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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.Empty
    5. 4.I Think I'm Paranoid
    6. 5.Stupid Girl
    7. 6.Right Between the Eyes (Preceded by the speech about how Courtney Love was an inspiration for the lyrics)
    8. 7.Vow
    9. 8.No Horses
    10. 9.It’s All Over but the Crying
    11. 10.Have We Met (The Void)
    12. 11.Control
    13. 12.Chinese Fire Horse
    14. 13.Boys Wanna Fight
    15. 14.Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go!)
    16. 15.When I Grow Up
    17. 16.Push It
    18. 17.The Day That I Met God

  2. Encore

    1. 18.Special
    2. 19.Only Happy When It Rains
    1. 1.There’s No Future in Optimism
    2. 2.Hold
    3. 3.Empty
    4. 4.I Think I'm Paranoid
    5. 5.Stupid Girl
    6. 6.Right Between the Eyes
    7. 7.Vow
    8. 8.No Horses
    9. 9.It’s All Over but the Crying (Live debut)
    10. 10.Have We Met (The Void)
    11. 11.Control
    12. 12.Chinese Fire Horse
    13. 13.Boys Wanna Fight
    14. 14.Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go!)
    15. 15.When I Grow Up
    16. 16.Push It
    17. 17.The Day That I Met God

  2. Encore

    1. 18.Special
    2. 19.Only Happy When It Rains (1000th time played live)
    1. 1.There’s No Future in Optimism
    2. 2.Hold
    3. 3.Empty
    4. 4.I Think I'm Paranoid
    5. 5.Stupid Girl
    6. 6.Right Between the Eyes
    7. 7.Special
    8. 8.Have We Met (The Void)
    9. 9.Vow
    10. 10.Chinese Fire Horse
    11. 11.Boys Wanna Fight
    12. 12.When I Grow Up
    13. 13.Push It
    14. 14.Only Happy When It Rains
    15. 15.The Day That I Met God

  2. Encore

    1. 16.Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go!)
    1. 1.There’s No Future in Optimism
    2. 2.Hold
    3. 3.Empty
    4. 4.I Think I'm Paranoid
    5. 5.Stupid Girl
    6. 6.Right Between the Eyes (First time since 2005 (Dedicated to Courtney Love))
    7. 7.Vow
    8. 8.Special
    9. 9.Have We Met (The Void)
    10. 10.Control (First time since 2019)
    11. 11.Chinese Fire Horse
    12. 12.Boys Wanna Fight (First time since 2005)
    13. 13.Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go!)
    14. 14.When I Grow Up
    15. 15.Push It
    16. 16.Only Happy When It Rains
    17. 17.The Day That I Met God
    1. 1.There’s No Future in Optimism
    2. 2.Hold
    3. 3.Empty
    4. 4.I Think I'm Paranoid
    5. 5.Vow
    6. 6.Run Baby Run (With false start and first lines of "Special")
    7. 7.Not My Idea
    8. 8.The Men Who Rule the World
    9. 9.Lovesong (The Cure cover)
    10. 10.Stupid Girl
    11. 11.Chinese Fire Horse
    12. 12.Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go!)
    13. 13.When I Grow Up
    14. 14.Only Happy When It Rains
    15. 15.Push It
    16. 16.The Day That I Met God

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Garbage play Waterfront Hall, Belfast on Friday 17 July and Iveagh Gardens, Dublin on Saturday 18 July 2026.

The band Garbage is: Shirley Manson, Butch Vig, Duke Erikson, and Steve Marker.

Tickets for both shows are on sale now.

UK-based Black feminist punk band Big Joanie will join Garbage as special guests at their Belfast show.