The Smashing Pumpkins 1993-09-14

September 14, 1993 – Leeds, UK
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
Rock Invasion tour
Date	September 14, 1993
Venue	Town & Country Club
Coordinates	53°48′7″N 1°32′49″W
Location	Leeds, UK
Venue type	Club
Capacity	2,300
Personnel	Billy Corgan, James Iha, D'arcy Wretzky, Jimmy Chamberlin
Order of bands	The Verve, The Smashing Pumpkins
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Setlist

1. "King of the Road" [Roger Miller] (prerecorded) (live debut)
2. "Rocket" 
3. "Quiet" 
4. "Today" 
5. "Disarm" 
6. "Siva" [5:35] 
7. "Hummer" 
8. "Soma" 
9. "Geek U.S.A." 
10. "Spaceboy" 
11. "I Am One" (with rant) [4:53] 
12. "Cherub Rock" 

Encore one

13. "Drown" [7:06] 
14. "Silverfuck" [11:08] 
    1. "Over the Rainbow" [Harold Arlen / Yip Harburg] (tease) 

Encore two

15. "Starla" 
16. "Pissant" (with rant) 

Banter

King of the Road Intro
Rocket
> Quiet
Iha: Nice.
Today
Disarm
> Siva
Hummer
Soma
Iha: And now we'll give you bombast. Heh, yeah!
Geek U.S.A.
Spaceboy
> I Am One
(BC midsong: Nothing can be taken from me that hasn’t already been taken! Nothing can be taken from me that hasn’t already been taken. What you want is what you’ll get. Yeah. What you want is what you’ll get. What you want is what you’ll get. So don’t ask...‘cause you might get it. Nothing can be taken from me that hasn’t already been taken. Nothing can be taken from me that hasn’t already been taken. There’s nothing! Nothing! Nothing! Nothing!!!)
Cherub Rock
[encore break]
BC: Thanks for coming to the show. Nice to see smiling happy faces.
Iha: Yes, um, there is a request for the black plague, we do have some backstage if you wanna come by and do some black plague with us. (crowd cheers) Alright, we're gonna let them backstage after the last song.
Drown
(Silverfuck intro begins)
Iha: Jason, some lights, Jason, lights! Be calm.
> Silverfuck / Over the Rainbow
[encore break]
Iha: Thanks. We'd like to rock prog whole, alright?
BC: What was that? One two, one four, no, heh.
Iha: One two, one....
D’arcy: One two...
BC/D’arcy: One five four.
Iha: One two, one five four.
Starla
BC: [cuts in] ...like to hear one more song? Did someone say no, who said no? Heh.
Iha: They was ever true.
Pissant
(BC midsong over drum solo: You know, if you’re not part of the problem, you’re part of the solution!
Iha: That’s right!
BC: Brothers and sisters...!
Iha: Brothers and sisters!
BC: Heh, and others, heh.
Iha: And others. Yeah.
BC: Yeah, we’ve got a revolution going on, did you notice? Thank god for grunge. Thank god for grunge, thank god for the fucking grunge revolution, aren’t we lucky? Aw, I feel so lucky we’re part of the grunge revolution.
Iha: Mr. Jimmy Chamberlin on the motherfuckin’ drums!
BC: Well, let me tell you somethin’, I’m part of the fuckin’ problem...and it’s gonna stay that way too. ‘Cause rock and roll fuckin’ sucks. That’s right. And we got a rock and roll revolution going on here tonight. Are you with me?! Are you with me?!
Iha: I can hear you, Leeds! I can hear you!
BC: Leeds! Leeds! Leeds! Leeds!
Iha: Yeah!
BC: Leeds!
Iha: Yeah!
BC: Leeds!
Iha: Yeah!
BC: Leeds.
Iha: Yeaaaaaaaaah!!
BC: Hey man, isn’t this where the Who recorded? Anyway. So anyway...I don’t know how to get out of this, bro.
Guy in crowd: Billy, you suck!
BC: What?
Guy in crowd: Billy, you suck!
BC: I know you love me. Is it wrong for a man to love another man? I don’t think so, I love you too. God bless the soul of Raymond Burr. Heh heh, aw, Raymond Burr.
D’arcy: Come on, Jimmy’s getting tired.)
Iha: Thank you.
BC: ‘Night, god bless you, be happy, be safe.