The Smashing Pumpkins 2008-04-04

April 5, 2008 – Ascot Vale, VIC, AU
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
Artist	The Smashing Pumpkins
Date	April 5, 2008
Festival	V Festival
Venue	Melbourne Showgrounds
Coordinates	37°46′53″S 144°54′45″E
Location	Ascot Vale, VIC, AU
Venue type	Park
Personnel	Billy Corgan, Jimmy Chamberlin, Jeff Schroeder, Ginger Pooley, Lisa Harriton, Jesse Andersen
Order of bands	Garage to V, Hot Hot Heat, Modest Mouse, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Queens of the Stone Age, The Smashing Pumpkins
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V Festival 2008.

Setlist

1. "Today" 
2. "Tarantula" 
3. "Stand Inside Your Love" 
4. "Hummer" 
5. "Tonight, Tonight" 
6. "Superchrist" 
7. "Cash Car Star" 
   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) 
8. "1979" (acoustic) 
9. "That's the Way (My Love Is)" (acoustic) 
10. "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" 
11. "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" [Pink Floyd] [8:04] 
12. "United States" 
    1. "The Star-Spangled Banner" [Francis Scott Key] (tease) 

Encore one

13. "Zero" 

Encore two

14. "Down Under" [Men at Work] (tease) 
15. "Who Can It Be Now?" [Men at Work] (tease) 
16. "Cherub Rock" 

Notes

• "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" with Jesse Andersen (Billy's half brother) on tambourine
• "Zero" was not on the setlist

Banter

Today
> Tarantula
> Stand Inside Your Love
> Hummer
> Tonight, Tonight
Superchrist
> 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 / It’s gonna be so fuckin’ great! / You’ll have no more worries, you’re never gonna die / You’ll always be alive / Fame will carry you to the grave)
> Let There Be Rock (tease - lyrics as part of For What It's Worth spoken verse [not included above])
BC: Yeah! Thank you, Melbourne. How ‘bout them Queens of the Stone Age? Queens, proving the drugs do work. I’m very happy to play with them, Jesus and the Mary Chain. You probably don’t this but I met my future ex-wife at a Jesus and the Mary Chain concert. 1986, people, I was there. I just turned 20 too. Anyway, I’d like to send this song out to everybody who’s here, thank you very much. As the shy member of the Smashing Pumpkins, heh, I’d like to say thank you. I dedicate this song to you, thank you.
1979 (Billy solo acoustic)
That’s the Way (Billy 12-string w/Lisa)
> Bullet with Butterfly Wings
Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun (with Jesse Andersen on tambourine)
(BC over very end: I'll la ra (imitates tongue twisting) - I’d like a round of applause for my brother Jesse. Hahahaha.
Jesse: Thank you, Australia, I love you!
BC: Thank you.)
> United States / Star Spangled Banner
[encore break]
Zero (abandoned after 2 seconds)
BC: I don’t wanna play that one, never mind. Haha.
Zero
BC: Thank you very much, thank you!
[encore break]
BC: I’ll give you one more song.
Down Under (tease)
BC: (singing) And I come from the land down under. (speaking) What’s that song? Heh heh. How’s that song go? The Men at Work song. Jimmy wants to play Who Can It Be Now?
Who Can It Be Now? (tease)
BC: (singing) Who can it be now? Who can it be now? (speaking) Hey! Listen. There was a time in America, if it wasn’t for Men at Work, we didn’t even know there was a country called Australia, okay? So you gotta give ‘em that! You gotta give ‘em that, we didn’t even know where Australia was until they showed up. Alright, we’ll play one more song.
Cherub Rock
BC: Thank you. Now go home and have some hot sex, okay, goodbye.