News

Shirley with Elton John

Garbage spent the afternoon of June 19th with one of the most important pop icons of all time. Shirley wrote on her diary: “Woke up,got dressed,got picked up in a chaffeur driven car and taken to Elton John’s villa in the hills overlooking the stunning vista of Nice.Enjoyed the most delicious lunch whilst supping on […]

Santana on “beautiful” Garbage

Garbage played at the Heiniken Jammin’ festival in Imola, Italy on June 16th. JT LeRoy, inspiration for Cherry Lips was in the audience wich has a complete turn on to Shirley. According to her, “The other notable event of the day was when Duke ran into Carlos Santana backstage after our show (He was headlining […]

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 […]

Nickleback VS Shirley Manson

Chad Kroeger, frontman of Nickelback, when asked “Now that you’re famous, who would you like to squash like a bug?”, aptly replied “Shirley Manson of Garbage!”. This feeling started a month ago when Shirley said in her tour diary that “Why on earth has Seal not sued Nickleback for their copyright infringement of the big […]

‘Shut Your Mouth’ video online

The video for “Shut Your Mouth” is now available for watching over the internet on the MTV Italy site, where the band just played two concerts. It is a cartoon animation, where Shirley is hosted in a TV program, the conducer is an idiot, the audience stupid, then Shirl go out, and drive away. The […]

Garbage against music piracy

Garbage gave, in Madrid, a press conference in Fnac. It was on the day before of the “Day Without Music”. Here’s what Shirley had to say: “There’s no turning back on mp3s, and the artist is always screwed”. They said their soundtrack for this tour is: White Stripes, Waits, Captain Beefheart, …

Garbage against drugs

Garbage speak against the use of drugs not only on the artistic environment, but in any environment because they destroy lifes once they’re very difficult to control when they become an addiction. Shirley Manson, frontwoman of Garbage, band formed in Wisconsin, said they’re very sorry about the death od Dee Dee Ramone, that died on […]

MAC AIDS fund paying off

Shirley presented another MAC Aids Fund cheque for the rather impressive sume of $75,000 to an organization in San Francisco called “Meals with Love”. Seeing as each dinner costs around 5 bucks, the donation will provide around 15,000 dinners to people living with HIV or Aids which is a wonderful thing indeed.