
INFO
On 16 November 1979, The Cure played in Liverpool, first concert of the Future Pastimes Tour, with other bands like The Associates and The Passions.
TOUR DATES
16.11.1979 - Liverpool, Eric's (England) 17.11.1979 - London School of Economics, London (England) 20.11.1979 - Preston, Polytechnic (England) 21.11.1979 - Manchester, University (England) 22.11.1979 - Bradford, Palm Cove (England) 23.11.1979 - Newport, The Village (Wales) 24.11.1979 - Coventry, Warwick University (England) 27.11.1979 - Sheffield, University (England) 28.11.1979 - Birmingham, New University (England) 29.11.1979 - Portsmouth, Polytechnic (England) 30.11.1979 - Norwich, University of East Anglia (England) 01.12.1979 - Durham, University (England) 05.12.1979 - Wolverhampton, Polytechnic (England) 06.12.1979 - London, Music Machine (England) 07.12.1979 - Crawley, College (England)
STORY
"Something happened - I think the bus broke down or we ran out of petrol or something but, anyway, we didn't arrive at Erics till about 10 o'clock and The Passions had already played. There were only about 100 people there so we just went to the bar, got a beer, got onstage and played. We were really just playing for ourselves, chatting between songs and that. I remember we'd been drinking on the way up and I couldn't remember which words went with which songs so I just started making them up.
"It was the best concert I'd done by far and I suddenly realised how awful the last six months had been. But now I was onstage with people who were really enthusiastic. It was a new start." Robert Smith, Ten Imaginary Years (1988)
"It was great - the first night I'd ever had free beer. I remember thinking 'So this is stardom!'." Simon Gallup, Ten Imaginary Years (1988)
On 17 November 1979, they played London School of Economics.
STORY
"We stopped at a motorway cafe on the way back down from Liverpool and I ate some very dodgy sausages. That night, 10 minutes before we were due on stage, I was suddenly stricken. It was fucking freezing and I was shivering like a dog.
"It was a good show though. A lot of the Horley crowd came up and it got so boisterous I forgot I was ill until just towards the end when I threw up all over this punk in the front row.
"All the bands used to drive around together and it was a pretty volatile mix. There wasn't really that much good feeling on that tour. The only thing that held it together was, if it was cack for one group, it was cack for us all. We were only headlining because I guess Bill pinned more hopes on us, but there wasn't any sense of priority. We all shared the same dressing room. In fact, at one point I think there was even talk of alternating headlines but we thought that was stupid because we'd never be able to decide who should headline in London." Robert Smith, Ten Imaginary Years (1988)
On 7 December 1979, the tour ended at Crawley College.
STORY
"Some skinheads came and smashed the place up - they always did in Crawley. I remember we came off pretty disgusted because it was our home town concert and there were a lot of people there who liked us and wanted to see us and alll could see was people bottling each other." Robert Smith, Ten Imaginary Years (1988)
"There was a lot of jealousy too. I remember going to the local record shop and people'd say 'My mate's much fucking better than you are. I don't know why you got the job'. We never played Crawley again." Simon Gallup, Ten Imaginary Years (1988)