1986-07-27 Inglewood - The Forum (USA/CA)

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Robert Smith
Simon Gallup
Boris Williams
Porl Thompson
Laurence Tolhurst

Day of the week: Sunday
Tour: 'The Beach Party Tour'

Attendance: 15'000
Capacity: 15'000
Sold out
Gross sales: 213'865 USD

Shortly before the show, a man stood on a chair and stabbed himself several times in the chest with a large knife. Police officers intervened. The man survived.

thanks to: Petr H.

thanks to Joe @ cureconcerts.com

thanks to Pillowman

thanks to Robert R.

from JC Moglia

Starhits | from Autumn

from Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles, Calif.: Jul 29, 1986. pg. 2

A man stabbed himself repeatedly in the chest and stomach with a hunting knife in what police said appeared to be an attempt to impress a girl at a Forum rock concert. Inglewood police and security guards wrested the weapon from the hand of Jonathan Moreland, 38, and administered first aid until he could be turned over to paramedics, who took him to UCLA Medical Center for treatment. He was later reported in satisfactory condition. Bare chested and wearing a cowboy hat and jeans amid the mostly teen-age crowd that had come to hear The Cure, a British band, Moreland told police he wanted to impress a girl named Andrea. A suicide note was found in his truck, parked outside the arena.

report from unknown newspaper

Horror Story at Cure Show. A lovelorn fan of top British band The Care was recovering last night after making a bizarre and bloody suicide bid at one of their concerts... while other fans cheered him on. Jonathan Moreland, aged 38, stabbed himself repeatedly in the chest and stomach with a seven-inch hunting knife splattering blood over the packed audience in Los Angeles. Then Mr. Moreland, wearing a cowboy hat and boots, stripped off his shirt and leaped on to a chair where he showed off his wounds to the cheering crowd and continued to plunge the blade into his tattooed chest. Eventually he was hauled off to hospital. Police found a note in his car in which he said he was killing himself because of his hopeless love for a girl called Andrea. The Cure - whose songs tend to be most depressing - refused to comment on the incident.

report from unknown newspaper

Rock fans cheer on death bid at concert. by Jonathan Ashby. British rock band The The Cure were in shock last night after a fan tried to stab himself to death at their concert. Jonathan Morland climbed on to his seat seconds before the group was due to appear on stage in Los Angeles. He repeatedly stabbed himself with a seven-inch hunting knife The audience, many wearing black with their faces painted white like The Cure's singer Robert Smith, at first thought Morland's death attempt was part of the act. Bitter end. Police sergeant Norman Brewer said: "Morland thought the crowd were cheering him on and, as the crowd grew louder, he stabbed himself deeper and harder. Morland was taken to hospital in a "critical condition" He told police: "I tried to commit suicide because I won't ever be able to have the woman I love." The group were said last night to be too shocked and distraught to comment. But in London, a spokesman for the group's record company said: "It was a bitter ending for them because it happened on the last night of what had been a successful US tour. They could not believe anyone would do that at one of their gigs."

from 'antzona' posted on the SATATAM board

I was at the LA Forum show in 86 when the guy stabbed himself in the chest repeatedly. I have gone through this a couple of times just in this forum.
Here are the FACTS:
- 7 inch hunting knife
- stood in the center of the floor section and repeatecly stabbed himself in the chest with one final full thrust before police jumped him.
- He was not a Cure fan (He was a cowboy looking dude)
- He was 38 at that time
- He picked the biggest event happening that day in LA to use as his grand exit
- He survived
- He left a note in his car to his girlfriend who had just broken up with him
- It was an awful thing to see
That's it.

from the book 'Never Enough - The Story of The Cure'

Perry Bamonte, then Cure roadie and later a member of the band, was on stage when the stabbing took place. "I saw the commotion," he told me in 2005, "and heard screaming and the crowd clearing as the guy jumped onto his seat and began plunging a knife into his gut. It was surreal and disturbing. [Then] a cop fired a tazer [stun gun] at him and he went down."
Stunned, the local police sergeant, Norman Brewer, spoke with Moreland as he was being hauled away to an ambulance. Moreland had told him that The Cure faithful encouraged him in his bloodlust. "As the crowd grew louder," Brewer stated, "he stabbed himself deeper and harder." As he was rushed to hospital, the critically injured Moreland moaned a confession. "I did it because I won't ever be able to have the woman I love." He died soon after.
Note: According to Jon Moreland's daughter, he did not die after this incident.

Joe D. @ cureconcerts.com

We managed to get 22nd row center without any difficulty whatsoever. Shortly prior to the show our festivities were interrupted by a commotion about 10 rows behind us. People were screaming and the folding chairs were getting pushed aside. Some idiot was standing on a chair with a large knife poking his chest with it. I never heard a word he said, but he was just pricking himself with the knife and yelling. Security staff arrived shortly and took him away. Later, I had heard that he was yelling that he was going to kill himself. So that put a strange buzz in the air prior to this show. The other thing I remember from this show, although it could be a totally false memory, it that they ended with Lovecats. Highly unusual. Unfortunately there are no known recordings of this show that would corroborate my memory. In the days that followed it was rumored that the idiot with the knife did in fact stab him seriously and died. That was just a rumor. He was hospitalized, but he lived. The newspapers said he was despondent after his girlfriend broke up with him.