On This Day 4/2/1999 Robbie Williams

On this day 4 Feb 1999, Robbie Williams played the first of two nights at Cardiff’s International Arena on his One More From The Rogue Tour. Support was provided by The Divine Comedy.
The tour was launched to support his second studio album, I've Been Expecting You. Predominantly visiting Europe, the tour performed over 30 shows.
The album spawned five singles, including lead single "Millennium", which became Williams' first UK number-one hit.
A critical and major commercial success, it debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart, marking Williams' second consecutive chart-topper, and has been certified 10× Platinum.

Setlist

Let Me Entertain You
Man Machine
Life Thru a Lens
Strong
Lazy Days
Ego a Go Go
Win Some Lose Some
Heaven From Here
Grace
No Regrets
Phoenix From the Flames
Teenage Millionaire
Karma Killer
Old Before I Die
Millennium
Angels
Pinball Wizard
(The Who cover)
Stand Your Ground
One of God's Better People

On THis Day 3/2/1990 Faith No More

On this day 3 Feb 1990, San Francisco rockers Faith No More played Cardiff University, supported by special guests Mortal Sin, promoting the band’s recent release “Epic.”
"Epic" was released in January 1990 and was a top 10 hit. The music video received extensive airplay on MTV in 1990, and angered animal rights activists for a slow motion shot of a fish flopping out of water at the end of the video.

Tour Setlist

Big Battle
(Toto song)
From Out of Nowhere
Falling to Pieces
The Real Thing
Underwater Love
The Crab Song
Epic
Zombie Eaters
We Care a Lot
Chinese Arithmetic
As the Worm Turns
Sweet Dreams
(Lloyd Landesman cover)
Surprise! You're Dead!
Woodpecker From Mars

Encore:
Edge of the World
The Jungle
Why Do You Bother

Encore 2:
War Pigs
(Black Sabbath cover)

On This Day 2/2/1983 Echo And The Bunnymen

On this day, 2 Feb 1983, Liverpool post punk new wave band Echo and the Bunnymen played Cardiff’s Top Rank on the UK leg of their Porcupine tour.
Formed in Liverpool in 1978. The original line-up consisted of vocalist Ian McCulloch, guitarist Will Sergeant and bassist Les Pattinson. By 1980, Pete de Freitas joined as the band's drummer.
Their mainstream success in the UK came in 1983, when they scored a UK Top 10 hit with "The Cutter", and the album which the song came from, Porcupine, hit number 2 in the UK. Ocean Rain (1984), continued the band's UK chart success with its lead single "The Killing Moon" entering into the top ten.

In the 1982 book Liverpool Explodes!, Will Sergeant explained the origin of the band's name:

“We had this mate who kept suggesting all these names like The Daz Men or Glisserol and the Fan Extractors. Echo and the Bunnymen was one of them. I thought it was just as stupid as the rest.”


Setlist

Going Up
With a Hip
Gods Will Be Gods
All My Colours (Zimbo)
Rescue
The Back of Love
My White Devil
Crocodiles
Porcupine
All That Jazz
The Cutter
Heads Will Roll
No Dark Things
Heaven Up Here
Over the Wall
Do It Clean

On This Day 01/2/1993 Van Morrison

On this day, 1 Feb 1993, legendary Irish singer/songwriter Van Morrison played Cardiff’s St David’s Hall.
A regular visitor to South Wales, Morrison’s professional career began as a teenager in the late 1950s, playing a variety of instruments including guitar, harmonica, keyboards and saxophone for various Irish showbands, covering the popular hits of that time. Morrison rose to prominence in the mid-1960s as the lead singer of the Northern Irish R&B and rock band, Them, with whom he recorded the garage band classic "Gloria".
His solo career began in 1967, under the pop-hit orientated guidance of Bert Berns with the release of the hit single "Brown Eyed Girl". After Berns's death, Warner Bros. Records bought out his contract and allowed him three sessions to record Astral Weeks (1968).Though this album gradually garnered high praise, it was initially a poor seller.
Still touring Morrison likens his appearances to one off performances and short series of dates.

During a 2006 interview, he told Paul Sexton:

“I don't really tour. This is another misconception. I stopped touring in the true sense of the word in the late 1970s, early 1980s, possibly. I just do gigs now. I average two gigs a week. Only in America do I do more, because you can't really do a couple of gigs there, so I do more, 10 gigs or something there.”

