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Shirley Manson traumatised by Japanese toilets

Shirley Manson told fans on her official site’s diary for February 1 – 7 that she and her Garbage bandmates were amazed by their experience with toilets in Japan. Shirley wrote, “The toilets in our hotel room are pretty mad. They’re electric mechanical toilets for one thing and they are permanently heated so that it’s […]

Liam Howlett’s (The Prodigy) take on ‘Cherry Lips’

Shirley met Prodigy’s Liam Howlett, who told her he liked Cherry Lips. Here’s what Shirley had to say: “Bumped into Liam from The Prodigy at the airport this morning (Oh I can’t WAIT for their new record.I just can’t WAIT) and was utterly made up when he said that he dug Cherry Lips.I just love […]

‘Breaking Up The Girl’: next single in Europe

Dutch press for up-coming gigs are claiming that Breaking Up The Girl will be the next single. Breaking Up The Girl was recently part of the Daria promotion in the US, but hasn’t resulted in a US single yet, and there is no word of a UK release. The EU single is to be released […]

The Know-It-All Boyfriends

The Know-It-All Boyfriends (covers band that Vig and Erikson sometimes take out to a club) will be joined by the lengendary Dickel Brothers Band for a space jam at an undislcosed club in Perth Saturday night. As KIAB members Freedy Johnston and Jam Moran are in America, Steve Marker and Daniel Shulman will be filling […]

vTeam update

“Firstly another apology for the lateness of these final results for the Garbage vTeam. Please find to follow the list of who’s earned what for the team. The rewards will be dispatched over the next few weeks and will be sent out by guaranteed delivery where appropriate. If there are any more delays in getting […]

Garbage news on your phone

A new site, popnews247.com, is offering to send news on your favourite band to your cell phone for free (by SMS text message), including Garbage. I Don’t know all the terms and conditions on the service, so you might wanna check that out.

Shirley joins MAC AIDS Fund

Yesterday, MAC Cosmetics announced the latest spokespersons for VIVA GLAM IV lipstick: Music legend and outspoken AIDS activist Elton John, Grammy Award winner Mary J. Blidge and rock icon Shirley Manson of the band Garbage.Since its creation in 1994, VIVA GLAM lipsticks have been the primary fund-raising tool for the MAC AIDS Fund. To date, […]

Garbage out of 2001 Spin’s top

For the first year, Garbage will not appear on SPIN Magazine’s Top 20 albums of the year, the most coveted Top 20 list of albums released during each year. In 1995 Garbage landed on spot #11 with “garbage” and in 1998 land in the #8 with “Version 2.0? and this will be the first year […]