Smashing Pumpkins will bring a wrestling show to Tampa this fall

They better restock the bins at Microgroove because The Smashing Pumpkins are coming back to Tampa Bay this fall.

Tickets to see The Smashing Pumpkins play MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre on Sunday, Aug. 20 go on sale Friday, March 31 at 10 a.m. EDT. Ticket prices have yet to be announced, but New York rock band Interpol opens the show along with Rival Sons.

The Tampa show is one of just two Florida dates on The Smashing Pumpkins' "The World Is A Vampire" tour, which will support the final installment of the band's ATUM trilogy.
What's more is that a press release says that athletes from Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan's National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) will "compete at most of the festival locations." At its peak in the '60s and '70s, the NWA was one the globe's biggest wrestling organization and wildly-popular in Tampa where the revived league filmed a pay per view last February.

"I grew up in a world where I needed to know bands like Siouxsie and the Banshees and The Cure existed, it meant there was a place for people like me to hang out and belong. That's what The World Is A Vampire is about," Corgan, who bought NWA in 2017, wrote in the release. "Bringing back that sense of community. If you don't fit in, you belong here. It's about having a shared experience and respecting others, but ultimately having fun. A true alternative festival, where all the self-proclaimed weirdos and outsiders of the world can get together and have a party.”

Smashing Pumpkins last played the Bay area last October alongside Jane's Addiction, when Corgan spent hours before the show shopping for records in Seminole Heights.