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Interview de Shirley Manson sur 2 pages.

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Strange Little Birds Tour

28 mai 2016
Rockavaria Festival
Olympiapark
Munich
Allemagne

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Shirley Manson (voix)
Steeve Marker (guitare et clavier)
Duke Erikson (guitare et clavier)
Matt Walker (batterie)
Eric Avery (guitare basse)

Setlist

1. Empty
    2. Stupid Girl
   3. Blood For Poppies
  4. Automatic Systematic Habit
5. Why Do You Love Me
6. I Think I'm Paranoid
7. Cherry Lips
8. Push It
9. Vow
10. Only Happy When t Rains

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Sur leur page Instagram, Garbage écrit: "This is what "oh my god I Think I might be about to pass out looks like"

Review

Garbage beim Rockavaria: Die Konzertkritik
Shirley Manson macht Fans happy
Article publié le 29/05/2016 - par Marco Schmidt
en ligne sur merkur

München - „I’m only happy when it rains“, singt Shirley Manson voller Inbrunst. Prompt schimpfte die Garbage-Frontfrau über den schwülwarmen, sonnigen Samstagnachmittag beim Rockavaria. Das Konzert war dennoch großartig.
Tatsächlich ruft sie ihren Fans zu: „Ich leide heute für euch – meine weiße schottische Haut ist einfach nicht an die Sonne gewöhnt. Fuck sunshine! Fuck the sun!“ Trotzdem hängt sich die charismatische Sängerin wie immer ordentlich rein:
Sie schmettert kräftig, schreit gequält, haucht lasziv, hüpft im Leopardenkleid wie Pippi Langstrumpf über die Bühne, wirft sich auf den Boden, singt „Why do you love me?“ auf dem Rücken liegend und powert sich durch zwei Jahrzehnte Bandgeschichte, angetrieben von zwei schrammelnden E-Gitarren und den druckvollen Drums des Soundtüftlers Butch Vig.
Kompromisslose Alternative-Rock-Klänge bringen den Fans ihre verloren geglaubte Jugend zurück – angefangen von Songs wie „Stupid Girl“ vom großartigen 1995er-Debüt bis hin zur neuen Single „Empty“, die Appetit macht auf das im Juni erscheinende sechste Studioalbum des quirligen Quartetts.

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Milk

édition juin 2016
pays magazine: USA
article sur Shirley Manson

 
We hung out with Shirley Manson, Garbage frontwoman and all-around iconic rock star.
Here, she wears an Ellery top and Helmut Lang jumpsuit.

Grunge Icon Shirley Manson Is Not Here For Your Selfies
( source article en ligne sur milk.xyz )
6.27.2016 - By Jocelyn Silver
Photos By Adrian Mesko

Garbage frontwoman Shirley Manson has been revered for over 20 years, becoming a flame-haired beacon of hope for the maladjusted, the weird, feminists before the movement became essentially mainstream. “Icon” is a gross word that is second in annoyance only to teenagers’ use of “mom” on social media, but Manson is one. Generations of fans have connected to her pleading, gut-wrenching lyrics; her frankness both about serious topics (feminism, body dysmorphia), and the hilarious (the time she took a shit on her boyfriend’s Corn Flakes); and of course, her style, which looks a bit like Deelite’s Lady Miss Kier, a 1930s movie star, and heroes of the Riot Grrl movement jumped in a blender.

Now 49 years old, the Scottish-born Manson, who recently swapped out her famous red hair (she’s directly descended from Vikings) for pink locks, has been on a promotion kick for Garbage’s latest album, Strange Little Birds. She’s managed to turn what’s typically a boring press cycle into a riveting treatise on sexism, ageism, and the essentials of being a badass, loudmouth woman in music. And the music itself is better than ever. Birds has oft been described as Garbage’s darkest, most romantic album yet. It’s being hailed as their best since 1998’s seminal Version 2.0—although my favorite is actually 2001’s Beautiful Garbage, but I have often been told that my opinion, which by definition can’t be wrong, is wrong.

 
(L) Stylist’s own singlet, Zana Bayne Harness, Dion Lee Skirt and Philip Lim boots
(R) Dion Lee dress.

Garbage has always been a versatile band—they’ve done electronic and sad and poppy and happy. They even do jazzy, like on their James Bond theme, “The World Is Not Enough,” which, according to an official straw poll taken in my mother’s car, is the best Bond song since Shirley Bassey’s “Goldfinger.” So Garbage switched things up with Birds, putting aside their typical infusion of electronics in favor of a guitar-heavy LP.

