The Cure / Zerra 1

What I remember most about this gig was the amount of official merchandise on sale: Something I'd never really seen at New Wave/Punk gigs before. There was a huge stall selling masses of Cure t-shirts, posters, etc, and even vinyl records. One of them being 12" of 'Hundred Years', which was a freebie with limited number of Pornograhy LPs - Which I didn't get - So I bought copy there and then, which was a stupid thing to do, as trying to keep a vinyl record safe on your person during a hot, sweaty, mosh pit crushing gig, was an impossible task. Bloody thing was a burden the whole gig. I ended up sticking the 12" up my mohair jumper, but returning home discovered that had warped the vinyl. Carrying that vinyl around kinda spoilt the gig for me.
The Cure came on stage with two drummers & played a lot of tracks from Pornography, like: Strange Day, Hundred Years, Hanging Gardens, Figurehead, Siamese Twins, Pornograhy, etc. - It was at this gig and listening to Pornograhy that I came to the conclusion that the Cure were really depressing, and I stopped buying their records and going to their gigs. They did play some older tunes, which made me feel better: A Forest, Killing an Arab, Primary & 10:15 on Saturday Night. But overall I left this gig, at the age of 19, feeling uneasy about the crass commercialisation of Cure brand, and that depressing music like this wasn't for me anymore. It was the end of my love affair with The Cure. (Which 'Love Cats' onwards failed to rectify). This gig was a big step towards ending my time as a miserable greycoat brigade angst ridden teenager