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Shirley Manson Rips Beach-Ball Toss at Melbourne Show, Citing Streaming-Era Frustrations

A video indicates the ball never reached the stage.

Overview

  • During Garbage’s Good Things festival set in Melbourne on Dec. 5, Manson delivered a profanity-laced rebuke of a crowd member with a beach ball.
  • Onstage, she called the behavior disrespectful and tied her anger to musicians being “fed up” with not getting paid properly.
  • After the show, she posted on Threads that she would make “NO APOLOGIES,” reiterating her longtime dislike of beach culture and swiping at Spotify.
  • Footage shared by Stereogum and cited by Rolling Stone suggests the beach ball did not reach the stage or come near her.
  • Garbage continues Australian dates in Sydney and Brisbane this weekend, following a North American run billed as their last headlining tour, as Instagram comment threads light up with pro and anti beach-ball posts.