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On this day, 29 October 1971, prog rockers King Crimson played Cardiff’s Capitol Theatre.
The band were about to release their fourth studio album Islands and the only studio album to feature the 1971-1972 touring line-up of Robert Fripp, Mel Collins, Boz Burrell and Ian Wallace.
This would be the last album before an entirely new group would record the trilogy of Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Starless and Bible Black and Red between 1973-1974.
This is also the last album to feature the lyrics of co-founding member Peter Sinfield.
Islands reached number 30 in the UK Albums Chart.
The band formed in November of 1968 in London, England and quickly exerted a strong influence on the early 1970s progressive rock movement and continue to inspire subsequent generations of artists across multiple genres. Robert Fripp, the sole remaining founding member, has acted as the primary composer and a driving creative force throughout the band’s history.
Although he is often viewed as the band’s leader, Fripp himself shuns this label. He has been quoted as seeing the group more as “a way of doing things”, and his role in the group a form of “quality control”.
Setlist
Cirkus
21st Century Schizoid Man
Pictures of a City
Formentera Lady
Sailor's Tale
The Letters
Ladies of the Road
Islands
The Devil's Triangle
Encore:
Cadence and Cascade
