The Cure Live in Allston The Underground 1980, Grinding Halt

[lookapi]

greaat!!!

[XyloEnterprises]

My buddy Randy is in this vid. I'll ask our friends for deets. The scene still lives in Boston. Actually there's still a scene for everything in Boston. I'm round half his age or less (as with many of my (especially goth) friends) and we party like hell whenever we're in the same place. He's the guy grinning from ear to ear in a pale sweater. Nowadays he's in all tight black and a biker jacket, and works a phoneline, job. I love this music, I love our lives.

[XyloEnterprises]

My buddy Randy is in this vid. I'll ask our friends for deets. The scene still lives in Boston. Actually there's still a scene for everything in Boston. I'm round half his age or less (as with many of my (especially goth) friends) and we party like hell whenever we're in the same place. He's the guy grinning from ear to ear in a pale sweater. Nowadays he's in all tight black and a biker jacket, and works a phoneline, job. I love this music, I love our lives.

[ToolsnFire]

This fashion has never gone out of fashion, the kids there look the kids of today.

[janesees2]

MONDAY

goodmorning

[hypemike]

this is SURREAL . never saw this before. i wonder if even robert has seen this.

[pierrebarraud]

I love the girl front of the stage !!!

[rubyfredo]

Awesome, saw many great shows at the Underground....so sad the live music venues in Boston are going going gone

[thomsk]

superb - thanks for uploading! cant belive that clip is about 30 years old.

[Skumbomb]

Very good vid!! thank you so so so much!

but I'm a little frustrated, where can I download this one or have a copy to watch it home ? thanx

[gabaco82]

thanks for posting this... so well done.. Allston is the name of the Town near Boston ? or is Allston the Underground the name of the bar?

[loveandcapture]

@gabaco82 allston is a neighborhood of boston, and allston underground was the name of the club...

[mangouldbarrington1]

These videos of the cure in 1980 at the underground are priceless, thanks for posting.

[katzetnik135633]

loz mejorez añoz ♥__♥

[foolsgoldsoma]

live in allston rock city. awesome. does the underground even exist anymore?

[vinnypiana]

great live version. really getting into the cure again.

[Alexm799]

yeah me too!

[boomerang85]

i love simon!

[NewPaltzIndie]

Picked up Three Imaginary Boys the other day, has alot of character

[motorcityrocker]

Would love to have seen the Cure this early.

[redcure]

hahha this video is so old!! that the guys from the audience looks like the guys from the "that 70's show"

hahahah XD XD XD XD

[imgoingnowhere]

Nice video so strange!

[libertyale]

Filmed by a couple of MIT students. They set up a 4 camera shoot. One is in B&W and the other 3 are in the primary colors. They later partied with the band later that night and made copies of the show for them.

Probably the first time The Cure played a show then had a copy of it on VHS made especially for them a few hours later!

[ajittffcure]

That's a good piece of information, libertyale. MIT students! Must have been intellectuals. After all, it is MIT is arguably the best in Engineering & Technology. By the way, were you present for the show?

[libertyale]

No...wasn't at the show...I would have been 11 years old! Haha! I got a VHS copy of a few songs from this show around 1992 and always loved it. When the internet became poplular I began researching the origins of the film which you can find anywhere now online. Supposedly the guys who shot are pretty proud of it and feature it on their website! The have filmed a couple different bands, but obviously none went on to the mega success or endurance the Cure has had!

[pebey]

I was at this show. The Underground was a Comm. Ave. club (Boston); it got closed by BU not long after.

[ajittffcure]

Wow! Pebey, you were so lucky. This was the best hase of The Cure. Did you get the chance to meet Robert Smith & company? I saw them for the first time here in London and they were playing to thousands of people (around the world). Above all, how was your experience?

[ajittffcure]

Wow! Pebey, you were so lucky. This was the best phase of The Cure. Did you get the chance to meet Robert Smith & company? I saw them for the first time here in London and they were playing to thousands of people (around the world). Above all, how was your experience?

[towipo]

Bloody brilliant!!! Great video!

[TheCure39]

Do you have more of the footage redcure >>??

[wonkipop]

Thanks for posting.

Saw this tour in Melbourne Australia in 1980.

As I remember - great sound.

Still have this single.

[ajittffcure]

Redcure- did you film this? Lucky are those people who saw The Cure at an early stage in their career when they used to play little clubs and pubs. I saw them for the first time ever at the Royal Albert Hall in April 2006 and they performed 'Grinding Halt'. It sounded something like the version you have uploaded. It was the best concert I have ever seen in my life, so far!

[redcure]

heheh hi there impossible that i could filmed this i'm just 17 and at that era i wasn't already born hhehe i got this by a trade ;) cheers

[redcure]

the source is audience/ about 2 cameras i guess filmed by kinodv something like that