The Smashing Pumpkins 2023-09-03

September 3, 2023 – Ottawa, ON, CA
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
The World Is A Vampire tour
Date	September 3, 2023
Venue	Canadian Tire Centre
Coordinates	45°17′49″N 75°55′38″W
Location	Ottawa, ON, CA
Venue type	Arena
Capacity	19,347
Personnel	Billy Corgan, James Iha, Jimmy Chamberlin, Jeff Schroeder, Jack Bates, Katie Cole
Order of bands	Rival Sons, Interpol, The Smashing Pumpkins
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Setlist[edit | edit source]

"Atum" (prerecorded)
"The Everlasting Gaze"
"Doomsday Clock"
"Once in a Lifetime" [Talking Heads] [6:06]
"Today"
"Perfect"
"Disarm" (acoustic)
"The Celestials"
"Purple Blood"
"Ava Adore"
1. (drum solo)
"Tonight, Tonight" (acoustic)
"Bullet with Butterfly Wings"
"This Time"
"Spellbinding"
"Hubble Bubble (Toil and Trouble)" [Manfred Mann]
"Jellybelly"
"Empires"
"Hummer"
"Beguiled"
"1979"
"Cherub Rock"
"Zero"
1. "Love Gun" [Kiss] (tease)

Banter[edit | edit source]

