Shirley Manson
Shirley Ann Manson (born 26 August 1966) is a Scottish musician and actress. She is best known as the lead singer of the American alternative rock band Garbage. Manson gained media attention for her forthright style, rebellious attitude, and distinctive voice.[1][2][3][4][5] For the majority of her career, Manson commuted between her home city of Edinburgh and the U.S. to record with Garbage, which originally formed in Madison, Wisconsin; she now lives and works primarily in Los Angeles, while maintaining a second home in Edinburgh.[6]
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Manson's musical career began in her teens when she was approached to perform backing vocals and keyboards for the band Goodbye Mr Mackenzie. She developed a formidable stage presence, and was later approached by the band's record label with the idea of launching her as a solo artist. She recorded an album with her band under the name Angelfish. After seeing Manson in an Angelfish music video broadcast only once on MTV's 120 Minutes, Garbage invited her to audition, and she eventually joined the band. In 1995, Garbage released their self-titled debut album, a critical and commercial success. The band have released seven studio albums, including the multiple Grammy Award-nominated Version 2.0 and a greatest hits album.[5] Garbage have toured worldwide and sold over 17 million records as of 2017.[7]
In 2006, Manson began to write and record solo material after Garbage went on hiatus. In 2008, she played a liquid metal T-1001 Terminator named Catherine Weaver in the second season of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. She returned to the recording studio in 2010 to write and produce material for Garbage's fifth studio album, Not Your Kind of People, released in 2012.[8] The band followed up with Strange Little Birds in 2016 and No Gods No Masters in 2021.
Early life
Shirley Ann Manson was born in Edinburgh on 26 August 1966, the daughter of Muriel Flora (née MacKay) and John Mitchell Manson.[5] Her father, a descendant from the fishing community of Northmavine, was a university lecturer, while her mother was a big band singer who had been adopted by a Lothian-based family at an early age and took on the family name MacDonald.[5] Manson was named after an aunt, who was herself named after Charlotte Brontë's novel Shirley.[9][10] She has two sisters: Lindy-Jayne, who is two years older than her and Sarah, who is two years younger than her.[11] They were brought up in the Comely Bank and Stockbridge areas of Edinburgh.[12] She attended Broughton High School and her childhood education was informed by the Church of Scotland (her father was her Sunday School teacher) until age 12.[13]
Manson's first public performance was in 1970, at age four, with her older sister in an amateur show held at the local Church Hill Theatre.[5] Enrolled at Flora Stevenson Primary School, she received instruction in recorder, clarinet, and fiddle, and learned ballet and piano from extramural classes at age seven. Manson was a member of Girlguiding UK throughout this period of her youth as a Brownie and a Girl Guide.[14] She attended the City of Edinburgh Music School, the music department of Broughton High School.[11] While at Broughton, she became an active member of its drama group, performing in amateur dramatic and musical performances such as The American Dream and The Wizard of Oz, while also singing with the Waverley Singers, a local girl choir.[5] A 1981 Edinburgh Festival Fringe production of Maurice the Minotaur, in which Manson played a prophet, was awarded a Fringe First award by The Scotsman newspaper.[5]
While she enjoyed primary school, Manson was bullied while in her first year at secondary school, causing her to suffer from depression and body dysmorphic disorder[15] and engage in self-injury: she carried sharp objects in the laces of her boots and would cut herself when she felt low self-esteem, stress, or anxiety.[16] The bullying stopped when Manson associated herself with a rebel crowd, which resulted in her rebelling herself. She was absent for most of her final year at school[12] and began smoking cannabis, sniffing glue, drinking alcohol, shoplifting, and on one occasion breaking into Edinburgh Zoo.[17] Manson had teenage ambitions to become an actress, but was rejected by the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (RSAMD).[18][19] Her first job was volunteer work in a local hospital's cafeteria, then as a breakfast waitress at a local hotel, before spending five years as a shop assistant for Miss Selfridge.[17] She started on the shop's makeup counters, but was eventually moved into stockrooms because of her attitude toward customers. She became well known throughout Edinburgh's clubbing scene; making use of free samples from Miss Selfridge, she styled hair for a number of local bands.[20] She also briefly modelled clothing for Jackie magazine.[21]
Career
Goodbye Mr Mackenzie
Manson's first musical experiences came from briefly singing with local Edinburgh acts The Wild Indians and performed backing vocals with Autumn 1904.[22] While she was performing with her group, Manson was approached by Goodbye Mr Mackenzie's lead Martin Metcalfe to join his band. Manson was in a relationship with Metcalfe initially, but remained working with the band after splitting from him and became a prominent member, performing keyboards, backing vocals and becoming involved in the band's business side.[23] Manson's first release with the Mackenzies was a YTS release of "Death of a Salesman" in 1984.[20] The group signed a major-label record deal with Capitol Records in 1987, and they released their first album Good Deeds and Dirty Rags, and their only UK top 40 entry "The Rattler". In 1990, the group's contract was transferred to Parlophone, another EMI label, but after two singles failed to chart Parlophone declined to release the group's second album Hammer and Tongs.[24]
