A TRIBUTE TO GARBAGE
June 28th

The label Big Eye Music will release a compilation entitled "Garbage Tribute". This CD will be released on July 23rd, and it is not yet known if the album is composed by various acts, or a single "tribute" band that recorded these tracks (mot likely). The tracklist will be:
1. Stupid Girl
2. Push It
3. I Think I'm Paranoid
4. When I Grow Up
5. World Is Not Enough
6. Shut Your Mouth
7. Androgyny
8. Can't Cry These Tears
9. Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go!)
10. Till The Day I Die
11. Special
12. Untouchable
(source: Tower Records)

4th ALBUM PRODUCED WORLDWIDE?
June 27th

According to the site Girl Don't Come, the the furthercoming LP will be produced in Paris, London, New York, and Amsterdam,
according to different rumours.
Butch Vig had confirmed that a fourth album is planned... even though the band would like to produce it faster than beautifulgarbage (one year) the album won't be recorded in at smart studios as the other LP's but it different towns.

US DATES WITH NO DOUBT?
June 27th

Garbage may join No Doubt on their US tour as an opening act. According to Shirley: "Gwen Steffani and I also loosely discussed the possibility of Garbage opening some dates for ND later on this year.I mean........ I really respect that No Doubt do their own thing and stand out from all the other bands out there right now. I think our fans (and vice versa ) would be well into the pairing. We'll just have to wait and see if it all pans out but I think ND and Garbage would make a great bill."

GARBAGE ON RUSSIAN PRESS
June 27th

With the St. Petersbourg show on the Ice Palace on the 2nd of July, Garbage have been on the cover of some Russian press. The latest covers are from New Musical Express, Afisha and Molotok, all from June 2002. Kudos to BMG Russia that is making a great job!
Details on the magazines section.

GARBAGE WITH ELTON JOHN
June 27th

Garbage spent the afternoon of June 19th with one of the most important pop icons of all time. Shirley wrote on her diary: "Woke up,got dressed,got picked up in a chaffeur driven car and taken to Elton John's villa 
in the hills overlooking the stunning vista of Nice.Enjoyed the most delicious lunch whilst 
supping on champagne and pink wine and spent the next 4 hours or so lounging under the sun whilst listening to the aforementioned icon tell insanely great stories about working with people like John Lennon,Tina Turner and Eminem or what it was like to dance with the Queen Mother of England!!! COuld have happily spent the entire evening there but we had a show to do so after reluctantly saying our goodbyes we then drove back down the hill and stepped on stage to open up for The Red Hot Chilli Peppers!!!! 
How fucking intense is that for a day in the life of a rock diva?!?!?!?!?! 
ha ha ha ha.....it was pure magic."

SANTANA ON "BEAUTIFUL" GARBAGE
June 27th

Garbage played at the Heiniken Jammin' festival in Imola, Italy on June 16th.
JT LeRoy, inspiration for Cherry Lips was in the audience wich has a complete turn on to Shirley. According to her, "The other notable event of the day was when Duke ran into Carlos Santana backstage after our show (He was headlining the festival) and Carlos commented that he thought our show was 
"beautiful"!!! 
You are very kind Carlos and our show is many things....but beautiful!?!? I think not."

ALICE NUTTER ON SHIRLEY
June 27th

Chumbawamba's Alice Nutter said about Shirley: "I saw her recently on the Jools Holland show actually. The thing about Garbage is that she’s supposed be this vixen fronting a wild band but they just look like a load of boring old men… and it all hinges on her. She looks great and has a great voice but it doesn’t always work and I think they’ve got too much of a formula. The first Garbage album I thought was great but then every other Garbage album was just another Garbage album. Then there’s all that whole thing about “I’m a bad girl! I hate myself!” and how many different ways of saying it (laughs)."
This came after Shirley labelling Tubthumping, the band's hit, as a curse on humanity and then singling Chumbawamba's Lou out as being the worst singer in the world.

NICKELBACK VS SHIRLEY MANSON
June 24th

Chad Kroeger, frontman of Nickelback, when asked "Now that you're famous, who would you like to squash like a bug?", aptly replied "Shirley Manson of Garbage!".
This feeling started a month ago when Shirley said in her tour diary that "Why on earth has Seal not sued Nickleback for their copyright infringement of the big hit "Kiss from a Rose" that he had on the Batman soundtrack a few years ago? I mean....... Nickleback's song for the Spiderman movie is an insanely close rip off.The choruses of both songs are almost EXACTLY the same. Oh have those movie companies no bloody shame?!?!?!??!"
The song is "Hero" by Chad Kroeger (of Nickelback) featuring Josey Scott (of Saliva), from the Spider-Man Soundtrack.

