On This Day 04/05/1994 Deacon Blue

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On this day, 4 May 1994, Scottish rock band Deacon Blue played Wales National Ice Rink in Cardiff on their In Your Town tour. The support was provided by The Dreaming.

Original advert for the rescheduled concert

The 1994 tour was originally scheduled as 'In Your Town - Part 2' for November 1993. Tickets went on sale in July, with extra dates added in September. It wasn't long after the extra dates went on sale that ticket holders were informed that the tour was postponed due to 'recording commitments.'

Review - South Wales Echo

The tour eventually took place after the release of the Greatest Hits album. Early in the Tour, the news leaked out that the band were splitting up, and two extra shows were added at the Glasgow Barrowlands.

Setlist

Will We Be Lovers

Raintown

Bound To Love

Fergus Sings The Blues

Your Swaying Arms

Real Gone Kid

A Brighter Star

Love & Regret

Love's Great Fears

Still In The Mood

When Will You...

Your Town

Only Tender Love

The Day That Jackie Jumped The Jail

Bethlehem's Gate

Wages Day

Dignity

Goin' Back

Chocolate Girl/I'll Never Fall In Love Again

Queen Of The New Year

Twist and Shout/Twist and Shout Your Town

On This Day 05/12/1992 Chris De Burgh

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On this day, 5 December 1992, Irish singer/songwriter Chris De Burgh played the Wales National Ice Rink on his Power Of Ten Tour. De Burgh had released his tenth studio album Power of Ten earlier in the year.

Starting out as an art rock performer he subsequently started writing more pop-oriented material. He has had several top 40 hits in the UK and two in the US, but he is more popular in other countries, particularly Norway and Brazil.

His 1986 love song "The Lady in Red" reached number one in several countries. De Burgh has sold over 45 million albums worldwide.

De Burgh was born in Venado Tuerto, Argentina, to Colonel Charles John Davison, a British diplomat, and Maeve Emily (née de Burgh). His maternal grandfather was Sir Eric de Burgh, a British Army officer who had been Chief of the General Staff in India during the Second World War.

He took his mother's maiden name, "de Burgh", as a stage name when he began performing, while his legal surname remains "Davison". His father had substantial farming interests, and Chris spent much of his early years in Malta, Nigeria and Belgian Congo, as he, his mother and brother accompanied Colonel Davison on his diplomatic and engineering work.