KELLY Jones and drummer Stuart Cable grew up in a little Welsh village and jammed together before forming a rock band.

Kelly’s dad was a backing singer for Roy Orbison in the 1960s so he encouraged his son, allowing the boys to practise in his garage.

This was the first incarnation of a sound that was to go on to become Stereophonics.

Today Kelly is still lead singer with the band, who are headlining a number of summer festivals including Kendal Calling, Y Not Festival, Victorious and the BBC 2 Live in Hyde Park event in September.

As a warm up they are performing an intimate gig at Swindon’s Oasis Leisure Centre, North Star on Wednesday, July 26. Tickets sold out within an hour of going on sale.

Kelly’s first band was Zephyr, but when he went away on holiday the guys played a gig without him, so he left to play in other groups.

Years later, after a chance encounter on a bus and then in the Ivy Bush, Kelly and Stuart decided to give the band another shot, this time as Tragic Love Company.

They were spotted by Wayne Coleman who was organising a series of concerts in South Wales, and he persuade them to change their name so The Stereophonics was born.

The musicians become the first band to be signed to the new record label, V2, and that’s when they dropped ‘The’ from their name.

Fame beckoned fast and furiously and in 1998 they won a BRIT Award for Best New Group, reached number 14 in the UK charts with the single, Local Boy In The Photograph, and went gold with their debut album, Word Gets Around.

More albums and hits followed, including a collaboration with fellow Welsh star Tom Jones on the Randy Newman song Mama Told Me Not To Come.

Their single Dakota reached number one in the UK charts, taken from the album Language, Sex, Violence. Other? in 2005. This was the year that saw Javier Weyler replace Stuart on the drum stool. Stuart sadly died in 2010.

Stereophonics were asked to perform for one of the nightly Victory Ceremonies at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. They sang I Got Your Number on Yukon Night.

Their latest album, Keep The Village Alive, was released in 2015 and, for the 20th anniversary of their first album, Stereophonics will be recording a 10th studio album.

For details of other events at Swindon’s Oasis visit https://www.better.org.uk/leisure-centre/swindon/oasis-leisure-centre-swindon.