With just a few weeks left on what Garbage say is their final headlining North American tour, singer Shirley Manson is saying the loud part even louder. During a show in Denver on Sunday (Oct. 12), the outspoken vocalist explained to the crowd why the long-running group does not plan to mount such a tour again, telling fans at the Mission Ballroom, “It has become entirely unsustainable for a band like us to come and tour anywhere except the coasts.”
Manson then laid out why the group feel that way in a broadside against what she described as the wild inequality in streaming payments to non-superstar working musicians, at a time when she said some pop stars are making “billions and billions and billions of dollars,” while the majority are just getting by.
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“Most of the music industry is not made of these big pop stars. They’re made of working musicians,” Manson said. “And this is not a pity party for us. This is an alarm call for all the young generations of musicians who are in our wake and we feel duty bound to speak up for because there’s nobody speaking up for them,” she added to loud applause from the audience.
“The average musician makes $12 a month on Spotify,” she said, noting she has brought the matter up “every night” on the tour as a way to point out that there is no governmental body or union for musicians fighting to help young acts get paid.
“They’re sleeping in their vans. They’re holding down numerous jobs. And they’re playing their guts out every night,” Manson said of road dog touring acts. “The fact that they are not even able to sell a record and it’s taken from them by rich motherf–ers on streaming platforms who get paid royally by record labels, who get paid royally by Ticketmaster, who get paid royally by merch companies, who get paid royally — the list goes on and on and on. There’s accountants, there’s lawyers, they’re all f–king getting paid, except for the musician.”
At press time a spokesperson for Spotify had not returned Billboard‘s request for comment. In 2024, Billboard reported that Spotify paid out nearly $4.5 billion to independent rights holders in 2023, making up almost half of the more than $9 billion the streaming service paid to all labels and publishers that year.
After 30 years of road work, Garbage — which released its eighth studio album, Let All That We Imagine Be the Light in May on BMG — are in the midst of their Happy Endings Tour, which will play the Knitting Factory in Boise, Idaho on Friday (Oct. 17) and wind down its North American run on Nov. 14 at the Corona Capital festival in Mexico City.
Manson said she brings up the inequity every night, because “you are the ones who will lose out on a generation of esoteric, risk-taking, creative, adventurous weirdos, rebels, agitators, provocateurs. You’re gonna get f–king white bread.”
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