Garbage: FYI

I just heard on the radio that despite rumors surrounding the cancellation of the UK leg of their world tour, the rock band GARBAGE has NOT broken up.



More info Here...
http://www.garbage.com/news/?093005

09.23.05 Dear worried and confused
Dear worried and confused,

After reading all the bullshit out there about the future of Garbage, we felt compelled to write a few lines here to address the issue and set the record straight.

Certain journalists have taken the liberty of running wildly inaccurate stories in recent days about our so called "break-up". Made up out of cobbled together,out of context quotes to feed some perverse agenda of their own,these stories are nothing more than idle speculation and are completely inaccurate.

The truth of the matter is really simple and surprisingly hard to misconstrue. For more than ten years, we have been in a cycle of album-making and touring and for the first time in our history, we have made a decision to break that cycle and take some time off. What does that mean? We are NOT breaking up. However, we ARE taking some much-deserved time off to spend with our families and friends. How much time? We don't know.

This decision came as a difficult yet necessary one in order to preserve something we hold very dear. The last ten years have been an incredible experience for all of us and we appreciate all the freedom, love and support you have so generously given us during that time. We are eternally grateful to you all and we look forward to the next chapter in all of our lives with great excitement and enthusiasm.

True Love Forever,
Garbage.

http://www.garbage.com/news/press.php?uid=321

09.29.05 Final chance to enjoy rockers

Cameron Adams, music reporter
FOR a band about to disappear into an indefinite hiatus, Garbage has never sounded more alive.

On record their precise mix of electronics and rock is subtle. On stage studio subtlety is bludgeoned by rock power that blasts your ears into submission.

Celebrating their 10-year anniversary the band played to a rabid audience at the Palais last night. Debut single Vow still sounds menacing and thoroughly modern. Indeed it's not until you hear Garbage's greatest hits all performed with added force you realise how impressive their catalogue is. Singles like Queer, Only Happy When It Rains, When I Grow Up and I Think I'm Paranoid all thrill their devoted fans. Meanwhile the subversive Cherry Lips and intense Push It are songs any band would kill to have in their repertoire. Title track of their latest album Bleed Like Me shows Garbage can slow things down without losing power or focus. Imposing and enticing all at once, singer Shirley Manson is an amazing front person.

Her knowledge of their audience is such that she points out several hardcore fans in the front row. As her bandmates prowl the stage like caged animals, drummer Butch Vigs's kit is more like a pilot's console
than your average rock instrument. While he triggers samples and loops from the kit, more importantly he bangs his drums like a man possessed. If anything good comes out of Garbage's time out Manson will be just the kind of solo star we need in a world where Ashlee Simpson passes as a rock chick.