Garbage Box has returned with a totally new layout, system, name and location. Please update your bookmarks and links to http://www.garbagediscobox.com to keep up to date with the latest Garbage News as it breaks!
At a time when the vast majority of Garbage web sites are dying I was approached by Tiago to help develop the next generation of his site because like many of the fan sites the owners just don’t have the time to keep them running. Within a couple of moments it was decided that the greatest Garbage fan site ever could not die like the rest, so we have developed a site that is so easy to update this site should always live on.
The new and improved Garbage Disco Box will now be updated by 3 people. These are the founder of Garbage Box Tiago Palma, Michel Rijkels and myself. The system that we have installed allows all three of us to update the site from anywhere in the world including from our mobile phones via SMS text message if we wish so you could get live gig reports in the future as it happens – of course we need a tour before that can happen!
So what’s new?
The News Archive is now 100% searchable and has been archived into categories so that you can just search for Tour News, Butch Vig or Shirley Manson news if you require. The full archive has been added to our database so we have around 900 news articles dating back to 2001. There are some older dates also included in the database and over the coming months we plan to take the archive right back to 1994 when news first started to break on Garbage.
Forum
The Garbage Discography forum has now become part of this site as well, so extended topics and comments can be made there on any story you wish to talk about. Everyone who was already registered on the old Garbage Discography forum can automatically log into both Galleries using the same log in details as before.
The Galleries
We have 2 Galleries, one for standard studio, press and video captures and the other is the Tour box dating back to 1995. We have over 2,500 images in these galleries. Each and every one of these images can be sent as e-cards to your friends and family with your own personal message; if you don’t have any friends then you can always sit back and watch any gallery as a slide show.
Interactive
Garbage Disco Box is now fully interactive with you guys the end user. You can now comment on every single news article and image listed in our Databases, as already mentioned you can send every image in our galleries to your friends as e-cards or simply vote for your favourite images.
RSS – Keep Ahead of the Rest
Garbage Disco Box now has an RSS Feed so you can keep up to date with the Garbage news without even visiting the site. You can subscribe to our main feed and will work with Mozilla, Opera or FireFox. The feed has also been tested in the Thunderbird email client. Some mobile devices can also read RSS feeds, stay tuned for our forthcoming Mobile Device site!
The Future
What does the future hold? Unless costs spiral out of control, No matter what happens with the band Garbage this site will have a news archive dating back to the start, our planned mobile device news site will give grant you access to up to the minute news wherever you are, downloads and multimedia sections are just a few things we have planned for the future here so update them bookmarks and links now to http://www.garbagediscobox.com
Disco Box Stats
News Articles: over 900 dating back to 1995, full archive since 2001
Tour Box: over 1,650 live images dating back to 1995
Gallery: Over 900 dating back to 1995
E-cards: Over 2,550 spread across 2 Galleries!
Slideshows: Over 210 Garbage slideshows
Cost: 100% free, no subscription required here ;), donations are welcome however as we pay for this from our own pockets.
I can see that this new project will bring us (the garbage fans) all we need..it has tons of pictures, lots of news, a kind of diary that goes back 4 years…My congratulations to all of the 3 responsable but specially to my Good Good Friend Tiago. You always gave the G fans great sites and this one will no doubt be as good as it gets!
P.S. – I must admit I will miss the (old) Garbagebox eheh..but for a lot of other reasons :)
Terrific site! Congratulations to all of you!
I have mixed feelings over the whole Garbage thing. I really hope they don’t split, and what’s more, make a record that settles up the score once and for all; they are waaaay better than many other lame bands around, and for some reason they are not given enough credit for their music and I think that is like, so unfair. I’m really happy and surprised and thankfull that there are still people who keep garbage sites running, since, as said, they all seem to be fading away, which takes me to the other part of my mixed-emotions situation: the fact that garbage themselves seem to have faded away a bit… somehow they don’t have it the way they did back in the V2.0 era (my favorite by the way). Their music was kind of the soundtrack of my life for years, but between BG and Bleed they left this 4 year (!!!!) void that kind of washed out my strong feelings towards ‘em… Anyhow, thanks very much for keeping Garbage sources alive!!! Keep the faith ^__^
omg – i love it. my 2 fav. sites garbage sites ever merged together. nice job.
Excellent. I loved the former layout a lot, but this looks great, too. Keep up the rad work. :)
thanks a lot for all your kind comments, hope you all keep checking the site daily and get involved in the forum!!!
love this website! rocks!! thanks guys….
Love the site!! Layout is quick and easy to use. I’d be proud of this work. Thanks for supplying my fix!!