1984-10-17 Tokyo - Nakano Sun Plaza Hall (Japan)

Mainset:

Shake Dog Shake
Play For Today
Primary
Wailing Wall
M
The Empty World
Birdmad Girl
Piggy In The Mirror
The Hanging Garden
The Walk
One Hundred Years
Give Me It
A Forest
The Top

Encore 1:

Charlotte Sometimes
Let's Go To Bed

Encore 2:

Happy The Man
The Caterpillar

Encore 3:

Boys Don't Cry
10.15 Saturday Night
Killing An Arab
Forever
The Lovecats

Robert Smith
Laurence Tolhurst
Porl Thompson
Phil Thornalley
Andy Anderson

Songs played: 23 (14 | 2 | 2 | 5)

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

Attendance:
Capacity:

This was the last The Cure concert of Andy Anderson, who had to leave the band due to alcohol problems.

Mainset:

sh sh sha shake dog shake

Shake Dog Shake

[...] this is called 'play for today'

Play For Today

'primary'

Primary

domou arigatou. it's .. it's 'the wailing wall'. this is what's going on inside my head

Wailing Wall

[...] this is called 'm'

what? no we're not gonna do that one called 'robert' tonight [...] miss. instead we'll do 'the empty world'

The Empty World

this is .. called 'the birdmad girl'

Birdmad Girl

sorry, i really wish i could understand, but i can't. but if you can't undestand me [...] uuuuu. this is called 'piggy in the mirror'

Piggy In The Mirror

[...] pretending that last one. sorry about my voice but i caught [...] japanese cold. no it has any other title. this is called 'the hanging garden'

The Hanging Garden

yeah, [...] number 18. hah 'the walk'

The Walk

[???] if i just sit here and waved for about 3 minutes that will be completely brilliant. well not so completely brilliant. this is called 'a hundred years'

One Hundred Years

this one has got a lot of titles. but you probably know it best as 'give me it'. obvisously you don't [...]

Give Me It

A Forest

domou arigatou. this is 'the top'

The Top

thank you and good night [???]

Encore 1:

thank you [...] this is called 'charlotte sometimes'

Charlotte Sometimes

ahhha 'Let's Go To Bed'

Let's Go To Bed

thank you and good night. thank you

Encore 2:

[???]

Happy The Man

c .. c .. c ... caterpillar

The Caterpillar

domou arigatou. [...]

Encore 3:

so kind. this is gonna be long soooooo [...]

Boys Don't Cry

10.15 Saturday Night

Killing An Arab

Forever

The Lovecats

domou arigatou and good night. see you when we come back again

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 BenBacon

NME | from Autumn

VHS "The Cure Live in Japan"

from the book 'Ten Imaginary Years'

On 30 September, The Cure set off on a tour of New Zealand, Australia, Japan, Canada and America. The gigs went well at first but, again, there was trouble with Andy.
Robert: "He was drinking too much. In Sydney, on 12th October, I had a big stand up row with him in a club which turned into a real ruck. It was just one of those arguments that takes place in clubs at two in the morning - y'know, 'You don't give me enough space man' nonsense. I never really understood it, but I was constantly having to reassure him which I eventually got really fed up with."
"We left Australia the next day, arrived in Japan, and drove to Tokyo, to play a couple of concerts. After the shows I went out to this club with Andy and, again, he went completely beserk. We went back to the hotel and he just went on the rampage. It was about 4.30 in the morning and I was feeling a bit saki'd up so I said goodnight and went to bed. I didn't hear anything more, I was in a sort of a coma, just collapsed on the bed, but I found out everything the next day. I got the story second-hand so I still don't know exactly what happened - I don't suppose anyone does because everyone'd been out - but the police were there and every one of our doors had a security guard outside. Apparently, Andy had attacked Phil, Bill, Mac, security guards, anyone... he'd just been running through the hotel beating people over the head. He'd just taken the place apart. He was locked in his room with a policeman outside the door who kept saying 'Look out! Wild man in there!' Eventually I had to go in and tell him he was on the plane home. Obviously he wasn't very happy about it but he said 'I respect you, you're the only one who's dared come to see me' so I just left him in his room and arranged for him to get to the airport and get a plane home and that was that. Andy's the only person to whom I've ever said 'You're out of the band'."