Billy Corgan's recent Twitter post has elated Smashing Pumpkins fans in Australia. The band will be heading Down Under for a tour later this year.

Corgan and his band from Chicago, who made it big in the early 90s with the release of their albums Siamese Dream and 1995 album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, have confirmed via Twitter that they have scheduled shows in America and will be touring Australia very soon.

"The Pumpkins also plan to tour South America and Australia in 2010 and hope to return to the US later this year," the Pumpkins posted on the social media site.

The dates and locations for the tour are yet to be confirmed.

The band's North American tour is their first following their December 2008 tour.

Corgan described the gigs to be "a balance of classics, a few obscure ones, and new 'Teargarden material".

The Pumpkins will be playing materials from their new Teagarden By Kaleidyscope vol.1: Songs for a Sailor EP.

Corgan revealed through smashingpumpkins.com that he and his bandmates - guitarist Jeff Schroeder, drummer Myke Byrne and new bassist Nicole Florentino - are planning to invite select fans to join them on their sound checks.

"We are going to do something unique, which is play an invite-only set during sound check of almost all new, unreleased songs," Corgan wrote.

"We're still figuring out a way to make it possible for some of the fans who'll be in the line outside waiting to get in for that."