Billy Corgan 2010-09-30
| September 30, 2010 – Paris, FR | |
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| Live performance by Billy Corgan | |
| Artist | Billy Corgan |
| Date | September 30, 2010 |
| Venue | Atout Livre |
| Coordinates | 48°50′21″N 2°23′52″E |
| Location | Paris, FR |
| Venue type | Bookstore |
| Capacity | 170 |
| Personnel | Billy Corgan, Claire Fercak |
| Order of bands | Billy Corgan |
September 30, 2010 was the book presentation of Chants Magnétiques, a book Billy Corgan co-wrote with Claire Fercak. The event featured an approximately 40 minute reading from the book by Fercak, with Corgan providing background music. Corgan then performed several songs by himself (while Fercak remained sitting next to him) and the event finished with a book signing.
Setlist[edit | edit source]
- (book reading)
- "A Stitch in Time" (acoustic)
- "Spangled" (acoustic)
- "A Song for a Son" (acoustic)
- "Freak" (acoustic)
- "In the Arms of Sleep" (acoustic)
- "To Sheila" (acoustic)
- "Jesus Needs a Hit" (acoustic) (only performance)
Encore[edit | edit source]
- "Tonight, Tonight" (acoustic)
Notes[edit | edit source]
- First performance of "In the Arms of Sleep" since 1997-12-05 and the last until 2012-09-13
- First performance of "To Sheila" since 2008-04-16
Banter[edit | edit source]
(incomplete due to lack of full show source)
guitar improv during book reading (with Claire Fercak)
BC: [cuts in] Play a few songs.
A Stitch in Time
BC: Thank you.
Spangled
BC: Thank you.
A Song for a Son
BC: [cuts in] ...called Freak. It’s about my...messed up country in America. Not that you know anything about America, but uh....
Freak
BC: See? You write a song about how messed up America is and then it becomes a hit in America, it’s perfect.
In the Arms of Sleep
BC: Thank you.
To Sheila (abandoned - guitar is out of tune)
BC: How you all doin’, you okay? Alright. (tuning guitar, which continues through rest of banter) I have no guitar tech.
Guy in crowd: Want a tuner?
BC: No, no. I’m very spoiled, I’m not used to having a tuner. If you’re out of tune, Claire, they start booing. Very fast. Okay, we try that.
To Sheila
BC: Thank you very much, thank you. Okay, so to mark this special occasion--it is a special occasion. Occasion speciale? Yeah. I just made that up, it was very good. Um, I’d like to play a new new new song that I just wrote a few days ago, so you’re the first people to hear this song. So when you go on the internet say, “The song suck, no good,” you’ll never hear it again. So you have a very big responsibility to like this song. The song is called Jesus Needs a Hit.
Jesus Needs a Hit (abandoned after 3rd line)
BC: Aw shit, I fucked it up already. Dammit! (to Fercak) Here, you play it. She’s very good.
Claire Fercak: [sentence in French]. It’s your job to play.
BC: It’s my job?
Fercak: Yes.
BC: Okay. I’ll try again.
Jesus Needs a Hit
BC: Merci beaucoup! Thank you so much, thank you.
(Billy gets off his stool and places his guitar in a case on the floor while the audience claps; Fercak does not move from her stool)
Fercak: [sentence in French].
BC: What? No speak Español. Is that the “one more” clap? Alright. (picks back up guitar) Okay, one more and then we sign books.
Tonight, Tonight
BC: Okay!
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