Gary Kurfirst, who managed Talking Heads and Debbie Harry, bought the Mackenzies contract and issued their second album through his own label Radioactive Records, a subsidiary of MCA Records. After another single failed to chart, the group were persuaded to leave Radioactive by their management.[24] The Mackenzies continued to write material; Manson was also given the opportunity to record lead vocals on a number of tracks planned for the band's third album.[25] Although MCA had no desire to further their commitments to Goodbye Mr. Mackenzie, the label expressed interest in recording an album with Manson, and after hearing several demos, Kurfirst signed Manson to Radioactive as a solo artist, with the remaining Mackenzies performing as her backing band to circumvent the band's existing deal with MCA.[5][24] Manson's contract obliged her to deliver at least one album and, at the sole option of Radioactive, up to six additional albums.[26]
Angelfish
Recording under the name Angelfish, and using some of the newly written material and a previously released Mackenzie b-side, Manson and the group recorded the tracks that would make up the Angelfish album in Connecticut with Talking Heads' Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth.[5][24] A lead in track "Suffocate Me" was sent to college radio where it was well received.[20] Angelfish and second single "Heartbreak to Hate" followed in 1994.[20] Angelfish toured Belgium, Canada, France, and the U.S. The band co-supported Live on a tour of North America, along with Vic Chestnutt. The music video for "Suffocate Me" was aired once on MTV's 120 Minutes. Producer and musician Steve Marker caught the broadcast and thought Manson would be a great singer for his band, Garbage, which also featured producers Duke Erikson and Butch Vig.[27]
Garbage
Vig invited Manson to Smart Studios to sing on a couple of tracks. After an unsuccessful audition, she returned to Angelfish.[27] Manson admitted she felt intimidated showcasing herself to Vig, who produced bands she admired such as Nirvana, Sonic Youth, and The Smashing Pumpkins, and Vig added that the audition's disorganized nature along with the Americans not understanding Manson's Scottish accent caused communication problems.[28] At the end of the Live tour, Angelfish imploded and Manson returned to Smart for a second try. She began to work on the then-skeletal origins of some songs and the band invited her to become a full-time member and finish the album; she co-wrote and co-produced the entire album with the rest of the band.[26][27] In August 1994, Radioactive gave their permission for Manson to work with Garbage.[26] The band's debut album Garbage was released in August 1995, and went on to sell over 4 million copies, buoyed by a run of high charting singles including "Only Happy When It Rains" and "Stupid Girl." Manson quickly became the public face of the band over the course of a tour that took the band through to the end of 1996. Echo & the Bunnymen had asked Manson to sing on their 1997 comeback album.[23]
Manson became the band's chief songwriter for the follow-up record Version 2.0 which equalled the success of the band's debut record after its May 1998 release. During the two-year tour in support of the record, Manson modelled for Calvin Klein. Manson lived in hotels throughout the recording periods of the debut and Version 2.0.[23] The group recorded the theme song to the James Bond movie The World Is Not Enough, and Manson became the third Scotswoman to sing a Bond theme after Lulu and Sheena Easton. In the accompanying video, she portrays an android assassin. For the recording of Garbage's third record throughout 2000, Manson became one of the first high-profile artists to write a blog online, while she decided to improve her guitar playing for the band's next tour.[29] Their third album, Beautiful Garbage, featured Manson's most forward and personal lyrics to date. The album did not sell as well as its predecessors, but Garbage performed a successful world tour in support of it. During a concert at the Roskilde Festival, Manson's voice gave out. She afterwards discovered a vocal fold cyst, and had to undergo corrective surgery.[30]
Manson's lyrics became more overtly political for Garbage's fourth record, 2005's Bleed Like Me, which after the surprise success of lead-in single "Why Do You Love Me", posted some of the band's highest chart positions upon release. Garbage began an extended hiatus in October 2005. During this period, in 2007, Garbage reformed to perform a short set at a benefit show to raise cash to pay for Wally Ingram's medical treatment,[31][32] shared song ideas via the internet,[33] recorded new material, and filmed a music video[34] to promote the band's Absolute Garbage greatest hits compilation.[35] Garbage returned to the studio in 2010 to write and record material for a fifth album,[8] entitled Not Your Kind of People and subsequently released in May 2012, thus ending the band's seven-year hiatus from recording.
