Bleed Like Me tour
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The Bleed Like Me tour was the fourth world concert tour cycle by American/Scottish alternative rock
group Garbage
. The tour launched in Paris
, France
and took the band throughout North America
, Europe
and Australia
in support of the band's fourth studio album
Bleed Like Me
which was released internationally in April 2005. The tour took in combinations of headline performances, slots on the bills at rock festivals, television
and radio shows. After being initially organised low-key, the tour snowballed into bigger venues when the parent album and its lead single "Why Do You Love Me
" became surprise hits internationally. The tour concluded in Perth, Western Australia
after six months on the road; when the tour leg of dates in France, Belgium
and United Kingdom
were cancelled. A press statement from the band stated that they had "somewhat overextended themselves".
Former Janes Addiction bassist Eric Avery
left his position as a member of Alanis Morissette
's backing band to perform bass guitar
for the duration of the tour. Matt Walker
, who had performed on the Bleed Like Me album, covered on drums on a small number of North American shows. Walker had also covered for the band on a previous tour
. A number of artists supported Garbage throughout the run of the tour, including The Dead 60's, JJ72
, Los Abandoned
, Melatonine, Silo, Red Jezebel
and theSTART
. During one festival appearance, Garbage performed four mash ups
with Canadian electroclash
musician Peaches
.
Each performance on the tour was led-in by an intro-tape of Johnny Cash
's posthumous cover version
"Hurt". The first three legs of the tour were documented by a film crew
, which was hosted as streaming video on the band's website
, and as extra content on their single and album releases
. More of the footage was later incoporated into a full length documentary, Thanks for the Uhhh, Support, which was released on the band's 2007 greatest hits
DVD
.
shows in Paris
(supported by local group Melatonine) and in London
. The band then travelled to Germany
to perform at WDR's Rochnacht televised concert, and also performed a full set for broadcast on Radio Fritz. A brief North American tour of theaters and clubs was scheduled to begin in Seattle on April 8 and end May 4 in Chicago
; however the band had picked up an influenza
infection while in Europe and cancelled the first show. The tour then re-started in San Francisco, heading down the Pacific coast
and over to the Eastern Seaboard
. The band then played two shows in Canada
and then headed around the Midwest. The North American leg was eventually extended, ending on May 10 in Cleveland. Garbage then performed on the bill at the HFStival
in Baltimore
. For the band's Atlanta show, local radio station
99x offered a competition prize of being Garbage’s tour manager
for the day, including traveling with Garbage from the hotel
to the venue and participating in their sound check.
Garbage returned to Europe to perform for on the bills of numerous rock festivals across the continent over six weeks, kicking of on June 1 in Denmark
. During the run the band performed a few headline shows, such as a single date at London's Brixton Academy and at Barcelona
's Razzmatazz. The band dedicated their Glastonbury
performance of "Right Between the Eyes" to Australian singer Kylie Minogue
who'd had to cancel her appearance on the same night after being diagnosed with breast cancer
. The run ended in Austria
on July 15. Garbage returned to the United States
to perform at a few festivals, and made a three-date trek into Mexico
where they were supported by local act Los Abandoned
, and performed an entire set in a TV studio for the series SoundStage. Garbage began a four-week series of shows on August 22 in Chicago
with California
new wave
band TheStart
in support. The routing took the tour into a number of Canadian provinces, and then back south down the American west coast. The headline shows ended in Las Vegas on September 15.
Garbage performed at one last North American show, for KROQ
's Inland Invasion festival before heading to Australia to perform seven shows at the end of that month with indie rock
band Red Jezebel
in support. The final show in Perth
on October 1 marked the end of the Bleed Like Me tour. A set of European concerts were announced for October, and subsequently cancelled.
Garbage disbanded at the end of the tour for an indefinite "hiatus". Manson told the press: "We feel that this has been a really great tour and we feel that we have really muscled through... we just want to take some time off while things are really good between us". Rumours abounded that the band had split, but Manson reassured that they were not interested in breaking up. Garbage spent the following five years inactive, aside from playing a short set at a Los Angeles
benefit concert, sporadic recording in 2007 for a greatest hits compilation
and in 2008 for a charity tribute album. The "hiatus" ended with an official reformation in 2010.
, synths
and drum triggers
and configuring settings for three sets of control gear and backline racks
. Slightly different arrangements of older songs were composed, particularly for the intro section
of "Only Happy When it Rains
", the middle 8 of "Supervixen
" and the coda
s of both "#1 Crush
" and "Shut Your Mouth
". Due to having limited rehearsal time, Garbage were only able to prepare an initial setlist of around fifteen songs.
Garbage operated a "quiet stage" by removing wedges, side-fills and live backline
from their stage set-up. The absence of monitors meant zero stage volume - if the P.A.
was switched off the only audible elements would be Manson's voice and the cymbals; and no monitor volume - instead, the band utilised Sennheiser
IEMs
to monitor their live sound. The use of digital technology in the band's in-ear mixes and F.O.H. mix meant that instead of a multitude of manual settings needing restored at each soundcheck
, the band's FOH and monitor engineers only had to recall the last session
from the previous night. Each performance was recorded in the DSD
format by taking a data dump from the mixing console
at 24-bit
/48k and saving the wave file onto disc for future reference.
Drum triggers were used extensively because Butch Vig
's drum kit
s are silenced by filling the hollow interiors of the bass
, snares
and tom-toms
with packing chips to enable the samplers to use drum sounds from studio versions. The cymbals were miked
to capture their sound. To prevent the sound of the cymbals bleeding into Shirley Manson
's vocal feed, the cymbals were insulated by a wrap-wround acrylic glass shield. To keep the stage lead-free, all electric
and bass guitars sported wireless units
. Guitar sounds were ran through effects unit
s direct to the soundboard
; Manson also used a wireless mic. The band had performed in this fashion since the start of the Version 2.0 tour.
Stage lighting
was dictated by low budget
, using in-house
lighting rigs
for four different coloured backwashes
and two frontwashes (a no-colour and a red wash). The audience were also kept fairly well-lit in an effort to bring the audience closer to the band onstage. The show opening was notable for using very little light, matching the intro-tape of "Hurt" and the band's "Queer
" to give a soft and gentle but ominous feel to the proceedings. The band's stage backdrop
featured a low-resolution LED curtain
supported by four 40" high-resolution plasma TV screens
. Some of the footage was manipulated from the hardware's media server
, while some content was provided by music video director
Sophie Muller
for specific songs, including close-up
s of Manson's eyes for "Why Do You Love Me
."
