A huge all-ages double bill lands in Adelaide: Smashing Pumpkins and 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.
Debuting top 10 in Australia (#8), #1 in New Zealand and #2 in the US, Zeitgeist is quite clearly the sound of a rock group that has emphatically renewed and revived and is now ready to embrace and further it’s musical legacy.
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.
