1979-01-17 London - Moonlight Club / Railway Hotel (England)

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Robert Smith
Laurence Tolhurst
Michael Dempsey

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Melody Maker | from Autumn

Sounds review | from Autumn

from the book 'Ten Imaginary Years'

Following the unprecendented publicity surrounding 'Killing An Arab', Sounds featured The Cure on the cover of their 27 January edition. The interview, conducted by Dave McCullough and called "Stars In Embryo", took place at the Natural History Museum at the band's request and featured a foetus sucking its thumb in the background of the photographs.
"God, they look so young it's not true," wrote McCullough. "... Robert resplendent in baggy, singularly silly and unhip pants. He's skinny and alarmingly handsome ... They look younger in the way that most grammar school kids from fairly safe family backgrounds look younger. Unexposed and clean." Attending a gig at the Moonlight, he continued: "... Like the early and late lamented Buzzcocks, nothing is spared, the whole set is minimal glory... Robert's lead is killing but it's that bass sound that steals the evening's honours, Mick using it like a lead instrument and pushing the whole sound along quite superbly."
He concluded that the band had "direction through indirection... Very musical. Almost rootless, which makes them very contemporary ... The Cure brought back the spark of rock 'n' roll to me. Youth. Energy. Endless potential and hope."
Of the same Moonlight gig, lan Birch wrote in Melody Maker: "The songs mesh a stylishly understated plundering of classic Sixties pop-rock with post-punk economy and drive. The effect is tight and open-ended, considered but on the right side of rough."