Alice Nutter on Shirley

Chumbawamba’s Alice Nutter said about Shirley: “I saw her recently on the Jools Holland show actually. The thing about Garbage is that she’s supposed be this vixen fronting a wild band but they just look like a load of boring old men… and it all hinges on her. She looks great and has a great voice but it doesn’t always work and I think they’ve got too much of a formula. The first Garbage album I thought was great but then every other Garbage album was just another Garbage album. Then there’s all that whole thing about “I’m a bad girl! I hate myself!” and how many different ways of saying it (laughs).”
This came after Shirley labelling Tubthumping, the band’s hit, as a curse on humanity and then singling Chumbawamba’s Lou out as being the worst singer in the world.