Garbage Want To Be Absolutely Clear About Not Splitting

Yeah, um, Garbage aren't breaking up. Actually, we already told you that last week when Shirley Manson made her original comments in the Australian press, but the band felt it necessary to drive the point home after an apparent deluge of false "break-up" stories, so they released a VERY CLEAR statement on their official website.

"Dear worried and confused," they write. "After reading all the bullshit out there about the future of Garbage, we felt compelled to write a few lines here to address the issue and set the record straight.

"Certain journalists have taken the liberty of running wildly inaccurate stories in recent days about our so called 'break-up.' Made up out of cobbled together, out of context quotes to feed some perverse agenda of their own, these stories are nothing more than idle speculation and are completely inaccurate."

Well, our freely admitted perversity aside, some of the things Shirls told the Aussie press were pretty vague. When you throw a term like "indefinite" in front of your announced break, it does ring a few warning bells with music fans, who frequently see bands drift away into nothingness through the excuse of "hiatus."

If she didn't want to inspire speculation, maybe comments like "I don't know if we're calling it a day" were a bad move. Anyway, the slightly pissy statement continues:

"The truth of the matter is really simple and surprisingly hard to misconstrue. For more than 10 years, we have been in a cycle of album-making and touring and for the first time in our history, we have made a decision to break that cycle and take some time off. What does that mean? We are NOT breaking up. However, we ARE taking some much-deserved time off to spend with our families and friends. How much time? We don't know.

"This decision came as a difficult yet necessary one in order to preserve something we hold very dear. The last 10 years have been an incredible experience for all of us and we appreciate all the freedom, love and support you have so generously given us during that time. We are eternally grateful to you all and we look forward to the next chapter in all of our lives with great excitement and enthusiasm."

And there you have it. After they wrap up their current tour this week, Garbage will officially be "not broken up."

source: chartattack by David McDougall