Alt-rock legends The Smashing Pumpkins have announced that they're bringing their curated The World Is A Vampire Festival to Australia later this year.
Featuring The Smashing Pumpkins, fellow '90s icons Jane's Addiction and killer Aussie talent including Amyl & the Sniffers, RedHook, Battlesnake and more, The World Is A Vampire Festival will hit 10 Australian cities throughout April.
In addition to the music, each date on the festival will feature live professional wrestling, with wrestlers from the Billy Corgan-owned NWA (National Wrestling Alliance) doing battle with wrestlers from the WAOA (Wrestling Alliance of Australia).
Watch The World Is A Vampire Festival trailer below.
Tickets for all festival dates will be available from One World Entertainment on Friday, February the 3rd at 12pm with a pre-sale available to One World Entertainment members from Thursday, February the 2nd at 9am.
The Smashing Pumpkins were one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed bands of the 1990s, often cited as one of the most influential acts in alternative rock. From the instantly recognisable harmonic riff of Cherub Rock and the haunting Disarm from their breakthrough album, 93’s Siamese Dream to the majesty of Tonight, Tonight and the savagery of Bullet With Butterfly Wings from the 10 times platinum monster, 1995’s Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness , through to the bands most recent releases 2018’s Shiny and Oh So Bright and 2021’s Cyr which featured the singles, Solara, The Colour Of Love and Wyttch, The Smashing Pumpkins have been a mainstay in the rock world for over three decades and in 2023 will release their most ambitious work to date, Atum: A Rock Opera In Three Acts.
Jane's Addiction were one of the first bands from the alt-rock movement to gain both mainstream media attention and commercial success. The band's first two studio albums, 1988’s Nothing's Shocking (1988) and 1990’s Ritual de lo Habitual were released to widespread critical acclaim and gave the world classics like Mountain Song, Been Caught Stealing and Stop! Fusing together a multitude of styles that ultimately led to them being labelled ‘funk-punk’ Jane’s Addiction created a sound all their own and their influence can be heard across nearly every sub-genre of rock music.
Jane’s frontman Perry Farrell’s influence extends far beyond the band and their side projects. He created the iconic Lollapalooza Festival which brought alternative music to the masses from 1991 onwards. This festival was instrumental in creating the culture we recognise and love today.
For more information on The World Is A Vampire Festival head to One World Entertainment
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