15.04.1980 New York - Hurrah (USA)

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

Encore 2:

plastic passion
seventeen seconds

Mainset:

hello

seventeen seconds

can you turn the vocals down at the monitors please?

play for today

thank you. can you turn the vocals down some more at the monitors please?. this song's called 'three imaginary boys'

three imaginary boys

fire in cairo

grinding halt

can you turn the vocals down a bit at the monitors please?

in your house

i [...] we come from, from england. we don't understand [...] if you like it and you don't like it. [...] What does take a piss on portobello road mean? What does it mean?

subway song

10.15 saturday night

accuracy

thank you

at night

[unknown]

boys don't cry

jumping someone else's train
another journey by train

this is the final song. it's called 'a forest'

a forest

thank you and good night

Encore 1:

secrets

killing an arab

thank you, good night

Encore 2:

plastic passion

[unknown]

seventeen seconds

[unknown]

stage banter segments may be wrong or incomplete

Robert Smith
Simon Gallup
Laurence Tolhurst
Matthieu Hartley

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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.