The Smashing Pumpkins 2000-11-06

November 6, 2000 – Dublin, IE
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
The Sacred and Profane tour
Date	November 6, 2000
Venue	Olympia Theatre
Coordinates	53°20′39″N 6°15′58″W
Location	Dublin, IE
Venue type	Theater
Capacity	1,621
Personnel	Billy Corgan, James Iha, Jimmy Chamberlin, Melissa Auf der Maur, Mike Garson, Chris Holmes
Order of bands	The Smashing Pumpkins
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The November 6, 2000 performance was The Smashing Pumpkins' last performance in Europe before the 2000 breakup. Before the show began, ushers distributed copies of the hand-written sixth chapter of Glass and The Machines of God, in the form of a missive. It talked about an entity called the "I of the Radio" (or the "I of the Mourning") that brought salvation and comfort. Rather than from real-life Corgan, it was meant to be from his character, Glass, speaking to the fans where were known as The Ghost Children.

I of the Radio missive

Cover

Do you know who your saviour is?

[drawing of a UFO beaming down on a person]

Well the I of the Mourning is on!

Inner side

Are you ready for redemption? Then read on. This is chapter 6 of a series of missives designed to speak directly to your heart on an issue most important to you – your salvation!!

Many, many years ago a child was born into a cold night – to some this beautiful child was blessed as any other but no special. But to those who read the signs they knew a storm was coming! People, that child has come to these end times to deliver a message that must be heard! Do not stay away for this child is your child – for thou the truth may sometimes sting, eternal damnation is far, far worse!!!

He says,

"Look to the I of the radio for all you seek. The I of the radio is everywhere, the maker of all that is real + all that is unseen. Be not afraid, for the I of the radio loves you and will always play your favourite songs!"

[diagram of "common home" and a radio tower]

Everywhere you look there are reminders of a material world that does not care about you. Why do you feel too big or too small, too fat or too skinny, or are you too light or not dark enough??? Friends, where do you think these ideas come from? Why a culture + civilization that makes money on our differences to exploit what we want the most – to belong!!! Let me tell you that you already do belong, for the I of the radio made us all different on purpose, so that no two should be alike. The I of the radio celebrated your individuality in every snowflake, every flower, every new dawn that brings light + life to this wonderful, wonderful world. You are important!!

Together we can move against these ominous forces to bring harmony to the chorus. Never forget, the I of the radio is on. It never turns off!!!

Backside

Coming soon!!!

(from this ministry)

Chapter 7: A happy ending??

Love, life, ambition + peace – is it possible in a modern world?

- is rock n roll bad for the soul, or are we all going to die for rock n roll?? - happiness is a warm piece of bread - false prophets – they walk among us today! - Restless children: decisions, wishes, dreams how to control them

God bless you friend! [?] The I of the Radio Chicago, IL P.O. Box 57006

STP

Setlist

1. "The Everlasting Gaze" 
2. "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" 
3. "Once in a Lifetime" [Talking Heads] [4:37] 
   1. "Sabbra Cadabra" [Black Sabbath] (tease) 
4. "Glass and the Ghost Children" [11:25] 
   1. "Le Deux Machina" (tease) 
5. "Siva" [4:13] 
6. "If There Is a God" 
7. "Cash Car Star" 
8. "Blue Skies Bring Tears" [9:04] 
   1. (drum solo)
9. "Games Without Frontiers" [Peter Gabriel] (final performance)
10. "Rock On" [David Essex] (tease) [2:47] 
11. "Heavy Metal Machine" 
12. "To Sheila" (acoustic) 
13. "This Time" (acoustic) 
14. "Today" (acoustic) 
15. "Stand Inside Your Love" (acoustic) 
16. "Tonight, Tonight" 
17. "Let Me Give the World to You" 
18. "I Will Follow" [U2] (tease) 
19. "Home" 
20. "Porcelina of the Vast Oceans" [10:20] 

Encore

21. "Fairytale of New York" [The Pogues] (tease) 
22. "1979" (acoustic) 

