The Smashing Pumpkins 2023-08-30

August 30, 2023 – Wantagh, NY, US
Official poster by Zi Xu
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
The World Is A Vampire tour
Date	August 30, 2023
Venue	Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater
Coordinates	40°46′2″N 73°32′59″W
Location	Wantagh, NY, US
Venue type	Amphitheater
Capacity	15,000
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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Full performance

Setlist

1. "Atum" (prerecorded) 
2. "The Everlasting Gaze" 
3. "Doomsday Clock" 
4. "Once in a Lifetime" [Talking Heads] 
5. "Today" 
6. "Perfect" 
7. "Disarm" (acoustic) 
8. "The Celestials" 
9. "Purple Blood" 
10. "Ava Adore" 
    1. (drum solo)
11. "The Tide Is High" [Blondie] (tease) 
12. "Tonight, Tonight" (acoustic) 
13. "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" 
14. "This Time" 
15. "Spellbinding" 
16. "Hubble Bubble (Toil and Trouble)" [Manfred Mann] 
17. "Jellybelly" 
18. "Five to One" [The Doors] (tease) 
19. "Empires" 
20. "Hummer" 
21. "Beguiled" 
22. "1979" 
23. "Cherub Rock" 
24. "Zero" 
    1. "Love Gun" [Kiss] (tease) 

Notes

• During the show, the pit became flooded with up to a foot of water due to an unusually high tide
• Augustus & Philomena Corgan are on stage dancing with May Valentine during "Beguiled"

Banter

Atum Intro
The Everlasting Gaze
> Doomsday Clock
> Once in a Lifetime
Iha: Thank you so much. How are you guys doin’? Thank you so much for coming out tonight, we are the Smashing Pumpkins and we are very 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 juh juh juh Jones Beach, Jimmy, juh juh juh Jimmy, Jones Beach, juh juh juh Jimmy.)
Iha: Thank you so much. How are you guys doin’? Uh, somebody just pointed out that...fuckin’ water, (laughing) it’s insane. And somebody told me it happens all the time, I’m like, “Oh, okay.” Uh, but yeah, thank -– thank you you for uh, rockin’ out here. We-we -- we appreciate it.
BC: James, how you feelin’ tonight?
Iha: I feel good. I feel good. How are you doin’?
BC: I’m rockin’ the supermoon.
Iha: Alright. I don’t know what that means but it’s good.
The Tide Is High (tease)
BC: (singing) The tide is high and I’m movin’ on.
Iha: Yeah. (laughing) What is –- oh yeah. Who builds a venue right here? Heh.
BC: First off, let me welcome everybody to the rock show, thank you so much for being with us tonight. And to the brave souls down here, you guys are awesome!
Iha: You guys are super awesome, we appreciate it.
BC: You know, usually, you know, when you get a good seat, you’re up there but it’s still a good seat. You’re lookin’ down, you’re saying, “Man, I’d really wanna be down there,” they’re, heh, they’re up there lookin’ down going, “Fuck that,” heh. “Fuck the ocean shit.” So thank you so much for rockin’ with us. ‘Member in the Thirty-three video when you were in the rowboat? Echo Park, you remember.
Iha: I don’t. I don’t remember.
BC: Was that you?!
Iha: I don’t know.
BC: Were you using a body double back then? That would be funny.
Iha: Sure, I don’t know.
BC: It turns out I was arguing with a body double the whole time, it wasn’t you!
Iha: Heh heh heh! Could be.
BC: Let us thank the Interpols.
Iha: Interpol. Shout out to New York.
BC: Such a great band, thank you guys for being on this incredible tour with us...
Iha: They’re bringin’ the darkness.
BC: ...and of course Rival Sons, I hope you got to see them play at the beginning, what an amazing, amazing band. We’re so honored to play with these great bands. We’re very humbled, so we can only say thank you to them and of course thank you to you for about 36 years of the Smashing Pumpkins.
Iha: Oh my god.
BC: You know, right about now, 30 years ago, you were rockin’ some Siamese Dream. Do you remember that, do you remember the album Siamese Dream, do you remember that album?
Iha: Uh huh. Yeah, sure.
BC: You remember? Come on, you remember?
Iha: Yeah, yeah, that’s uh, the second album...
BC: Got some good jams.
Iha: ...the third album, right? Maybe it was an EP.
BC: So I love this part of the show because we stop for a second just to say thank you, appreciate you, love you. Thank you for bringing us back to Waterworld...theme park. You know when you go to Universal and the.... You know, you live out there, heh heh heh heh heh. But uh, I love this part of the show because we dedicate this next song to everybody here, we wrote this song around 1994. Your mind was so ablaze with Siamese Dream, you thought how could we top this...fuzz opus? This lament of loss.
Iha: I don’t remember, heh.
BC: Do you remember this one? 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, Long Island. How are you doing, are you persevering out there? You wanna hear another rock jam? We got tons of ‘em. Maybe you don’t wanna hear it. What do you wanna hear? We don’t know that one. We didn’t rehearse that one.
BC: James, if I could tie my pants, I would tell you what I wanna do now.
Iha: Heh. Anything can happen at a rock show, yeah.
BC: You know it’s illegal to expose yourself here. I don’t wanna end up like Jim...Morrison.
Iha: Alright, well, don’t worry, we’ll be rockin’ -– rockin’ any second.
Five to One (tease - Jeff)
Iha: What do you guys wanna talk about? I don’t care, talk about anything. (Jeff is doodling) Stop talkin’.... Whatchu playin’, Jeff? You wanna play something for the audience? We got time. We got time here. Alright, alright, here we go, this is gonna be it--
BC: James, these lovely people, they’ve had a long day, they’re standing in water.
Iha: I know, they wanna rock.
BC: Do you think –- honest...
Iha: No more chit chat.
BC: ...don’t BS me, bro, don’t BS me bro -– do you think these lovely people still wanna rock?
Iha: (high pitched) Yeah, I think so, I think so.
BC: You’re a keen observer of the rock, do these people still wanna rock?
Iha: (normal voice) It’s about...
BC: We can’t hear you!
Iha: ...seven, seven point seven?
BC: (high pitched) We can’t hear you people!
Iha: Alright, let’s do it.
BC: (normal voice) I don’t buy it.
Iha: Heh. Well, we just -– just gotta go.
BC: Does it matter? Heh heh heh heh.
Iha: Heh.
Empires
(BC after final lyrics, before Jeff outro solo: Jones Beach!)
Hummer
> Beguiled
1979
Iha: Alright alright, thank you guys so much. We are coming to the end of the rock show and uh, you guys have been awesome, thank you so much. I’d like to introduce the band. On vocals and acoustic guitar, all the way from Australia, Miss Katie Cole. Katie Cole, everyone. You know him, you love him, on the bass guitar, from Manchester, England, Mr. Jack Bates. From Hollywood, California, on the guitar, Mr. Jefffff Schroeder! And now, from the great state of Illinois, land of Lincoln, on the drums, Mr. Jimmyyyyy Chamberlin! He’s a good man. On vocals, lead guitar, Mr. Billyyyyy Corgan. Thank you guys so much, I am James Iha and this is called Cherub Rock!
Cherub Rock
> Zero
(BC after final lyrics: Thank you very much!)
> Love Gun (tease)
Iha: Thank you, good night! Get home safe. Get the hell out of this damn water. Thank you.