Forecastle Festival: Schedule Adds Smashing Pumpkins

OVER 100 BANDS IN LOUISVILLE IN JULY

Pumpkin Head Billy Corgan

The Forecastle Festival has announced the completion of this year’s festival lineup with the addition Smashing Pumpkins as Saturday night’s headlining act. Modern English and Scott Miller and the Commonwealth round out the acts on this year’s lineup.

The 2010 Festival will take place July 9–11 across Louisville’s 74-acre Waterfront Park. Other performers include The Flaming Lips, Widespread Panic, Spoon, DEVO, CAKE, She & Him, Drive-by Truckers, Bassnectar, Umphrey’s McGee, Against Me!, Minus the Bear, Manchester Orchestra, a reunited Cap ‘n Jazz, and rare daily/nightly performances by “Cirque Berzerk,” a Los Angeles-based circus combining aerial acrobatics and French burlesque with punk rock influences.

See the full lineup of over 100 bands here, and view the detailed daily schedules here.