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(Credits: Far Out \/ Garbage)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Garbage<\/a> have opened up to fans about the pressure and reality of touring in 2025, and have explained why their current headline tour is their final one.<\/p>\n

On September 17th, the American rock band played The Anthem in Washington DC, where they decided to discuss the reality of being a touring musician with the crowd.<\/p>\n

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Frontwoman Shirley Manson addressed the crowd and began, \u201cWe have as a band decided that, due to basically the economics of the music industry, that we have to curtail our headline touring business. It has, thanks to the thievery of the record industry, made touring very, very difficult.\u201d<\/p>\n

She quickly added, \u201cWe\u2019re not complaining, we\u2019ve had a fucking great run. I bring this up only because my concern is of course for young musicians who go out there and tour, they\u2019re holding down jobs, they take two weeks off their work and they go around the country. Sometimes they\u2019re sleeping in their van, sometimes they\u2019re staying in really, really dodgy so-called motels and it\u2019s dangerous and it\u2019s really unacceptable and it really has to stop. Whatever\u2019s going on, it really has to stop. It\u2019s unsafe and it\u2019s unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Manson continued, \u201cSo we have just decided that the economics have become untenable, so this is kind of the last time that we\u2019ve decided we\u2019re going to get on a bus and just tour all over North America. It\u2019s a fantastic privilege and it\u2019s so beautiful and exciting and amazing. And all the more so because I doubt that we\u2019ll do a tour this size ever again.\u201d<\/p>\n

After highlighting that Garbage feel \u201cimmensely privileged\u201d due to \u201cunbelievable support\u201d from their fans, Manson admitted, \u201cAt times in the music industry, they\u2019ve told us we\u2019re old, we\u2019re over, nobody\u2019s interested, nobody gives a fuck, nobody wants to play us on radio, nobody wants to interview us. And then you lot came along. You were like, \u2018get behind us, Satan\u2019. And we won\u2019t forget it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The band raised their drinks to the crowd while lamenting, \u201cWe don\u2019t know if we\u2019ll ever see you again, maybe we will, maybe we won\u2019t. But we all want you to be healthy and happy. Stay kind, stay adventurous, stay curious, ask lots and lots of questions, surround yourself with beautiful animals and natural and really, really good people. And if they\u2019re shitty people, get rid of them. If they\u2019re great people, here\u2019s to you.\u201d<\/p>\n

They reiterated the sentiment on Instagram, where they added, \u201cWe are going out in style and we hope you will join us. That\u2019s life my friends. Nothing stays the same forever. Everything must change. All beautiful things come to an end.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a recent review of their 2025 full-length release, Far Out <\/em>praised the band, writing, \u201cBut then there\u2019s the light, and\u00a0Garbage coast this line<\/a>\u00a0with such finesse and charm that it becomes impossible not to look within and ask ourselves whether we\u2019ve given up or if we\u2019ve just entered the beginning of our own personal fight. While we try to figure it out, though, we\u2019ve always got fist-pumping anthems and words of wisdom to push us along.\u201d<\/p>\n

For now, the \u2018I Think I\u2019m Paranoid\u2019 musicians have plenty more tour stops to go. They continue on September 21st at New Haven, Connecticut.<\/p>\n

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