Billy loadsamates: the `rebooted´ Smashing Pumpkins on making music and fighting their own myth
(WorldNews Music)

As the reunited icons return with a new album, Andrew Trendell meets Billy Corgan, James Iha and Jimmy Chamberlin to talk friendship, the future, life after D`Arcy and that Disneyland meme... Smashing Pumpkins Theirs is the story they were never meant to have. The band who swam against the tide of trend and expectation became a cliche rock n´ roll car crash of drugs, death, in-fighting and implosion, all under the shadow of one of what the media would have you believe was one of rock´s most tyrannical egos. In their wake, their musical offspring Muse and My Chemical Romance would seize the mantle of concept-driven, arena-ready rock theatre. But after dabbling with the technicolour follow-up...