The Smashing Pumpkins 2000-11-04

November 4, 2000 – London, UK
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
The Sacred and Profane tour
Date	November 4, 2000
Venue	Wembley Arena
Coordinates	51°33′29″N 0°16′59″W
Location	London, UK
Venue type	Arena
Capacity	12,500
Personnel	Billy Corgan, James Iha, Jimmy Chamberlin, Melissa Auf der Maur, Mike Garson, Chris Holmes
Order of bands	Catherine Wheel, The Smashing Pumpkins
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Setlist

Soundcheck

1. "Siva" 
2. "Games Without Frontiers" [Peter Gabriel] (take one) 
3. "Games Without Frontiers" [Peter Gabriel] (take two) 
4. "Let Me Give the World to You" (take one) 
5. "Let Me Give the World to You" (take two) 
6. "Let Me Give the World to You" (take three) 

Set

1. "The Everlasting Gaze" 
2. "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" 
3. "The Sacred and Profane" 
4. "Glass and the Ghost Children" [11:09] 
   1. "Le Deux Machina" (tease) 
5. "Stand Inside Your Love" 
6. "Cherub Rock" 
7. "Blue Skies Bring Tears" [8:32] 
   1. (drum solo)
8. "Zero" 
9. "Rock On" [David Essex] (tease) [3:58] 
10. "Heavy Metal Machine" 
11. "To Sheila" (acoustic) 
12. "Today" (acoustic) 
13. "Boys Don't Cry" [The Cure] (tease) (acoustic) 
14. "This Time" (acoustic) 
15. "Tonight, Tonight" 
16. "Let Me Give the World to You" 
17. "Drown" [4:05] 
18. "Porcelina of the Vast Oceans" [10:16] 

Encore

19. "Games Without Frontiers" [Peter Gabriel] (live debut)
20. "Smoke on the Water" [Deep Purple] (tease) 
21. "Celebrity Skin" [Hole] (tease) 
22. "Iron Man" [Black Sabbath] (tease) 
23. "Whole Lotta Love" [Led Zeppelin] (tease) 
24. "God Save the Queen" [traditional] (tease) 
    1. "The Star-Spangled Banner" [Francis Scott Key] (tease) 
25. "Sunshine of Your Love" [Cream] (tease) 
    1. "Ava Adore" 
    2. (blues jam)

