Live: Maine Road, Manchester

David Bowie performed at Manchester’s Maine Road stadium on 15 July 1987, as part of the Glass Spider Tour.

It was the 25th date of the tour, which began on 30 May in Rotterdam, and the second of two consecutive nights in Manchester.

Bowie’s guitarists were Carlos Alomar and Peter Frampton. Erdal Kızılçay played keyboards, trumpet, congas, and violin, and Richard Cottle was on keyboards, saxophone, and tambourine. Carmine Rojas played bass guitar and Alan Childs was on drums and percussion.

Bowie returned to Maine Road on 7 August 1990 during the Sound+Vision Tour.

The setlist

• ‘Up The Hill Backwards’
• ‘Glass Spider’
• ‘Up The Hill Backwards’ (Reprise)
• ‘Day-In Day-Out’
• ‘Bang Bang’
• ‘Absolute Beginners’
• ‘Loving The Alien’
• ‘China Girl’
• ‘Fashion’
• ‘Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)’
• ‘All The Madmen’
• ‘Never Let Me Down’
• ‘Big Brother’
• ‘Chant Of The Ever Circling Skeletal Family’
• ‘’87 And Cry’
• “Heroes”
• ‘Time Will Crawl’
• ‘Beat Of Your Drum’
• ‘Sons Of The Silent Age’
• ‘The Jean Genie’
• ‘Young Americans’
• ‘White Light/White Heat’
• ‘Dancing With The Big Boys’
• ‘Let’s Dance’
• ‘Fame’
• ‘Blue Jean’
• ‘Modern Love’