Not Your Kind of People streaming in full on NME.com
7th May 2012 - 1:54pm | 1 Comment
Shirley posted on Facebook earlier today that the new album would be streamed online later this week, and it seems like it’s earlier than I thought – NME are streaming the whole album on their website now! I know a lot of people have listened to the leaked album (which I won’t post a link to, sorry to disappoint the couple of people who emailed…) but I still haven’t heard Big Bright World, Not Your Kind of People Felt, I Hate Love, Sugar, Man on a Wire or Beloved Freak – in full anyway – and I’m so excited to finally listen.
Hanna Hanra to open for Garbage in London
7th May 2012 - 12:04am | Leave a comment?
This isn’t confirmed yet – but it seems like Hanna Hanra will be opening for Garbage for their show in London on Wednesday! She is a DJ and editor of BEAT magazine who Shirley especially is friendly with, I’m looking forward to seeing her.
Shirley talks to Instinct Magazine
30th April 2012 - 4:36pm | Leave a comment?
Instinct have published a new article as a full direct speech from Shirley – she mentions Garbage’s record label, the huge ongoing support from their gay fanbase and speaks from her own experience of self harm. Really loved this one for a number of reasons so a big thank you to her if she ever gets to see this.
There were a lot of reasons why we eventually did get back together, and I won’t bore you with the details. But I think ultimately we knew we were ready to make a record that mattered to us. We invested everything in this—ourselves and all the money we had saved in a pot for a rainy day—and I think there’s a lot of passion in that. As a result, we’re getting the response that people can feel that authenticity and commitment.
To be honest, and this is a very contradictory statement to make, but if we didn’t have the fans that we have, we would not have made this record. But the responsibility of this record lies on our shoulders. We didn’t make it for anybody else. And if they don’t like it, that does not concern me one iota. I don’t know if it’s confidence or complete dissonance, but we made this record for us.
As a former self-harmer myself, I really do relate to anyone who is suffering so acutely from feelings of worthlessness that they attack themselves. That’s born of a feeling of not being heard. It’s such a gentle person usually who turns in on themselves, like they’d rather hurt themselves than hurt somebody else. I feel a lot of empathy toward people who suffer like that, or what I like to call “hypersensitivity.” It’s a form of intelligence in a funny way; you’re reading things that most people are blind or deaf to. When someone says to you that you’re being too sensitive, spin that around and think in your head, “Well, you’re just not being sensitive enough.”
1996 article from Isthmus magazine surfaces
29th April 2012 - 5:53pm | Leave a comment?
An article from Isthmus magazine in 1996 has surfaced, including some pretty cool photos of the band rehearsing at the Barrymore theater!
Vig wants to go with the flow, wants to take the inevitable “train wrecks” in stride and put his faith in the same adrenaline rush that got him through the bands’ first shaky live gigs last fall. But he can’t. He’s a perfectionist; that much was clear form his industry-altering production work on Nirvana’s Nevermind. With his own band he’s got even more to worry about.
“On one level,” it’s easy enough for us to play live,” he says, easing back into one of the Barrymore’s worn seats. “Okay, we know what the chords are and here’s the basic acoustic beat. But then trying to add stuff live to give it the same feel as the record but not make it the same as the record: That’s why we’ve been evolving. I’m still switching a lot of stuff, and the sound guys aren’t sure what everyone’s doing yet. It’s still fun, though.
“A lot of fun,” he adds, a smile flickering dimly at the corners of his mouth.
New interview with Shirley from The Guardian
29th April 2012 - 12:52am | Leave a comment?
Thanks so much to Rosie for the link!
And what about putting herself out there for photo shoots and styling suggestions involving clothes that barely cover her modesty – is she ready for that? As a middle-aged woman (“I’m over middle-aged at this point! I’m gonna live a short life!”), is Manson thinking: ‘Should I be doing this? Can I do this?’
“Of course!” she shoots back. “It’s a real challenge. The great thing for me this time round is that a lot of the photographers I’ve been working with grew up with the band’s music. So they want to protect me. I’ve been somewhat amazed by how much they’ve taken care to ensure I’ve had a good experience.”
This time Manson is all about grown-up fun and good experiences. Did the deaths put the problems surrounding Garbage into perspective? “It’s part of it, I think,” she nods. “But it was also just a selfish streak, too. Where I became more selfish, because I was, like: my life is running out.” After seven years out of the pop race, Manson offers another metaphor of motion. “I want to get my race horses out the gate,” she says with a smile, “and I want to let them run. That’s what we were born to do.”
Previews of the whole of NYKOP on Amazon.de!
19th April 2012 - 10:44pm | 2 Comments
Thanks so much to Simon for the link! You can now listen to 30 second clips of every song of the standard edition on Garbage’s new album on Amazon.de – I couldn’t stop myself from listening and I’m obsessed with Automatic Systematic Habit especially! You can recognise some of the previews they already posted on Youtube, in Sugar and Man on a Wire for example.
EDIT – I’ve uploaded all of the previews to Youtube for anyone unable to listen to the Amazon player.
Garbage perform secret acoustic set for 92.1 KFMA
17th April 2012 - 7:54pm | Leave a comment?
So jealous of everyone who was there – Garbage performed a rooftop acoustic show for just 17 people in Tucson, AZ yesterday for 92.1 KFMA radio!
Interview with Steve from Las Vegas Review Journal
14th April 2012 - 10:38am | Leave a comment?
Steve spoke to the Las Vegas Review Journal recently about Garbage’s upcoming shows and their return to music.
“After a while it was like, ‘That was really fun, when we were in that band that was pretty successful and playing shows all over the world,’ ” Marker remembers. “It was like, ‘Why did we stop that? That was really awesome.’ ”
None of this is to suggest that Marker has no explanation for Garbage’s inactivity, which ended when the band hit the studio at the beginning of 2010.
“It’s fun to play music with people who you really like, and I think we kind of lost that along the way,” he says. “The business stuff ends up taking over some of that fun. We got really bogged down in people’s expectations of what we were supposed to be doing, being on bigger record labels and stuff.”
Battle In Me vinyl cover revealed
14th April 2012 - 1:22am | Leave a comment?
I missed this one, thanks to Tom for pointing it out – the Battle In Me single cover art is also online! This will be a 7″ red vinyl and also released on Record Store Day, April 21st as the lead single from Not Your Kind of People for the UK.
Blood for Poppies vinyl cover revealed
13th April 2012 - 7:54pm | 1 Comment
Thanks to Carlos for posting, it seems this is the cover art for the Blood for Poppies vinyl! The single will be released on April 21st – Record Store Day, on a limited edition white 7″ vinyl that features a remix of the track by Butch. The cover is very similar to the bass drum skin that Garbage are using for their live shows.
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