Hi all, The best thing about this site is we are all true fans. We all agree that those who only know the commercially released songs made our concert in Brisbane take a little side step. I was pleased that what was said was said. I would rather the Band tell us how they fell and what they think than carry that baggage and end up in the same place as 2000. Lets get together before the concert late 2009 Hint Hint Smashing Pumpkins we will have you back sooner as well.

I just have to say that v fest was poo...the only thing that made it good was seeing the pumpkins. It was poorly orgainised. they should have staggered the end of each band so everyone wasnt leaving at the same time, resulting in my friends and i walking for 2 hours coz we couldnt be stuffed waiting with all the drunks for a bus.

Although i love your review brotagaia, i disagree with you. I dont think billy was pissed coz we were all deaf/mute at the convention center. i think he was pissed coz he was bein taunted with semi fans yelling out 'PLAY ZERO!!' every 3 minutes. Hence why he went into the speil about "what do u want me to play, that guy wants me to play this...that guy wants me to play that..how bout i just play nothing" etc. i hate those sudo wannabe pumpkins fans that [bad word removed] it for everyone else...its not kareoke nor is billy some jukebox taking suggestions...hes an artist and he can play what he wants and we shall stand there and like it. sure there is stuff that i would love to have heard but i was just happy to be standing on carpet (not mud) and taking in the pumpkins.


missing the pumpkins already...come back

peace and trees

linnet

xx

A family wedding caused me to miss the first Pumpkins tour and travelling for work caused me to miss another chance to see Billy perform. Finally after being a huge fan for over a dozen years I finally saw a live performance. Fantastic!!!!
The crowd was as tame as I've ever seen at a concert and most didn't appear to know any songs, or even understand music of any sort...but who cares! I had an amazing time. Over 2 hours of solid performance without almost any break. I was worn out just watching, but could've watched for another 3 hours had they kept playing.
The sound was amazing. The performance was amazing. The Pumpkins were amazing.

Only disappointment was that they didn't play my favourite song from Zeitgeist - Bleeding the Orchid. The stereo always gets notched up for track 3 and it would have been amazing live. I think I'll keep it notched up from now on because I heard sounds during United States that I'd never heard before. When I pumped it up on the way to work the next morning I realised I'd been missing out. Now a big favourite. Always loved Mayonaise, Porcelina, Tarantula and Lily and all of the singles (I've heard all the albums so many times I've forgotten which songs were even released)
Would've been nice to hear Disarm live - but I'll have to save that for next time.....
I'd pay thrice as much to go to a smaller venue with true fans like yourselves. Who am I kidding - I'd pay thrice a much to watch them again tonight!

Keep safe. Until another day.
Gadge.
"Fool enough to almost be it + cool enough to not quite see it"

there was a few songs i knew but couldnt think of the titles

porcelina
behold the nightmare?
bring the light
tonight tonight
mayonnaise
lily
perfect
superchrist?
today
tarantula
stand inside your love
*one form the singles soundtrack?
the everlasting gaze
my blue heaven
cash car star
bullet with butterfly wings
1979
thats the way my love is
united states

*two acoustic ones (was one of them crush/drown?)

cheers

been waiting 13 years to see em now im content!

Thank you so much for coming to our shores. Please come back sooner. Sitting here wearing one of the tees I brought and I already feel sad. Will you come back? I will love to see the the tall guy with a guitar and a high whiney voice every year, week or every day. 2 hours of pure talent and I would of stayed for 6 hours. Jimmy you blew me away with the drums and man you can play that tambourine. Perfect touch for a classic song.
Thank you Billy for being who you are. Age has made you wiser and man can you get some sound out of that axe of yours. Memories last forever. Thank you I now have 2 Pumpkin concerts (a decade apart) to go to the grave with, and as any old time pumpkin fan can state the music just keeps on getting better. Beg and grovel COME BACK love to see you at THE BIG DAY OUT. Will wait another 10 years though. Thanks for making my life a reality.

Brilliant performance. The only let down of this five star night was the crowd, not because they didn't know the words but because there were so many rude drunk [bad word removed]s. I was right at the front, right in the middle, and there was this one guy (who im sure everyone knows as the loud mouth, stupid, drunk prick who kept starting fights and groping women.) who was a few lines behind me and he kept crushing everyone at the front because he wanted to get through. I put up with it for a while but at perfect I had to get pulled out by security due to suffocation crushing and dehydration. I missed drown . I can't seperate any highlights everything was amazing.
I do wish though that more people could have appriciated that musicians are artists, and have let Billy play what he wanted to, rather then yelling at him (over the music some times). Other then the few people who tried to ruin it, great night, great performance. Billy's a great, generous performer.

I also heard someone say "how hot does D'arcy look" wich made me smile.

Man we get plenty of exposure. it's everywhere. but you have to seek it out yourself. the smashing pumpkins aren't just served to you at dinner. you gotta earn them.

all those others standing around you at that gig, not knowing what was going on, they were lost souls. they deserve your pity. they have mine.

god damnit i love the smashing pumpkins.

