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![]() On my radar: Billy Corgan’s cultural highlights
The Smashing Pumpkins frontman on bonding with his son over Miyazaki, the genius of Mozart’s Requiem, and the world’s biggest Bozo the Clown collection https://www.theguardian.com/music/ar...ral-highlights Born in Chicago in 1967, Billy Corgan is the frontman of the Smashing Pumpkins. The band have released 12 studio albums, including Atum: A Rock Opera in Three Acts (2022–2023); he has also released music solo and with the supergroup Zwan. He owns the National Wrestling Alliance, and is the subject of US reality TV series Billy Corgan’s Adventures in Carnyland. Along with his wife, Chloe Mendel, he runs Madame Zuzu’s Tea House in Highland Park, Illinois. The Smashing Pumpkins are on the UK leg of their The World Is a Vampire tour until 14 June; tonight they play the O2 in London. 1. Film The Boy and the Heron (dir Hayao Miyazaki, 2023) I went with my son, who’s eight, to the local arthouse. It’s about a boy who loses his mother quite young, which certainly touched me because, in a way, I lost my mother when I was four, when she was institutionalised. It’s a beautifully animated movie, but a bit cryptic. As we were leaving I asked my son to explain it to me. He went: “Well, it was about a boy and a blue heron.” Sometimes it takes a child to tell you that the truth is right in front of you. It was a beautiful moment between my son and I. 2. Concert Mozart’s Requiem, Lyric Opera of Chicago I recently saw a performance of this with Enrique Mazzola as the conductor. It was probably 60 people in the choir, 60 musicians on stage and another four soloists upfront singing. Of course, I’d heard Requiem on recording before, but seeing it live with a world-class orchestra was almost like a religious experience. When you’re standing in front of one of the all-time greats, listening to seven different melodies and polyphony – it’s a level of genius I can’t even contemplate, much less emulate. It’s a humbling experience. 3. Restaurant Del Rio, Highwood, Illinois There’s an Italian restaurant here where I live. It was originally a tango bar, where servicemen would go dancing in the 30s. It’s been in the same family for almost 100 years. It has all the original decor: a vintage tin ceiling, a deco bar. There’s stuff pasted on the wall that’s probably been there for 80 years. It’s a true relic that has somehow survived: the perfect meeting of past and present. Unfortunately, even though I’m a consistent customer, there’s only one thing I can eat there, which is the gluten-free pasta. 4. Collection The Bozeum Fans of The Simpsons, of course, know Krusty the Clown, who was based on Bozo the Clown, the most famous of which was in Chicago. Recently I was invited by the actor David Arquette, who now owns the Bozo franchise, to go see a guy who’s the biggest Bozo collector in the world [Tom Holbrook]. I got a private tour of his Bozeum, which was pretty cool. Because it was such a merchandising cash cow, you can imagine what they could sell to kids: toys, dolls, soap, toothbrushes – anything a child would want, they put Bozo’s name on it. 5. Song Kid Tigrrr – Skin Kid Tigrrr is an independent artist I’m fond of, and she recently put out a song called Skin. Her music is kind of shoegazy: if you’re a fan of, say, My Bloody Valentine or Slowdive, it would be in that genre. She performs a lot on her own, which is very brave, just her and a guitar. I’ve never seen her live, but she posts clips all the time on Instagram, so I feel like I have. I’ve written to her to encourage her to follow her own muse. 6. Book Every Man for Himself and God Against All by Werner Herzog I enjoyed Werner Herzog’s memoir. His style is very laconic: he talks about these harrowing details where he almost loses his life multiple times, and speaks about it in such a calm German way that it’s almost shocking. I guess that’s in his film-making as well. There’s a story where he’s in a helicopter, shooting a movie on one of the most dangerous mountains in the world, and within minutes they’re in a full-blown whiteout snowstorm where you can’t even see your hand in front of your face. They were trapped up there for days and almost died. |
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![]() I went through the mod logs and the above claim over a ban about Kiki's boyfriend just doesn't exist. Non truth.
