The Smashing Pumpkins frontman owns a pro-wrestling league – so of course the band is touring Australia with a troupe of wrestlers
, playing third, whose turbo-charged singer, Amy Taylor, would have surely given the pro-wrestlers performing between sets a run for their money, had she stepped into their ring. That includes the wrestlers Mecha Wolf 450 and Bestia 666, who had shown up for a tag team match earlier in the day in robot dog and neon skull masks, leather and chains.Perry Farrell of Jane’s Addiction performs.US rock band Jane’s Addiction’s lascivious frontman, Perry Farrell, ups the pomp and ceremony.
Farrell tries some surfing banter, before realising he’s nowhere near the ocean and course corrects from the track Ocean Size to Mountain Song: both are excellent.“They told us we’d be playing in a castle and to look out for the crocodiles. But then we look up and see that inflatable chicken,” Farrell says at one point, understandably confused by the inflatable unicorn looming over the ramparts. “Fuck castles. They’re full of kings, they ain’t shit. That’s a silly fuckin’ castle.
I stake out a spot for the Pumpkins’ set. Three-quarters of the original lineup is present: Corgan , drummer Jimmy Chamberlain and guitarist James Iha. They’re touring the bands new material, ATUM – A Rock Opera in Three Acts ; and open with its title track: an instrumental synth piece that could soundtrack an Aldi bootleg of the Legend of Zelda.
Still, the band’s holy trinity of albums, Siamese Dream, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, and Adore contain everything worthwhile in rock music: unforgiving dirges, shredding, screamy bits, pop abandon, gothy synths and sonic experimentation. The band’s hits are unarguable, many of which they play: Today, Bullet With Butterfly Wings, Zero, 1979, Ava Adore. They even throw in a beloved deep cut with We Only Come Out At Night .Audience members Aisha and Jay, ‘freshly in love’.
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, was the first album this music journalist bought on CD: a. A double-disc behemoth containing enough grandeur, fantasy and imagination to inspire a years-long obsession. With its moats and turrets, the ridiculous castle made more sense as a setting than anyone was willing to admit.
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