1987-04-01 São Paulo - Ginásio do Ibirapuera (Brasil)

Mainset:

Shake Dog Shake
Piggy In The Mirror
Play For Today
A Strange Day
One Hundred Years
Primary
Kyoto Song
Charlotte Sometimes
Why Can't I Be You?
Inbetween Days
The Walk
Let's Go To Bed
A Night Like This
Push
A Forest
Sinking

Encore 1:

Close To Me
Catch

Encore 2:

Three Imaginary Boys
Boys Don't Cry
10.15 Saturday Night
Killing An Arab ?????

although the setlist without 'Killing An Arab' is confirmed by Alvaro it's very unlikely 'Killing an Arab' wasn't played after '10.15 Saturday Night'.

Robert Smith
Simon Gallup
Boris Williams
Porl Thompson
Laurence Tolhurst

Songs played: 22 (16 | 2 | 4)

Day of the week: Wednesday
Tour: -

Attendance:
Capacity:

'Catch' was played live in concert for the first time ever.

The Figurehead
Cold
Secrets
Why Can't I Be You?
Catch
Torture

thanks to Lena

thanks to Petr H.

Melody Maker (1987-05-30) #1 | from Autumn

MM #2 | from Autumn

MM #3 | from Autumn

MM transcript #1

Article links:

Fluir (1987-04): The Cure Live

from the book 'Ten Imaginary Years'

In March, The Cure travelled to Argentina where they played two shows in a 20,000 capacity Buenos Aires football stadium and suffered riots outside when all the people gathered couldn't get in and over 100 were arrested. Tour security was immediately taken over by the Ministry Of Interior Affairs and, again, the band were under siege in their hotels until they flew to Brazil for eight more concerts. These concerts, too, were wild affairs, and the group returned to London after three weeks triumphant but more than slightly shell-shocked!