the patti smith setlists

17 January 2008, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA
"Beatific Soul"
Grateful, Improvisation/My Blakean Year, Joining Generations^*

Note: Patti Smith and Lenny Kaye. ^*Special guest David Amram. Incomplete setlist.

18 January 2008, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
"Poems and Songs for the Young at Heart"
The More It Snows (Tiddely-Pom) (A A Milne), The Land of Counterpane (Robert Louis Stevenson), Where Go the Boats? (Robert Louis Stevenson), The Little Match Girl (Hans Christian Andersen), The Little Match Girl (Marjorie Henderson Buell), Scarlet Ribbons (For Her Hair) (Evelyn Danzig, Jack Segal), I Am a Child (Neil Young), The Lamb, The Tyger, The Land of Nod (Robert Louis Stevenson), Where the Blue of the Night (Meets the Gold of the Day) ( Roy Turk, Bing Crosby, Fred E Ahlert), Bobby Shafto (traditional), Ghost Dance, Wing, Ringtone Vamp (Jackson Smith), The Cow (Robert Louis Stevenson), Mother Rose, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll), White Rabbit, Helpless, Toyland, The Jackson Song, Forever Young (Bob Dylan), People have the Power, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Note: Patti Smith with Lenny Kaye, Jay Dee Daugherty and Jackson Smith.

1 February 2008, Reynolds Center, Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington DC, USA
Wing, Farewell Reel, Gandhi, My Blakean Year, Grateful, I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry, Because the Night (poem), People Have the Power (poem)

Note: Setlist not in order, maybe incomplete.

8 February 2008, Passionskirche Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
"An evening of poetry and music"
Trampin’, Ballad of a Bad Boy, Dog Dream, Wing, Ghost Dance, Grateful, Beneath the Southern Cross, I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry, Pirate Jenny, My Blakean Year, Helpless, Gandhi, Farewell Reel, Burning Roses, Peaceable Kingdom, (encore): People Have The Power, Because The Night

Note: Patti Smith and Giovanni Sollima.

1 March 2008, Allen Room, Lincoln Center, New York, NY, USA
"American Songbook"
My Buddy (Al Jolson), Star Dust (Hoagy Carmichael), My Funny Valentine (Rodgers and Hart), A Thousand Stars, Letter by Joan Mitchell, It Might as Well Be Spring (Dick Haymes), I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry, Don’t Smoke In Bed, Blue Poles, Helpless, Tumbling Tumbleweeds (Sons of the Pioneers), Autumn Leaves (Johnny Mercer), Because the Night, Blackbird, People Have the Power, (encore): I’ll Be Seeing You (Bing Crosby), Dancing Barefoot, (The Gang that Sang) Heart of My Heart (The Four Aces)

Note: Patti Smith with Luis Resto, Paul Nowinski and Jackson Smith.

2 March 2008, Pfleeger Concert Hall, Wilson Hall, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ, USA
"An Intimate Evening with Patti Smith and Janet Hamill"
Wing, Gandhi, People Have the Power (spoken), Genie of the Alphabet

Setlist incomplete.

8 March 2008, Teatre Principal de Palma, Mallorca, Spain
Redondo Beach, Ghost Dance, My Blakean Year, Beneath the Southern Cross, Pissing in a River, Ain’t It Strange, For Your Love, Dancing Barefoot, Smells Like Teen Spirit, Because the Night, Not Fade Away, People Have the Power, (encore): Soul Kitchen, Rock n Roll Nigger/Gloria, Helpless

11 March 2008, Teatro Cervantes, Málaga, Spain
Kimberly, Redondo Beach, Are You Experienced? (false start), Are You Experienced?, Ghost Dance, Within You Without You, Free Money, Beneath the Southern Cross, Helpless, Ain’t it Strange, For Your Love, Dancing Barefoot, Smells Like Teen Spirit, Because the Night, People Have the Power, (encore): Happy Birthday Jeanette, Wing, Gimme Shelter, Rock n Roll Nigger

