1979-06-28 Port Talbot - The Troubadour (Wales)

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Robert Smith
Laurence Tolhurst
Michael Dempsey

Day of the week: Thursday
Tour: 'Three Imaginary Boys Tour'

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NME (1979-06-30) | from JC Moglia

NME (1979-06-06) | from JC Moglia

from Dillwyn

Have been looking at your site of Cure gigs and see a gig at Port Talbot Troubadour June 28 1979 and it says it was cancelled,this information is wrong as i attended this gig.I have no ticket stub as there were none(payed on dorre£3) or setlist to prove it,but i went back stage and talked to band and distributed free 3 imaginary boy badges for the band to the crowd.
Port Talbot is in South Wales about 40 miles from Cardiff. The name of the venue was The Troubadour.

from the book 'Ten Imaginary Years'

(Chris) Parry: "On 28 June, in Port Talbot, Robert sat me down and said 'Look Bill, I don't want to be like The Boomtown Rats'. That made me laugh and gave me an insight into Robert's character, the first indicator of what was to come. I thought 'What does he mean? There's no way in the world he could be like The Boomtown Rats'. It got me thinking and it was only later that I supposed what he meant by that was that he wouldn't be manipulated. I took it as a sign of inherent weakness in terms of how much he'd be prepared to take to see through what he was doing and I started thinking about just how far this band could be pushed. It's very frustrating when someone says something like that to you - you just want to say 'Fuck off, get like The Boomtown Rats and then change it. Don't back off before you've found out what the water's like'. And the seriousness on his face, the worry of it all, struck me as very odd."