The Stereo huggers

Stereophonics may look like rugged old school rockers, but they're a bunch of softies really - having swapped fist bumps for hugs backstage.

- BY SHELLEY CHUICHAROEN

Drummer Jamie Morrison says: "Recently in the last year or two, we started to give each other a hug.

"It went from a fist bump about a year and a half ago... usually we wouldn't even look at each other and you just walk on."