Since their mid-90s heyday, every tour by The Smashing Pumpkins will have had at least one punter in the diehard crowd point at the stage and go, “Hold on, who the hell is that?!”. It’ll happen again this weekend as Billy Corgan’s alt-rock livewires embark on a UK and European tour and unveil the latest addition to their ranks in new guitarist Kiki Wong. But fans shouldn’t be surprised – Smashing Pumpkins' line-up has been a fluid, ever-evolving thing since those imperious early records, the biggest surprise being that they managed to make it all the way through Gish, Siamese Dream and Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness with the same members (their classic incarnation) on board. Here you have one handy, more-mammoth-than-I-expected-when-I-suggested-this-piece guide so you can be ready to pipe up when you hear the person behind you say, ‘Wait a minute, that’s not Jeff Schroeder…”.
