1981-07-23 New York City - The Ritz (USA/NY)

Intro:

Carnage Visors

Mainset:

The Holy Hour
In Your House
The Drowning Man
10.15 Saturday Night
Accuracy
The Funeral Party
M
Primary
Other Voices
All Cats Are Grey
Three Imaginary Boys
At Night
Fire In Cairo
Play For Today
Grinding Halt
A Forest
Faith

Encore 1:

Jumping Someone Else's Train
Another Journey By Train
Killing An Arab
Forever

Splintered In Her Head ??
Forever ??

Robert Smith
Simon Gallup
Laurence Tolhurst

Songs played: 21 (17 | 4)

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

Attendance:
Capacity:

Intro:

Carnage Visors

Mainset:

The Holy Hour

hello. this is called 'in your house'

In Your House

this is called 'the drowning man'

The Drowning Man

10.15 Saturday Night

Accuracy

this is called 'the funeral party'

The Funeral Party

this is called 'm'

Primary

Other Voices

All Cats Are Grey

this is called 'three imaginary boys'

Three Imaginary Boys

this is called 'at night'

At Night

this is called 'fire in cairo'

Fire In Cairo

Play For Today

Grinding Halt

A Forest

this is the final song. it's called 'faith'

Faith

thank you, good night. thank you

Encore 1:

this is called 'Jumping Someone Else's Train'

Jumping Someone Else's Train

Another Journey By Train

Killing An Arab

Forever

[???]

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from the book 'Ten Imaginary Years'

On 23 July, the band began their second American tour with the first of two nights at New York's Ritz.
Simon: "Robert and I nearly died that night. After the gig, someone gave us two quaaludes each with the recommendation that we shouldn't take more than half at a time. Well, we took the lot, went out to a club and started to feel really ill, y'know, we'd passed out but we were still walking around. I remember Lol took us into the toilets and tried to bring us back to life and, in the taxi back to the hotel, he was so seriously worried we were gonna die that he picked a fight with us just so we'd react."
Robert: "I don't remember very much about any of that period of time. I think San Francisco was the night of the Royal Wedding and ... we couldn't acclimatise to those American dates at all - two nights in New York and then straight across to the West Coast ludicrous really. We were completely out of it on that first night and the second night.... well, Bill maintains it was our worst ever concert. He says he doesn't know to this day how I didn't fall over. I really don't remember it at all."
"I think we then went straight to Pasadena and then to the Whiskey A Go Go in LA. I remember running to the hotel in tears after that gig so I must have been in a bad way. There were so many people backstage and they were all coming up to me and all I could see were faces...faces... faces. I think I was hallucinating ..."

maybe there were more songs played at this concert?

there's an recording existing with also 'splintered in her head' and a 2nd 'Forever' but it's unknown if these two songs are really played after the "1st" 'Forever' or if they were taken from an yet unknown concert recording of any other concert.
Someone who know more? Someone was at this show and remembers the setlist? One of the two (or more?) tapers of this show can remember?