The Smashing Pumpkins 2024-06-16

June 16, 2024 – Paris, FR
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
The World Is A Vampire 2024 tour
Date	June 16, 2024
Venue	Accor Arena
Coordinates	48°50′19″N 2°22′43″E
Location	Paris, FR
Venue type	Arena
Capacity	20,300
Personnel	Billy Corgan, James Iha, Jimmy Chamberlin, Kiki Wong, Jack Bates, Katie Cole
Order of bands	The Smashing Pumpkins
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June 16, 2024 was The Smashing Pumpkins' first show in France since 2019, and the first show in Paris in nearly a decade.

Setlist

"Atum" (prerecorded)
"The Everlasting Gaze"
"Doomsday Clock"
"Zoo Station" [U2]
1. (drum solo)
"Today"
"Thru the Eyes of Ruby"
"Spellbinding"
"Tonight, Tonight"
"That Which Animates The Spirit"
"Ava Adore"
"Disarm" (acoustic)
"Springtimes"
"Mayonaise"
"Bullet with Butterfly Wings"
"Empires"
"Beguiled"
"1979"
"Birch Grove"
"Panopticon"
"Shame" (tease)
"Jellybelly"
"Rhinoceros"
"Gossamer" [13:49]
1. "The Spaniards" (tease)
"Killing in the Name" [Rage Against the Machine] (tease)
"Cherub Rock"
"Where Boys Fear to Tread" (tease)
"Zero"
1. "Love Gun" [Kiss] (tease)

Notes

Augustus and Philomena Corgan dance onstage during "Beguiled"

Banter

Atum Intro
The Everlasting Gaze
> Doomsday Clock
Zoo Station
Today
Thru the Eyes of Ruby
Iha: Bonsoir, Paree. Merci beaucoup. Nous sommes les Smashing Pumpkin. That's all I've got in French, heh. Uh, thank you so much for coming out tonight, we appreciate it. We are really excited to be here in Paris, thank you.
Spellbinding
Tonight, Tonight
Iha: How're you guys doing? Ça va? Alright, we'll go on.
That Which Animates the Spirit
Ava Adore
(BC before bridge: Pariiiiiis!! Good evening!)
Disarm (acoustic)
Springtimes
BC: Thank you very much, thank you! It's so nice to be with you on this beautiful evening. I know you're excited to see us as, as you are for the Olympics.
Crowd: No!
Iha: Whoa, heh heh heh. Guess not!
BC: They don't like the Olympics, James.
Iha: I don't know about the politics of that, Olympics.
BC: James, do you like the Olympics?
Iha: Uhhh, yeah, I like running, jumping, all that, it seems pretty cool. I'm not particularly athletic myself but uh, I-I appreciate the uh, individual sport. (crowd cheers) I don't know. But I-I like Paris a lot, I think it's really beautiful, heh heh heh. I like those book stalls.
BC: (clapping twice) Speaking of books, heh heh heh....
Iha: Shakespeare and company.
BC: We'd like to take it back to 1992.
Iha: Ernest Hemingway.
BC: Does anyone remember 1992?
(crowd cheers)
Iha: I don't!
BC: They liked 1992 better than they liked the Olympics!
Iha: Oh my god.
BC: Like to take back [sic] to a song we wrote for the Siamese Dream album. Which won the gold medal...for sad albums.
Katie: Hahahahaha!
Iha: (laughing) Uh, uh, Proust is...very sad.
BC: (laughing) Your--your French is shit.
Iha: I-I took French in high school, but I was...
BC: Me too!
Iha: ...it -- alright. What else did you -- what else did you take? With all the basics?
BC: Here's something that the French really like....
Iha: What's that?
BC: ...mayonnaise!
Iha: Yay!
BC: They like mayonnaise!
Mayonaise
Bullet with Butterfly Wings
Empires
(BC before Kiki outro solo: Kiki!!)
Beguiled
1979
Birch Grove
Panopticon
> Shame (tease - instrumental + one verse)
> Jellybelly
Rhinoceros
> Gossamer / The Spaniards
Iha: Merci. I'd like to do a quick introduction of the band. The latest member of the Smashing Pumpkins, on guitar, all the way from Texas and California, Miss Kiki Wong.
Killing in the Name (tease)
Iha: Nice, nice. On vocals and acoustic guitar, all the way from Down Under, Australia, Miss Katie Cole, everybody! Katie Cole. You know him and you love him but he's your rival, he's all the way from Manchester, England, on the bass guitar, Mr. Jack Bates! He's, uh, intently following the Euro 2020 -- 2024. Heh heh heh, okay. More important than a lot of things apparently is...football. Alright! All the way from Illinois, killin' it on the drums every night, Mr. Jimmyyyy Chamberlin! He's up there beatin' the shit outta those drums every goddamn night. On lead vocals and the hot guitar, Mr. Billyyyyyy Corgan! I'm James Iha and this is called Cherub Rock.
Cherub Rock
> Where Boys Fear to Tread (tease - during Billy's transition solo)
> Zero
(BC immediately after final lyrics: Merci beaucoup!!)
> Love Gun (tease)
Iha: Merci, thank you so much. Get home safe.

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