Strange Little Birds Tour

14 juin 2016  
Nottingham Rock City
Nottingham
Angleterre

Groupe

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

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Setlist

1. Sometimes
2. Empty
    3. Stupid Girl
   4. Special
5. Blood For Poppies
6. Bleed Like Me
7. My Lovers Box
8. Sex Is Not The Enemy
9. A Stroke Of Luck
10. Control
11. #1 Crush
12. I Think I'm Paranoid
13. Battle In Me
14. Automatic Systematic Habit
15. The Trick Is To Keep Breathing
16. Blackout
17. Push It
18. Vow
19. Only Happy When It Rains

Rappel / Encore
20. Even Though Our Love Is Doomed
21. Why Do You Love Me
22. Cherry Lips

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Concert

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Backstage

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Reviews

Garbage – Rock City, Nottingham (Live Review) 
15/06/2016 Thomas Miller Live Review - on VultureHound
Garbage have had an interesting and varied career since they first burst onto the alternative scene in 1995, formed by famed music producer Butch Vig and fronted by Scottish singer Shirley Manson; their debut album the self-titled Garbage sold over 4 million copies and hit Double Platinum in 1996.
Tonight the band finds themselves in deepest darkest Nottingham- Rock City to be precise (no matter how many times I walk through the doors at Rock City I’m reminded of how much I love the place. I’m sure I bang on about it every time I review a band here, I’m not sorry) and Rock City is packed; for some reason Shirley and the boys have only decided to do two UK dates on their new tour, one in London and one in Nottingham. How privileged I am to receive a VIP pass enabling me to watch the first 3 songs up close and personal from the comfort of the photo pit.
Garbage were born from Butch Vig remixing in the early 90s and as the band step on stage to opening track ‘Sometimes’ (also the opening track on the bands new album) the sub bass hit is enough to remind you of this fact, it’s loud, low and heavy. The band step on stage to a huge reaction from the crowd, a crowd that is certainly an eclectic mix. Unfortunately Butch Vig isn’t with the band tonight due to acute sinusitis. When you thought the Rock City crowd couldn’t get louder Shirley Manson steps out and the roof nearly gets blown off. Maybe this crowd is eclectic but one thing’s for sure they are certainly passionate and fired up.
Manson is a front woman of dreams; she is stylish, has a stand out voice, controls the stage and commands respect from fans and peers alike. Age seems to be having no bearing on this woman, she has an aggressive grace that was a very fashionable trait in the 90’s but seems to have made that look, style and attitude timeless. She prowls around her surroundings, circling around the stage like a caged animal, she is simply mesmerising; often staring down the crowd and at points it can feel quite intimidating.
Garbage play a solid set, their sound in this day and age doesn’t sound dated, it sounds unique. Their new album Strange Little Birds has some absolutely fantastic tunes on it that weave seamlessly into a set comprising of music made up from the past 3 decades. This for me was a real stand out gig, a band I have admired since my teens in a venue I adore with a crowd that is totally into it. Nights like this are magical and make me appreciate and feel blessed that I’m a live music fan.
 
Review: Garbage – Rock City, Nottingham – 14 June
Posted by Shannon Watson on 6/24/16 - on GetToTheFront
Garbage may have been around for over 20 years, but they’re still as popular as ever. With a sellout crowd packed into Rock City – Nottingham’s popular music venue – all eagerly waiting to see if their idols have still got it. The answer? A resounding yes!
Hitting the road in support of their latest, sixth studio album, Strange Little Birds, Garbage sounded excellent live, especially with new single, Blackout. As the album was released during the same week, not everyone was familiar with all tracks, but I’m certain next time each individual will be singing the words back to them.
Of course, everyone wanted to hear the classic singles like, Only Happens When It Rains, I Think I’m Paranoid and Stupid Girl – which saw Shirley Manson prowling around the stage like a caged animal, almost snarling down at the audience, which was great to watch. With Shirley as a lead singer, you know you’re onto a winner: a stylish, cracking voice with a little added attitude makes a recipe for success.
Each and every song got a fantastic reception, one of my favourites of the night was Sex Is Not The Enemy. I have only one query for Garbage. Why only the two dates in the UK? Based on your sellout performance, there would be a huge amount of people who would want to see such a great live band – so hurry back!

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Shirley Manson of Garbage on Brexit, Taylor Swift, and How the Scots Have ‘Disowned’ Trump
June 26, 2016 - By Marlow Stern - The Daily Beast

The singer/songwriter opens up about her band’s impressive sixth studio album, Strange Little Birds, and much more over beers with senior entertainment editor Marlow Stern.

“I’m kind of a monster, in a way,” offers Shirley Manson, cradling a pint of lager. “I enjoy the grind. I think I’ve missed one show in my entire career. I’m just a maniac. I don’t know if that’s a good thing or a bad thing…”

Manson has been the lead singer of the alt-rock group Garbage since 1993, snarling, kicking, and wailing her way to 17 million records sold and even a Bond theme. Now, the band she formed with legendary Nirvana producer Butch Vig and Co. is back with their sixth studio album, Strange Little Birds—a melancholic and cinematic sonic journey that’s garnering some of the best reviews of the Madison, Wisconsin, group’s career.

The outspoken and affable Scot, whose striking red hair is now pink, sat down with me at a hotel bar in downtown Manhattan to discuss her thorny path from the bullied daughter of a Sunday school teacher in her native country to one of rock ‘n’ roll’s most badass leading ladies.

Well, this is exciting. Your group’s sixth album is receiving some of the best reviews of the band’s career.

It’s really exciting. I have to say, it’s sort of nuts. I never expected it, you know? I’m a Scottish fatalist, so I always expect we’re going to meet a cruel, hard, icy, cold wall. So it was spectacularly shocking. In the ‘90s, it felt like it was easier to release a record and get some attention, and now it seems very difficult. There’s so much noise.

There is so much noise. It seems like the music industry has become a lot less democratic—that a handful of acts seem to control so much of the conversation. It’s the 99 percent versus the 1 percent.

That’s exactly what it feels like to me. And they get bigger and bigger and bigger. It’s like a hot air balloon where they just get pumped up ever more in our face, and it’s getting harder and harder for subcultures to have a voice. That’s not how I grew up. I grew up in the ‘70s, essentially, and there were so many subcultures that had powerful voices, and now I feel that’s impossible. It’s all becoming very Orwellian and homogenized. We’re all listening to the same records, dressing the same. It’s troubling. At the same time, I think we’re getting more and more divisive as a society, whereas in music, funnily enough, everything’s getting more centralized. I guess it’s about trying to survive, so media outlets just want to cover the big acts to get the clicks. They also have to answer to corporate interests. It’s all about money. People are so obsessed with labeling things as “successful” and “unsuccessful,” and that’s just not how I look at the world. There are so many records I’m obsessed by that influenced me and changed my life that nobody’s ever heard of. To me, they are heroes.

What are some of those bands, or records?

I’m thinking of the Scottish bands I grew up with, like The Shop Assistants, The Fire Engines, Hey! Elastica—all these underground bands that nobody’s ever heard of but they made records that changed my life. So are they successful or unsuccessful? To me, they’re successful because they made records that touched people’s lives. Now, it seems things are being put up against a ridiculous measuring stick.

On Strange Little Birds, the title comes up on one of the album’s best tracks, “Even Though Our Love Is Doomed.” To me, the titular “strange little birds” seemed like that scene you paint on the song “Empty” where you’re wandering down streets and see a sea of smiling, vacant faces.

Well, you’re bang-on. I think it’s pretty much humanity, really—how we all look at each other, we’re all judging each other, and we’re all thinking, “Oh, that person’s a freak because they don’t do things the way I do.” Our feelings towards one another in the world are becoming more and more exacerbated by that sense. I felt it was a general headline for our record. I think everybody’s weird other than myself, and I don’t think I’m alone in feeling that way.

As far as weirdness goes, there was a lot of tension in the band after Bleed Like Me and a fairly lengthy hiatus before your 2012 album Not Your Kind of People. How did the group overcome that?