Road crew
on the Bleed Like Me tour included: production manager/lighting tech Butch Allen, FOH engineer Tom Abraham, monitor engineer Clay Hutson, drum technician Chad Zaemisch and guitar tech Billy Bush
. Shows were booked by Jenna Adler at Creative Artists Agency, while the band's tour management
was overseen by Gayle Fine of Q Prime.
a Butch Vig
was absent from this concert due to the death of his mother; he was replaced by Matt Walker
.
music hall. The eighteen song setlist featured a mix of songs from the band's first three albums, as well as debuting five Bleed Like Me cuts. The show opened with an album-faithful arrangement of "Queer
", a song the band hadn't performed live since 1999. Only two tracks from the band's previous album, Beautiful Garbage, make the set - both are noticeably reworked with heavier lead guitar
. Shirley Manson incorporated elements of Yeah Yeah Yeahs
' "Maps
", Bright Eyes' "Lover I Don't Have to Love
" into her performances of "Vow
" while a sample from the John Lennon
documentary Gimme Some Turth opens "Hammering in My Head". After the first show, "#1 Crush
" is dropped from the set, with "Cherry Lips
" moved back into the encore
to take its place. "Right Between the Eyes" ends the shows and continues as the set closer for the majority of the tour's duration.
The first five North American shows followed the initial setlist launched in Europe, although "When I Grow Up" is part of the encore for a few of the first nights. On the sixth show, in Boston's Avalon Theater, Garbage debut both "Run Baby Run" and "Metal Heart" from the new record. Two shows later, in Washington D.C.'s 9:30 Club
, both "Shut Your Mouth
" and "Special
" have been dropped from the setlist to accommodate the new songs. "Sex Is Not the Enemy
" and "When I Grow Up" are moved from the encore to the main set. "Metal Heart" became an regular encore from this point while "Run Baby Run" is only intermittently performed. Near the end of the run, the band perform a cover version
of Patsy Cline
's "I Fall to Pieces
" in the encores of both the Nashville
Ryman Auditorium
and Colombus Newport Music Hall
shows.
The European summer shows featured a mix of Garbage's own shows in addition to headlining performances and/or mid-bills at various rock festivals across the continent. Mid-bills necessitated a cut in the setlist to accommodate for shorter playing times, including dropping "Queer" and starting the show on "Bad Boyfriend" on a few occasions. "Run Baby Run", as the band's then-forthcoming European single release
, returned to the main-set for a short time, while "Special" intermittently returned as an encore. While "Not My Idea", from the band's debut album
, made a return to the set for the first time since 2002 on the second show of the European leg at Amsterdam
's Paradiso
; "Supervixen
" is dropped three shows into the leg. Over the course of the leg, Manson incorporated lines from "Singin' in the Rain
" into the intro of "Only Happy When it Rains
". At the band's show at London
's Brixton Academy, Shirley Manson performed a verse from Cole Porter
's "My Heart Belongs to Daddy
" to mark her father's birthday. At Madrid
's Riviera, Garbage played a rare second encore including "Supervixen", "Shut Your Mouth" and a one-off performance of Version 2.0
album closer "You Look So Fine
".
Garbage's return to North America saw the band debut the last three songs from Bleed Like Me live: "Boys Wanna Fight", "Why Don't You Come Over" and "Happy Home" at Costa Mesa's Orange County Fair. While the former and latter continue in the set, "Why Don't You Come Over" is dropped from the set after a single performance. At New York
's AmsterJam
mash-up
event, Garbage are joined onstage mid-set by Peaches; both artists perform mash-ups of three Garbage and Peaches works: "Why Do You Love Me"/"Rock Show", "Shut Your Mouth"/"Shake Yer Dix
", "Push It
"/"Fuck the Pain Away
", and Peaches own "I Don't Give A...
" which interpolates
Joan Jett
's "Bad Reputation". As the leg continues, Garbage began to mix the running order around, moving "Right Between the Eyes" into the main set, and "Only Happy When it Rains" mid-set. A few different songs close the shows on alternate nights, including "When I Grow Up", "Cherry Lips", "Boys Wanna Fight" and "Stupid Girl". The band bring back both "#1 Crush" and "Shut Your Mouth" and towards the end of the tour, on a few nights Shirley performed b-side "Nobody Can Win" with Steve Marker
, and one-offs of their earlier "I Fall to Pieces" cover and Big Star
's "Thirteen
". On the final headline show at the Las Vegas Hard Rock Hotel, Garbage performed one-offs of "You Look So Fine" and "Milk", impromtu versions of "Wicked Ways" and "Silence is Golden" as well as a full run through of The Velvet Underground
's "I'm Waiting for the Man
" - with guitarist Duke Erikson
on vocals.
was a three-hour UK-televised concert featuring a multitude of current bands and pop artists performing short sets on the Weston-super-Mare
beachfront: due to the quick turnaroud time of the event, each act had to lipsynch their tracks. Later, in Trieste
, Italy
, Garbage performed a full live six-song set for Isle of MTV in the city's Piazza Unità d'Italia
, this show was broadcast across the continent. In late August, Garbage performed a full-length live show at WTTW Studios
, Chicago
in front of a studio audience
for the series Soundstage. The show aired on PBS
stations a year later on July 6, 2006.
, Catherine Yates of Kerrang!
, felt that "[the band] are still finding their feet after so long away" but noted that with their backcatologue that "when they chose to, this is a band who can crush a crowd". A week later, Kelefa Sanneh
of New York Times praised Manson's "appealingly feline performance" but was not positive about the band's new material. In a review of their Brixton Academy concert for The Guardian
, Ian Gittins wrote "Garbage's motor has long been the chippy insecurity of singer Shirley Manson, and the dexterity with which they translate this neurosis into in-your-face defiance. This defiance was plentiful in Brixton
, where lukewarm reviews for their latest album did not stop the resurgent group scorching through a fiery and frequently inspirational set". XFM
's John Ford wrote of the band's Glastonbury performance "a revitalised Garbage pummel the Pyramid Stage as the sun goes down. [There was] a bizarre moment where Manson was actually dry humping a full-size latex sex doll. Weird, captivating and down-right good fun."
Alternative rock
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group Garbage
Garbage (band)
Garbage are an alternative rock band formed in Madison, Wisconsin in 1994. The group consists of Scottish singer Shirley Manson and American musicians Duke Erikson , Steve Marker and Butch Vig . All four members are involved in songwriting and production...
