1979-03-30 Cromer - West Runton Pavilion (England)

Mainset:

Another Day
Subway Song
Killing An Arab

Robert Smith
Laurence Tolhurst
Michael Dempsey

Songs played: 3 (3)

Day of the week: Friday
Tour: -

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Record Mirror (1979-04-21) | from JC Moglia

from JC Moglia

from the book 'Ten Imaginary Years'

On 30 March, in West Runton where the band were playing the Pavilion, Robert saw the cover artwork for the album for the first time: a fridge, a hoover and a lampshade. He was horrified.
Parry: "He thought it was absolute cack and he was very disappointed that he wasn't in control. It was my decision to make it pretty obscure and, when I showed it to them and he started to bitch, I just said 'Well, we've done it anyway' so he had to go along with it.
"My problem with The Cure was, here was a bandwithout an image but with strong music so I thought, 'Let's make it completely without an image' rather than go for the sort of blood, gore and angst display that was popular for album covers at the time. "I thought, 'Let's make it completely dispassionate, let's pick the three most mundane things we can possibly find'. And, rather than giving song titles, we gave clues - the whole thing was a headache for programmers but it was an interesting angle. People might be upset and think it pretentious but that was a risk I was prepared to take."
Michael: "I didn't dislike it. In retrospect, I'm rather pleased that it was done because it created a mystique which couldn't be construed as pretentious because it wasn't ably enough done. I think Robert was disappointed that it was done by someone who obviously had nothing to do with the group - the inhouse artist or someone - and that it was presented as a fait accompli."
Lol: "We didn't want to be judged on what sort of look we had; so I'm the hoover, Robert's the lampstand and Michael's the fridge."
The band's only say in the cover was to be the list of names on the inner sleeve - a kind of who's who of characters who'd cropped up in their history, a kind of thank you in case they never got the chance again.