Fuck knows! Just put one foot in front of the other and hope for the best. I think there are a lot of reasons for it, though. We have discovered, as people, that we do not do well under a major label because we’re not willing to make the compromises that major labels require. I get it—they have corporate interests and are trying to make money—but we have realized that we’re not their Huckleberrys. We’re polite, but defiant, and we did not want to be told what to do or make the compromises they wanted us to make.

What sort of suggestions was your label making?

They had suggestions of us working with different artists—in particular hip-hop artists, and we love hip-hop but it had nothing to do where we were coming from musically. It just seemed so phony and calculated, and people were already suspicious of us being a calculated band during the best of times. It felt so forced and silly. This was around 2005.

Ah, so in the wake of the Jay Z/Linkin Park album.

Yeah, around then. And I get it—there were a lot of bands that did it, and were successful at it. But it just felt wrong. So, we had problems with our company and then that caused problems amongst ourselves, because everybody’s blaming themselves—and each other—for the perceived failure of the band. It causes a lot of tension. Everybody had their own idea of how to “save” the band, but I think when we went our separate ways, we all just got frustrated with not being able to make music together.

It seems like you gave a different part of yourself to Strange Little Birds. There is a softness and vulnerability in your voice that I think was more masked on past albums.

I think I just got to the point where I felt I had nothing to lose. No fucks given. It’s come to that point where I can only be what I am, and I have to focus on what I can do. Once I figured that out—I don’t have to be young, I don’t have to be pretty, I don’t have to be sexy, I don’t have to be wearing a bikini in a video shoot—when I really came to terms with all that and realized that all I had to do was do good work, then yeah, no fucks were given. What do I have to lose? I’m here for such a short time that I might as well tell the truth.

With frontwomen in bands, there can be—and a lot of this is the media’s fault—a lot of focus and objectification of the frontwoman, and then it becomes less about music and more about image. Did you feel like that happened to you? That the powers that be were digging their talons into you in that respect?

Yeah. A lot was made of how I looked, and I have a big personality—the rest of my band are quiet and they’re not like me. So I became the focus because I’m the one who’s willing to communicate, and then it began to fuck with my head because I got all this attention. I thought, “I’m not pretty enough, I’m not young enough, I’m not this enough, I’m not that enough, I’m not as cool as she is, I’m not as hard as he is.” It began to really fuck with me. Luckily for me I fell in love with amazing frontwomen. I’ve followed Patti Smith from day one, Chrissie Hynde, Marianne Faithfull—all of these women who continue to be active in music and have managed to escape the cage of objectification. I was taught by them, and so once I figured that out I realized I could remove myself from those expectations, because how people choose to objectify me is one thing, but I don’t have to take on that mantle. Once I figured that out, I was free.

Are there any moments you remember vividly where you thought, “This has gone too far.”

Oh, there are countless amounts of moments, including post photo shoots my hair’s been colored a different color at the request of some fucking dude. Somebody thought it was OK to tamper with my image because I’m just an object. But the moment that changed things for me was I went to a Louise Bourgeois exhibition at the Tate in London. It was a retrospective and I’d never heard of her because I’m uneducated in fine art, but I saw this work by this woman who at the time was 93 years old and still working and holding artistic salons at her apartment in New York. She was this wrinkled, wizened old lady and I thought, “I can do that. I can keep making music until I’m dead, and who’s to tell me otherwise? I can release myself from all the expectations of the record industry and people’s fucked up ideas of what success is. I can make those measuring sticks disappear.” That was a really empowering moment for me.

There was a point though, around 2008, when you almost turned your back on music.

I thought I had to because I was no longer young. I was no longer the hot, zeitgeist girl, or the girl who was getting put on the front cover of every magazine. I genuinely thought, “Oh, I’m done.” I remember telling people, “I’m done,” and they’d say, “You’re not done! You still have so much to say,” and I’d go, “No, people don’t care if I have something to say. They just want somebody young and pretty. They want the newest thing.” In some regards I’m right, but there’s a whole other side to the equation where I’m completely wrong. I go back to that Louise Bourgeois exhibition where I realized I could design my own career outside of the mainstream’s idea of what a successful career in music is.

There was also I read a moment where you performed Bowie’s “Life on Mars?” at the funeral for a friend’s child that changed your outlook on music.

Their child’s memorial, yes. Friends of mine lost their 6-year-old son, Pablo, and I was invited to sing Pablo’s favorite song at the funeral. Butch [Vig] was there and we hadn’t spoken or seen each other in a while, and that was the catalyst for getting the band back to the same place. Death changes everything. Losing my Mom changed everything. Divorcing my first husband changed everything. Loss is the most profound change.

Bowie, man. It’s been a crazy year in music.

It’s been an awful year, and it just seems to continue. I don’t know what the hell is going on.

Crazy year in general. You’ve lived in L.A. for about a decade now. How has the American life changed your perspective on things?

It has completely changed my view on world affairs, one being the historical generosity of America towards immigrants, and it’s sad to see somebody [Trump] who’s trying their damnedest to eradicate that.

It’s happening in the UK too, though. Brexit was very much about xenophobia and anti-immigration.

Absolutely. And it’s strange to me because it speaks to an incredible arrogance on people’s behalf. Throughout history, we’ve had massive moves of people across continents, so why do we think we’ll be immune to that? I understand the idea of people that have no money, and they’re frightened, and they are being fed really hysterical rhetoric about immigrants, and the newspapers blow up the one incident where an immigrant does something outrageous and violent and scary, I understand why the people respond the way that they do. But I really think we need to look at history to learn from the mistakes we have made in the past, and also the great benefits of immigrants to each country in the world. It’s lack of tolerance.

In America too, it seems like Donald Trump has manipulated many poor, angry white people into getting hysterical about immigrants. And he’s got Scottish roots!

Don’t say that! Fuck. He’s been disowned by the Scots. He has been disowned by Scotland. They think it’s disgusting. The Scots stripped him of all kinds of things. They’re horrified by him—and rightfully so. I can deal with assholes, and people who have different opinions than me, but what bothers me about this man, who shall remain nameless, is he’s put himself up for one of the most important statesmen in the world, and he’s not taking his task seriously. He thinks he’s playing a game with the media, but in fact he’s playing with people’s lives. In L.A., you drive through Silver Lake, a relatively posh, affluent neighborhood, and people are living under the bridges in cardboard boxes. It’s those people he’s disrespecting in not taking his mantle seriously. When you’re disrespecting people across the board and clearly hate humanity… he’s very dangerous.

In the song “Even Though Our Love Is Doomed,” you mention that you’re ready for a revolution. What would that revolution look like?

I don’t know, but I was very excited when the Pope said we need a new world order. I think we’ve gotten to the absolute apex of worshipping money, and in my lifetime, never has there been a more chaotic, frightening time than right now.

Let’s talk about the halcyon days, then. I read that you grew up as a bit of an outcast.

I was a redhead, Jesus Christ. You don’t get much more despised than that. It’s terrible in the UK. There’s now Julianne Moore, Jessica Chastain, and Lindsay Lohan—god bless her. There weren’t any red-haired icons when I was growing up besides I Love Lucy, so you just grew up thinking you’re ugly as sin.

What was it like growing up in Scotland?

It was awesome. I had an incredible school—both my schools were incredible. I was a pretty good student until I went to high school, and then I got bullied for a year and kind of went off the rails. I got bullied for being pale, a redhead, and coming from a nice middle-class family. My bully came from a very hard background, so she took it out on me. It got pretty bad. She got on my case to the point where I lost my temper one day when she was threatening to beat me up and said, “Alright, outside at 3:30 we’ll fuckin’ square off,” and she never turned up and that was the end of it. But it went on for the longest time. This is the saddest thing ever, but I had these pink beads and a weird crucifix—because I grew up in a religious household—and used to tie the beads to the crucifix and put a little not in it that said, “Please God! Please do something about Louise!”

