Concert - history

Steve Harley andCockneyRebel on Tour

One of the most extraordinary concerts of Steve was on the PinkPop-festival in Holland.

In the pouring rain Steve got most of them under his umbrella. After singing 'Such A Dream', which took about 10 minutes, he said to audience, "This is the first time CockneyRebel ever played on an open air festival and I don't like it because people at the back can't see my face!!!". He was really IT that day. 'Sebastian' was written for people in the back he said and started. Then the song was played in Cm and sounded much more melodramatic as today. Beautiful!

More songs played;

'Hideaway', 'Judy Teen', 'Mirror Freak', 'My Only Vice' and 'Bed In The Corner' was already from the new album then.

The concert was on the third of June 1974, now 30 years ago. He never played 'Such A Dream' again. Time flies...

The album 'ThePsychomodo' has been released about a month later. After the release of 'ThePsychomodo' the band split up and Steve had to promote 'Mr. Soft'. It was great here in Holland because when playing for AVRO's TopPop he had Stuart Elliott and Herbie Flowers as musicians. Probably one of the rarest video-recordings ever done by Steve.