Stereophonics have always been too crowdpleasing to ever be considered cool but sometimes even popularity can't mask a good tune.

Monday, though, Kelly Jones and the boys seemed intent on showing their punkier edge in a set dominated by their latest album, Language. Sex. Violence. Other?

Hollering lead singer Kelly is every inch a pop star. The trouble is he's only three feet tall.

His fiddly solos during Pedalpusher and Devil just proved he was not fit to tune Jimi Hendrix's guitar strings, while that distinctive voice, a satisfyingly coarse growl most of the time, occasionally comes across as a hoarse teenager whining to his dad.

That said, early material such as Thousand Trees and Local Boy In The Photograph proved the indie-pop rockers still have some Welsh fire.

But trying to venture from the middle of the road, Sterophonics stumbled.