Soloist Garbage Shirley Manson - about rebellion, Bond and Russia. Groups Green Day Garbage Music Works

5-12-2011

At the origins of the American alternative team Garbage. There were three very experienced musicians and producer - Guitarists Duk Ericsson and Steve Marker, as well as the Batch Batch Drummer, famous for the album producer Nevermind. . From about the mid-80s. All three somehow cooperated in different teams, while in the early 90s. They did not decide to collect their full-fledged team. The name Garbage (garbage, garbage - English) came after one caustic comment to their joint creativity. Starting the search for vocalist, the musicians soon came to the conclusion that the microphone should have a girl. Randomly marker saw on TV clip group Angelfish., whose vocalist was someone Shirley Manson.

All four musicians met on the day of death from Nirvana. - April 8, 1994. Tight cooperation, however, had to postpone on then due to the fact that Angelfish. At that time were in the tour. Yes, and the first listening to Manson left much to be desired, but the musicians had a sympathy and, as it turned out, had a lot of common interests. At the end of the tour Angelfish. We broke up, and the vocalist itself contacted the Garbage manager and asked for a new audition. Despite the fact that the process and this time went not as necessary, Manson took the position of vocalist. From this point on, the group began recording the demo film, trying to move away from the sound in style "", in which the musicians worked before.

In the same 1994, the group took the Mushroom UK under his wing. The first release of Garbage became the song "VOW", published on the music collection from the VOLUME magazine - at that time it was the only fully finished song. Oddly enough, "VOW" had a good success - the track immediately praised various radio stations. Since the rights to the song belonged to the magazine, a limited series of singles with "VOW" was released by the Garbage's own label. The musicians continued to engage in the preparation of the album.

The debut-eyed album was released in August 1995 and settled at the very end of the American hit parade Billboard 200 - in the UK and Australia, the disk took the best places. The group immediately went to the tour and received the Brit Awards nomination as the best new foreign executive. The entire next year the musicians spent on tour in support of their firstborn. Singles " Only Happy WHEN IT Rains», « Milk."And" Stupid Girl»Went to good position in the charts. Procedured together with the musician Tricks Single "Milk" entered the HOT British Tent. Garbage played a song at the presentation of European MTV musical awards and even received a reward as a breakthrough of the year. Remix songs "# 1 crush" sounded in the film " Romeo and Juliet", And also received in 1997 a nomination for Kinonagrad MTV. In the same year, the group received three nominations on Grammy.

Almost a year - until mid-February 1998 - went to the preparation of the second album. The group actually tried to surpass himself, which in principle it was possible. The Version 2.0 album was published in May and immediately headed the British hit parade (in the US, it was possible to take only the 13th line in the US). Singles " Push IT.», « Special"And" I Think I'm Paralanoid"They also enjoyed great popularity on the other side of the ocean, and the latter entered the soundtrack to Gran Turismo 2 video games and Rock Band. The group from May 1998 and until the end of 1999 was on tour. In October, Garbage received three nominations for European MTV musical awards, and in early 1999, at the beginning of 1999, two nominations for Grammy for Version 2.0 - True, not once again received a single figurine. Sales in the meantime exceeded 1 million disks, for which the musicians received an award of the International Revocation Federation. Single " WHEN I GROW UP"He sounded in the film" Big Dad "and became the most successful single group in Australia. Further, the cooperation was followed, which made the group even better known - the single was released in October The World Isn't Enough"Recorded together with the composer David Arnold and the Orchestra specifically for the next series of bondian" the whole world is not enough. " Single entered the hot tens of many European countries. At the end of the tour, the musicians took a vacation.

