SEPTEMBER

Back in Europe, the band went to the Pinewood Studios to film the Just Like Heaven video (the next planned single) until the following morning. Mary Poole appeared on it. Some parts were also filmed at Beachy Head (the cliff).

When the song got released, it became a hit everywhere. As a matter of fact, the band didn't even appear on TV to promote the song. They were preparing for the European tour instead.


OCTOBER

22th
Drammen, Drammenshalle
The Honeymoon Tour (named after Simon Gallup getting married) in Europe started in Norway. This first show took things where they were left at the end of the US tour even if A Forest's intro on guitar was changed that night.

European concerts were divided into two categories : the first one was identical to US repertoire (mostly Kiss Me songs) and the second one offered more old songs, mostly from the Faith and Pornography albums. The second setlist appeared when the band played two concerts in a row in the same city. But as the tour arrived to Spain, the alternative setlist was more often played, simply replacing the basic concert.

Robert Smith also made other artist references on Cure songs : Why Can't I Be You? (an extended version) included lyrics from Frank Sinatra's "Fools Rush In", "Witchcraft" and "Young At Heart". And he also often played the riff of "She's Lost Control" and "Love Will Tear Us Apart" by Joy Division at the end of A Forest's guitar solo, which versions now approached 13 minutes (maybe a bit too long).

Live repertoire : Killing An Arab, 10:15 Saturday Night, Boys Don't Cry, Three Imaginary Boys, Play For Today, A Forest, At Night, Primary, Other Voices, The Drowning Man, Faith, Forever, Charlotte Sometimes, One Hundred Years, A Strange Day, Pornography, Let's Go To Bed, The Walk, The Lovecats, In Between Days, The Blood, Close To Me, A Night Like This, Why Can't I Be You ?, A Japanese Dream, The Kiss, Catch, Torture, If Only Tonight We Could Sleep, How Beautiful You Are, Snakepit, Just Like Heaven, All I Want, Hot Hot Hot, One More Time, Like Cockatoos, The Perfect Girl, Shiver And Shake, Fight.

Unfortunately, Robert was sick at the beginning of the tour (especially in Berlin, so that was the worst show for him). Around that time, he would also play English Rose on his own during the soundchecks (voice/guitar).


NOVEMBER

02nd
Brussels, Forest National
First "alternative" set list of the tour, Faith didn't include extra lyrics. Other Voices wasn't so much rehearsed (despite the soundcheck) as Robert had to play the keyboards part closing the song on guitar. Forever included Joy Division's She's Lost Control bit on guitar at some point, and even a couple of lines were sung.

03rd
Liévin, Stade Couvert
A couple of lines from Joy Division appeared on the WCIBY's extra bit this time. Robert also claimed, on the way to the venue, live on a local radio, that they stopped playing A Forest.

05th
Rotterdam, Ahoy
The last time they would play Forever on this tour. Tonight's version was excellent. Then, they would always end the shows with Pornography. Maybe not the best choice as that song sounded quite messy actually. Faith's 6-string bass solo included Joy Division's The Eternal tune that night. Maybe to remember the old days ?

Playing Faith live proved the band didn't lose its ability to get emotional despite their massive success across Europe. Extra lyrics often refered to a fight to stay "real" : a reaction against being the main attraction of the year and that fear to lose the sense of making music. In Paris, Robert would sing about "every time I wake up and fall, I fall to the day I won't wake up at all."

12th
Paris, Bercy
A good show. Robert Smith made some references to Hendrix (Stone Free, Purple Haze) on Why Can't I Be You extra lyrics. The Perfect Girl was announced as "very lazy girl, not perfect". Some private thing, for sure.

16th
Montpellier, Palais des Sports

In Spain, the group often entered the stage wearing black (instead of the white Catch shirts). Simon declared on Spanish radio that they weren't a gloomy band and that they were the kind of people one can bring back home and introduce to their mother. A Night Like This was added to the repertoire there.


DECEMBER

01st
Milano, Palatrussardi
A bit of a unusual night with Robert Smith using metaphors to introduce the songs : "an angelfish drowning in terror" (If Only Tonight...), "if you have ever walked out to one bird in a zoo and you thought it would talk back to you and you're staring and staring for hours and hours, just wishing everyone would go away so it could talk to you. That's Like Cockatoos".

The tour ended with three consecutive nights at the Wembley Arena in London. The whole repertoire being played on the course of those last three shows with adding Piggy In The Mirror, Kyoto Song... I'm Free (by The Who) guitar chords strangely appeared at the end of One Hundred Years on the second night. The final show was the longest concert given by the Cure at the time : almost three hours. It ended with a Slade cover, Merry Christmas Everybody, under artificial snowflakes. A long and deserved rest for the musicians now started.


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