But in a way perhaps it was a blessing, because great art is born from pain and suffering.

Everything great is born from pain. All truths come from pain. But I fell in with a crowd who loved music, and rolled for a while with a group of proper punk rockers, then I fell in with boys who had more sophisticated taste, and they introduced me to Patti Smith, The Clash, Bauhaus, and Adam and the Ants, and my whole world exploded at that point.

As far as contemporary female artists go, what are your thoughts on Taylor Swift?

Oh, I love Taylor Swift. She’s an accomplished musician—she can play, she can write—she’s smart, and she’s never fallen back on anything other than her musical talent to progress. And as she’s grown up, she literally looks like a supermodel. To me, she’s more beautiful than half of the models in the magazines. She’s like a Terminator to me. It’s so perfect that it induces a lot of anger and resentment in lots of women towards her. I’m fascinated by how much people loathe her. I feel like I read a lot of shit talked about her by her contemporaries, and if I was her contemporary I’d feel very grateful that here’s a girl doing it pretty much on her own terms, she’s not got a man behind her, she’s done it really cleanly, and she’s done it with intelligence. My 6-year-old niece is looking at her versus a lot of the other sloppy girls that are not putting on a good show.

Speaking of Taylor Swift, you’re not a fan of Kanye, though. After he blasted Beck’s Album of the Year Grammy win you torched him online, claiming he was “disrespecting artistry” and making himself look like a “complete twat.”

I do like Kanye! I just happened to disagree with the message he was sending out, and I wanted to be a musician because it was free of all these cliché measuring sticks. I just don’t believe music should be judged in those terms. So what if you’re the most popular artist in the world? It doesn’t mean you’re doing the best work in the world. That’s what I objected to. But I think he’s a phenomenal musician. He’s a lightning rod and that’s exciting, but it doesn’t mean he’s always right.

I’m curious how you feel about female musicians today. I recently got into a conversation with a friend where we were discussing how we felt the crop of young female musicians were perhaps more badass in the early ‘90s, from En Vogue to Lilith Fair, than they are today.

And yet we have Rihanna, Beyoncé, and Lady Gaga. To me, they’re phenomenal, exciting, and doing something very new. To me, Lemonade is a fuckin’ masterpiece. Oh my god, don’t get me started. I feel in some ways we’ve evolved in that we’re seeing these great female pop stars in ways we’ve never seen before, like Rihanna, the way she’s presented her sexuality is balls to the wall, unapologetic, and has her on completely equal footing as her male counterparts. Even Madonna, it came from playing with the idea of female sexuality rather than the reality of it.

I feel Madonna is treated very unfairly in the press. There doesn’t seem to be proper reverence for Madonna, and every time she does something they pounce on her. Madonna is treading unfamiliar terrain in that she’s the first boundary-pushing sexual pop star to reach this time in her career, and the media has acted very ageist towards her.

It’s horrific, the way she’s treated. People are almost disappointed that she’s aged; she got caught being a human being. It has a lot to do with society’s expectations of women and also highlights the inequality between male and female artists to this day. There are very few women willing to fight against the idea that beauty is the highest currency. That’s the problem: that women are scared to fight against that currency, to fight against that idea of, “Does a woman have any worth past youth and beauty?” I believe they do, and I will fight that idea until I die, but I think a lot of women feel they have to give up. I had that moment myself, where I felt “I’m done” and that nobody was gonna give me a chance, but then I realized that you can use your brain and use your songwriting and be a good communicator and connect with people, and that’s your fuckin’ job at the end of the day—not to be beautiful, or pretty, or have people want to fuck you. Who cares?  

Strange Little Birds Promo

 16 juin 2016
Radio M 80 - Madrid, Espagne
Interview Garbage
Shirley Manson, Steve Marker, Duke Erikson
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Strange Little Birds Promo

 10 juin 2016
Web BuzzFeed - Angleterre
Interview Shirley Manson

Shirley Manson From Garbage Plays A Game Of “Scotland Or America?”
You can take the girl out of Scotland but you can’t take Scotland out of the girl.
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Our favourite ’90s alt-rock band, Garbage, are still going very, very strong over two decades since they formed. In fact, they are releasing their SIXTH studio album, Strange Little Birds, this Friday.

The lead singer, the iconic Shirley Manson, is Scottish but lives in Los Angeles. So naturally when BuzzFeed UK caught up with her to discuss the new album we decided to play a game of “Scotland or America?” with her. Here’s what went down…

Does she prefer .... in Scotland or America ?

Breakfast

America got off to a good start…
   
Shirley: Ooh, definitely America.

Beer
 
But then her love for Scotland started to win through.
 
Shirley: Definitely Scotland.

 Bars / Pubs 

When it came to alcoholic choices, Scotland was the clear winner. 
 

Music Festivals  
 
Although the good old Scottish weather was the deciding factor for this one.
 
Shirley: I’ve only ever been to one Scottish festival and one American festival and I have to say [shakes American flag], because the weather was so much better. [laughs] It was pouring with rain at the Scottish festival. The Scottish festival was miserable.

 Fast Food 
 
 

Accent
 
 

By this point Scotland was winning every question.
 

Comedy

Although she did note this for the comedy question.

Scotch Whisky / American Whiskey 
 
 
Shirley: Oh, come on.

Politics
 
 
 
Shirley: Oh my god, this is getting embarrassing. I do love you America, but Scotland’s winning.

Scenery 
 
And finally she was given one of the hardest decisions
when it came to choosing between scenery in both countries…
 
 

And the final score is...
Scotland :

America :
 

SCOTLAND WINS  

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Strange Little Birds Promo

 10 juin 2016
Web Twitter Garbage - International
Garbage en TChat répond aux fans
> sur leur compte twitter.com/garbage
Shirley, Duke et Steeve sont à Vienne en Autriche,
Butch Vig à Los Angeles aux Etats-Unis

Do you like @CHVRCHES ?
Garbage: Yes we do

Ready to come to Brasil ?
BV: Yes! We love Brazil!!
Garbage: Yup

How does it feel to gather all these large crowds of people after 20+ years in music ?
Garbage: Fucking awesome

Your music is often about torture & suffering. What is the most "tortured" music you like to listen to when you're feeling down ?
BV: Leonard Cohen ! 
Garbage: Nick Cave

Who asked you to sing U2's Wild Horses for the "Achtung Baby Covered" album in 2011 ?
Garbage: Q magazine
BV: U2 called and asked if we wanted to participate. It's hard to say no to Bono !

Any plans for Argentina in a Latin-American tour ?
Garbage: Yes!!!!!
Hoping to make it to South America either late this year or early 2k17

Why does Duke use SOOOO much guitare effects?? And when he's using them, which?😱😍😈
Garbage: Because he is a genius

Dear Shirley, We know you love South America, Is possible a Show in Chile, Argentina & Brasil this year ?
Garbage: Yes. It will happen.

The song you're the proudest of ?
BV (video): Hey, the song i'm the most proudest of The Strange Little Bird is "Even Though Our Love Is Doomed"  (...) Shirley sang the vocals once, when you hear the record, is one take.
Garbage: We are proud of them all.

Beautiful ballads you have. One of your favorite toy play on tour ? Greetings from Mexico !
Garbage: Butterfly Collector

Do you like it when YouTubers make videos to your newer (non-label) songs, or does it annoy you and make you dislike them ?
Garbage: We love it.

What's your favorite song to play live ?
BV: Currently Automatic Systematic Habit
Garbage: Blackout

When visit CHILE ?
Garbage: Soon !!!

You guys need a 2nd rhythm guitar player, im pretty cheap.
Garbage: Ok awesome

Current favorite movie ?
Garbage: Melancholia and ex Machina

Are you coming to Mexico ?
Garbage: Yes

If Veela were able to talk, how do you think she would describe you (and Billy) ?
Garbage: She would say " my mummy and daddy love me"

Question ?
BV: Wicked Ways is 1 song we never nailed when we recorded, so it's hard for me to listen to

Is the vinyl the only way to get the bonus track?
Garbage: Yup

Shirley, how is it possible that you are hotter and more talented than ever after all these years ? It's not fair !
Garbage: You haven't seen me in real life

When are you coming to Colombia ?
Garbage: Soon we hope

Fave Scottish City !!
Garbage: Edinburgh

Are you planning on coming back to MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay?
Garbage: We do how so !

