1980 – Down To Earth
19.02.1980 City Hall Newcastle
20.02.1980 City Hall Newcastle
22.02.1980 Ingliston Exhibition Hall Edinburgh
23.02.1980 Bingley Hall Stafford
24.02.1980 Bingley Hall Stafford
24.02.1980 Hippodrome Bristol cancelled
26.02.1980 Apollo Theatre Manchester
27.02.1980 Deeside Leisure Center Chester
29.02.1980 Wembley London
01.03.1980 Wembley London
02.03.1980 Granby Halls Leicester
04.03.1980 Brighton Centre Brighton
05.03.1980 Sophia Gardens Cardiff
06.03.1980 Apollo Theatre Manchester
08.03.1980 Rainbow Theatre London
16.08.1980 Donington England 1st Monsters Of Rock Festival; last concert w/Powell & Bonnet
Tour advert: Sounds magazine, 15 December 1979
Note: Original tour dates advertised in December 1979 shows a shorter UK tour than eventually transpired in the actual dates above. Bristol was cancelled and an extra night added at Bingley Hall, Stafford (24th February). Extra dates were added at Wembley, Manchester, Cardiff & London (Rainbow Theatre).
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Anyone have the setlist for Sophia Gardens please?
Most gigs on the tour consisted of: Over The Rainbow, Eyes Of The World, Love’s No Friend, Since You Been Gone, Man On The Silver Mountain, Catch The Rainbow, Lost In Hollywood, All Night Long, Ritchie’s Blues, Long Live Rock’n’Roll, Over The Rainbow.
I’m sure I saw Rainbow at St George’s Hall in Bradford around 1979 or 1980.
Does anyone else remember this, or am I going mad?