The Smashing Pumpkins 2008-03-24

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March 24, 2008 – Christchurch, NZ
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
ArtistThe Smashing Pumpkins
DateMarch 24, 2008
VenueWestpac Arena
Coordinates43°32′45″S 172°36′4″E
LocationChristchurch, NZ
Venue typeArena
Capacity7,200
PersonnelBilly Corgan, Jimmy Chamberlin, Jeff Schroeder, Ginger Pooley, Lisa Harriton
Order of bandsQueens of the Stone Age, The Smashing Pumpkins

Setlist[edit | edit source]

  1. "Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
  2. "Bring the Light
  3. "Superchrist
  4. "(Come On) Let's Go!
  5. "Tonight, Tonight
  6. "Mayonaise
  7. "Perfect(acoustic) 
  8. "Lily (My One and Only)
  9. "Today
  10. "Tarantula
  11. "Stand Inside Your Love
  12. "Ava Adore
  13. "Drown
  14. "Bullet with Butterfly Wings
  15. (blues improv) (acoustic)
  16. "1979(acoustic) 
  17. "That's the Way (My Love Is)(acoustic) 
  18. "My Blue Heaven" [Walter Donaldson / George A. Whiting
  19. "The Everlasting Gaze
  20. "Cash Car Star" [8:16] 
    1. "Black Sabbath" [Black Sabbath(tease) 
    2. "Piece of Me" [Britney Spears(tease) 
    3. "For What It's Worth" [Buffalo Springfield(tease) 
  21. "United States" [16:40] 
    1. "The Star-Spangled Banner" [Francis Scott Key(tease) 

Encore[edit | edit source]

  1. "Muzzle

Banter[edit | edit source]

Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
Bring the Light
Superchrist
> (Come On) Let’s Go!
Tonight, Tonight
Mayonaise
BC: Thank you! How’s everybody doing, you alright? Alriight. Like to bring out on the tambourine, Mr. Jimmy Chamberlin.
Perfect (Billy acoustic w/Jimmy tambourine)
Lily
> Today
> Tarantula
> Stand Inside Your Love
> Ava Adore
BC: Alright. You tired down here? Are you tired of wiggling around like a bunch of worms? You want a bunch of beer, something, right? Heh heh heh. Some piss, you want some piss? (New Zealand accent) Yeh, piss, yeh. (normal voice) Heh heh heh. Alright, how you doing up there, you okay? You alright over there? Yeah, heh heh heh. Alright, like to play an olllld, old song for you right now. I wrote this song in 1990, ‘90, remember 1990? No, you don’t. I of course was seven in 1990 and I wrote this song.
Drown
> Bullet with Butterfly Wings
blues jam (Billy solo acoustic)
> 1979 (Billy solo acoustic)
That’s the Way (Billy 12-string w/Lisa)
My Blue Heaven (Billy w/Lisa)
The Everlasting Gaze
> Cash Car Star
> Black Sabbath (tease - Piece of Me words over instrumental)
> Piece of Me (2 verses and half of chorus)
> For What It’s Worth (verse 1, chorus, verse 4, chorus, BC original spoken verse)
(BC spoken verse: Everyone’s gonna be a big star / Everyone’s gonna know who you are / They’re gonna wanna fuck you too / They’re gonna wanna know about everything you do / It’s just gonna be you and you and you and you and you and you and YOU)
> Crush
> United States / Star Spangled Banner
(BC over big rock ending: Thank you very much, thank you, thank you!)
[encore break]
BC: Thank you very much, thank you. We hope you’ve had a good time, we wanna thank you very much. Wanna thank you very much for coming and that we really appreciate it a lot, a lot, a lot. So we’d like to dedicate this last song to all of you, hope to see you again soon.
Muzzle
[bow]
BC: One last thing, one last thing. One last thing. Shh, shh. Just wanna say, it’s a real honor to come to New Zealand, it’s such a beautiful country, beautiful people. We were lucky to play three shows in New Zealand and all of ‘em rocked hard. Thank you, New Zealand, thank you. So we’ll try to come back in less than 10 years, okay, heh heh.

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