28 March 2008, Fondation Cartier, Paris, France
"Les Soirées Nomades: Soirée Virginia Woolf"
Grateful, The Writer’s Song, People Have the Power, Birdland^*, The Fidelity Oath^* (René Daumal), Birds of Iraq⁺, My Blakean Year, Wing, Virginia of the Stones^* (improvisation including readings from The Waves by Virginia Woolf), Pissing in a River^*+, (encore): Helpless^*+, Dancing Barefoot^*+

Note: ^* with Jesse Paris Smith and⁺Jackson Smith

30 March 2008, Second Laugharne Weekend Festival, Millennium Hall, Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, UK
Grateful, Worthy the Lamb Slain for Us, Beneath the Southern Cross, Because the Night, Wild Leaves, Death of a Tramp, Dark Eyes, Wilderness, I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry, Cradle Song, My Blakean Year, People Have the Power, Piss Factory, The Writer’s Song, Poem in October (Dylan Thomas)^*, Wing, In My Craft or Sullen Art (Dylan Thomas), Gandhi

Patti Smith with special guest ^*Patrick Wolf

31 March 2008, Second Laugharne Weekend Festival, Dylan Thomas’ Boathouse, Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, UK
The Lovecrafter, The Last Dodo, I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry, The Long Road, Farewell Reel, Wing^*, The Blue Doll^*, October^*(Dylan Thomas), Our Jargon Muffles the Drum, My Blakean Year

Patti Smith with special guest ^*Patrick Wolf

4 April 2008, Sala Grande, Teatro Arena del Sole, Bologna, Italy
"Patti Smith Festival"
Kimberly, Redondo Beach, Ghost Dance, Break it Up (aborted), Birdland, My Blakean Year, Beneath the Southern Cross, We Three, Frederick, Dancing Barefoot, Pushin’ Too Hard, Helpless, Because the Night, Gloria, Soul Kitchen, People Have the Power

5 April 2008, Sala Grande, Teatro Arena del Sole, Bologna, Italy
"Patti Smith Festival"
Kimberly, Are You Experienced?^*, Ghost Dance^*, Within You Without You^*, Wing^**, Beneath the Southern Cross^**, Frederick, Paths that Cross^*, Dancing Barefoot, Smells Like Teen Spirit^*, Because the Night, People Have the Power, Gimme Shelter^***, Rock n Roll Nigger^***

Patti Smith & Her Band with special guests ^*Giovanni Sollima, ^**Tom Verlaine and ^***Jimmy Rip

6 April 2008, Fondation Cartier, Paris, France
"Les Soirées Nomades: Concert Acoustique"
Beneath the Southern Cross, Redondo Beach, Ghost Dance, Frederick, Wing, Paris Improvisation / My Blakean Year, Grateful, Dancing Barefoot, Because the Night, Peaceable Kingdom, Gloria, (encore): Helpless, People Have the Power

Note: Patti Smith and Her Band

23 April 2008, Real Casa de Correos, Madrid, Spain
"Noche de los Libros"
Perfect Moon, Wing, Mother Rose, Ghost Dance, The Geometry Ruin Blinked Unimaginable, The Writer’s Song, My Blakean Year, Because the Night, (encore): Dancing Barefoot, People Have the Power

Note: Patti Smith With Jackson Smith and Tony Shanahan. Incomplete setlist.

3 May 2008, Bergenfest 08, Grieghallen, Bergen, Norway
Frederick, Redondo Beach, Are You Experienced?, Ghost Dance, Bergen Improvisation/My Blakean Year, Beneath the Southern Cross, We Three, Dancing Barefoot, Because the Night, Pissing In a River, Smells Like Teen Spirit^*, People Have the Power^*, (encore): Helpless, Gloria^*

Note: ^*Special guests John Paul Jones on mandolin and Robyn Hitchcock on guitar.