Notes

• "Disarm" may have been played
• First performance of "Siva" since 1999-04-19 (139 shows)
• Last performance of "Home" until 2007-05-22
• Last performance of "Blue Skies Bring Tears" until 2007-06-23
• Last performance of "Let Me Give the World to You" until 2007-10-15
• Last performance of "Once in a Lifetime" until 2022-04-30

Banter

Silent Machines Intro
The Everlasting Gaze
> Bullet with Butterfly Wings
> Once in a Lifetime / Sabbra Cadabra
you might ask yourself
just what am i doing in this place?
you might ask yourself
am i a member of the human race?
you might ask yourself
just what do i feel if I have no feelings?
you might ask yourself
what’s this song mean if there’s no meaning?

once in a lifetime
water flowing underground
into the blue again
water flowing underground

yeah! you might ask yourself
who the fuck does this guy think he is anyway?
you might ask yourself
why does he try to second guess?
you might ask yourself
just how deep is the bottom of the ocean?
you might ask yourself
is this love or is it devotion?

once in a lifetime
water flowing underground
into the blue again
water flowing underground

wow!
go!
i wow

it’s the same as it ever was
the same as it ever was!
same as it ever was
same as it ever was!!

ow!!
oh!!!
i fucking want

Glass and the Ghost Children / Le Deux Machina
(BC spoken word before outro: And behind every boy, she saw her father’s face. The memories intertwined in sadness and bitterness. In the way it was in between the pages of her diary that she kept underneath her bed. And no one knew what was inside. ‘Cause no one had ever really known her. ‘Cause she was beautiful and she swore she would never ever let any man unravel the mystery of her. (singing) And as she counted the spiders, as they crawled up inside her. As she counted the spiders, as they crawled up inside her. As she counted the spiders, as they crawled up inside her. As she counted the spiders, as they crawled up inside her. They crawled inside her. (speaking) She knew it was gonna be alllright.)
BC: Thank you very much, thank you very much, good evening. Welcome, welcome. Thank you very much, yes. It’s good to be back in the home country. This is the last show of our European tour, our final European tour. The last show in Ireland. Try to do a few different things for you tonight for you for a special treat [unintelligible]. This next song we haven’t played for probably about four years, (crowd cheers) so - wow, wait ‘til you hear it first. This is off our first album.
Siva (abandoned - Billy starts in wrong key)
BC: Ah, see! I fucked up already.
Siva
If There is a God
> Cash Car Star
> Blue Skies Bring Tears
Games Without Frontiers
> Rock On (partial)
(BC after short Iha intro: Thank you very much! Thank you very much. Thank you very much. That was a song by Peter Gabriel, in case you didn’t tell. How y’all feelin’ tonight? Heh heh heh heh. How you feelin’? Can you feel alright? How you feelin’ up there? Alright, there you go. I’m feeling alright myself. Me and Spooky Tooth over here.... We’re getting a little long in the ears and we need to kick it down for a second every once in a while...catch the breath.)
> Heavy Metal Machine
BC: Thank you. ... Thank you, thank you, heh heh. Thanks very much.
To Sheila (acoustic)
This Time (Billy/Iha acoustic)
Today (acoustic)
BC: If you’ll indulge us, we’d like to play you one more quiet song, this is Stand Inside Your Love.
Stand Inside Your Love (acoustic)
Tonight, Tonight
> Let Me Give the World to You
BC: Thank you, thank you. Thank you very much. James, you wanna tell a joke or something? James Iha, ladies and gentlemen.
Iha: Uh...I don’t know any jokes so....
BC: You can talk about mad cow disease, that always goes over real big.
Iha: Mad cow disease? Uh...
BC: Or BSE.
Iha: BSE? Talk about the Euro dollar? Yeah. I don’t know. What do you feel like? What’s that? You wanna talk about America? Heh heh. That’s very impressive.
BC: Everybody wants to know about America, James, tell everyone what America is like.
Iha: Well, as a young boy, I had so many hamburgers and hot dogs and rock music in my life. And I went to school and I sang the national anthem and I ended up in an alternative loud rock band. Heh heh.
BC: The American dream.
Iha: Yeah, I guess it is, right.
