The Smashing Pumpkins 1998-06-20

June 20, 1998 – Melbourne, VIC, AU
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
Adore tour
Date	June 20, 1998
Venue	Melbourne Park
Coordinates	37°49′22″S 144°58′48″E
Location	Melbourne, VIC, AU
Venue type	Arena
Capacity	16,000
Personnel	Billy Corgan, James Iha, D'arcy Wretzky, Kenny Aronoff, Mike Garson, Dan Morris, Stephen Hodges
Order of bands	Jebediah, The Smashing Pumpkins
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Setlist

Soundcheck

1. "Annie-Dog" 
2. "Appels + Oranjes" 

Set

1. "To Sheila" 
2. "Behold! the Night Mare" 
3. "Ava Adore" 
4. "Pug" 
5. "Crestfallen" 
6. "Tear" [8:42] 
7. "Thru the Eyes of Ruby" [9:58] 
8. "Perfect" (acoustic) 
9. "Tonight, Tonight" (acoustic) 
10. (percussion solo)
    1. "Zero" (tease) 
    2. "Where Boys Fear to Tread" (tease) 
    3. "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" [10:21] 
11. "Daphne Descends" 
12. "Shame" [7:35] 
13. "For Martha" [12:25] 

Encore one

14. "1979" 
15. "Transmission" [Joy Division] [21:47] 
    1. "Let's Dance" [David Bowie] (tease) 

Encore two

16. "Summertime" [George Gershwin] (tease) 
1. "Second Prelude" [Gershwin] (tease) 
2. "Zero" (abandoned) 

Notes

• Soundcheck incomplete
• "Zero" was not on the setlist

Banter

To Sheila
> Behold! The Night Mare
> Ava Adore
Pug
Crestfallen
(BC over extended intro: Hey. How’s everybody doing? Thank you very much for coming to our concert tonight. We’re mostly starting off tonight with songs off our new album...um, it’s called Kylie Minogue. Yes, the name of the album is Kylie Minogue.)
> Tear
> Thru the Eyes of Ruby
BC: Thank you very much, thank you. These are the two shows that we’ve done -- doing, are doing, done -- in Australia are the biggest shows that we’re playing on the Adore tour. So we uh, heh heh heh, we thank you for that, um, at the same time, it’s probably uh, it’s probably a really -- it’s so big here that it’s hard to grasp the whole uh, strangeness of this album that we’ve done, so uh, we thank you very much for -- for being cool and listening. We know we’re the weirdest band on the planet, but uh.... I don’t really like koala bears, so.... James was attacked by a koala bear.
Iha: I was uh, very damaged by a koala bear, it just kept stroking my head and...for hours and then it began to hurt.
BC: By the way, most of you probably don’t know, but even though we’re playing this concert tonight in Melbourne, James is going to be appearing in Winnie the Pooh at the Victorian Arts Centre. He will be le Pooh.
Perfect (acoustic)
BC: Now, this is the moment in the show where we get to know D’arcy.
D’arcy: Well, my hobbies are, um...skydiving. I like water ballet...and I’m a part-time mime.
Iha: I like, uh...I like wombats.
BC: Just how many -- how many fucking versions of Australian football are there? There’s like 75 different versions and I never know the rules. But I did meet Shane Warne once. He didn’t know who the fuck I was but I knew who he was. And then he told me to write this song.
Tonight, Tonight (acoustic)
drum/percussion solo
> Zero (tease)
> Where Boys Fear to Tread (tease)
> Bullet with Butterfly Wings
Daphne Descends
> Shame
BC: Thank you very much, thank you. I have to say, I’m not much of a compliment giver, but you’re one of the best audiences we’ve played to in a long time. So thank you very much.
For Martha
BC: God bless you, thank you.
Iha: Thanks.
BC: That's it, bye.
[encore break]
Iha: Thank you very much, you guys have been really great, thanks a lot. And now, for our next song. We appreciate your patience through all our new songs but now we’re gonna play an old song. This next song goes back about...uh, 20 years, no...21 years.
BC: It’s 19, 19, back to [unintelligible word].
Iha: Right. Well, hope you'll go that far back with me, go right to the year of 1979.
BC: Nope, I’m not gonna do it. Nope, nope, nope, nope nope nope nope. Put the house lights up, Merle, house lights please, someone. Let’s put these lights on.
D’arcy: Who are these people back there? I didn’t even know they were there. Now I’m scared, they're--I’m gonna leave.
BC: Now the rule is if you can’t see them, they -- they get in for free. All those people got in for free in the back.
D’arcy: I thought the rule was if you can’t see them they don’t exist.
BC: There you go.
D’arcy: Ohhh, they do exist.
Iha: Power to you people.
D’arcy: Okay.
BC: Okay. We're gonna go back to the old days where people actually had a good time at a concert. ‘Bout five years ago, five years ago, you had good times, heh heh. Just kidding. Okay.
1979
BC: Thank you very much, you crazy fuckers. Hmm. (crowd chants for Zero) Heh heh heh heh! Nah, I don’t wear that shirt anymore, it’s...it's retired. Now, I was just debating in my head whether I should mention that since we’ve been in Australia, we’ve met lots of fans, nothing but good vibes, lots of wonderful people, lots of good times. Of course, however, every record review that I’ve read of our new album in Australia has been shit. Yes, let’s see. It's not People, what's it called, Who's what? That magazine. Rolling Stone in Australia, thank you very much. So I’d like to thank you for having faith in us. And for supporting us in what we’re trying to do. Pretty awesome. We’re very happy to be in Australia, always look forward to it and uh...you're some of the best fans we have in the world, so we can't thank you enough. Oh yeah, and by the way, to the people who wrote the bad reviews: well, go fuck yourself.
Transmission / Let's Dance
(BC at 16:14: That's pretty much the end of the song, after here it gets pretty bad, so you may wanna go home now because it's only gonna get ugly.)
[encore break]
Summertime (tease)
> Second Prelude (tease)
> Zero (abandoned - seems like Billy forgets the line “fashion victims chew their charcoal teeth”, they continue but song never really gets back on the rails and stops after Iha solo)
BC: Sorry, we don’t play that song anymore, but....
D’arcy: [unintelligible].
BC: James is backstage throwing up.
D’arcy: He drank too much, you know? This is good advice: don’t drink too much.
BC: Heh, take it from D’arcy! Thank you again for a great concert, we love you, god bless you, thank you.
D’arcy: We love you.

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