Smashing Pumpkins Announce Reunion Tour With Setlist Culled Exclusively From First Five Albums
Three-quarters of the Smashing Pumpkins’ classic line-up will reunite for a North American tour this coming summer. The trek marks Billy Corgan, guitarist James Iha and drummer Jimmy Chamberlin’s first tour together since 2000, though the band’s original bassist D’Arcy Wretzky will not be joining the trio.
Dubbed The Shiny and Oh So Bright tour, the band’s lengthy US trek starts on 12 July at the Gila River Arena in Glendale, Arizona and wraps September 7th at the Ford Idaho Center in Boise, Idaho. Tickets go on sale February on 23 February at 10am local time with complete information available on the Smashing Pumpkins’ website.
The tour notably coincides with the 30th anniversary of the Smashing Pumpkins’ formation. During the tour, the band will exclusively play songs off their first five albums: 1991’s Gish, 1993’s Siamese Dream, 1995’s Mellon Collie And the Infinite Sadness, 1998’s Adore and 2000’s Machina.
“This show and staging will be unlike any we’ve ever done, and will feature a set unlike any we’ve ever played,” Corgan said. “For if this is a chance at a new beginning, we plan on ushering it in with a real bang.”
Smashing Pumpkins play the following US tour dates:
July 12 – Glendale, AZ @ Gila River Arena
July 14 – Oklahoma City, OK @ Chesapeake Energy Arena
July 16 – Austin, TX @ Frank Erwin Center
July 17 – Houston, TX @ Toyota Center
July 18 – Dallas, TX @ American Airlines Center
July 20 – Nashville, TN @ Bridgestone Arena
July 21 – Louisville, KY @ KFC Yum! Center
July 22 – Atlanta, GA @ Infinite Energy Arena
July 24 – Miami, FL @ American Airlines Arena
July 25 – Tampa, FL @ Amalie Arena
July 27 – Baltimore, MD @ Royal Farms Arena
July 28 – Philadelphia, PA @ Wells Fargo Center
July 29 – Uncasville, CT @ Mohegan Sun Arena
July 31 – Boston, MA @ TD Garden
August 1 – New York City, NY @ Madison Square Garden
August 4 – Pittsburgh, PA @ PPG Paints Arena
August 5 – Detroit, MI @ Little Caesars Arena
August 7 – Montreal, QC @ Centre Bell
August 8 – Toronto, ON @ Air Canada Centre
August 11 – Columbus, OH @ Schottenstein Center
August 13 – Chicago, IL @ United Center
August 16 – Kansas City, MO @ Sprint Center
August 17 – Indianapolis, IN @ Bankers Life Fieldhouse
August 19 – St. Paul, MN @ Xcel Energy Center
August 20 – Omaha, NE @ CenturyLink Center
August 21 – Sioux Falls, SD @ Denny Sanford Premier Center
August 24 – Seattle, WA @ Key Arena
August 25 – Portland, OR @ Moda Center
August 27 – Oakland, CA @ Oracle Arena
August 28 – Sacramento, CA @ Golden 1 Center
August 30 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Forum
September 1 – San Diego, CA @ Viejas Arena
September 2 – Las Vegas, NV @ T-Mobile Arena
September 4 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Vivint Smart Home Arena
September 5 – Denver, CO @ Pepsi Center
September 7 – Boise, ID @ Ford Idaho Center.
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stanley Niecgorski
March 24, 2018 at 1:14 am
I grew up on you ironically playing disarm and rat in a cage to my sister’s hump at 19……
I was in 7th 8th grade and my first real CD was Adore.
Before the above.
I’m thirty now.
I still remember running the train tracks to get in shape for best buy to buy a smashing pumpkins DVD that had two weird objects on it and you doing disarm in a nice acoustic set …..
My sister was in disbelief being it 2001 and she was reminded of 8th grade.
Your music moved me.
If anything makes senses i would like Radio and Heavey metal Machine …..I loved live videos back then and loved them.
That was the beauty of the internet at that time.
Seeing live music.
I have emailed before but its all really hard when your nothing with rights that would really make the badae ( Hope its spelled Right)
Freckled!
stanley Niecgorski
March 24, 2018 at 1:25 am
I of the Mourning…Excuse me.
Although some technocrats make me look like radio while I get ready in the morning!
Stan Niecgorski
August 5, 2018 at 4:45 am
Great show!
The king
Stan Niecgorski
August 5, 2018 at 4:47 am
The red coats are coming ! The red coats are coming!
Paul revere . Beastie Boys.
Stanley Niecgorski
June 29, 2023 at 1:53 pm
Please disregard the above comments, as they were made out of place and were part of a hack.
I do or did like the Smashing Pumpkins music, though.
It was a segment of another writing I did prior that was misplaced, where I spoke about when my sister was pregnant, and I would play their music to get the baby to kick when I was in 8th grade. I also purchased one of their DVDs around that time. I was discussing how I understood who the Smashing Pumpkins were and how they were a popular band to a generation before me when I became a fan.
It’s unclear how those comments became jumbled like that above without any context associated with the previous writing, and it appears there is no way to have them removed.
Also, at the end of the show described in the article, Billy Corgan dresses in a red coat as a king.
Thanks.