A First Live Performance of Smile at Wembley
Both notes say "Smile" got its first live performance before an audience at Wembley Arena. Both notes call "Blood" short but very intense.
On Monday, October 28, 1996, Pearl Jam played Wembley Arena in London, England, the arena both chronologies name in their headings. Five Horizons gives an attendance of 11,000, the chronology's opening act line names Fastbacks, and Five Horizons' support act line names The Fastbacks. The chronology prints twenty entries in its setlist and five in its encore, twenty-five in all, and Five Horizons gives the same counts on its set line and on a line it calls enc. Both notes say "Even Flow" began with a short, cool guitar intro, and they call Mike's solo brilliant.
The show
Wembley Arena
Both headings give the venue as Wembley Arena and the place as London, England. Five Horizons brackets 115m after its heading without stating what it measures.
The Performance
The chronology's setlist runs "Oceans," "Last Exit," "Animal," "Spin The Black Circle," "Hail Hail," "Dissident," "In My Tree," "Corduroy," "Elderly Woman," which it follows with three dots, "Not For You," "Even Flow," "Daughter," "Jeremy," "State Of Love And Trust," "Sometimes," "Rearviewmirror," "Immortality," "Alive," "Blood," and "Porch." Its encore holds "Off He Goes," "Better Man," "Whipping," "Smile," and "Leaving Here." Five Horizons gives the same twenty entries in the chronology's order on its set line and the same five on its enc line. Both notes say the singer was looking after his throat, with tea between songs, yet had to strain to reach notes. Both notes call "Blood" short but very intense. Both notes say "Smile" got its first live performance before an audience.
The Next Step
Dublin, two days earlier, is told in The Crowd's Choice in Dublin. Both chronologies put the next show the following night, October 29, at the same arena; it is told in Release in Complete Darkness at Wembley.
Recording & sound
What the Record Preserves
Under the night's heading the chronology's page hangs an image whose markup title reads Ad, one whose markup title reads Setlist, one whose markup title reads Ticket, and nine more images. Wembley Arena on October 28 comes down to one arena both chronologies name alike, 115m that Five Horizons brackets without saying what it measures, an attendance of 11,000 in Five Horizons, one act on both bill lines, twenty-five entries in each chronology, the first live performance of "Smile" before an audience in both notes, and twelve objects under the date.
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Other accounts
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Sources & thanks (3)
- Pearl Jam Concert Chronology — 1996 page
- Five Horizons — Concert chronology 1996 (part 2), entry for 10/28/96
- Pearl Jam Concert Chronology — 1996 page, the entry for the date