Smashing Pumpkins plan intimate anniversary shows

The Smashing Pumpkins have announced the first of a handful of intimate, 20th anniversary shows.

Billy Corgan and Co. will play at the Horseshoe Casino, Hammond, Indiana on August 9. Tickets go onsale this Friday (July 11) at 10AM PST from www.ticketmaster.com.

Other cities rumoured to be on the band's anniversary tour include Los Angeles, New York and the Pumpkins' home town of Chicago.

"For those of you in the Chicago area, realise this is closer to Chicago than the Pumpkins have been since their final show on December 2 of 2000," reads a post on the band's official website.

In related news, the Smashing Pumpkins are looking for fan photos from 1987-1992 to be a part of their upcoming Gish Boxset.

"Were you a fan of The Smashing Pumpkins since the beginning? I mean WAY back, back before anyone can even remember a thing called grunge, digital cameras, or the internet?" ask the band in an official press release. "If you were in the thick of it back then, and have the photos to prove it, then this message is for you!

"Photos can be from a festival, a club gig, after-show party, anything that is from the correct time period and includes the band," the press release continues. "If chosen for inclusion [photos] will be licensed (paid for) and included within the upcoming Gish boxset package."

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Posted by Dan at 01:58PM | July 10, 2008

Well Billy if you are going to play Chicage you may as well play Toronto as well. I mean in the North American scheme of things the cities are pretty much neighbours.

Might want to leave the Zeitgeist album at home though, it wasn't.....that......great.......

Posted by Patrick Bateman | July 10, 2008 2:15 PM | Reply to this

lmao

smashing pumpkins are ok i guess
abbie: yup but i reckon his balls havnt droped yet LMAO

Posted by shan=))++abbie daly | July 10, 2008 2:47 PM | Reply to this

saw em at reading last year im happy

Posted by benji | July 10, 2008 3:41 PM | Reply to this

please bring this to the uk ???

I'll cry or something if you don't.

Posted by theo! | July 10, 2008 6:16 PM | Reply to this

i've been a pumpkins fan for years. saw them on their recent UK tour and they were dire. they lacked charisma and looked disinterested before walking off halfway thru the set. i will never waste another penny on this band.

Posted by stueyboy | July 10, 2008 7:43 PM | Reply to this

Wish they'd get their asses over to the UK at a place I can actually afford and get to.

Posted by Kiwi | July 10, 2008 8:25 PM | Reply to this

support band

mcr as support band?
sounds a good idea as mcr are mad with pumpkins!!

Posted by ./. | July 10, 2008 9:35 PM | Reply to this

They were in Sweden in mars! and i missed it :( (Im swedisch) hehe
i wish that they could come back...

and to ./. about support band, wow, mcr are like in love in SP! That would be totely awsome if they did a show or something togheter :D

Posted by Angelica | July 11, 2008 1:41 AM | Reply to this

the lead singer of the smashing pumpkins looks like gerard way.....dont you think??????

if gerard way ever died then the frontman of the smashing pumpkins should be the new frontman of mcr.....

they look the same......sound the same........smell the same(lol havent smelt them).......and they both play vocals

Posted by mary | July 11, 2008 10:58 AM | Reply to this

LOL - how dare you compare Billy Corgan to that raging fuckwit Gerard Way.

Corgan has made some great music whereas Way..........you get the picture........

Posted by Patrick Bateman | July 11, 2008 2:15 PM | Reply to this

Don't make me;

Sick, MCR and SP?

Don't even say that, it's a bad idea.
If this IS the Gish tour, then MCR will just sound whiny and shit.
It wouldn't be good at all.

Posted by Bryan | July 11, 2008 11:43 PM | Reply to this

i wish james and darcy were still there it would be a much more fufilling experience to see the original and greatest pumpkins lline up

Posted by jackl | July 12, 2008 2:47 AM | Reply to this

Zwan the Second

As much as i love the smashing pumpkins. i just cannot be excited for this tour, and gish boxset. its not oing to ever be the same without the original line up. This isnt the Smashing Pumpkins, its merely a revised version of Zwan. Zwan werent a bad band i rathe rlike Mary Star of th Sea, but they where not the pumpkins. Billy and Jimmy, either need D'Arcy and James back, or need to stop with this faux Pumpkins stuff.

Posted by Adam Grylls | July 12, 2008 6:45 PM | Reply to this