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Garbage cancel 2024 shows after Shirley Manson injured on tour

Garbage have announced they will cancel the rest of their shows for 2024 after lead singer Shirley Manson was injured on their recent European tour

The National (Scotland) · Aug 2, 2024

“Now that the years have passed, I can admit that we did make liberal use of Ry Cooder’s amps without his knowledge”: Kid Congo Powers is the journeyman guitarist who fused jazz and punk with the Bad Seeds, the Cramps and Gun Club

Powers reveals how drugs, jazz and lessons from the Cramps’ Poison Ivy were all brought to bear on Gun Club’s seminal 1984 album, The Las Vegas Story

Guitar World · Jun 19, 2024

Kid Congo Powers: ‘Sex was great. Love was dumb. Sleaze was paramount’

As he publishes a new memoir, the guitarist with the Gun Club, Cramps and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds looks back on four decades of creative extremism and experimental living

The Guardian - UK · Oct 17, 2022