10:15 Saturday Night

"10:15 Saturday Night" is a song by British post-punk band The Cure. It was the B-side to their December 1978 single "Killing an Arab" as well as the opening track of their debut album Three Imaginary Boys. It was also released in France as a single, with the track "Accuracy" as the B-side. It has been performed live during most of their shows since its release, and was included in their live album Concert.

"10:15 Saturday Night"
Cover of the French single
Song by The Cure
from the album Three Imaginary Boys
ReleasedJune 1979
GenrePost-punk
Length3:42
LabelFiction Records
Songwriter(s)Robert Smith, Michael Dempsey, Lol Tolhurst
Producer(s)Chris Parry
Official audio
"10:15 Saturday Night" on YouTube

A promotional video, directed by Piers Bedford, was the band's first.[1][lower-alpha 1]

According to interviews in the booklet for the Deluxe Edition of Three Imaginary Boys, the demo of the song is what caught Chris Parry's attention in 1978 and led him to sign the band to his newly founded record company, Fiction. The track was written by Robert Smith at the age of 16 one evening while sitting at the kitchen table feeling "utterly morose" watching the tap dripping and drinking his dad's homemade beer. It was first performed as part of sets performed by Easy Cure at gigs around the band's local area of Crawley.

The song was sampled by Massive Attack on their cover of "Man Next Door" from their 1998 album Mezzanine.[3] And it was also covered by The Living End on their EP It's for Your Own Good (EP).

References

Notes
  1. Piers had directed a number of previous films and the following year would direct the video for Siouxsie and the Banshees' "Happy House".[2]

Citations
  1. "The Cure | Boys Don't Cry". Post-Punk. 5 February 2016. Retrieved 30 August 2019.
  2. "Piers Bedford". Archived from the original on 29 July 2016.
  3. "Massive Attack @ the Hollywood Paladium". larecord.com. 6 September 2019. Retrieved 31 August 2021.

Other sources
  • Apter, Jeff. (2006). Never Enough: The Story of the Cure. Omnibus Press. ISBN 1-84449-827-1 p. 63
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