Shiny and Oh So Bright Tour

The Shiny and Oh So Bright Tour was the Smashing Pumpkins' headlining reunion tour after Jimmy Chamberlin and James Iha formally rejoined the band in early 2018.^[1] Prior to the tour, there were some notable exchanges from frontman Billy Corgan and founding bassist D'arcy Wretzky over her absence from the reunited band.^[2][3] The tour was noted also for having a three-hour setlist with material solely from the band's first five albums, except for four covers and the 2018 single "Solara".^[4][5][6]

Shiny and Oh So Bright Tour

Concert by The Smashing Pumpkins
Location	North America, Europe
Associated album	Shiny and Oh So Bright, Vol. 1 / LP: No Past. No Future. No Sun.
Start date	July 12, 2018
End date	October 18, 2018
Legs	2
No. of shows	42
The Smashing Pumpkins concert chronology

Background

For many years after the band's initial breakup, they had toured with a litany of members, including Chamberlin himself when the band first reformed in 2006, although he quickly departed by early 2009. In 2015 he made a return to the band as a touring member for The End Times Tour with Marilyn Manson and 2016's In Plainsong tour, which was “acoustic-electro” and saw the band reach into their catalog of rarities alongside some hits.^[7][8] James Iha made a few surprise returns on this tour as well, marking the first time he had shared a stage with Corgan since December 2, 2000.^[9] On February 15, 2018, the band announced both Chamberlin and Iha would return on a full-member basis, alongside now longtime member Jeff Schroeder, making the band's first ever lineup with three permanent guitarists.

This tour would be the band's first arena trek since the Oceania tour, which itself was a mixture of arenas and theaters. Before the tour kicked off its arena stops across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Italy, two warmup shows were played at The Troubadour in Los Angeles, which saw AFI's Davey Havok make a guest appearance to perform the Joy Division song "Transmission", and a small backyard house show where the band had filmed the "1979" music video years earlier.^[10][11]

Reception

Reviews of the tour were mixed, but leaned towards positive more often. Many praised the tour for how much ground the setlist covered throughout the performance.^[12] Others pointed out the tour's focus on fans' nostalgia, and that the tour performed every hit song along with several rarities and cover songs.^[13] The band's performance of Led Zeppelin's renowned song "Stairway to Heaven" also garnered lots of attention for being authentic to the original.^[14] Some complaints raised by some who reviewed the tour included the extensive length that the band performed, as they had a set spanning three and a quarter hours, and others pointed out the lack of any material from the band's catalog after Machina/The Machines of God.^[15]

Set list

Typical setlist during the tour^[16]

1. "Mellon Collie and The Infinite Sadness"
2. "Disarm"
3. "Rocket"
4. "Siva"
5. "Rhinoceros"
6. "Space Oddity" (David Bowie cover)
7. "Drown"
8. "Zero" (Preceded by Zero Speech Interlude video and jam intro)
9. "The Everlasting Gaze"
10. "Stand Inside Your Love"
11. "Thirty-Three"
12. "Eye"
13. "Soma"
14. "Blew Away" (Preceded by Mark McGrath Vaudeville Interlude 1 video)
15. "For Martha"
16. "To Sheila"
17. "Mayonaise"
18. "Porcelina of the Vast Oceans"
19. "Landslide" (Fleetwood Mac cover)
20. "Tonight, Tonight"
21. "Stairway to Heaven" (Led Zeppelin cover)
22. "Cherub Rock"
23. "1979" (Preceded by Mark McGrath Vaudeville Interlude 2 video and radio intro)
24. "Ava Adore"
25. "Try, Try, Try"
26. "The Beginning Is The End Is The Beginning"
27. "Hummer"
28. "Today"
29. "Bullet With Butterfly Wings"
30. "Muzzle"

Encore

31. "Solara"
32. "Baby Mine" (Betty Noyes cover)

Notes

• On the two European shows in October 2018, the band performed "Silvery Sometimes (Ghosts)" in the encore instead of "Solara."^[17]
• Also on the two European shows, the band performed "Landslide" with Amalie Bruun from their opening band Myrkur.

Tour dates

Date	City	Country	Venue	Opening act
Leg 1: North America[18]
July 12, 2018	Glendale	United States	Gila River Arena	Metric
July 14, 2018	Oklahoma City		Chesapeake Energy Arena
July 16, 2018	Austin		Frank Erwin Center
July 17, 2018	Houston		Toyota Center
July 18, 2018	Dallas		American Airlines Center
July 20, 2018	Nashville		Bridgestone Arena
July 21, 2018	Louisville		KFC Yum! Center
July 22, 2018	Duluth		Infinite Energy Arena
July 24, 2018	Miami		American Airlines Arena
July 25, 2018	Tampa		Amalie Arena
July 27, 2018	Baltimore		Royal Farms Arena
July 28, 2018	Philadelphia		Wells Fargo Center
July 29, 2018	Uncasville		Mohegan Sun Arena
July 31, 2018	Boston		TD Garden
August 1, 2018	New York City		Madison Square Garden
August 4, 2018	Pittsburgh		PPG Paints Arena
August 5, 2018	Detroit		Little Caesars Arena
August 7, 2018	Montreal	Canada	Bell Centre
August 8, 2018	Toronto		Scotiabank Arena
August 9, 2018	London		Budweiser Gardens
August 11, 2018	Columbus	United States	Schottenstein Center
August 13, 2018	Chicago		United Center
August 14, 2018
August 16, 2018	Kansas City		Sprint Center
August 17, 2018	Indianapolis		Bankers Life Fieldhouse
August 19, 2018	Saint Paul		Xcel Energy Center
August 20, 2018	Omaha		CenturyLink Center
August 21, 2018	Sioux Falls		Denny Sanford Premier Center
August 24, 2018	Seattle		KeyArena
August 25, 2018	Portland		Moda Center
August 27, 2018	Oakland		Oracle Arena
August 28, 2018	Sacramento		Golden 1 Center
August 30, 2018	Inglewood		The Forum
August 31, 2018
September 1, 2018	San Diego		Viejas Arena
September 2, 2018	Las Vegas		T-Mobile Arena
September 4, 2018	Salt Lake City		Vivint Smart Home Arena
September 5, 2018	Denver		Pepsi Center
September 8, 2018	Calgary	Canada	Scotiabank Saddledome	—
September 9, 2018	Edmonton		Rogers Place
Leg 2: Europe[19]
October 16, 2018	London	England	The SSE Arena, Wembley	Myrkur
October 18, 2018	Casalecchio di Reno	Italy	Unipol Arena

Cancelled dates

List of cancelled concerts, showing date, city, country, venue and reason for cancellation

Date	City	Country	Venue	Reason
September 7, 2018	Nampa	United States	Ford Idaho Center	Alleged low ticket sales[20]

Personnel

• Billy Corgan - lead vocals, guitar, piano on "For Martha," "To Sheila," and "Stairway to Heaven"
• James Iha - backing vocals, guitar, lead vocals on "Blew Away"
• Jimmy Chamberlin - drums, ukulele on "Baby Mine"
• Jeff Schroeder - guitar
• Katie Cole - backing vocals, keyboards, guitar
• Jack Bates - bass

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