Billy Corgan NZ Gig
Posted: Thu Jun 9, 2005 10:07 pm

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With his first solo album TheFutureEmbrace (Warner Bros. Records) set to hit streets June 21, BILLY CORGAN has confirmed additional dates on his in-progress debut solo world tour. After completing legs in Europe and North America, one of alternative modern rock's most compelling artists will head to Australia and New Zealand—where he hasn’t performed since 1998 with Smashing Pumpkins—and then Japan. The down under leg launches July 27 in Auckland, NZ and then heads to Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane in Australia before reaching Osaka, Nagoya and Tokyo in Japan. Fans should expect a vibrant aural and visual show that’s been designed for intimate venues—an experience that will reflect the album’s panoramic sound and push-and-pull tension.

On TheFutureEmbrace, CORGAN warmly and vividly delivers pure expressions of love and devotion in the face of uncertainty, doubt and sorrow over shadowy guitar lines and beautifully lush cascades of sound. CORGAN’s set list includes such melodic and haunting songs from the album as “Walking Shade,” “Mina Loy (M.O.H.)” and “TheCameraEye.”
Asked about the album’s production, CORGAN says, "I don't really think about production much...it's like saying, ‘Why did you choose to wear that color?’ Sound to me is the way I express the shades of emotion, and this album has a lot of smeared paint...like a child who doesn't color in between the lines..."

On TheFutureEmbrace, CORGAN aims to find innocence and purity as the world rages around him. His tone is questioning, his vocals are tender, and his lyrical flow is as seamless as the poetry in his book of poems Blinking With Fists (Faber & Faber, 10/04). A noteworthy achievement, Blinking With Fists was the highest-debuting poetry book on the New York Times’ best-seller list in over a decade.

For more information about CORGAN, log on to www.myspace.com/billycorgan or www.billycorgan.com. Visitors to both sites can read his autobiography that he’s chosen to post online, as he prefers the immediacy of this realm instead of publishing it as a book. He’s already posted 25 chapters--encompassing his childhood, relationship with his family, early years as an aspiring musician through his time with the Smashing Pumpkins and his life today—and is regularly adding more chapters. The postings debut at www.myspace.com/billycorgan and are then archived at www.billycorgan.com.

Date City Venue
Sun 24 July Auckland St. James Theatre

Tickets go ON SALE Wed 15 June from Tickets Direct phone 09 3797979 or online

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