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'Let All That We Imagine Be The Light', Garbage’s expansive, explosive, all-too-human album is their eighth. It’s the first one that arrived unexpectedly, due to unforeseen circumstance. Conjured into existence when the band was all at sea.  

In August 2024, Shirley Manson, the band’s lead singer and lightning rod front woman, was abruptly forced to stop performing. An old injury, sustained when she fell from a stage, at KROQ’s Weenie Roast in 2016, had flared up and it took her down.

She was in a bad way. An operation was needed, with time afterwards for her to get better. Garbage’s world tour for 'No Gods No Masters', one that had been planned to take them into 2025, screeched to a halt.  

The band had to change to continue. Not only Shirley, who, post-op, embarked on serious at-home rehabilitation, using exercise machines at home and a walking cane outside - but Butch Vig, Duke Erikson and Steve Marker, too. Their year was completely upended. A void presented itself. They reacted in the way they know best. By making music.  

As Shirley battled to regain and reclaim her body, Butch, Duke and Steve were busy in Butch’s studio, making soundscapes and atmospheres which they sent to the recovering singer. “Little sonic gifts via email every couple of days”, she calls them. Something for Shirley to hang on to in the tough months post-operation.

The songs on Let All That We Imagine Be The Light tell stories, both musically and lyrically. Some are direct tales from Shirley’s life. The music is generous, full of atmosphere and drama. Filmic. You might hear a Joy Division-style bass, some no-messing riffs. There is dignity and splendour, dynamics and beauty. A sense of a full world, of story-crafting through soundscaping. 

Setlists

    1. -Laura Palmer's Theme (Angelo Badalamenti cover)
    2. 1.There’s No Future in Optimism
    3. 2.Hold
    4. 3.I Think I'm Paranoid
    5. 4.Vow
    6. 5.Run Baby Run
    7. 6.The Trick Is to Keep Breathing (Preceded by Shirley thanking Frontier Touring, the band's crew and the late Michael Gudinski)
    8. 7.Fix Me Now (Impromptu setlist inclusion; only time performed on Australian tour)
    9. 8.Hammering in My Head
    10. 9.Wolves
    11. 10.#1 Crush
    12. 11.Wicked Ways (With snippet of Personal Jesus by Depeche Mode)
    13. 12.Queer (Preceded by acknowledgement of Bondi shooting tragedy from earlier in the day)
    14. 13.Chinese Fire Horse
    15. 14.When I Grow Up
    16. 15.Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go!)
    17. 16.Push It
    18. 17.The Day That I Met God

  2. Encore

    1. 18.Stupid Girl (Preceded by band introductions)
    2. 19.Only Happy When It Rains
    3. -The Carnival Is Over (The Seekers cover) (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds version)
    1. -Laura Palmer's Theme (Angelo Badalamenti cover)
    2. 1.There’s No Future in Optimism
    3. 2.Vow
    4. 3.The Men Who Rule the World
    5. 4.No Gods No Masters
    6. 5.#1 Crush
    7. 6.I Think I'm Paranoid
    8. 7.Stupid Girl
    9. 8.Happy Birthday to You (Mildred J. Hill & Patty Hill cover) (sung to Butch Vig)
    10. 9.Only Happy When It Rains
    11. 10.Push It
    1. 1.There’s No Future in Optimism
    2. 2.Vow
    3. 3.The Men Who Rule the World
    4. 4.Wicked Ways / Personal Jesus
    5. 5.No Gods No Masters
    6. 6.#1 Crush
    7. 7.I Think I'm Paranoid
    8. 8.When I Grow Up
    9. 9.Stupid Girl
    10. 10.Only Happy When It Rains
    11. 11.Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go!)
    12. 12.Push It
    1. -Laura Palmer's Theme
    2. 1.The Men Who Rule the World
    3. 2.Fix Me Now
    4. 3.#1 Crush
    5. 4.I Think I'm Paranoid
    6. 5.When I Grow Up
    7. 6.There’s No Future in Optimism (Live debut)
    8. 7.Stupid Girl
    9. 8.Only Happy When It Rains
    10. 9.Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go!)
    11. 10.Push It
    1. 1.Fix Me Now
    2. 2.Empty
    3. 3.The Men Who Rule the World
    4. 4.Wicked Ways / Personal Jesus
    5. 5.Wolves
    6. 6.#1 Crush
    7. 7.I Think I'm Paranoid
    8. 8.Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go!)
    9. 9.Push It
    10. 10.Stupid Girl
    11. 11.Only Happy When It Rains
    12. 12.When I Grow Up

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