Shirley Manson shares update on injury and cancelled Garbage shows: “I returned home from tour an absolute hot mess”

7 August, 2024

Shirley Manson of Garbage performs in 2024

Shirley Manson has shared an update on her health, following Garbage recently cancelling a number of tour dates.

It comes after the band revealed last week (August 1) that they would be axing the remaining 2024 shows due to an injury suffered by the frontwoman.

While details at the time remained sparse, the statement shared did say that the NME Icon Award-winner would “require surgery and rehabilitation to correct” her injury, and that the decision to cancel shows was not “taken lightly”.

“No one is more crushed about this than I am. You know I would push through if I could,” Manson wrote at the time, also confirming that Garbage will be back on the road in 2025.

Now, a week later, Manson has shared another update with fans and revealed more insight into the nature of her injury.

“I returned home from tour an absolute hot mess,” she wrote in the caption of a new Instagram post. “So broken that my poor husband had to push me through Heathrow and LAX airports in a wheelchair. I also had a dose of laryngitis and a massive cold sore on my lip.”

She continued, explaining how she was worried that she had injured her vocal cords while on the road.

“I was freaking out that I had somehow managed to damage my vocal cords on top of everything else but yesterday I was scoped and everything is as it should be,” she added, sharing an image she had taken by the GP.

“These are my vocal cords. My doctor said they were beautiful.”

Upon first announcing her injury after being on the road, fans flocked to social media to share their support, as did her musician peers like The Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan, Sharon van Etten, Kathleen Hanna, and Silversun Pickups. “I really hope the surgery goes well and people sneak you in some decent food!” wrote Hanna.

This isn’t the first injury sustained by Manson while on tour. In 2016, Manson fell off a stage during a Garbage set in Los Angeles. She underwent hip replacement surgery last year to address it.

As for the band, Garbage are set to release their eighth studio album in the near-future. They shared the news in April, when Manson told NME that they have been busy at work on it, giving a preview of what’s to come after 2021’s successful ‘No Gods No Masters’.

“Going into this next record, I feel a shift,” she revealed. “I’m trying to dampen my outrage. As a society, we’ve become so beaten down and broken-hearted. I’m trying to reach for something that’s a little bigger than me, because if I don’t then I’m going to drown in my own dismay.”

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