1981-07-05 Werchter - Festival Park Werchter (Belgium)

"Rock Werchter"

Robert Smith
Simon Gallup
Laurence Tolhurst

Songs played: 13  (13)

Day of the week: Sunday
Tour: 'Picture Tour'

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• As the bands' schedule was delayed, Robert Palmer's crew tried to end The Cure's concert. In response, The Cure extended 'A Forest' and at the end Simon shouted 'Fuck Robert Palmer! Fuck rock'n'roll!' into the microphone.

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On 5 July, they played a festival in Werchter, by the sea, in Belgium.
Robert: "We'd only been on for about a half an hour and everything was running late so Robert Palmer's road crew started motioning to us to stop. This bloke ran on and said 'If you don't stop playing, we're gonna pull the plug'. Simon immediately walked to the mike and shouted 'Fuck Robert Palmer! Fuck rock'n'roll!' and we started playing a really slow version of 'A Forest' which lasted about 15 minutes.
It was fucking brilliant. Unfortunately, when we finished, they threw all our stuff off the back of the stage ...
correction: Simon shouted 'Fuck Robert Palmer! Fuck rock'n'roll!' after they've played 'A Forest' not before!5 JULY 1981
Werchter, Belgium. Robert Palmer is on the same bill. At this show, The Cure stun onlookers with the 15-minute mogadon-pace version of 'A Forest', which closes their set.

De Kreuners
The Undertones
Toots and the Maytals
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
The Cure
Robert Palmer
Dire Straits

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from Yo Van Saet a very nice woman from the organizers of the Werchter Festival: The name of the festivalsite is simply: festival park Werchter. ... Its always been the same site, yes.

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