Jeff Apter

Such rough-and-ready cuts from the time as ‘Heroin Face’, recorded at The Rocket in 1977, would end up on the 2005 reissue of Three Imaginary Boys.

a Smith original, ‘A Night Like This’, which would eventually turn up on The Cure’s 1985 long-player, The Head On The Door.

This footage would turn up on the video companion to their first best-of collection, entitled Staring At The Sea – The Images.

The song list featured ‘Meathook’, which would reappear on their debut album in 1979, and ‘See The Children’, whose questionable lyrics painted Smith as a dirty old man in teenager’s clothing. There was certainly an uneasy air of queasiness about lyrics which talked of passing sweets through a fence and wanting to join in the children’s games. Other tracks recorded were ‘I Just Need Myself’, ‘I Want To Be Old’ and ‘Pillbox Tales’, which would resurface as the B-side of 1978’s ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ and then, again, some 27 years later on Join The Dots: B-Sides And Rarities.

Heroin Face’ (another early Easy Cure number, which would surface years later on the cassette-only add-on to their 1984 Concert album