. The tour launched in Paris
Paris
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, France
France
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and took the band throughout North America
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, Europe
Europe
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and Australia
Australia
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in support of the band's fourth studio album
Studio album
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Bleed Like Me
Bleed Like Me
Bleed Like Me is the fourth studio album recorded and produced by alternative rock group Garbage. It was released in April 2005 by Warner Bros...
which was released internationally in April 2005. The tour took in combinations of headline performances, slots on the bills at rock festivals, television
Television
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and radio shows. After being initially organised low-key, the tour snowballed into bigger venues when the parent album and its lead single "Why Do You Love Me
Why Do You Love Me
"Why Do You Love Me" is a 2005 song written, performed and produced by alternative rock band Garbage and was released worldwide as the lead single to promote their fourth studio album Bleed Like Me...
" became surprise hits internationally. The tour concluded in Perth, Western Australia
Perth, Western Australia
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....
after six months on the road; when the tour leg of dates in France, Belgium
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and United Kingdom
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were cancelled. A press statement from the band stated that they had "somewhat overextended themselves".
Former Janes Addiction bassist Eric Avery
Eric Avery
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left his position as a member of Alanis Morissette
Alanis Morissette
Alanis Nadine Morissette is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, record producer, and actress. She has won 16 Juno Awards and seven Grammy Awards, was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards and also shortlisted for an Academy Award nomination...
's backing band to perform bass guitar
Bass guitar
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for the duration of the tour. Matt Walker
Matt Walker (drummer)
Matt Walker is a musician and former drummer for Filter, The Smashing Pumpkins and current drummer for Morrissey.Matt Walker began his career in Chicago in the mid 80s, when Matt began playing drums for the already well known Scott Bennett of Scott Bennett & The Obvious and did double duty playing...
, who had performed on the Bleed Like Me album, covered on drums on a small number of North American shows. Walker had also covered for the band on a previous tour
Beautiful Garbage tour
The Beautiful Garbage tour was the third world concert tour cycle by American/Scottish alternative rock group Garbage, which took the band throughout North and Central America, Europe, Japan, Australia and New Zealand in support of its third album Beautiful Garbage.The Beautiful Garbage tour takes...
. A number of artists supported Garbage throughout the run of the tour, including The Dead 60's, JJ72
JJ72
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, Los Abandoned
Los Abandoned
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, Melatonine, Silo, Red Jezebel
Red Jezebel
Red Jezebel is a four piece indie rock band from Perth, Western Australia.-Early years:The band competed in the WA final of the Australian National Campus Band Competition at North Perth's Planet Nightclub in 1997...
and theSTART
TheSTART
TheStart is an American rock band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 1998. Their current lineup includes Aimee Echo, Jamie Miller, Lance Webber and Chelsea Davis.- Early history and Shakedown! :...
. During one festival appearance, Garbage performed four mash ups
Mashup (music)
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with Canadian electroclash
Electroclash
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musician Peaches
Peaches (musician)
Merrill Beth Nisker , better known by her stage name Peaches, is a Canadian electronic musician and performance artist who lives in Berlin, Germany. Her songs are noted for disregarding traditional gender norms and their use of sexually explicit lyrics...
.
Each performance on the tour was led-in by an intro-tape of Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash
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's posthumous cover version
Cover version
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"Hurt". The first three legs of the tour were documented by a film crew
Film crew
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, which was hosted as streaming video on the band's website
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, and as extra content on their single and album releases
Garbage discography
Garbage is a Scottish-American alternative rock band formed in Madison, Wisconsin in 1994. The group's discography consists of four studio albums, a greatest-hits compilation album, an extended play compilation, twenty-four singles, twenty-five music videos , and two music-video compilations...
. More of the footage was later incoporated into a full length documentary, Thanks for the Uhhh, Support, which was released on the band's 2007 greatest hits
Greatest hits
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DVD
DVD
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.
Tour itinerary
Garbage began a three-week promotional tour of Europe from March 19, during which time Garbage performed live tracks on various television and radio shows, prior to performing two warm-up headline clubNightclub
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shows in Paris
Paris
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(supported by local group Melatonine) and in London
London
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. The band then travelled to Germany
Germany
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to perform at WDR's Rochnacht televised concert, and also performed a full set for broadcast on Radio Fritz. A brief North American tour of theaters and clubs was scheduled to begin in Seattle on April 8 and end May 4 in Chicago
Chicago
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; however the band had picked up an influenza
Influenza
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infection while in Europe and cancelled the first show. The tour then re-started in San Francisco, heading down the Pacific coast
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and over to the Eastern Seaboard
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. The band then played two shows in Canada
Canada
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and then headed around the Midwest. The North American leg was eventually extended, ending on May 10 in Cleveland. Garbage then performed on the bill at the HFStival
HFStival
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in Baltimore
Baltimore
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. For the band's Atlanta show, local radio station
Radio station
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99x offered a competition prize of being Garbage’s tour manager
Tour Manager
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for the day, including traveling with Garbage from the hotel
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to the venue and participating in their sound check.
Garbage returned to Europe to perform for on the bills of numerous rock festivals across the continent over six weeks, kicking of on June 1 in Denmark
Denmark
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. During the run the band performed a few headline shows, such as a single date at London's Brixton Academy and at Barcelona
Barcelona
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's Razzmatazz. The band dedicated their Glastonbury
Glastonbury
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performance of "Right Between the Eyes" to Australian singer Kylie Minogue
Kylie Minogue
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who'd had to cancel her appearance on the same night after being diagnosed with breast cancer
Breast cancer
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. The run ended in Austria
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on July 15. Garbage returned to the United States
United States
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to perform at a few festivals, and made a three-date trek into Mexico
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where they were supported by local act Los Abandoned
Los Abandoned
Los Abandoned was an American alternative rock band from the Los Angeles, California area. The band's lyrics were in Spanish and English, or a combination of the two known as Spanglish...
, and performed an entire set in a TV studio for the series SoundStage. Garbage began a four-week series of shows on August 22 in Chicago
Chicago
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with California
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new wave
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band TheStart
TheSTART
TheStart is an American rock band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 1998. Their current lineup includes Aimee Echo, Jamie Miller, Lance Webber and Chelsea Davis.- Early history and Shakedown! :...
in support. The routing took the tour into a number of Canadian provinces, and then back south down the American west coast. The headline shows ended in Las Vegas on September 15.
Garbage performed at one last North American show, for KROQ
KROQ-FM
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's Inland Invasion festival before heading to Australia to perform seven shows at the end of that month with indie rock
Indie rock
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band Red Jezebel
Red Jezebel
Red Jezebel is a four piece indie rock band from Perth, Western Australia.-Early years:The band competed in the WA final of the Australian National Campus Band Competition at North Perth's Planet Nightclub in 1997...
in support. The final show in Perth
Perth, Western Australia
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....
on October 1 marked the end of the Bleed Like Me tour. A set of European concerts were announced for October, and subsequently cancelled.
