The Smashing Pumpkins

The Smashing Pumpkins are an American alternative rock band that formed in Chicago, Illinois in 1988. Disavowing the punk rock roots shared by many of their alt-rock contemporaries, the Pumpkins have a diverse, densely layered, and guitar-heavy sound, containing elements of gothic rock, heavy metal, dream pop, psychedelic rock, arena rock, shoegazer-style production and, in later recordings, electronica. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Smashing_Pumpkins)

Scheduled

Saturday, 1 September 1991, "Heldenplatz", 22:35

Line up

Billy Corgan - vocals, guitar; James Iha - guitar; D'Arcy Wretzky - bass; Jimmy Chamberlain - drums

Set list

01 Rocket

02 Tristessa

03 Window paine

04 Bury me

05 Siva

06 Silverfuck

Recordings

A complete audience recording of 01 - 06 exists, both in audio and video (approx 37"). I have a lossless (flac) radio recording of 03 - 06 (approx 28"). Pro-shot video clips were aired by Dutch TV. (http://www.splra.org/wiki/index.php?title=Tsp1991-09-01)

Other info

First Smashing Pumpkins show in the Netherlands, or outside of North America for that matter...

Article from festival booklet

This is the legendary Ein Abend in Wien festival in Rotterdam where the Pumpkins performed with, among others, Nirvana, Sonic Youth and Mudhoney (the line-up was incredible). I guess it's also the first European Pumpkins show. Courtney was at this show with Billy. Two months later, Kurt and she started dating. These really were the good old grunge days where the different bands competed with each other. The show took place a few weeks before Nevermind came out. The Pumpkins at that time were regarded, in Holland at least, as the "next big thing" and played on the main stage. Does anyone have the video of this Pumpkin performance? I saw a pro vid on someone's bootlist which features some excerpts (7 minutes). (http://forums.netphoria.org/showthread.php?t=108337&referrerid=11388)

Ein abend in Wien: Rotterdam 1991. Ik wilde er heen, maar niemand wilde mee. Waarom? Vanwege dat ene bandje wiens debuut cd ik zo goed vond: GISH. Wist ik veel dat Nirvana er toen ook stond (hun NEVERMIND stond op punt van uitkomen). Ik wilde de Pumpkins zien. Ben niet gegaan omdat ik zo'n festival niet leuk vond om in mijn uppie te bezoeken (21 jaar en dan toch aan de hand van vrienden meegenomen moeten worden). - Door aERodynamIC - Wednesday 13 October 2004 15:03. (http://vpro.react.nl/3voor12/forum/view_message/35089)