Banter

Silent Machines Intro
The Everlasting Gaze
> Bullet with Butterfly Wings
The Sacred and Profane
Glass and the Ghost Children / Le Deux Machina
(BC spoken word before outro: And as she walked up and down those crowded streets with the boys chasing her heels, she just wanted to be so loved and feel her, believed her, trusted her. And didn’t want to unravel the mystery of what it means to be a girl. ‘Cause all the boys wanna know what goes on inside there, what really goes on. What are all those things we always heard about? But she trusted them and it was gonna be alllright. (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) They just wanted to get her number or something, so they could call her. And now the bumblebees sing along.)
BC: Thank you very much, thank you very much, good evening, good evening, good evening, good evening, good evening. Welcome to our very last show in London, thank you very much for coming.
Iha: They’re cheering, “Don’t come to London anymore.”
BC: Huh?
Iha: They’re cheering, “Don’t come to London anymore.”
BC: Right. Oh, James. We’d like to thank--
Iha: I’m kidding!
BC: We’d like to thank the Catherine Wheel very much for opening for our band, thank you very much Catherine Wheel.
Iha: Fine band.
BC: Nice young lads. We’d now like to play a song for you, a song that is very close to my heart, this is a song called Stand Inside Your Love.
Stand Inside Your Love
Cherub Rock
> Blue Skies Bring Tears
Zero
> Rock On (partial)
(BC after Iha intro: Alright alright alright alright alright alright alright alright. Hold on, Spooky Tooth. Ladies and gentlemen, we realize that this is a rock and roll party. But there’s always that moment in the party where you have to go to the bathroom and you have to just kick it down for a minute. That’s what this is, this is your kick it down for a minute minute. A chance to breathe, a chance to think, a chance to reflect. On what, you say? What should I reflect on? Why, rock and roll, that’s what you should reflect on. Long live rock and roll, rock and roll. Yeah. It was great, heh heh. It was really great while it lasted, rock and roll. This song is uh, this song is probably a little bit before your time. Uh, we heard this when we were children, back in 1954 and uh, you might uh, know this one but uh, feel free to sing along if you know it. But don’t expend too much energy, there’s more rock to come, you may want to pace yourself. I know James is pacing himself. Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. James Iha. (Iha solos) Alright alright. Mother? Ha.)
> Heavy Metal Machine
BC: Thank you very much, thank you. Thank you. Heh heh heh.
To Sheila (acoustic)
Today (acoustic)
Boys Don’t Cry (instrumental tease, acoustic)
> This Time (Billy/Iha acoustic)
Tonight, Tonight
> Let Me Give the World to You
BC: That is available on Machina 2. Uh, available in all stores now. Thank you, heh heh. How’s everybody doin’, how y’all doin’? We’d like to play a very old song for you now. This is a song called Drown.
Drown
> Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
[encore break]
Games Without Frontiers
BC: That was a song by Peter Gabriel, thank you very much, Peter. Yes. Thank you very much, heh heh heh.
Iha: Thank you very much. I would like - I would like to introduce the band at present. On the piano, a legendary man, all the way from Brooklyn, New York, Mr. Mike Garson.
Smoke on the Water (tease)
Iha: Ah yeah. (high pitched) Ah yeah! (normal) On the keyboards, electronic sounds and space sounds, Mr. Chris Holmes.
unknown (tease)
Iha: Yeah. On the bass, all the way from Montreal, Canada, the red fiery vixen herself, Miss Melissa Auf der Maur.
Celebrity Skin (tease)
Iha: “Look at my fucking bass.” On the brutal, brutal drums, the cruiser, the bruiser himself, Mr. Jimmy Chamberlin.
Iron Man (tease)
Iha: Oooooh. On lead vocal duties, lead guitar, craziness, sonic destruction, Mr. Billy Corgan!
Whole Lotta Love (tease)
Iha: That’s right.
BC: What the fuck is your name again?
Iha: Uh.....
BC: I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean that, I didn’t mean that, don’t get mad.
Iha: A man...
BC: Don’t - don’t get mad.
Iha: ...to speak freely.
BC: Don’t get mad!
Iha: Just be cool, just play the - just play the riffs.
BC: Don’t get mad! Don’t get mad! No no, I’m sorry.
Iha: Alright.
BC: I’m sorry!
Iha: I am the....
BC: No no, really, I’m sorry.
Iha: I’m trying to think of a local dignitary.
BC: Huh?
Iha: I’m trying to think of a colorful name.
BC: Jack Straw.
Iha: Alright, there it is.
BC: He’s the home MP, right?
Iha: Yes.
BC: He’s doing a fine job!
Iha: Wasn’t there a - wasn’t there some MP that got robbed the other day of 50 pounds?
BC: Yes. Some...British thugs attacked him...
Iha: Seems like people are robbed every day.
BC: ...took his money! And he’s very upset about it!
Iha: People are robbed every day but that was - that was front page news.
BC: No, did you see the front page news where Fatboy Slim almost died?
Iha: I saw that!
BC: God bless....
Iha: I mean, that’s horrible but that’s front page news.
BC: Fatboy and Zoe survived and we’re very - Fatboy is great.
Iha: “The couple of the millennium...saved!”
BC: But see, in America, Fatboy just getting out of his car, that would be not be front page news.
Iha: No.
BC: In America, a girl giving the president a blowjob? That’s front page news.
Iha: God bless America.
BC: In America, the presidential candidate, George W. Bush, drunk driving, front page news.
Iha: Front page news. He didn’t want to tell anybody because he was afraid of shocking his daughters about his driving record.
BC: Oh.
Iha: Now it seems that some of his economic policies are be more shocking.
BC: Okay, heh heh heh.
Iha: Okay, alright, let’s....
BC: God bless Great Britain!
Iha: You wanna hear Zeppelin?
God Save the Queen (tease - Mike)
BC: The Queen. Oh, that’s what it was? One more time, sorry.
God Save the Queen (tease - Mike)
> Star Spangled Banner (tease - Billy plays over Mike's tease)
(Iha: [unintelligible]. It’s the motherfuckin’ national anthem!)
> Ava Adore (w/Sunshine of Your Love tease in intro)
(BC after first 2 parts of intro: I just wanna say...Jack Straw could not do this.)
> blues jam

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