Corgan hints Smashing Pumpkins will reform, Coachella touted

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"Smashing Pumpkins are strongly rumoured to be reforming this summer for live shows - with Coachella touted as their comeback. Singer Billy Corgan has made no secret of the fact he wants to reform his old band, and NME.COM has learned the band are set to make their comeback at the Californian festival on April 30.

Writing recently on his webpage, Corgan hinted reformation plans were coming along.

"The surprise I have in store for you all will be announced soon enough," he said. "Hold on to your horses. After all, good things surely comes to those who wait....Don't you just love the suspense?"

Corgan remains friends with former Pumpkins drummer Jimmy Chamberlain, and is also in contact with the band's second bassist Melissa Auf Der Maur, having collaborated with her on her forthcoming second solo album.

The first rumours of the band reforming came when the singer took out an advert in the local Chicago Tribune newspaper where he said "his heart" remains with his old band.

He wrote: "When I played the final Smashing Pumpkins show on the night of December 2, 2000, I walked off the stage believing that I was forever leaving a piece of my life behind. I naively tried to start a new band, but found that my heart wasn't in it. I moved away to pursue a love that I once had but got lost. So I moved back home to heal what was broken in me, and to my surprise I found what I was looking or. I found that my heart is in Chicago, and that my heart is in the Smashing Pumpkins.

"For a year now I have walked around with a secret, a secret I chose to keep. But now I want you to be among the first to know that I have made plans to renew and revive the Smashing Pumpkins. I want my band back, and my songs, and my dreams. In this desire I feel I have come home again."

Smashing Pumpkins split in 2000 after the release of their final album 'Machina'. Following the split Corgan formed Zwan, who split after one record."

― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Thursday, 19 January 2006 17:41 (twenty years ago)

God, I really hope someone is collecting all of these quotes for a book or a site or something. Billy has a way of making even the most mundane statement of fact seem so fragile, precious, sappy, and whiney. I love it.

― Dom iNut (donut), Thursday, 19 January 2006 17:49 (twenty years ago)

I'd love it if everyone else said, "Uh Billy, fuck off," but that seems an unlikely act of fiscal irresponsibility...

― Brian O'Neill (NYCNative), Thursday, 19 January 2006 18:13 (twenty years ago)

We've needed a sequel to No Talking, Just Head haven't we.

― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 19 January 2006 18:15 (twenty years ago)

God, I really hope someone is collecting all of these quotes for a book or a site or something

billycorgan.com, baby. And the myspace links. It's very amusing.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 January 2006 18:27 (twenty years ago)

Dave Navarro to take Iha's place?

― erklie500, Thursday, 19 January 2006 18:50 (twenty years ago)

Just because.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 January 2006 18:55 (twenty years ago)

Blech.

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Thursday, 19 January 2006 18:56 (twenty years ago)

In this desire I feel I have come home again.

― latebloomer: virtuous, pure and masculine like only an American male can be (lat, Thursday, 19 January 2006 19:24 (twenty years ago)

someones been working on lyrics

― latebloomer: virtuous, pure and masculine like only an American male can be (lat, Thursday, 19 January 2006 19:29 (twenty years ago)

I hope Billy continues to take out full pages in the Trib whenever he has an idea, or a doubt, or just feels he needs to share a thought.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 19 January 2006 19:31 (twenty years ago)

i wonder what desire feels like for billy corgan. it seems like it would be really dry for some reason.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Thursday, 19 January 2006 19:33 (twenty years ago)

I just wanna re-state my opposition to this whole thing. So what that only four people cared about Billy’s solo record? Talk of re-union – especially w/r/t bands that haven’t been broken up for that long – smacks of a desperation to “recapture glories bygone” that’s depressing and regressive. (Malk plz can all talk of Pavement reunions this decade k thks bye)

(all that said, yes, of course I will buy a reuinion record and attend accompanying shows should they happen because I won’t be able to help myself)

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 19 January 2006 19:42 (twenty years ago)

“Dear Tribune Readers and fellow Earthlings:

I am thinking of selling all of my tight, black clothing and going for a brighter, more colorful waredrobe, maybe a puce or green color, not sure, still pondering; I have recently sought the advice of the rapper Cam’ron, who kindly Fed-Ex’d me some sample swatches of various shades of pink and purple, which I have reproduced at the bottom of this newspaper page ad for your consideration”

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 19 January 2006 19:47 (twenty years ago)

and to think people used to consider the Rolling Stones overgrown adolescents...

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 19 January 2006 19:48 (twenty years ago)

Can someone tell me exactly how the Pumpkins differed from Zwan? (Who I liked, by the way.)

― Mitya (mitya), Thursday, 19 January 2006 19:57 (twenty years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/w/Billy-Corgan-on-ECW?v=5vubAE5aZAo&search=billy%20corgan

― jason., Thursday, 19 January 2006 19:58 (twenty years ago)

I will hold my horses, then, secure in the knowledge that good things comes to those who wait.

― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 19 January 2006 20:24 (twenty years ago)

And if it doesn't work out, well, you win some and you lose some.

― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 19 January 2006 20:26 (twenty years ago)

With rumours of MBV and Smashing Pumpkins playing Coachella..... You guys really need to stop teasing poor Ned!

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Thursday, 19 January 2006 20:30 (twenty years ago)

Funny thing is I won't even be there that weekend, I should be up at ze EMP fest in Seattle.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 January 2006 20:32 (twenty years ago)

I hope Billy continues to take out full pages in the Trib whenever he has an idea, or a doubt, or just feels he needs to share a thought.

I swear to God I thought this said "or a donut."

