1978-08-27 Redhill - Lakers Hotel (England)

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Robert Smith
Laurence Tolhurst
Michael Dempsey

Day of the week: Sunday
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After this concert, Chris Parry signed The Cure to his new label, Fiction.

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from the book 'Ten Imaginary Years'

(Chris) Parry decided to take Robert's advice and check out the band playing in their familiar surroundings so he drove to their gig at Lakers, Redhill on 27 August with a mate called Dave Alcock, a hospital porter, who Lol immediately mistook for Robert Stigwood...
Michael: "Lakers was a hotel which held gigs on Sunday nights featuring this jazz/funk/reggae fusion band called The Hotpoints. They headlined and we had the non-stage."
Parry: "They were playing on the floor, not on the stage. Dave and I joined the few people down the front and I remember I turned round to him and said 'This band are gonna make me an awful lot of money'. It's not that I'm very money-orientated, it just came out that way. I instantly thought they were going to be very successful. I thought they had a very universal appeal which is why I must have translated my excitement into money terms - because bands with a universal appeal can't help making a lot of money. I thought 'This is really sharp and incisive and young'."
Robert: "He saw us play and then we went to this other pub called The Home Cottage where everyone used to go after our gigs because it sold such horribly strong bitter. He talked more about his ideas for the new label, about how it would go through Polydor and how he'd been looking for a group to start it off and he wanted to know if we'd be prepared to take the risk, otherwise he said he'd sign us direct to Polydor. Well, we'd given it a lot of thought by then and decided that we'd be better off on an independent anyway, more comfortable. We thought Polydor would try to hype us and, after our experiences with Hansa, we decided to sign with Fiction. "Actually, he was going to call the label Night Nurse but we said we wouldn't sign if he called it that so he changed it to 18 Age which was also useless. We said 'What happens when we get to 20?' So Fiction it was."