1980-11-08 York - University, Central Hall (England)

Mainset:

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

The setlist comes from a piece of paper that Dave C. received after this concert. However, the setlist looks like one of the set lists played in May/June 1980, but differs significantly from other setlists played in October/November 1980.

Robert Smith
Simon Gallup
Laurence Tolhurst

Songs played: 14 (14)

Day of the week: Saturday
Tour: 'Primary Tour'

Attendance:
Capacity:

thanks to Petr H.

thanks to Dave C.

Record Mirror (1980-09-20) | from JC Moglia

NME (1980-11-01) | from JC Moglia

NME (1980-11-08) | from JC Moglia

Record Mirror (1981-11-01) | from Pillowman

Nick @ alumnivoices.co.uk

I once had tea with Robert Smith & The Cure in Vanbrugh canteen when they played Central Hall and I worked the gig. It was the birthday of one of the band's road crew and Robert Smith presented him with a card and a bottle of wine that he'd bought that day. Mr Smith had beans on toast! The gig featured most of the songs from The Cure's first album from what I recall.

from Dave C., who have send the setlist picture shown above

I met the band, getting on very well with Lol, driving from my home in Derby to the gig and then back home again, exhausted!! The band gave me this (Ed.: the setlist) and signed some records.
It was surely given to me in 1980 and was certainly at York Uni, as that is the only place I ever saw and thereafter met them. I got on very well with Lol and one of their Roadies, Al (who also signed my records on the night!).
It could've been earlier in the year, but unlikely as I recall driving up from my home in Derby in darkening skies, seeing my friends Moz and Dob, who were studying Politics at York, then driving back home exhausted - in fact, I fell asleep at the wheel of my Mini on the M1 motorway, swerved considerably and was lucky not to crash on the stretch next to Bolsover Colliery, between Rotherham & Chesterfield!! My guts tell me it was November 1980, but I have no evidence to prove it.