Are you guys considering to continue the "Special" video story this time around ?
Garbage: Maybe we will !

Nacho or Cooler Ranch ?
BV: Ranch !
Garbage: Neither

Any plans on taking the Strange Little Birds tour to Mexico or California ?
Garbage: Yes later on in the year

Hay! Will you be releasing any additional b-sides?
BV: Possibly, we had about 8 extra songs while recording SLB

Main inspirations for this new album ?
Garbage: Darkness and The Cure

Maybe in the future a cover record ?
Garbage: Oh yes please

Biggest musical inspiration for the album ?
BV (video): The biggest inspiration for me in Strange Little Birds was Roxy Music. (...) I was the president of the Roxy Music fan club in college.

What are your favorite bands ?
Garbage: David Bowie

Were you inspired by any particular musicians on your new album ? The album is FABULOUS and classic Garbage!
Garbage: Thankyou

What do you each do to keep physically fit whilst touring ?
BV: Play drums !

Which album was the hardest to wirte/produce ?
BV: Bleed Like Me cuz we couldn't agree on anything !

Will the setlist for the us tour differ from the current tour ?
Garbage: It depends if we get enough time

Are you coming to Mexico city? We love you!
Garbage: Yes we are !

Can we look forward to another tour in the Fall? Canada misses you!
Garbage: We love Canada! We hope to get back!

Question ?
Garbage: It fits alll humanity

What was the most memorable gig you've ever played?
BV: SNOASIS, a festival at a ski hill! Sucked!

When are you coming back to perform in LA?
Garbage: We don't know!

Are you sure Atticus Ross didn’t have anything to do with the new LP?
Garbage: Yes we are

Are you coming back in Paris ?
Garbage: Yes!

Is "night drive loneliness" the most saddest Garbage's song ever? I think it is... And I know you so well...
Garbage: No.

A 2nd single/video from Strange Little Birds?
BV: Hmmmmm, don't know yet!
Garbage: Night Drive Loneliness?

Are you coming to Mexico city? We love you!
BV: We hope to!

Please play more often in France we love you so much!
Garbage: We fucking love France

Any Florida dates?
Garbage: Not Yet

Think coming to Chile?
Garbage: Yes!!!!

Question ?
Garbage: Both

Boxers or briefs?
Garbage: Boxers

Are you familiar with MNDR?
Garbage: That's what he said

Butch how ya holding up while the rest are in Europe touring? Need any company? 😘😜💚
BV: I'm feeling fine, miss my band, hope to be on the road in July

Which is the most exciting song of your albums for you? And the most difficult to compose?
Garbage: Tornado

Will there be Asian tour stops?
Garbage: Hopefully

Any plans for Canadian shows?
Garbage: Fingers crossed pointing north

How long does it take to fall asleep after a show?
BV: Ha! A long time! Too much adrenaline

Have you read #WicDiv yet?
Garbage: Huh ?

LOVE the new album,Night Drive Loneliness seems to be everyones fave, how about making it a single?
Garbage: Maybe we should?!?

Question ?
Garbage: Life

I'll be paranoid if they answer to me 🙃 I'll be totally excited and with insane good mood 🤗
Garbage: Next question

Best cook in the band ?
BV (video): The best cook in Garbage: Shirley is a good cook, Duke is a good cook, Steeve is a good cook; I... am not a good cook. End of story.

Any plans to visit Russia?
Garbage: Yes

What is your favorite movie?????????????????? Please!!!!
Garbage: the conversation and apocalypse now

Version 2.0 is your best album yet I believe.. what about a #20yearsSpecial tour? 😀
BV: We better start working on it NOW!

What was the most memorable gig you've ever played?
Garbage: They are all memorable

Mexico loves you
Garbage: Yeah

Mendota, Monona, or Michigan?
BV: Monona!
Garbage: Menona

Favorite cities to play?
Garbage: Everyone of them

Any plans to tour the UK again in the near future?
Garbage: Nope

You contributed to some amazing soundtracks. Is there a show or a film you saw recently that inspired you to do more?
Garbage: Ex Machina

Will you play The Chemicals on this tour?
BV: We should add to our set list, I love that song!

Have you considered ever doing an entirely unplugged set ?
BV: We have, and we might!

Which album was the hardest to write/produce?
Garbage: The first one

What is the one thing you must do before each concert?
Garbage: Drink

Will you ever play again Breaking Up The Girl live on tour?
Garbage: Doubt it but never say never

Question ?
Garbage: Yes

Any possibility that you might play a show in Alaska some day?
BV: It's the only state I've never been to, we gotta make it there!

I really dunno what to ask I just wanna say you guys are fucking great.
Garbage: Thanks!

What about Costa Rica?
Garbage: Yeah!!!!

What do you each do to keep physically fit whilst touring?
Garbage: Calisthenics

What was the first thing you read today?
BV: Following the US elections!

Question ?
Garbage: We have been there before and we loved it!!!!

Will you be offended if I start a cover band called Rubbish?
BV: Go for it!

Your new album is FUCKING AMAZING! are you coming to Barcelona on tour with this album?
Garbage: Madrid won this round but we are obsessed with Barcelona. Gaudi forever !!!

Question ?
BV: Yes

Steve, do you come back to the Mammaroneck/Rye Neck area very often?
Garbage: I was there last fall !!!

Is Shirley likely to remember her underwear at the next London show?  Lol.
Garbage: Yeah babe

One director you'd like to make a music video with?
Garbage: David Lynch

Question ?
Garbage: Curtis Clyde

Any chance you can come to Australia
Garbage: We are on our way

Any plans to visit Colombia this year? We want to see u again!
Garbage: We are working on booking South American leg!

Would you ever cover Thirteen again? Best cover in the world- rated by me.  👌
BV: Yes, one of our fave covers!

Do you have a song you would like to cover live that you haven't?
Garbage: Live will tear us apart by joy division

Troxy Monday night can u play cherry lips please
Garbage: Yah

Hi guys ! Any plans to bring one or two of your songs into the videogame #Rockband4 ?
Garbage: None

Question ?
Garbage: Of course not!

Hay! Will you be releasing any additional b-sides?
Garbage: Maybe ?!?!

Toughest Packer loss to take ?
BV (video):
Garbage: Seattle

Question ?
Garbage: Oooh yes please

Are you planning an acoustic album anytime soon?! That would be amazeballs! Tracks from all albums please hehe 😁
Garbage: Are you high?!?! We love accoustics

You are scheduled to play @PWFestOfficial in July can we expect some new music for @CD1025FM and a stop in to say hey
Garbage: Nope

Which member of the band had to sell their soul for the bass line in "as heaven is wide"?
Garbage: Steve marker

a pop song that you actually like?
BV: Teenage Dream! Perfect arrangement!

What was your best Christmas present you've received?
Garbage: My two front teeth

Question ?
Garbage: Yup

Are you like ordained to marry couples or something like that?... And would you ever marry anytwo?...
Garbage: Um .....nope

Are you thinking about making a live dvd?
Garbage: Just did

My fav Aunt who passed away, bought me Garbage when I was 11.  She was amazing and so are you.  Just thought you should know.
Garbage: Thanks

Wich band´s are you hearing now?
BV: Beach House Parquet Courts Cigarettes After Sex!

Shirley when are you going to do a collab with marina and the diamonds? It would be mind blowing
Garbage: It totally would be

What do you guys think about ppl who have tattooed lyrics of u guys? i'm one of them :)
Garbage: Sexy

Favourite food?
Garbage: Tofu

What exactly is the windshield in front of Butch's drum set for? I've always wondered
Garbage: To stop spittle from going in BV's mouth

What is your favorite and NOT so favorite song to perform ? Thks for coming to St Louis this summer ! See you then !
BV (video): My least favorite song to perform is Bad Boyfriend (...) on the track, Dave Grohl played on it ...

