Smashing Pumpkins – review

Brixton Academy, LondonIn the recent rush to laud the 20th anniversary of Nirvana's Nevermind, it was understandably overlooked that 1991 also saw the release of Smashing Pumpkins' debut, Gish. Yet the Pumpkins were always unlikely grunge bedfellows: the only thing Billy Corgan shared with Kurt Cobain was solipsism.Having split in 2000, the Pumpkins reformed six years later. Now, with autocratic singer and guitarist Corgan the sole remaining original member, they are engaged in a typically convo...

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