On this day 12/09/1994 Take That

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On this day, 12 September 1994, Boy band legends Take That played the first of two nights at the Cardiff International Arena. The support for the tour was Ulitmate Kaos.

August, September, October 1994. Take That took the UK by storm, with their Pops Tour. Performing to sell out venues and screaming teenage girls, up and down the country!

Gary Barlow, Mark Owen, Robbie Williams, Howard Donald and Jason Orange were the Kings of the boy band world.

Take That themselves said, “If you’d told us in 1992, when we did our first tour, that two years later we would be doing our fourth, we wouldn’t of believed you!”

The tour kicked off on the 25th August, at Glasgow SEC. The boys also played at Manchester GMEX. Dublin- The Point. Sheffield Arena. Cardiff Arena. Wembley Arena. Birmingham NEC and Belfast Kings Hall.

They did nine shows at Wembley Arena!

Their thirty six dates tour finished on October 12th in Belfast.

1994 was one hectic year! Before the tour even started Take That had been around the world and back again!

With promotional trips, interviews, photo shoots, filming videos. Plus picking up a Brit Award too! Take That won best video, for Pray.

On this day 11/09/1975 Wings

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On this day, 11 September 1975, Paul McCartney and Wings played Cardiff’s Capitol Theatre as part of their Wings Over The World Tour. It was the third date on the tour following concerts at Southampton and Bristol.

The world tour followed the release of Wings' bestselling album Venus and Mars (1975), while the follow-up album, Wings at the Speed of Sound (1976), was completed after the band's Australian concerts. Both Venus and Mars and Band on the Run (1973) were well represented in the setlist for the two 1975 legs. Songs from Speed of Sound were then introduced into the set in March 1976, and McCartney is known to have remarked: "Everything I have done since The Beatles split has been leading up to this."

Wings' line-up for this tour was Paul McCartney (vocals, bass, piano, acoustic guitar), Linda McCartney (keyboards, backing vocals), Denny Laine (vocals, electric and acoustic guitars, bass, keyboards, percussion), Jimmy McCulloch (electric and acoustic guitars, bass, vocals) and Joe English (drums, percussion, backing vocals). They were joined by brass and woodwind players Howie Casey, Steve Howard, Thaddeus Richard and Tony Dorsey.

Cardiff - interview - https://youtu.be/oW8K_dn4AN4

Setlist:

Venus and Mars/Rock Show

Jet

Let Me Roll It

Spirits of Ancient Egypt

Little Woman Love

C Moon

Maybe I'm Amazed

(Paul McCartney song)

Lady Madonna

(The Beatles cover)

The Long and Winding Road

(The Beatles cover)

Medicine Jar

Soily

Picasso's Last Words (Drink to Me)

Richard Cory

(Simon & Garfunkel cover)

Bluebird

I've Just Seen a Face

(The Beatles cover)

Blackbird

(The Beatles cover)

Yesterday

(The Beatles cover)

You Gave Me the Answer

Magneto and Titanium Man

Go Now

(Bessie Banks cover)

Junior's Farm

Letting Go

Live and Let Die

Call Me Back Again

My Love

Listen to What the Man Said

Band on the Run

Hi, Hi, Hi

On this day 10/09/1976 Queen

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On this day 10 September 1976, legendary British rock band Queen played Cardiff Castle. Also on the bill was Cardiff’s Andy Fairweather-Low, Frankie Miller's Full House and Manfred Mann.

Richie Blackmore & Rainbow were originally part of the package but refused to play Cardiff Castle because they couldn't get onstage their 35-foot high artificial rainbow which they regarded as an "essential part of their act". Probably they weren't allowed to put it up due to upstaging Queen.

Roger Taylor wrote about the show in the autumn '76 fan club magazine, describing the weather as "virtually a monsoon." He adds, "The sight of the rain pouring down through the spotlights on everybody, and of Freddie splashing his way through pools of water at the front of the stage will remain indelibly printed on our memories forever. The fact that people stayed on and enjoyed themselves right to the end made it quite a moving occasion for us. In fact, I was so overcome I just had to wreck me drum kit at the end, which reduced 'Crystal' my roadie to floods of tears rivalling the rain (it was a brand new kit too!). Anyway if you were there thanks for being our bravest audience ever and I hope the pneumonia cleared up."

