Kelly Jones ‘almost quit’ Stereophonics following 2018 world tour

Kelly Jones considered calling time on his career with Stereophonics after admitting he felt “done” with music.
The group’s frontman has been with the band since they formed in Wales in 1992. But in an interview with Britain’s Daily Star newspaper on Thursday (15Aug19), the Have a Nice Day hitmaker confessed their Scream Above the Sounds tour was almost their last.
“Our last gig of the world tour was September 2018, in Brooklyn (New York) – I was done, had written no songs, nothing new, I thought I felt like quitting for a while,” he confessed. “Then by November I had a load of songs that just came through me, lyrics just filling up pages, no crossings out, complete songs formed.
“They became a very open and to be honest, bunch of really vulnerable songs about things I hadn’t quite worked out for myself, the songs began to inform me how I was feeling,” the musician continued. “I didn’t know, or really mind if others wanted to hear them or like them, I just needed to get them out of me.”
This week, the rockers released their latest track Fly Like An Eagle, which is the first single to be lifted from their upcoming 11th studio album, Kind. Addressing what fans can expect from the new project, Jones shared: “When it came to an album, I wanted to just capture honest performances of them and we recorded the album in just 11 days.”
Kind is slated for release 25 October.