1979-04-29 Crawley - Northgate Community Centre (England)

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Robert Smith
Laurence Tolhurst
Michael Dempsey

Day of the week: Sunday
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Concert in support of sacked Crawley College lecturer Anthony Weaver.

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from Michael Dempsey's website mdmmedia.com/mdm/cure8.htm

Northgate Community Centre, Crawley 29th April 1979.
Poster design possibly by the campaign's beneficiary - Anthony Weaver. "Dr" Weaver, had been The Cure's languages teacher. The "Support" was to raise funds following his expulsion from Crawley College for allegedly committing "a gross act of public indecency". Amulet had supported the Cure back in 1976.
Robert recalls "The NF [National Front] turned up........The whole night was a disaster really, pure violence from beginning to end.......It was a shambles, but it made the papers"

from Stephen C.

I attended this concert, living locally. It was a long time ago but, from memory, the Cure played a song, presumably unique to the occasion, that had the final chorus of 'Weaver Stays OK'.

from the book 'Ten Imaginary Years'

On 29 April, the band played Northgate Community Centre in Crawley with Amulet in another benefit for Dr Weaver.
Robert: "He was thrown out of Crawley College for exactly the same reason he was thrown out of school -gross indecency - so he obviously hadn't learned his lesson. We had more status now, we'd become minor celebrities in Crawley so we thought we'd draw attention to his plight by doing a concert with Amulet, the band we played the first one with.
"The NF turned up again and went berserk. They ringed the community centre and tried to burn it down while we were playing. The whole night was a disaster really, pure violence from beginning to end, as all the Anti Nazi League people turned up as well.
It was a shambles, but it made the papers.."