Live: Free Trade Hall, Manchester

David Bowie and the Spiders From Mars performed two shows at Manchester’s Free Trade Hall on 7 June 1973.

It was the 131st date of the Ziggy Stardust Tour, which had begun on 29 January 1972.

The two shows in that which I have always (sorry Birmingham) considered to be our nation’s second city went without a hitch, and David Bowie was happy enough. We could play our set backwards in our sleep by now.

It was to be in Manchester, at the MEN, where many years later I was to arrange to meet backstage with David, during his Reality Tour.

Bowie had previously performed at the Free Trade Hall on 22 February 1969 and 21 April 1972.

The setlists

• ‘Hang On To Yourself’
• ‘Ziggy Stardust’
• ‘Watch That Man’
• ‘Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud’
• ‘All The Young Dudes’
• ‘Oh! You Pretty Things’
• ‘Moonage Daydream’
• ‘Changes’
• ‘Space Oddity’
• ‘The Jean Genie’
• ‘Time’
• ‘Let’s Spend The Night Together’
• ‘Suffragette City’
• ‘The Width Of A Circle’
• ‘White Light/White Heat’
• ‘Round And Round’