BILLY CORGAN has said he wants to reform SMASHING PUMPKINS.
The singer, who has completed work on his debut solo album TheFutureEmbrace has taken out a full page advert in the 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 wasnt 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.
http://www.nme.com/news/112761.htm
I always figured Corgan would reform the Pumpkins after the awful Zwan,even Billy doesn’t like the album in an interview he said “people say they like the Zwan record?Hey,great but in my eyes,it’s like fucking bile.”
His solo album TheFutureEmbrace is out this week and it’s a lot better than Zwan but nowhere near as good as the Pumpkins best moments.It has an electro pop New Orderish sound to it and sounds a little like Adore era Pumpkins.
Posted on Tue, 21 June 2005 at 18:23