Garbage disbanded at the end of the tour for an indefinite "hiatus". Manson told the press: "We feel that this has been a really great tour and we feel that we have really muscled through... we just want to take some time off while things are really good between us". Rumours abounded that the band had split, but Manson reassured that they were not interested in breaking up. Garbage spent the following five years inactive, aside from playing a short set at a Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
benefit concert, sporadic recording in 2007 for a greatest hits compilation
Absolute Garbage
Absolute Garbage is the 2007 greatest hits album released by alternative rock group Garbage. The album was compiled and released by Geffen imprint Almo Sounds through Universal Music Enterprises backcatalogue division in North America and Warner Music's record label A&E Records throughout the rest...
and in 2008 for a charity tribute album. The "hiatus" ended with an official reformation in 2010.
Tour production
Rehearsals for the Bleed Like Me tour took place during February and March 2005. Pre-production tasks included sourcing and programming the sounds and samples from Bleed Like Me into the band's samplersSampler (musical instrument)
A sampler is an electronic musical instrument similar in some respects to a synthesizer but, instead of generating sounds, it uses recordings of sounds that are loaded or recorded into it by the user and then played back by means of a keyboard, sequencer or other triggering device to perform or...
, synths
Synthesizer
A synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies. These electrical signals are played through a loudspeaker or set of headphones...
and drum triggers
Ddrum
ddrum is a division of Armadillo Enterprises, Inc. that manufactures drums, percussion, and electronic drum triggers.-Acoustic drums:ddrum is a sister company to Dean guitars and produces drums that fall into one of several series, each following a motif of beginning with the letter "d" and grouped...
and configuring settings for three sets of control gear and backline racks
Backline (stage)
The term backline used to refer just to audio amplification equipment that stands behind the band on stage, including amplifiers for guitars, bass guitars and keyboards. In the US, backline has expanded in recent years to include the instruments that the musicians play, from guitars and bass...
. Slightly different arrangements of older songs were composed, particularly for the intro section
Introduction (music)
In music, the introduction is a passage or section which opens a movement or a separate piece. In popular music this is often abbreviated as intro...
of "Only Happy When it Rains
Only Happy When It Rains
"Only Happy When It Rains" was a single written, recorded and produced by alternative rock group Garbage at their own recording studio, Smart Studios, in Madison, Wisconsin...
", the middle 8 of "Supervixen
Supervixen
"Supervixen" is a 1995 song written, recorded and produced by alternative rock group Garbage, and was the opening track of the band's self-titled debut album. "Supervixen" was titled after Russ Meyer's 1975 violent love-triangle movie Supervixens....
" and the coda
Coda (music)
Coda is a term used in music in a number of different senses, primarily to designate a passage that brings a piece to an end. Technically, it is an expanded cadence...
s of both "#1 Crush
Number One Crush
"#1 Crush" is a song by Garbage, released internationally on the b-side to their debut release "Vow", and in the United Kingdom on the b-side to second single "Subhuman"....
" and "Shut Your Mouth
Shut Your Mouth (Garbage song)
"Shut Your Mouth" is a 2001 alternative rock song by Garbage, written and recorded for their third studio album Beautiful Garbage. "Shut Your Mouth" was the album opener; it was also released as its fourth and final single....
". Due to having limited rehearsal time, Garbage were only able to prepare an initial setlist of around fifteen songs.
Garbage operated a "quiet stage" by removing wedges, side-fills and live backline
Guitar amplifier
A guitar amplifier is an electronic amplifier designed to make the signal of an electric or acoustic guitar louder so that it will produce sound through a loudspeaker...
from their stage set-up. The absence of monitors meant zero stage volume - if the P.A.
P.A.
P.A. are a southern hip hop trio, part of the Atlanta-based Dungeon Family. Its members include Mello, K.P. and Big Reese.-Discography:*Ghetto Street Funk *Straight No Chase...
was switched off the only audible elements would be Manson's voice and the cymbals; and no monitor volume - instead, the band utilised Sennheiser
Sennheiser
Sennheiser electronic GmbH & Co. KG is a private German audio company specializing in the design and production of a wide range of both consumer and high fidelity products, including microphones, headphones, telephony accessories, and avionics headsets for consumer, professional, and business...
IEMs
In-ear monitor
In-ear monitors are devices used by musicians, audio engineers and audiophiles to listen to music or to hear a custom crafted mix of vocals and stage instrumentation for live performance or recording studio mixing...
to monitor their live sound. The use of digital technology in the band's in-ear mixes and F.O.H. mix meant that instead of a multitude of manual settings needing restored at each soundcheck
Soundcheck
A soundcheck is the preparation that takes place before a concert, speech, or similar performance, when the performer and the sound crew run through a small portion of the upcoming show on the venue's sound system to make sure that the sound in the venue's "Front Of House" and stage monitor sound...
, the band's FOH and monitor engineers only had to recall the last session
Session management
In human-computer interaction, session management is the process of keeping track of a user's activity across sessions of interaction with the computer system....
from the previous night. Each performance was recorded in the DSD
Direct Stream Digital
Direct-Stream Digital is the trademark name used by Sony and Philips for their system of recreating audible signals which uses pulse-density modulation encoding, a technology to store audio signals on digital storage media which is used for the Super Audio CD .The signal is stored as delta-sigma...
format by taking a data dump from the mixing console
Mixing console
In professional audio, a mixing console, or audio mixer, also called a sound board, mixing desk, or mixer is an electronic device for combining , routing, and changing the level, timbre and/or dynamics of audio signals. A mixer can mix analog or digital signals, depending on the type of mixer...
at 24-bit
Audio bit depth
In digital audio, bit depth describes the number of bits of information recorded for each sample. Bit depth directly corresponds to the resolution of each sample in a set of digital audio data...
/48k and saving the wave file onto disc for future reference.
Drum triggers were used extensively because Butch Vig
Butch Vig
Butch Vig is an American musician and record producer, best known internationally as the drummer of the Madison, Wisconsin-based alternative rock band Garbage and the producer of multi-platinum selling album Nevermind by Nirvana....
's drum kit
Drum kit
A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
s are silenced by filling the hollow interiors of the bass
Bass drum
Bass drums are percussion instruments that can vary in size and are used in several musical genres. Three major types of bass drums can be distinguished. The type usually seen or heard in orchestral, ensemble or concert band music is the orchestral, or concert bass drum . It is the largest drum of...
