Smashing news: Pumpkins celebrate 20th anniversary with US tour

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by Rob Webb [Edit this content] ▾ 13 comments 15:07 September 24th, 2008

The Smashing Pumpkins are a band who divide opinion. Many of you won't give a damn about this news and slightly less of you, we figure, will, but they're to embark on a long US jaunt to mark 20 years in the business. Well, when we say they're, we obviously mean frontman and rent-a-gob Billy Corgan plus drummer Jimmy Chamberlain because, erm, they're the only original members left.

Another USP for this tour: when they play two-night stands in various cities, they'll be performing an entirely different set each night - the first dubbed 'Black Sunshine', the second 'White Crosses'. Pretentious, much? In their hometown of Chicago, meanwhile, they'll play a whopping four shows.

There's also a new single, 'G.L.O.W.', which is to be released on October 26 as part of the Guitar Hero World Tour. And that, folks, is the third news story in the past week featuring that bloody game!

Dates follow...

November
1 Cleveland Palace Theatre
3/4 Toronto Massey Hall
6/7 New York United Palace Theatre
8 Atlantic City Borgata
11/12 Washington DAR Constitution Hall
14/15 Boston Citi Wang Theatre
16 Uncasville Mohegan Sun Arena
18/19 Chicago Theatre
21/22 Chicago Auditorium Theatre
26 St. Louis Fox Theatre
29 Las Vegas Pearl
30 San Diego IMAC Arena

December
2/3 Universal City Gibson Amphitheatre

DiScuss: do you still care about Corgan and co.? Did you ever? Will there be any UK shows?

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Please stop and go away Billy

You were once brilliant now you are horrid.

De_La_Tonk | 24 Sep '08, 15:17 | X | Reply

didn't he listen to michael jackson?

IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU'RE BLACK OR WHITE.
This is slightly better than the mooted Gish tour, there's an album that doesn't really need a look back. the two night thing is frankly another cash bleeding tactic for the Corgan Retirement Fund. Most of the die-hard fans I know will be sobbing into their overdrafts to go to both nights and teH b0lly is just exploiting this fact now. Also, two nights, a potential five/six hours worth of music? The O2 show was great but at least half hour too long to deal with one dominant personality.

The new single is possibly the first single of theirs I've had to really object to, tis a tuneless wonder. I'm still a fan, they will still make good music but I no longer feel the need to rush out everytime they release something/tickets go on sale...

amyblue @De_La_Tonk | 24 Sep '08, 16:29 | X | Reply

I do love some of there material

and probably always will and I hate it when bands with a huge back catalogue play the same set night after night. They should do some don't-look-back style shows or something.

lovelessrapture @amyblue | 24 Sep '08, 17:09 | X | Reply