The Smashing Pumpkins 1995-08-25

August 25, 1995 – Reading, UK
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
Artist	The Smashing Pumpkins
Date	August 25, 1995
Festival	Reading and Leeds festivals
Venue	Little John's Farm
Coordinates	51°27′47″N 0°59′23″W
Location	Reading, UK
Venue type	Festival
Capacity	65,000
Personnel	Billy Corgan, James Iha, D'arcy Wretzky, Jimmy Chamberlin
Order of bands	Chine Drum, Juliana Hatfield, dEUS, Beck, Teenage Fanclub, Hole, Green Day, The Smashing Pumpkins
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August 25, 1995 was The Smashing Pumpkins' second appearance at the Reading Festival. It is believed to be the first public appearance by Billy Corgan wearing the iconic ZERO shirt.

Setlist

1. "Jellybelly" 
2. "Zero" 
3. "Today" 
4. "Disarm" 
5. "Fuck You" 
6. "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" 
7. "Porcelina of the Vast Oceans" 
8. "Geek U.S.A." 
9. "Rocket" 
10. "Thru the Eyes of Ruby" 
11. "Siva" [4:24] 
12. "Cherub Rock" 

Encore

13. "Mayonaise" 
14. "X.Y.U." 

Banter

Jellybelly
BC: Happy to be back in your lovely country.
D’arcy: We hope you like all our new songs ‘cause mostly that what's we're playing tonight, so....
Zero
Today
> Disarm
> Fuck You
Bullet with Butterfly Wings
Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
Geek U.S.A.
> Rocket
Thru the Eyes of Ruby
> Siva
Cherub Rock
BC: God bless you, thank you.
D’arcy: Thank you.
[encore break]
Iha: Hey, thanks again. We know we’ve been playing a lot of new songs from our uh, from our new album, heh, but um, I’m glad you’re appreciative, so a word of thanks. That’s why we’re gonna play an old one now, heh.
BC: Like to play a couple more songs, thank you once again. It’s a - it’s a great honor to be here with you tonight and uh, we appreciate it very much. And we don’t hate you. We love you. We love you people! We love you!
Iha: I know you want Blur and Oasis to have a fight - a fighting match on stage right now but we’re only Americans, sorry.
BC: It’s alright, the guy from Oasis sucked my cock before the show, James.
Iha: (rimshot noise)
BC: And the amazing thing, it was - it was good!
Iha: Oh my.
Mayonaise
BC: So we’ll see you soon and uh, we hope - hope to be back in like March or April. Try not to listen to our new album on drugs ‘cause you won’t make it through it. It’s really long, it’s like seven hours long, it comes with a video.
Iha: He’s kidding.
BC: (high pitched) Spum!
X.Y.U.
BC: God bless you. Enjoy the weekend. See you soon.

Videos

Interview segments with MTV

Clips of "Today" and "Zero"

Photos and memorabilia

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