Morfa Stadium

Morfa Stadium was an athletics stadium in the Landore area of Swansea, Wales. Constructed and in use from 1980, it was officially opened as Morfa Stadium on the 20th April 1989 by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh. The stadium was subsequently used as a residential training facility for the local Swansea Harriers Athletics Club; which produced numerous Local, National, International, Commonwealth, Olympic & World competitors, it has now been demolished and the land is occupied by the Morfa Retail Park and the Liberty Stadium, home of the city's football and rugby teams, which opened in 2005.[1]

Welsh band Stereophonics played a concert there shortly before it was demolished on 31 July 1999. They made a video of it, Performance and Cocktails: Live at Morfa Stadium. It was released on 1 November 1999 and later released on DVD. The video includes the songs Looks Like Chaplin, A Thousand Trees, and Not up to you.[2]

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