Smashing Pumpkins have announced their Shiny And Oh So Bright Tour, their first since 2000 to feature the founding members Billy Corgan, Jimmy Chamberlin, and James Iha.

The band’s bassist, D’Arcy Wretzky, will not be joining the North American tour, but three-fourths of the acclaimed alt-rock group will be on hand when the tour kicks off in Glendale, Arizona, in July.

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The Pumpkins, formed in Chicago in 1988, have been teasing the possibility of a tour for quite some time now, first with an Instagram post from Corgan in January, in which he said the band was in the studio with the producer Rick Rubin, and then later with a countdown clock on the band’s website. Last week, Wretzky gave an interview with the website BlastEcho claiming Corgan had approached her with a contract offer but later rescinded it, saying it “wasn’t a real offer”.

In a January statement to BlastEcho, Wretzky said: “I only just found about yesterday that the band has decided to go with a different bass player.”

The tour coincides with the 30-year anniversary of the band’s formation. The Smashing Pumpkins burst on to the scene with their 1991 album Gish and then, two years later, with Siamese Dream. Their third studio album, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, was released in 1995, selling 21m copies in the United States alone and spawning the single 1979, the Pumpkins’ highest-charting song. Well-chronicled infighting led to their disbanding in 2000. In 2006, Corgan and Chamberlin reunited to record Zeitgeist, and the band toured through the following year.