This is assumingly the final performance of Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon.

In his Queen Live book, Queen archivist Greg Brooks alleges there is a bootleg of this show called "Queen At The Castle," but no such release ever occurred. There are no known recordings of this show.

Setlist

A Day At the Races Intro

Bohemian Rhapsody

(Rock Section)

Ogre Battle

Sweet Lady

White Queen (As It Began)

Flick of the Wrist

You're My Best Friend

Bohemian Rhapsody

Killer Queen

The March of the Black Queen

Bohemian Rhapsody

(Reprise)

Bring Back That Leroy Brown

Brighton Rock

Son and Daughter

'39

You Take My Breath Away

The Prophet's Song

Stone Cold Crazy

Doing All Right

Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon

Tie Your Mother Down

Keep Yourself Alive

Liar

In the Lap of the Gods... Revisited

Encore:

Now I'm Here

Big Spender

(Cy Coleman cover)

Jailhouse Rock

(Elvis Presley cover)

God Save the Queen

([traditional] cover)

On this day 09/09/1957 Lonnie Donegan

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On this day, 9 September 1957, skiffle legend Lonnie Donegan played Cardiff’s New Theatre. The package included Smoothey & Layton (The fringe of fun), Miki & Griff (American style comedy vocal stars), Richards & Yolanda, Marie De Vere Dancers and Des O’connor.

Donegan was touring off the back of two consecutive No 1 hits with "Cumberland Gap" and "Gamblin' Man" with his soon to be released second album Lonnie (which peaked at No 3 in the album charts).

Born in Scotland and raised in England, Donnegan began his career in the British trad jazz revival but transitioned to skiffle in the mid 1950s, rising to prominence with a hit recording of the American folk song "Rock Island Line" which helped spur the broader UK skiffle movement.

Donegan had 31 UK top 30 hit singles, 24 being successive and three at number one. He was the first British male singer with two US top 10 hits.

Donegan received an Ivor Novello lifetime achievement award in 1995 and, in 2000, he was made an MBE.

On this day 08/09/1992 Radiohead

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On this day, 9 September 1992, Rock band Radiohead played Cardiff University as support for The Frank and Walters.

Formed in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, in 1985. The band consists of Thom Yorke (vocals, guitar, piano, keyboards), brothers Jonny Greenwood (lead guitar, keyboards, other instruments) and Colin Greenwood (bass), Ed O'Brien (guitar, backing vocals) and Philip Selway (drums, percussion).

They have worked with producer Nigel Godrich and cover artist Stanley Donwood since 1994. Radiohead's experimental approach is credited with advancing the sound of alternative rock.

After signing to EMI in 1991, Radiohead released their debut single, "Creep", in 1992. It became a worldwide hit after the release of their debut album, Pablo Honey (1993).

The chord progression and melody in "Creep" is similar to that of the 1972 song "The Air That I Breathe", written by Albert Hammond and Mike Hazlewood.

Rondor Music, the publisher of "The Air That I Breathe", sued Radiohead, and Hammond and Hazlewood received cowriting credits and a percentage of the royalties. Hammond said Radiohead were "honest" about having reused the composition, and so the songwriters agreed to take only "a little piece" of the royalties.

On this day 07/09/1975 Santana

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On this day, 7 September 1975, American Latin-infused rock band Santana played Cardiff’s Capitol Theatre with support provided by Earth, Wind and Fire. It was the band’s Borboletta Tour to promote their Borboletta album.

Formed in 1966 by the Mexican American guitarist Carlos Santana, which has performed for five decades.

The group's first concert tours were North America, with performances in Europe, where they performed at small and medium-size venues and rock festivals. Following a lineup change in early 1972, they toured the world from 1972 to 1973. During this tour, the band performed at arenas and theaters, while doing several concerts in South America, one of the first tours of the continent by a major American rock act. After a North American tour in 1974, the last remaining members of the group from their famous lineup, Michael Shrieve and José Areas, quit the group, and the band underwent multiple lineup changes during the following years. In the 1970s to the 1980s, the band played at arenas, but mostly theaters and seldom music festivals.

