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Official garbage.com statement

Dear worried and confused, After reading all the bullshit out there about the future of Garbage, we felt compelled to write a few lines here to address the issue and set the record straight. Certain journalists have taken the liberty of running wildly inaccurate stories in recent days about our so called “break-up”. Made up […]

Shirley Manson Slams INXS

Garbage frontwoman Shirley Manson has criticized INXS for replacing the late Michael Hutchence with a TV reality show winner. As previously reported on Gigwise, Aussie JD Fortune was named as the new frontman for the rock group earlier this week after being whittled down from thousands of contestants on show ‘Rock Star: INXS’. But Manson […]

Breakup Talk Not Garbage

ROCK band Garbage will split after their Australian tour this month. Singer Shirley Manson confirmed the million-record selling band will take an indefinite “hiatus” after the tour ends. “We’ve not stopped for 10 years,” the Scot said in Melbourne yesterday. “We always swore if it wasn’t 100 per cent fun we’d stop it. So that’s […]

Have Garbage split? (rumour)

According to GIGWISE.com, “Following rumours of a split earlier this year, it now appears that Garbage may have finally called it a day, with an announcement that all European dates on their 2005 world tour have been cancelled. A statement released on Friday placed the blame for the cancellation on the band’s heavy workload and […]

Garbage in Moscow 28-29.06.05 (exclusive @ shout.ru)

On June 29th, 2005 our favorite Shirley Manson and Co. (i.e. great band Garbage) played amazing live show at «Tuborg Live & Loud Festival» at Moscow SK «Olympiysky». A day before, on June 28th, 2005 they did special press-conference for Russian press-media. Russian online music magazine SHOUT! Online (www.shout.ru) were at both events, and took […]

Garbage UK tidbits and rumours

* The 3rd UK single is rumoured to be “Bleed Like Me”. No official release date yet, but it should be around September. * September is also when Garbage are rumoured to return to United Kingdom for another UK tour, after the shows in America and Mexico. * Around January, the single “Run Baby Run” […]

Garbage tidbits and rumours

* According to an Turkish fan, Shirley Manson was in Istanbul, Turkey last weekend (May 28-29) to shoot footage for the upcoming video for ‘Run Baby Run’. She was spotted walking and eating at a downtown restaurant, with an entourage of Turkish people. It is believed that Shirley came alone, without the boys. On the […]

“Queer” video on Stéphane Sednaoui DVD compilation

The Directors Label returns on September 13th 2005 with simultaneous releases from four more of the world’s most acclaimed music video directors, once again produced by Richard Brown for Palm Pictures. Volume 7 will be a Stéphane Sednaoui video compilation that will include Garbage’s video for “Queer” as well as a Shirley Manson interview. Also […]