Doing all this internet trawling lately and came across this very good review of Cardiff St Davids hall in 2010.....
MAJOR MAJOR F... UP BY THE REVIEWER THOUGH!!.Take a look.
As Steve always says,do these modern day journalists not do basic research!!

Music Review: Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel get Cardiff jumping

Jun 11 2010 by Abbie Wightwick, Western Mail

I ALWAYS think of Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel as a proper rock band with a strong beat and tub thumping noise.

That’s not to say Harley doesn’t do ballads, but after a fabulously rocky start, the gig at St David’s Hall in Cardiff went a bit folksy in the middle.

Songs from Harley’s new offering, the album Stranger Comes To Town, might be a surprise to some, but it’s good to see musicians keep moving, even if we love them for their roots.

Listening to his trademark mix of macho rock and poignant vocals, it’s easy to see how much he’s influenced things over four decades.

Without Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel, The Jam would have sounded different and I’m hoping he’s bought some rock to the folk scene. Elements of others ran through his set, with a hint of Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen, although Harley’s bare, spare, strangely haunting voice, is always his own.

Harley may now be singing songs about his son going to university, but he was there on the ’70s rock scene partying with Marc Bolan and pioneering angry young man rock that segued into punk.

At St David’s Hall, his line-up included two original Cockney Rebel members in drummer Stuart Elliott and violinist John Crocker – a great example of how Harley’s early folk playing days merged into rock and combined both.

I almost don’t want to mention his victorious finale with Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me). It was all it should’ve been and got the whole place jumping, but though he still enjoys playing the 75 hit, Harley told the audience many think it’s the only song he ever wrote.

You could feel them willing him to play it as he spoke of how he didn’t recognise the ‘strange young man’ who wrote it.

He may not recognise its author, but the song’s raw energy still seeps through much of Harley’s current music.

Stranger Comes To Town includes Blinded By Tears, a haunting song about Africa’s diamond mines. He sang it to a momentarily silenced audience.

You know you’re getting older when music makes you think not about sex and drugs and rock’n’roll, but whether you should wear a diamond ring.

It’s good to know someone’s writing thought-provoking songs.

Abbie Wightwick