1982-06-11 Brussel - Ancienne Belgique (Belgium)

Mainset:

The Figurehead
M
The Drowning Man
A Short Term Effect
Cold
At Night
Splintered In Her Head
Three Imaginary Boys
Siamese Twins
Primary
One Hundred Years
The Hanging Garden
Play For Today
A Strange Day
A Forest
Pornography

Encore 1:

The Cure Are Dead

Robert Smith
Simon Gallup
Laurence Tolhurst

Guests:

Gary Biddles vocals on 'The Cure Are Dead'
Paul Bell, Andreas Grimminger, Adrian Wyatt, Korda Marshall (Zerra I) on 'The Cure Are Dead'

Songs played: 17 (16 | 1)
Set length: ~102 min

Day of the week: Friday
Tour: 'The Pornography Tour'

Attendance:
Capacity:

This was the last The Cure concert with Simon Gallup, who left the band after this tour but rejoined in 1985.
The last song 'The Cure Are Dead' was an improvisation with Robert on drums, Lol on bass, Simon on guitar and Gary Biddles (a roadie and Simon's friend) on vocal.

Mainset:

hello

The Figurehead

thank you. this is called 'm'

this is called 'the drowning man'

The Drowning Man

this is called 'a short term effect'

A Short Term Effect

this is called 'cold'

Cold

[unknown]

At Night

Splintered In Her Head

[unknown]

Three Imaginary Boys

thank you. if you got quite 15 seconds to shout out simon, robert and maybe laurence you can do it now [...] next song [...] this is called 'siamese twins'

Siamese Twins

[unknown] which simon did you [...] simon. yeah of course [...] this song is called 'primary'

Primary

[unknown] this is called 'a hundred years'

One Hundred Years

this is called 'the hanging garden'

The Hanging Garden

[unknown]

Play For Today

[unknown] [...] 16 elephants on [...]

A Strange Day

A Forest

[...] this is called 'pornography'

Pornography

thank you, good night. thank you

Encore 1:

The Cure Are Dead

[unknown]

stage banter segments may be wrong or incomplete
[...] marks unknown banter segments

from the book 'Ten Imaginary Years'

The last gig was in the Ancienne Belgique, Brussels on 11 June.

Robert: "Before the concert, Lol and I sat in the dressing room, miserable because we knew it was the end. The show was quite flat and, during the encore, Biddles came on and started singing 'Smith's a wanker, Tolhurst's a wanker, only Simon's worth anything in this band'. I was drumming, so I stopped, threw the drumsticks at the back of his head and told him to fuck off. Everyone looked at each other... and that was it."

Simon: "Zerra 1 were on stage too. Lol was playing bass, I was playing guitar and, to start with, it was great: but then it got stupid so i stopped and, gradually so did the others."

Robert: "I slept right through the journey back the next day and then I said goodbye to Simon. I didn't see him again for 18 months..."

from ????

'the cure is dead' is the last song of the 14 explicit moments tour on june 11th 1982 at ancienne belgique bruxelles belgium.
biddles-vocals
lol-bass
robert-drums
simon-guitar
zerra 1 the support on stage
it's a total improvisation (not the greatest cure song ever!)
biddles started singing abuse about smith and tolhurst, robert chucked his drumsticks at him and they stormed off stage, simon left band and a lot of big sulking entailed!