Smashing Pumpkins Join Khruangbin, Martin Garrix, Libertines At Gunnersbury Park Concert Series In London, UK

The Smashing Pumpkins are the latest act to be confirmed for this summer’s Gunnersbury Park concert series in London, England, where they’ll be taking the stage Aug. 10.

They join a lineup that features British DJ PAWSA (Aug. 8), Libertines (Aug. 9), Khruangbin (Aug. 15), and Martin Garrix (Aug. 16).

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The Smashing Pumpkins are widely regarded as one of the most influential bands of all time to shape alternative music and culture. Since their formation in 1988, the group has sold over 30 million albums worldwide, and garnered two Grammy Awards, seven MTV VMAs, and an American Music Award.

Their back catalogue includes seminal offerings such as the platinum Gish (1991), the quadruple-platinum Siamese Dream (1993), the diamond-certified Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (1995), the platinum Adore (1998), and the gold Machina/The Machines of God (2000).

In 2018 The Smashing Pumpkins unveiled Shiny and Oh So Bright, Vol. 1 / LP: No Past. No Future. No Sun., and launched the immensely successful “Shiny and Oh So Bright Tour,” which packed out arenas.

Highlights from that run include a sold out show at Madison Square Garden in Net York, NY, Aug. 1, 2018, selling 11,596 tickets for a $1,214,764 gross, according to the boxoffice report submitted to Pollstar; or two sold-out concerts at The Forum in Inglewood, CA, Aug. 30-31, 2018, moving a total 23,526 tickets at a $1,845,805 gross.

Maintaining this momentum, the band released their eleventh full-length double album CYR (2020), representing yet another evolution, and more recently, ATUM (2023), the sequel to 1995’s Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, and 2000’s Machina/Machine of God.

Last year, they played stadiums supporting Green Day on tour, which brought The Smashing Pumpkins in front of their biggest audiences yet. Examples from the Pollstar Boxoffice include a sold-out SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, CA, Sept. 14, 2024 (47,849 tickets, $5,664,994 grossed); a sold-out Chase Field in Phoenix, AZ, Sept. 18 (41,669, $3,574,207); or a sold-out T-Mobile Park in Seattle, WA, Sept. 23 (37,751; $4,556,964).

The band’s 2024 album Aghori Mhori Mei written in the immediate aftermath of ATUM, sees a return to form for original members Billy Corgan, Jimmy Chamberlin, and James Iha, and harkens back to the band’s early canon, where guitars, bass, drums, and spiking vocals ruled – and fans will be able to watch it all come to life when The Smashing Pumpkins take to the stage at Gunnersbury Park this summer.

Also on the bill at Gunnersbury Park that day, Aug. 10, are special guests Skunk Anansie, and White Lies.

West London’s Gunnersbury Park, thanks to the work of UK promoter Festival Republic (Live Nation), has become an established outdoor venue in the English capital, and offers a concert capacity of 25,000.  

The Smashing Pumpkins last appearance in London was Aug. 6, 2024, alongside Weezer, at The O2, where 17,720 fans bought a tickets, grossing $1,752,023. The band featured on the cover of Pollstar’s Sept. 16 issue. Head here for our big interview with frontman Billy Corgan.

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