What is your favourite season? possibly when it rains more often?
Garbage: Halloween but winter is coming

"There's no one around to fix me now", Shirley sings in Teaching, was it a direct reference to your song or just a coincidence?
Garbage: Delberate

Advice for someone who wants to work in the music industry?
Garbage: Do t do it

What do you think about radiohead?
Garbage: They are geniuses

Question ?
Garbage: Tall enough

Wait is Butch now in charge of their page??? I thought Shirley does the tweeting normally 😐
Garbage: We're all tweeting right now! Butch in LA and full band in Vienna. Shirley does do the tweeting typical

What was it like working with Sam Bayer again after 20 years?
Garbage: Hot

Any hockey fans in the band? Asking for a friend.
BV: Our bass player Eric is massive hockey fan!

"Even though our love is doomed" be the next single? It's one of your greatest songs ever 💛
Garbage: It really is

Can you eat a yoghurt without licking the lid?
Garbage: Fuck yeah

In all seriousness, Shirley, what DO you do to stay in shape? Help a fellow singer!  :)
Garbage: Ballet

Do u know if any of the pussycat dolls heard 'Betcha' & what did they think of it?
Garbage: Who cares

Are you planning to come to Narnia someday? It's just that we miss you so much here guys! xx
Garbage: We are there right now

Do you guys have a favourite book that inspire your  lyrics, music?
Garbage: Yes we do

Have you ever thought about making a duet with @paramore ?
Garbage: 🍒

Also, to what do you attribute the band's timeless quality? Your songs always sound so fresh and cutting-edge!
Garbage: Lots of salad

Is Shirley Manson a robot?
Garbage: Why yes I am

Have you ever considered mixing an album in 5.1 surround?
Garbage: Uhuh

What do you think of your fans ?
Garbage: People with taste

Favourite Cure song?
BV: All of them! One of my fave bands!

How tall is Shirley?
Garbage: As tall as a loaf of bread

If you weren't singer,which job do you want to do?
Garbage: Animal tAmer

Every use a completely unedited preset?
BV: Rarely.

Do you have any plans to repeat the big Russian tour (2012)?
Garbage: Fuck yeah

Would you guys ever do a show in Ireland?
Garbage: Nobody wants us

Do you need any help to take care of Vela while you are on tour?
Garbage: Yes!!!

What do you think of social media and hashtags?
Garbage: #awesome

Which Game of Thrones houses are you guys in?
BV: Winterfell. Don't I look like a Stark?

How long does it take to fall asleep after a show?
Garbage: Sometimes u do it during a show

Are you reading any good books this tour?
BV: All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. So good! Heartbreaking.

If you could rock out with any artist (alive or dead) who would you pick?
Garbage: Nick Cave

Wich band´s are you hearing now?
Garbage: Cigarettes after sex

So are you guys coming to Finland anytime soon?
Garbage: Oh we would love to

Duke, what is your favourite guitar riffs to play live?
Garbage: Bad boyfriend

Is Medication the saddest song you've ever written? Gets me every time.
Garbage: Agreed

Guyz, ur videos specially in the 90s were superb, any moment in those videos when you went like "holy shit, that was awesome!"
Garbage: Yup 💥

Who has more fun red heads or pink heads :)
Garbage: Both of them 🍒

What is Shirls fav drink?
Garbage: Pisco sour

Are you still that Hot 😀
Garbage: Nope

Have you ever thought about making a classical album or a classical remix album of your songs ?
Garbage (video): (Shirley): We are so sorry, there is so much questions, we don't have enough energy left (...) i'm on the bar, i have a lot of drink to celebrate the release of our new record. So please, forgive us but thanks for your questions, we love you and we're leaving, goodnight, sleep tight from Austria.

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Strange Little Birds Tour

13 juin 2016  
Troxy
London
Angleterre

Groupe

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

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Setlist

1. Sometimes
2. Empty
    3. Stupid Girl
   4. Special
5. Blood For Poppies
6. Bleed Like Me
7. My Lovers Box
8. Sex Is Not The Enemy
9. So Like A Rose
10. Control
11. #1 Crush
12. I Think I'm Paranoid
13. Battle In Me
14. Automatic Systematic Habit
15. The Trick Is To Keep Breathing
16. Blackout
17. Push It
18. Vow
19. Only Happy When It Rains

Rappel / Encore
20. Even Though Our Love Is Doomed
21. Why Do You Love Me
22. Cherry Lips

Garbage a dédié la chanson "So Like A Rose" à Matt Irwin, photographe et réalisateur (du clip "Blood For Poppies" en 2012) décédé le 06 mai 2016. 
Garbage dedicated the song "So Like A Rose" to Matt Irwin, photographer and video director (of "Blood For Poppies" in 2012) died on May 6, 2016.

