Garbage are the great alt-rock survivors. Shirley Manson & co. have made seven studio albums, kept their original line-up intact and still play the world’s biggest venues, but none of those are the thing that singer Manson is proud of. Nope, that honour would fall to the time in July, 1999, almot 25 years ago, when Manson and her band played a show as part of the celebrations to open the Scottish Parliament, a historic moment that meant Scotland could make its own laws for the first time in nearly 300 years.
“What do you mean, ‘That’s cool?!’” she snorted when this writer responded to her a statement that it was the proudest moment of her career that it was "cool". “It’s fucking mega, like super-duper, colour-fresh lipstick cool! It was amazing. It was a moment for me. I don’t think I’ll ever forget it, even when I get really senile.”