SHIRLEY ON THE MADRID SHOW
June 23rd

On the day after of the Madrid show, Shirley wrote: "Oh my god......the show in Madrid last night was outlandishly OUTSTANDING!!!!!! The crowd went berserk and refused to leave the venue even after we played an encore of three songs.They stayed exactly where they were when the house lights came on and made such a racket.....shouting and cheering and chanting that we finally relented,coming back nearly 10 full minutes after leaving the stage by which time half our gear had been torn down by our crew.So not having any choice but to improvise,we threw down into an accoustic version of Queer,relying on the crowd to provide the accompaniment by their chanting of the "doo doo doo" part and I swear it sounded fucking incredible!!! "

S.Y.M. RELEASED IN EUROPE & AUST.
June 21st

The 4th single from Beautifulgarbage "Shut Your Mouth" will be released throughout Europe on July 8th and in Germany June 24th. B sides include Happiness Part 2 as well as live versions of "Only Happy When It Rains" and a live cover version of "Wild Horses". The UK release seems a bit shaky due to promotion matters, but no cancelation has been known of.
In Australia, the single will be released in mid-September.

WE'RE A HAPPY FAMILY (RAMONES)
June 21st

The Ramones tribute album is now titled. The name of the compilation will be "We're a Happy Family", and will be released on September 17.
According to Rob Zombie, the head of the project, "only the cream of the crop will make the final cut". Garbage are one of them. "The scope of the Ramones record has really grown," he said. "We always wanted it to be really special, but it turned into these superstars wanting to get on the record, which is fine. I mean, that's really the point we wanted to prove — these huge megabands were influenced by the Ramones. I think Kurt Loder said at one point when Joey died [last year], 'You can't judge the value of a band by record sales.' " 

GET TICKET TO AUSTRALIAN SHOWS
June 21st

It was announced three days ago that Garbage will be returning to Australia for shows in October.
They will be a headline act at the Triple M M-One festivals performing on the following dates:
Sat, 5 Oct – Brisbane, ANZ Stadium
Mon, 7 Oct – Sydney, SCG
Sat, 12 Oct – Melbourne, Colonial Stadium
Tickets go on sale Thursday, July 4 from the following outlets:
Sydney - Ticketek - phone 02 9266 4800 or visit www.ticketek.com.
Brisbane and Melbourne - ring Ticketmaster 7 on 136100 or visit www.ticketmaster7.com.
Click here to visit the M-One website is www.mone.com.au.

GARBAGE ON TV TOTAL IN GERMANY
June 21st

The band will make their first ever German national TV appearance on TV Total on Monday, June 24th. Make sure to tune into PRO7 at 10:20PM to catch this special performance.
(source: official site)

GLASTONBURY 2002 ON TV
June 18th

BBC Choice will broadcast images from the Glastonbury 2002 festival, where Garbage participated.
It will be broadcasted on Friday, June 28th, at 7.30 PM, 8.30 PM, 10.30 PM, & 12.15 AM. Also full coverage on Radio 1 from 10 AM.
(Thanks to D2 for the info!)

GARBAGE SALE ON MUSHROOM UK
June 18th

Mushroom Records UK is selling again all the UK CD Singles from the first Garbage album, at a discounted price. It is now available again. 1 Subhuman, 1 Only Happy When It Rains, 2 Queer's, 2 Stupid Girl's and 2 Milk's, all for £20.

SHUT YOUR MOUTH VIDEO ONLINE
June 18th

The video for "Shut Your Mouth" is now available for watching over the internet on the MTV Italy site, where the band just played two concerts.
It is a cartoon animation, where Shirley is hosted in a TV program, the conducer
is an idiot, the audience stupid, then Shirl go out, and drive away.
The video is now available to download on Garbage Box!
(drawing from Creating Garbage)

NEW AUSTRALIAN DATES
June 18th

What was rumoured is now confirmed. Garbage will in fact do another mini-tour in Australia, one of the countries where beautifulgarbage is selling better. The band are to play the following dates:
Brisbane Sat 5th Oct - ANZ Stadium
Sydney Mon 7th Oct - SCG
Melbourne 12 Oct - Colonial Stadium
More dates for the rest of the world should be announced soon.
(source: subhuman.net)

MTV'S 5 NIGHT STAND RE-RUN
June 15th

MTV Europe is promoting the MTV Live Weekend this weekend. They are broadcasting hours and hours of live performances.
The 5 Night Stand Special featuring Garbage will be shown on Sunday, June 16th, at 13:00 CET.
Also, on the next week the "Shut Your Mouth" video is problably gonna be an MTV Exclusive, as snippets of the video have been anounced. It is a cartoon video.