Garbage made their long-awaited return to Australia this week, playing shows Down Under for the first time since 2016—including high billing at this year’s Good Things Festival.

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Touring in support of their latest album, Let All That We Imagine Be The Light, the rockers played a few new songs along with classics like Stupid Girl, When I Grow Up, Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go!), and Only Happy When It Rains at Good Things Festival in Melbourne yesterday (5 December).

And while they impressed with their set, Garbage singer Shirley Manson also made headlines for expressing her distaste towards beach balls being thrown during bands’ sets, describing the act as disrespectful. She said:

Big guy with your big fuckin' beach ball! Oooooh, I'm sooo scared of you, so thrilled by you! What a fuckin' douchebag!... Fuckin' dudes, wow. Oh my god, you're so cool. It's just so fuckin' outrageously cool, I can't get over it, wow. It's disrespectful. And musicians have had enough. And we're fed up of not getting fuckin' paid properly and fed up of having to play for douchebags like you.

You're a fuckin' middle-aged man in a fuckin' ridiculous hat, and you're a fuckin' fuckface. And I want, literally, to ask people to fuckin' punch you in the fuckin' face. But you know what? I'm a lady, so I won't. But truly, I would love to send my crew over to fuckin' mess you up. But you know what? I won't because I pity you because you're a small man with a smalllll dick. Goodnight, angelface.

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Following their Good Things set, Manson backed her on-stage beach balls rant and also elaborated on her general dislike of beaches. She wrote on Threads:

I make NO APOLOGIES whatsoever for getting annoyed at beachballs at shows. I joined a band because I HATED THE FUCKING BEACH. I joined a band because I wanted to listen to Siouxsie and the Banshees and The Cure and be dark and beautiful.

Continue listening to Spotify and toss your stupid beach balls around like you are ten years old. I love the musical community and I want to respect their artistry. I am so tired of folks taking music for free and treating us all like circus performers.

You can watch footage from Garbage’s Good Things set yesterday below.

Garbage continue their Australian shows with performances at Good Things Festival in Sydney today (6 December) and Brisbane tomorrow (7 December). They’ll then play a run of sideshows in Melbourne, Adelaide, and Sydney—tickets are sold out.

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