Atum Intro
The Everlasting Gaze
> Doomsday Clock
> Once in a Lifetime
Iha: Ottawa. How are you guys doin’? Thank you so much for coming out tonight, we are the Smashing Pumpkins and we are glad to be here.
Today
Perfect
Disarm (acoustic)
The Celestials
Purple Blood
Ava Adore
(BC after Jimmy solo: Ow! Mr. Jimmy Chamberlin on the drums! Juh juh juh juh, (deep voice) Jim. Jim.)
Iha: Thank you so much. Thank you so much, Ottawa, how are you guys doin’? Alright? Uh, we’re very happy to be here in Canada, it’s a beautiful place. It’s nice to be playing in a hockey arena. And uh...I don’t know, what else? It’s just like, we’re cruise –- we’re just, this is the midway point. Just like...rockin’ along, cruisin’ along. Who knows what the hell’s gonna happen?
BC: James, how you feelin’ tonight?
Iha: I feel good, I feel good. How are you doin’?
BC: Heh.
Iha: Heh.
BC: That’s a loaded question, my friend.
Iha: Well, you know, in the general sense of the...playing a show.
BC: James, we’re up here playing songs all about my inner pathos, now you’re telling me to tone it down.
Iha: Okay, al –- alright, alright, alright, alright.
BC: Heh heh, you know what I’m saying? Heh heh heh heh.
Iha: How do you feel, uhh, in a traditional stage banter kinda way? Like what –- say the right thing.
BC: Let’s -– Let’s thank the Interpols.
Iha: Hey! Interpol.
BC: Thank you, Interpol.
Iha: Those guys rock. There’s.... They rock with the darkness.
BC: Thank you to Rival Sons.
Iha: Like to thank Rival Sons.
BC: 36 years into this band, we’re so blessed to be playing with these other great bands.
Iha: OMG.
BC: Thank you for supporting great music. Thank you so much, everybody. We’re so happy to be with you tonight, thank you.
Iha: Yes.
BC: Thank you.
Iha: Yes. I think these people wanna hear something. I don’t know what the hell what, but they wanna hear something, goddammit. I’m sorry, I’m swearing, going crazy.
BC: James, I’d like to dedicate this next song to these beautiful people. I was walking around Ottawa today with my children.
Iha: Yes, it’s a beautiful sight, very nice.
BC: We went down to the canal.
Iha: What’s that?
BC: I think the man who built the canal was Mr. By, maybe? Mr. By?
Iha: That sounds good.
BC: And my children said, looking at the statue –- I believe a Mr. By, if I’m sorry I’m.... My children said, "Who’s that man?" I said, "I think he’s some kind of general or something." And a Canadian walked by and said, “Hey, he’s the guy who built the locks, eh?”
Iha: I see...
BC: Always helpful, the Canadians.
Iha: ...I see. Heh heh heh.
BC: So, we dedicate this song to you. Is there something else you’d like to add, young man? Heh heh heh heh.
Iha: Don’t worry–-
BC: It’s a little song we wrote –- heh heh heh heh.
Iha: Don’t worry, we’re gonna get right back to the set and the music. We normally do comedy a couple nights out of the week, but uh....
BC: If it’s alright with you, heh heh, I’d like to dedicate this next song to everybody here, thank you for 36 years of the Smashing Pumpkins. James, you were too young to be there at the beginning, but thank you for joining on along the way. Heh heh, James Iha Junior, ladies and gentlemen. Heh heh! It’s a little song we wrote back in 1994. If you know it, sing along. If you don’t know it...(high pitched) get the fuck out. (normal voice) It’s a little song we like to call Tonight, Tonight.
Tonight, Tonight (Billy/Iha acoustic)
Bullet with Butterfly Wings
This Time
Spellbinding
Hubble Bubble (Toil and Trouble)
> Jellybelly
Iha: Thank you. Now we’re rockin’. Now we’re cold rockin’ in Ottawa.
BC: James!
Iha: Yes, yes. What’s up?
BC: How’s your Rock-o-Meter?
Iha: My Rock-o-Meter? Uhh...I don’t know. How much do you people wanna rock? (crowd cheers)
BC: You feelin’ the rock?...
Iha: Alright, sen–-
BC: ...Are you feelin’ the rock?
Iha: Sensor reading seven point one.
BC: Like...if the Senators won the Planley –- the Planley Club –- the Planley Cup, (laughing) you know, the Planley Cup? The Senators!
Iha: Senators!
BC: (laughing) If they won the Planley Cup!
Iha: Helluva team.
BC: Do you know, I held the –- I held the Stanley Cup once and I got yelled at, heh. The guy –- the guy who’s the custodian of the Cup, he yelled at me. It’s a true story!
Iha: What’d he –- what’d he say?
BC: No, stop, don’t say...? Oh. Yeah, somebody gave me the Cup and said take a picture, so I put it up over my head. I got in big trouble.
Iha: That was bad form, that’s bad form.
BC: You’re not supposed to put it above your head unless you won the Cup.
Iha: Well, no wonder.
BC: But what they don’t know...is that my great grandfather won the Stanley Cup in 1931, just wanted to say that.
Iha: Jesus christ! To just drop that bomb outta nowhere.
BC: True story.
Iha: In Ottawa, no less.
BC: Bill Corgan Senior Senior.
Iha: Okay.
BC: He was a goalie.
Iha: Handy with the stick.
BC: He was a goalie, heh heh. James, do these people wanna rock?
Iha: (high pitched) I don’t know! You want it, people? Do you people wanna rock? I wanna know! I’ve gotta know, I gotta know! (normal voice) Alright, that’s about an eight point three, which is a full point higher than when I last checked.
BC: This is for the Planley Cup, heh.
Empires
(BC after final lyrics, before Jeff outro solo: Otta-Otta-Ottawa!)
Hummer
> Beguiled
1979
Iha: Alright alright, thank you so much. You guys have been awesome, we appreciate it. Canada’s the best, alright, a quick introduction. On the -– on vocals and acoustic guitar, singer/songwriter, recording artist, Miss Katie Cole! Katie Cole, everyone. You know him, you love him, on the bass guitar, from Manchester, England, Mr. Jack Bates! And now, from Hollywood, California, on the guitar, Mr. Jeff Schroeder! From the great state of Illinois, on the drums, Mr. Jimmyyyyy Chamberlin! Lead vocals, lead guitar, Mr. Billyyyyyy Corgan! Thank you guys so much, you’re the best. I’m James Iha and this is called Cherub Rock!
Cherub Rock
> Zero
(BC immediately after final lyrics: Thank you very much! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!)
> Love Gun (tease)
Iha: Thank you! Thank you everyone, have a good night, get home safe.

Photos and memorabilia[edit | edit source]

Photos courtesy of Andre Ringuette