10.15 on a saturday night ten years ago it was just right
12/12/1979
seventeen seconds early version
accuracy
m
early version
10.15 saturday night
play for today
early version
in your house
early version
fire in cairo
a forest
early version
three imaginary boys
another journey by train
jumping someone else's train
killing an arab
subway song
grinding halt
boys don't cry
a forest
early version
the cure plays a very cool show w/the four-piece lineup of robert/laurence/simon/matthieu...

this is a good recording--great recording!! good stuff to be found starting from the first song, and the sound is actually really super. nice and clean mix of every instrument =) not perfect, but excellent...

and the boys start off w/an early version of "seventeen seconds" with different lyrics...the music and the structure is actually the same, but the vocal lines and words are different...the chorus is almost finished--the line/melody is there, the words are just slightly different...even so, it sounds really good--the band immediately sounds different and fuller with the new line-up--a great way to start the show, followed by a biting version of "accuracy."

"m" follows, starting w/the bass line...and some different lyrics again. no "you'll fall in love with someone else..." vocals at all yet, just music there...but the fuller sound w/matthieu on keyboards and simon on bass is really good. the crowd is good and reacts right away to the next song, "10.15 saturday night." fast and tightly wound...

"play for today" comes next and is quite good, more different lyrics but with the familiar melody...but everything is in the mix, so it feels good. "in your house" is more of the same, well-rehearsed and tight musically...w/some different words like the "curiosity" version released in 1984 as part of the "concert/curiosity" cassette.

this version of "a forest" is another cool find--it's very fast and punky, with totally different lyrics...sometimes it feels like a similar melody, sometimes not.  but the song/performance is really good, robert has some really great guitar work--and it's just really cool...i doubt that it was even being called "into the trees" or "a forest" yet.

the back-to-back "another journey by train" "jumping someone else's train" is good stuff...and a ripping version of "killing an arab" closes the set...until they come back out for "subway song" and "grinding halt." both are good...robert says "thank you and good night," but they come back again for "boys don't cry" and then another version of "a forest!" during the keyboard/guitar intro, robert says "at night.....everybody plays..." and then they absolutely take off again into the song--rawk!! the recording fades after the first chorus, but still...excellent and strange.

this is absolutely must-have, just in case you didn't read these notes/reviews!! early versions of "seventeen seconds" songs...and well-rehearsed w/great sound to boot. a great disc--get cured!!