Garbage have said that they’re “unlikely to play many of the cities” on their upcoming US tour “ever again”.
The band are set to kick off their ‘Happy Endings’ tour – which will be their last North American headline tour – on September 3, and told fans yesterday (August 20) that they’ve now commenced rehearsals.
In a post on Instagram, they wrote: “We haven’t played an extensive headline tour like this one in the States for almost a decade. If the truth be told, it is unlikely we will play many of the cities on this tour ever again.”
They continued, saying: “We are going out in style and we hope you will join us. That’s life my friends. Nothing stays the same forever. Everything must change. All beautiful things come to an end.”
The tour is supported by Los Angeles band Starcrawler, fronted by Arrow De Wilde, who Garbage described as “one of the most exciting front people of her generation”.
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The tour comes after the band were forced to cancel their 2024 dates last August after Manson required “surgery and rehabilitation” for an undisclosed injury she suffered on tour in Europe earlier in the year.
It will be in support of the alt-rock veterans’ eighth album ‘Let All That We Imagine Be The Light‘, which was released in May and given a full five-star review by NME, who concluded that: “While the world can often feel like a dark place, there is a sense of empowerment that can be reached by letting in the light.
Speaking to NME about the theme of love that runs through the album, frontwoman Shirley Manson told us: “I’ve never really written about love very much. I always think it’s been written about by people a thousand more talented than me. I’m just not a romantic person, really.
“After my mum died and then Veela [Manson’s ‘soul dog’], I realised I had to touch love somewhere, somehow,” she continued. “I’ve got an amazing marriage and I love my husband so much, but I also realised that in order to move on through a different passage in my life I had to reach out to find all the different types of love: the world, nature, the ocean, friends, my bandmates, my family.”
