Famously Awful Concerts

The Cure. With Robert Smith still applying the pancake make-up, it's amusing to think of The Cure playing a 'final' show back in 1982. But that's what the the audience thought when the band fumbled through a freeform 14-minute jam that ended when a roadie ran on stage and seized the spotlight with a drunken tirade attacking Smith and drummer Lol Tolhurst. Smith responded by throwing drumsticks at Biddles' head, the band had it out on stage, and bassist Simon Gallup quit.