The group reunited in the spring of 2001. It was planned to release a bi-sidel collection, but the plans were not destined to come true, since the American distributor of Garbage Almo Records was sold to UMG. The group decided to leave the label, however the UMG were against it, and the case ended with the court, who put on the side of the musicians, whose new home was INTERSCOPE. The album was recorded in the summer, and the first single became "AndroGyny". However, the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 distracted the interest of the nation from music, and the promotion album of the stall. Album itself Beautiful Garbage. It was released in October and still was able to take a good position in the charts, and sales for the first three months amounted to 1,200 copies. Garbage toured a lot on the North (heated from U2.) and Central America, Europe, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. However, the tour was somewhat silent by the diseases of the musicians. Part of the concerts was canceled due to problems with the voice of Manson, and in Europe a group went with Matt Chamberlain for the drums - Vig first fell ill with hepatitis A, and then he was struck by Bella Paralysis. Single " Breaking Up the Girl"He sounded in the episode of the series" Daria ", and" Cherry Lips."He became a hit number 1 in Australia.

After a long holiday, in March 2003, Garbage again gathered to work on their fourth disk, but the work was not glue due to the fact that Manson had to pass the operation on bundles, as well as because of the complicated relations inside the team. As a result, the musicians were drove in different cities and countries. However, after the pre-New Year meeting with the fans of Vig, by the time the cross already put on the garbage, he decided that he hurried with the conclusions. In January, the group gave the first performance, and then went to the studio, where a new material was recorded until December. The Bleed Like Me Album was released in April 2005 and took a good position in the charts on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. Next, Garbage went again to a tour, which, however, quickly ended - the last performance was the concert in Australia on October 1. The reason for the official statement was the general fatigue of musicians and from tour, and from each other. The participants of the group officially declared that the group went into a permanent vacation, and after that everyone engaged in his business. Manson began to work on a still not released solo album, along the way, participating in different projects, Vig again took up with producing, Ericsson collaborated with BBC and worked on the anthology of American folk music, and the marker began to compose music for movies.

The next reunion of Garbage occurred in January 2007, when the group performed at a charitable concert for the Wall Ingram musician, who had a throat cancer. Next, the group recorded the song " TELL ME WHERE IT HURTS", Which became a single from Absolute Garbage published in July. Vig stated that garbage planned to start work on the fifth album in 2008, but soon silence came again.

In early 2010, Vig received a Grammy statuette as a producer of the best rock album, which was the disc 21-St Century Breakdown

Sometimes they say that the Garbage group has existed since 1994. All its participants are far from the amateurs: Butch Vig - produced discs of groups such as Nirvana (NEvermind album, and the group as a whole, Voice Shirley, works not only for compensation of often missing or non-predominant solo guitar parties, but enriches and enriches No seemingly good sound. And about the effects do not speak at all. Specialists in the field of recording and remixes who worked with such various directions like Eurotechno Depeche Mode and rock U2, can work with samples no worse the Prodigy. Good balanced Music that works for mood.

Critics began to call the style of a group post-grand, Gothic pop and even an alternative. Although as soon as they are not classified. On the Internet, and not only, you can meet their songs in the sections of the Soljanka team of alternative music, and rock different degrees of freedom, and even a trash. The musicians themselves in this period determine their music as a cross between Curve, Nine Inch Nails and Eurythmics with a clear predominance of Roxy Music.

Songs from their first album may seem gloomy, if not listening to words, and if you listen - cruel and too honest. How someone said: "The music of the group absorbed the 90s and does not need the selection of epithets."

A few songs from the first album were removed video clips, later combined into a single video released on VHS and, of course, called "Garbage". In this half-hour film, by the way, not only the original versions of songs, but also interruptions from remixes participated. It is not easy to get this masterpiece.

In early 1997, Garbage sat down in the studio to record the second album. "We will simply hang around in the studio and write to the film what will come to mind," said Steve Marker. From day to day, the new Garbage album, named "Version 2.0". The marker described the future LP as more "black and dance than the first. "It will be something like" AS Heaven Is Wide ". One of the songs we dedicated to our idol - singer Krissy Heynd from The Pretenders, "he said.

