1980-04-23 London - BBC Television Centre / TC4 (England)
"Top of the Pops"

A Forest

Robert Smith
Simon Gallup
Laurence Tolhurst
Matthieu Hartley

Songs played: 1 (1)

Day of the week: Wednesday

event:	TV Show "Top of the Pops"
hosted by:	England TV 'BBC'
recording:	1980-04-23
broadcast:	1980-04-24
performance:	Playback

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from the book 'Ten Imaginary Years'

"My 21 st birthday happened in Boston and, after the gig, Bill and the four of us got taken to some art media event by this guy who was making a video of us. We had some drugs. I remember a TV and a set of homemade videos and we got bored and insisted this bloke drove us back to our hotel so he took us in his Beetle - the five of us and his girlfriend!
"It was a little cramped so I got out and sat on the bonnet - it was about five in the morning so we thought we'd take the risk. Bill then decided to drive and went the wrong way round a roundabout without thinking. When he realised it, of course, he just kept on going round, laughing insanely and then he got hysterical, got a flat, slewed across the road and I fell off the bonnet. "I tried to change the wheel - I don't know why I was doing it - but I couldn't understand why the hub-cap wouldn't go back on so I started kicking it, and it was only a few seconds later, when the pain suddenly reached my brain, that I realised the reason the hub cap wouldn't go back on was because my thumb was trapped underneath it. I'd just reduced it to pulp!
"After that we drove to New York overnight but ended up in Cape Cod because Bill had taken a wrong turn! We eventually arrived at the airport just in time to catch the plane to get back to London for Top Of The Pops."
Simon: "We were all very tired when we got there and we spent all our time in the bar, trying to avoid the other bands."
Robert: "I hated Top Of The Pops because I was getting to this phase where I was really anti everything like that, anti pop. I didn't want The Cure to be a pop band though I was convinced we should do Top Of The Pops because I realised, even then, that, if we didn't do it, someone else would and it made no difference to the majority of the people watching whether we played or not. But Simon and Matthieu had a different attitude, they were much more up and were really looking forward to doing it. When we got there, it was just like I imagined it would be, but Simon was really disappointed because he thought it would be like playing in a really good disco. We came across looking very morose and disinterested, which we were. I was suffering a great deal - all the blood was collecting in my thumb - and Lol was in his stone-face phase and they sat him rightat the front of the stage. It was ridiculous."
Lol: "All you could see on the telly was Robert's huge bandage moving up and down the neck of his guitar. It was hysterical." Setting a precedent for future appearances on the programme, the deejay got their name wrong and, aided and abetted by their dismal display, the single immediately plummeted down the charts.

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Venue address:

White City
W12 7RJ

Venue related links:

@ Wikipedia

The Cure appearances at this venue:

1992-04-29 BBC Television Centre / TC4 (@ Top of the Pops) (cancelled)

1980-04-23 London - BBC Television Centre / TC4 (England) "Top of the Pops"

1980-04-23 London - BBC Television Centre / TC4 (England)
"Top of the Pops"