1986-08-09 Orange - Théâtre Antique d'Orange (France)

Intro:

The Glove - Relax

Mainset:

Shake Dog Shake
Piggy In The Mirror
Play For Today
A Strange Day
Primary
Kyoto Song
Charlotte Sometimes
Inbetween Days
The Walk
A Night Like This
Push
One Hundred Years
A Forest
Sinking

Encore 1:

Close To Me
Let's Go To Bed
Six Different Ways

Encore 2:

Three Imaginary Boys
Boys Don't Cry

Encore 3:

Faith
Give Me It
10.15 Saturday Night
Killing An Arab

Robert Smith
Simon Gallup
Porl Thompson
Boris Williams
Laurence Tolhurst

Songs played: 23 (14 | 3 | 2 | 4)

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

Attendance:
Capacity: 7.000

Piggy In The Mirror
Close To Me
Charlotte Sometimes
Shake Dog Shake
Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun (Pink Floyd)

Intro:

The Glove - Relax

Mainset:

hello. this is called shake dog shake

Shake Dog Shake

to cure the act this called piggy in the mirror

Piggy In The Mirror

thank you. this one goes right back to when i bet most of your were... little. this is called play for today

Play For Today

this one's from a bit when we did pornography. this is called a strange day.

A Strange Day

sometimes there are songs there is nothing to tell about them. this is called primary.

Primary

he sure is determined to get in it. this is uh... the head... bit. this is called the kyoto song.

Kyoto Song

k'you. ah. ch. uh. ch- charlotte sometimes

Charlotte Sometimes

pure pop for now... . this is called in between days.

In Between Days

the last time... ??? this year, this is about the one that makes me worse(?) this is called the walk.

The Walk

thank you. (?)this one's off the head on the door and as well(?). it's called a night like this.

A Night Like This

k'you. this one's about when i used to wear a dress and travel on the train. it's called push.

Push

(?) a song about lust(?). this is called a hundred years.

One Hundred Years

A Forest

k'you. this is called sinking.

Sinking

thank you ???

Encore 1:

Close To Me

k'you. this one is the last chance i'll ever get to learn to dance in front of so many people. this is called let's go to bed.

Let's Go To Bed

thank you. ??? 2, 3, 4, 5... 6.

Six Different Ways

Encore 2:

Three Imaginary Boys

hold on, someone said...

Boys Don't Cry

Encore 3:

thank you. uh huh uh huh(?). someway we got into that. this is called faith.

Faith

give me it!

Give Me It

10.15 Saturday Night

Killing An Arab

thank you very much. ??? good night. thank you.

thanks to Caley and Georgios T. for the stage banter transcript

stage banter segments may be wrong or incomplete
[...] marks unknown banter segments

thanks to Lionel B.

thanks to BenBacon

Newspaper links:

picturesofyou.us/86/m-86-10-lequerre-france.htm

from Georgios T.

He introduces the song "Faith" with saying something very close to sounding "someway we got into that" or (actually sounds like "sumway we guh inkoo thah) which would probably translate into song by song, mood by mood, it was inevitable to reach to the inclusion of this song eventually (in my opinion as it only lies within Robert's mind what we actually meant to say). Most definitely he would no intend to say anything like "somewhere we got eaten up" (which does not make any sense at all to me as an introduction). I know that Roberts accent and mumbling can render him incomprehensible but the quoted words do not make any sense at all.

from the book 'A Visual Documentary'

AUGUST 1986
The Cure play a string of festivals in Spain and France. The last, on August 9, at the Roman Amphitheatre in Provence, is filmed in it's entirety by Tim Pope, the first rock concert at the venue since Dire Straits two years previous.

"We wanted to film it ... because every concert we do now reaches a point that has seemed unattainable in the past and I wanted it captured for ever, before we move on or give up. I don't think it's a risk working with Pap because he isn't really a director. We could have got in some proper director to make a film of any old concert but he wouldn't know what the band was about and I want this to be a Cure film about The Cure." ...

Tim Pope: "This one's absolute psychedelic madness." To heighten the obvious comparsions with Pink Floyd's Live At Pompeii, the band play 'Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun' at soundcheck. And, reports Melody Maker, they play it perfectly.

"The risks, of course, are many. Because of the limited budget, all the live filming had to be done on Saturday, at the concert, with close-ups following during Sunday's mock up. Rain on one or both days would have scuppered the whole thing - £150,000 literally down the rain because they couldn't comprehend their cheapest insurance quote: £50,000. I didn't rain until Monday."