Shirley seems to have been doing yet more work with other artists this time Greg Kurstin from The Bird and the Bee. The Times online report the following. Kurstin, the quieter and more wry of the two, was a child jazz-piano prodigy who hauled himself off to New York to study with Jaki Byard, Charlie […]
Shirley is featured on Episode 14 of Liam Lynch’s podcast. Shirley talks about wishing to be an Astronaut & truck driver as well as visiting Scottish safari parks. Thanks to April from the new TT for the information ;) You can view the podcast online at lianlynch.net or at the following http://liamlynch.cachefly.net/podcasts/LynchlandEps14.m4v
SHE’S been hailed as a “rock star poet” and “rock goddess extraordinaire”. Coupled with double platinum selling albums, international musical acclaim and industry awards you might think Shirley Manson would be a difficult interviewee – especially as the gutsy glamour singer of rock band Garbage doesn’t usually do interviews. Such fears, however, prove to be […]
Garbage prepping new songs for greatest-hits set Last we heard from Garbage, in the fall of 2005, the group was going on an indefinite hiatus. Fortunately for fans, that break is not turning out like, say, Blink-182’s “hiatus.” “We’re recording a couple new songs at the end of February,” drummer Butch Vig revealed recently. “I […]
Billboard.com report that Butch Vig has confirmed that there may be new Garbage material in 2007. “Despite the layoff, the group has been sharing song ideas via the Internet in recent months and is hoping to record a few them in March. “We need to sit down in a room and play them and get […]
Garbage.com reports that Garbage are to appear at a semi-acoustic benefit concert in January 2007. “BEAT IT WALLY!! Musicians Banding Together to Fight Cancer a semi-acoustic benefit concert for Wally ‘Llama’ Ingram with various artists including GARBAGE, THE MARTINIS with JOEY SANTIGO & DAVID LOVERING of THE PIXIES, BONNIE RAITT, VICTORIA WILLIAMS & TOM FRUEND, […]
In a slight twist to the news story that appeared here a few days ago it now seems that Shirley Manson will appear on Eric Avery’s forthcoming album. In a comment on his official blog Eric has replied to a comment about the Darfur charity CD with the following information. “I will say that Shirley […]