Overview
- During Garbage’s Dec. 5 set in Melbourne, Manson berated a festivalgoer over a beach ball and said she wanted others to punch him, while stating she would not do so herself.
- Manson linked the moment to broader grievances about low pay and disrespect toward artists during live performances.
- After the show, she posted on Threads that she would make “NO APOLOGIES” for hating beach balls at gigs and reiterated her longtime aversion to beach culture.
- A first-person Music Feeds piece claims members of Stand Atlantic and other local bands launched the beach balls, an attribution that remains single-source and uncorroborated.
- Garbage’s Australian run continues in Sydney and Brisbane with sold-out sideshows, following a North American headlining tour the band has called its last and ahead of U.K. dates in 2026.