, snares
Snare drum
The snare drum or side drum is a melodic percussion instrument with strands of snares made of curled metal wire, metal cable, plastic cable, or gut cords stretched across the drumhead, typically the bottom. Pipe and tabor and some military snare drums often have a second set of snares on the bottom...
and tom-toms
Tom-tom drum
A tom-tom drum is a cylindrical drum with no snare.Although "tom-tom" is the British term for a child's toy drum, the name came originally from the Anglo-Indian and Sinhala; the tom-tom itself comes from Asian or Native American cultures...
with packing chips to enable the samplers to use drum sounds from studio versions. The cymbals were miked
Microphone
A microphone is an acoustic-to-electric transducer or sensor that converts sound into an electrical signal. In 1877, Emile Berliner invented the first microphone used as a telephone voice transmitter...
to capture their sound. To prevent the sound of the cymbals bleeding into Shirley Manson
Shirley Manson
Shirley Anne Manson is a Scottish recording artist and actress, best known internationally as the lead singer of the alternative rock band Garbage. For much of her international career Manson commuted between her home city of Edinburgh to the United States to record with Garbage but now lives and...
's vocal feed, the cymbals were insulated by a wrap-wround acrylic glass shield. To keep the stage lead-free, all electric
Electric guitar
An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
and bass guitars sported wireless units
Wireless
Wireless telecommunications is the transfer of information between two or more points that are not physically connected. Distances can be short, such as a few meters for television remote control, or as far as thousands or even millions of kilometers for deep-space radio communications...
. Guitar sounds were ran through effects unit
Effects unit
Effects units are electronic devices that alter how a musical instrument or other audio source sounds. Some effects subtly "color" a sound, while others transform it dramatically. Effects are used during live performances or in the studio, typically with electric guitar, keyboard and bass...
s direct to the soundboard
Mixing console
In professional audio, a mixing console, or audio mixer, also called a sound board, mixing desk, or mixer is an electronic device for combining , routing, and changing the level, timbre and/or dynamics of audio signals. A mixer can mix analog or digital signals, depending on the type of mixer...
; Manson also used a wireless mic. The band had performed in this fashion since the start of the Version 2.0 tour.
Stage lighting
Stage lighting
Modern stage lighting is a flexible tool in the production of theatre, dance, opera and other performance arts. Several different types of stage lighting instruments are used in the pursuit of the various principles or goals of lighting. Stage lighting has grown considerably in recent years...
was dictated by low budget
Budget
A budget is a financial plan and a list of all planned expenses and revenues. It is a plan for saving, borrowing and spending. A budget is an important concept in microeconomics, which uses a budget line to illustrate the trade-offs between two or more goods...
, using in-house
Music venue
A music venue is any location used for a concert or musical performance. Music venues range in size and location, from an outdoor bandshell or bandstand or a concert hall to an indoor sports stadium. Typically, different types of venues host different genres of music...
lighting rigs
Lighting control console
A lighting control console is an electronic device used in theatrical lighting design to control multiple lights at once...
for four different coloured backwashes
Stage lighting instrument
Stage lighting instruments are used in stage lighting to illuminate theatrical productions, concerts, and other performances taking place in live performance venues. They are also used to light television studios and sound stages.Many stagecraft terms vary between the United States and the United...
and two frontwashes (a no-colour and a red wash). The audience were also kept fairly well-lit in an effort to bring the audience closer to the band onstage. The show opening was notable for using very little light, matching the intro-tape of "Hurt" and the band's "Queer
Queer (Garbage song)
"Queer" is a 1995 song written, recorded and produced by alternative rock band Garbage and was the second international single to be taken from the band's multi-platinum debut studio album Garbage and followed up the band's debut hit "Vow"...
" to give a soft and gentle but ominous feel to the proceedings. The band's stage backdrop
Theatrical scenery
Theatrical scenery is that which is used as a setting for a theatrical production. Scenery may be just about anything, from a single chair to an elaborately re-created street, no matter how large or how small, whether or not the item was custom-made or is, in fact, the genuine item, appropriated...
featured a low-resolution LED curtain
LED stage lighting
LED stage lighting instruments are stage lighting instruments that use light-emitting diodes as a light source. LED instruments are an alternative to traditional stage lighting instruments which use halogen lamp or high-intensity discharge lamps...
supported by four 40" high-resolution plasma TV screens
Plasma display
A plasma display panel is a type of flat panel display common to large TV displays or larger. They are called "plasma" displays because the technology utilizes small cells containing electrically charged ionized gases, or what are in essence chambers more commonly known as fluorescent...
. Some of the footage was manipulated from the hardware's media server
Media Server
A media server refers either to a dedicated computer appliance or to a specialized application software, ranging from an enterprise class machine providing video on demand, to, more commonly, a small personal computer or NAS for the home, dedicated for storing various digital media .-Purpose:By...
, while some content was provided by music video director
Music video director
A music video director is driven by a given music track. These are called music videos and are then used as promotional tools for popular music singles...
Sophie Muller
Sophie Muller
Sophie Muller is a British music video director, noted for her long-time collaborations with artists like Sophie Ellis-Bextor, No Doubt, Sade, Shakira, Shakespears Sister, Garbage, Blur, Annie Lennox and Eurythmics.-Background:...
for specific songs, including close-up
Close-up
In filmmaking, television production, still photography and the comic strip medium a close-up tightly frames a person or an object. Close-ups are one of the standard shots used regularly with medium shots and long shots . Close-ups display the most detail, but they do not include the broader scene...
s of Manson's eyes for "Why Do You Love Me
Why Do You Love Me
"Why Do You Love Me" is a 2005 song written, performed and produced by alternative rock band Garbage and was released worldwide as the lead single to promote their fourth studio album Bleed Like Me...
."
Road crew
Road crew
The road crew are the technicians or support personnel who travel with a band on tour, usually in sleeper buses, and handle every part of the concert productions except actually performing the music with the musicians...
on the Bleed Like Me tour included: production manager/lighting tech Butch Allen, FOH engineer Tom Abraham, monitor engineer Clay Hutson, drum technician Chad Zaemisch and guitar tech Billy Bush
Billy Bush (producer)
Billy Bush is an American musician, audio engineer and record producer, best known as the sound engineer and live tech for the Madison, Wisconsin-based alternative rock band Garbage and the co-producer of albums Help Wanted by Eric Avery and Heart Burns by Tom Gabel.Bush was hired by Garbage in...
. Shows were booked by Jenna Adler at Creative Artists Agency, while the band's tour management
Tour Manager
A tour manager is the person who helps to organize the administration for a schedule of appearances of a musical group or artist at a sequence of venues .-Background:...
was overseen by Gayle Fine of Q Prime.