In 2021, Garbage supported Alanis Morissette's 2020 World Tour: Celebrating 25 Years of Jagged Little Pill, which had been postponed due to COVID-19. At several performances, Manson wore a variation on "Garden Witch Overalls", popularised by feminist poet Kate Baer through her interview on the podcast Gee Thanks, Just Bought It, hosted by Caroline Moss.[36][37] Manson paired the overalls with knee-high boots and assorted t-shirts.
Garbage's alternative musical style fuses various genres including electronic rock,[38] industrial rock, punk, grunge, trip hop and shoegaze.[39][40]
Solo work and unreleased album
"I had taken some of my solo music into the record label. They didn't really care for the direction I was moving in and I found it really disheartening. They wanted a pop hit, which I understand in terms of making money. I get that. But what they were going to ask of me was something I wasn't prepared to deliver and I felt kind of trapped. I just stopped writing. I just stopped. It was stifling".
—Shirley Manson[41]
Manson confirmed in March 2006 that she had begun work on a solo album, working with musician Paul Buchanan,[38] producer Greg Kurstin,[42] and film composer David Arnold,[43] stating that she had "no timetable" for completing the project.[43] In 2007, Manson collaborated with Rivers Cuomo of Weezer.[44] Manson presented some of her work to Geffen Records in 2008, who found it "too noir", prompting Manson and Geffen to terminate her contract by mutual agreement.[41] Manson later elaborated, "[Geffen] wanted me to have international radio hits and 'be the Annie Lennox of my generation'. I kid you not; I am quoting directly."[45] "I made a quiet, very dark, non-radio-friendly record," she recalled. "I'm not interested in writing nursery rhymes for the masses."[46]
Manson continued to write material while without a record deal and had been in talks with David Byrne and Ray Davies about a potential collaboration.[6] In 2009, Manson posted three demos on her Facebook profile, written by her and Kurstin, titled "In the Snow",[42] "Pretty Horses"[47] and "Lighten Up".[48] "Pretty Horses" was later featured in the pilot episode of the show Conviction. 14 additional songs co-written with Kurstin and registered on copyright and performance rights societies included Don't Want To Pretend, Don't Want Anyone Hurt, Gone Upside, Hot Shit, Kid Ourselves, Little Dough, Pure Genius, Sweet Old World, Spooky, So Shines A Good Deed, The Desert, No Regrets, Stop, To Be King.[49]
In 2009, Manson announced she was stepping away from music, saying she got sick of the music industry's new practices and had found more excitement in acting.[50] Manson said she thought about abandoning the music business in 2008, when her mother developed dementia, and later died, saying that "I didn't want to make music, didn't feel creative. I could barely function."[51] Later that year she reconsidered her words and went back into performing after being asked by friends to sing David Bowie's "Life on Mars?" at their son's memorial. According to Manson, "we were all in so much pain, but it meant so much to them that I could sing that song and so much to me that I was able to do something. It made me realise how much music sustains people. I don't know why I'd turned my back on it."[51]
Manson also worked with a number of artists outside of her solo project, reciting a verse of a long poem for a Chris Connelly album,[52] co-writing and recording a duet with Eric Avery for his solo debut[53] recording with Debbie Harry.[54] Although not recording material with them, Manson also performed on-stage with The Pretenders, Iggy Pop, Incubus and Kings of Leon in Atlantic City,[55] with Gwen Stefani[56] and twice with No Doubt[57] in Universal City. Manson also performed in an uncredited role as a dominatrix in the music video for She Wants Revenge's single "These Things".[58] Most recently Manson performed vocals on a track written by Serj Tankian entitled "The Hunger", a single from the rock musical Prometheus Bound.[59]
In January 2012, Manson confirmed that work on her solo album had been cancelled, stating the album "[is] dead and buried. We had the funeral. It was sad and I cried a lot but it made such a beautiful corpse that we had an open casket."[60]
Artistry
Voice
"We wanted to work with a female vocalist who didn't have a high, chirpy, quality to her voice, we had discussed who we really respect, and names like Patti Smith and Chrissie Hynde came up. And Shirley had some of the same depth."
