Smashing Pumpkins announce shows in Australia and New Zealand 10:11 am // Thursday, May 3, 2012
Posted by susan in australia, new zealand, news, tour.trackback
The Smashing Pumpkins have confirmed the first leg of their Oceania tour, to take place in, well, Oceania. The band, already confirmed as headliners for the Splendour in the Grass festival in Byron Bay on July 29, will also hit Challenge Stadium outside Perth on July 26th, Sydney’s Entertainment Centre on July 31, Melbourne’s Hisense Areana on August 2, and Auckland’s Vector Arena on August 4. For the Sydney and Melbourne dates, the band will be supported by Wolfmother. Tickets go on sale May 9 via Ticketmaster.au and Ticketmaster.nz, but a fan presale (password: TEARDROPS) will commence May 7.
In the press release for the tour, Billy Corgan is quoted, saying: “Australia is the perfect place to usher in a new era of The Smashing Pumpkins, where we look to combine an epic rock show with the latest in visual mapping technology to create a one-of-a-kind experience for our fans.”
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No Brisbane show! Aaaaagh!
visual mapping technology? Is Google Earth going to be projected behind the band?
That, and Corgan is currently doing stuff with a lady who lives in Australia so that’s why it’s starting there.
West coast in August…? I’m hoping they headline Bumbershoot in Seattle over Labor Day weekend, would be a perfect fit!!!
Yes agree. No Brissy show!!! WTF! I thought for sure it would be on particulary with selling out the tivoli so fast last time
Also you’d think they would seeing as though his special lady of interest hails from brisbane (I think) and also because of that brisbane based record company distributing Oceania around oz. Oh well that 2010 show at the tivoli is still one of the best shows I have been to. Ever!
wolfmother are fucking awesome! one of my favourite NEW bands. great to see them with SP!
i understand the entire “this is where my girlfriend Jessica is from…this is my life …this is my love….Oceania is my world”….i just feel that way of thinking/creating is so limiting….it excludes the rest of the world…….I want the next album to be made/based/created upon the entire universe :)…is that too much to ask? xoxoxoxoxoxox
Tivoli 2010 was a great show. Probably the best I’ve seen of theirs. I’ll be happy if they play as good as the wiltern show with Oceania in all it’s glory
I kinda like the tour poster. Makes me appreciate the album cover art a bit more.
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is there any tour in Toronto ontario CA i’m dying! you would think they would come here! my parents wont have me take a plain to Austrailia so i’m stuck! HELP!!!!!!!!!