Legendary alternative rock group, The Smashing Pumpkins have confirmed a headline show at TK Maxx presents Scarborough Open Air Theatre.
The multi-platinum selling, two-time GRAMMY Award-winning band bring their era-defining sound to the UK’s largest open air concert arena on Wednesday August 13 as part of their Aghori tour, joined by post-punk revival band White Lies.
Tickets go on sale at 10am on Friday February 14 from ticketmaster.co.uk
When The Smashing Pumpkins first emerged out of Chicago in 1988, their sound was different, iconoclastic, and wholly new – and it still is today. As a result, they’ve sold more than 30 million albums worldwide and collected two GRAMMY Awards, seven MTV VMAs and an American Music Award.
The band – Billy Corgan, James Iha and Jimmy Chamberlin – continue to spin together rock, pop, shoe-gaze, metal, goth, psychedelia, and electronic into a kaleidoscope of saccharine melodies, fuzzy distortion, bombastic orchestration, incendiary fretwork, eloquent songcraft, and unshakable hooks.
Their incredible catalogue is highlighted by the platinum Gish (1991), the quadruple-platinum Siamese Dream (1993), diamond-certified Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (1995), platinum Adore (1998), and gold-selling Machina/The Machines of God (2000).
As prolific as ever, 2023 saw the release ATUM, a rock opera presented in three acts, alongside a massive sold out North American tour. It was followed just nine months later by Aghori Mhori Mei – the band’s 13th studio album.
London band White Lies emerged as one of Britain’s most important guitar bands with the launch of their UK Number One debut album To Lose My Life in 2009 – which led to a Brit Award nomination, a stadium tour with Coldplay, and appearances on David Letterman and Jools Holland, and five further studio albums.
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