pumpkins. plain awesome.

just bought pumpkins tickets. special pre-sale is awesome. but it is also sad. i was totally looking forward to camping out all night outside real groovy. would be heaps of fun, taking a couch down. maby pitching a tent. i bet the hookers hate it when tickets for big gigs go on sale. all corners though are fair game i say! they cant hog it all the time.

..and some good news

“We are currently rehearsing for the new tour, and are working on 10-12 songs we haven’t played since reforming, spanning all periods of the band. We are hopeful to put together a completely new set for this arena tour that would feel a lot different from our 2007 shows.” — Billy

Rumors  are that Pumpkins are comming in a few weeks! very exciting!

madrid, spain

im sitting in a really hot icafe in madrid, spain at the moment, went to a concert last night (some more info can be found here: http://gl455.wordpress.com/ ), and were going to be heading to valencia soon. mel is off with her friend somewhere and will be meeting us back here soon. i think im going to be working with the whole mix model, timelines are never really important anyway. we woke up at about 11 today and checked out of our hostel shortly after. Hostel Madrid. since we have found out that we picked a really expensive place to stay. and also where we shopped was really expensive too. this from a random meeting on the street. which is to say, as we were wondering somewhere mel saw someone she thought she know, and happened to be right. quite amasing really. so weve been taken to lunch and given language and other lessons. what an amazing “conicedince”, or something like that 😉 yesterday we didnt do much, just prepared for the show, and then at 1ish we took the metro to the show. which really is quite exciting. weve done metro in paris aswell now. its quite huge, to think of a complete transport system below the city. i guess from where we come from that is an alien concept. impressive none the less. anyways, after the metro, we poped out right at the right place, not 50meters from the area place. which you will find at http://sptrip.myphotoalbum.com quite a daunting building. from there we spent a good 3ish hours waiting around in the sun to get in. met a few cool people which we spend the whole time hanging around with too. on a side note, ive been meaning to get tour t-shirts for the past 2 shows and keep putting it off. i must get around to that next time.

ahh my screen is flashing: “Te queda poco tiempo de uso…” in big green letters, i think that means im out of time.

from the field

Earlier this year Billy’s home page, as well as band site, changed to the new site that it is currently:

‘it’s official, The Smashing Pumpkins are currently writing songs for their upcoming album, their first since 2000. no release date has yet been set, but the band plans to begin recording this summer.’

So the ‘band’ will be recording again soon. Being quite possibly this country’s greatest SP fans, we have been much deliberating over this news. Now after numerous vivid and stimulating conversations, have come to the conclusion that this will be a double album. Well, maybe I speculate it will be. I will it to be truth. Oh the reasons are far a few between, and myself, being such a literary jiant, will but list a few.

10 Years!.. 10 years.!!! Billy wrote around a song a week. (ish). for 10 years!!… (ah close at least. well, spfc it ok.). Now, we know Jimmy is also still musically active, as since he has also toured and released an album. though the wild cards in this crazy bag are obvious, and mysterious. Although sadly de-emphasised, as stated previously: ‘Billy needs little more than Jimmy to record…’. This has been known to be true, still my sentiments towards this statement remain mixed.

So what other bands have released two double albums? (comments please! ) Off the top of my head im unsure, and even so, how Pumpkins would it be for Billy to do it again!! That is why it is soo happening. I will it so. I send out the intention. Right now, right this very second. For It would definitely scare our mothers.

The scope? well, i guess that is another post.