'I Have No Such Intentions': Garbage's Shirley Manson Responds To Solo Career Rumours

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Garbage kicked off their final North American tour last September, and given that they don’t plan to embark on a headline tour of the US again, speculation has arisen towards the band’s future plans. Particularly, frontwoman Shirley Manson’s plans.

Taking to social media, the Only Happy When It Rains singer has cleared up rumours of a potential solo career, saying she has “no such intention” to pursue one.

“Reports of my future plans have been greatly exaggerated,” Manson wrote on social media this morning (3 June). “For those freaking out that I’m turning my back on garbage to pursue a solo career - be assured you can calm yer sook. I have no such intentions.”

She continued, “I merely said, or at least what I meant to say was, if and when garbage comes to its’ logical conclusion for one reason or another, that of course I will continue making music if I am alive and able.

“That’s a given. That’s what musicians do. For life. Until the end.”

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Following the difficult process behind the band’s fourth album, 2005’s Bleed Like Me, Garbage went on hiatus. In 2006, Manson revealed that she had been working on solo music. In 2009, she announced plans to step away from music and focus on acting.

However, in 2010, Garbage reformed and began working on a fifth album, Not Your Kind of People, which was subsequently released in 2012.

Garbage has remained active, released music and toured ever since. The band’s eighth album, Let All That We Imagine Be the Light, was released in May 2025.

The band, consisting of original members Shirley Manson, Duke Erikson, Steve Marker, and Butch Vig, recorded the album at the Los Angeles studio Red Razor Sounds, Vig’s Grunge Is Dead, and Manson’s bedroom. It was produced by the band and longtime engineer Billy Bush.

Manson said about the album, “This record is about what it means to be alive, and about what it means to face your imminent destruction. It’s hopeful. It’s very tender towards what it means to be a human being. Our flaws and our failures are still beautiful, even though we’re taught that they’re not. This is a tender, thrilling record about the fragility of life.”

In December, Garbage returned to Australia, where they performed at Good Things Festival and played a bunch of sideshows. The tour marked their first shows in Australia in nine years.