The Smashing Pumpkins

madhatters_2008 escreveu:

I'm a fairly new set of ears to the SP's but my wife is a life long fan. Unfortunately we'd never seen them live prior to Reading last year and we managed to get tickets to this event too. Both experiences were fantastic. It would be really cool to catch them at a smaller venue admittedly since the o2 wasn't very well managed in my opinion; various little niggles, but not enough to spoil our trip

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fordy304 escreveu:

Agreed with Wilbur, they play a lot of shows, they have a huge back catalogue and should be allowed to choose whatever the hell they want from it instead of just playing the same fan favourites over and over again. It's not like they didn't play any classics at all, we had Bullet, Ava Adore, Today, 1979, Porcelina.... Oh and I thought Ginger was very good.

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middleclasssam escreveu:

I don't see how people can be disappointed, the music was great, and you can tell the set list was chosen carefully. Not to be crowd pleasers, but to be genuinely good live songs...

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Burn_it_down escreveu:

To talk2bar, Yeah it didn't sound like it at all but that cannot be done without D'arcy singing it, it sounded more like they were jamming at that point, Thats the way was amazing it should have been recorded like that for Zeitgeist, My blue heaven and lily were also great, random but great and were a nice little break from the heavier songs, what were your highlights?

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mehtadone escreveu:

Just worth it for Mayo!!!

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_wilbur_ escreveu:

This was the fifth time I have seen them and I'm glad they feel they can play what they want so they enjoy the gig rather than playing the same songs over and over. I really enjoyed the setlist for this tour. A good handful of songs I hadn't seen live or never thought I would. Highlights for me were Cash Car Star, and Superchrist. Would've liked Muzzle and/or XYU. I'll be at the next UK shows.

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hollandmatt escreveu:

I didn't like the lack of screens either - but the O2 *does* have them, (Did for The Verve anyway) the Pumpkins must have opted not to use them... I'd also echo the disappointment, they were far too self-indulgent at times which wasn't made up for by the sporadic moments of brilliance.

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littlelena escreveu:

Really disappointing gig for me...actually thought that oceansize were the better band! Can't believe they never sang cherub rock :-(

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buyuyu escreveu:

What a great deception... Came from Barcelona to see that concert and if I had known before I would rather buy one of their music DVDs. They just looked like a supporting band, the sound was horrible when they all played together (too much distortion) and no big screens! I was in the upper tier and still don't know how the new bassist looks like (will have to check it online, hehe). My last time

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talk2bar escreveu:

to burn_it_down, they did play daydream, but it wasn't exactly recognisable, it was played as a full band with distorted guitars and everything, didn't really pull it off - not like the acoustic version of That's The Way... cos that was sublime

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jakebear escreveu:

i thought the echo and the bunnymen cover was great too but they should have played cherub rock afterwards

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StueUK escreveu:

Ginger is actually a very good bassist, i wouldnt swap her for D'Arcy, but then again I'm a new age Pumpkins fan.

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RooOfDoom escreveu:

right songs in the wrong order, stopped a good show being an great show

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random_wordage escreveu:

Well I thought they were really good,admitedly I wanted to see Zero and Disarm as well but for (and this is gonna sound pretentious) for someone that has msot of the stuff of they've released,it was really good to see some of the rarer tracks! And Oceansize were great! But then againi was standing fairly close,so the sound was good for both bands!

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vicki_666 escreveu:

god that echo and the bunnymen cover was BRILLIANT :D billy was so into it as well haha. amazing show, i think i almost died of happiness when they played behold the night mare

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Thurston_Whore escreveu:

lol where did they get that ginger? She's just for show i reckon barbydoll alike,Bring back D'arcy & James anyday!

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StueUK escreveu:

Surely Ginger is all you need to look at

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Richwatchorn escreveu:

I enjoyed it overall but would have been nice to hear Disarm. They tended to go off on a tandem and dragged some songs out longer than they needed to be. The stage was a letdown I agree that you would have presumed some bigger band was coming on later. Saw Linkin Park a few weeks back at the O2 and that was actually something to look at as well as listen too. But maybe that was the point.

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