Posts tagged with ‘Sydney’

Setlist: Smashing Pumpkins live at The Big Top, Sydney Australia 2010

The Fellowship / Lonely Is The Name / Today / Astral Planes / Ava Adore / A Song for a Son / Drown / As Rome Burns / Bullet with Butterfly Wings / United States > Star Spangled Banner > Moby Dick / Spangled / Stumbleine / Rhinocerus (tease) > Cherub Rock / Zero / Stand Inside Your Love / Shame / Freak / Tonight, Tonight / Tarantula

Encore: Get Free [The Vines] (featuring two members of The Vines) / Gossamer

‘Pumpkins, peeled’ - Billy Corgan interviewed on Sydney Morning Herald

With the Australian Smashing Pumpkins tour less than 3 weeks away, there have been a fair share of interviews appearing in the Australian media outlets. A new interview with the Sydney Morning Herald has covered everything from the usual ‘Courtney issues’, ‘Dating a Veronica’, ‘Talk about Teargarden’, ‘Old band members’, ‘Relationship with former drummer Jimmy Chamberlin’ and ‘Is Corgan allowed to call the band the Smashing Pumpkins’.

Pressed further and asked how he feels about those claiming his use of the Smashing Pumpkins name is illegitimate, Corgan is combative.

“What the f—- does it matter what I call it?” he says. “It doesn’t, it’s my music. You come to the show and all you hear is Pumpkins songs. Why not call it that? There’s bands going around now with their original line-ups and nobody gives a shit. It’s not about the original line-up. It’s about making good music.”

The critics argue Corgan’s present cannot be as good as his past. Naturally, he vehemently disagrees.

“Come back in 10 years or five years and tell me this version of SP was a waste of time and you will be wrong.”

Read the full interview here on the Sydney Morning Herald website.

Smashing Pumpkins sell out Brisbane and Sydney

According to the Ticketek website both Sydney and Brisbane are now sold out.