1990-08-04 Leipzig - Festwiese am Zentralstadion (East-Germany)

Mainset:

Shake Dog Shake
A Strange Day
A Night Like This
Catch
Pictures Of You
Fascination Street
Lullaby
Dressing Up
The Same Deep Water As You
The Perfect Girl
Just Like Heaven
The Walk
Primary
Inbetween Days
A Forest
Disintegration

Encore 1:

Close To Me
Let's Go To Bed
Why Can't I Be You?

Encore 2:

Lament
M
In Your House
Faith

Encore 3:

Boys Don't Cry
10.15 Saturday Night
Killing An Arab
Never Enough

Robert Smith
Simon Gallup
Boris Williams
Porl Thompson
Perry Bamonte

Songs played: 27 (16 | 3 | 4 | 4)
Set length: ~ 145 min

Day of the week: Saturday
Tour: 'The Pleasure Trips'

Attendance: ~10.000
Capacity:

This was the first ever The Cure concert in East Germany (former G.D.R.).

Mainset:

hello

shake dog shake

a strange day

a night like this

thank you. i see you got your own lights to see. this is called 'catch'

catch

pictures of you

fascination street

thank you. this is from .. the same record. it's called 'lullaby'

lullaby

this is a song u'h a'h from 'the top' album. and it's called 'dressing up'. and sorry i don't speak anymore german then. i think [...]

dressing up

[...] something slow and rainy. this is called 'the same deep water as you'

the same deep water as you

thank you. something a bit more up now. this is called 'ppppf perfect girl'

perfect girl

just like heaven

thank you. 'danke schön' i should have said. next song is a .. a single as well, but this is a really good trick. this is called 'the walk'

the walk

primary

in between days

a forest

thank you, it's the last song for tonight [...]

disintegration

thank you

Encore 1:

thank you. dankeschön if thats right [...] an augenblick

close to me

thank you. the next one is [...] pop [...]

let's go bed

thank you. the last one of the three dump pop songs. this is called 'why can't i be you'

why can't i be you

thank you

Encore 2:

thank you. this is the goth bit of the set.

lament

in your house

faith

[unknown]

Encore 3:

ahh

boys don't cry

10.15 saturday night

killing an arab

never enough

thank you very much and good night. thank you

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

Leipziger Volkszeitung (1990-08-06)

Express (1990-08-06)

Leipziger Volkszeitung (1990-08-07)

Leipziger Volkszeitung (1990-08-xx)

Junge Welt (1990-08-xx)

Mitteldeutsche Zeitung (1990-08-xx)

Tageblatt (1990-08-xx)

Wir in Leipzig (1990-08-06) | from Jens H.

Junge Welt (1990-07-17) | from Dennis B.

Newspaper links:

Mitteldeutsche Zeitung [1990-08-06]

Photo links:

Photos @ koenau.de

Massive attacks against The Cure fans by skinheads and other right wing stupids before and after the concert.

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BT 'La Belle June' / Faith interrupted / probably partial C.W. rec.

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DT 64 broadcast /
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Faith only

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CD 'Boys From The East' / P.O.You, Catch, F.Street, M, Lullaby, J.L.Heaven, Disintegration, C.T.Me, W.C.I.B.You, 10.15 S.N., B.D.Cry

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CD 'Close to you' / Lament, M, Faith

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'R.SA 80er Hits' stream [2022-02-11] / sourced from the composite of three FM captures with audience source in the last 2 tracks

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DFF broadcast /
11 songs

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MTV Europe broadcast /
F.Street, Lullaby, J.L.Heaven, T.Walk, I.Days, A Forest (cut)

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ORF broadcast /
8 songs

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Telemontecarlo broadcast /
8 songs

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Belgian TV broadcast /
8 songs

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Tele 5 (Spain) broadcast /
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from right side / A.S.Day

list of recordings may be incomplete and could contain wrong informations

The Next
[+ 1 unknown band]

Venue address:

Am Sportforum 1
04105 Leipzig

Venue related links:

@ sportforum-leipzig.com

The Cure appearances at this venue:

1990-08-04 Festwiese am Zentralstadion

1979-12-21 Herenthout
1981-12-21 "John Peel Session"
2014-12-21 London

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