As it turned out later, a couple of years spent on recording is not the biggest waiting period for numerous fans. During the recording of the second studio album, the group came up with a non-standard, as it is customary to speak now, marketing stroke. Shirley Manson began to lead her online diary, or, as they say now, blog. From this diary, the group fans learned the news about the recorded tracks as the "first-hand". Numerous music editions reprinted chirns diary slices than heated and without that high interest in the group. So it continued until the careless criticism of the new Radiohead album did not cause mass displeasure and almost led to lawsuits. After that, the group changed the rules and banned replicate and quote diaries without written permission.

In principle, "Version 2.0" repeats the recipe for the first album: the rock group writes excellent pop songs, makes their sound more modern with the help of samples and all sorts of electronics. Shirley celebrated: "Everything on the album about me, about my life. He is more personal than the first. " The album failed to lovers of high-quality sound and rose to the first place in the national and indie charts of Britain (and up to 13 - at home in the USA). Boutch Vig characterized the music of the group at the stage as follows: "Higher Nine Inch Nails, Grup than hip-hop, more guitars than MY Bloody Valentine." The songs "Push IT" (first single from the album), "WHEN I GROW UP", "I THINK IM PARANOID" and "YOU LOOK SO FINE" are specially popular.

There was quite a long time until the group announced the start of work on its third plate. Even after that, the work was not very glued. "The boys sticking out at the bar," recalls Shirley Manson, "and I, conveniently sitting on some corner, sat, looked at the old blanket, and stupidly stared at the TV." The confusion and confusion of musicians can be explained: despite the abundance of ideas and a clear desire to work, they then did not fully understand, in which direction to develop them. The musicians decided to work with Pop-style music. "We have always been fans of this course," says Shirley. - Partly it was manifested in "Version 2.0", but then we were still under pressure of guitar fashion. Just do not hurry with the conclusions - in the concept of "pop" we invest our meaning! "

Not as an example of its rather conceptual predecessors, "Beautiful Garbage" is a provocative mixture of Eschik R & B ("AndroGyny"), stylized folka ("So Like a Rose"), more or less familiar rock drive ("Silence Is Golden ", SHUT Your Mouth), a frank parody (" CAN't Cry These Tears ") and a brilliant tango (" Untouchable "). "We came to that - smiling silently, says Batch Vig, - that we are not afraid to try and move away from the usual sound - not only the thing is necessary, but also interesting. All except Shirley, in one degree or another producers, therefore the process of the cognition of the new passed quite harmoniously. " Musicians really had a lot of time to afford everything, because the work on Beautiful Garbage lasted 14 months.

The album was followed by an exhausting world tour, in the process of which the Shirley began problems with the voice, following the diagnosis, nervous and physical exhaustion. After the end of the tour, the group fell out of trouble - health problems began at Butch Viga, family troubles were pursuing the breadth, who had a heavy operation on bundles. Duke Erikson died father, and Steve Marker lost his mother ... When they met, they could talk about anything, only not about work and not about the studio. "I remember, as we sat down opposite each other and silent," recalls Shirley Manson. - Because they did not know at all, will it work further together. If so, then work on new songs will be very heavy. If not ... I do not know. Looks like I didn't feel anything at all. "

After the first, not very successful attempt to go to the studio, Garbage participants took a long time out. The next time they found themselves in the studio by the will of the case - in the building of their Smart Studios in one beautiful morning, a tenhth truck entered. After repair, the guys gradually joined in the process of recording the album.

In Russia, the album was released on April 11, 2005. According to the musicians "On the new album, we first tried to get away from thoughts:" Let's see how our ideas will lead to us. " We did not experiment, did not try to surprise anyone specifically, but simply composed songs. Therefore, the music on the album will be closer to the "Version 2.0" disk, and the character of the songs is sexually aggressive. " Garbage, famous for the fact that they always cope with the recording of their albums themselves, invited musicians to the studio from the outside. The first recruit was John King from Dust Brothers. Shirley admits that it was with the advent of this man that she finally "calmed down and realized that the album would be brought to the end." After they were joined by Dave Groz from Foo Fighters, and recorded the strike of the drums in the Bad Boyfriend's opening album.