4 May 2008, Bergenfest 08, Ole Bull Scene, Bergen, Norway
Kimberly, Redondo Beach, Ghost Dance, Grateful, Beneath the Southern Cross, Free Money, Pushin’ Too Hard, Ain’t it Strange, New Song, Dancing Barefoot, Because the Night, Gloria, (encore): Soul Kitchen, Rock n Roll Nigger

5 June 2008, Elisabethenkirche, Basel, Switzerland
Y, Gloria, Frederick, Because the Night, Smells Like Teen Spirit

Note: Patti Smith and Her Band. A private concert arranged by the Fondation Cartier at Art Basel 2008. Incomplete setlist.

7 June 2008, Fondation Cartier, Paris, France
"Les Soirées Nomades: Concert Acoustique"
Kimberly, Redondo Beach, Frederick, Ghost Dance, Grateful, Beneath the Southern Cross, Don’t Say Nothing, Dancing Barefoot, Peaceable Kingdom, Who Do You Love?, Because the Night, People Have the Power, (encore): Soul Kitchen, Rock n Roll Nigger

Note: Patti Smith and Her Band.

11 June 2008, Esquire Apartment, Moscow, Russia
Grateful, Redondo Beach, Frederick, Beneath the Southern Cross, Dancing Barefoot, Pissing in a River, Helpless, My Blakean Year, Smells Like Teen Spirit, Because the Night, People Have the Power, (encore): ^*Gloria

Patti Smith with Jackson Smith. Special guests ^* Alassid Jazz.

20 June 2008, Fondation Cartier, Paris, France
"Les Soirées Nomades"
Wing, Grateful, My Blakean Year^*, Beneath the Southern Cross^*, Helpless, Kimberly, Ghost Dance^*, Redondo Beach, Dancing Barefoot, Because the Night, Smells Like Teen Spirit^*, Gloria^*, Pissing in a River, People Have the Power^*

Note: Patti Smith with Jackson Smith, Jesse Smith, Michael Campbell, ^* Hakim Hamadouche. The concert was held in the garden of the Fondation Cartier.

22 June 2008, Phillips de Pury Gallery, London, UK
New Song, Redondo Beach, Because the Night, Wing, Pissing in a River, Dancing Barefoot, People Have the Power, Gloria

Note: Patti Smith with Jackson Smith. Private performance for Phillips de Pury.

3 July 2008, Huerta de San Vicente, Granada, Spain
Grateful, Wing, My Blakean Year, Eve of All Saints, Helpless, New York (Office and Denunciation) (Lorca), The Crystal Ship, The Writer’s Song, Gandhi, Blacks Dancing to Cuban Rhythms (Lorca), People Have the Power (spoken), Granada (Elegía Humilde) (Lorca), Because the Night, Gloria

Note: Special guest Tom Lardner.

8 July 2008, Byblos International Festival, Byblos, Lebanon
Kimberly, Redondo Beach, Grateful, Frederick, Ghost Dance, Beneath the Southern Cross, My Blakean Year, Summer Cannibals, Qana, Dancing Barefoot, Because the Night, Peaceable Kingdom, People Have the Power, (encore): Helpless, Land/Gloria

10 July 2008, Rockwave Festival 08, Athens, Greece
Redondo Beach, Are You Experienced?, Ghost Dance, Beneath the Southern Cross, My Blakean Year, Dancing Barefoot, Because the Night, Smells Like Teen Spirit, People Have the Power, Rock n Roll Nigger

11 July 2008, Musilac Festival, Aix-les-Bains, France
Dancing Barefoot, Are You Experienced?, Free Money, Beneath the Southern Cross, Pissing in a River, Helpless, Because the Night, Smells Like Teen Spirit, People Have the Power, Rock n Roll Nigger

12 July 2008, Traffic 2008, Torino Free Festival, Turin, Italy
Dancing Barefoot, Kimberly, Are You Experienced?, Free Money, Ghost Dance, Beneath the Southern Cross, Pissing in a River, Redondo Beach, Because the Night, Frederick, People Have the Power, Smells Like Teen Spirit, Rock N Roll Nigger