BC: Speaking of the American dream...
Iha: Yes, the American dream is about to happen again, the election.
BC: Yes, we’re looking very forward.
Iha: Is that totally depressing or...? Yeah, I think it’s totally depressing [unintelligible]. Politics are not our strong point but...if Bush wins, it’s very scary. And we apologize as American rock band now if he wins. And now, we’ll rock some more.
BC: No no no. No, uh, the last song....
Iha: Alright. So, about his economic policies, it seems that the upper stratosphere....
BC: No no no, they - they’re not interested in the G8 or whatever, G9 or.... They’re interested in the C9.
Iha: Now since Holland pulled its backing out of the Euro dollar, it seems that the Euro has taken.... Or the Millennium Dome, well, here’s another waste of money in United Kingdom or...I don’t know.
BC: Posh and Becks?
Iha: Heh heh heh! What about Posh and Becks, do you people like them? He’s a hell of a net ball player? Oh, football, yeah, right. I sure do like rock music though. And uh, alright. Sorry, what were you gonna say?
BC: I just wanna put a plug in for our last album, Machina 2. The last song that we played, Let Me Give the World to You, is on that album and this next song we’d like to play for you is also on that album, it’s called Home. Oh by the way, this song shows our blatant U2 influences so tellingly. But they’re not gonna get any royalties out of us.
Iha: Hey, I will not follow.
I Will Follow (tease - Billy plays the riff poorly)
Iha: People! A fine rock feat! That’s a pretty, pretty good song.
BC: It’s not bad, it’s okay.
Iha: Heh, it’s not bad.
BC: Okay, this is Home.
Home
Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
[encore break]
Iha: Thank you, thank you very much.
BC: Thank you very much.
Iha: You are exceedingly nice...and I hope we’ve been relatively rocking.
BC: They’re almost - almost pleasant.
Iha: Us pleasant. Just like the weather. Um, okay, I would like to introduce the band at present. I would like to introduce a legendary - ugh, legendary piano player, all the way from Brooklyn, New York, Mr. Mike Garson. Hell of a piano player. All the way from Chicago, on crazy keyboards, space sounds and stuff, Mr. Chris Holmes. Ow! And now, from Canada, a socialist, a fiery vixen, Miss Melissa Auf der Maur. Rockin’ those four strings. Happy to be in Dublin. Happy to have a pint, I see, didn’t you have a pint or something? Ohhhhhh.
BC: She’s drinkin’, wait, she’s drinkin’ dirt. That’s dirt!
Iha: Actually, I’ve always been told to have Guinness in Ireland and it’s quite good.
BC: It helps you poop, I hear.
Iha: It’s kind of like having a salad and a beer all in one, it’s so heavy. Alright, um, heh, from Joliet, Illinois, the bruiser, the cruiser, the drummer of the Smashing Pumpkins, Mr. Jimmy Chamberlin. Fuckin’ shitpot drums. He also plays guitar too. Heh heh. What was that new one you were working on the other day, Jimmy? The Bach fugue in B minor? (Jimmy doodles for a second) That was a yes, that wasn’t it, but the other day he was playing, uh... (Jimmy doodling again) Ah yes, I feel myself transported to Austria in some time. I would like to have some tea and some - some sort of nice pastry. I think that would be great. Have all sorts of Rococo furniture and uh, a way gone, a giant clock with. Alright, on lead vocals, songwriting, sonic destruction, Mr. Billy Corgan.
Fairytale of New York (tease - Mike plays a piano melody and Iha sings several lines)
Iha: (half singing) And the boys of the NYPD choir were singing Galway Bay. And the bells are ringing out. Well, it’s not Christmas, but...I coulda been someone, but so could anyone. You’re a punk, you’re a slut? - you’re an old slut on junk. (speaking) Alright, I like that Pogues record very much.
BC: [unintelligible]. I heard the rumor you’re into The Corrs too.
Iha: Heh heh. They do seem to have some very nice harmonies.
BC: I won’t go there.
Iha: Alright.
BC: And on lead death ray guitar, Mr. James Iha. Now before we play this final song, we’d like to say thank you very much for a wonderful concert and great evening.
Iha: You rock.
BC: We appreciate very much the support that we’ve received in Ireland and um...that’s all I can say. We love you, thank you, god bless.
1979 (acoustic, Jimmy plays guitar)

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