Cardiff English Although based in nearby Barry, accents heard in the sitcom "Gavin & Stacey" are not Cardiff or Barry accents, with the exception of the character Nessa, played by Ruth Jones who was brought up in Bridgend but now resides in Cardiff. A common first reaction to the accent is often that it is scarcely different from what is considered a "proper Welsh accent", which is usually seen by most outside Wales as being the variety spoken in the South Wales Valleys. The accent is also sufficiently distinct from standard English that researchers from the University of Birmingham have carried out
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