The Smashing Pumpkins 2023-09-08

September 8, 2023 – Franklin, TN, US
Official poster by Wildner Lima
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
The World Is A Vampire tour
Date	September 8, 2023
Venue	FirstBank Amphitheater
Coordinates	35°48′59″N 86°50′13″W
Location	Franklin, TN, US
Venue type	Amphitheater
Capacity	7,500
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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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. "Tonight, Tonight" (acoustic) 
12. "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" 
13. "This Time" 
14. "Spellbinding" 
15. "Hubble Bubble (Toil and Trouble)" [Manfred Mann] 
16. "Jellybelly" 
17. "Empires" 
18. "Hummer" 
19. "Beguiled" 
20. "1979" 
21. "Cherub Rock" 
22. "Zero" 
    1. "Love Gun" [Kiss] (tease) 

Notes

• NWA wrestlers Mercurio and May Valentine perform a short routine during "Beguiled" while Billy Corgan’s kids are on stage dancing

Banter

Atum Intro
The Everlasting Gaze
> Doomsday Clock
> Once in a Lifetime
Iha: Franklin. Thank you guys so much. How are you doin’? Are you ready to rock? We are the Smashing Pumpkins and we are so glad you came out tonight.
Today
Perfect
Disarm (acoustic)
The Celestials
Purple Blood
Ava Adore
(BC after Jimmy solo: Ow! Mr. Jimmy Chamberlin on the drums! Juh juh juh, Jimmy.)
Iha: [cuts in] It's a very buggy night, in the, uh, quarry here. I'm getting a high quotient of insects.
BC: I feel like we should be playing that song from Snow White, you know, down in the mine?
Iha: Down in the mine, yes.
BC: What's that song? Heigh-Ho, heigh-ho, it's off to work we go. Down here in the mine. The hipster mine, we're in the hipster mine!
Iha: I don't know if it's that.
BC: We're mining for applause and love.
Iha: Right.
BC: You know, in the hipster mine, it doesn't come easy, you gotta work for it. James, how you feelin' tonight?
Iha: I feel great. How are you doin'?
BC: I feel good.
Iha: Alright, alright, I'll take that.
BC: As you know, as, uh -- as you know, sorry, as you know, not they know, as you know...down here a lot recording here in Nashville.
Iha: City of music.
BC: Now the recording capital of America.
Iha: Yes, I heard that, that's nice.
BC: And uh, been recording down here, some new Smashing Pumpkins, so thank you so much for supporting us down here. I think the first time we played Nashville about 1991, there was only about four or five hundred people there, so thank you for making this happen all these years later. As a matter of fact, we were working in the hipster mine back then too.
Iha: I don't remember.
BC: You don't remember, I know.
Iha: Don't remember that, but it's possible.
BC: It's, uh, what my stepmother used to call "a convenient memory." Better you forget, it was painful, I just, I'll put that out there. These people aren't here for jokes, James.
Iha: I got a joke for you.
BC: These people are here for hits.
Iha: Got all the hits.
BC: Thank you to the Rival Sons. Thank you to Interpols.
Iha: Interpol.
BC: See, they got it dialed in, man, they got it dialed in.
Iha: They got the darkness dialed in with Interpol.
BC: So we’d like to dedicate this song to each and every one of you for 36 years of the Smashing Pumpkins.
Iha: OMG.
BC: Do you remember all 36 years of the Smashing Pumpkins?
Iha: (pause) Yeah, I do, I do.
BC: It’s a little song we wrote back in 1994. You might have a different name for it, we call it Tonight, Tonight.
Tonight, Tonight (Billy/Iha acoustic)
Bullet with Butterfly Wings
This Time
Spellbinding
Hubble Bubble (Toil and Trouble)
> Jellybelly
Empires
(BC after final lyrics, before Jeff outro solo: Nashville!)
Hummer
> Beguiled
1979
Iha: [cuts in] And now, lead vocals, lead guitar, Mr. Billyyyy Corgan! Thank you guys so much, I am James Iha and this is called Cherub Rock!
Cherub Rock
> Zero
(BC immediately after final lyrics: Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much! Thank you very much.)
> Love Gun (tease)
Iha: Thank you guys so much. Have a good night, thank you so much. Get home safe.