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On this day, 7 June 2007, American hard rock supergroup Velvet Revolver played the Cardiff International Arena with support provided by Satellite Party.
The band were promoting their soon to be released second album Libertad.
The band consisted of Guns N' Roses members Slash (lead guitar), Duff McKagan (bass, backing vocals) and Matt Sorum (drums, backing vocals), alongside Dave Kushner (rhythm guitar) formerly of punk band Wasted Youth, and Scott Weiland (lead vocalist) formerly of Stone Temple Pilots. Weiland left the band to rejoin Stone Temple Pilots in 2008.
Their second and final album peaked at No 6 in the UK album charts.
Setlist
Let It Roll
Do It for the Kids
Sucker Train Blues
Superhuman
The Last Fight
She Mine
Get Out the Door
Fall to Pieces
Big Machine
Vasoline
(Stone Temple Pilots cover)
Just Sixteen
She Builds Quick Machines
Set Me Free
Encore:
It's So Easy
(Guns N’ Roses cover)
Wish You Were Here
(Pink Floyd cover)
Encore 2:
Psycho Killer
(Talking Heads cover)
Slithered
Review - South Wales Echo
NO matter how many bare tattooed torsos and leather trousers Velvet Revolver put on show they couldn’t top the costume choice of Perry Farrell, frontman with support act Satellite Party.
The gentleman deviant of alt-rock oozed around the stage in his gold lamé jumpsuit and neck scarf – Elvis styled by Scissor Sisters Jake Shears – thrusting a metronomic pelvis at his beautifully sluttish backing singer.
It was brilliant theatre but as amusing as Farrell was (“I hope your ears are bleeding. In a nice way.”), when Scott Weiland came windmilling onto the stage, high on energy, the modest crowd erupted.
Velvet Revolver provided their own amusement when one punter sprayed Slash with water. He tutted and wiped his leather trousers dry but soon after guitarist Dave Kushner slipped on the wet patch and fell heavily on his back.
Upright, he grinned, and from then on the band played with the volume of a Concorde crash. From the explosion of Fall To Pieces to the bluesy crawl of The Last Fight, from upcoming second album Libertad, they hit every song like a punch to the stomach.
New single She Builds Quick Machines had fathoms of strength and Set Me Free spat voltage. In the second encore they covered Talking Heads’ Psycho Killer and gave a rapturously-greeted It’s So Easy before slithering into the night; masterfully precise and brutishly powerful.
