The Smashing Pumpkins 2024-06-19

June 19, 2024 – Mönchengladbach, DE
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
The World Is A Vampire 2024 tour
Date	June 19, 2024
Venue	SparkassenPark
Coordinates	51°10′40″N 6°23′24″E
Location	Mönchengladbach, DE
Venue type	Stadium
Capacity	21,000
Personnel	Billy Corgan, James Iha, Jimmy Chamberlin, Kiki Wong, Jack Bates, Katie Cole
Order of bands	Interpol, The Smashing Pumpkins
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June 19, 2024 was The Smashing Pumpkins' first show in Germany since 2019.

Setlist

1. "Atum" (prerecorded) 
2. "The Everlasting Gaze" 
3. "Doomsday Clock" 
4. "Zoo Station" [U2] 
   1. (drum solo)
5. "Today" 
6. "Thru the Eyes of Ruby" 
7. "Spellbinding" 
8. "Tonight, Tonight" 
9. "That Which Animates The Spirit" 
10. "Ava Adore" 
11. "Disarm" (acoustic) 
12. "Springtimes" 
13. "Mayonaise" 
14. "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" 
15. "Empires" 
16. "Beguiled" 
17. "1979" 
18. "Birch Grove" 
19. "Gossamer" [13:20] 
    1. "The Spaniards" (tease) 
20. "Jellybelly" 
21. "Seek & Destroy" [Metallica] (tease) 
22. "Cherub Rock" 
23. "Zero" 
    1. "Love Gun" [Kiss] (tease) 

Banter

Atum Intro
The Everlasting Gaze
> Doomsday Clock
> Zoo Station
Today
Thru the Eyes of Ruby
Iha: Guten abend. Danke schoen. Mönchengladbach. That's all I got...in German. How are you guys doin'? Thank you so much, we are the Smashing Pumpkins.
Spellbinding
Tonight, Tonight
Iha: Ow! How you guys doin'?
That Which Animates the Spirit
Ava Adore
(BC before bridge: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the rock show! Ow!)
Iha: It's so nice out, so beautiful out. It's not really a...a Goth rock thing, heh. (laughing) Don’t worry, we got more tunes. Here we go.
Disarm (acoustic)
Iha: Miss Katie Cole.
Springtimes
BC: Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen, thank you so much. We know that football is on, so we thank you for being with us tonight.
Iha: I heard they won, two to zero, congrats.
BC: James?
Iha: Yes?
BC: Two-nil, two-nil.
Iha: Two-nil.
BC: Mighty Germany defeating lowly Hungary.
Iha: I’m not gonna get into politics up here. Eh, I’ve -- fine athletes on that field.
BC: Let’s take you back to a time where there were no politics.
Iha: (laughing) Okay.
BC: The wall had come down.
Iha: Yes, yes.
BC: The world was holding hands in peace.
Iha: We went to, uh, see the Super Bowl in East Berlin at a -- at a disused bank, do you remember that?
BC: Yes, with the techno people...
Iha: Yeah, it was--
BC: ...snorting cocaine...
Iha: It was crazy.
BC: ...in their Vicks inhalers.
Iha: It was crazy. They had a safe.
BC: You remember the Vicks inhalers?
Iha: (laughing) Yeah.
BC: The techno people.
Iha: They’re like, “Please play another song, this is terrible when you talk.”
BC: They know how Germans are...because they’re German.
Iha: I don’t know. I don’t know.
BC: Germans love techno, James.
Iha: I’m from, uh -- I’m from the middle of America. I don’t know much.
BC: They get up in the morning, they put techno on.
Iha: Yeah! They’re like, why the fuck not?
BC: They make love to techno.
Iha: Yes! That’s what I would do if I lived here. I-I like it. Hey....
BC: James, let’s take this lovely audience back to 1992.
Iha: No! Let’s go back to techno.
BC: The Super Bowl, of course, influencing this song.
Iha: Okay, alright.
BC: Little song that James and I wrote for the Siamese Dream album.
Mayonaise
Bullet with Butterfly Wings
Empires
(BC before Kiki outro solo: Kiki!!)
Beguiled
1979
Birch Grove
> Gossamer / The Spaniards
> Jellybelly
Iha: Alright alright alright, thank you so much. Thank you for staying with us, thank you for rocking with us. We'd like to thank Interpol...and all they do with the darkness. Uh, I'd like to introduce the band. The latest member of the band, all the way from California and Texas: on the guitar, Miss Kiki Wong.
Seek & Destroy (tease)
Iha: Nice, nice. On vocals and acoustic guitar, all the way from Down Under, Australia: Miss Katie Cole, everyone. Katie Cole. You know him, you may love him, he's from Manchester, England: on the bass guitar, Mr. Jack Bates. He appreciates your enthusiasm for football. And now, all the way from Illinois, the great state in the middle of America: on the drums, beatin' the shit out of them every night, Mr. Jimmy Chamberlin! Hoo hoo hoo, I don't know what he's doing back there, it's...it's too musical for me. Lead vocals, lead guitar, Mr. Billy Corgan! I'm James Iha and this is called Cherub Rock.
Cherub Rock
> Zero
(BC immediately after final lyrics: Thank you very much, thank you!)
> Love Gun (tease)
Iha: Thank you so much. Danke schoen. Have a good night.