13 July 2008, Arena Wien, Vienna, Austria
Pissing in a River, Frederick, Are You Experienced?, Within You Without You, Don’t Say Nothing, Beneath the Southern Cross, Helpless, Ain’t it Strange, For Your Love, Ghost Dance, Dancing Barefoot, Because the Night, Smells Like Teen Spirit, Gloria, (encore): Gimme Shelter, People Have the Power, Rock N Roll Nigger

16 July 2008, Molde International Jazz Festival, Romsdalsmuseet, Molde, Norway
Gloria, Kimberly, Are You Experienced?, Pissing in a River, Ghost Dance, Beneath the Southern Cross, Helpless, Dancing Barefoot, Because the Night, Smells Like Teen Spirit, People Have the Power/Babelogue/Rock n Roll Nigger/Gloria

17 July 2008, Bukta 08, 5th Tromsø Open Air Festival, Telegrafbukta, Tromsø, Norway
Dancing Barefoot, Redondo Beach, Are You Experienced?, Ghost Dance, Beneath the Southern Cross, Because the Night, Smells Like Teen Spirit, People Have the Power, Rock n Roll Nigger

18 July 2008, Stockholm Jazz Festival, Skeppsholmen, Stockholm, Sweden
Kimberly, Dancing Barefoot, Are You Experienced?, My Blakean Year, Ghost Dance, Beneath the Southern Cross, Pissing in a River, Because the Night, Smells Like Teen Spirit, People Have the Power, Rock n Roll Nigger, (encore): Helpless, Gloria

20 July 2008, Expo Zaragoza 2008, Anfiteatro 43, Zaragoza, Spain
Kimberly, Dancing Barefoot, Are You Experienced?, Wing, Ghost Dance, Beneath the Southern Cross, Soul Kitchen, Pissing in a River, For Your Love, Because the Night, Smells Like Teen Spirit, Peaceable Kingdom, Gloria, (encore): People Have the Power, Rock n Roll Nigger

21 July 2008, Santana 27, Bilbao, Spain
Kimberly, Redondo Beach, Are You Experienced?, Ghost Dance, Beneath the Southern Cross, Wing, Pushin’ Too Hard, Dancing Barefoot, Because the Night, Smells Like Teen Spirit, For Your Love, People Have the Power, Rock n Roll Nigger, (encore): Helpless, Gloria

24 August 2008, Damrosch Park Bandshell, Lincoln Center, New York, NY, USA
"Roots of America Festival"
Frederick, Redondo Beach, Are You Experienced?, Ghost Dance, Beneath the Southern Cross, Wing, Free Money, Because the Night, Peaceable Kingdom, Smells Like Teen Spirit^*, People Have the Power^*, (encore): Gloria

Note: ^* Special guests Sam Bush (mandolin) and Jerry Douglas(guitar).

30 August 2008, Creation of Peace Festival, Main Square, Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia
Poka Gorit Svecha (While the Candle Burns)^*, Everybody Hurts^**, Dancing Barefoot, Beneath the Southern Cross, Because the Night, Smells Like Teen Spirit⁺, People Have the Power, All You Need is Love (The Beatles)^{^}

Note: ^*with Mashina Vremeni (Time Machine), ⁺), ^**with Zemfira,⁺with Tony Levin and Eddie Jobson, ^{^}finale with all artists.

2 September 2008, B1 Maximum Club, Moscow, Russia
Kimberly, Privilege (Set Me Free), Are You Experienced?, Ghost Dance, Within You Without You, Beneath the Southern Cross, We Three, Pushin’ Too Hard, Ain’t It Strange, Midnight Rider, Because the Night, Smells Like Teen Spirit, Gloria, (encore): Helpless, Babelogue/Rock n Roll Nigger

4 October 2008, Eglise Saint-Germain-des-Près, Paris, France
"Nuit Blanche 2008"

First show (9.30 pm)
Unidentified Song, Wing, Grateful, Beneath the Southern Cross, Ghost Dance, Dancing Barefoot, Helpless, Because the Night, People Have the Power