The new album of the Garbage group demonstrates high figures in charts. He not only became the most quickly soldered album of the group, but also showed the best results in charts compared to previous releases.

In the top 100 magazine Billboard, he debuted in fourth place, at the fourth place it is located in the American Charter - so highly from the first attempt to the musicians has never managed to climb.

In 2010, the Group entered the top rotation on the radio alternative community Freakoff.net and received high user ratings.

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Bright, bold, red-haired! The soloist of the Garbage Group Shirley Manson is a real symbol of the Bunctric 90s. She was always Ortre in the tongue, devilish charismatic and infinitely assertive. It remains the same breadth and now. And thank God: Maybe it is the purposefulness of this fragile person that Garbage was helped to enter the list of top rock bands of the world and record The World Is Not Enough ("and the whole world of little") for the 19th film about James Bond.

On November 11, in the Moscow Crocus City Hall, Garbage headed by Shirley Manson will celebrate the 20th anniversary of his first album. Shortly before the show, we called the singer in Los Angeles and found out why feminism needs, why not be afraid of the numbers in the passport and the Russia looks like Scotland.

Shirley Manson

About age

"I will not lie: look like your body gives the position, disgusting. There is nothing good in this. But, on the other hand, the fact of what I became older, perfectly influenced my consciousness. I became stronger. I feel happier. And I am glad that ahead is still a lot of all new things that I can and want to know. It is exciting.

I like the approach of some African tribes and indigenous Americans who belong to the elders and listen to them. In my opinion, this makes sense. But in the USA and in my native country, the United Kingdom (Shirley come from Scotland.- Approx. ed.), Culture is not like this: we seem to have long forgotten about the strength of wisdom and experience. We have become superficial. We like everything beautiful, all easy. Do not get me wrong: all this should be admired. But not less than years!

I adore my age. I like the imprint, which time leaves on people. That's life. In an adult man there is something more than some kind of superficiality. Behind the "shell" is a certain essence

In general, I'm not afraid to grow old. I am happy to perceive years. "

Garbage - the embodiment of the Bunlet 90s

About Garbage, Moscow Concert and History in Long 20

"In Moscow, we will play all songs from the Garbage album, which this year marks 20 years. And the songs that we wrote in 1995-1996. So we celebrate the anniversary of the first record!

You know, these 20 years have changed a lot in me. Today I am completely different. But I feel even greater rebar than before. It is even funny.

I am a more noisy, more open, more active than ever before

I, damn, are stronger than before, I want to turn the tables! (Laughs.)

In general, yes, I changed, but my drive, my passion, my principles are all the same. "

Shirley has always been a rebar. And, according to the singer, with age, the rebellious spirit only fastener!

About style

"The way I dress is my self-expression. I can look different every day. It all depends on my mood, from where I'm going to go and what is going to do. I generally have a rather strange taste, to be honest. I would not call yourself stylish. "

About Russia, Scotland and Travel

"It seems to me that Russia is very similar to Scotland. Well, in some points. It is strange: on the one hand, the countries are completely different, and on the other - on the contrary, close to each other.

Russians - here I do, of course, some generalization, but still - the Scots is reminded me. Oh yeah! Loud, passionate, expressive ...

And I terribly like this connection, this similar energy that I feel in Russian culture!

Now I live in the US, but I really miss my homeland. I arrive in Scotland every three months. Seeing friends, with family, penetrate the dim Scottish life. (Laughs.)I miss the rain, on the clouds, in the sky. I constantly need to visit Scotland!

Los Angeles, the city in which I live in America is very different from the city in which I grew up in Scotland. But I love La is a great place in which numerous group of people live with their interests. I like to live in the States.

Interesting thing: I always had such a feeling that I am "my own" in each of the places where I am with people who love

Any place where I turn out - and I travel a lot, - I always find something magical. Everywhere!"

