Smashing Pumpkins and Weezer, Three Arena, 10th June 2024

I have a standing ticket for sale for tonight for €92. Let me know if interested.

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Should add, was really hoping Weezer would play No one Else but if the twitter crowd/outrage police were annoyed at Pink Triangle can’t imagine what they would say about No One Else! Rivers was young ffs!

still two songs to go. But I’m off. Driving home so wanna get on the North Circular early.

fair point but I’m more a Weezer fan tbh. As much as I like the pumpkins

Waited over 30 years to see the pumpkins and was not disappointed, thought they were excellent.

I kind of checked out after machina and zwan so was not as familiar with the "newer" songs.

Mayonaise live is one more tick off the bucket list.

Weezer were fairly good too.

Getting to the toilets during the 15 mins between Weezer and SP was a magical mystery tour , directed by security I ended up doing a full circle of the building and ended up queueing back where I started.

Here's my take.

Personally I thought Weezer were better. Tighter and sounded more rehearsed and no filler, tune after tune for an epic 70 minute lean set. I love when a band just motors through the hits no chit chat or 'we love you people we've never met' nonsense. I'm a fan so might be biased.

Pumpkins were good but few things.

Why is Katie Cole in the band? I really don't get why they need her she does very very little and at times was just wandering around at a loss as to what to do. I never understand why bands have touring musicians that do very very little actual music. Smashing Pumpkins don't need a passenger or a Happy Mondays 'Bez' there was songs where she did literally nothing.

Why did Kiki not play on tonight tonight and step back? Does she not know it?

I also wonder why they need Kiki she's basically playing the parts James would normally play so he's made a rhythm guitarist moreso than a lead guitarist now. Do they really need 4 guitarists on stage? Kiki/James/Billy/Katie.

I didn't get billy bringing the kids on stage seemed silly and pandering to the crowd; was odd in my view.

I was also little miffed there was no moshing, back in the day we'd tear into one another at Smashing Pumpkins gigs but yesterday around me it was a lot of youngsters. Maybe the kids these days don't know what moshing is who knows but loved a bit of moshing/slam dancing back in the day to these bands.

I also didn't get their cover of Zoo Station I thought it was a muddled mess and the band haven't probably rehearsed it properly or for long enough; it's also a poor song in the first place the worst off Achtung Baby so why did they choose that to cover?

Anyway

On the positives it was a very enjoyable evening, sound was good overall some proper bangers played, great to see one of rocks great drummers and everyone was in good spirits. 2 hours from pumpkins too so was a long show with something for everyone.

Overall 8/10

Brilliant gig. I've never listened to Weezer in depth but know a good few of their songs. I'm impressed... great band and performance.

Thought the pumpkins were great too. Very loud! Almost heavy metal at times. Nice to hear a good mix of the hits and their own rendition of zoo station. Ava adore was my highlight and mayonnaise.