Garbage kicked off their last ever North American headline tour in Florida last night (September 3). Check out footage of what they played below.
The band performed at Hard Rock Live in Orlando for their ‘Happy Endings’ tour, treating fans to a host of tracks from their recent album – ‘Let All That We Imagine Be The Light‘ – including live debuts for ‘Hold’, ‘Chinese Fire Horse’ and ‘The Day That I Met God’.
They also played a host of classic tracks including breakthrough hit ‘Only Happy When It Rains’ and ‘The Trick Is To Keep Breathing’. You can view footage below.
Elsewhere ‘Not My Idea’ was performed for the first time since 2015 and ‘Parade’ got its first outing since 2019.
The band recently said that they’re “unlikely to play many of the cities” on their upcoming US tour “ever again”.
In a recent 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 comes after the band were forced to cancel a host of dates last August after frontwoman Shirley Manson required “surgery and rehabilitation” for an undisclosed injury she suffered on tour in Europe earlier in the year.
Visit here to find a list of remaining dates and more details, and here for tickets.
Garbage played:
‘There’s No Future in Optimism’
‘Hold’
‘Empty’
‘I Think I’m Paranoid’
‘Vow’
‘Run Baby Run’
‘The Trick Is To Keep Breathing’
‘Not My Idea’
‘Hammering In My Head’
‘Wolves’
‘Parade’
‘No Gods No Masters’
‘Even Though Our Love Is Doomed’
‘Godhead’
‘Chinese Fire Horse’
‘Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go!)’
‘Push It’
‘Why Do You Love Me’
‘The Day That I Met God’
‘Only Happy When It Rains’
‘When I Grow Up’
Garbage’s recent album was given a full five-star review by NME, concluding 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, Manson recently 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.”
