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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.

Shirley on the Eminem Show

“Love love LOVE the new Eminem CD having been somewhat underwhelmed on first listen but now it’s worked it’s way into my heart and I keep playing it over and over. It’s like some old blues/folk record set in a modern context. Dark and desperate but defiant and jubilant!!!!!! “

Recording Garbage

What can you do when you’ve reached the limits of technical innovation? According to Garbage, the answer is to go back to the basics of songwriting.

Shirley and authograph hunters

On Shirley’s words: “I did however get a wee bit upset with a posse of professional autograph hunters after the show.They all come (armed with piles of drum heads, posters and glossy photographs) posing as legitimate fans and attempting to get us to sign our names on as many articles as possible, insisting that we […]

Shirley reading Paulo Coelho

That’s true. Shirley mentioned an excerpt of a book from one of the portuguese spoken most well known writers on her diary! “Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of […]

Butch Vig sick again

Butch Vig is suffering from “an acute inner ear infection causing painful sensitivity to sound” so Matt Chamberlain will be filling in for him until he recovers. The first live show where Matt replaced Butch this time was on May 28th, on The Joint, Las veGas. Te setlist for this show was: Push It / […]