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

For once was an advantage last night for me , person in front had a decent zoom and managed to give me a better view of the stage looking at his screen, usually it wrecks my head

Not a huge SP fan, but was Mayonaise the song Billy and James did that intro on, Billy saying "this young man brought me this riff, and we wrote this song...."?

That was class alright. The more I think about the concert, the more I enjoyed it.

Thought it was a good gig - very good in places - but, if I am being entirely honest, I didn't find it to be excellent. But, if other people did, then that's great!

Thought Weezer did great. Played banger after banger, were as tight as a drum and the sound was on point.

I thought the Pumpkins were a bit uneven. Whenever they played the older material - which was tbf about two thirds of their set - it was great, but I thought the "newer" stuff was awfully dull in comparison, not that I don't expect them to play a good bit of it on the album supporting tour.

The band still sounds great, don't really know why people are complaining about having a few extra people on stage to flesh out some of the songs.

I thought the crowd was, if I'm being nitpicky, a bit flat. Not that people weren't into it, but even down at the very, very front there wasn't an absolutely unreal atmosphere - I thought there'd be more die hard fandom on display and things only really got going with Cherub Rock & Zero right at the end.

I don't know how I feel about the lack of screens etc. I have seen acts in the arena without them, but the majority of acts seem to bring more of a visual show with them these days than the two acts brought last night. You kinda become accustomed to expecting a visual element in an arena show, that maybe felt a bit conspicuous by its absence last night. I understand the argument that maybe it encourages people to focus more on the performance and the music and maybe it kept the price of the tickets down a bit too - but I think if you're not that close to the stage or aren't the tallest you often may have no view of the band at a big show like this if there's no visual reference… just my two cents.

As much as I'm complaining, it was still absolutely worth going to. Two legendary bands on the same bill on the same night, overall, yes, quite good

Great gig, Weezer were decent but I was there for the Pumpkins, Billy was in top form and Jimmy must have done 3 or 4 drum solos.

On the lack of screens, I'm 5"9 and it was just about OK for me, wife is 5"1 and could barely see anything. I can see why people would have a gripe with no screens in this day and age but the sound and bands were great

The guy with 2 drinks easily could have been me! if this was on the very right hand side haha certainly for about 45 minutes or so had to meet friends up there and didn't really want to miss anything as much as possible they cost 8 quid each (I know) for anyone else? of course not!!

Weezer watched from the middle had never caught before first 3 maybe 4 songs were dicey but moved slightly and the rest of set was pretty enjoyable particularly the likes of Pork n Beans,the Hole cover,Hash pipe and Only in Dreams.

SP the highs were bigger and as a disjointed a set as it might have appeared wasn't so like Wembley in 2019 but I guess they played for 3 hours then, one for diehards but even so they finished with a cover of the song from Dumbo on that occasion ffs lol.

Anyway great night.

Speaking of James Iha

Would love to see A Perfect Circle play here

Weezer were tight as ****. The sound quality for both was amazing. I stood and closed my eyes and smiled for the entirety of mayonaise and just took it all in. Fantastic show ❤️

Funnily enough, I'm just watching an upload the Sweater Song on Youtube from the floor and it sounds great. I was up in block E and the vocals for Weezer were horrible. Completely muddy. I'd a friend in C and they said it sounded okay. It seems the 3Arena is really place sensitive. Corgan sounded okay, but then again, I know he favours having cabs under the stage to enhance separation. Or maybe they were working on it.

Sound complaints aside, it was a great show. Had the fear when I saw the backup vocalist and thought maybe Corgan's voice was shot and she was running cover. But no. He seemed unusually engaged. I'm crediting his kids. Was reading a piece afterwards where he stated he didn't want to be some old past it rocker in their eyes.

Was Kiki rocking a Cobalt burst PRS 24 at certain points?

Can't believe people payed for those 'VIP' packages

Needlessly aggressive post and completely inaccurate as per usual. The music forums would be a better place without this crap.

She played with Taylor Swift before and has a social media following. No issues with that but I don’t think their new guitar player role was really for someone random.

Got a few bits easy enough before 7 in the middle section

Pricy enough

Got the Weezer shirt and SP bucket hat (will need that for Mad Cool)

Up close the SP shirts were a bit meh

Yeah posted that a few days ago

Some coincidence

The fire alarm happened today

Posted on Monday that its a bit of a coincidence hes appearing the Dublin the same week as Weezer

There was segration between seated and standing though, you needed to show your standing ticket stub to get into standing and you had no chance from the balcony.

The only way to get into standing from a seat was if you had a seated ticket in Block A which was tiered seating on the ground floor and jumped the barrier (it was only about a metre drop from the bottom of the stairs). I know this because I did it several times in the 90s.

There is absolutely no way that enough people did that to cause the crush that night, and if there was you can be 100% certain the promoter would have pointed the finger to that reason.

I thought finishing with Buddy Holly was absolutely glorious. Destined to be one of my highlights of the concert year.

… but without that, we wouldn't have had Pretty Fly for a Rabbi by "Weird Al" Yankovic, so you know, every cloud…