Olivavu has posted three rumored headliners for the last remaining headlining slot for the Mad Cool Festival, with The Smashing Pumpkins, Arctic Monkeys, and Radiohead being rumored for the last slot. Arctic Monkeys seem most likely since they’re expected to announce a European tour in January. The Smashing Pumpkins’ original lineup is heavily rumored to reunite next year, but Corgan hinted a few months ago at a lack of European interest in himself as a solo act or the Pumpkins when it comes to touring.
The Mad Cool Festival takes place on July 12-14 and already features 90’s heavyweights Pearl Jam, Nine Inch Nails, and Alice In Chains on the lineup, along with Queens of the Stone Age.
After criticizing Pearl Jam a few years ago, it appears that Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan is now on good terms with Eddie Vedder. In a new Deleware Online interview, it was revealed that two of the last prominent surviving singers of the Grunge era caught up at a recent Roger Waters show.
The interviewer asked, “One of the things that makes me a fan of yours is your outspokenness. A few years back you were on Stern and answered his questions honestly leading to headlines like, ‘Billy Corgan Disses Pearl Jam, Foo Fighters On Howard Stern.’ We never get to hear what happens after you leave the studio. Are you getting texts from people angry at you? Are your publicists freaking out?”
Corgan responded, “Nobody says anything to me. In fact, I just saw [Pearl Jam frontman] Eddie Vedder a couple of weeks ago at a Roger Waters concert and he said hello and we caught up. So, it’s not as bad as it necessarily plays out in public, but knowing it plays bad makes me not want to do it. I don’t want to be part of the negative culture. I don’t want to be part of that anymore, so I’m not going to be that guy.”