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Garbage: Troxy, London – live review
Written by Anne Johanna15 June, 2016 - on LouderThanWar
Garbage , Troxy, London , 13th June 2016
Garbage bring their blend of perverse pop rock to East London in support of their sixth studio album Strange Little Birds. Words by Anne Johanna. Photos by Svenja Block.
“I don’t give a fuck if somebody who I don’t know and never will meet thinks I’m a piece of shit. I don’t give a flying fuck.” The words that Shirley Manson spoke in an interview for Digital Spy in June of last year sum up the journey that the now 49-year-old Scot has found herself on. Riddled with low self-confidence and body dysmorphic disorder throughout most of Garbage’s multi-million selling career, Manson is finally allowing herself to enjoy the fruits of her labour with well-deserved joy and confidence.
First hearing “Vow” on a random compilation CD in 1994 I was immediately hooked on what was going to be Garbage’s clinical sounding take on trip hoppy alt pop rock, for want of a better term. Then came “Queer” with Manson menacingly prowling the streets in the accompanying black and white video, staring into the camera. That hypnotic track broke the quartet in 1995 and now, 17 million album sales and 20 years later, the sixth album “Strange Little Birds” has been released. Some of the band’s latter albums were received to mixed reactions and to be fair, there has been some fluff amongst their discography. This begs the questions: are Garbage still relevant? Will they appeal to a new generation of music fans and gig goers? Does anyone `give a shit about Garbage anymore?
The gorgeous art deco venue Troxy in East London is bathed in darkness when Garbage open with “Sometimes” from the new record. In true Garbage style it surprises with strings before segueing into a pared down Portishead-like moodiness. It’s a quiet start to the show and the crowd is rather subdued but things soon pick up with the first single off the new album “Empty” which embodies all that is the chart-friendly Garbage – catchy alternative inoffensive pop rock with the unmistakeable Garbage sound. It’s the double of “Special” and “Stupid Girl” that really starts raising the roof and during the latter Manson spices things up with a real punk sneer which gives the hugely popular track some edge missing from the recorded version. The reggae-heavy “Blood for Poppies” from the previous album “Not Your Kind Of People” shows what Garbage are made of. Mixing reggae with heavy grungey guitars and a killer pop chorus sounds pretty terrifying in print but you have to hear it to really get it. Innovative and oh, so Garbage-y.
The vocalist pulls her pale pink hair up into a ponytail and the band launch into the title track from their 2005 album “Bleed Like Me”. “My Lover’s Box” follows and it’s now clear this gig is L-O-U-D. The barrage of guitars and the bass infiltrates every cell in the body. Manson addresses the crowd and in light of the shootings in Orlando dedicates “Sex Is Not The Enemy” to all those who harbour ill feelings towards the LGBT community. “So Like A Rose” from “Beautiful Garbage” gets an airing and it’s something a little bit special as it has not been heard since 2002. The leopard print clad Manson plays the guitar and although looking very much a rock star she manages to walk the tightrope of being just like one of us whilst still being the sassy frontwoman of an incredibly successful band. The chorus of “Control” from “Not Your Kind Of People” sounds huge, like hard industrialised Depeche Mode. “#1 Crush” rates as one of the sultriest records Garbage have ever recorded. This is more like the heavier, grittier original version which was a B-side to “Vow” and “Subhuman” singles rather than the trippy Marius de Vries and Nellee Hooper mixed version for the 1996 film “Romeo & Juliet”. Still the crowd falls silent and watches mesmerised as the pink-haired vixen purrs her way through the song and one can guess there are several males in the audience trying to hide their boners from their girlfriends and wives.
It was disappointing to hear that the mastermind behind Garbage, Butch Vig, would not be performing on the first leg of the tour due to acute sinusitis and doctor’s orders to not fly. However, Matt Walker (Smashing Pumpkins, Morrissey) who already filled in for Vig on the Garbage tour in 2002 has stepped in. When introducing her band mates Duke Erikson and Steve Marker on guitars and Eric Avery (Jane’s Addiction) on bass, Manson applauds Garbage’s 20 year friendship with Walker and follows up with “Automatic Systematic Habit” – Butch Vig’s favourite track from “Not Your Kind Of People”. Again, Garbage manage to mix things up a bit and the chandeliers in the ceiling are blasted with an electro track that wouldn’t be out of place at a modernised version of Studio 54.
Following the chilled out “The Trick Is To Keep Breathing” Manson confesses to the crowd that playing in London makes her so nervous she always arrives into town “with a weird, worried attitude and ends up spending a lot of time on the toilet”. She says more than once with a multitude of swear words how grateful Garbage are for the fans’ support through the years. Manson is notorious for her no bullshit attitude and having no qualms about addressing bad behaviour from the crowd but tonight at Troxy there is no need for that. The audience is, not surprisingly, more on the mature side as is the band, and the most raucous things get is loud singalongs and a bit of jumping up and down during the biggest hits.
“Blackout” from the oven-hot release “Strange Little Birds” is somewhat Cure-like and it’s a million miles away from the poppiness of “Empty”. “Push It” gets a massive singalong but the band sound so loud it’s rearranging my insides and my ears are the most painful they have possibly ever been at a gig. “Vow” follows and it’s a great moment to witness these veterans of transatlantic rock to play the song that started it all for them all those years ago. Despite Manson self-beratingly confessing to softening up a bit, she shows she still has the venom of her 28-year-old self in her – and thank heavens for that. After three encores and two solid hours of music, Garbage are done.
Always a bit left-field, that is Garbage. The foursome have the knack of mixing killer pop hooks, trip hop laced rock and almost any other genre under the sun all the while keeping to that super-shiny production. I must say that at times over the years I have thought of the band as a poor man’s Curve (a superb British electro band from the 90s). But, despite some chart-friendly smash hits Garbage have always been dark – if not musically, then lyrically. Shirley Manson has more brain than most females in the public eye and one would wish more young women in today’s world were encouraged to look upon Manson as a role model. Outspoken and honest with proverbial balls of steel and, in particular, a living embodiment of winning over her own insecurities, she breaks the mold amongst the phoniness of the plastic barbie dolls out there.
Truth be told I wasn’t expecting much from the gig tonight, but it turned out to be an entertaining, fun and career-spanning show. I was wary of Garbage having turned into a bunch of 90s has-beens desperate to cash in for their retirement before it’s too late. I eat my preconceptions with salt and pepper, for the set list was a perfect balance of new and old, hits and album tracks and although Garbage will always be more of a Shirley and The Blokes kind of a band, they sounded superb and with a firecracker such as Manson at the forefront, they are still as relevant as ever.

Live: Garbage @ Troxy
Posted by Kalpesh Patel | June 15, 2016 - on RockShot
“Twenty years we’ve been coming to London and every time we have, I’ve spent the whole day on the toilet, being so neurotic, because I feel like we come from the United Kingdom.” Now that’s some statement from an ever present and seemingly unflappable frontwoman that makes you think twice about a band that come across as so strong and confident that a show at London’s Troxy venue should be a walk in the park.
Playing their first headline show since the release of sixth studio album Strange Little Birds just last week, Scottish-American electronic rockers Garbage hit up the East London venue for a proper outing of their latest release alongside a good selection from their extensive back catalogue following last year’s 20 Years Queer tour, which celebrated the 20th anniversary of their eponymous hit debut LP.
Comprised of singer and guitarist Shirley Manson, bass player Duke Erikson, guitarist Steve Marker and drummer Butch Vig, the group made waves in the late nineties with their first two albums during a period where American grunge music was fading into alternative rock and Britpop was at its height. But tonight’s show was played without Vig in-tow, the drummer sitting out the group’s European dates on doctor’s orders and replaced by Smashing Pumpkins and Morrissey drummer Matt Walker. The touring line-up is rounded out by former Jane’s Addiction bass player Eric Avery, that band themselves playing a show across town at Kentish Town’s Forum venue tonight.
Appearing on the East London stage encased in shadows, the five-piece kicked off with brief Strange Little Birds opener Sometimes, frontwoman Shirley Manson, dressed in a leopard-print outfit and trading her signature fiery red hair for a bottled pink, hugging a matching leopard-print microphone stand for the sombre and sparsely instrumented tune, singing “sometimes I’d rather take a beating, sometimes I’d rather take a punch”. Song number two from the new record was next, Empty stepping things up and getting the crowd bouncing along.
The unfamiliar new material certainly served as a warm up ahead of the band’s biggest hit, 1996 single Stupid Girl riling the entire audience of the 2,600-capacity venue with its signature rhythm, nicked from The Clash‘s 1980 hit Train In Vain. Manson made the most of the former Art Deco cinema’s stage, spinning about, stepping up onto the speakers (not monitors) lining the stage edge and and leering at the crowd. Version 2.0’s Special continued the hit parade, the upbeat 1998 single encouraging noticeable audience participation with 2012’s Blood For Poppies continuing the tempo.
“Thank you London” the 49-year-old frontwoman said in her broad Edinburgh accent, addressing the crowd for the first time. “I can’t quite believe we’re here so soon after the last tour, it’s a treat for us and it’s fantastic to be back here at the Troxy.” Dedicating fourth album title track Bleed Like Me to the persistent Garbage fans, the quintet broke into the slow start to 2005 single, the group’s signature dance-influenced rhythm underpinning an otherwise slow rock song.
Making a reference to the band’s strong LGBT community following and support, Manson took some time out to reflect on the recent atrocity in Orlando saying: “We have always made a point to speak whenever people we love get attacked.” “The Situation is more complex than I could possibly fathom” she continued. “So this song goes out to whoever is out there who means ill to the LGBT community, anyone who’s ever muttered a homophobic slur” ahead of Bleed Like Me cut Sex Is Not The Enemy.
Slow Beautiful Garbage song So Like A Rose was dedicated to British celebrity photographer Matt Irwin who sadly took his own life in May this year, “this one’s for you baby” Mason dedicated, strapping on a guitar. Version 2.0’s I Think I’m Paranoid kicked the show into the next gear, the 1998 single still sounding fresh some 18 years after it first came out and enticing even those at the back of the venue to turn back towards the stage and rock along which Manson pointing her mic out to the crowd, handing over vocal duties for sections of the top-ten single.
Acknowledging the absence of Garbage co-founder Butch Vig, the sassy frontwoman said “I want to give a big shout out to Butch who’s stuck at home in Los Angeles. If it was me, I’d literally be chewing the flesh off my bones.” The otherworldly-sounding Automatic Systematic Habit was dedicated to the missing Vig, the pop-rock single described by Manson as his favourite cut from Not Your Kind of People featuring live vocoder effects from the frontwoman.
Downbeat Version 6.0 track Blackout’s origins were described as coming from a request to write a song for a vampire movie, only the third new album song of the night before Version 2.0’s Push It and the band’s debut single Vow upped the tempo once more, leading into main set closer Only Happy When It Rains, the 1995 single featuring a re-worked down-tempo first quarter.
An encore of dark and downbeat new album track Even Though Our Love Is Doomed followed by Bleed Like Me cut Why Do You Love Me is rounded out with 2002 single Cherry Lips, it’s chant-along “go baby go” letting the audience depart the venue having sung their hearts out while bouncing along to the fun pop stylings of this long-lasting rock band.
With a styling that spreads their rock roots across a variety of genres including trip-hop, techno and grunge to result in a surprisingly radio-friendly fare, Strange Little Birds takes our journey with Garbage full-circle with a sound so reminiscent of their 1995 debut that it might be interpreted as some sort of pastiche while remaining so fresh that it could easily have been produced by one of the current crop of up and comers making waves on the indie-rock scene.
And it’s easy to see why. Guitarists  Duke Erikson & Steve Marker and drummer Butch Vig are all producers outside of Garbage with Vig famous for producing albums and singles for the likes of Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, Green Day, Muse and Foo Fighters and for remixing tracks across a number of musical genres. Meanwhile, frontwoman Shirley Manson has collaborated with Debbie Harry, Gavin Rossdale and Serj Tankian outside of her work with Garbage as well as taking on the role of a liquid metal Terminator facing off against Lena Headey’s Sarah Connor for television series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.
Garbage play Nottingham’s Rock City before mixing European and American summer festival slots with US headline shows. Strange Little Birds was released on June 10th on Garbage’s own Stunvolume label.

