The Bartender and the Thief

"The Bartender and the Thief"
Single by Stereophonics
from the album Performance and Cocktails
B-side	"She Takes Her Clothes Off"
Written	April 1998
Released	9 November 1998 (1998-11-09)[1]
Studio	Real World (Bath, Somerset, England)
Length	2:54 (album version) 3:09 (single version)
Label	V2
Composer(s)	Kelly Jones Richard Jones Stuart Cable
Lyricist(s)	Kelly Jones
Producer(s)	Bird & Bush
Stereophonics singles chronology
"Local Boy in the Photograph" (1998) "The Bartender and the Thief" (1998) "Just Looking" (1999)
Music video
"The Bartender and the Thief" on YouTube

"The Bartender and the Thief" is a song by Welsh rock band Stereophonics, written by the band in April 1998. The song is the second track on their second album, Performance and Cocktails (1999). "Bartender" was the first single taken from Performance and Cocktails and was released on 9 November 1998, reaching number three on the UK Singles Chart. The music video features the band playing at Kanchanaburi Province, Thailand, and is based on the Francis Ford Coppola movie Apocalypse Now.^{[citation needed]}