Fact #160633
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Short story:
The Cure play the second of two nights at Ferro Carril Oeste football stadium, Buenos Aires, Argentina, South America.
Full article:
Robert Smith (The Cure, diary entry) : The crowd surges forward as we go onstage, and despite the higher barricades and extra police (or more exactly because of the higher barries and extra police), battle begins. By half-way through the set there are several uniformed men on fire, with most of their comrades taking shelter under the stage from the ceaseless and merciless rain of coins, seats, stones and glass. Unfortunately not all of it is accurately thrown, and Porl is the first of us to be hit: the longer this goes on, the more bitter we become, and when a coke bottle cracks me full in the face during '10.15' I stop the song and go a touch berserk. We end with a gloriously punky thrash through 'Arabs-a-go-go' and then we are away. Outside the ground is not unlike downtown Beirut, and we are more than relieved to reach the sanctuary of the hotel.
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