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10 juin 2016  
Nova Rock Festival
Nickelsdorf
Autriche

Groupe

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

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Setlist

1. Empty
    2. Stupid Girl
  3. Special
4. Blood For Poppies
5. My Lovers Box
6. A Stroke of Luck
7. Control
8. #1 Crush
9. I Think I'm Paranoid
10. Battle In Me
11. Automatic Systematic Habit
12. The Trick Is To Keep Breathing
13. Blackout
14. Push It
15. Vow
16. Only Happy When It Rains

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 16 juin 2016
Télévision i>TELE - France
Interview Shirley Manson
enregistrée le 13/04/2016 à Paris

Contenu: C'est toute guitare dehors que Garbage signe son retour, après quatre ans, son nouvel album. Pourtant, pas question de se fondre dans le moule de la pop. Le paysage musical actuel ne les correspond pas et ils comptent bien marquer leur différence.
Shirley Manson: "Comme notre premier album, ce n'est pas un disque léger. C'est encore nous contre le monde. Nous nous sentons en contradiction avec le monde qui manque de certaines valeurs, dans lesquelles nous, nous croyons, et qui sont absentes de la culturelle actuelle."
Des valeurs de solidarité, d'acceptation. Si le message est enrobé dans un écrin ténébreux, Garbage promeut des idées positives.
Shirley Manson: "Cela parle des gens, du fait que nous voulons tous la même chose, vraiment, au fond de nous; mais au final, nous n'arriverons jamais à marcher dans la même direction pour obtenir ce que nous voulons: être toléré et compris."
Avec ses cheveux roses, difficile de croire que Shirley Manson va bientôt souffler ses cinquante bougies. Les années semblent lui avoir apporter un peu de recul et de paix intérieure.
Shirley Manson: "Quand j'y repense, j'étais monstrueuse avec moi-même, vraiment horrible, je ne me pardonnais rien, je voulais ressembler à un top-model. Souvent, on pense que l'on n'a pas ce qu'il faut pour être heureux, mais c'est faux, ce que vous êtes est suffisant."

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 12 avril 2016
Web Interview Music Waves - Paris, France
Interview Shirley Manson

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Article publié le 06 juin 2016 - interview de Adrianstork
> en ligne sur musicwaves

Music Waves a rencontré un drôle de petit oiseau en la personne d'une icone du rock, Shirley Manson !

Et c'est une charmante et charmeuse Shirley que nous avons eu l'honneur de rencontrer pour une interview naturelle pour évoquer la carrière du groupe, son image et enfin ce dernier super opus témoignant que Garbage est plus que jamais de retour aux affaires...

Quelle est la question que l'on t'a trop souvent posée ?
Shirley Manson : Est-ce que tu es seulement contente quand il pleut? (Rires) (en référence à la chanson de Garbage​'Only Happy When It Rains')

Et bien, nous ne te poserons pas cette question météorologique !
Merci beaucoup! (Rires)

En revanche, tu n'en as pas assez que les gens résument ta carrière à 'Stupid Girl' ou la bande-originale du film ''Le Monde Ne Suffit Pas'' ?
Pas vraiment. Au contraire, c'est un privilège que les gens se souviennent de nos chansons.

Et puis si vous n'aviez pas eu de tubes, vous continueriez à en chercher un au lieu d'évoluer...
Si nous pouvions écrire une bonne chanson qui puisse connecter les gens ensemble, ce serait merveilleux. Nous avons fait des compromis par le passé, et avons eu des chansons à la radio. Mais ça ne nous intéresse plus maintenant.
 
Comme d'habitude, Garbage a pris son temps avant de sortir un nouvel album, ´´Strange Little Birds.´´ Qu'avez-vous fait pendant tout ce temps ?
Il n'y avait pas d'urgence. Après avoir pris un break, nous avons appris qu'il fallait profiter de la vie, nous recentrer sur nos proches.

Lorsque le groupe a été connu mondialement, nous n'avions plus de vie normale

​Ce n'était pas le cas avant ?
Lorsque le groupe a été connu mondialement, nous n'avions plus de vie normale. Nous n'avions rien dans le frigo, plus de routine. Pour nous tous, c'était devenu une quête vide de sens à la fin.
Oui, notre succès était merveilleux, c'était un privilège qui n'est pas donné à tous. Merci Dieu pour avoir permis cela (Rires). Mais en même temps, nous ne voulons pas considérer cela comme plus important que les gens que nous aimons, promener le chien, aller dans un musée, lire des livres...

​Mais alors maintenant, est-ce que la vie est redevenue normale ?
Comme nous savons fait des tournées à travers le monde, il y a toujours des gens pour nous reconnaître aux quatre coins du globe. Mais moi, j'essaie en priorité d'avoir une vie normale.

Mais c'est plutôt paradoxal, car...
... (elle coupe) Je suis un paradoxe (Rires) !

Je veux seulement être moi-même et pas pour attirer l'attention

​Tu dis vouloir une vie normale, mais tu as des cheveux roses et les gens intrigués finissent par te reconnaître...
Je pense que je m´habille ainsi parce que je veux être créative. J'aime ce qui sort du quotidien. Je veux vivre ma vie comme une artiste. Je me suis rendu compte que je ne voulais plus divertir les gens. Je voulais plutôt être une artiste. Je me suis rendu compte que je n'avais pas besoin de jouer le jeu comme une popstar et me laisser dicter mes conditions. J'ai des cheveux roses parce que je les aime bien et je peux m'habiller comme je veux. Je veux seulement être moi-même et pas pour attirer l'attention.

Avec "Strange Little Birds", on dirait que Garbage voulait revenir au son de ses origines, avec plus de guitares, de claviers et d'expérimentation. Après un premier album marqué par l'éclectisme, qu'est-ce qui vous a donné le sentiment de retrouver vos racines ?
Pour être honnête, je pense que ce n'était pas conscient. Nous voulions seulement nous concentrer sur les choses que nous aimions quand nous avions commencé. Je pense que c´était un instantané de ce que nous sommes, où nous sommes, comment est le monde qui nous entoure.

Sur la première piste 'Sometimes', vous surprenez les fans en installant une atmosphère claustrophobique et en la gardant,  alors que par le passé les guitares auraient déjà explosé. C´était délibéré ?
Non. C´est notre guitariste Steve Marker qui a apporté ce morceau le premier jour de l´enregistrement. Il nous l´a joué et nous avons tous ressenti de la tension. Le bassiste Duke Erikson a dit qu´il fallait commencer l´album par ce morceau. Nous étions très excités parce que c´était fantastique de débuter sur des chapeaux de roue. Nous étions tous en compétition contre Steve ensuite parce que nous savions que c´était très spécial et que nous voulions faire mieux que lui (Rires). Il a capturé une sensation assez spéciale, mais authentique, une atmosphère unique.

