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On this day, 11 April 1968, influential London rock band The Kinks played Cardiff’s Capitol Theatre on their Something Else tour with support that included The Tremeloes and The Herd.
The band were promoting their Something Else album but
1968 also saw the release of the band’s classic Village Green Preservation Society, the band’s sixth studio album and the last album by the original quartet (Ray Davies, Dave Davies, Pete Quaife, Mick Avory.
The album failed to chart upon its initial release, and Ray Davies has called it "the most successful ever flop."The album was ranked number 258 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, and it was described by Uncut in 2014 as a "brilliantly observed concept album".
