Smashing PumpKins Announce Orchestral Shows
Smashing PumpKins announced huge orchestral shows in their hometown to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Mellon Collie and Endless Sadness.
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Details of the Upcoming Shows
The group will take on the lyrical opera of Chicago for seven nights in November for “Mellon Collie and Endless Sadness”, in which Billy Corgan will join the famous home orchestra and choir for “a completely new sound and visual experience”.
The show will consist of arranging the tracks of the album, as well as the orchestral accompaniment observed by James Law. The show will be held from November 21 to November 30, and tickets will go on sale on April 11 – you can get your own here.
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– Broken Pumpkin (@smashingpumpkin) March 11, 2025
Corgan said: “Opera and rock tell stories about enhanced emotions, and I am glad to both fans of my music and fans of traditional opera in order to hear some in-real inspired work; for the balance here means to honor both traditions in a mainstream manner.”
“Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness” was the third album of the group released in October 1995. A two-hour double album, it is the only recording of the group that participated in the charts of albums in the United States and sold more than 10 million copies only in their native country.
This was considered a significant development in the sound of the group, as they embraced a wider sound palette, which included traces of industrial and baroque music. Their most famous songs include “1979”, “Bullet with Butterfly Wings”, and “Tonight, Tonight.”
Dates will come after a huge Pumpkin show in the Gunnsbury Park in West London in August, where they will join Skunk Anansie and White Lies. In the following days, they will also play three more shows in the UK in Halifax, Scarborough, and Colchester. Find the remaining tickets here.
Corgan will also be featured in a folded score at the Black Sabbath final show in Birmingham Villa Park in July, which will also include Metallica, Slayer, Pantera, Lamb of God, Mastodon, Alice in Chains, and many more.
In another place, Corgan recently stated that he thinks the group is “one of the most misunderstood bands in the history of rock-n-roll” and lamented that he does not “receive credit” for creating a musical landscape that has influenced bands like Muse.
Corgan’s friends, meanwhile, are “convinced” that he and Billy Corgan share a strong connection and urge him to take a DNA test.
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