1979-08-24 Reading - Richfield Avenue (England)
"Reading Rock 79"

Mainset:

10.15 Saturday Night
Accuracy
Grinding Halt
Another Day
Object
Subway Song
Foxy Lady
Plastic Passion
Three Imaginary Boys
Boys Don't Cry
Fire In Cairo
Killing An Arab

Encore 1:

Do The Hansa

Robert Smith
Michael Dempsey
Laurence Tolhurst

Songs played: 13 (12 | 1)

Day of the week: Friday

Attendance:
Capacity:

Mainset:

[unknown]

10.15 Saturday Night

Accuracy

thank you. it's the last time we're gonna play one of these numbers. [...] . this one's called 'grinding halt'

Grinding Halt

thank you. this one's called 'another day'

Another Day

this is for wonderfull Lemmy

Object

thank you. this one is called 'the subway song'. [...] in subways.

Subway Song

[...] Jimmi Hendrix [...] introduction to the next number which is called 'the foxy lady'

Foxy Lady

sacrilege

Plastic Passion

this ones the title of our album. Even we've got an album.

Three Imaginary Boys

this one's our single. it's called 'boys don't cry'. it's for the [...] man in the audience

Boys Don'T Cry

only two left. this one is called 'fire in cairo'

Fire In Cairo

it's the final one. it's called 'killing an arab'. it's dedicated to [...]

Killing An Arab

thank you. good bye.

Encore 1:

[...] this is the perfect place for disco [...] like disco, right? [...] is for everybody that hates disco and you must all agree on something. it's called 'do the hansa'

Do The Hansa

so hey, good bye. [...] with disco

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

thanks to Petr H.

thanks to JC Moglia

from book 'Ten Imaginary Years'

On 24 August, The Cure played Reading Festival on a bill with The Tourists, The Police, Wilko Johnson, Doll By Doll and Motorhead. They shared a caravan with Lemmy, dedicated 'Boys Don't Cry' to "the Motorhead men" and went down remarkably well.