1983-07-28 Bath - Moles (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
A Forest
Pornography
The Hanging Garden
10.15 Saturday Night
Killing An Arab

Encore 1:

Lament
The Walk
Forever

Robert Smith
Laurence Tolhurst
Phil Thornalley
Andy Anderson

Songs played: 19 (16 | 3)

Day of the week: Thursday
Tour: -

Attendance:
Capacity:

'Lament' and 'The Walk' were played live in concert for the first time ever.

Mainset:

[???]

The Figurehead

Thank you. This is called In Your House

In Your House

Thank You. This is called M.

Thank You. [...] This is called a Drowning Man

The Drowning Man

this is [...] called Cold

Cold

Thank you. This is called Siamese Twins. Sorry I don't talk about much [...]

Siamese Twins

I have to talk to you now don't I? I apologize. We haven't had very many days playing together. Only about 4.

Primary

Thank you. A very old song. Two imaginary boys.

Three Imaginary Boys

Thank you. This is called at night

At Night

This is called a Hundred Years

One Hundred Years

Thank you. This is called Play for Today

Play For Today

Thank you.

A Forest

Impossible. Even I cant remember that. Pornography

Pornography

We haven't done this one before so I'll probably be as bad as that, but anyway..

The Hanging Garden

10.15 Saturday Night

Guys this is going to be the last one coz otherwise we are going to fall over.

Killing An Arab

Thank you good night

Encore 1:

however we haven't done this one either. [...] This is called Lament

Lament

[???] Yeah we're gonna try and play the walk [...]

The Walk

Good Job we've not made a career out of writing songs like that isn't it really?

Forever

Thank you. sorry about all the kerfuffle [...] see you [...]

thanks to Beatrice J. 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 www.moles.co.uk/about/

Then, in the early 80's, Moles was asked if they would do a warm up show for The Cure. THE CURE! Damn right!!
Unsurprisingly the night was a sell out way ahead of the gig and by the time the band played, their current single, The Walk, was at no.12 in the charts.