—Steve Marker discussing Manson's voice in an interview with the Los Angeles Times.[61]
Manson possesses a contralto vocal range,[62][63] which has been noted for its distinctive qualities as well as her emotive delivery. Elysa Gardner of the Los Angeles Times stated "one of Garbage's most compelling features is a force of nature: Manson's vocals, which can convey a multitude of emotions without ever coming across as melodramatic".[3][61]
"We wanted someone who could sing in an understated way, at the moment, a lot of these alterna-rock singers have a tendency to scream. Shirley is just the opposite. By using understatement, she can sound even more subversive."
—Butch Vig describing Manson's voice in the Los Angeles Times interview.[61]
Reviewing a live Garbage performance, Jon Pareles of The New York Times commented, "Temptress, lover, sufferer, scrapper – those have been Ms. Manson's personae since Garbage started in 1995. In other eras she might have been a pop torch singer, a soul belter or a new-wave frontwoman: a Shirley Bassey, a Dusty Springfield, or a Chrissie Hynde. There's a little of each of them in her voice" also stating "In the course of each song she let her voice rise in anger, contempt or passion".[64] Green Left Weekly, in a review of Garbage, remarked that Manson "vocalist and guitarist, has a powerful voice, which soars and dips like a bird. It can plead or demand. It can sound dreamy or psychotic."[65] Reviewing a 2012 live Garbage performance, Catherine Gee of The Daily Telegraph noted that Manson "remains a striking performer whose distinctive contralto snarl can still raise the hairs on the back of your neck."[66] In a review of Garbage, Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic described Manson's voice as "thin and airy",[67] whilst Mike Diver of the BBC stated Manson owned "a snarl in her voice but [was] equally capable of a purr to melt away any resistance." also adding "even at her most vulnerable, Manson maintains her controlling condition".[68]
Influences and impact
Manson's earliest musical memories were of her mother, who sang with a big band when Manson was a child. Manson was exposed to classic jazz records as she grew up and work by Nina Simone, Cher, Peggy Lee and Ella Fitzgerald.[69] At 14,[70] she became a fan of Siouxsie and the Banshees albums The Scream[71] and Kaleidoscope, and taught herself how to sing listening to those albums, later stating "many of the songs of those two albums were massive loves of my life".[72] Vocalist Siouxsie Sioux embodied how Manson aspired to be as a teen,[69] and "has remained a touchstone for me throughout my career and is still inspiring to me."[73]
At nineteen, Manson discovered Patti Smith, specifically her Horses album, which made a "strong impact" on her.[74] Manson was inspired to learn guitar by Chrissie Hynde, who is an admirer of Manson,[75] while also appreciating the style of Toyah Willcox[76][77] and Debbie Harry,[69] whose 2006 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction speech was delivered by Manson.[78] The majority of Manson's influences were female musicians; however she also notes David Bowie as an inspiring male musician.[69] Manson also grew up listening to Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Frank Sinatra,[9] The Clash, The Sugarcubes,[79] Cocteau Twins,[79][80] Iggy and the Stooges,[81] Echo & the Bunnymen,[82] and The Velvet Underground.[12]
Manson's lyrics deal with darker themes, often in a mocking manner. She credits that to her Scottish psyche that leads to a preference for depressing themes, and the fact she always felt like an outsider, even within Garbage – "I'm the odd one out by default. I'm the only girl, I'm younger than they are, they've all known each other for 40 years, or something crazy like that. So I always felt, like, off the centre of things."[28][83]
