The 24th date of The Beatles’ 1964 British tour was a return to the Capitol Cinema in Cardiff, Wales. The group had previously performed at the venue on 27 May 1963, and returned for their final UK tour date on 12 December 1965.
They performed two concerts on this night, for which they were paid £850. Their set throughout the 1964 tour contained 10 songs: ‘Twist And Shout’, ‘Money (That’s What I Want)’, ‘Can’t Buy Me Love’, ‘Things We Said Today’, ‘I’m Happy Just To Dance With You’, ‘I Should Have Known Better’, ‘If I Fell’, ‘I Wanna Be Your Man’, ‘A Hard Day’s Night’ and ‘Long Tall Sally’.
The support acts on the tour were The Rustiks, Sounds Incorporated, Michael Haslam, The Remo Four, Tommy Quickly and Mary Wells, and the compère was Bob Bain. The evening’s two shows began at 6.30pm and 8.50pm.
I remember going to see this concert with my sister ( from Newport by train),,it was the 6 .30 pm show, I remember Mary Wells singing ‘My Guy” The beatles opened with ‘twist and shout’,,they were were dressed in light grey ‘beatle jackets’ near the end of the song, John Lennon took his tie off and threw it into the front row !,,,,It was a loud, crazy night. I still have the ticket stub, and one from the Bob Dylan 1966 show !
Hello Mike,
I’m a journalist and I’m writing a piece about this concert. Would you be able to get in touch on pafpeo@gmail.com
I just need to speak to someone who was there.
Many thanks
Phil
A Group called the Paramounts also played at the Nov 1964 venue in Cardiff. I believe they later became Procul Harem.
I was in the front row at the 6.30 concert right in front of Paul. I had gone with two school friends from Swansea. There were a row of pretty beefy bouncers in front of the stage to keep the screaming fans away from the lads!
Nobody left their seats though. I got my ticket in the mail after I sent my postal order to request it. Gone are the days. I live in Canada know and tonight I am ushering at a Beatles tribute concert and I wanted to check the date I had seen them.