On This Day - Ice Rink Cardiff - May 20 1992

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The arrival of American rock band KISS attracted thousands of fans at their sold-out Cardiff Ice Rink concert on May 20 1992. 
Earlier in the day the band met their fans during an in-store appearance at HMV in Queen Street. 
The queue was quoted by an employee as being longer than the one for Tom Jones earlier that year. 
More than 4,000 fans packed the Wales National Ice rink for the band's only Welsh date on their tour of Britain. 
However it wasn't all good news for the band as during the show, of which Wales' National Ice Rink was by far the smallest venue of the tour. 
During the performance, pyrotechnics were set off and burnt a hole in the ceiling, which ended up costing the band £20,000
There were reports that the band actually made a loss on this tour and one can not help but think that Cardiff's fire incident played a major part .

Set List

  1. I Stole Your Love

  2. Deuce

  3. Heaven's on Fire

  4. Parasite

  5. Shout It Out Loud

  6. Strutter

  7. Calling Dr. Love

  8. I Was Made for Lovin' You

  9. Unholy

  10. 100,000 Years

  11. Take It Off

  12. God of Thunder

  13. Lick It Up

  14. Firehouse

  15. Tears Are Falling

  16. I Love It Loud

  17. Love Gun

  18. Cold Gin

  19. Detroit Rock City

  20. I Want You

  21. God Gave Rock 'n' Roll to You II

  22. Rock and Roll All Nite.