1979-11-16 Liverpool - Eric's (England)

Mainset:

A Forest

Robert Smith
Simon Gallup
Laurence Tolhurst
Matthieu Hartley

Songs played: 1 (1)

Day of the week: Friday
Tour: 'Future Pastimes'

Attendance:
Capacity:

This was the first concert of Simon Gallup and Matthieu Hartley
During an interview at 'The Velvet Hum' in 2023, Simon said that they played an early version of 'A Forest' at this concert. Listen on mixcloud.com from 1:44:14.

thanks to: Matt

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from JC Moglia

from the book 'Ten Imaginary Years'

On 16 November, the new four piece played their first gig at Liverpool Erics as part of the Future Pastimes Tour, a package involving The Associates and The Passions.
Robert: "Something happened - I think the bus broke down or we ran out of petrol or something but, anyway, we didn't arrive at Erics till about 10 o'clock and The Passions had already played. There were only about 100 people there so we just went to the bar, got a beer, got onstage and played. We were really just playing for ourselves, chatting between songs and that. I remember we'd been drinking on the way up and I couldn't remember which words went with which songs so I just started making them up. It was the best concert I'd done by far and I suddenly realised how awful the last six months had been. But now I was onstage with people who were really enthusiastic. It was a new start."
Simon: "It was great - the first night I'd ever had free beer. I remember thinking 'So this is stardom!'"