Manson has been credited with inspiring later female artists; including Amy Lee,[84] Florence Welch,[85][86] Taylor Momsen,[87] Liz Anjos of RAC and The Pragmatic,[88] Screaming Females' Marissa Paternoster,[89][90] Dee Dee Penny of Dum Dum Girls,[91] Skylar Grey,[92][93] Paramore's Hayley Williams,[94] Ritzy Bryan (lead singer and guitarist of The Joy Formidable),[95] Katy Perry, Lady Gaga,[96] Potty Mouth's Ally Einbinder,[90] Billie Eilish,[97][98] Peaches,[99] Radiator Hospital's Cynthia Schemmer,[90] The Great Wilderness' Paola Rogue,[100] Marina and the Diamonds,[101] and Lana Del Rey.[101][102] Manson is also considered a style icon, influencing various other female artists,[110] and inspiring fashion designers and stylists.[113]
Discography
Studio albums
Below is a list of studio albums featuring Manson as a member of Goodbye Mr Mackenzie (1989–1994), Angelfish (1994) and Garbage (1995–present):
- Good Deeds and Dirty Rags (1989)
- Hammer and Tongs (1991)
- Suffocate Me (1993)
- Five (1994)
- Angelfish (1994)
- Garbage (1995)
- Version 2.0 (1998)
- Beautiful Garbage (2001)
- Bleed Like Me (2005)
- Not Your Kind of People (2012)
- Strange Little Birds (2016)
- No Gods No Masters (2021)
Solo work
The first time Manson contributed her vocals to a project separately from any of her bands was in 1998, when she performed vocals for the chorus of a Garbage-produced remix of Fun Lovin' Criminals 1999 single "Korean Bodega".[114] Due to litigation problems surrounding Manson's contractual obligation to Radioactive Records, further collaborations with both Fun Lovin' Criminals[115] and Moby[116] were unable to proceed.
Manson teamed up with Marilyn Manson and Tim Sköld in 2004 to record a cover version of the Human League's "Don't You Want Me"[117] but both felt the track inappropriate for either acts upcoming albums, and remains unreleased.[41] Later that year, Manson and Brody Dalle contributed backing vocals to a Queens of the Stone Age track.[118] In 2006, Manson planned to record a John Lennon cover version for the Amnesty International Instant Karma charity compilation with bassist Eric Avery,[119] however a scheduling misunderstanding left them short of time and unable to record the song.[120] Manson and Avery eventually co-wrote and recorded "Maybe", a ballad duet for Avery's album Help Wanted.[121]
The following year, Manson worked with long-time friend Chris Connelly, orating part of a long poem on his eighth album Forgiveness and Exile,[122] and worked on a duet with longtime inspiration Debbie Harry[123] which remains uncompleted.[124]
Upon her taking on the role of Catherine Weaver in Terminator... and on the encouragement of series' composer Bear McCreary, Manson was asked by showrunner Josh Friedman to perform and co-create a gospel arrangement of "Samson and Delilah" for the opening episode of the second season.[125] After much interest, the track was released on Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles season one soundtrack at the end of 2008.[126] Three years later Manson recorded vocals to a track composed by Serj Tankian and Steven Sater.[127] The track, "The Hunger", which Sater describes as exploring "the hunger of the heart", features on their rock musical adaptation of Prometheus Bound, and was recreated with fresh instrumentation and new lyrics for the digital release, exclusively through iTunes worldwide. All proceeds made from sales of the single will benefit Amnesty International.[128]
Manson has also given two tracks to Sky Ferreira; the 2012 single "Red Lips" and "I'm on Top" in 2013.
