The Smashing Pumpkins 2024-06-24

June 24, 2024 – Vienna, AT
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
The World Is A Vampire 2024 tour
Date	June 24, 2024
Venue	Wiener Stadthalle
Coordinates	48°12′7″N 16°19′58″E
Location	Vienna, AT
Venue type	Arena
Capacity	16,152
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 24, 2024 was The Smashing Pumpkins' first show in Austria since 2019, and the first show in Vienna in over a decade.

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. "Rhinoceros" 
20. "Jellybelly" 
21. "Gossamer" [12:38] 
    1. "The Spaniards" (tease) 
22. "Thunderstruck" [AC/DC] (tease) 
23. "Who Knows" [Jimi Hendrix] (tease) 
24. "Whole Lotta Rosie" [AC/DC] (tease) 
25. "Cherub Rock" 
26. "Für Elise" [Beethoven] (tease) 
27. "Zero" 
    1. "Love Gun" [Kiss] (tease) 

Banter

Atum Intro
The Everlasting Gaze
> Doomsday Clock
Zoo Station
Today
Thru the Eyes of Ruby
Iha: [unintelligible word]. Guten abend, danke schoen, bien. How are you? Thank you so much for coming out tonight, we are the Smashing Pumpkins and we are happy to be here. Danke schoen.
Spellbinding
Tonight, Tonight
That Which Animates the Spirit
Ava Adore
(BC before bridge: Viennaaaaaa!! Ow!)
Disarm (acoustic)
Iha: And now, Miss Katie Cole, everyone.
Springtimes
BC: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, thank you so very much. We are the Smashing Pumpkins. 36 years....
Iha: Oh my god. Oh my god.
BC: Heh heh! We hope you're having a good time.
Iha: Pretty good, pretty good, we're rockin' out.
BC: Yeah.
Iha: Heh!
BC: They like art here.
Iha: They like (laughing) what?
BC: Art, they like art.
Iha: Art, yeah? I like art, jesus. We all do.
BC: Art Carney.
Iha: Buddy Williams.
BC: Heh heh heh! Anyway, enough chitchatting. Like to play a song for you now from the Siamese Dream album. Was recorded some...32 years ago.
Iha: It's a good one.
BC: You like that album? (crowd cheers) I wasn't asking you, I was asking him!
Iha: I like it, yeah, I like it, I mean...Atlanta was hell, but I like it.
BC: Anyway, this is a song James and I wrote for that album, we hope you enjoy it.
Mayonaise
Bullet with Butterfly Wings
Empires
(BC before Kiki outro solo: Kiki!!)
Beguiled
1979
Birch Grove
Iha: Thank you so much, Vienna. Heh heh. You tell me and I'll just say it. Oh? How the hell are you, Vienna? (Jimmy tests kick drum, beginning a pounding beat) There it is. Yes! I like that beat, yeah. Yes! Vienna. Now, what did you wanna say? (Jimmy stops)
BC: What's that?
Iha: What did you wanna say? Doesn't matter.
BC: I was just gonna talk about how I don't like myself.
Iha: Oh right, yeah.
BC: Heh heh heh.
Iha: Heh heh heh. Alright, we're going back.
BC: We're going back.
Iha: Never going back, but we're going back, going back to our first--
BC: How far back do you wanna go?
Iha: Pretty far back. Pretty far back to a song on our first goddamn record.
Rhinoceros
> Jellybelly
Gossamer / The Spaniards
Iha: Danke schoen, Vienna. Thank you guys so much. Thank you for sticking and rocking with us, we’d like to thank Interpol tonight...for bringing the darkness from New York City. I’d like to introduce the band. The latest member of the Smashing Pumpkins, on the guitar, all the way from Texas and California, Miss Kiki Wong.
Thunderstruck (tease - Kiki)
Iha: (high pitched) I was caught...in a railroad track! (Kiki finishes) (normal voice) Nice. For those of you about to rock. Hope you saw that show. I know I didn’t. And now, on vocals and acoustic guitar, all the way from Down Under, Australia, Miss Katie Cole, everybody. Katie Cole again. You know him, you love him, on the bass guitar, all the way from Manchester, England, Mr. Jack Bates. Jack Bates, everybody. And now, puttin’ down that heavy beat, that solid rock: all the way from Illinois, you know him, Jimmyyyyy [unintelligible word] Chamberlin! (brief guitar noise) (high pitched) Alright! Ooh! (normal voice) Lead vocals, lead guitar, Mr. Billyyyyyyyyyy Corgan!
Who Knows (tease - Billy plays the riff several times)
Iha: Oh yeah! We’re gonna go off the script. We’re just gonna go into some jam. We’re not gonna play Cherub Rock. (Billy immediately stops)
BC: (laughing) What’d you say?
Iha: I said we’re just gonna go off on some fuckin' jam, we’re not gonna play fuckin’ Cherub Rock. But maybe we will. Who knows?
Whole Lotta Rosie (tease - Billy plays the riff several times and Jack joins in)
BC: I wanna tell you a story.
Iha: (singing) ...about a woman I know.
BC: She ain’t exactly...pretty? Is that...politically incorrect or...?
Iha: Well...let’s just do -- let’s just--
BC: Heh heh! Some -- (laughing) some guy goes “Don’t worry about it.”
Iha: (laughing) Don’t worry about it. In English, don’t worry about -- alright, here we go.
BC: Let’s play Cherub Rock!
Iha: Goddammit.
Cherub Rock
> Für Elise (tease - during Billy’s transition solo)
> Zero
(BC after final lyrics: Thank you very much, thank you!!)
> Love Gun (tease)
Iha: Danke schoen, thank you. Thank you so much. You guys are awesome. The best. The best of the best.