The Cure - Live Emerald City, NJ. 1980

The Cure - Live Emerald City, 

Cherry Hill, NJ.

April 10, 1980 

Very Good to Excellent Audience Recording @160

This is the first show in the US as pointed out by Robert Smith himself after a few tracks. There were several changes to the lyrics, but really minor ones as that was just one line here and there. Pretty good show overall but a few mistakes on keyboards which made Robert to comment : "We're not playing very well tonight... Well some of us are". Surprisingly, Boys Don't Cry didn't appear on the handwritten setlist from that night, but they played it anyway.

A journalist by the name of Van Gosse happened to be there and recorded the entire set. He recently re-discovered the lost tape(s) and shared it with the interwebz. Of the tape, Gosse writes:

    “Way back, when I started writing about music (thanks to Davitt Sigerson), I interviewed lots of people and occasionally taped shows, so I could listen to them again.   So….in April 1980, Melody Maker gave me a big assignment to trail The Cure on their first US tour, and write about them.  Their publicist, Rhonda, took me to their US debut, at Emerald City in Cherry Hill, NJ, and I taped the attached.   Pretty great stuff!  They were releasing ‘A Forest,’ but still played all the original stuff, including ‘Killing an Arab’ as the encore.  The MM went on strike and my piece never ran, but it was a good time.  I remember what a hard case was Robert Smith, very determined, nothing sentimental or artsy about him. Below are my two pieces that did run, in the Voice and a short live review in the MM.  And the show itself, thanks to SFJ for compressing and cleaning up.”

Read more: http://www.radio1045.com/pages/stephen.html?article=10185810#ixzz2DQkNc868

The Band
Robert Smith, Simon Gallup, Laurence Tolhurst, Matthieu Hartley 

SIDE A
1. "Seventeen Seconds"
2. "Play For Today"
3. "Three Imaginary Boys"
4. "Fire In Cairo"
6. "Grinding Halt"
7. "In Your House"
8. "Subway Song"
9. "M"

SIDE B
1. "10:15 Saturday Night"
2. "Accuracy"
3. "At Night"
4. "Boys Don't Cry"
6. "Jumping Someone Else's Train"
7. " Another Journey By Train"
8. " A Forest"

Encore
9. "Secrets"
10. "Killing An Arab" (cut)

Thanks to www.slicingupeyeballs.com


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Cherry Hill '80


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