CULTURE

Reunited Smashing Pumpkins set for late August show in Athens

Reunited with a new album, Smashing Pumpkins, one of the previous decade’s biggest-selling rock bands, will perform a show at the Terravibe venue on the outskirts of Athens on August 29, concert promoter Di-Di Music has announced. The American band will headline a bill that will also include Manic Street Preachers, expected for their first ever performance in Greece, as well as Kasabian, a relatively newer act with two albums to its credit. The event’s organizer said it was close to booking two further acts, both well known, for this one-day festival. Formed in Chicago in 1988 by frontman Billy Corgan, Smashing Pumpkins enjoyed enormous success for several years before falling apart. The act had packed local fans into Athens’s open-air Lycabettus Theater not long before their eventual breakup. Now reunited, Smashing Pumpkins have been booked to perform at major festivals in Europe and the USA this summer. Manic Street Preachers, whose Terravibe show late this summer will be their first in Greece, will perform both old and material. Kasabian may boast a far shorter track record compared to Smashing Pumpkins and Manic Street Preachers, but they will perform here having won a Best Live Band prize in 2007, awarded by NME, the long-running influential British music weekly. Advance ticket sales commence today at Ticket House (42 Panepistimiou St, Athens, and 20 Ethnikis Amynis St, Thessaloniki) as well as www.ticketpro.gr. Tickets are priced at 50, 70, and 80 euros.

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