Kelly Jones still dreams about late Stereophonics drummer Stuart Cable “at least five times a week”

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Kelly Jones has revealed that he still dreams about the late Stereophonics drummer Stuart Cable “at least five times a week”.Cable played with the Welsh band between 1992 and 2003, before the musician and broadcaster tragically died in 2010.

He was 40 years old.During the most recent episode of the podcast I Never Thought It Would Happen – hosted by Chris Difford of Squeeze – Jones opened up about how Cable was “like a big brother” to him after being asked did he “take him on stage with him?” (via Wales Online).“Stuart turns up in my dreams,” Jones explained, saying it was an “intense” time when the drummer passed away.“At least five times a week [I dream about him].

It’s bizarre,” the singer continued. “Still to this day… yeah, it’s quite strange. I lived in number 54, he lived in 62. We were on the same street all our lives.“He’d be playing drums up there, and I’d be playing guitar down there.

We merged in my garage and then we took it to the youth club. He introduced me to a lot of music […] it was his big laugh that opened the door a few times.”Jones added: “So, him dying at 40… I’d like to say it was a surprise but in many ways, it wasn’t because he was that kind of character.