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September 22, 2025 |
Garbage have announced they are stepping away from touring, with Shirley Manson explaining that “the thievery of the record industry” has made playing live shows “very difficult.”
The band is currently on the road in the United States, but they have described this run as their last major tour. Manson has now spoken openly about how the financial side of the business has made it “untenable” to keep performing concerts.
At their show at The Anthem in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday (September 17, 2025), Shirley told the audience: “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. We’re not complaining, we’ve had a f****** great run.”
She explained that she wanted to speak out because she feels worried about the new generation of artists who are trying to make touring work.
Shirley continued: “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.”
She then spoke about the future of Garbage, saying: “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.
“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 f***, 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.”
She closed the night by raising a toast to the crowd. “We want to drink to your amazing collective health, we don’t know if we’ll ever see you again, maybe we will, maybe we won’t.
“But we all want you to be healthy and happy. Stay kind, stay adventurous, stay curious, ask lots and lots of questions, surround yourself with beautiful animals and natural and really, really good people.
“And if they’re s***** people, get rid of them. If they’re great people, here’s to you.”
Garbage’s current U.S. tour will run until November 5 with a show at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles, before wrapping up with a final performance in Mexico City on November 14.
