The Smashing Pumpkins: « The Rats in a Cage Tour »

On October 10, 2026, The Smashing Pumpkins bring The Rats In A Cage Tour to Centre Bell in Montréal. Formed in Chicago around Billy Corgan’s writing, the band blends heavy, fuzzed guitars, layered melodies and a dark pop sensibility that has shaped alternative rock across decades. On stage, they move through the early grit of Gish and Siamese Dream, the widescreen sweep of Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, and later chapters like Zeitgeist and Oceania, while opening space for more recent tracks.

The set leans on contrasts: hushed passages that break into dense riffs, precise drums and vocals that cut through thick textures. Hooks surface, drop away, then return under waves of guitars and synths, keeping the dynamics alive without resting on any single era. Three decades in, the group plays with a through-line that ties old and new material together rather than treating them as separate worlds. The Rats In A Cage Tour revisits core themes—tension and release, melancholy in motion—through arrangements tightened for arenas, mapping the band’s evolution in real time at Centre Bell.