Setlist

Foreign Window
I'm Not Feeling It Anymore
Why Must I Always Explain?
See Me Through / Soldier of Fortune
Cleaning Windows
Vanlose Stairway
Route 66
(Bobby Troup cover)
So Quiet in Here / That's Where It's At
Youth of 1,000 Summers
A Town Called Paradise
Did Ye Get Healed? / It's All in the Game / Make It Real One More Time
Moondance / My Funny Valentine
Brown Eyed Girl
In the Garden / Since I Fell for You / Daring Night
What'd I Say
(Ray Charles cover)
Enlightenment
Have I Told You Lately
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
(Bob Dylan cover)
Lonely Avenue
(Ray Charles cover)
Gloria
(Them song)

On This Day 31/1/1979 Adam And The Ants

On this day, 31 Jan 1979, Adam and the Ants played Newport’s Stowaway Club on their Young Parisians UK tour.
Signed to Decca, the band was let them go in early 1979, the group signed with independent label Do It Records and rerecorded and released their second single "Zerox" (with a changed B-side, "Whip In My Valise") before recording their debut album Dirk Wears White Sox.
On 26 January 1980, Malcolm McLaren, the former Sex Pistols manager, who Adam Ant had hired after being frustrated with their lack of success, convinced the rest of the band – then comprising guitarist Matthew Ashman, bassist Leigh Gorman (who had replaced Warren in November 1979) and drummer Dave Barbe – to leave Adam and the Ants and form Bow Wow Wow, fronted by Annabella Lwin.

Setlist

Nietzsche Baby
Day I Met God
Animals and Men
Cleopatra
Kick!
Never Trust a Man (With Egg on His Face)
Catholic Day
Boil in the Bag Man
Family of Noise
Press Darlings
Zerox
Lady
Puerto Rican
Fall-In

On This Day 30/1/1985 Chumbawumba

On this day, 30 Jan 1985, alternative rock band Chumbawumba played Cardiff’s Lion Den venue.
Formed in 1982 and disbanded in 2012. The band drew on genres such as punk rock, pop, and folk. Their anarcho-communist political leanings led them to have an irreverent attitude toward authority, and to espouse a variety of political and social causes including animal rights and pacifism (early in their career) and later regarding class struggle, Marxism, feminism, gay liberation, pop culture, and anti-fascism.
The following year saw the release of their debut album, Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records (1986) which was a critique of the Live Aid concert organised by Bob Geldof, which the band argued was primarily a cosmetic spectacle designed to draw attention away from the real political causes of world hunger.
Chumbawamba formed in Burnley in 1982 with an initial line-up of Allan "Boff" Whalley, Danbert Nobacon (born Nigel Hunter), Midge and Tomi, all four previously members of the band Chimp Eats Banana, shortly afterwards joined by Lou Watts.
The band made their live debut in January 1982. Their first vinyl release was a track ("Three Years Later") on the Crass Records compilation album Bullshit Detector.

On This Day 29/1/1983 New Order

On this day, 29 Jan 1983, Manchester icons New Order played Cardiff University Students Union, with support provided by The Wake.

Previewing tracks from their soon to be released 2nd album Power, Corruption and Lies which featured more electronic tracks and heavier use of synthesisers.

The album was met with widespread acclaim, and has been included in music industry lists of the greatest albums of the 1980s and of all time.

The band formed after the demise of Joy Division, following the suicide of lead singer Ian Curtis; they were joined by Gillian Gilbert on keyboards later that year. New Order's integration of post-punk with electronic and dance music made them one of the most acclaimed and influential bands of the 1980s.

Setlist

In a Lonely Place

Age of Consent

Ultraviolence

Chosen Time

We All Stand

Everything's Gone Green

The Village

Dreams Never End

Procession

Hurt

Temptation

On This Day 28/1/1981 Black Sabbath

On this day, 28 Jan 1981, Heavy rock band Black Sabbath played Cardiff’s Sophia Gardens on their Heaven and Hell tour.
It was the ninth world concert tour by Black Sabbath between April 1980 and February 1981 to promote their 1980 studio album, Heaven and Hell.The tour marked the band's first live shows with vocalist Ronnie James Dio, who replaced original vocalist Ozzy Osbourne the previous year.
The final leg of the tour, which took place in the United Kingdom, had originally been scheduled to take place in late December 1980 go throughout early January 1981, but was postponed to late January to early February 1981 due to Geezer Butler's finger injury. Black Sabbath was supported by A II Z and Max Webster for some shows.