The Smashing Pumpkins 2024-06-14

June 14, 2024 – Cardiff, UK
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
The World Is A Vampire 2024 tour
Date	June 14, 2024
Venue	Cardiff Castle
Coordinates	51°28′56″N 3°10′52″W
Location	Cardiff, UK
Venue type	Castle
Capacity	10,000
Personnel	Billy Corgan, James Iha, Jimmy Chamberlin, Kiki Wong, Jack Bates, Katie Cole
Order of bands	Weezer, The Smashing Pumpkins
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Setlist

Banter

(incomplete due to lack of full show source)

Atum Intro
The Everlasting Gaze
> Doomsday Clock
Zoo Station
Today
Thru the Eyes of Ruby
Spellbinding
Tonight, Tonight
That Which Animates the Spirit
Ava Adore
(BC before bridge: Cardeeff, Wales! Ow! Cardiff, Cardeeff, Cardeaf.)
Disarm (acoustic)
Springtimes
BC: Thank you so very much, you wonderful people. Couple of things: thank you so much for being with us tonight. Number two: that is my castle.
Iha: I like that castle.
BC: It’s cool, right?
Iha: Yeah.
BC: Not that castle, that castle.
Iha: We’d like to thank the, uh, Marquess of Bute, for this, uh, lovely evening.
BC: Gotta live the gimmick, man.
Iha: That’s the guy.
BC: Number three: James....
Iha: What’s that, what’s that?
BC: You know I did a DNA test?
Iha: Oh yeah?
BC: I am part Welsh.
Iha: Ah! That’s nice.
BC: James, are you Welsh?
Iha: Yes! I have done the DNA test as well.
BC: Amazing!
Iha: Finds out that I’m just...
BC: Maybe we’re related.
Iha: ...just a tiny bit.
BC: Anyway, it’s so great to be with you. I realize we played here once before, James, in 1993.
Iha: Come on, really? I don’t remember, but...I’m--
BC: None of these people were born.
Iha: Yeah, well, who the hell knows?
BC: They hadn’t heard of Oasis yet.
Iha: Britpop, what’s that?
BC: Anyway, speaking of (laughing) 1993, we’d like to take you to a song that James and I wrote back for the Siamese Dream album in 1992.
Mayonaise
Bullet with Butterfly Wings
Empires
(BC before Kiki outro solo: Kiki!!)
Beguiled
1979
Birch Grove
Jellybelly
Gossamer / The Spaniards
Iha: Alright alright alright, Cardiff, thank you so much. Thank you so much for staying with us, we’re getting close...to the end! I’d like to introduce the band. The latest member of the Smashing Pumpkins, all the way from the Texas and California, Miss Kiki Wong!
Master of Puppets (tease - Kiki)
Iha: Oh, that’s a good riff. That’s a good riff. And now, vocals, acoustic guitar, all the way from Down Under, Australia, Miss Katie Cole, everybody, Katie Cole. You know him, you love him, all the way from Manchester, England, on the (pronounced like the fish) bass guitar, Mr. Jack Bates. Jack Bates, everybody. He’s having a great fucking time in Wales. And now, all the way from Illinois, killin’ it every night on the drums, Mr. Jimmyyyy Chamberlin! Ow! And, on lead vocals and hot guitar, Mr. Billyyyyyyy Corgan! I’m James Iha and this is called Cherub Rock.
Cherub Rock
> Aqualung (tease - Billy, during transition solo)
> Where Boys Fear to Tread (tease - Billy, during transition solo)
> Zero
(BC immediately after final lyrics: Thank you very much, thank you! Thank you!)
> Love Gun (tease)
Iha: Thank you guys so much! [cuts]

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