In the 1990s, the group lost their recording contract, but they continued to tour extensively throughout the decade, mostly playing at theaters and amphitheaters. However, the band ended the decade with the Supernatural Tour, a vehicle for their popular 1999 album Supernatural. The 177–date tour was a success with audiences and critics, and the group continued to perform within the 2000s. In the third quarter of 2010, Carlos Santana proposed to drummer Cindy Blackman after her solo on the song "Corazón Espinado", and she became an official member of the band in 2016. The group continues to tour the world to this day.

Tour band

Leon Patillo – lead vocals, piano, organ (through November 15, 1975)

Greg Walker – lead vocals, percussion (beginning December 4, 1975)

Carlos Santana – guitar, percussion, vocals

Tom Coster – Yamaha organ, Hammond organ, Minimoog, electric piano, percussion, vocals

David Brown – bass guitar

Leon "Ndugu" Chancler – drums

Armando Peraza – congas, percussion

Setlist

"Incident at Neshabur" (Gianquinto, Santana)

"Black Magic Woman" (Green)

"Gypsy Queen" (Szabó)

"Oye Como Va" (Puente)

"Let the Music Set You Free" (Coster, Patillo, David Rubinson, Santana)

"Time Waits for No One" (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards)

"Samba Pa Ti" (Santana)

"Savor" (Areas, Brown, Michael Carabello, Rolie, Santana, Shrieve)

"Toussaint L'Ouverture" (Areas, Brown, Carabello, Rolie, Santana, Shrieve)

"Soul Sacrifice" (Santana, Rolie, Brown, Malone)

On this day 06/09/1990 Black Sabbath

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On this day, 6 September 1990, British heavy rock band Black Sabbath played the Newport Centre, with support provided by Circus Of Power.

The tour was in support of their fifteenth studio album Tyr. The album title, and several song titles, allude to Norse mythology, which led many to call Tyr a concept album, although bassist Neil Murray dispelled that in 2005, stating that while many of the songs may seem loosely related, very little of the album has to do with mythology and it was not intended to be a concept recording.

Formed in Birmingham in 1968 by guitarist Tony Iommi, drummer Bill Ward, bassist Geezer Butler and vocalist Ozzy Osbourne. They are often cited as pioneers of heavy metal music.

The band helped define the genre with releases such as Black Sabbath (1970), Paranoid (1970), and Master of Reality (1971). The band had multiple line-up changes following Osbourne's departure in 1979, with Iommi being the only constant member throughout its history.

Setlist

Neon Knights

Iron Man

Children of the Grave

Anno Mundi

Headless Cross

When Death Calls

War Pigs

The Shining

Bass Solo

Heart Like a Wheel

Guitar Solo

The Law Maker

Drum Solo

Black Sabbath

Die Young

Heaven and Hell

Paranoid

On this day 05/09/2002 Suede

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On this day, 5 September 2002, English rock band Suede played Cardiff’s Coel Exchange as part of a three-date preview tour for a full-blown tour to follow in October.

Formed in London in 1989. The band is composed of singer Brett Anderson, guitarist Richard Oakes, bass player Mat Osman, drummer Simon Gilbert and keyboardist/rhythm guitarist Neil Codling.

In 1992, Suede were dubbed "The Best New Band in Britain" by Melody Maker, and attracted much attention from the British music press. The following year their debut album Suede went to the top of the UK Albums Chart, becoming the fastest-selling debut album in almost ten years.

It won the Mercury Music Prize and helped foster 'Britpop' as a musical movement, though the band distanced themselves from the term.

The band were promoting their soon to be released fifth studio album, A New Morning.

By the time the album was released, public interest in the band had waned, as shown by the poor charting of both the album and singles. Despite this, however, the album received moderate praise from critics. It is the only Suede album not to be released in the US. It was the last studio album released by the band before their seven-year hiatus and reunion in 2010.