Solo appearances
Year | Song | Artist | Role(s) | Appears on |
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1998 | "Korean Bodega" (Aero Mexicana mix) | Fun Lovin' Criminals | Featured vocals | A's, B's and Rarities (2004)[114] |
2004 | "You Got a Killer Scene There, Man..." | Queens of the Stone Age | Backing vocals | Lullabies to Paralyze (2005)[129] |
2006 | "Maybe" | Eric Avery | Vocals, lyrics | Help Wanted (2008)[53] |
2007 | "The Trouble I'm In" | Gavin Rossdale | Vocals | Wanderlust (2008) |
"Forgiveness and Exile, Pt.3" | Chris Connelly | Orator | Forgiveness and Exile (2008)[52] | |
2008 | "Samson and Delilah" | Bear McCreary | Vocals | Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles OST (2008)[126] |
2010 | "Maneater" | The Bird and the Bee | Backing vocals | Interpreting the Masters Volume 1: A Tribute to Daryl Hall and John Oates (2010)[130] |
2011 | "The Hunger" | Shirley Manson and Serj Tankian | Vocals | Prometheus Bound OST (2011)[131] |
"Dirty Dog" | Shirley Manson | Vocals | It Is What It Is (Vic Chesnutt documentary) | |
2012 | "Dark Hearts & Heart Beats" | Shirley Manson and Gabrial McNair | Performer, co-writer | Dark Hearts soundtrack (2014)[132] |
2014 | "Meet the Foetus/Oh the Joy" | Brody Dalle | Vocals | Diploid Love (2014)[133] |
"Shame, You're All I've Got" | Le Butcherettes featuring Shirley Manson | Vocals | Cry Is For the Flies (2014)[134] | |
2015 | "Brass Muscles" | Craig Wedren featuring Shirley Manson | Vocals | Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp soundtrack (2015) |
2017 | "Queen of the Bored" | Brian Reitzell featuring Shirley Manson | Vocals | American Gods soundtrack (2017)[135] |
2018 | "The Sun" | Pondus | Vocals | The Sun single (2018) |
"Invisible" | HIRS Collective | Spoken word intro | Friends. Lovers. Favorites. album (2018)[136] | |
2020 | "Medicated" | Du Blonde | Backing vocals | Homecoming album (2021), lead single |
2021 | "Alien Inside" | Arca | Guest vocals | KiCk iiii album (2021)[137] |
Sampling
In 2002, electronic group West London Deep sampled Manson's vocal from "You Look So Fine" in their white label track "You're Taking Me Over". Manson refused clearance for the sample and the track was scrapped. By that point the track, and remixes by Inner City, Problem Kids and Desyn Masiello and Leon Roberts had already been circulated.[138] The song was reworked and re-released the following year as "Gonna Make You My Lover", without Manson's vocal.
Other work
Acting
Manson was cast in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles in May 2008,[139] after being asked to appear by series creator Josh Friedman and enduring a multiple audition process, beating out other actresses including Julie Ann Emery.[140] She debuted in the season two premiere episode "Samson and Delilah" as Catherine Weaver, CEO of a technology company, ZeiraCorp. At the conclusion of the episode, Weaver is revealed to be a liquid-metal T-1001 Terminator. Manson also performed and co-arranged a rock and blues version of the gospel song "Samson and Delilah" for the episode's score.[141] Manson cites actress Glenn Close and former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher as her acting influences for the ambiguous character.[142] Manson also played the human Weaver in archive footage viewed by the T-1001 in the episode "The Tower Is Tall, But the Fall Is Short".[143]
In 2009, Manson made her first venture into the video game industry by becoming digitally mapped to create an avatar of herself for the Guitar Hero franchise. In the fifth game in the series, Manson is an unlockable character, while the game also features a licensed Garbage track.[144]
The next year, Manson was one of the final guests to appear on the cult US children's show Pancake Mountain. Featured in a segment titled "Around the World with Shirley Manson",[145] she talked about music from other countries. She filmed five such segments but none aired before creator Scott Stuckey and producer J. J. Abrams canceled the show. One segment, featuring Germany, was eventually released and featured an original theme song sung by Manson and written by Stuckey.[146]
Filmography
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1986 | Monster Beach Party | Debbie Danco | Unfinished project; footage archived[147] |
2008–2009 | Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles | Catherine Weaver (T-1001) | 17 episodes[148] |
2009 | Guitar Hero 5 | Herself | Playable character for Garbage song "Only Happy When It Rains"[144] |
2010 | Pancake Mountain | Herself | Segment: "Around the World with Shirley Manson"[149] |
2012 | Knife Fight | Nicole[150] | |
2017–2018 | Top Wing | Chirp and Cheep (voice role) | 26 episodes |
Charity work
