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Time Out
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Out
The Smashing Pumpkins at Union Hall: start time, tickets, potential setlist and everything you need to know
The Smashing Pumpkins have announced a tour stop in Bangkok, marking their first return to the city in nearly three decades. The last time they performed on Thai soil was in 1996, at the Thai-Japanese Stadium, back when 1979 felt eerily prescient rather than tinged with longing. This October, they're set to play Union Hall, with a setlist that could include familiar favourites – 'Tonight, Tonight', 'Bullet with Butterfly Wings' and the aforemontioned '90s anthem – alongside tracks from recent projects Agohori Mhori Mei and the sprawling Atum: A Rock Opera in Three Acts. It's a glimpse into nearly four decades of noise, angst and unexpectedly tender are now officially on sale, which means the countdown begins – for fans old enough to remember the first round, and those who've only known The Smashing Pumpkins as a name scrawled across a vintage T-shirt. Heading to Union Hall to catch the show? Here's what you need to know: timings, setlist predictions, and whether there's still time to secure a spot. When are The Smashing Pumpkins playing at Union Hall? Wednesday, 1 October. Mark your diary with something permanent. What are the timings? Doors open at 6.30pm. If recent shows are any indication, the band tends to go on around 7pm and finish by 9pm. When do The Smashing Pumpkins tickets go on sale? General sale starts at 10am on Friday, May 16. Available via here. Ticket prices Prices are split by zone: CAT V is B6,000, CAT S is B5,000 and CAT A comes in at B4,000. Seating map What's the setlist? While nothing's been confirmed for Bangkok yet, their Baltimore show in June featured a cocktail of career-spanning hits. Expect a similar curation of loud, melancholic, and oddly uplifting. Three decades on, The Smashing Pumpkins are still a band that somehow makes sadness sound euphoric. Their return to Bangkok is less a concert and more a cultural déjà vu – only now, the kids who once scrawled lyrics on their schoolbags are old enough to afford front row. Or at least consider it.
Time Out
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Out
Bangkok welcomes back The Smashing Pumpkins this October
If you've ever paid attention to The Smashing Pumpkins – not just the sound but the mythology, the tantrums, the bald ambition of it all – you'll know Billy Corgan has long treated music less as a career and more as a divine crusade. He once described his art as a 'true narrative,' only to watch, in his words, 'people quite cleverly try to disassemble what I'd actually built.' Translation: he's never been one for subtlety. Or brevity. This year, the band returns to Bangkok for the first time in 29 years. Yes, twenty-nine. Their last appearance on Thai soil was at the Thai-Japanese Stadium in 1996, back when '1979' was still fresh enough to feel prophetic rather than nostalgic. This time, they'll take the stage at Union Hall on Friday, October 1 – part of a long-overdue Asian tour that also includes dates in Japan, South Korea and the Philippines. For the uninitiated, The Smashing Pumpkins are the goth-adjacent, guitar-heavy architects of alt-rock's most theatrical moments. They were moody before moody was a brand. Their 1995 double album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness remains one of the most ambitious records of the decade – part concept album, part existential cry into the void. Tracks like 'Tonight, Tonight' and 'Bullet with Butterfly Wings' weren't just radio staples; they were angst anthems for anyone who felt dislocated by their own youth. Corgan, with his monk-like dome and Nietzschean one-liners, has remained an enduring (if polarising) figure in music – part provocateur, part poet, wholly convinced of his own genius. Yet for all the myth-making, the band's return to Thailand feels less like a legacy act cashing in on old glories and more like a strange kind of homecoming. The music never really left; it just became harder to categorise. Whether you're there for the nostalgia or the noise, it's difficult to deny the weight of their return. Three decades later, The Smashing Pumpkins are still wrestling with the void – and asking the rest of us to listen in.