Second show (11.00 pm)
Unidentified Song, Grateful, Kimberly, Beneath the Southern Cross, Dancing Barefoot, Helpless, Because the Night, People Have the Power

Third show (12.30 am)
Wing, Beneath the Southern Cross, Ghost Dance^*, Dancing Barefoot, Because the Night, People Have the Power

Fourth show (2.20 pm)
Beneath the Southern Cross, New Song, Pissing in a River^*, Ghost Dance^*+, Are You Experienced?^*+, Dancing Barefoot^*+, Because the Night^*+

Fifth show (4.00 am)
Two Unidentified Songs, Improvisation/My Blakean Year, Helpless, New Song, Are You Experienced?^*, People Have the Power^*

Note: Patti Smith with Jackson Smith (guitar) and Jesse Smith (piano). Special guests ^*Michael Pitt (guitar) and ⁺Jamie Bochert (tambourine). There were 5 separate shows overnight, the later ones being on the morning of 5 October 2008.

11 October 2008, Melbourne International Arts Festival Hamer Hall, Arts Centre, Melbourne, Australia
"Rock n Rimbaud"
Kimberley, Frederick, Are You Experienced?, Ghost Dance, Within You Without You, Grateful, Beneath the Southern Cross, Free Money, We Three, Dancing Barefoot, Because the Night, Smells Like Teen Spirit, Land, Gloria, (encore): Babelogue/Rock n Roll Nigger

Note: Patti Smith and Her Band.

12 October 2008, Melbourne International Arts Festival Hamer Hall, Arts Centre, Melbourne, Australia
"Rock n Rimbaud"
Redondo Beach, Birdland, Dancing Barefoot, Ghost Dance, My Blakean Year, Beneath the Southern Cross, Ain’t It Strange, Peacable Kingdom, People Have the Power, Because the Night, Smells Like Teen Spirit, Gloria, (encore): Helpless, Babelogue/Rock n Roll Nigger/Machine Gun

Note: Patti Smith and Her Band.

13 October 2008, Melbourne International Arts Festival, Playhouse, Arts Centre, Melbourne, Australia
"Dedicated to Allen Ginsberg"
Notes for the Future^*, Wichita Vortex Sutra^*, The Blue Thangka^*, Wing⁺, Helpless⁺, The Tyger, My Blakean Year⁺, Beneath the Southern Cross^*+, On Cremation of Chögyam Trungpa Vidyadhara^*, Magic Psalm^*, (encore): Spell^*

Note: Patti Smith, with ^*Philip Glass and ⁺Lenny Kaye.

15 October 2008, Sydney Opera House Concert Hall, Sydney , Australia
Redondo Beach, Birdland, Ghost Dance, Free Money, My Blakean Year, Beneath the Southern Cross, We Three, Dancing Barefoot, Pushin’ Too Hard, People Have the Power, Smells Like Teen Spirit^*, Because the Night, Gloria, (encore): Helpless, Babelogue/Rock n Roll Nigger

Note: Patti Smith and Her Band. ^*Special guests Fiona Kitschin and Gareth Liddiard.

17 October 2008, Zanzibar, Santa Monica, CA, USA
Grateful, Beneath the Southern Cross, I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry, People Have the Power (spoken), Elegie (spoken)

Note: Benefit event for the Silver Lake Conservatory of Music

20 October 2008, The Warfield, San Francisco, CA, USA
Frederick, Redondo Beach, Birdland, Ghost Dance, Free Money, Are You Experienced?, Improvisation/My Blakean Year, Beneath the Southern Cross^*, Helpless, Night Time (The Strangeloves), Ain’t it Strange, Because the Night, Dancing Barefoot, Smells Like Teen Spirit, My Funny Valentine (teaser)/Happy Birthday, Land/Gloria, (encore): People Have the Power, Ball of Confusion (That’s What the World Is Today) (The Temptations)/Rock n Roll Nigger

Note: Patti Smith and Her Band ^*Special guest Steven Sebring.

