1985-09-20 Birmingham - NEC 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
Cold
Inbetween Days
Let's Go To Bed
The Walk
Push
Screw
One Hundred Years
A Forest
Sinking

Encore 1:

Close To Me
Charlotte Sometimes

Encore 2:

Six Different Ways
At Night
Boys Don't Cry

Encore 3:

Three Imaginary Boys
10.15 Saturday Night
Killing An Arab
Do You Wanna Touch Me?
Forever

Robert Smith
Simon Gallup
Porl Thompson
Boris Williams
Laurence Tolhurst

Songs played: 26 (16 | 2 | 3 | 5)

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

Attendance:
Capacity:

'Do You Wanna Touch Me?' was played for the first time since end of 1980.

thanks to Pillowman

from JC Moglia

from Stewart

at this concert although Propaganda was advertised, they did not play, their slot was taken by Shriekback.

from Ian P.

... that was at Birmingham NEC 20th September 1985 (as you have listed) with my girlfriend, where the acoustics were dreadful in what amounted to a metal shed, and we were sat so far from the stage that binoculars were required. The band and the crowd were very different too and I decided that would be the last time I would bother to see them live, which indeed it was.

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T.B.Screams, Screw, A Forest = cut

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BBC broadcast /
T.B.Screams, P.F.Today, A.N.L.This, Primary, K.Song, T.Blood, T.H.Garden, Cold, I.Days, L.G.T.Bed, T.Walk, Push, Screw, Sinking, C.Sometimes

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P3 (Sweden) broadcast [1986] / C.Sometimes = cut /
miss: T.B.Screams, P.F.Today, Primary, Cold, O.H.Years, S.D.Ways, At Night, B.D.Cry, T.I.Boys, 10.15 S.N., K.A.Arab, D.Y.W.Touch, Forever

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CD 'The 1985 European Tour' /
miss: T.B.Screams, P.F.Today, Primary, Cold, O.H.Years, S.D.Ways, At Night, B.D.Cry, T.I.Boys, 10.15 S.N., K.A.Arab, D.Y.W.Touch, Forever

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CD 'BBC 1985' / 13 songs

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BT 'BBC Transcription Services - In Concert 371' / 13 songs

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BT 'Cure' / 13 songs

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BT 'The 1985 European Tour' / 13 songs

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BT 'The Spell's Unbroken' / 12 songs

list of recordings may be incomplete and could contain wrong informations

Shriekback
Hard Corps
The Cure

'Propaganda' was advertised, they did not play

Venue address:

Perimeter Rd
Birmingham B40 1NT
England

Venue naming history:

Venue related links:

Venue trivia:

NEC Arena. Even though it is called the N.E.C Birmingham officially the complex is in neighbouring Solihull.

The Cure appearances at this venue:

1978-12-03 Bristol
1981-12-03 London
1985-12-03 Hamburg
1987-12-03 Bordeaux
1992-12-03 Dublin
2016-12-03 London
2023-12-03 São Paulo

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