Setlist

1. Quasar
2. Panopticon
3. Starla
4. Geek U.S.A.
5. Muzzle
6. Window Paine
7. Lightning Strikes
8. Soma
9. Siva
10. Oceania
11. Frail and Bedazzled
12. Silverfuck
13. Obscured
14. Pale Horse
15. Thru The Eyes of Ruby
+ I Am One (tease)
16. Cherub Rock
17. Owata
18. My Love is Winter
19. For Martha

Encore
20. Pissant
21. Bullet with Butterfly Wings

 

 

 

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Media Review

“The band sounded phenomenal, picking up where they left off at this same venue just over a year ago, the polish possibly a product of them finally hitting their stride with the newer touring lineup behind frontman Billy Corgan. You could hear and even feel each drum hit, heavy bassline and wah-wah-pedaled note that came from Corgan’s guitar, all without it being incoherently loud.” - Sean O’Kane

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Fan Reviews

“They nailed every single song. Old and new. No disappointments. Only song I didn’t fully embrace was Lightning Strikes, but I somehow found myself & others bobbing their heads anyway. Geek USA, Ruby, Soma, Silverfuck, and Pissant slayed. Absolutely, though the other old cuts sounded great as well. I did not think Mikey could handle Geek USA, but damn was I ever wrong. Kudos, man. All of the transitions between songs were very fitting. The circus tune before Geek, the chants before Window Paine, the thunderstorm effect into Soma, and the sound of the ocean into Ruby. The crowd energy was higher than last year’s, I think. From where I was, it actually seemed as if we had more hardcores than casuals for once. For Martha was beautiful, and I actually started to tear up. Billy said nothing to the crowd until they came out for the Pissant/BWBW encore, and he had no need to. He just let the music speak for itself, and it did wonders. By the time Pissant came on, the whole place was rowdy as hell. I love the encore. A big fuck you to casuals, haha. ‘Can’t help thinking something’s wrong with every one of YOU!!’ Right into the one song the casuals probably came to hear. “Okay, we’ll play Rat In A Cage, but you have to listen to 2 hours of these first. And then, goodnight. Best of the three shows I’ve seen them at.” - LostSoul

“The show was excellent. It was really good to experience the Pumpkins energy again. BC really has a good grasp on his energy and he just pours it out on stage in all different spectrum of ways, soft and loud and everything in between. I love when he stops right before an explosion (like in Siva) and kind of teases it out and then explodes. It’s beautiful. It is so cool to see an artist like this play his music in the moment because he is just extraordinarily talented. They all played really well. I was especially impressed with Mike too and with the over all tightness of the band. I like the music in between for rest breaks too, very atmospheric and the thunder sounds after lightning. Oceania is very beautiful live, much different from just video. Also Pale Horse, I wasn’t really getting into that from the videos but live it is just really beautiful. BCs voice sounds great. Sounds 10x stronger than in recent years. Long may it last! It was wonderful to just hear all of those amazing songs in one show.” - mayday27