Shiny and Oh So Bright Tour

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Shiny and Oh So Bright Tour
Concert by The Smashing Pumpkins
LocationNorth America, Europe
Associated album Shiny and Oh So Bright, Vol. 1 / LP: No Past. No Future. No Sun.
Start dateJuly 12, 2018
End dateOctober 18, 2018
Legs2
No. of shows42
The Smashing Pumpkins concert chronology
  • In Plainsong
    (2016)
  • Shiny and Oh So Bright Tour
    (2018)
  • 30th Anniversary Series
    (2018)

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]

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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
  2. "Solara"
  4. "Baby Mine" (Betty Noyes cover)

Notes

Tour dates

DateCityCountryVenueOpening 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
DateCityCountryVenueReason
September 7, 2018 Nampa United States Ford Idaho Center Alleged low ticket sales [20]

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