This show was fantastic! Over 2 hours of Smashing Pumpkins goodness came our way at the Brisbane Convention Centre and it was fun and exciting from the word go. Kicking it off was the sweet and romantic Porcelina, and it just got better from there. Nightmare was phenomenal. Mayonaise was simply beautiful. Crowd pleasers were the usual - Today, Tonight Tonight, Bullet with Butterfly Wings - and they were all performed with a sense of ease, spontaneity and familiarity. Superchrist was spectacular, as was Stellar and The Rose March. Lily was unreal (when I was singing along to it, I changed the words to Billy!). United States, which went for at least 14 minutes just kept the crowd in an absolute trance, tripping out all the stoners and inspiring all the drunkards. Billy, as usual, showed us just how talented he is with a guitar and how good he is at putting different sounds together. There was many a murmer of awe during United States.. many a profanity of disbelief uttered. Most definitely a sign of an A grade performance. 2 hours later I still wanted more. I could listen to them perform forever.

The only disappointing thing about this show was the apparent lack of noise from the crowd. I couldn't even scream because I was all screamed out from the V festival performance (I tried many times but at best sounded like a dying bird making its last cry of despair), but no one really seemed to have a passion for the music. Billy even stood there and asked us what we wanted - "I like you, you kinda sorta like me.. what's goin on? What the f%#! do you want me to do??". Had i any remnants of a voice left, I would have shouted as loud as I could "GOSSAMER!!" but sadly it wasn't to be. I particularly liked his song called "nothing" where he silently strummed the guitar and claimed that it was a song that changed his life. Great to see his sense of humor is still very much alive.

I think the Pumpkins have the potential to be massive over here in the land of Oz, but there's certainly not enough exposure. We're seemingly forgotten down here. I could almost guarantee that I was one of maybe 10 people who knew how Stellar went (I wanted to punch the people who had no idea whether it was an old or a new song), how the Rose March went (and by the way, gold star performance there!!), how My Blue Heaven went.. and that to me is a sad sad thing. No one seemed to know Cash Car Star or Crush or even Drown. I bet most of the "fans" who attended had no idea what Machina II was all about. We hear about a law suit, but the whole point is lost. "It's just a scam to make money" - NO. If you knew about how Virgin has screwed over the pumpkins for years it would all make sense, but its just lost on us here. WE DO NOT GET ENOUGH EXPOSURE. We were forgotten with iTunes when American Gothic was released, (sadly I had to download it from a torrent but would have gladly forked out a stupid amount of money for it had I been given the opportunity, and still will if and when it becomes available). We get the standard version albums and they are very hard to come by. Music stores don't give the band much, if any, credit at all. Their excuse - "no one knows them" or "not enough people like them" to justify shipping in music. The Australian Rolling Stone magazine, along with a handful of the other music magazines over here barely cover any fabulous bands - it's all about Panic! at the Disco or Eskimo Joe or the hundreds of other no-name bands who release one song and then disappear, never to be heard of again. Some of the bands at V Festival were a joke in terms of performance. The Pumpkins clearly performed at a standard so much higher than the others that it just seemed to be wasted. Australia seems to be all about "supporting home grown talent" which is fine, but we need to acknowledge the talent that inspired these bands to begin with - which in some way always comes back to the Pumpkins.

So to the mighty SP - may I just say as the self-professed BIGGEST AUSSIE FAN - on behalf of us Aussie fans, I do apologise that we weren't that excited as a collective. Just know that there are a select few of us out there who considered this time to be the highlight of the year, who love you, adore you, sit online for hours pouring over you, spend hours of our days listening to your music on long train rides to our mind-numbingly boring jobs and on our way home after another unfulfilling day at work (personally I've listened to the Grand Rex concert from start to finish over 30 times since I downloaded it off this website, and it always puts a brightener on my otherwise boring day stuck in a job I hate while I finish my degree and start doing what I want) and who share the passion and the energy that you guys try to put out there. It gets through to some of us and it's what keeps us coming back for more. So far nothing has discouraged me and the only thing that will is if you guys stop making music.

Please don't be discouraged at making appearances here more regularly - I know it's a long way from home and we are rude bastards, but the comments I heard after both V Fest and the Brisbane concert were all very very encouraging (many a "Billy is f%$&ing unreal and that guy on the drums.. insane!! were uttered) and I hope that this appearance has at least awoken a few more people to just how great, grand, marvelous, wonderful and inspiring you guys really are. Disbanding probably did a bit of harm for all of us rock-lovers down under.. it's been so long since we've heard real music here (not the britney's or the black hip-hop eminem crap) that we forget what it sounds like after a while. Please try to work on Australia - we're a rich country with a lot of money to spend and there's nothing better that I can think of spending money on than seeing you guys work your magic. Top effort! Thank you for coming and I hope we see you again really soon.