Tour dates
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| March 29, 2005 | Paris Paris Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region... |
France France The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France... |
Olympia Paris Olympia The Olympia is a music hall in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. Located at No. 28, Boulevard des Capucines, its closest métro/RER stations are Madeleine, Opéra, Havre – Caumartin and Auber.... |
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| March 30, 2005 | London London London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its... |
United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages... |
La Scala Scala (club) Scala is a nightclub in London, England, near King's Cross railway station.-History:The Scala was originally built as a cinema to the designs of H Courtney Constantine, but construction was interrupted by the First World War and it spent some time being used to manufacture aircraft parts, and as a... |
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| April 3, 2005 | Cologne Cologne Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the... |
Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate... |
Rocknacht, Palladium | |
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| April 8, 2005 | Seattle Seattle, Washington Seattle is the county seat of King County, Washington. With 608,660 residents as of the 2010 Census, Seattle is the largest city in the Northwestern United States. The Seattle metropolitan area of about 3.4 million inhabitants is the 15th largest metropolitan area in the country... |
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
Paramount Theatre Paramount Theatre (Seattle, Washington) The Paramount Theatre in Seattle, Washington is a 2,807-seat performing arts venue at 9th Avenue and Pine Street in Downtown Seattle in the United States of America. The theater originally opened March 1, 1928 as the Seattle Theatre with 3,000 seats, the theater was placed on the National Register... (Cancelled) |
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| April 10, 2005 | San Francisco San Francisco, California San Francisco , officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.15 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland... |
The Warfield The Warfield The Warfield, also known as The Warfield Theater, is a 2,300 seat music venue located at 982 Market Street, San Francisco, California. It was built as a vaudeville theater, and opened as the Loews Warfield on May 13, 1922.-History:... |
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| April 11, 2005 | Los Angeles Los Angeles, California Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California... |
Wiltern Theater | ||
| April 14, 2005 | Atlanta Atlanta, Georgia Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia. According to the 2010 census, Atlanta's population is 420,003. Atlanta is the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, which is home to 5,268,860 people and is the ninth largest metropolitan area in... |
The Tabernacle The Tabernacle The Tabernacle, informally known as The Tabby, is a mid-size concert hall, in the U.S. city of Atlanta, currently managed by concert promoter Live Nation... |
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| April 16, 2005 | Philadelphia Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Philadelphia is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Philadelphia County, with which it is coterminous. The city is located in the Northeastern United States along the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. It is the fifth-most-populous city in the United States,... |
Theater of Living Arts | ||
| April 17, 2005 | Boston | Avalon | ||
| April 19, 2005 | New York City | Hammerstein Ballroom Hammerstein Ballroom The Hammerstein Ballroom is a two-tiered, 12,000 square feet ballroom located within the Manhattan Center Studios on 311 West 34th Street in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States of America. It is known for its elegant appearance and excellent acoustical design... |
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| April 21, 2005 | Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution.... |
9:30 Club 9:30 Club Foo Fighters Promise to come back to D.C. and play the 9:30 ClubNightclub 9:30 is a nightclub and concert venue in Washington, D.C. Originally located at 930 F Street, NW, Washington, D.C., in the 1970s it was called the "Atlantis Club", and hosted primarily rock, New Wave, and punk bands... |
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| April 24, 2005 | Montreal | Canada Canada Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean... |
Métropolis Métropolis (concert hall) Métropolis is a major performing arts centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The Métropolis club is located in the central part of the city's downtown, on Sainte-Catherine Street between St-Dominique, and De Bullion Streets, in an area now known as the Quartier des Spectacles... |
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| April 25, 2005 | Toronto | Kool Haus | ||
| April 27, 2005 | Detroit Detroit, Michigan Detroit is the major city among the primary cultural, financial, and transportation centers in the Metro Detroit area, a region of 5.2 million people. As the seat of Wayne County, the city of Detroit is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan and serves as a major port on the Detroit River... |
United States | State Theater The Fillmore Detroit The Fillmore Detroit is a mixed-use entertainment venue operated by Live Nation. The Detroit Music Awards are held annually at The Fillmore Detroit in April. Built in 1925, the Fillmore Detroit was known for most of its history as the State Theatre, and prior to that as the Palms Theatre... |
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| April 28, 2005 | Milwaukee Milwaukee, Wisconsin Milwaukee is the largest city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin, the 28th most populous city in the United States and 39th most populous region in the United States. It is the county seat of Milwaukee County and is located on the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan. According to 2010 census data, the... |
Eagles Ballroom | ||
| April 29, 2005 | Minneapolis Minneapolis, Minnesota Minneapolis , nicknamed "City of Lakes" and the "Mill City," is the county seat of Hennepin County, the largest city in the U.S. state of Minnesota, and the 48th largest in the United States... |
First Avenue | ||
| May 1, 2005 | Madison Madison, Wisconsin Madison is the capital of the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the county seat of Dane County. It is also home to the University of Wisconsin–Madison.... |
Orpheum Theater Orpheum Theatre (Madison, Wisconsin) -Orpheum Theatre :The Orpheum Theatre is a live performance and musical theater in downtown Madison, Wisconsin, located at 216 State Street, one block from the Wisconsin State Capitol building.-History:... |
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| May 4, 2005 | Chicago | Metro Metro Chicago This page is about the concert hall; for the metro region surrounding Chicago, see Chicago metropolitan area.Metro is a concert hall at 3730 N. Clark Street in Chicago, Illinois that plays host to a variety of local, regional and national emerging bands and musicians. The Metro was first opened in... |
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| May 6, 2005 | Nashville Nashville, Tennessee Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the health care, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home... |
Ryman Auditorium Ryman Auditorium The Ryman Auditorium is a 2,362-seat live performance venue, located at 115 5th Avenue North, in Nashville, Tennessee and is best known as the historic home of the Grand Ole Opry.... |
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| May 7, 2005 | Cincinnati Cincinnati, Ohio Cincinnati is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio. Cincinnati is the county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located to north of the Ohio River at the Ohio-Kentucky border, near Indiana. The population within city limits is 296,943 according to the 2010 census, making it Ohio's... |
Madison Theater | ||
| May 9, 2005 | Columbus Columbus, Ohio Columbus is the capital of and the largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio. The broader metropolitan area encompasses several counties and is the third largest in Ohio behind those of Cleveland and Cincinnati. Columbus is the third largest city in the American Midwest, and the fifteenth largest city... |
Newport Music Hall Newport Music Hall The Newport Music Hall is a music venue located at 1722 North High Street, Columbus, Ohio, across the street from the Ohio Union of the Ohio State University. It is "America's Longest Continually Running Rock Club".... |
