On this day, 1 November 1995 pop band Human League played St David’s Hall on there greatest hits tour.
Formed in Sheffield in 1977. Initially an experimental electronic outfit, the group signed to Virgin Records in 1979 and later attained widespread commercial success with their third album Dare in 1981 after restructuring their lineup.
The album contained four hit singles, including the UK/US number one hit "Don't You Want Me". The band received the Brit Award for Best British Breakthrough Act in 1982. Further hits followed throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s, including "Mirror Man", "(Keep Feeling) Fascination", "The Lebanon", "Human" (a second US No. 1) and "Tell Me When".
The only constant band member since 1977 has been lead singer and songwriter Philip Oakey. Keyboard players Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh both left the band in 1980 to form Heaven 17, leaving Oakey and Adrian Wright to assemble a new line-up.
The Human League then evolved into a commercially successful new pop band,with the line-up comprising Oakey, Wright, vocalists Joanne Catherall and Susan Ann Sulley, bassist and keyboard player Ian Burden and guitarist and keyboard player Jo Callis. Wright, Burden and Callis all left the band by the end of the 1980s, since which time the band has essentially been a trio of Oakey, Catherall and Sulley with various sidemen.
LIVE LINE UP:
Philip Oakey - vocals
Joanne Catherall - vocals
Susan Sulley - vocals
Neil Sutton - synthesizer
Russel Dennett - synthesizer, guitar, vocals
Fergus Geronde - percussion
Phil Edwards - synthesizer
David Beevers - technica
Setlist
Being Boiled
These Are the Days
Love Action (I Believe in Love)
Filling Up With Heaven
A Doorway?
The Sound of the Crowd
Housefull of Nothing
Mirror Man
Blind Youth
Seconds
The Lebanon
The Stars Are Going Out
(Keep Feeling) Fascination
Stay With Me Tonight
One Man in My Heart
Human
Don't You Want Me
Tell Me When
Human Nature
(Gary Clail / On-U Sound System cover)
Encore:
Together in Electric Dreams
(Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder cover)