About husband

"It seems to me that every person who comes to your life, somehow affects you. Yes, everyone affects - including enemies. They form you, your character, your self-perception. So, I think, and my husband (Shirley married Billy Bush, Garbage sound engineer.- Approx. ed.) I also changed me - anyway. "

About femininity and rock and roll

"Now there are many beautiful women creating music. Many wonderful - even perhaps just a magnificent pop singers. For example, Beyonce and - they, in my opinion, in general the greatest pop artists who have ever seen the world!

But I miss the rebar.

I would like to hear the real "rebellious spirit" girls - as it was before. Probably, the rebar voice is hard to enter into the context of pop music. Or maybe people are simply not ready today to such pop music

And in the last years, ten "at the helm," it seems that it is pop, which "rules" by the world, plugging underground. Sorry.

Does it seem to me that now in the world just reign "feminine" ideals? Well, I must say, the movement for the rights of women really regresses. In the 1990s, I and all my generation felt that I had a glass of glass. And we really did it. Plus, we were all feminists and discussed it openly. But famous later pop stars from feminism, on the contrary, in every way disengteed from the ideas of equality. Although, in my opinion, anyone - not only the artist - must fight for the rights of others. It is important for people around the world. "

Skirls Garbage Shirley Manson always stood a mansion among his colleagues. While many of them did too much emphasis on visual perception and screaming outfits (now and provoking scandals and often forgetting that music is still dominant in the music project), the bright native of Edinburgh confidently honed his style, almost never getting Under the closer look and a squall of criticism from the Fashion Police. Style Shirley Manson seemed to never know the failures. He was just and there. Inspired by one of the last photoshesis of Shirley for the Billboard magazine, we decided to remember how the images of one of the most vivid rock vocalists of our time had changed over the past twenty years.

Star growing: What influenced the style of Shirley Manson?

Born in 1966 (yes, yes, this year the singer will be fifty years old), Shirley Manson watched the shift of various fashionable eras. In the late 1960s, the Hippie culture was dominated in fashion and the minimalist avant-garde pop art was dominated in the spirit. The Crazy 1970s presented the world of Disco styles, safari and militaries, already in the second half of the decade giving way to punk culture. In the 1980s, the time came when fashion flows, as such, ceased to exist separately from each other. And the same punk fashion became the quintessence of this mixing. Depending on taste and musical preferences, young people actively worked on their unique style, looking for inspiration literally in everything: in the past decades and even centuries, in other cultures, in different currents and types of art. And the style of Shirley Manson became unique thanks to the atmosphere of freedom and rebellion, in which she had ever made up.

Having experienced serious problems with the perception of your own appearance because of the attacks of peers, the owner of a large eye and the luxurious shock of red hair began to spend a lot of time on Edinburgh's streets along with different neformals. The tastes of Shirley largely influenced the post-punk wave with her grave to Gothic and frightly gloomy, as well as the style of favorite performers - Patti Smith, Debbie Harry (about the style of vocalist Blondie can be read), SiouxSie and The Banshees groups, The Pretenders and others. It is thanks to such a wide choice of fashionable landmarks, Shirley Manson learned to skillfully combine femininity and andfinity in his images, emphasize sexuality, while not extinguished.

As a result, already in the early 1980s, even before participating in its first group Goodbye Mr. Mackenzie, Shirley gained fame in musical circles as a stylish person. Often the work for her was the work with a stylist with different musicians. With its height, 170 cm singer managed to become a model in the jackie magazine, as well as the seller in the famous Miss Selfridge store (in the outfits of which the girl often walked around the clubs).

We saw Shirley Manson in the 1990s

Already during the participation in his second group Angelfish (1992-1994), Shirley for interesting sexual images, which later will see the whole world in the clips and at the concerts of the Garbage group. The main element of the wardrobe singers has become a small short dress. Different styles and colors, Shirley dresses most often sent us straight to the 1960s. But! It was worth putting down heavy shoes and a classic black mesh, as the outfit started to be more aggressive, causing and bold. The image of the girl supplemented with a surround laying (during that period, the hairstyle singer varied from a torn bob to long hair below shoulders), as well as catchy make-up using bright monochrome shadows or finished black smoky eyes. Imagine breadth in the 1990s without eyeliner and brightly ruby \u200b\u200blips was almost impossible.

