This interview appeared in the Times here in the UK and has been reproduced on their website. The interview talks about Shirleys forthcoming solo project and working with Paul Buchanan of Blue Nile (writing). Thanks to Ilona from our garbage forum for bringing this to our attention.
The latest copy of Bust magazine features an article with Garbage’s Bleed Like Me album mastering engineer, Emily Lazar. There isn’t too much mentioned about Garbage but there is a new photo of the band, so don’t rush out and buy it thinking its all Garbage. The full article and photo is below.
By Julie Sager (Retriever Weekly Editorial Staff) Without a doubt, Garbage frontwoman Shirley Manson is my favorite of what I like to call the ‘inadvertent feminists’– people whose work makes them a poster child for equality and empowerment without them necessarily having meant to become such a thing. The fierce, redheaded Scot has, over several […]
By Steph Jorgl | May 2005 This is a really huge guitar record for us,” says Butch Vig, producer, drummer and songwriter for Garbage. Vig put his name on the map when he produced Nirvana’s ground-breaking Nevermind and Smashing Pumpkins’ Siamese Dream. The new Garbage record — released in April 2005 — is called Bleed […]
1. From the leftfield pop anthems ‘Queer’ through to ‘Androgyny’, Garbage has always had an eye on the steamy and fluid side of bisexuality. Flirting with the gays is one of our favourite hobbies you know. 2. Shirley Manson, queen bitch frontwoman and allround mouthy bird oozes star quality like most folk ooze grease. She […]
Knitting, mortgages and respect for J-Lo – has self-proclaimed rock’n’roll high priestess Shirley Manson lost her cutting edge? Neil Lewis gets intimate…. “Everybody thinks I’m going to be a cunt”, says Shirley Manson and then laughs mischievously, reclining among a clutter of sofa cushions in her salubrious suite at Kensington’s Royal Garden Hotel. “But I’m […]
Garbage collection: The rock chick talks GQ through her digital playlist click by click “I’m attracted to all the fucked-up artists. They are my touchstones!” So says Shirley Manson, the face and voice of Garbage, the Edinburgh-Wisconsin band that have sold ten million albums since exploding onto the scene in 1995 with ‘Queer’ and ‘Only […]
BUTCH VIG’S SONG PICKS MOTO – “Dance Dance Dance Dance Dance to the Radio” Two minutes and 17 seconds of pure punk bliss…with a reference to both Jonathan Richman’s Roadrunner and Joy Division’s Transmission, it never fails to shoot adrenaline straight to my heart.