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On this day, 17 July 1993, Australian rock band INXS played Cardiff University on their Get Out Of The House tour.
The band were soon to release Full Moon, Dirty Heart, their ninth studio album which peaked at no 3 in the UK album charts.
When vocalist Michael Hutchence visited then girlfriend Helena Christensen in her home city of Copenhagen in Denmark. Hutchence got into a scuffle with a taxi driver.
The incident started when a drunken Hutchence refused to move off the road to allow the taxi to pass. The taxi driver got out of his vehicle and punched Hutchence causing him to fall onto the pavement.
The singer sustained a fractured skull due to the fall and as a result suffered a loss of his sense of smell and taste.[7] The singer spent two weeks recovering in a Copenhagen hospital.
In the unofficial biography Michael Hutchence: A Tragic Rock & Roll Story, Australian author Vince Lovegrove wrote, "It had a very strange effect on Michael. The alleged injury also caused the singer to act erratically, abusively and to suffer insomnia".
Although temporary, these conditions would have an effect during the production of Full Moon, Dirty Hearts.
Setlist
Communication
Days of Rust
The Gift
The Loved One
(The Loved Ones cover)
Taste It
Need You Tonight
Mediate
Full Moon, Dirty Hearts
Please (You Got That...)
Suicide Blonde
I Send a Message
All Around
What You Need
New Sensation
Kick
Devil Inside
Heaven Sent
Encore:
Time
Mystify
Don't Change
