Tsp1996-05-26

The Smashing Pumpkins
Date	1996-05-26
Venue	Town Hall
Location	Christchurch, NZ
Venue Type	Concert Hall
Capacity	2584
Lineup	Corgan, Iha, Wretzky, Chamberlin, Melvoin
Order of Bands	Def FX, The Smashing Pumpkins
Surfaced Recordings
AUD #1
Source	AUD
Format	ANA
Equipment	Unknown
Length	128m
Complete?	No
Lowest Circulating Generation	ANA-1 > FLAC
Live Music Archive	16-bit download
Notes	Porcelina of the Vast Oceans cuts. ANA-? > CDR transfer also circulates.
Unsurfaced Recordings
AUD #2
Source	AUD
Format	DAT
Equipment	Unknown
Length	~110m
Complete?	No
SBD #1
Source	SBD
Format	ADAT
Equipment	Unknown
Length	~135m
Complete?	Yes
Notes	Vault copy.

Setlist

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Set:

• Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (over PA)
• Tonight, Tonight
• Zero
• Muzzle
• To Forgive
• Today
• Fuck You
• Thru the Eyes of Ruby
  • By Starlight
• Disarm
• Bullet with Butterfly Wings
• Cherub Rock
• Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
  • Rocket (tease)

Encore One:

• 1979
• (blues jam)
• X.Y.U.

Encore Two:

• Mayonaise

Encore Three:

• Bodies
• Silverfuck [29:02]
  • Space Jam (tease)
  • Dose [Filter] (tease)
• Farewell and Goodnight

Notes

• Rescheduled from 1996-03-18
• Disarm performed acoustic

Banter

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness Intro
Tonight, Tonight
Zero
BC: Hi, thank you, good evening. Thanks for coming. We’ve come from very far away. [3 unintelligible words].
Muzzle
To Forgive
Today
> Fuck You
D’arcy: I want to say hello to the people behind us. They’re very, very nice, although it's kinda weird having people behind us.
Iha: Thank you. How is everyone? Groovy? What? Are you screaming about [unintelligible but sounds like “Sundays, I think”]? I for not know what I've done...except play the rock music.
BC: No, they wanna know if you support the All Blacks team.
Iha: (New Zealand accent) I do not know. I don't know who they are to tell you the truth.
BC: Oh, come on. He played a little rugby in his day.
Iha: I would - what the fuck was that shit when they uh, they score a goal, it was like a dude with a - with a pith helmet and he like runs sometime?
BC: He didn't realize it was Australian rules football.
Iha: Oh. Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, I am playing the ugly American as the devil's advocate, you know, I was - I knew that, I knew that was Australian rules, I was just trying to get you mad, I’m sorry.
BC: Well, thanks for coming. They’re just turning that fucking air conditioning on. Another song from our long, long, long album.
Thru the Eyes of Ruby
> By Starlight
unknown (acoustic tease)
Disarm (acoustic)
Circus tape
> Bullet with Butterfly Wings
Cherub Rock
Porcelina of the Vast Oceans / Rocket
[encore break]
Iha: Alright.
BC: We were just uh, we were sitting back there, wondering if you wanted us to come back out but....
Iha: We're so deaf, we’re so deaf we thought everyone had left.
1979
> blues jam
(BC about a minute in: You know we come from Chicago. The home of the blues.)
Iha: Oh god, that was so painful. And now, we're gonna play the cyber-blues. Our style of blues.
BC: Thank you for fighting [unintelligible].
Iha: (New Zealand accent) Who has a bow and arrow to shoot yonder past a cap? I beg of thee, take me away from this rock tour, I’m so fearless.
BC: Can we put on the lights for a second there, Aaron? No, up, not down, no no no. Put the lights on. Those lights, thank you. Just wanted to say hello, hello. Hello.
Iha: Woo! [2 unintelligible words]
BC: I'd like to say hello to Officer Friendly right there. To protect and serve.
Iha: (New Zealand accent) I would like to this one, he's been looking at my bum, he has. [unintelligible]
BC: [unintelligible], trying to protect your bum. That's why he's looking at it. He's there to protect it.
Iha: Protect my bum! Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa! Whoa! Whoa! (drumroll from Jimmy with crashing cymbals)
BC: See...
Iha: Ladies and gentlemen, [unintelligible as Billy talks over him].
BC: ...Officer Friendly was distracted by that rant.
Iha: Ladies and gentlemen, sit the fuck down. Don't lose your fuckin’ minds.
BC: And if you come up on this stage, we will kick your ass.
X.Y.U.
[encore break]
Iha: Thanks you. Ever since I was young, I wanted people of all races and all nations to get together and get it on!
BC: Thank you, you guys are totally great, we appreciate it so much...you don’t even know.
Mayonaise
BC: God bless you, thank you.
[encore break]
Iha: Get the fuck up! [unintelligible sentence.] I’m your fucking rock and roll captain! “What do you mean, how can you say that with that thing in your hair?” [unintelligible sentence.] No, I'm just kidding, thank you very much. We're very glad you came and uh, we'll be rocking any second.
BC: But I don’t do one. I don’t.
Iha: Well, thank you!...for the [unintelligible word].
BC: [unintelligible] Thank you. Thank you. And the two? [unintelligible]
Iha: [unintelligible]. Fuck it. [unintelligible].
unknown (tease - Melvoin playing classical music)
Bodies
> Silverfuck / Space Jam / Dose
> Farewell and Goodnight
(below is over piano outro)
BC: Come on and clap, you motherfuckers.
D’arcy: Thank you. Thank you, goodnight.
Iha: Goodnight everybody, goodnight, bye bye.
Jimmy: Thank you.
Iha: Drive home safe, goodbye, bye everyone.