31 October 2008, Hammerstein Ballroom, New York, NY, USA
Land/Gloria, Redondo Beach, Ghost Dance, Beneath the Southern Cross, Dancing Barefoot, Because the Night, Smells Like Teen Spirit^*, People Have The Power^*, Rock n roll Nigger

Note: Patti Smith and Her Band as support for The Black Crowes. ^*Special guests Luther Dickinson and Chris Robinson.

1 November 2008, Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
"Patti Smith: A Clear and Bright Gathering"
Prayer (aborted), The Lamb, My Blakean Year, Sleep of the Dodo, Reflecting Robert, Wing, El Desdichado (Gérard de Nerval), Helpless, Prayer, St James Infirmary Blues (Louis Armstrong), Grateful, Ghost Dance, [poem about Joan of Arc], [unidentified poem], Kimberly, Magdalen Walks (Oscar Wilde), Because the Night,(encore)Eve of All Saints, People Have the Power

Note: Patti Smith with Jesse Smith, Jackson Smith, Lenny Kaye and Kimberly Smith.

2 November 2008, Bowery Poetry Club, New York, NY, USA
Body of Water, Boy Blue, The Man With the Scarlet Knee Bands, My Blakean Year

Note: Janet Hamill, Patti Smith (clarinet) & Lenny Kaye (guitar). Patti, of course, sang My Blakean Year. Launch party for the book Body of Water by Janet Hamill.

16 November 2008, Gasvaerket, Copenhagen, Denmark
Copenhagen Improvisation, Grateful, Beneath the Southern Cross, People Have the Power (spoken), Qana, I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry, My Blakean Year, Our Jargon Muffles the Drum^*, (encore): Because the Night (acapella)

Note: ^* Special guest Lars Top-Galia on guitar.

6 December 2008, Artium Museum, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
Amelia Earhart, Dog Dream, My Blakean Year, Beneath the Southern Cross^*, I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry^*, Wilderness, Helpless^*, People Have the Power (spoken), # 9 (Gari)^*, Wander I Go / Improvisation^*, Grateful^*, Picasso Laughing, The Geometry Blinked Ruin Unimaginable, Gandhi^*, Because the Night (acapella), Art in Heaven, Wing^*

Note:^* Special guest Iñaki Garitaonaindia (Gari).

16 December 2008, Allerheiligen-Hofkirche, Residenz, Munich, Germany
"Patti Smith & Adrian Brendel: Words & Music"
People Have the Power (spoken), Without Chains, Spell, Because the Night

Note: Patti Smith with Adrian Brendel (cello). Incomplete setlist.

29 December 2008, Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY, USA
She Lay in the Stream Dreaming of August Sander^*, Land, Revenge, The Setting and the Stone, Lo and Beholden, Dead to the World, Till Victory, Boy Cried Wolf, Because the Night, Are You Experienced?, We Three, Free Money, Happy Birthday, Beneath the Southern Cross, Gloria, (encore): Reach Out (I’ll be There) (The Four Tops)

Note: ^* Special guest Jesse Smith on keyboards for most of the evening.

30 December 2008, Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY, USA
She Lay in the Stream Dreaming of August Sander, Improvisation/My Blakean Year, Redondo Beach, Revenge, The Setting and the Stone, Lo and Beholden, Ravens, Ain’t it Strange, Boy Cried Wolf, Happy Birthday, We Three, Are You Experienced?, Till Victory, Because the Night, Beneath the Southern Cross, Not Fade Away^* , Reach Out (I’ll Be There)

Note: ^* Special guest Stephane Wrembel on guitar.

31 December 2008, Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY, USA
A Pythagorian Traveler, Improvisation/My Blakean Year, Kimberly, Revenge, Dead to the World, The Setting and the Stone, Lo and Beholden, Boy Cried Wolf, Dancing Barefoot, Ain’t it Strange, Wilderness, Pissing in a River, Are You Experienced?, Because the Night, Beneath the Southern Cross, Auld Lang Syne, People Have the Power^*, Reach Out (I’ll Be There), Rock n Roll Nigger

Note: ^* Special guest Kimberly Smith.