1979-12-17 Paris - Bataclan (France)

Mainset:

Seventeen Seconds
Accuracy
M
10.15 Saturday Night
Play For Today
Plastic Passion
In Your House
Fire In Cairo
A Forest
Subway Song
Another Journey By Train
Boys Don't Cry
Jumping Someone Else's Train
Grinding Halt

Encore 1:

Three Imaginary Boys
Killing An Arab

Encore 2:

A Forest
Play For Today

Encore 3:

Seventeen Seconds

Robert Smith
Simon Gallup
Laurence Tolhurst
Matthieu Hartley

Songs played: 19 (14 | 2 | 2 | 1)

Day of the week: Monday
Tour: -

Attendance:
Capacity:

This was the first ever The Cure concert in France. However, 9 days before this concert, the Cure had already made a TV appearance at 'Chorus' in Paris.

Mainset:

Seventeen Seconds

Accuracy

thank you. this next one is called 'm'

thank you

10.15 Saturday Night

Play For Today

Plastic Passion

this one's called 'AM'

In Your House

thank you. this one's called 'fire in cairo'

Fire In Cairo

A Forest

[...]

Subway Song

Another Journey By Train

this is for everyone who's shouting it out. [...]. this one's called 'boys don't cry'

Boys Don't Cry

can't hear any drums. this ones our new single. is called 'Jumping Someone Else's Train'

Jumping Someone Else's Train

this one's the final one

Grinding Halt

thank you. good night

Encore 1:

[???]

Three Imaginary Boys

[???]

Killing An Arab

thank you and good night

Encore 2:

[???]

A Forest

Play For Today

[...] good night

Encore 3:

[???]

Seventeen Seconds

[???]

stage banter segments may be wrong or incomplete
[...] marks not understandable banter segments
[???] marks that it is unknown whether anything else was said at this point

thanks to Darren G.

Le Monde | from Eric P.

from the book 'Ten Imaginary Years'

The Cure played in Amsterdam and then Paris, where they made the gossip columns of the British music papers by getting lost and refusing to eat lobster boiled alive. They then turned to Britain where Robert told Blank Space: "We'll be forgotten very quickly if we don't do something good the next time around. I accept that..."