Rob Brydon Laurence Olivier. His character Bryn West in "Gavin & Stacey", written by Ruth Jones and James Corden, allowed him to return to his South Wales roots. In this role Brydon performed the 2009 Comic Relief charity single, "(Barry) Islands in the Stream", with Ruth Jones (both actors appearing as their characters from "Gavin & Stacey") and singer Tom Jones. It reached No.1 in the UK singles chart on 15 March 2009. In 2010 Brydon starred alongside Steve Coogan in Michael Winterbottom's partially improvised BBC Two sitcom series "The Trip," in which both actors played fictionalized versions of their public personas
Paul Stacey has also worked with Lucio Battisti in La Sposa Occidentale (1990) and with Patricia Kaas on her album "Je Te Dis Vous" (1993), recorded at the Eel Pie Studios in Twickenham. Both Stacey brothers played on Tom Jones' "Praise and Blame tour in November 2010. In 2011, Stacey was musical director for the play "Backbeat" at the Duke of York's Theatre, London. In 2017, he co-produced/engineered Steven Wilson's album "To the Bone", also playing a guitar solo on track "Refuge". Stacey worked for Oasis in a number of different capacities between 1999 and 2008. Originally brought in to engineer "Standing