The Smashing Pumpkins 2008-03-27

March 27, 2008 – Sydney, NSW, AU
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
Artist	The Smashing Pumpkins
Date	March 27, 2008
Venue	Hordern Pavilion
Coordinates	33°53′38″S 151°13′27″E
Location	Sydney, NSW, AU
Venue type	Concert hall
Capacity	4,200
Personnel	Billy Corgan, Jimmy Chamberlin, Jeff Schroeder, Ginger Pooley, Lisa Harriton
Order of bands	The Smashing Pumpkins
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Setlist

1. "Porcelina of the Vast Oceans" 
2. "Behold! the Night Mare" 
3. "Bring the Light" 
4. "Tonight, Tonight" 
5. "Mayonaise" 
6. "Superchrist" 
7. "(Come On) Let's Go!" 
8. "Perfect" (acoustic) 
9. "Lily (My One and Only)" 
10. "Today" 
11. "Tarantula" 
12. "Stand Inside Your Love" 
13. "Starla" 
14. "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" 
15. "It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)" [AC/DC] (tease) (acoustic) 
16. "1979" (acoustic) 
17. "That's the Way (My Love Is)" (acoustic) 
18. "My Blue Heaven" [Walter Donaldson / George A. Whiting] 
19. "The Everlasting Gaze" 
20. "Cash Car Star" [8:46] 
    1. "Black Sabbath" [Black Sabbath] (tease) 
    2. "Piece of Me" [Britney Spears] (tease) 
    3. "For What It's Worth" [Buffalo Springfield] (tease) 
    4. "Let There Be Rock" [AC/DC] (tease) 
21. "Crush" 
22. "United States" [17:42] 
    1. "The Star-Spangled Banner" [Francis Scott Key] (tease) 

Encore

23. "Break On Through (To the Other Side)" [The Doors] (tease) 
24. "Hungry Like the Wolf" [Duran Duran] (tease) 
25. "Cherub Rock" 

Notes

• "Muzzle" was on the setlist but "Cherub Rock" was played instead

Banter

Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
> Behold! The Night Mare
Bring the Light
Tonight, Tonight
Mayonaise
Superchrist
> (Come On) Let’s Go!
BC: Thank you. Thank you very much, thank you! Like to bring out my partner, Mr. Jimmy Chamberlin. Mr. Jimmy Chamberlin.
Perfect (Billy acoustic w/Jimmy tambourine)
Lily
> Today
> Tarantula
Stand Inside Your Love
BC: Thank you very much, thank you. Thanksss.
Starla
> Bullet with Butterfly Wings
BC: Thank you! Sydney, how you doin’? I’d like to ask a question, can I ask you a question? Alright. I’d like all the people who were late arriving to the concert to raise their hand, go on, it’s okay. Okay. Our concerts start on time, okay, just like school. Just like school, you’re here to learn a lesson, that’s to be on time. I’m just kiddin’, I don’t fuckin’ care, we get paid the same, I don’t care if you show up, don’t show. That’s right. Heh heh. How’s it goin’ out there in young people world, how’s it goin’ out there? How’s your life in the digital realm, are you making lots of relationships with people you don’t know? Yeah. Having good chat sex, are you?, yes. It’s safer, heh heh. You can work out all your New Zealand frustrations, you know, internet sex with somebody from New Zealand and...who’s better and yeah yeah. I know, I know, they’ve been saying it for years: just shut up and play, I know, heh heh heh. (large cheer) Heh heh. Anyway, I’m just in a good mood, I’m talking to you like you’re a friend. But unlike most of my friends, you can’t ask me for money, I don’t have any to lend you. Heh, no, and I won’t play that song, heh heh. You were one of the late arriving people, you don’t get to choose a song if you’re a late arriver! Thems the rules, Clem! Alright. It’s been a while since the Smashing Pumpkins were here, yes?, yeah. You can make a case that our arrival here is a bit late. But we’re here finally, we’re very happy to be here. Beautiful country, amazing country. You got the dude from Midnight Oil runnin’ shit, heh heh, how awesome is that? You know, girls are always asking me, why don’t I dance? And I say, because I look like Peter Garrett when I.... That’s why I don’t dance, heh heh. We need to get like Peter Garrett over to America to help our shit out right now, lemme tell you. We need like the guys from INXS to come over. Heh heh, who else? Bon Scott. We get the--we get, uh...oh, Bon Scott’s dead, sorry, heh heh. The spirit of Bon Scott! We’ll get the spirit of Bon Scott. I meant to say Malcolm and Angus Young, they should run the shit. Imagine what America would be like if the Young brothers ran America, just think about that for a second.
It’s a Long Way to the Top (tease - 4 chords)
BC: Be a lot of that.
It’s a Long Way to the Top (tease - 6 more chords)
BC: Yes. Anyway, I’d like to dedicate this song to all of you.
1979 (Billy solo acoustic)
That’s the Way (Billy 12-string w/Lisa)
My Blue Heaven (Billy w/Lisa)
> The Everlasting Gaze
> Cash Car Star
> Black Sabbath (tease - Piece of Me words over instrumental)
> Piece of Me (2 verses and half of chorus)
> For What It’s Worth (verse 1, chorus, verse 4, chorus, BC original spoken verse)
(BC spoken verse: Everyone’s gonna be a big star / Everyone’s gonna know who you are / Everyone’s gonna wanna know everything about you / Where you go and what you do when you’re not doin’ nothin’ / Oh, they wanna know, they wanna know)
> Let There Be Rock (tease - lyrics as part of For What It's Worth spoken verse [not included above])
> Crush
> United States / Star Spangled Banner
BC: Thank you.
[encore break]
BC: Alriiight, yeeaah.
Break On Through (To the Other Side) (tease - Jeff/Jimmy quietly doodle while Billy talks)
BC: Alriiight. That’s the end of the show. That’s the end of the show. There you go. She’s from Orange County, they don’t know about the Doors down there. You guys are all alike: tattoos...and Vans sneakers and choppers in Orange County. Aren’t you?
Ginger: Certainly.
BC: Yeah!
Ginger: No.
BC: A heh heh, the captain doesn’t want you to talk. Jeff would like to say something.
Jeff: I was gonna say that orange could be like rockabilly.
BC: Huh?
Jeff: You’re like rockabilly.
BC: Oh, rockabilly!
Jeff: Yeah. Heh heh!
BC: You like rockabilly?
Jeff: Social D, Social D.
BC: Oh, Social Distortion.
Jeff: Social Distortion...ass.
BC: Don’t talk about Social Distortion?
Jeff: See, Jimmy--
BC: That’s the end of the show.
Hungry Like the Wolf (tease - Billy plays riff twice)
BC: Silverfuck? (large cheer) No. Heh, even if you show your boobs, I won’t play Silverfuck, sorry, heh. I’ll let you have nice breasts, yes, very nice. (laughing off mic) Hey. It’s 2008, right? (laughing off mic) That’s the end of the show, let’s just quit here. Heh, Jimmy says unh-unh. Yeah, these guys are rockin’. Are you rockin’? Yeah! Are you rockin’? How ‘bout you in the back, are you rockin’?
Cherub Rock

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