12.04.1980 Cherry Hill - Emerald City (USA/NJ)

Mainset:

seventeen seconds
play for today
three imaginary boys
fire in cairo
grinding halt
in your house
subway song
m
10:15 saturday night
accuracy
at night
boys don't cry
jumping someone else's train
another journey by train
a forest

Encore 1:

secrets
killing an arab

Songs: 17 (15,2)
Length: ? min

Robert Smith
Simon Gallup
Laurence Tolhurst
Matthieu Hartley

thanks to afoolisharrangement.com for the scan

Part 1

Part 2

This concert is mostly known as being held on 10th April 1980 but thats wrong. Most likely the wrong date was used as the portion about this concert in the book "The Imaginary Years" names the 10th april as kind of a start of the first USA Tour. However it's meant to be understand that The Cure went to America on 10th but not played the first concert on 10th.

from 'Ten Imaginary Years':

On 10 April, The Cure went to America for the first time.
Robert: "We'd obtained cult status out there but we only played New York, Philly, Washington and Boston. We played three nights - 15, 16 and 17th - at Hurrah in New York and it was packed."
Simon: "It was done on a shoe-string budget but it was lots of fun. Instead of having cans of beer backstage, we'd have shots of Southern Comfort!"
Robert: "It was like a holiday. Even at this point, everything we did, we didn't think we'd be doing again so we used to go to bed at about five in the morning and get up again at eight just to go out and see New York."
On his return, Robert told Record Mirror how America meant "being bombarded by people who all ask the same questions and all want to shake your hand . . . you just find yourself getting sucked into the whole rock 'n' roll trip which we're trying so hard to get away from" while Sounds' Phil Sutcliffe, who'd accompanied the band to New York. told, in an article "Somebody Get Me A Doctor", how Robert had done his utmost to avoid having his picture taken with Debby Harry.

Venue address:

Emerald City
Route 70
Cherry Hill, New Jersey

Venue naming history:

Latin Casino (1960-1978)
Emerald City (1978-1982)

Venue trivia:

The Latin Casino closed in the summer of 1978 and five months later, at the height of the disco craze, it reopened as a disco club, Emerald City. Then it was converted to a venue for progressive rock bands and it finally closed in December 1982 and later demolished.

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