How often do you find your favourite band announcing a series of huge tour dates around the world, only to realise that none of those dates will see them coming to your city, or worse, your country? We get it, it’s a major hassle, and it’s the bane of every music-lover’s existence. But the good news is that The Smashing Pumpkins are bridging that gap this weekend when they livestream the entirety of their upcoming gig in Seattle.
Over the last year, there’s been endless discussion about The Smashing Pumpkins and their current reunion tour. While plans to reunite with original bassist D’Arcy Wretzky were halted due to bad blood and heightened emotions, the remainder of the band have been out on the road, playing shows, and even releasing new tunes.
Now, fans who can’t make it to one of the band’s shows and can watch their upcoming gig in full, from the comfort of their own home.
Yes, the group’s show on Friday, August 24th in Seattle, Washington will be live-streamed so that fans all over the world will be able to watch it.
If you happen to be in the US while the gig is on, you can view it by heading along to the band’s Twitter page here, but if you’re elsewhere while the gig is taking place, you head along to view it at this address. (If you’re watching from Australia, be sure to tune in at 1:15pm EST on Saturday afternoon.)
While there’s no saying exactly what the band will be playing at this upcoming gig, but their recent setlists have indeed been pretty similar. If you’re keen for a sneak peek of what to expect, be sure to scroll down further to see what the band’s recent show in Nebraska served up.
Incidentally, last week saw The Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan speak out in regard to how Nirvana’s rise to fame instantly changed what his perception of fame was as a young musician.
“To give you context, our record Gish, which was on an independent label called Caroline, at the time was the largest-selling independent record ever released,” explained Corgan. “I think at that point we had sold about 350,000-400,000 copies, which even today, is still a big number.”
“Then a little band called Nirvana came out and sold a bazillion copies. Then Pearl Jam sold a bazillion copies, so the standard of what was a successful record, literally changed on us overnight.”
“We went from being like, ‘Wow, you guys are doing great, big future’ to like, ‘You’re not going to quite make it’,” he continued. “Wow, what happened? Alternative radio around 1991 – I think there were seven stations in America. And by the mid-’90s, I think there were 100-something stations.”
Check out The Smashing Pumpkins’ ‘1979’:
The Smashing Pumpkins @ Omaha, Nebraska, USA 20/08/2018 Setlist
‘Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness’
‘Disarm’
‘Rocket’
‘Siva’
‘Rhinoceros’
‘Space Oddity’ (David Bowie cover)
‘Drown’
‘Zero’
‘The Everlasting Gaze’
‘Stand Inside Your Love’
‘Thirty-Three’
‘Eye’
‘Soma’
‘Blew Away’
‘For Martha’
‘To Sheila’
‘Mayonaise’
‘Porcelina Of The Vast Oceans’
‘Landslide’
‘Tonight, Tonight’
‘Stairway To Heaven’ (Led Zeppelin cover)
‘Cherub Rock’
‘1979’
‘Ava Adore’
‘Try, Try, Try’
‘The Beginning Is The End Is The Beginning’
‘Hummer’
‘Today’
‘Bullet With Butterfly Wings’
‘Muzzle’
Encore:
‘Solara’
‘Baby Mine’ (Betty Noyes cover)