However, in the group's video video, you can find an example of a more relaxing singer's image, such Manson could be seen in the tours. In the video VOW of 1995, Shirley appeared in black jeans and T-shirt, simple black shoes. A bright shaggy rich red fur coat became the image of a bright shaggy fur coat with a red hair color.

Especially spicy and memorable at that time, the image of Shirley in the video I Think I'm Paranoid, where the singer appeared in front of the audience in a short black polka dot dress with open shoulders, which added panties with the same print and heavy black shoes. If you have grown in the 1990s, then remember exactly how sexually this video was.

End of the 1990s - the first half of the 2000s: the other side of Shirley Manson

However, already during the wiring of the second record Version 2.0, the style of Shirley Manson began to undergo its changes. Clips Special, You Look So Fine, and then the followed by the soundtrack for the film about Bond The World Is Not Enough showed us a luxurious Shirley, who is not alien to feminine in its most classic and even stringent manifestations. The images of that period combined the female militaries and evening outfits, referred to military fashion 1930-1940s and aesthetics of sadomasochism. For example, remember the vest with a fur collar in the Aviator style and a leather mini skirt from the Special clip. Or who became the canonical image of Manson from The World Is Not Enough video, where the singer appeared before the public in the Ruby evening dress of strict cut with as sophisticated hairstyle. By the way, the high horse is very wiper.

Fistened in 2001, the Album Beautiful Garbage and the clips that came out with each other in support of the records were accompanied by a sharp change of singer's image. If in the clip andRogyny, we last saw the breadth with the familiar color of the color of the hair, then in the next video, the performer appeared before the public with a bright blonde. She also made a choice in favor of a short boyish haircut with a multitude of torn asymmetric strands. In the style of clothing, however, as in the texts, Manson flies with the theme of Glamor, but, according to the musicians themselves, this period of creativity was filled with irony: it is no coincidence that the name of the album translates as "beautiful garbage". In the dresses of Shirley prevailed an interesting cut, a combination of skin and rigid tissues, as well as shoes on heels.

With the release of the Bleed Like Me plate, the singer returned to the familiar red hair color and systematically demonstrated different sides of his style. For example, in the clip Why Do You Love Me, we saw not only the old style of Shirley Manson (remember the scene, where she dresses in a little black dress on the background of the photograph of Debby Harry), but also could appreciate the twisted jacket with straight out of the 1960s, as well as a variety stockings and a couple of wonderful striped socks. In the city clip Run My Baby Run, shot in the documentary style, Shirley and showed her casual style at all: sneakers, jackets, neck scarves. However, in the video you can see the allegorical image of a girl with long blond hair and in a golden raincoat. Clips BLEED LIKE ME and SEX IS NOT THE ENEMY can be called more fashion-oriented.

There are glamor of the 1970s and animal prints, interesting militaries images. By the way, the work of the garbage of this period has become more socio-politically oriented: Menson often wrote the texts on the exciting themes of equality and hostilities. That is why Military Style and Print "Khaki" most often appeared in the concert wardrobe Shirley.

END 2000s - 2010: Shirley Manson builds glamor at Absolut

After the release in 2007, the collection of the best hits and the new TELL ME WHERE IT HURTS song, the audience saw Shirley Manson in a sophisticated image. To this day, the singer often adheres to a retro style in their outfits. Experimentals with feminine images of pre-war time, for example, as in the clips Blood for Poppies and Big Bright World - flowing dresses and tops, emphasizing the shape, soft curls or interesting high beams. It uses a leopard print, preferring it both on stage and in the clips and in life (by the way, it was he who became the center-forming in the design of the last plate of the Strange Little Birds group).

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