Tributes came in for the band from a variety of sources, with BBC Radio 1 presenter Huw Stephens describing them as “international superstars”, and adding “I always thought they were one of the best Welsh bands. They were not just a throwaway pop band – they had real, meaningful songs.” Iestyn George , editor of the magazine Maxim at the time, praised the influence that Matthews had through Catatonia in the later 1990s, saying that “Around 1998 and 1999, Cerys was in the papers every other day”. He also referenced that she had never intended this role as Catatonia had thought that they had already peaked prior to International Velvet .
Tributes came in for the band
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