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| May 10, 2005 | Cleveland Cleveland, Ohio Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state. The city is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately west of the Pennsylvania border... |
Agora Theater Agora Theatre and Ballroom The Agora Theatre and Ballroom is a concert club located in Cleveland, Ohio. The Agora name was previously used by two other Cleveland venues in succession, the latter of which was destroyed by fire in 1984... |
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| May 15, 2005 | Baltimore | HFStival HFStival The HFStival is an annual Washington, D.C. / Baltimore, Maryland rock festival. Held every summer from 1990 through 2006 by radio station WHFS, and annually since 2010 in commemoration of the now-defunct station's legacy, the HFStival was at its peak the largest yearly music festival on the East... , M&T Bank Stadium M&T Bank Stadium M&T Bank Stadium is a multi-purpose football stadium located in Baltimore, Maryland. It is the home of the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League. The stadium is immediately adjacent to Oriole Park at Camden Yards, the home of the Baltimore Orioles. Served by the Hamburg Street station of... |
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| June 1, 2005 | Copenhagen Copenhagen Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region... |
Denmark Denmark Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark... |
K.B. Hallen K.B. Hallen K.B. Hallen was a multi-purpose venue in Copenhagen, Denmark. It was opened in 1938, but burned to the ground on 28 September 2011.It was named after Københavns Boldklub, Copenhagen's first ball-playing club, which was established in 1876.... |
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| June 2, 2005 | Amsterdam Amsterdam Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population... |
Netherlands Netherlands The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders... |
Paradiso Paradiso (Amsterdam) Paradiso is an iconic rock music venue and cultural center in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.-History:It is housed in a converted former church building that dates from the nineteenth century and that was used until 1965 as the meeting hall for a liberal Dutch religious group known as the "Vrije... |
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| June 4, 2005 | Nürburg Nürburg Nürburg is a town in the German district of Ahrweiler, in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It is also the name of the local castle, Burg Nürburg , which was built in the High Middle Ages. The town is best known for its 24 kilometer race track, the Nürburgring... |
Germany | Rock am Ring Festival Rock am Ring The Rock am Ring and Rock im Park festivals are two simultaneous rock music festivals held annually in Germany.... |
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| June 5, 2005 | Nuremberg Nuremberg Nuremberg[p] is a city in the German state of Bavaria, in the administrative region of Middle Franconia. Situated on the Pegnitz river and the Rhine–Main–Danube Canal, it is located about north of Munich and is Franconia's largest city. The population is 505,664... |
Rock im Park Festival | ||
| June 9, 2005 | London | United Kingdom | Brixton Academy | |
| June 10, 2005 | Castle Donington Castle Donington Castle Donington is a village, with a population of around 7000 in the North West of Leicestershire, part of the Derby postcode area and on the edge of the National Forest. It is the closest town to East Midlands Airport.-Transport and housing:... |
Download Festival Download Festival The Download Festival is a three day rock music festival held annually at Donington Park, England . It usually takes place in June... |
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| June 11, 2005 | Imola Imola thumb|250px|The Cathedral of Imola.Imola is a town and comune in the province of Bologna, located on the Santerno river, in the Emilia-Romagna region of north-central Italy... |
Italy Italy Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and... |
Heineken Jammin' Festival Heineken Jammin' Festival Heineken Jammin' Festival is a large live rock festival in Venice, Italy featuring international and Italian rock acts.It started in mid-June 1998 at the Imola Autodrome and has attracted attendances of more than 100,000 over the course of the three day event... |
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| June 14, 2005 | Barcelona Barcelona Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of... |
Spain Spain Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula... |
Razzmatazz | |
| June 15, 2005 | Madrid Madrid Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan... |
Riviera | ||
| June 16, 2005 | Valencia | Ecléctic Festival | ||
| June 18, 2005 | Paris | France | Europe 2 Live Virgin Radio (France) Virgin Radio is a French network of FM radio stations dedicated to Rock and Pop music, operating on 250 different frequencies across France. Its musical programming is closely related to the American Hot Adult Contemporary format... , Parc des Princes Parc des Princes The Parc des Princes is an all-seater football stadium located in the southwest of Paris, France. The venue, with a seating capacity of 48,712 spectators, has been the home of French football club Paris Saint-Germain since 1974. The current Parc des Princes was inaugurated on 4 June 1972, endowed... |
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| June 21, 2005 | Istanbul Istanbul Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and... |
Turkey Turkey Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe... |
RockIstanbul Festival RockIstanbul RockIstanbul is the name of an old large scale open air rock festival series annually had been organized in Istanbul, Turkey. Highlights from recent performers include Kraftwerk, Garbage, Megadeth, Faithless, Queensrÿche, Starsailor, and Anathema.-2005:... |
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| June 24, 2005 | Athens Athens Athens , is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state... |
Greece Greece Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe.... |
Rockwave Festival Rockwave Festival Rockwave Festival is a rock festival held in Malakassa, Greece, a few miles outside of Athens, Greece. It is one of the most famous music festivals in Greece. The festival's history begins back in 1995, but it had its popularity spread since 2004... |
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| June 24, 2005 | Évreux Évreux Évreux is a commune in the Eure department, of which it is the capital, in Haute Normandie in northern France.-History:In late Antiquity, the town, attested in the fourth century CE, was named Mediolanum Aulercorum, "the central town of the Aulerci", the Gallic tribe then inhabiting the area... |
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| June 26, 2005 | Pilton Pilton, Somerset Pilton is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated on the A361 road in the Mendip district, 3 miles south-west of Shepton Mallet and 6 miles east of Glastonbury. The village has a population of 935... |
United Kingdom | Glastonbury Festival Glastonbury Festival The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, commonly abbreviated to Glastonbury or even Glasto, is a performing arts festival that takes place near Pilton, Somerset, England, best known for its contemporary music, but also for dance, comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret and other arts.The... |
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| June 29, 2005 | Moscow Moscow Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent... |
Russia Russia Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects... |
Tuborg Live And Loud Tuborg GreenFest Tuborg GreenFest is an annual series of rock music events that takes place across Eastern Europe during the summer months. Since 2005, Danish beer makers Tuborg, part of the Carlsberg Group, have brought together well-known rock bands and artists for one-day festivals in Russia, Serbia and Ukraine... , Olimpiyskiy Olympic Stadium (Moscow arena) Olympic Stadium, known locally as the Olimpiyskiy or Olimpiski, is a large indoor arena, located in Moscow, Russia. It was built for the 1980 Summer Olympics and hosted the basketball and boxing events. A part of the Olimpiyskiy Sports Complex, it makes up one architectural ensemble with another... |
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| July 1, 2005 | Werchter Werchter Werchter is a small village in Belgium, belonging to the municipality of Rotselaar. It is site of the festival Rock Werchter. The origin of the place name is unknown but it's thought to be a watername.It is the birthplace of painter Cornelius Van Leemputten.... |
