Smashing Pumpkins Play Mammoth Three Hour Set

The Smashing Pumpkins played a mammoth three-hour set at their first UK show in seven years last night (June 19).

Billy Corgan and co. played a fervently received show to a packet to the rafters Shepherd’s Bush Empire. Tickets for which went within minutes when they went on sale some weeks back.

The rock giants played a 28 song set which included old classics like ‘Tonight Tonight’, plus newer tracks like lead single ‘Tarantula’ from their eagerly anticipated LP ‘Zeitgeist’ – released on July 7.

Opening with ‘United States’ the band played the sprawling set in from of a giant black American flag adorned with the ‘SP’ logo.

The full set list was as follows:
United States
Bleeding The Orchid
Today
Stand Inside Your Love
Shame
Hummer
Bullet With Butterfly Wings
Glass And The Ghost Children
Lucky 13
Doomsday Clock
Silver****
For God And Country
Thirty Three
Rocket
Winterlong
To Sheila
Tonight Tonight
Tarantula
Starz
Zero
Disarm
Neverlost
That's The Way (My Love Is)
1979
Untitled
Gossamer
Cherub Rock
Muzzle