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On this day 21 July 2001, Welsh rockers The Stereophonics played Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium, with support provided by the Black Crowes, Ash and another Welsh band The Crocketts.
The band had just released their third studio album Just Enough Education To Perform (JEEP) and spawned three top-ten singles in the form of "Mr. Writer", "Have a Nice Day" and "Handbags and Gladrags" as well as topping the UK album charts.
Review - BBC Wales
The Stereophonics conquered the odds of illness to stage a triumphant homecoming concert at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff on Saturday night.
Plagued by foot-and-mouth disease, which forced a relocation from Chepstow Racecourse, and Kelly Jones's flu, which cancelled their US tour, the band were happy to finally turn up at their biggest ever gig on Welsh soil.
An estimated 60,000 fans joined the Phonics in the capital along with support acts the Black Crowes and the Crocketts - this was a rock concert in the very best sense of the word.
Stadium bosses closed the retractable roof to keep out the rain and to keep in the raucous rockers' noise.
But the fans could not keep a lid on their enthusiasm, many waving Welsh flags and huge plastic daffodils.
The boys from Cwmaman played a varied, two-hour set including material from their third and latest album, Just Enough Education To Perform, which went to the top of the charts when it was released in April.
JEEP is still top of the indie charts, moving around 20,000 copies each week.
The performance came as a relief after a troubled few months for the Phonics.
In May, the band was forced to cancel a US tour after Kelly Jones's flu bug worsened to a chest infection and doctors ordered a month's rest.
They also had to pull out of a curtain-raising appearance before the FA Cup Final on 12 May.
Saturday's concert, which seemed to fit the Millennium Stadium so well, was slated for Chepstow Racecourse - but foot-and-mouth put paid to the band's "Day At The Races" idea along with a host of horse races.
Then, Glastonbury 2001, which the Stereophonics were rumoured to headline, was cancelled over crowd safety concerns.
They went on to play a virtual 90-minute Glastonbury event to a handful of faithful fans and a web audience.
But it served as little more than a rehearsal for the impressive Cardiff concert.
Setlist
Local Boy in the Photograph
More Life in a Tramp's Vest
A Thousand Trees
Traffic
T-Shirt Sun Tan
The Bartender and the Thief
Just Looking
Pick a Part That's New
I Wouldn't Believe Your Radio
I Stopped to Fill My Car Up
Mr Writer
Hurry Up and Wait
Have a Nice Day
Step on My Old Size Nines
Roll Up and Shine
Encore:
Everyday I Think of Money
Watch Them Fly Sundays
Vegas Two Times
Rooftop
