And with Shirley Manson, they have a strong-willed vocalist, committed to the crusade she set herself on. What the band hold isn’t elegance, but unvarnished truth, telling the world the answers it needs, but don’t necessarily wish to hear. This release held a new single, ‘Androgy’, a pounding number every bit as powerful as the tunes that it sat beside. Better still, the band began to embrace their past and re-issued Beautiful Garbage in 2021. With their angular performances and raw, rollicking production design, No Gods No Masters was an impressive return to form for a band now in the throes of middle-age. Incredibly, Garbage has maintained the same lineup since the 1990s, and features Nirvana producer Butch Vig on percussion. No, it wasn’t a great show, but it kept her profile afloat as the noughties wore on, before nostalgia brought Garbage back into focus.

Manson made the move into television when she appeared as a killer robot in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Producer Barbara Broccoli was growing more confident in her role, so it was only natural that a female singer should sing the central theme, dotting James Bond’s family motto with an added pathos. Better still, The World is Not Enough celebrated the many women who were involved with the process, awarding Judi Dench her most significant performance as M before SkyFall, and crafted Sophie Marceau’s Elektra King an emotional arc that cemented her role. Their tune, coated in angst and ennui, captured the moribund tone of the script, and although it was disliked upon release, The World is Not Enough now stands as the prototype for the Daniel Craig era. Garbage accrued 17 million album sales, although they are probably best known for their theme to Pierce Brosnan‘s The World is Not Enough. It was the greatest education I could have ever hoped for.” We typically misbehaved and just lived the cliched rock and roll life. For the first time I got to go to Paris, and I got to go to Copenhagen and Amsterdam and Hamburg and Munich and just all these incredible cities for the first time. It was my first forays out into the world, out of Edinburgh. I was a very dedicated member to the band.

And I wouldn’t swap it out for anything, I loved it. I mean, it was a very rebellious, decadent unit. “And I received the most spectacular education that I could possibly have ever hoped for in the world of rock and roll. Mackenzie for 10 years,” Manson revealed. “Well, I have to say, I was in Goodbye Mr. Born in Scotland, she got her foot in the door as a backup singer to Goodbye Mr Mackenzie, a burgeoning indie rock outfit that instilled discipline and decision making in the young artist. From a fledgling post-punk group to singing a Bond theme, Shirley Manson has had quite the career trajectory.

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