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Watch Garbage’s Shirley Manson reunite with Angelfish and cover The Stone Roses in Edinburgh

Shirley Manson of Garbage

Shirley Manson reunited with Angelfish and covered The Stone Roses at a charity gig in Edinburgh yesterday – check out footage below.

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Before Manson fronted Garbage, she played in Angelfish, who last night (January 30) reformed for their first show in a decade, with all proceeds going to humanitarian aid charities for Palestinian children.

The show at Edinburgh’s Liquid Room marked their third gig since they broke up in 1995, and saw them play tracks including ‘Dogs in a Cage’, ‘Suffocate Me’, ‘The Sun Won’t Shine’, ‘Heartbreak to Hate’, ‘Mummy Can’t Drive’, ‘Tomorrow Forever’ and ‘Trash It’.

The set also included several covers, with Angelfish taking on The Filthy Tongues’ ‘Nae Tongues’, Goodbye Mr. Mackenzie’s ‘The End’ and The Stone Roses’ seminal hit ‘I Wanna Be Adored’.

The Goodbye Mr. Mackenzie cover came after it was announced that the band – a side project of Angelfish in which Manson provided keys and vocals – would open for Garbage at their huge Edinburgh concert this summer.

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The Scottish-American band are due to play a bill-topping gig at Edinburgh Castle on Saturday July 11, as part of their 2026 UK and European tour. According to Manson, the event “most likely will be our last headline show in Scotland”.

Angelfish are set to play another reunion show in Edinburgh to raise funds for Palestinian children tonight (Saturday January 31). Back when the benefit gigs were first announced, Manson had taken to social media to decry the “fucking evil” actions of Israeli forces in the West Bank after the murder of a 10-year-old Palestinian boy.

On October 16, the Israeli military said its soldiers opened fire in response to “confrontations and rock-hurling” directed at them, per the BBC. “His name was Muhammad al-Hallaq,” Manson wrote of the his murder.

“He had been playing soccer with his friends in a village schoolyard south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank. So called “soldiers” trained to “fight” opened fire on Muhammad and his friends because the kids had allegedly hurled some rocks. Adult soldiers with full impunity . Opening fire on children. Deliberately targeting AN ELEVEN YEAR OLD child in the groin.

“Fucking evil. Free Palestine.”

Elsewhere last year, Manson, who has been very vocal in her advocacy for Palestine, told NME she wanted to “urge people to read and educate themselves before they point fingers at young bands for speaking up and trying to stop the slaughter of young children and babies in their tents”.

Speaking to us in June, she said: “Please just do yourself a favour and read a book about that part of the world.

“Once you educate yourself, you start to see things much more clearly and fairly – but there seems to be no interest in anyone wanting to learn about Palestinian people. There’s a peculiar desire to erase them entirely because they’re so inconvenient. It’s like we’re talking about a whole race of people that have been scraped off Western shoes.”

Earlier this week, Garbage added three dates to their 2026 UK and European tour, including shows in London and Dublin.

They will also play a series of outdoor UK co-headline gigs with Skunk Anansie this summer, including stops at Dreamland Margate, Halifax’s The Piece Hall, and Scarborough Open Air Theatre – you can find any remaining tickets for Garbage’s 2026 UK shows here.

Garbage are also set for a special concert with Placebo at the Royal Albert Hall in London this March. The event forms part of the venue’s Teenage Cancer Trust live series, which has been curated by The Cure’s Robert Smith for 2026.

The group went out on their final-ever US tour last year, after indicating that they were “unlikely to play many of the cities” on the run “ever again”.

Speaking to NME in 2024, Manson discussed the crushing and “abusive” financial strains of the music industry.

“Now what you have are musicians who are independently wealthy – maybe they come from a wealthy family – and they can start to carve out a career for themselves in the music industry,” she told us. “You have the old guard who made records before 1995; they themselves can survive. Then the artists who enjoy phenomenal success also survive.”

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