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.