1984-05-26 Hamburg - Musikhalle (Germany)

Mainset:

Shake Dog Shake
Play For Today
Wailing Wall
M
Primary
Dressing Up
Bananafishbones
The Hanging Garden
Charlotte Sometimes
The Empty World
Piggy In The Mirror
The Walk
One Hundred Years
Give Me It
A Forest
The Top

Encore 1:

Happy The Man
The Caterpillar

Encore 2:

Birdmad Girl
10.15 Saturday Night

Encore 3:

Three Imaginary Boys
Killing An Arab
Forever

Robert Smith
Laurence Tolhurst
Porl Thompson
Phil Thornalley
Andy Anderson

Songs played: 23 (16 | 2 | 2 | 3)

Day of the week: Saturday
Tour: 'The Top Tour'

Attendance:
Capacity:
Sold out

Mainset:

hello. this is called 'shake dog shake'

Shake Dog Shake

thank you. this is a bit like being on the wrong side of the [...] this is called 'play for today'

Play For Today

thank you. this is called 'the wailing wall'

Wailing Wall

thank you. this is .. called 'm'

thank you. i knowed you. this [...] danced on your seats i suppose really uncomfortably. this is called 'primary'

Primary

thank you. this is the [...] down. this is called 'dressing up'

Dressing Up

thank you. [...] yeah, bananafish

Bananafishbones

[???] this is for the old pops thats in the audience. called 'the hanging garden'

The Hanging Garden

thank you. this is called 'charlotte sometimes'

Charlotte Sometimes

what? ah this is a new .. a one of the new ones called 'the empty world'

The Empty World

[???] what? this is called 'piggy in the mirror'

Piggy In The Mirror

this is called 'the walk'

The Walk

this is the a'hm .. the ballad [...] this is called 'a hundred years'

One Hundred Years

it's so quiet [...] you can hear the [...] drop. this is called 'give me it'

Give Me It

A Forest

thank you. this is 'the top'

The Top

thank you, good night. thank you

Encore 1:

[???] [...] called 'happy the man'

Happy The Man

and this is called 'the caterpillar'

The Caterpillar

thank you, good night. thank you

Encore 2:

[...] scream better than me. this is one new one and one old one. this is called 'the birdmad girl'

Birdmad Girl

[...] this is called '10.15'

10.15 Saturday Night

[...]

Encore 3:

this is called 'three imaginary boys'

Three Imaginary Boys

Killing An Arab

Forever

thank you and good night. thank you

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

thanks to Robert R.

thanks to Pillowman

thanks to BenBacon

thanks to Pillowman

from the book 'Ten Imaginary Years'

While the British music press were getting to grips with Robert's claim that he took a live lamb on tour (He told Smash Hits he found the staff at one hotel feeding it while he told Sounds it had been a present from a fan and was now living on his brother's farm in Wales - "I went to see it recently. It didn't remember me at all."), he was becoming severely run down and, on 26 May, he called Severin from Hamburg to say he couldn't fulfil his commitment to The Banshees.
Robert: "I couldn't sleep. I was so bad that each night in the hotel, I'd be sitting there in bed, really wild-eyed and shaking and sweating and I thought 'It's finished - I mustn't seriously damage my health just for the sake of not letting The Banshees down'. So I phoned Severin and got his answer machine. I left a very long message explaining myself - I called about 10 times. The next morning, Severin rang me and I said I'd do the British tour but not the American one and, even then, I couldn't guarantee I'd be able to finish the British one. "When he'd got my message, he'd been really pissed off and couldn't believe I was serious but, listening to my voice, he could tell I was in a really bad way and he was really concerned. He asked me to come back to England to see them and I agreed. So The Cure cancelled two gigs and I flew over - but I was really cursing them because it was the worst flight I'd ever had; the plane got hit by lightning, all the lights went out and I was thinking 'The bastards! It's alltheir fault! I'm gonna plummet from the sky!' That was the last straw.
"When I got back, instead of going to see The Banshees, I went to see my doctor who I hadn't seen in about seven years and he was quite horrified at the state I was in and insisted I check into a health farm immediately or he wouldn't be answerable for the consequences. I refused - I had to finish The Cure tour - so he wrote me a certificate explaining I needed a complete rest and I sent that to The Banshees. Sioux was furious and kept going 'How come you can do The Cure tour but not The Banshees tour?' but I think Severin understood and anyway, by then my mind was made up. After all, I'd given them two weeks' notice which was longer than any guitarist had given them before!" Robert returned to finish The Cure tour ...