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Ex-Catatonia drummer replaces Stuart Cable

By | Published on Thursday 29 July 2010

Former Catatonia drummer Aled Richards has been announced as the replacement for Stuart Cable in the late musician’s band, Killing For Company. As previously reported, the former Stereophonics drummer was found dead at his home in the Welsh village of Llwydcoed in the early hours of 7 Jun. He formed Killing For Company in 2006 and the band had been due to play the Download festival the weekend after his death.

A close friend of Cable, Richards will perform with the band as they promote ‘Former Mining Town’, a charity single released as a memorial to Cable and to raise money for the Teenage Cancer Trust and children’s hospice Tŷ Hafan.

The band’s frontman Greg Jones told WalesOnline: “Aled was someone who Stu knew very closely. He’s someone who he respected as a musician and they’d been good friends since the Stereophonics’ early days when everyone was going mad about Cool Cymru”.

He continued: “It may sound corny, but that’s how it feels to us because writing and playing these songs with Stuart is all we’ve really known for the last five years. Replacing Stu was the last thing on our minds and, because we’d been ploughing all our time and energy into promoting the charity single in his memory, it hadn’t dawned on us that we’d need someone to drum for us if we got the call to go on TV and radio to promote it”.

Finally, he added: “The bottom line is that Aled is someone who Stuart liked and respected as a friend and as a musician, who we can all talk about Stu in front of without him ever feeling uncomfortable. Besides, he’s got some brilliant stories about life on the road with Stuart that put ours to shame. I just hope everyone realises this is a decision we’ve not made lightly. Stu wouldn’t have wanted us to give up and I know we can do him and his fantastic talent proud”.

‘Former Mining Town’ is available now.



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