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1980-04-12 Cherry Hill - Emerald City (USA/NJ)
 

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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
Robert Smith
Simon Gallup
Laurence Tolhurst
Matthieu Hartley
Songs played: 17  (15 | 2)

Day of the week: Saturday

Attendance:
Capacity:

  • This was the first ever The Cure concert in the USA and outside Europe.
Intro:
Mainset:
Encore 1:
Encore 2:
Encore 3:
Encore 4:
stage banter segments may be wrong or incomplete
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media type: Concert
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thanks to Gilbert A.
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 book '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.
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10.15 S.N., K.A.Arab = cut
list of recordings may be incomplete and could contain wrong informations
The Cure
Streets
The Dickies
The Cure
Venue address:
Emerald City
Route 70
Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Venue naming history:
1960-1978 | Latin Casino
1978-1982 | Emerald City
Venue related links:
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.
  • The Cure appearances at this venue:
    1. 1980-04-12 Emerald City
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