The Smashing Pumpkins
27th April 2023
Port Melbourne Industrial Centre for the Arts, Melbourne, Australia
Photography by Alexander Hallag.
The Smashing Pumpkins have been touring Australia with ‘The World Is A Vampire tour’ for the past few weeks, with last night being Melbourne’s turn to witness the spectacle of rock!
The tour boasts some very special guests including alt-rock legends Jane’s Addiction and killer Aussie rock from Amyl & The Sniffers. Each show has also featured professional wrestling matches between Billy Corgan’s NWA (National Wrestling Alliance) and the WAOA (Wrestling Alliance of Australia).
The Smashing Pumpkins were one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed bands of the 1990s, often cited as one of the most influential acts in alternative rock.
From the instantly recognisable harmonic riff of Cherub Rock and the haunting Disarm from their breakthrough album, 93’s Siamese Dream to the majesty of Tonight, Tonight and the savagery of Bullet With Butterfly Wings from the 10 times platinum monster, 1995’s Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness which was the best-selling double album of the 90’s, through to the bands most recent releases 2018’s Shiny and Oh So Bright and 2021’s Cyr which featured the singles, Solara, The Colour Of Love and Wyttch, The Smashing Pumpkins have been a mainstay in the rock world for over three decades and in 2023 will release their most ambitious work to date, Atum: A Rock Opera In Three Acts.
Jane’s Addiction were one of the first bands from the alt-rock movement to gain both mainstream media attention and commercial success. The band’s first two studio albums, 1988’s Nothing’s Shocking and 1990’s Ritual de lo Habitual were released to widespread critical acclaim and gave the world classics like Mountain Song, Been Caught Stealing and Stop! Fusing together a multitude of styles that ultimately led to them being labeled ‘funk-punk’ Jane’s Addiction created a sound all their own and their influence can be heard across nearly every sub-genre of rock music.
Last night Ambient Light photographer Alexander Hallag was at the show and has filed this gallery of images from the show, check them all out below!
Smashing Pumpkins:
Jane’s Addiction:
Amyl and the Sniffers:
Were you there at the Port Melbourne Industrial Centre for the Arts for this great alternative rock gig? Or have you seen Smashing Pumpkins perform live somewhere else before? Tell us about it in the comments below!
Smashing Pumpkins Setlist:
- Empires
- Bullet With Butterfly Wings
- Today
- We Only Come Out at Night
- Once in a Lifetime [Talking Heads cover]
- Solara
- Eye
- Ava Adore
- Spellbinding
- Under the Milky Way (Acoustic) [The Church cover]
- Space Cowboy (Acoustic) [Steve Miller Band cover]
- Tonight, Tonight (Acoustic)
- Cherub Rock
- Zero
- 1979
- Beguiled
- Silverfuck
Jane’s Addiction Setlist:
- Then She Did…
- Whores
- Been Caught Stealing
- Ocean Size
- Ted, Just Admit It…
- Jane Says
- Mountain Song
- Summertime Rolls
- Three Days
- Stop!
Amyl & The Sniffers Setlist:
- Control
- Freaks to the Front
- Shake Ya
- Capital
- Security
- Maggot
- Guided by Angels
- Balaclava Lover Boogie
- Knifey
- Hertz
- Some Mutts (Can’t Be Muzzled)
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