Billy

Low-key poker drama plays a clever hand

Billy Corgan's band 'Mark 4', attack London with 3 hours of hits

... Or: Where's this year's Great American Indie flick?

Only days to go till the greatest Rock festival in the UK

Billy Corgan and co's Zeitgeist tickets are gone within minutes

A brief dispatch, since I'm fending off hordes of enraged Smashing Pumpkins fans, some of them Argentinian. My crimes are many, but involve bad grammar, liking Zwan and, OK, disrespecting the the untouchable genius of Billy Corgan.

Billy Corgan is not an easy man to like, but from time to time in his career he's made some pretty good records. I should make it clear from the start that I'm hardly a Smashing Pumpkins obsessive: I liked the psych-grunge of "Gish" a lot, and I was distinctly impressed by the translation of ambition into a new kind of stadium rock on "Siamese Dream".

Former Soft Machine member to appear at Hay Festival too

HAPPENINGS TEN YEARS TIME AGO May 7 to 13, 1997 Kurt Cobain's Seattle home, where his body was found three years earlier, is put up for sale by Courtney Love. The asking price is $3 million.

Billy Corgan will play new material at Paris theatre