As Manson has been pointing out, Birds feels deliciously emo in comparison to most of today’s mainstream music, which is heavy on self-esteem. If you put together a mish-mash of lyrics from the record, you get something resembling a demented love letter from a torturous relationship. “I’m magnetized by you.” “I’m so empty/You’re all I’m thinking about.” “And even though our love is doomed/And even though we’re all messed up.” “Our sex, our power, our drive/We lose ourselves inside/So we can feel alive.” It’s so deeply satisfying.

I have a lot to say about Shirley Manson. But it seems like we should let her do the talking.

 
(L) Ellery top, Helmut Lang jumpsuit
(R) Stylist’s own singlet, Zana Bayne Harness, Dion Lee Skirt and Philip Lim boots.

My favorite story I’ve ever read was about when you shit in your boyfriend’s Corn Flakes. What happened ?
He was a fucking asshole. I should never have been with him in the first place. I can’t actually remember the sin being committed, but just knowing him as I do, I know that he had infuriated me to the point of words being pointless. Actions speak louder than words, let’s put it that way. And he was utterly gobsmacked, disgusted, and didn’t know what to do. It was such a glorious revenge. He deserved it—trust me.

You’ve always been so frank and honest about insecurities and body issues. But then you’ve also been a really successful model. Do you ever think about that dichotomy ?
I am aware of the contradiction of my personality. I used to feel like I had to explain it, and now I don’t at all. I think you can be a really strong, intelligent, fulfilled person and still have these moments when you’re second guessing yourself or struggling to feel good. And I wanted to be frank about it because I felt like, right now in our culture, there’s so little honesty about being in the public eye.

“I just feel so disengaged from
how people present themselves
now. I can’t connect with
that—all I see is phoniness.”

I realize how lucky and privileged I am—I’ve had an incredible career, I’ve really enjoyed a lot of attention, and I’ve had a lot of success. And now it’s my job—particularly as I’ve gotten older—to help instruct other young women who are struggling with their self-esteem. I feel [it’s] my privilege to highlight stuff a lot of people don’t talk about. I think some people find it off-putting; a lot of people have criticized me for saying that I was very unhappy when I was at my most successful.

I think that’s common though !
I think that’s really common too. I’m only here for such a short time, what is my purpose? To me, my purpose is now making things easier for people who are following behind me.

It’s very inspiring.
[Laughs] I don’t know if it is! It seems so old fashioned, sort of out of step with whatever is going on right now, but I just feel so disengaged from how people present themselves now. I can’t connect with that—all I see is phoniness.

Manson’s 1999 Calvin Klein campaign, where she was shot barefaced for the first time.

The SLB single, “Empty” also echoes a lot of things you’ve always said in interviews regarding self-doubt and self-consciousness. I feel like it really stands up against a lot of popular music these days that’s like, “I’m a superstar.”
Ugh. “I’ve got so much money. I’ve got a great ass.” I just don’t relate to any of that—I never have. And I feel like, less and less, do I find a voice like mine in our culture. I’m desperate to find someone else that thinks like me. I look at everyone in modern culture right now and think, God everyone is so full of themselves. But they don’t seem to have any of the self-doubt or worries or anxieties that I do. Like, what the fuck am I doing wrong? But, I know for a fact, just by the response that track has had, that there are millions of people out there who feel the same way.

And is it true that you used the first take from the recording of [the track] “Even Though Our Love Is Doomed ?”
That is true. And I didn’t have a hand in that song, not one iota of that belongs to me, which breaks my heart. I can’t take any credit for it whatsoever.

Butch [Vig, Garbage drummer and co-producer] told me he had this title “Even Though Our Love Is Doomed.” And for months and months and months, nothing arrived. And I kept saying to him, “What about that great idea you had?” And he was like, “Oh, it’s not good, it hasn’t gone anywhere.” and I just nagged him. [Eventually] he finished it and brought it into me and said, “Look I know you feel uncomfortable singing other people’s words, but just listen to it.” And I heard it once, and I was like, “I fucking love it, I’m going to go in and record it right now.” So I did and it was a joy. It’s so well-written that it could be a monkey singing it and it would sound great.