Manson has used Garbage's profile and her own to raise awareness and secure funds for a number of causes.[151] She commissioned a Garbage branded lipgloss online, with all proceeds from the sales split between Grampian Children's Cancer Research and cancer treatment institutions at Royal Aberdeen Children's Hospital in Scotland and the Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital in New York.[10][152]
In 2001, Manson became an ambassador for the M•A•C AIDS Fund, fronting their fourth two-year charity lipstick marketing campaign alongside Elton John and Mary J. Blige, beginning with the launch of the VIVAMAC IV lipstick in March 2002, in which all proceeds of the sale of the lipstick goes to help fund AIDS charities and initiatives.[153] While touring, Manson visited several AIDS charities in Amsterdam, Edinburgh, Toronto, New York, San Francisco and Madison to make several donations totalling over $300,000 on behalf of the M•A•C AIDS Fund.[154]
In 2003, the M•A•C AIDS Fund linked with the Elton John AIDS Foundation to produce the White Bedroom campaign,[153] where both Elton John and Manson recorded PSAs promoting condom use and stating facts on AIDS.[155] By 2007, the combined six VIVAMAC campaigns had raised over $100 million U.S. dollars,[156] and as a former ambassador Manson accepted a cheque for £51,000 on behalf of HIV charity Waverley Care from the M•A•C AIDS Fund on 10 April 2008 at Harvey Nichols Edinburgh store.[157] Manson had become a patron of Waverley Care in October 2002[158] and previously hosted a fund raiser auction to raise funds for the charity in January 2004 which raised £45,000. A Fender guitar owned by Manson raised £1,050, while other items auctioned included contributions sourced by Manson herself, from Elton John and Kylie Minogue.[151]
Manson has also adopted a rescue dog, a terrier-mix named Veela,[10] named after the veelas from the Harry Potter books.[159]
In 2008, Manson became involved with The Pablove Foundation, a charity founded by Dangerbird Records head Jeff Castelaz, whose son Pablo succumbed to cancer the following year. Castelaz, whose family Manson had befriended in the 90s, had asked Manson to sing "Life on Mars?" at their sons' memorial.[160] Funds raised for The Pablove Foundation fund pediatric cancer research and educational and quality of life programming for families dealing with childhood cancer.[161] Manson reformed Garbage to contribute an exclusive track, "Witness to Your Love", to a charity album for the Foundation;[162] signed off a Pablove poster for auction on eBay;[161] Manson also hosted a fundraiser headlined by the Silversun Pickups,[163] and performed acoustically on-stage at a second fundraiser with Butch Vig and Laura Jane Grace (for a rendition of "Witness...") and with Greg Kurstin (for a cover of Pablo's favourite song, David Bowie's "Life on Mars?").[164]
In 2010, Shirley Manson donated two hand-decorated T-shirts to Binki Shapiro's (of the band Little Joy) online charity auction "Crafts for a Cause" to raise money for victims of the 2010 Haiti earthquake. The two T-shirts raised a total of $1522.00, which was donated to the Artists for Peace and Justice organisation.[165]
In January 2015, Manson headlined Pablove 6, the sixth-annual fundraiser for the Pablove Foundation. She made a special appearance with Chicago-based David Bowie tribute band Sons of the Silent Age, featuring Matt Walker and Chris Connelly.[166][167]
Personal life
Manson was married to Scottish artist Eddie Farrell from 1996 to 2003. In 2008, Manson became engaged to record producer and Garbage sound engineer Billy Bush.[168] They were married at a Los Angeles courthouse in May 2010.[169][170] They continue to reside in Los Angeles, while Manson maintains a second home in the Edinburgh suburb of Joppa.[6]
Manson has distanced herself from organized religion but has long been interested in spirituality. She recalled, "When I was very small, I was very besotted with the church, absolutely. I loved the theatre of it and I got very involved in all the stories we were taught." When she was about 12, she had an argument with her father at the dinner table, screaming at him, "Religion's a sham and I'm not going to church anymore, it's just bullshit." She stopped going to church but continued to have theological debates with him every Sunday. She became disenchanted with organised religion and although she maintained an interest in spirituality, she complained that she has "brushed up against too many examples of hypocritical spiritualists".[171]
Manson identifies as a feminist and has been hailed as a feminist icon.[90][172][173]
See also
- List of awards and nominations received by Garbage
- Garbage discography
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External links
- Official Garbage website
- Shirley Manson at IMDb
- Shirley Manson at AllMusic