1983-07-27 Bournemouth - Midnight Express (England)

Mainset:

The Figurehead
In Your House
M
The Drowning Man
Cold
Siamese Twins
Primary
Three Imaginary Boys
At Night
One Hundred Years
Play For Today
10.15 Saturday Night
Killing An Arab
A Forest
Pornography

Encore 1:

Jumping Someone Else's Train
Forever

Robert Smith
Laurence Tolhurst
Phil Thornalley
Andy Anderson

Songs played: 17 (15 | 2)

Day of the week: Wednesday
Tour: -

Attendance:
Capacity:

This was the first concert of Phil Thornalley and Andy Anderson, although both had previously appeared on TV shows with the band.

Mainset:

[???]

the figurehead

thank you. [...] i don't know what you were expecting what we're playing here tonight, but we're very unrehearsed [...]. this is called 'in your house'

in your house

okay, yeah if you ... so you want any comments you'll be welcome. (audience member yells Boys Don't Cry) apart from things like that. this is called 'm'

thank you. (audience members yell Forest and Fire In Cairo) yeah we will play all those but later (audience members yell Hansa and Just One Kiss) no, no, nonono

the drowning man

thank you. this is called 'cold'

cold

this is called 'siamese twins'

siamese twins

primary

this is called 'three imaginary [...]'

three imaginary boys

how many of you have seen us .. have seen the cure play that before? [...] before at all. oh no, not that far back. i were saying we've got ... it's only, we've only had 4 day rehearsals so we don't know what things ... yeah we know that. so probably a lot of the songs were a bit different, we don't know yet but we will do. but it's .. i don't know, it's not much good tonight. anyway, this is called 'at night'

at night

this is called 'a hundred years'

one hundred years

'play for today'

play for today

yeah this is ... yeah ... yeah this is so .. something something I dunno ... yeah anyway I ...

10.15 saturday night

this is something else really really old. [...]

killing an arab

[...] nostalgia we can't play boys don't cry. [...] acoustic guitar [...] guitar [...] ballad of 'boys don't cry' [...] this is just as ... oh no! no no no no no! something else almost as old

a forest

thank you. this is gonna be the last song i think. I'm trying! [...] if you'll make tape noises now blablablablablablalalalala because we haven't brought the tape with us. poor joe.

pornography

bye. thank you. thanks [...] as well. thank you

Encore 1:

can't do 'boys don't cry'! anything else?

Jumping Someone Else's Train

forever

see you next time we're in bournemouth. thank you

thanks to Jonathan C. for the stage banter transcript

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

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from the book 'Ten Imaginary Years'

Robert had also been offered the headline spot at Elephant Fayre, an outdoor festival in St Germains, Cornwall and, after consulting The Banshees who'd played there the year before, he accepted because he was beginning to realise the convenience of having a working band on stand by. Both Phil and Andy stayed put and The Cure played the gig as a fourpiece.
Phil: "I was happy to get out of the studio and, to be honest, I thought after 'Pornography' that they'd call on my services again. But they did the two singles without me so, when Lol asked, I said 'I'm your man'".
"We played two warm up dates - one in Bournemouth and one in Bath and we'd only been rehearsing for a week so they were horrible. I was playing the wrong basslines, Andy was playing the wrong drums but, strangely enough, it didn't seem to annoy Robert at all."
Robert: "I remember this tiny little club with the audience only a yard away. Our equipment wouldn't fit in the room and i sang louder than the PA ... it was so small, I didn't even need a mircophone."

from Shaun

... you can hear some conversations from the audience. I asked them to do Charlotte sometimes with the reply from Robert "we can't do charlotte sometimes"