Throughout this press cycle, you’ve talked about how we haven’t been vigilant enough with feminism. Could you elaborate on that ?
Women were not vigilant. And as a result, the global eradication of women’s rights really is terrifying. I got an email from Amnesty International the other day about a woman in Argentina who was being prosecuted for having a miscarriage. Wasn’t it Donald Trump who said women should be punished if they have abortions? I think people are not reacting to that kind of rhetoric in the way that they need to. To punish a woman for a miscarriage, something that is entirely out of her control, because the male seed is more precious than a living, fully formed, conscious woman—it pisses me off. I feel like women’s rights globally are sliding back to almost Victorian times.

So when you see celebrities wearing waist trainers, and all these appendages that women fought to escape from, and you see how women are willingly getting back into those cages—these actions have really dangerous implications. When I look at my beautiful niece, who is six years old, I panic, and it makes me want to engage in the struggle to be treated equally around the world. I feel frenzied about it !

 
Shirley Manson, just like she did in the ’90s, is railing against misogyny. 

What about pop feminism ? It’s never been bigger.
Taylor Swift and Beyoncé and Rihanna, when I hear them talk about feminism, I think that’s fantastic. I think Beyoncé’s last record is an incredible piece of work. I feel so grateful to her for having the balls to be that honest. It was a really powerful move, and she can affect way more women than I ever could. Taylor Swift too, she’s an incredible role model to young women. And yet, she attracts a lot of venom, and I [don’t understand it]. She writes all her own music, she hasn’t displayed her naked anus on Instagram.

Beyond that, a lot of current feminism seems to be about supporting other women no matter what, when a lot of the time, women fuck up, too.
If you’re with a woman and she’s being an asshole, you should completely call her out in the same way that you would a man. Don’t bolster whatever somebody decides to do because she has a vagina. It’s tedious, and it’s weak.

There was the recent horrifying attack in Orlando. Have you been playing “Queer” on tour ?
We’ve actually been playing “Sex is Not The Enemy,” as we thought it was more appropriate. We were horrified by the Orlando attacks, and at the same time I’m immensely grateful that throughout [Garbage’s] career, we’ve been extremely supportive of the LGBT community. In any situation where we see inequality, we want to speak up. There are so many people these days that want to piss on people’s joy, and I don’t understand it.

“We’re not better than animals,
and it seems to me that we’re
regressing even further,
and we’re just becoming really
unpleasant to live with.
It really is quite depressing.”

I’m not saying you have to accept it, I’m not saying you have to love it. Just tolerate it. It drives me crazy. What difference does it make to you if somebody wants to kiss a bloody monkey? Let people be, as long as they’re not harming any living thing. There’s so much anonymous criticism that goes on nowadays, people thinking they can say anything they want without any consequence. And when there are no consequences, people behave badly. Human beings are not good beasts. You’ll find a much sweeter version of beasts in the wild. We’re not better than animals, and it seems to me that we’re regressing even further, and we’re just becoming really unpleasant to live with. It really is quite depressing.

I’ve always wanted to talk to you about sex.
I [wasn’t] really aware of my attitude towards sex until I was older. My mum always used to say, “Nice girls don’t talk about sex.” And I remember thinking, “What? Why not?” I was in a peer group where men were very sexual, and for some reason women were expected to sit there mute. I would hear men make comments about women over and over again, and then one day I just did the exact same thing, like, “Wow, look at the cock on that, that makes me want to fuck his brains out.” The entire [group] went quiet. The men were sickened. But women are subjected to this every single day.

And then I realized that our sexual experiences—or certainly my generation—always revolve around the male orgasm. Why are we just allowing ourselves not to be gratified in that way ?
Now, I’m sure some women don’t give a fuck. They enjoy the sexual act regardless. But there’s plenty of women who want orgasms, and we should expect them, and ask for them, and not be embarrassed about it. Men certainly aren’t embarrassed about it! I realized that as I’ve gotten older—women are encouraged not to be sexual. It’s seen as something trashy, something disgusting, something to be ashamed of. And I think, “Fuck that.” And what I do love about the new generation of Rihannas and Lady Gagas is that they are really sexual, and I’m really grateful to them for it. They’re educating an entire generation of young women to feel unashamed, and we didn’t really have that.

And I read once that you make great cakes and give good head.
I do make really good cakes. And I think I give pretty good head.

All photos shot exclusively for Milk by Adrian Mesko
Styling & Creative Direction: Paul Bui
Art Direction: Kathryn Chadason
Hair: Aleksandra Sasha Nesterchuk at The Only.Agency
Makeup: Amber Amos at The Only.Agency
Styling Assistant: Sonia Edwards
Shot in Studio A at Milk Studios New York.
Strange Little Birds is available on iTunes.