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 19 January 2006 20:35 (twenty years ago)

2 cents-
i'm hopeful, yet apprehensive about said reunion.
for- BC+JC=great together. they're the P.B.+J. of rawk. they accent each other very well. plus, they gots lots of songs i'd love to hear live again...
against- No D'arcy, No James= not really SP now is it? and, yeah, the obligatory 'desperation cuz my solo joint was a pinner' sorta deal...
time will tell, tho, right?
RIGHT?

....

― eedd, Thursday, 19 January 2006 20:37 (twenty years ago)

for some reason, i think this could be really amazing. werent' they getting better and better at some point?

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Thursday, 19 January 2006 20:44 (twenty years ago)

yeah, that was 1994-1996.
then, the floor dropped out on em...

actually, the Machina tour had SOME good moments...not many.
and Machina 2 was better than the official release.

― eedd, Thursday, 19 January 2006 20:50 (twenty years ago)

Dave Navarro to take Iha's place?
-- erklie500 (erklie50...), January 19th, 2006.
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Just because.

-- Ned Raggett (ne...), January 19th, 2006.

Too fucking funny! http://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/smilie/froehlich/e016.gif

― Mama Roux, Thursday, 19 January 2006 23:22 (twenty years ago)

This would be good.

I'm imagining them opening up with "Cherub Rock" the way they used to....with the snare roll a couple more times than is on the record....but maybe that's my own sappy idea.

I'd prefer the whole band but doubt it....BC and JC would be fine....BC and JC and JI would be great.

― PB, Thursday, 19 January 2006 23:54 (twenty years ago)

If James Iha isn't in the band...I'll only see them nine times instead of ten.

― Hat (Hat), Friday, 20 January 2006 00:43 (twenty years ago)

Well, acording to this lineup poster, Smashing Pumpkins are not playing Coachella this year. But it does look like we'll see the long awaited return of Right Said Fred and Savage Garden!!

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a317/AsH2523/PICS%20ON%20PROFILES/coachella2006lineup.jpg

― kickitcricket (kickitcricket), Friday, 20 January 2006 00:59 (twenty years ago)

Hahahahah

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 20 January 2006 01:04 (twenty years ago)

Funniest thread ever.

"i wonder what desire feels like for billy corgan. it seems like it would be really dry for some reason."

― Eppy (Eppy), Friday, 20 January 2006 03:46 (twenty years ago)

Ned has seen both MBV and Smashing Pumpkins several times anyway..

But (if things go right with customs), Hanson Brothers are playing Seattle the same weekend as EMP Pop Conf 2006. I don't think Ned has seen them. Puck it, Ned. Just puck it.

― Dom iNut (donut), Friday, 20 January 2006 03:50 (twenty years ago)

FIELD TRIP

― Eppy (Eppy), Friday, 20 January 2006 03:50 (twenty years ago)

ROAD PIZZA!

PUCK YOU!

― Dom iNut (donut), Friday, 20 January 2006 03:52 (twenty years ago)

mmmmm, donuts

― marc h. (marc h.), Friday, 20 January 2006 04:29 (twenty years ago)

Ha. This is plastered on http://www.billycorgan.org/ .

http://img388.imageshack.us/img388/281/pumpkins1iw.jpg

― Cunga (Cunga), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 22:56 (twenty years ago)

Snarf. If real, snarf. If fake, snarf.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 23:38 (twenty years ago)

I would totally go to the second day of parody-Coachella.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 23:44 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

I'd go to coachella.. no wait.. I mean I absolutely wouldn't go to coachella.

― Leon Filger, Wednesday, 8 February 2006 02:22 (twenty years ago)

I wish Billy Corgan would stop posting about his vibrator.

― My Psychic Friends Are Strangely Silent (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 02:23 (twenty years ago)

Must you deny a simple man his pleasures?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 03:00 (twenty years ago)

But he keeps having to fix it! It can't give him that much pleasure.

― My Psychic Friends Are Strangely Silent (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 03:13 (twenty years ago)

He's a gearhead, I'm sure he finds some use.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 03:53 (twenty years ago)

three months pass...

Meanwhile, they've officially started writing stuff again, with new bass player Eric Avery (yes, the Jane's Addiction dude).

― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 1 June 2006 15:02 (twenty years ago)

I honestly don't know how to feel about that.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 1 June 2006 15:20 (twenty years ago)

it's certainly better than "with new guitarist Dave Navarro".

or "with new guitarist Buckethead."

― erklie (erklie), Thursday, 1 June 2006 15:36 (twenty years ago)

Or "Taking things in a more electronic direction." Oh wait.

― Eppy (Eppy), Thursday, 1 June 2006 15:40 (twenty years ago)

is there any definite word on what happened to darcy?

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 1 June 2006 15:47 (twenty years ago)

crack, mickey rooney

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 1 June 2006 15:49 (twenty years ago)

proabably more to it than that, but i go for the dirt

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 1 June 2006 15:51 (twenty years ago)

She has one friends. (guess who!)

― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 1 June 2006 16:06 (twenty years ago)

she don't want your stinkin' kids

― erklie (erklie), Thursday, 1 June 2006 16:08 (twenty years ago)

http://myspace-227.vo.llnwd.net/00291/72/23/291113227_l.jpg

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Thursday, 1 June 2006 17:19 (twenty years ago)

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y141/sksloanski/pics%20jpg%20bmp%20etc/fire_marshall_Bill.jpg
http://www.synapticblur.com/pics/inlivingcolor03.jpg

― Marmotdeth (marmotwolof), Thursday, 1 June 2006 21:42 (twenty years ago)

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