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Cardiff International Arena (formerly known as Cardiff International Arena & Convention Centre and Motorpoint Arena Cardiff and currently, for sponsorship reasons, as Utilita Arena Cardiff) is an indoor exhibition centre and events arena located in Cardiff, Wales, and was opened on 9 September 1993 by singer Shirley Bassey. [1] It is Cardiff's ...
Chris Hunt of Global Live Events confirmed before the event that the stadium's capacity had been reduced down from 75,000 to 50,000, with only 40,000 tickets having been sold. [7] Cardiff Council also confirmed that some council staff and councillors were sent e-mails by the Millennium Stadium offering them "a number of free tickets" to the event.
David Bowie [1] [2] Glass Spider Tour: Big Country and The Screaming Blue Messiahs: 25 July U2 [3] Joshua Tree Tour: The Pretenders, The Alarm, The Silencers: 1988 26 July Michael Jackson [4] Bad World Tour: Kim Wilde: 1989 5 August Simple Minds [5] [6] Street Fighting Years Tour: The Silencers, The Darling Buds, Texas: 1990 16 July The Rolling ...
The concert raised £1.25m and 61,000 people attended the event at the stadium. The concert was, at the time, the biggest charity concert held in the United Kingdom since Live Aid in 1985. The main tickets sold out in just 3 days with a further 3,000 tickets issued selling out in 20 minutes. [19] 29 June U2: Vertigo Tour: The Killers and ...
Cardiff Canton was opened in June 1882 as a six road, 240-foot (73 m)-long shed, built to replace Long Dyke, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) east of Cardiff General station. The GWR enlarged the depot in 1897 with a 55 ft (17 m)-diameter turntable installed in a square locomotive shed with 28 roads radiating of off the turntable.
Taken over by the Great Western Railway, after nationalisation under British Railways they sold off the carriage and wagon works to the Pullman Company Ltd. [1] Today, both the site of the railway depot and the carriage and wagon works have been redeveloped, mainly with buildings and commercial activities associated with the University of Cardiff.
Live at the Cardiff Capitol Theater is a live concert recording of Lynyrd Skynyrd during a European tour in support of their third album, Nuthin' Fancy.It was released by Geffen Records alongside Authorized Bootleg: Live In Winterland, San Francisco, CA, 3/07/76 which captures a concert four months later.
Capitol Centre (Welsh: Canolfan Capitol) (previously: Capitol Exchange Centre (Welsh: Canolfan cyfnewid Capitol)) is an indoor shopping centre in the city of Cardiff, Wales. Functioning as one of the city's retail malls, The building is built on the site of the former Capitol Theatre , and is situated at the eastern end of Queen Street near the ...