City Sound Tracks - Music Heritage Walk
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A guided walk with Gareth Potter to celebrate the Cardiff Music City Festival.
£4
limited to 20 people.
Tickets
Tour #1 – The City Centre
From the tiny venues where U2, Coldplay, The Clash played their first gigs in Wales to the Stadium where Oasis staged the first shows of their comeback tour: from the Beatles last ever UK show to the Sex Pistols gig that never happened, but then became infamous...
We’ll hear Cool Cymru stories of Super Furry Animals, of Manic Street Preachers and Catatonia; of The Kinks having an onstage fight that worhthy of the Gallagher brothers had nearly ending the band. Of a local PA business that went on to become one of the biggest techno acts in the world...
Did Cerys Matthews really meet her future Catatonia partner Mark Roberts whilst he was busking outside Debenhams? Did Jimi Hendrix spend the night under the stars in Roath Park after recording a version of the Welsh national anthem? What's the connection between Led Zeppelin, Robbie Williams and the 3rd Marquess of Bute? And did The Rolling Stones really turn a group of nice young ladies into a pack of ferral, sex crazed banshees one evening in 1964 in Sophia Gardens... ?