1985-09-12 London - Wembley Arena (England)

Intro:

The Glove - Relax

Mainset:

The Baby Screams
Play For Today
A Night Like This
Primary
Kyoto Song
The Blood
The Hanging Garden
Charlotte Sometimes
Inbetween Days
Let's Go To Bed
The Walk
Push
Screw
One Hundred Years
A Forest
Sinking

Encore 1:

Close To Me
Boys Don't Cry

Encore 2:

Six Different Ways
At Night

Encore 3:

Three Imaginary Boys
10.15 Saturday Night
Killing An Arab
Forever

Robert Smith
Simon Gallup
Boris Williams
Porl Thompson
Laurence Tolhurst

Songs played: 24 (16 | 2 | 2 | 4)

Day of the week: Thursday
Tour: 'The Head Tour'

Attendance:
Capacity:

'The Blood' and 'Six Different Ways' were played live in concert for the first time ever.
All the songs from the album 'The Head on the Door' were played at this concert.

thanks to Robert R.

thanks to Pillowman

from JC Moglia

from Autumn

from JC Moglia

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from the book 'Ten Imaginary Years'

In September, The Cure (now dubbed Team Cure and kitted out accordingly in American Football shirts) toured Britain and on the 12th, played Wembley Arena for the first time.
Robert: "I didn't want to do another long tour ever again but I'd really enjoyed doing festivals so, rather than doing six nights at Hammersmith, I thought 'We'll just play Wembley'. Everyone said we wouldn't fill it on our own but it sold out. Budgie came and thought it was one of the best gigs he'd ever been to. Unfortunately, the rest of the concerts were very disappointing. The venues were too depressing, too impersonal. I think what really went wrong happened early on, in St Austell; it was one of the worst night's drinking in The Cure's history. That didn't really set us up very well and by the time we got to Shepton Mallet, everyone was dead."

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from left | P.F.Today, A.N.L.This, Primary, T.K.Song, T.Blood, T.H.Garden, C.Sometimes | P.F.Today, C.Sometimes = cut

list of recordings may be incomplete and could contain wrong informations

Propaganda
Hard Corps

thanks to: Petr H.

Venue address:

Arena Square
Engineers Way
Wembley Park
Wembley, HA9 0AA

Venue naming history:

1934-1978 | Empire Pool
1978-2014 | Wembley Arena
2014-2022 | The SSE Arena, Wembley
2022-____ | OVO Arena Wembley

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General concert capacity of the venue:

12'500

The Cure appearances at this venue:

1985-09-12 Wembley Arena

1985-09-13 Wembley Arena (cancelled)

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