The Cure 1980-04-21 The Underground Club Allston MA

The Cure live in Boston USA:
April 21, 1980 Allston MA - The Underground Club  

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:
plastic passion
killing an arab


Encore 2:
secrets
seventeen seconds  

the band:
Robert Smith, Simon Gallup, Laurence Tolhurst, Matthieu Hartley

This show is also known as 20.04.1980 Allston - Underground Club but this date is wrong! The Cure played only one show at the Underground Club, not two, and they played there on Roberts 21st Birthday the April 21,1980.
from video taper:
 "we filmed Mission of Burma who opened up for the Cure liked what we saw and decided to go with it....there was no other choice but to use one black and white camera at that point and that didn't feel right...so I went with the look you see.....you have to understand this was 1980 before camcorders, vhs decks, mtv, and video in clubs....that all came a couple of years later. I filmed many bands with the equipment used by the film department at MIT because I helped teach a documentary performance class......I went to your site and read the accounts of the evening and they are close but not exact.......most of the band and road crew came to MIT with me after the show to view the video...........they stayed most of the night.....don't remember showing any homemovies we just watched the Underground stuff over and over...I made they dubs of the tapes and showed them the door at dawn.......the stuff with Robert pulverizing his thumb might have happened after they left MIT.....who knows..... that was the last I heard from them....."
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from 'Ten Imaginary Years':
Robert: "My 21st birthday happened in Boston and after the gig, Bill and the four of us got taken to some art media event by this guy who was making a video of us. We had some drugs. I remember a TV and a set of homemade videos and we got bored and insisted this bloke drove us back to our hotel so he took us in his Beetle - the five of us and his girlfriend!"

"It was a little cramped so i got out and sat on the bonnet - it was about five in the morning so we thought we'd take the risk. Bill then decided to drive and went the wrong way round a roundabout without thinking. When he realised it, of course, he just kept on going round, laughing insanely and then he got hysterical, got a flat, slewed across the road and i fell of the bonnet."
"I tried to change the wheel - I don't know why I was doing it - but I couldn't understand why the hubcap wouldn't go back on so I started kicking it, and it was only a few seconds later, when the pain suddenly reached my brain, that i realised the reason the hub cap wouldn't go back on was because my thumb was traped underneath it. I'd just reduced it to pulp!"

"After that we drove to New York overnight but ended up in Cape Cod because Bill had taken a wrong turn! We eventually arrived at the airport just in time to catch the plane to get back to London for Top Of The Pops."   
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