1985-07-27 Athína - Panathinaiko Stadio (Greece)
"Rock in Athens"

Intro:

The Glove - Relax

Mainset:

The Baby Screams
Play For Today
Secrets
Kyoto Song
The Hanging Garden
Inbetween Days
Primary
Cold
Let's Go To Bed
The Walk
One Hundred Years
Give Me It
A Forest

Encore 1:

Three Imaginary Boys
10.15 Saturday Night
Killing An Arab
Forever

Robert Smith
Simon Gallup
Boris Williams
Porl Thompson
Laurence Tolhurst

Songs played: 17 (13 | 4)

Day of the week: Saturday
Tour: -

Attendance: ~ 40'000
Capacity:

This was the first ever The Cure concert in Greece.

Intro:

The Glove - Relax

Mainset:

Hello. This is called the baby screams

The Baby Screams

Thank you

Play For Today

Thank you

Secrets

Thank you we better move quick coz the power will probably go again in a second. This is called the Kyoto song

Kyoto Song

Thank you. Hanging Garden

The Hanging Garden

This is called In Between Days

In Between Days

This is called Primary

Primary

this is called misappropriately 'cold'

Cold

This is called Let's go to bed

Let's Go To Bed

This ones pretty pop as well. this is called the Walk

The Walk

Honestly this is retribution for me having murdered someone yesterday. Is this? - it must be why they call it the home of the gods...This is called a hundred years

One Hundred Years

This is called Give Me It

Give Me It

[???]

A Forest

thank you good night. thank you

Encore 1:

Thank you. Three imaginary Boys

Three Imaginary Boys

10.15 Saturday Night

Killing An Arab

Forever

Thank you see you again - Soon

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

Le Monde (1985-07-30) | from Eric P.

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EPT-2 broadcast

MCM broadcast

EPT-2 backstage report

EPT-2 broadcast of several bands

from the book 'Ten Imaginary Years'

The Cure also played in Italy, supported by The Associates and, on 27 July, they performed at a festival in the Antic Panathinaikos Stadium in Athens on a bill featuring Nina Hagen, Talk Talk and Telephone. The night before, Boy George of Culture Club was stoned by the audience and Mary took over the hotel bar.
Simon: "It was as if England had won the World Cup we went down so well. We were booked third on the bill so we were like underdogs. It was one of our classic concerts, really great."