Post by Dan the G-Man on Dec 4, 2003 14:56:59 GMT -5
Road Report One For '98
Garbage has been busy. We made a record, we made some videos, and we spent the summer playing in the mud-soaked festival fields of Europe. All of these things took longer than we thought they would, but we enjoyed them all immensely. Sadly, perhaps because of this, in one arena we have fallen short. We have fallen behind with our road reports. Sorry, we’ll try to behave better in the future.
Here’s what happened. Scotland and France were great, as were all those places in- between. We played in daylight at 2AM in Finland, got sunburned in Tokyo, played basketball with the Beasties in Germany, headlined the Reading Festival in the UK, shared lip gloss with Tori Amos in Belgium, and went on after Dylan in Denmark. We’re still friends, and we’re still alive, I think. Spain was good. Although Spain is very very hot in July. Bring sunscreen and aspirin. Now, we’re in America.
Actually, we’re in Denver. We’re doing pre-production (i.e. practicing) for our North American tour that will take us through the US, Canada and Mexico until the end of the year. If we can overcome the acoustics in this place we’re playing tonight I swear we can sound good anywhere. I could be wrong but the music seems to be working 500 times better than it ever has - maybe spending a full week listening closely to what we’re doing in a difficult sounding atmosphere has paid off. And learning from mistakes. Hope springs eternal. We’ve got a crew full of people working with us on this tour that are (not just in our opinion) the best anywhere, and we really think that the rest of this year is going to be a great time to see Garbage on the road. The dates are somewhere else on this site.
We’re excited about playing this fall, here and the rest of the world beyond that. Look forward to seeing you all out there, and stay tuned here for more reports from our North American tour!
Garbage.
P.S. Anecdotes. I forgot the anecdotes.
We just made a new video for "Special". Shirley is a singin’ cyber-princess and Duke wears some bitchin’ goggles while fighting to save the world from evil. Butch was issued a citation for reckless endangerment of a flight simulator, and Steve does not have a speaking part. You will understand this when you see the video. It was directed by Dawn Shadforth in a London studio, and she used set designers who worked on the new Star Wars and Lost In Space, who made us each our own space plane type machines. And lots of other weird stuff.
The North American tour will employ heretofore unseen lighting technology that will make Steve’s head appear to look like a basketball emblazoned with the Version 2.0 logo. The WNBA has expressed interest.
Andrea Giacobbe made "Push It" a much better video than those other videos. Screw ‘em.
Recent rumors that Garbage is recording their new album on the road with the help of Billy Corgan and Dave Grohl are inaccurate unfortunately. Now the truth can be told. Actually, we are working in Las Vegas with Siegfried and Roy on a Playstation- internet3- Prada joint venture involving white tigers, Shirley as the new Lara Croft, and gray as the new black for fall.
Duke is actually a Duke, although Butch is not actually butch. Shirley, however is definitely Shirley. I withhold opinion on Steve, since I am writing this.
Steve.
Garbage has been busy. We made a record, we made some videos, and we spent the summer playing in the mud-soaked festival fields of Europe. All of these things took longer than we thought they would, but we enjoyed them all immensely. Sadly, perhaps because of this, in one arena we have fallen short. We have fallen behind with our road reports. Sorry, we’ll try to behave better in the future.
Here’s what happened. Scotland and France were great, as were all those places in- between. We played in daylight at 2AM in Finland, got sunburned in Tokyo, played basketball with the Beasties in Germany, headlined the Reading Festival in the UK, shared lip gloss with Tori Amos in Belgium, and went on after Dylan in Denmark. We’re still friends, and we’re still alive, I think. Spain was good. Although Spain is very very hot in July. Bring sunscreen and aspirin. Now, we’re in America.
Actually, we’re in Denver. We’re doing pre-production (i.e. practicing) for our North American tour that will take us through the US, Canada and Mexico until the end of the year. If we can overcome the acoustics in this place we’re playing tonight I swear we can sound good anywhere. I could be wrong but the music seems to be working 500 times better than it ever has - maybe spending a full week listening closely to what we’re doing in a difficult sounding atmosphere has paid off. And learning from mistakes. Hope springs eternal. We’ve got a crew full of people working with us on this tour that are (not just in our opinion) the best anywhere, and we really think that the rest of this year is going to be a great time to see Garbage on the road. The dates are somewhere else on this site.
We’re excited about playing this fall, here and the rest of the world beyond that. Look forward to seeing you all out there, and stay tuned here for more reports from our North American tour!
Garbage.
P.S. Anecdotes. I forgot the anecdotes.
We just made a new video for "Special". Shirley is a singin’ cyber-princess and Duke wears some bitchin’ goggles while fighting to save the world from evil. Butch was issued a citation for reckless endangerment of a flight simulator, and Steve does not have a speaking part. You will understand this when you see the video. It was directed by Dawn Shadforth in a London studio, and she used set designers who worked on the new Star Wars and Lost In Space, who made us each our own space plane type machines. And lots of other weird stuff.
The North American tour will employ heretofore unseen lighting technology that will make Steve’s head appear to look like a basketball emblazoned with the Version 2.0 logo. The WNBA has expressed interest.
Andrea Giacobbe made "Push It" a much better video than those other videos. Screw ‘em.
Recent rumors that Garbage is recording their new album on the road with the help of Billy Corgan and Dave Grohl are inaccurate unfortunately. Now the truth can be told. Actually, we are working in Las Vegas with Siegfried and Roy on a Playstation- internet3- Prada joint venture involving white tigers, Shirley as the new Lara Croft, and gray as the new black for fall.
Duke is actually a Duke, although Butch is not actually butch. Shirley, however is definitely Shirley. I withhold opinion on Steve, since I am writing this.
Steve.