THE SMASHING PUMPKINS + QOTSA - Wed April 2

Having previously announced their return to Australia for headlining appearances at V Festival 2008, The Smashing Pumpkins will also headline a show at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre.

Joining The Smashing Pumpkins as very special guests for will be Queens of the Stone Age.

As the record shows, the Smashing Pumpkins have created one of the most acclaimed bodies of work in rock music history. Formed in Chicago in 1988, they released Gish, their influential and platinum selling debut, in 1991, followed by further multi-platinum albums that include Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness & Siamese Dream.

The pivotal group’s many hits include Disarm, Today, 1979, Tonight Tonight and Bullet With Butterfly Wings – songs that defined the alternative music era and continue to resonate on modern rock radio.

In 2007 Smashing Pumpkins released ZEITGEIST, the sixth Smashing Pumpkins album and first since 2000. A heartfelt, ambitious and deeply felt piece of work, the new album vividly recaptures the spirit of this great and influential rock band.

The Smashing Pumpkins undertook an extensive worldwide tour throughout 2007 to introduce fans to the live experience of Zeitgeist and reacquaint them with why this band are held in such high regard as a live force.

Having lit up stages across Europe and the US on the Zietgeist tour, fans and critics alike are raving at the reformation:

“…as powerful as ever.” --Zach Lau, PITTSBURGH POST GAZETTE, October 11, 2007

For more information please visit:
www.smashingpumpkins.com
www.coppel.com.au

Tickets available from Mon 11 Feb via: http://premier.ticketek.com.au/

cheers guv.

fucking booooooooooo


really don't like the pumpkins.

qotsa are awesome though.

100 dollars for an hour of them is not worth it for me.

If all these bands are reforming... can't we get Soundgarden back together. I mean all the other members of Audioslave are back performing as Rage Against The Machine again so maybe Chris Cornell could hook up with the old band while he's kicking around making James Bond soundtracks and the like. Just one tour man, thats all I ask. I'd so much rather that than the Smashing Pumpkins.

so would i but its never going to happen. im pretty sure because of musical differences chris wanted to change their sound to more medolic rock (ie down on the upside style) while lead guitarist K.T an their bass player wanted to stay on the harder side of rock like their old stuff. plus their drummer matt camryon has been pearl jams drummer since 98 and he will never change now

but soundgarden are a massively underrated band. everyone says nirvana are the ones that introduced the grunge sound to ppl outside seattle but it was soundgarden! they were just not as sucessful early on.

having said that, im also a fan of pumpkins and qosa, not as much as pearl jam nirvana soundgarden but still love em, got all their stuff. just bought 2 tickets online this mornign for myself and a mate

I'd love to check this out.
A bit of bullet with butterfly wings would go down a treat
+ Queens would be sweet.

I wish I had more money!!!

ticket was sorted on friday! woo yeah!

OH MAN

I wish I could go, I just don't know if can afford it 

wouldn't mind going to this was never a huge fan of the pumpkins but i do like alot of their tunes, never really got into qotsa that much at home but really enjoyed seeing them at the big dayout.

thinking about it. More for QOTSA though, was never huge on the Pumpkins, but like Dave, do like some of their songs

Pumpkins are by far my fave band from my youth.

won't be missing this for quids!!

unless of course u dont already have a ticket.....

why has it sold out?

i got my tickets the morning they went on sale to general public

there were peeps advertising that they needed tix on our notice board at work, so i assumed so. but apparently not! doubt it'll take too long tho.

wish i was gonna be here for it, this will be a mad show...

Don't know where this whole 'live force' rep came from, when I saw them they more or less stood there and played note for note each track from Mellon Collie and Siamese Dream. Like Rage at BDO, it was still great but with Corgan and Chamberlin's jazz influences I expected something a little more outside of the square.

In saying that, like a cancer-ridden senial auntie I would prefer not to see them now, but to remember how good they once were. 

Bit of a stretch to call them Smashing Pumpkins anymore being only Billy Corgan and Jimmy Chamerlain left, Im in the same boat as a lot of people, like a few of their old songs but not a massive fun.  Also Zeitgiest is a pretty piss poor album as well, not really inspiring enough to shell out 100 clams to go see them.

Hmmm... first part of the concert was good, then Billy asked everyone if we liked his new stuff better than his old stuff which got a huge cheer which I think he may have taken offence to, then he started bagging everyone for pirating music and not buying it, then it just all seemed to go to shit. I seriously didn't think that jam at the end was ever going to end. It was good to hear some of the old songs but I thought a lot of the concert was booooring. Lots of bright lights that hurt my eyes and lots of loud noise (although that could be problem with Ent Centre sound?). I thought that it might have been because I had a seat, but I have heard a few other disappointed reviews. Glad I didnt pay for a ticket, I would be annoyed. Thebby is def the go for concerts. Ent Centre sucks a big one.

Having said that QOTSA were good

Being a big fan of SP's old stuff but not their new stuff, I was hesitant and am now glad not to have shelled out $$ to go.

They were always going to be shit live. They have always been shit live.

I only wanted to go to because I figured they would play a few of my favourite tracks. Starting with Porcelina, rocking out Mayonaise for fuck sake (never EVER thought I'd hear that - my fave SP tune), Tonight Tonight and an acoustic version of 1979 (my close second fave track) made my night, more than I could have asked for really.

We went for drinks after Bullet c Wings and rightly so, the rest was absolute rubbish.

1979 was probably my highlight of the night.

Oh ... and the guy off his face on teh floor of the chicks loo's

mayonaise made me cry!

highlight of my night for sure!!

I was incredibly disappointed with the concert. Still happy I've finally seen Billy live, but the concert on a whole was pathetic and I actually shed a tear when I left.

I guess it was kinda to be expected, but I clearly went in with high expectations.

Pretty stoked that I heard Lily thought!

well despite what the masses thought i thought it was a great show. sure the new stuff was crap, but they did the old stuff really good (apart from adore in which they did a new fast version which sucked ass). porcelina, drown and bullet with butterfly wings were my highlights. as a band they are actually good live, billy has a great live voice, its just a shame their music style has turned to shit. happy i saw them live, they prob will never come back, and il always remember them for their good tunes

loved all these songs being ripped out
Porcelina
Tonight, Tonight
Mayonaise
Ava Adore
Drown
BWBW
1979