Le son de l'album est plus atmosphérique, froid, distant, mais en même temps catchy comme ´Empty´ ou ´We Never Tell´. Etait-ce important de trouver une balance ?
Je pense que c´est définitivement important. Nous voulons créer une certaine atmosphère, raconter une histoire en évitant d´être ennuyeux. Nous voulons faire voyager l´auditeur. Je pense que nous travaillons toujours ainsi, car nous sommes tous sur la même longueur d´onde.

Nous avons essayé de rester le plus ouvert possible, même si nous parlons beaucoup de la folie.

​Pour nous qui sommes un site spécialisé dans le rock progressif, le terme voyage est important. Cela veut dire qu´il y a une ligne directrice, peut-on considérer cet album comme un concept album ?
Non, je perds ma joie lorsque les lignes sont trop rigides. Nous avons essayé de rester le plus ouvert possible, même si nous parlons beaucoup de la folie. Nous avons essayé de comprendre quelles chansons pouvaient fonctionner ensemble.

Le travail sur les paroles est plutôt remarquable, avec par exemple les paroles crues de cette chanson, qui expose des vérités désespérées, mais qui en même temps, trouve  la force pour ne pas sombrer dans le désespoir, avec le puissant crescendo final. Ce n'est jamais gratuitement sombre.
Nous sommes ténébreux, les ténèbres peuvent nous apprendre beaucoup de choses, en particulier sur la mort. Nous allons tous mourir, nous sommes tous maudits. Nous aimons regarder du côté des ténèbres, dans les abysses. Cela nous permet de rebondir : faisons tout de suite quelque chose pour être heureux. Prenons un verre, faisons une balade. La vie est courte.

Est-ce que cet album est une exploration des ténèbres à la recherche de la guérison ?
Oui !

Ta voix semble plus directe, et froide comme sur 'Blackout', mais elle est capable d'être lumineuse comme sur ´Magnetized´, voire érotique comme sur ´Teaching The Little Fingers´? C´est quelque chose que tu cherchais ?
Oui, je voulais être une bonne étudiante. Je voulais toujours apprendre. Je voulais essayer différentes approches. Nous voulons tous être entendus, alors je voulais être entendue avec différentes voix.

J´ai l´impression que je n´ai plus rien à prouver et que par conséquent je peux faire ce que je veux.

​Es-tu satisfaite sur la session d´enregistrement ?
Oui, je m´en sens très fière. J´ai l´impression que je n´ai plus rien à prouver et que par conséquent je peux faire ce que je veux. Des gens apprécieront, d´autres non. Mais notre futur ne dépend plus des opinions des gens. Nous pouvons alors nous concentrer pour faire du meilleur travail et essayer de dire quelque chose sur le monde.

​L'introduction de 'Teaching The Little Fingers' est assez atypique et la chanson ressemble à une séance d'hypnose.
Oui, ça me fait penser à une musique de films. On pourrait entendre cette chanson dans un film de David Lynch. Nous voulions créer une atmosphère, commencer avec la pluie et les voitures pour laisser penser que nous étions en voyage. C'était très excitant.

​Tu as dit que cet album était romantique. Peux-tu expliquer ta définition de ce mot ?
C'est un album fragile qui reflète vraiment ma personnalité.

[Par le passé] je pense que je me protégeais. Je jouais à être plus forte, plus agressive.

Ce n'était pas le cas par le passé ?
Non, je pense que je me protégeais. Je jouais à être plus forte, plus agressive.

​Cela veut-il dire que tu te sens mieux maintenant ?
Oui. Je pense que j'ai mûri. J'ai envie d'être vulnérable. Quand je dis romantique, c'est parce que je suis aussi vulnérable, nue, quand je suis amoureuse.

Nous ne voulons plus être un groupe de pop. Nous voulons être considérés comme des artistes.

​Est-ce que tu considères cette orientation comme une nouvelle étape pour le groupe, que tu as ouvert un nouveau chapitre ?
Je pense que nous avons fermé une porte. Nous ne voulons plus être un groupe de pop. Nous voulons être considérés comme des artistes.

​Comment s'est déroulé l'enregistrement ? Tu as dit en interview que la carrière du groupe était miraculeuse tant le groupe était mentalement lent...
Oui, nous sommes lents. Et je ne sais pas pourquoi, mais peut-être est-ce parce que nous ne sommes pas obsédés par la célébrité à tout prix. Nous n'avons pas de plan de carrière tout en étant ambitieux. D'autres personnes voudraient avoir encore plus de succès, mais nous n'avons pas cet appétit. Ce qui est le plus difficile c'est de trouver du temps ensemble, car nous ne vivons pas dans les mêmes villes, donc chacun doit faire beaucoup d'efforts. Et je suis chanceuse d'être avec d'autres personnes qui partagent la même philosophie que moi et qui feront toujours un jour ou l'autre l'effort nécessaire pour enregistrer.
​
Tu as dit que le groupe était lent, alors pouvons-nous déjà annoncer le prochain album de Garbage pour 2020 ?
(Rires) On ne sait jamais, on peut toujours changer nos habitudes.

​Le titre de cet album était inspiré par une lettre d'un fan, mais comment ces mots ont-ils eu une répercussion sur toi et sur l'album ?
Une jeune fille de 19 ans m'a donné cette lettre extraordinaire après un concert à Niji-Novgorod. C'était un essai sur ses combats, sa solitude, ses tourments. Cela a attiré mon imagination. Je pouvais sentir sa peine en lisant sa lettre sur le chemin de l'hôtel. Cela m'a inspiré pour écrire une chanson sur mes tourments. C'est le thème de la chanson éponyme.

Après avoir enregistré la chanson titre du James Bond, ''Le Monde ne suffit pas'', et joué dans ''Terminator'' et ''Knife Fight'', as-tu décidé de  poursuivre ton aventure avec le cinéma ?
Cet album est déjà très cinématographique. La première chanson n'est pas une chanson, elle est destructurée, c'est juste une sensation. J'aime le cinéma.

​Quelles sont tes attentes pour cet album ?
Je n'ai aucune attente. Sinon, je serais déçue (Rires).

Quel est ton meilleur souvenir en tant qu'artiste ?
J'en ai beaucoup. Mais peut-être la première fois que j'ai entendu une chanson de Garbage à la radio.

​Et a contrario le pire ?
Quand un producteur nous a dit qu'avec seulement un million d'albums vendu, ce n'était pas suffisant. Ce jour-là, nous avions compris que nous couchions avec le diable.

​Nous avons commencé par la question qu'on t'avait toujours posée. Mais maintenant, quelle est la question que tu voudrais que je te pose ?
J'ai l'impression que si les gens ne me posent pas certaines questions c´est parce qu´ ils ne veulent pas connaître certaines réponses.

​Où une chose que nous n'aurions pas abordé dans cette interview?
Il y en a des millions alors (Rires). 

Merci beaucoup, Shirley
(En français) "Merci beaucoup"

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Strange Little Birds Tour

8 juin 2016
Fabrique
Milan
Italie

Groupe

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

- Première partie: Giorgieness -

Setlist

1. Sometimes
2. Empty
    3. Stupid Girl
   4. Special
5. Blood For Poppies
6. Bleed Like Me
7. My Lovers Box
8. Sex Is Not The Enemy
9. A Stroke Of Luck
10. Control
11. #1 Crush
12. I Think I'm Paranoid
13. Battle In Me
14. Automatic Systematic Habit
15. The Trick Is To Keep Breathing
16. Blackout
17. Push It
18. Vow
19. Only Happy When It Rains

Rappel / Encore
20. Even Though Our Love Is Doomed
21. Why Do You Love Me
22. Cherry Lips

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Concert

- Giorgieness -
 

- live:  Sometimes -

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