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Shirley, your fashion sense is garbage

Garbage singer Shirley Manson rubbed shoulders with the stars, including Blondie’s Debbie Harry, at a charity do in New York. The pair have become friends since appearing in a photo shoot for Vanity Fair last year. But the prospect of a celebrity-studded affair didn’t impinge on Shirley’s fashion sense. A self confessed sufferer of body […]

Mary J Blidge and Shirley Manson: it takes two

Musician/activists discuss how AIDS and HIV infection still impact an incredible amount of lives. Both agree that no shag is worth a death sentence. They’re two of our most iconic singers. Mary J. and Shirley sat down with VH1 to discuss learning to love yourself, kids who look to them for advice, and why there […]

Shirley at “Night with JT Leroy & Friends”

“It is rare to be amongst such collective beauty,” gushed slightly delirious host Winona Ryder Thursday at Index Magazine’s Night With JT LeRoy and Friends, a tribute to the 23-year-old gay “It boy” ’s literary and celebrity status (Winona called him “the beautiful JT,” while Garbage’s Shirley Manson wryly designated JT “our little genius”). Manson, […]

Garbage in studio, says Matt Chamberlain

Matt Chamberlain, the drummer that replaced Butch Vig on some concerts of the last tour, said on his official site that he “…..had a day off in Madison and the Garbage people were in town recording their record…Shirly ann Manson picked me up and I went to their studio for lunch and some chit chat,I […]

Shirley to read JT Leroy

Index Magazine presents a night with JT Leroy and Friends, on April 17th, 2003 7-10 pm at The Public Theater, 425 Lafayette Street, NYC, USA. There will be a reading of Jt LeRoy’s work and a performance by his band, Thistle. The list of readers include Debbie Harry, Shirley Manson, Liz Phair and Bijou Phillips, […]

Shirley at the Oscar party

Shirley Manson participated at the anual Oscars Party, organized by the Elton John fundation, that fights against AIDS, co-patricionated by In Style and AOL, in association with MAC Cosmetica and Global Naps. The party had the goal of raising funds, and was thrown in Hollywood, during the 75th Oscar cerymony. (source: beautifulgirl2.0 / peshep / […]

Pro Tools Nation

Butch Vig shows you why a little software program is making studio owners nervous I’ve long thought that only one thing stood between me and rock stardom: musical talent. But now that I’m sitting in Butch Vig’s basement, recording my first single, that doesn’t seem like such a great obstacle anymore. What technological miracle has […]

Protest singers anti-war gig in London!

Garbage, Travis frontman Fran Healy, Beth Orton, Paul Weller, Faithless, Ian McCullochand, Evan Dando and comedian Mark Thomas, amongst others, will play the bill for ‘ONE BIG NO’ anti-war gig in London this weekend (March 15) at Shepherds Bush Empire. The event will feature each artist performing acoustic sets, with an emphasis on collaborations. Ian […]