The band Garbage started a North American tour earlier this month and according to Shirley Manson it will more than likely be their last…due to “the thievery of the record industry.”
She added, “we don’t know if we’ll ever see you again.”
During the Washington, D.C. performance she explained, “we have as a band decided that, due to basically the economics of the music industry, that we have to curtail our headline touring business. It has, thanks to the thievery of the record industry, made touring very, very difficult.”
She continued, “we’re not complaining, we’ve had a f*****g great run. I bring this up only because my concern is of course for young musicians who go out there and tour, they’re holding down jobs, they take two weeks off their work and they go around the country. Sometimes they’re sleeping in their van, sometimes they’re staying in really, really dodgy so-called motels and it’s dangerous and it’s really unacceptable and it really has to stop. Whatever’s going on, it really has to stop. It’s unsafe and it’s unacceptable.”
“So we have just decided that the economics have become untenable, so this is kind of the last time that we’ve decided we’re going to get on a bus and just tour all over North America. It’s a fantastic privilege and it’s so beautiful and exciting and amazing. And all the more so because I doubt that we’ll do a tour this size ever again.”
She continued, “we all feel that we’ve been so immensely privileged and we’ve enjoyed unbelievable support from our fans, from you. At times in the music industry, they’ve told us we’re old, we’re over, nobody’s interested, nobody gives a fuck, nobody wants to play us on radio, nobody wants to interview us. And then you lot came along. You were like, ‘get behind us, Satan’. And we won’t forget it.”
Many of the tour dates are already sold out.
Garbage tour dates:
Sept 26 at the Ohana Festival in Dana Point, CA
Sept 29 at the Salt Shed in Chicago, IL
Sept 30 at the MegaCorp Pavilion in Newport, KY
Oct 1 at KEMBA Live! In Columbus, OH
Oct 3 at The Sylvee in Madison, WI
Oct 4 at First Avenue in Minneapolis, MN
Oct 6 at The Midland Theatre in Kansas City, MO
Oct 7 at The Factory in Dallas, TX
Oct 8 at The Moody Theater in Austin, TX
Oct 10 at The Criterion in Oklahoma City, OK
Oct 12 at The Mission Ballroom in Denver, CO
Oct 15 at the Paramount Theatre in Seattle, WA
Oct 17 at the Knitting Factory in Boise, ID
Oct 18 at the Knitting Factory in Spokane, WA
Oct 20 at the Orpheum Theatre in Vancouver, BC
Oct 21 at the McMenamins Crystal Ballroom in Portland, OR
Oct 23 at The Mountain Winery in Saratoga, CA
Oct 24 at The Warfield in San Francisco, CA
Oct 26 at the Silver Legacy Resort Casino in Reno, NV
Oct 29 at The Complex in Salt Lake City, UT
Oct 31 at The Chelsea in Las Vegas, NV
Nov 2 at The Van Buren in Phoenix, AZ
Nov 5 at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles, CA
Nov 14 at the Corona Capital in Mexico City, Mexico