Rob Brydon Joy Jones (née Brydon), was a school teacher, and his father, Howard Jones, was a car dealer. He grew up in Baglan, with his younger brother Peter (born 1973). Brydon was educated at two independent schools: St. John's School in Porthcawl, which Eddie Izzard also attended, and Dumbarton House School in Swansea until the age of 14. This was followed by Porthcawl Comprehensive School, where he met Ruth Jones (with whom he later worked in "Gavin & Stacey") and became a member of the school's youth theatre group. While at Dumbarton, he once stole the lunch money of fellow pupil
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