The Smashing Pumpkins 2023-04-27

April 27, 2023 – Port Melbourne, VIC, AU
Poster by Pat Fox
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
The World Is A Vampire tour
Date	April 27, 2023
Festival	The World Is A Vampire festival
Venue	Port Melbourne Industrial Centre for the Arts
Coordinates	37°49′46″S 144°55′26″E
Location	Port Melbourne, VIC, AU
Venue type	Art center
Personnel	Billy Corgan, James Iha, Jimmy Chamberlin, Jeff Schroeder, Jack Bates, Katie Cole
Order of bands	Battlesnake, RedHook, Amyl and The Sniffers, Jane's Addiction, The Smashing Pumpkins
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Setlist

1. "Atum" (prerecorded) 
2. "Empires" 
3. "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" 
4. "Today" 
5. "We Only Come Out at Night" (acoustic) 
6. "Once in a Lifetime" [Talking Heads] [5:42] 
7. "Solara" 
   1. (drum solo)
8. "Eye" 
9. "Ava Adore" 
   1. (drum solo)
10. "Spellbinding" 
11. "Under the Milky Way" [The Church] (acoustic) 
12. "Mountain Song" [Jane's Addiction] (tease) (acoustic) 
13. "The Joker" [Steve Miller Band] (tease) (acoustic) 
14. "Tonight, Tonight" (acoustic) 
15. "Thunderstruck" [AC/DC] (tease) 
16. "Hot for Teacher" [Van Halen] (tease) 
17. "Cherub Rock" 
18. "Zero" 
    1. "Love Gun" [Kiss] (tease) 
19. "1979" 
20. "Beguiled" 
21. "Silverfuck" [13:09] 

Banter

Atum Intro
Empires
(BC after lyrics, before Jeff outro solo: Melbourne!)
Bullet with Butterfly Wings
Iha: Thank you so much, good evening, Melbourne. How you guys doin’? We are the Smashing Pumpkins and we are glad to be here tonight, thank you!
Today
We Only Come Out at Night (acoustic)
Once in a Lifetime
Solara
Eye
(BC after 2nd chorus: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the rock show! We’re so grateful and pleased you’re with us this evening. So we can only say again and again and again: thank you, thank you, thank you.)
(BC during outro singalong: Sing it with us! Come on!! Come on, Melbourne!! Ow!)
Ava Adore
(BC after Jimmy solo: Ow! Mr. Jimmy Chamberlin on the drums! Ow. Melbourne, Melburn, Melbourne, Mel-bourne, something, ow!)
Jumpin’ Jack Flash (tease - possibly just on IEM)
Spellbinding
Iha: Thank you so much, how’re you guys doin’? Thank you, thank you. As you can see, we have our acoustic guitars. It’s now the acoustic portion.
Under the Milky Way (Billy/Iha acoustic)
BC: Thank you very much, thank you! Thank you so much for being with us this evening, beautiful evening.
Iha: It’s nice. It’s nice to be in this big concrete block.
BC: Like to thank, uh, Jane’s Addiction.
Iha: Jane’s Addiction. How awesome are they?
Mountain Song (tease, acoustic - Billy)
BC: Amyl and the Sniffers.
Iha: Amyl and the Sniffers. They’re great. Battlesnake.
BC: I don’t think Battlesnake played today.
Iha: Well....
BC: In your mind, maybe they played.
Iha: Well...Battle Snake.
BC: So uh...we’ll just get on with it, as we do.
Iha: Yes, yes, we’re from Chicago. That’s what you do. I’m just [unintelligible word] from freestylin’.
BC: We’d like to dedicate this song to everybody here. You might know this one, wrote this song in 1994.
Iha: Holy smoke.
BC: James, do you remember 1994?
Iha: I do not, I do not.
BC: I think you were the only member of the band not doing drugs, so that’s shocking to me.
Iha: (sort of shrugs) We can move on.
BC: You know, before I carry on with this song from 1994.... As a poet...published poet -– I know before you go to bed you like to read my poetry book, put you to sleep...
Iha: Heh heh heh.
BC: ...and uh, I was trying to come up with a way to try to describe us after 35 years.
Iha: I –- I gots, I got a funny bit but I’m not gonna (laughing) ruin whatever you’re going to say.
BC: It’s like a buddy movie: the vampire and the space cowboy.
The Joker (tease, acoustic - Billy plays guitar part)
Iha: (singing) People call me the space cowboy. People call me the gangster of love. (speaking) We used to cover this back--
BC: (stops guitar) Some people call more –- Maurice.
Iha: (singing) People call me Maurice.
BC: (singing and playing guitar) ‘Cause I speak of the pompatus of love. I’m a lover, I’m a sinner, I’m a vegemite...eater. (stops guitar, speaking) That was the original lyric. Anyway, we like to dedicate this song to everybody here, little song we like to call Tonight, Tonight.
Tonight, Tonight (Billy/Iha acoustic)
Iha: Thank you so much, uh, I’d like to quickly introduce the band. All the way from here. Melbourne...
Katie: Melbourne.
Iha: ...Miss Katie Cole, Katie Cole. Anything you’d like to say to Melbourne?
Katie: Aussie Aussie Aussie! Thank you.
Iha: Incredible. Incredible country. Incredible country. You know him, you love him, all the way from Manchester, England, Mr. Jack Bates. All the way from Hollywood, California, on the guitar, Mr. Jeff Schroeder. Jeff...what the fuck do you wanna play these people?
Thunderstruck (tease)
Iha: Ha!
Jeff: (off mic) Oh yeah!
Iha: (sort of singing melody). On the drums, all the way from Illinois, Mr. Jimmy Chamberlin!
Hot for Teacher (tease - Jeff)
Iha: On lead vocals and guitar, Mr. Billyyyyyyyy Corgan! I am James Iha and this is called Cherub Rock!
Cherub Rock
> Zero
> Love Gun (tease)
1979
BC: Young man, come down. Come down, young man, there you go.
Iha: We want everybody to be safe here. It’s like the ‘90s.
Beguiled
Silverfuck
(BC immediately after final lyrics: Melbourne!! We love you!!)
Iha: Thank you. Thank you so much. Have a good night. Get home safe, thank you.