Almost seven years after playing their final show, the partially reunited Smashing Pumpkins have confirmed their first tour dates of 2007 with a pair of headlining performances at German festivals in early June.

According to the band’s Web site (http://www.smashingpumpkins.com), the Pumpkins will perform at Rock Am Ring at Nuerburg on June 2, and Rock Im Park in Nuremberg the following evening.

The Pumpkins, comprised now of original vocalist/guitarist Billy Corgan and drummer Jimmy Chamberlin, are expected to be active on the road throughout the summer in support of their comeback album, due in late spring or early summer.

Corgan, the band’s principal songwriter, has resurrected the Pumpkins after attempts to launch a new band, Zwan, and then a solo career fell flat. Missing from the Pumpkins lineup are its co-founders, bassist D’arcy Wretzy, who left in 1999 and was replaced by Melissa Auf Der Maur, and guitarist James Iha. The band broke up after an emotional farewell show at the Metro theater in their Chicago hometown in December 2000.

“For many years there were private laments about opportunities missed and hearts so broken, but no more … we have turned the page and moved on, from places and faces, names and games,” Corgan wrote earlier this month on the band’s MySpace.com site.

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