Photo by Paul Elledge

In 2012, we reported that Billy Corgan opened a tea shop in the Chicago suburbs called Madame Zuzu's. (He did not call it Mellon Collie and the Infinite Souchong, because he did not ask me first.) Now, as SPIN points out, Corgan has announced that he will be perform an eight-to-nine hour "ambient/musical interpretation" of Hermann Hesse's 1922 novel Siddhartha at the teahouse. The show will start at noon on February 28, and early reports predict that it will be the most Billy Corgan thing ever to happen.

Full statement via Corgan's Facebook:

On 2//28 I'll be doing a show at Madame ZuZu's Teahouse; start time noon, and due to nature of performance it'll last 8-9 hours. So see http://MadameZuzus.com in coming days for details on seating and admissions. As with all our events there is no charge. Performance will be centered around an ambient/musical interpretation of Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha; built by modular synthesis, on the fly. Readings of the text to go hand in hand with whatever is created; + the first @Hexistential poster, and event t-shirts too. Hope to see you there.

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