OUT WITH THE OLD, IN WITH THE NEW SONGS!
http://www.nme.com/newsdesk/20000724124301.html
THE SMASHING PUMPKINS are working on between 10 and 14 new songs
which may eventually feature on a box set.
In an often rambling and self-deprecating message written in
Chicago last week and posted on the official Smashing Pumpkins
website, www.smashingpumpkins.com, vocalist Billy Corgan revealed
the band are currently working on songs which are up to a year
old. He said: "(I'm) happy to report that there are some 10-14
tracks that are in some sort of shape or another...it's sometimes
hard to jog the memory of what we were thinking or doing at any
given moment because some of these songs haven't been worked on
in over a year...but now is the right time because after the band
splits it is not the kind of thing you want to try to finish in
10 years or so when we go ahead and put out that penultimate
[sic] box set...so we blow the dust off the guitars and tune up
rusty strings and try to make some more emotionless music...er, I
mean heartfelt and deep music that is obviously emotional."
Elsewhere in the posting Corgan goes off at increasing tangents,
possibly trying to explain the band's decision to split after ten
years. He continues: "What else do you want to know...I can tell
you that if you want to solve a puzzle you must first understand
the point of the puzzle...so what is the point of this puzzle, to
confuse? Enlighten? Enrage? Or just titillate...or could it just
be for fun, because to save one's soul you must first learn how
to laugh. Please understand that I am laughing, not at you, but
with you, and I certainly am laughing at myself, so please put
your hearts together and laugh with me.
"I put a little sunshine here between the cracks so you can see
that you are inside a box...I of course am trapped in the box you
stare at and cannot leave...admission is free to all those that
are...(drumroll please)...free!"
The Smashing Pumpkins vowed to split once the promotional duties
fore their current album, 'MACHINA/The Machines Of God' have been
completed. As part of those duties, the band are to tour the UK at
the end of October, calling at:
Glasgow SECC (October 30)
Manchester Apollo (31)
Birmingham NEC (November 1)
Wembley Arena (3-4)
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