On This Day 10/2/1978 Split Enz

On this day, 10 Feb 1978, New Zealand band rock band Split Enz played Cardiff’s Top Rank.

The band had released their third studio album Dizrythmia the previous Summer, the first Split Enz album without co-founding members Phil Judd and Mike Chunn.

Neil Finn, (who went on to form Crowded House) and Nigel Griggs, the first being the younger brother of band leader Tim Finn, replaced them respectively.

The album is regarded as the start of the band's breakthrough, and marked a shift from art rock to more pop-oriented songs.

The album's title comes from circadian dysrhythmia, more commonly known as jet lag.

Setlist

I'm So Up

Nice to Know

My Mistake

Betty

Best Friend

Play It Strange

So This Is Love

Home Comforts

Charlie

Bergen Aan Zee

True Colours (Let's Rock)

Encore:

Frenzy

Bold as Brass

Crosswords

On This Day 31/1/1979 Adam And The Ants

On this day, 31 Jan 1979, Adam and the Ants played Newport’s Stowaway Club on their Young Parisians UK tour.
Signed to Decca, the band was let them go in early 1979, the group signed with independent label Do It Records and rerecorded and released their second single "Zerox" (with a changed B-side, "Whip In My Valise") before recording their debut album Dirk Wears White Sox.
On 26 January 1980, Malcolm McLaren, the former Sex Pistols manager, who Adam Ant had hired after being frustrated with their lack of success, convinced the rest of the band – then comprising guitarist Matthew Ashman, bassist Leigh Gorman (who had replaced Warren in November 1979) and drummer Dave Barbe – to leave Adam and the Ants and form Bow Wow Wow, fronted by Annabella Lwin.

Setlist

Nietzsche Baby
Day I Met God
Animals and Men
Cleopatra
Kick!
Never Trust a Man (With Egg on His Face)
Catholic Day
Boil in the Bag Man
Family of Noise
Press Darlings
Zerox
Lady
Puerto Rican
Fall-In

On This Day 29/1/1983 New Order

On this day, 29 Jan 1983, Manchester icons New Order played Cardiff University Students Union, with support provided by The Wake.

Previewing tracks from their soon to be released 2nd album Power, Corruption and Lies which featured more electronic tracks and heavier use of synthesisers.

The album was met with widespread acclaim, and has been included in music industry lists of the greatest albums of the 1980s and of all time.

The band formed after the demise of Joy Division, following the suicide of lead singer Ian Curtis; they were joined by Gillian Gilbert on keyboards later that year. New Order's integration of post-punk with electronic and dance music made them one of the most acclaimed and influential bands of the 1980s.

Setlist

In a Lonely Place

Age of Consent

Ultraviolence

Chosen Time

We All Stand

Everything's Gone Green

The Village

Dreams Never End

Procession

Hurt

Temptation

On This Day 27/1/1979 Elvis Costello

On this day, 27 Jan 1979, Elvis Costello and the Attractions played Cardiff’s Sophia Gardens on their UK tour to promote the recently released Armed Forces album.
Support for the tour were New York punks Richard Hell and the Voidoids and punk poet John Cooper Clarke.
Armed Forces was the third studio album by Costello, released in the UK by Radar Records and in the US by Columbia in 1979. It was his second album with the Attractions, and the first to officially credit the Attractions on the cover. The album had the working title Emotional Fascism.

"I have loads of fond memories of playing in Cardiff. The first time I did a gig there was with Elvis Costello and Richard Hell and the Voidoids, who sort of invented punk. It was in Sophia Gardens in 1979 and we stayed in a place opposite the castle." - John Cooper Clarke,

Setlist

01. I Stand Accused
02. Lip Service
03. Girls Talk
04. Green Shirt
05. Party Girl
06. This Year's Girl
07. Lipstick Vogue
08. Watching The Detectives
09. Accidents Will Happen
10. Oliver's Army
11. Radio, Radio
12. You Belong To Me
13. Pump It Up
14. Mystery Dance - with Dave Edmunds