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The Smashing Pumpkins’ tour of the UK has divided opinion seismically over the past few days.
In one corner, Pumpkins stalwarts are claiming the tour was a triumph, where Billy Corgan and co. treated audiences to epic sets mixed with classics and rare gems. Christ, he even cracked the odd joke.
In the other, disgruntled punters have labelled the shows as self-indulgent twaddle, “dire” and amongst the worst gigs some people have seen.
Gigwise has been inundated with messages from both sides over recent days, each claiming that the other is talking gibberish.
Now you can have your say by voting in the poll below. We’ll close the poll and reveal the results at the end of the week.
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- thats crap , was at the gig , was great , prity much sold out , they played 28 songs good stuff
- I agree with Martyn, it was fascinating and moving and so diverse. I loved every minute.
- Bollocks, I was so bored it was painful. There was absolutely no atmosphere - you would have thought that Corgan and co would have dipped their hands in their pockets for some screens!! 22,000 of the 23,000 couldn’t see anything apart from Billy’s head
- It depends where you watched them and if you appreciate musical talent, or just after a laser show. Its all a personal opinion at the end of the day. They rocked Manchester for 2.5 hours, flopped at Nottingham cos of the crowd and other things, and I do not a clue about London personally. I would love to see such a talented band again, first class. Good Live music is heavily influenced by the crowd as well as the band...
- I saw them in Istanbul in the summer and they were absoluteley dire. Mr Corgan has disappeared very far up his own arsehole. And to think this was the band that gave us Siamese Dream. It was tragic to witness such a sad spectacle. Amazed people in the UK even wanted them to come back?
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