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Minion of Satan
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![]() The more I do something sort of audacious, the more I seem to be rewarded for it'
American rock band The Smashing Pumpkins are set to play the Luxexpo Open Air festival on 28 June. Today Radio's Stephen 'Steps' Lowe had a catch up with lead singer Billy Corgan ahead of their gig. Making their fourth appearance in the Grand Duchy, the Smashing Pumpkins will feature as part of the Luxexpo Open Air event in Kirchberg, after a venue switch from the Rockhal due to overwhelming demand for tickets. They last played in Luxembourg over a decade ago, appearing at the Rockhal in 2011 and 2013, and previously played to a sold-out crowd at den Atelier back in 2007. Now touring Europe, lead singer Billy Corgan took some time to chat to Today Radio's Stephen Steps Lowe on the Sunny Side Up show this Tuesday. "It's probably our biggest European tour since 97 or 98," Billy told Steps."The audiences have been fantastic. Lots of young faces, which is always a good sign that you're kind of going [in] the right direction." At times the interview took a bit of a deeper turn, exploring Billy's reputation as an opinionated creator and how that affects his relationship with the press. "There's this weird thing that people romanticise what musicians should be like, and that musicians are sensitive," he said. "I just always found that kind of bourgeoisie [...] my performance is on the stage and in my music, but in life I'm not a performer." Today Radio: What are your thoughts in relation to the press interest in you saying, 'we will play the songs that interest us and not just a Greatest Hits session'? Billy Corgan: I think I make good clickbait. Somehow a quote, which is so innocuous, the person said, 'how do you feel about playing old songs?' And I said, well, I just, if I don't want to play them, I don't play them. I wasn't saying all my old songs, I was saying any song in particular. So that quote taken out of context seems like one of those weird things where you say something and it reads differently than you mean it. They [the press] can't help themselves. They clickbait so bad. It has nothing to do with integrity. It has nothing to do with the truth. It just has to do with where they can generate energy, right? Today Radio: You've played in Luxembourg a couple of times. You played at the Rockhal and you played in Den Atelier, for a club show, I think it was a pre-festival warm up, and you seem to approach it with all the gusto and the same energy and level that you would have done for a stadium show. Is that how you approach your performance? Billy Corgan:You know, we came up in the clubs and we realised early on that if you could make an impact at a club level, you certainly weren't going to make an impact anywhere else. So it's just the way we learned how to play. I guess we don't feel like we have a choice. And I don't mean that in any weird pedantic way. We just feel like if you're not going to put your whole heart into what you're doing, why are you up there at all? Today Radio: When you're not Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins, what do you do outside of that field? Billy Corgan: My real interests in life are learning. I read a lot. I do a lot of research. I'm very interested in theatrical things, you know. Anything that involves performance, you know, could be puppets, it could be opera. So yeah, I think I just spend my time away from music just looking for things to inspire me. And then somehow, it leads back at some level to making it into a song. When I was making Melon Collie... in 1994, I was reading Shakespeare every day. That's what I would do. I couldn't tell you what Shakespeare I read. I would just open it to a page and just steeped myself in language. Today Radio: [on the band's twelfth studio album, ATUM: A Rock Opera in Three Acts] Did you have doubts about making that type of release? Billy Corgan: Not really, no. There's something in my life that the more I do something sort of audacious, the more I seem to be rewarded for it. [...] I guess what I would say is, be simple about it. I have children, young children, and of course I see what they're listening to, and, you know, I'm in the world and I see what's playing at the mall or whatever. You just see this kind of perfectly constructed world, and you're so aware, both as a human being and as an artist, that the world is quite dangerous and quite untrustworthy as it comes to the human condition. And there's nothing wrong with rattling a baton on the glass every once in a while and kind of mentioning to everybody, by the way, this narrative movie you're watching is completely fabricated. There's nothing real about anything that you're watching. And now it's so obvious, particularly in America, with the political process and the social process, how much it's manufactured. So, most people are aware it's manufactured, and they're kind of freaked out about it, but they don't know what to do about it. So, at least in my case, I can say, hey, for 30 plus years, I've stood in the same spot and said, you know, by the way, this is all kind of fraudulent. And invariably, because I've always stood up against the fraud, they try to make me fraudulent. |
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