Watch Billy Corgan play Smashing Pumpkins’ classic ‘Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness’ with orchestra and chorus at London’s Royal Festival Hall

    Billy Corgan, London 2026. CREDIT: Scarlet Page

    Billy Corgan has played Smashing Pumpkins‘ classic ‘Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness’ with a 60-piece orchestra at London’s Royal Festival Hall. Check out footage and the setlist below.

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    The two shows at the iconic London venue were held on September 1 and 2, and came as part of the frontman’s ‘A Night of Mellon Collie and Infinite Sadness’ tour, which he announced in 2025 and kicked off in North America later that year.

    The shows see him perform alongside an orchestra to deliver an operatic reimagining of Smashing Pumpkins’ hit 1995 album ‘Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness’ but as a “completely new, sonic and visual experience”.

    At the second of the two London shows last night, the orchestra kicked things off with the album’s title track, followed by an emotive rendition of ‘Tonight, Tonight’, and an unusual tender spin on the more lively hit song ‘Jellybelly’.

    Billy Corgan, London 2026. CREDIT: Scarlet Page