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  WWD

édition 15 juin 2016
pays magazine: USA
article sur Shirley Manson

Fashion’s Favorite Grunge Girl Shirley Manson Returns
( source article en ligne sur wwd.com )
5/15/2016 - By Leigh Nordstrom
photographs by Dan Doperalski
-This story first appeared in the June 15, 2016 issue of WWD-

  Somewhere in Scotland, there’s a middle-aged man missing out on some serious royalties. Before Shirley Manson was the lead singer of one of the most pervasive and influential grunge bands around, Garbage, she was a clarinet-playing teenager in Edinburgh with an ear for melodies and time on her hands. Then opportunity presented itself. “There was a boy there looking for help with his band, and I could play keyboard and could sing. So literally, for want of absolutely nothing better to do, I joined the band,” Manson says from her home in Los Angeles. “And that set me on a course for the rest of my life.”

That band might be a thing of the past, but Garbage most certainly is not. Manson has helmed the band throughout its two-decade career; they released their sixth studio album, “Strange Little Birds,” on June 10. From the start, Gianni Versace and Marc Jacobs were itching to dress Manson, and Lady Gaga, Katy Perry and Florence Welch are all artists who credit her as inspiration. In short: the longevity is no accident.

Manson grew up in Edinburgh amid the popularity of music she calls “jingle jangle,” a sort of sanitized, sparkly, “bright and breezy indie pop” — a sharp contrast from Garbage’s sound. As grunge began to take off, the band saw its 1995 debut album go double platinum in the U.S., U.K. and Australia, and the star treatment came with it. “It was in the heyday of large label records with money to spare,” Manson recalls. “Everything was very luxe. We drank Champagne, and we’d go out for these long Italian lunches in posh restaurants.”

However lavishly the record industry courted them, Garbage has firmly maintained an attitude of alternative amid the mainstream. Manson, all baby-pink hair and devilish Scottish humor, possesses a kind of hard-to-define “It”-ness that avoids drinking the Kool-Aid, which, of course, is the quality that continues to attract fashion houses. “I remember somebody calling me and saying, ‘Gianni Versace wants to meet you, and you need to come to the London store and pick out whatever you want’,” she says. “I remember being on the tour bus and opening this box from Marc Jacobs. I mean, I could not f—ing believe my luck.”

Also knocking on her door was Calvin Klein, a brand for which the Nineties have become an ingrained ethos, which cast her in its 1999 campaign. “I really consider myself a bit of an ugly ducking, you know,” she says. “When you take my makeup off, I look like this really peculiar creature — and Calvin Klein saw a beauty in that. I thought it was a really powerful thing to do.”

Fashion’s love for the decade is undying, but, in Manson’s view, the authentically generated rock-star look is long gone. “Now you look at young pop artists who are getting a lot of attention, and they’re all basically dressing the same way,” she says. “And that wasn’t what was going on in the Nineties. I mean, Gwen [Stefani] was f—ing sewing her own pants, for Christ’s sake. And you had Marilyn Manson and Courtney Love…and it was f—ing badass.”

They may be viewed as alternative, but the band has had a clear strategy throughout its career. “We’re very tenacious as a band. We have toured and toured and toured way past a lot of our contemporaries,” Manson says. “When a lot of our contemporaries went home, we carried on. And I think that forges a connection with people that is very difficult to break. [Live shows] make magic. You’re chasing that flame always.”

The flame continues to burn on “Strange Little Birds,” which she claims is their best record yet. “I feel like, as a band, we’ve broken new ground, which after 21 years is a real challenge,” she says. “We’re going into some other, uncharted territory, which I’m not entirely sure what it is, but that’s all you can really ask of yourself.”

They aren’t charting that course alone. “We’ve had fans who have been with us since 1995,” Manson says. “I know their names, I know the names of their children. And we also, miraculously — and I’m not quite sure how this has occurred — but we have some very young fans, too, who literally were not even born when our first few records came out. It’s spectacularly odd.”

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Garbage Album Tour

6 novembre 1995
Shank Hall
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
USA

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Shirley Manson (chant, guitare)
Steeve Marker (guitare et clavier)
Duke Erikson (guitare et clavier)
Butch Vig (batterie)
Daniel Shulman (guitare basse)

- Première partie: Acetone -

Setlist

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