The Cure moved to Europe

INFO

In December 1979, The Cure travelled abroad for the first time to make a continental tour, featuring shows in Netherlands, France and Belgium.

TOUR DATES

STORY

"We all really went to town. We thought 'This is it - the start of a new era'! We had a day off and got taken to a cafe in the morning where we ended up drinking 13 bottles of red wine between the four of us. Later, Lol went into a coma. We were sitting in, someone's room back at the hotel when he suddenly started screaming and flipped out. He went running down the corridor puking up red wine everywhere." Robert Smith, Ten Imaginary Years (1988)

"Me and Robert followed the trail - I like a sick paper-chase. Really good."
Simon Gallup, Ten Imaginary Years (1988)

"He kept going into different corridors, trying his key in different doors so, eventually, I took pity on him and let him in my room where he commenced to enter the bathroom with, he said, the intention of committing suicide."
Robert Smith, Ten Imaginary Years (1988)

"They were all banging on the toilet door, going 'Let us in! Let us in!' and I was groaning. 'Let me die! Let me die!' I lay with my face in the turned on shower for hours, woke up about five in the morning and crawled to bed."
Lol Tolhurst, Ten Imaginary Years (1988)

"I pissed in his suitcase as retaliation; he was still alive."
Robert Smith, Ten Imaginary Years (1988)
Then they returned to Britain...