by Elliot Mitchell Contributor | Photos by AKM-GSI / Splash News

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Billy Corgan performs three hour, 31 song set in Chicago

Smashing Pumpkins' frontman gives career spanning performance

 

Billy Corgan performs three hour, 31 song set in Chicago Photo: AKM-GSI / Splash News

This weekend saw Billy Corgan play a 31 song, three hour career spanning set at Ravinia Festival in Chicago.

Mixing up greatest hits with B-sides and rarities, The Smashing Pumpkins frontman played the whole set acoustically, joined by guitarist Jeff Schroeder.

Playing tracks from across his back catalogue, Corgan performed Pumpkins' classics such as 'Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness' and 'Ava Adore' as well as a series of covers including Echo and the Bunnymen's 'The Killing Moon'.

The encore saw Corgan joined by members of his pro-wrestling league for a performance of Zwan’s 'Of A Broken Heart'.

Watch fan-filmed footage from the gig below:

It was recently revealed that Smashing Pumpkins would be reissuing their career-defining album Adore in a gargantuan six cd box set, which also features a remix of 'Ava Adore' from Puff Daddy.

Read the setlist for Corgan's performance below:

Setlist:

VIP rehearsal
The Killing Moon (Echo & The Bunnymen cover)
Purr Snickety  
Owata 

Main Set
Chicago Today 
Disarm 
Lonely is the Name As Time Draws Near For Your Love (Zwan)
The Rose March  
Perfect  
Let Me Give the World to You  
Prairie Song (Zwan)
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness 
To Forgive
Muzzle
Tonight, Tonight  
Galapogos
Methusela  
Thirty-Three 
1979 
Now (And Then)
The Beginning Is the End Is the Beginning
The Crying Tree of Mercury 
Ava Adore 
Pinwheels 
Stand Inside Your Love 
Which Way You Goin’ Billy? (The Poppy Family cover)
Burnt Orange-Black

Encore
The World’s Fair Of a Broken Heart (Zwan song)

Below: 30 songs by 30 bands that could never ever be left off a setlist


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