The Smashing Pumpkins 2013-07-02

July 2, 2013 – Glasgow, UK
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
Shamrocks & Shenanigans tour
Date	July 2, 2013
Venue	O2 Academy Glasgow
Coordinates	55°51′2″N 4°15′33″W
Location	Glasgow, UK
Venue type	Concert hall
Capacity	2,500
Personnel	Billy Corgan, Jeff Schroeder, Mike Byrne, Nicole Fiorentino
Order of bands	Beware of Darkness, The Smashing Pumpkins
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First performance of "Siva" since 2011-12-09

Banter[edit | edit source]

(incomplete due to lack of full show source)

Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
Quasar
Starz
> Rocket
Space Oddity
> X.Y.U.
Disarm
Tonite Reprise
> Tonight, Tonight
Pinwheels
BC: Heh heh heh. Hope you’re having a good time. I can read, young man, you don’t have to keep holding that up. You okay up there in the, um...the balcony?
Jeff: Yeah.
Nicole: Over there too?
Jeff: The party zone, party zone.
BC: Party zone, that’s what they call it?
Jeff: Yeah. Hahahaha.
BC: Those people don’t even pay to get in, they just...party zone.
Jeff: I guess they’re--they don’t care.
Girl in crowd: Billy, I love you!
BC: I love you too, honey. Hahaha. I don’t know if I could handle a Scottish woman.
Jeff: Let’s find out tonight, let’s find out...
BC: Oh, you wanna find out tonight?
Jeff: ...yeah, let’s find out, let’s find out, come on. Come on!
BC: Heh heh. Heh, I don’t know, that’s a--what’s that Black Crowes song?
Hard to Handle (tease)
BC: (singing) Mama, too hard to handle now, [2 unintelligible words], (speaking) it’s like a lot of that kind of stuff, right? It just seems like it would get violent and then it wouldn’t be me throwing the punches. It’d be the Scottish lass. Is that how it works, gentlemen?
Men in crowd: Yes!
BC: I mean, shit, I’d make blood pie too, you know what I mean? Now Jeff, as a last point, if you’ll indulge me for a second....
Guy in crowd: [unintelligible] baldies!
BC: Excuse me? Oh, the baldies, okay, I get it. See, gentlemen, sir, where I come, that--that usually means gay sex. So you do your baldies thing, I don’t wanna be in your baldies club. We love our gay brothers and sisters, I’m just not one of them. I don’t wanna do your baldies thing. It’s really weird, you know, guy--bald guys walk up to me on the road and they’re like, like we’re in the same club, like I give a shit, you know what I mean? I just don’t care. Anyway, as a student of history, which I am, you know at one point the Romans were here. The Romans, like, you remember the Romans? No no, I’m getting to that, I’m getting to that! The Romans tried to come here. Then they came here and they left and they built a wall and they said, “You crazy motherfuckers stay on that side of the fuckin’ wall, we don’t want anything to do with you.” It’s true. They said, you know what, you guys just stay over there...in the party zone. Heh, the whole country, it’s a party zone. Well, god bless you, we’re so happy to see your faces. Really. You know, not everyone gets our trip, not everyone understands, you know? There’s a bunch of bands out there doing the happy ‘90s thing: fuck all that. Then you got this new thing: rap. Not into that, not down with the rap. Are you into the rap, Nicole?
Nicole: I didn’t realize it was so new. Heh heh. Is it still new?
BC: I live in a dark cave and so rap just got to me. On the drums, we have Michael, Michael Byrne. Now Michael, do you have Scottish blood? (sound effect saying “yeah right”) He doesn’t have Scottish blood. (crowd boos)
Nicole: They’re disappointed with the situation.
BC: That’s why he can’t grow any hair on his chest. Anyway, god bless the Romans, god bless you. That’s the end of the show, we just tell jokes at the end. Yeah, not everyone gets our trip, we are the Smashing Pumpkins 2013. Are we in July yet?
Jeff: I have no fucking clue.
Nicole: Yeah.
BC: Are we in July yet?
Crowd: Yes!
BC: 25 years ago...25 years ago this month was the first Smashing Pumpkins show. And if I could remember--I mean that’s a long time ago--I had long, flowing...beautiful hair.
Jeff: Lots of drugs, lots of drugs.
Nicole: Beautiful locks.
BC: And uh, I remember, I wanted to be in an alternative band because I didn’t wanna do what anybody else wanted me to fuckin’ do. So I started an alternative band ‘cause I wanted to do what the fuck I wanted to do. And somewhere along the way, people really got into the bands that didn’t give a fuck what anybody else wanted them to do and then at some point, those bands stopped...doing what they wanted to do and started doing what everybody else wanted them to fuckin’ do. And now I’m in a band where I still do what the fuck I wanna do! (stage lights go out and then flash briefly)
Jeff: Oops, wrong light.
BC: So the point of saying all that is we thank you because without you, we couldn’t do what the fuck we wanted to do. We have the coolest, most courageous fans in rock and roll. And uh, as a few bands learned at Glastonbury, don’t fuck with the Pumpkins. So we’d like to play a song now from our last album, Oceania, that is the title track called Oceania.
Oceania
Blank Page
Thirty-Three
Ava Adore
> Bullet with Butterfly Wings
> The Imploding Voice
One Diamond, One Heart
Pale Horse
Today
Zero
> Stand Inside Your Love
> United States
[encore break]
Immigrant Song
Siva
1979

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