One albums but the band's profile has essentially fallen off a cliff. Will this, the