1981-07-28 San Francisco - I-Beam (USA/CA) [20:30 show]

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
Splintered In Her Head
A Forest
Faith

Encore 1:

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

Robert Smith
Simon Gallup
Laurence Tolhurst

Songs played: 22 (18 | 4)
Set length: ~116 min

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

Attendance:
Capacity:

The Holy Hour

Intro:

Mainset:

The Holy Hour

thank you. 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

Splintered In Her Head

A Forest

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

Faith

Encore 1:

thank you. this is called 'Jumping Someone Else's Train'

Jumping Someone Else's Train

Another Journey By Train

Killing An Arab

Forever

thank you, good night

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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 ..."