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Garbage’s Shirley Manson: “I don’t have to be young, I don’t have to be sexy – if you cancel me, you cancel me”

Garbage's Shirley Manson on new album 'Let All That We Imagine Be The Light', Kneecap and Plaestine, and fighting sexist tabloids.

Garbage icon Shirley Manson has spoken to NME about using “hope as an act of resistance” on the band’s new album, as well as the situation in Palestine, overcoming the lowest point of her life, aging proudly, and fighting back against sexist tabloids. Manson caught up with NME while in London, taking a brief break from the “fascist regime” of the US where she lives in LA with her husband and band collaborator, Billy Bush. Going through grief, you start to put your life together, you recover, you realise, ‘Well, I’m really glad I didn’t die with my dog!’ When you have to deploy discipline and physical exertion into recovery, that is uplifting.

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