The Smashing Pumpkins 2010-10-15

October 15, 2010 – Melbourne, VIC, AU
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
Artist	The Smashing Pumpkins
Date	October 15, 2010
Venue	Festival Hall
Coordinates	37°48′41″S 144°56′47″E
Location	Melbourne, VIC, AU
Venue type	Stadium
Capacity	5,445
Personnel	Billy Corgan, Jeff Schroeder, Mike Byrne, Nicole Fiorentino
Order of bands	City Riots, The Smashing Pumpkins
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Setlist

1. "The Fellowship" 
2. "Lonely Is the Name" 
3. "Today" 
4. "Astral Planes" 
5. "Ava Adore" 
6. "A Song for a Son" 
7. "Eye" 
8. "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" 
9. "United States" [16:02] 
   1. "The Star-Spangled Banner" [Francis Scott Key] (tease) 
   2. "Moby Dick" [Led Zeppelin] (tease) 
   3. (drum solo)
10. "Stairway to Heaven" [Led Zeppelin] (tease) 
11. "Spangled" 
12. "Stumbleine" 
13. "Rhinoceros" (tease) 
14. "Cherub Rock" 
15. "Zero" 
16. "Stand Inside Your Love" 
17. "Shame" 
18. "Freak" 
19. "Tonight, Tonight" 
20. "Tarantula" 
    1. "Love Gun" [Kiss] (tease) 

Encore

21. "Landslide" [Stevie Nicks] (acoustic) 
22. "Gossamer" [22:34] 

Notes

• The band briefly teases "Love Gun" as an outro to "Tarantula", which they will do (albeit in a slightly longer version) every time the song is played for the rest of the year

Banter

The Fellowship
> Lonely is the Name
Today
> Astral Planes
> Ava Adore
A Song for a Son
BC: Thank you!
Eye
Bullet with Butterfly Wings
United States / Star Spangled Banner / Moby Dick
BC: Thank you very much for coming tonight. How y’all feelin’, you okay? You alright up there? Yeah. Like to introduce the band to you right now. On the bass, Nicole Fiorentino. On the drums, Mike Byrne. On the guitar, Jeff Schroeder. My name is Bogan Bill. Good on ya. Bogan Bill. Heh, heh heh. Thanks--thank me, I’m gonna thank me, thanks Billy, thank you Billy. I’m gonna thank me for still giving a shit. I’m gonna thank me for still writing good songs. I’m gonna thank me for being in one of the greatest bands in the world. Not many can compete with us, Jeff, they just can’t do it. You know why? ‘Cause they’re all on them computers.
Jeff: Oh yeah, yeah, [2 unintelligible mumbled words].
BC: Heh heh heh. Okay. Shhh, let’s go back to the show, shhhhh. Alright. Well, that’s the end of the show.
Stairway to Heaven (tease - Jeff plays the intro and Billy eventually sings variations on the first few lines over it)
BC: We’d like to end with Stairway to Heaven right now. (singing) There’s a lady in dark / all that glitters is gold / and the sun.... (speaking) That song was originally entitled Stairway to Brisbane. Yeah. You didn’t know that, did you? She was climbing the stairway to Brisbane.
Jeff: I like that, it’s nice.
BC: You don’t like Brisbane? Is that even Australia? Isn’t that New Zealand? Hahaha. Oh, I’m so funny. You know, I’m the type of guy that my jokes aren’t funny but I just keep telling them. Yeah. What does this mean? That means “fuck you,” right? Yeah, fuck you, buddy, too. That’s what this means in my fucking country: “Fuck you.” Heh heh. Oh, we’re all friends, right? We’re all gonna go to the pub after, right? And talk about Bon Scott, right? Gio? Who’s got the better rugby team, New Zealand or Australia?
Gio (SP head of security): New Zealand!
BC: That would be the All Blacks, right? ‘Cause any time I watch New Zealand versus Australia at rugby, it’s like huge New Zealand guys, like...like skinny, kinda like tennis playing Australians. Just kidding, manhandled, right? Oh, I’m so funny. Haha. Hey, come on. Come on. Come on! I don’t know what that means. Do you know what come on means? C’mere.
Nicole: It’s raise your hands and scream.
BC: What now?
Nicole: That’s what it means. Raise your hands and scream. Come on.
BC: Come on me, Australia? It means come on me, Australia?
Nicole: Not what I said at all.
BC: Didn’t I say it was the end of the show and you wanted more? This is what more means. Okay, back to the music, thank you so much, really, thank you for coming. Number one: best crowd in Australia so far, no?
Jeff: Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa. Is that vodka?
BC: Huh?
Jeff: Is that vodka?
BC: Cold gin.
Jeff: Cold gin, wow.
BC: Yes, best crowd we’ve had so far, so thank you. Perth? Confusing. Adelaide? (crowd boos) I thought Adelaide was good. Melbourne? Up here though. Look, there’s the one guy in the back giving me the finger who went to the Adelaide show. It was a little embarrassing, we only had one fan in attendance. There were more people on stage than there were in the crowd. Yes, it’s true. I’m on drugs, okay? That excuses everything I’ve just said. Don’t be jealous of me, don’t be jealous of me. No one out there has a better shaved head than I do. No one is having more fun right now than me. And no one in the crowd is dating the hottest girl in Australia, okay? That’s right. Sorry. Sorry. Heh. Your head is better than mine? But I guarantee you my dick is bigger than yours, buddy. You know what they do--when you got hair like that, you know where they put you, right? In the Australian zoo. Hahahaha, heh, see, Gio, this is why New Zealand keeps winning. He’s actually with the Australian national rugby team right there. (cracking up) I’m on drugs! Works every time. No no, I’m not on cough syrup, I’m on steroids. Okay, like to play a new song right now for this gentleman right there. Thank you for coming, gentleman, man, good looking fellow, pub killer.
Jeff: He’s gotta take a photo, he’s gotta take a photo...
BC: Oh, you wanna take a photo?
Jeff: ...yeah, just take a photo, just take a photo.
Guy: Hi.
(short pause for photo)
BC: Very good.
Jeff: You know, it’s a good YouTube clip, YouTube.
BC: He’s gonna send that to his boyfriend now. The song for you and your boyfriend...(trails off laughing). I’m just kiddin’. We love you so much, honestly, we just kid with ya because we love you. ‘Cause that’s what people do when they love each other, they kick the shit out of each other. This is a song for all of you, it’s called Spangled. Thank you, it’s a new song.
Spangled
> Stumbleine
Rhinoceros (tease)
> Cherub Rock
> Zero
Stand Inside Your Love
Shame
> Freak
Tonight, Tonight
> Tarantula
(BC over big rock ending: Thank you very much everybody! Thank you so much.)
> Love Gun (tease - very brief)
[encore break]
Landslide (Billy/Jeff acoustic)
BC: Thank you very much.
Gossamer