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The National Stadium, Cardiff Arms Park. Concerts that were held at the National Stadium, Cardiff Arms Park, Cardiff, Wales, between 1987 and 1996 and included U2, Bon Jovi, Michael Jackson and The Rolling Stones. The last concert at the stadium was performed by Tina Turner on 14 July 1996.
The National Stadium was a rugby union and football stadium built on the Cardiff Arms Park site in Cardiff, Wales. In 1969 construction began on the stadium which replaced the existing rugby ground built in 1881. [2] The stadium was home to the Wales national rugby union team since 1964 and the Wales national football team since 1989.
Michael Forever – The Tribute Concert was a music benefit concert which was held on 8 October 2011 at the 74,500 seater Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, the capital of Wales. The concert was dedicated to American entertainer Michael Jackson , who died on 25 June 2009 after suffering a cardiac arrest , and celebrated the 40th anniversary of his ...
As a result of an agreement between Cardiff Athletic Club and the WRU, the National Stadium project established that a new stadium for international matches and events was required, with Cardiff RFC moving to a new, purpose-built stadium on the original cricket ground at the site of the former Cardiff Arms Park stadium. [19]
Cardiff Arms Park is best known as a rugby union stadium, but Cardiff Athletic Bowls Club (CABC) was established in 1923, [35] and ever since then, the club has used the Arms Park as its bowling green. The bowls club is a section of the Cardiff Athletic Club and shares many of the facilities of the Cardiff Arms Park athletics centre. [36]
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Tsunami Relief Cardiff was a charity music concert held at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff on 22 January 2005, in aid of the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, which had occurred the month before. The benefit concert raised £1,248,963.
Cardiff Blues moved back to the Arms Park following the 2011-12 season. The site has been host to many sports apart from rugby union and cricket, including athletics, association football, greyhound racing, tennis, British baseball and boxing. [7] The National Stadium also hosted many music concerts including The Rolling Stones, U2 and Michael ...