Belgium Belgium Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many... |
Rock Werchter Rock Werchter Rock Werchter is a Belgian annual music festival held in the village of Werchter, near Leuven, since 1974. It is one of the five biggest annual rock music festivals in Europe... |
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| July 2, 2005 | Belfort Belfort Belfort is a commune in the Territoire de Belfort department in Franche-Comté in northeastern France and is the prefecture of the department. It is located on the Savoureuse, on the strategically important natural route between the Rhine and the Rhône – the Belfort Gap or Burgundian Gate .-... |
France | Les Eurockéennes Eurockéennes The Eurockéennes de Belfort is one of France's largest rock music festivals. The Eurockéennes, a play on words involving the words rock and européennes , is a festival based in a nature reserve in Malsaucy near Belfort... |
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| July 3, 2005 | Montreaux | Switzerland Switzerland Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition.... |
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| July 5, 2005 | Český Brod Ceský Brod Český Brod is a town in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It is located 35 km east of Prague and had a population of 6,637 in 2005.Rock for People, an annual summer music festival was held in Český Brod from 1995 to 2006... |
Czech Republic Czech Republic The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest.... |
Rock for People Festival Rock for People Rock for People is one of the biggest rock festivals held annually in the Czech Republic. The festival began in 1995 in the town Český Brod. In 2007 it was moved to the unused airport of Hradec Králové and since that time has welcomed many Czech and world rock stars. In 2007 there were top star... |
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| July 6, 2005 | Budapest Budapest Budapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter... |
Hungary Hungary Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The... |
Petőfi Csarnok Petőfi Csarnok Petőfi Csarnok , often called PeCsa, is currently Budapest's only youth leisure center. Placed in the Városliget, it is a famous concert spot for pop/rock music, serving as home for hundreds of cultural programs, exhibitions, and fan clubs... |
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| July 8, 2005 | Novi Sad Novi Sad Novi Sad is the capital of the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina, and the administrative centre of the South Bačka District. The city is located in the southern part of Pannonian Plain on the Danube river.... |
Serbia Serbia Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans... |
EXIT Festival | |
| July 9, 2005 | Longchamps | France | Solidays Festival | |
| July 11, 2005 | Como Como Como is a city and comune in Lombardy, Italy.It is the administrative capital of the Province of Como.... |
Italy | The Rhythm of the Lake Festival, Cernobbio Villa Erba |
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| July 15, 2005 | Trencin Trencín Trenčín is a city in western Slovakia of the central Váh River valley near the Czech border, around from Bratislava. It has a population of more than 56,000, which makes it the ninth largest municipality of the country and is the seat of the Trenčín Region and the Trenčín District... |
Slovakia Slovakia The Slovak Republic is a landlocked state in Central Europe. It has a population of over five million and an area of about . Slovakia is bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south... |
Bažant Pohoda Festival Pohoda (music festival) Pohoda festival is an open-air summer music festival in Slovakia, first organized in 1997 in Trenčín. It is one of the biggest Slovak music events organized annually... |
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| July 16, 2005 | Wiesen Wiesen, Austria Wiesen is a village in the district of Mattersburg in Burgenland in Austria.-References:... |
Austria Austria Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the... |
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| North American concerts Support: Los Abandoned Los Abandoned Los Abandoned was an American alternative rock band from the Los Angeles, California area. The band's lyrics were in Spanish and English, or a combination of the two known as Spanglish... (Mexico Mexico The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of... only) |
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| July 27, 2005 | Costa Mesa Costa Mesa, California Costa Mesa is a city in Orange County, California. The population was 109,960 at the 2010 census. Since its incorporation in 1953, the city has grown from a semi-rural farming community of 16,840 to a primarily suburban and "edge" city with an economy based on retail, commerce, and light... |
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| July 29, 2005 | San Diego San Diego, California San Diego is the eighth-largest city in the United States and second-largest city in California. The city is located on the coast of the Pacific Ocean in Southern California, immediately adjacent to the Mexican border. The birthplace of California, San Diego is known for its mild year-round... |
Street Scene Street Scene (San Diego music festival) Street Scene was a music festival that was held each summer in San Diego, California from 1984 to 2009. Street Scene was one of America's largest annual music festivals, growing to include over 70 musical acts covering different musical genres and styles on multiple stages.-History:Beginning in... , Qualcomm Stadium Qualcomm Stadium Qualcomm Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium, in San Diego, California, in the Mission Valley area.... |
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| August 3, 2005 | Guadalajara Guadalajara Guadalajara may refer to:In Mexico:*Guadalajara, Jalisco, the capital of the state of Jalisco and second largest city in Mexico**Guadalajara Metropolitan Area*University of Guadalajara, a public university in Guadalajara, Jalisco... |
Mexico Mexico The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of... |
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| August 5, 2005 | Mexico City Mexico City Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole... |
Palacio de los Deportes Palacio de los Deportes Palacio de los Deportes is an indoor arena, located in Mexico City, Mexico, within the sports complex Magdalena Mixhuca Sports City, near the Mexico City International Airport and the Foro Sol, in which sports and artistic events are also celebrated. It is operated by Grupo CIE... |
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| August 7, 2005 | Monterrey Monterrey Monterrey , is the capital city of the northeastern state of Nuevo León in the country of Mexico. The city is anchor to the third-largest metropolitan area in Mexico and is ranked as the ninth-largest city in the nation. Monterrey serves as a commercial center in the north of the country and is the... |
Auditorio Coca-Cola Auditorio Coca-Cola Auditorio Banamex is an indoor amphitheatre, located in Fundidora Park, in Monterrey, Mexico. It was the primary venue for concerts until the Arena Monterrey opened in 2003. The amphitheatre opened in 1994 with a sponsorship by The Coca-Cola Company... |
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| August 13, 2005 | Atlanta Atlanta, Georgia Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia. According to the 2010 census, Atlanta's population is 420,003. Atlanta is the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, which is home to 5,268,860 people and is the ninth largest metropolitan area in... |
United States | 99X Downtown Rocks, Underground Atlanta Underground Atlanta Underground Atlanta is a shopping and entertainment district in the Five Points neighborhood of downtown Atlanta, Georgia, United States, near the intersection of the east and west MARTA rail lines. First opened in 1969, it takes advantage of the viaducts built over the city's many railroad tracks... |
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| August 20, 2005 | New York City | AmsterJam AmsterJam AmsterJam was an American rock festival based upon the concept of the mashup fad, by transferring it to the live stage and matching up two different artists to perform their own mashups - songs or compositions created by blending two or more songs together, usually by overlaying the vocal track of... , Randall's Island Randall's Island Randall's Island is situated in the East River in New York City, part of the borough of Manhattan. It is separated from Manhattan island on the west by the river's main channel, from Queens on the east by the Hell Gate, and from the Bronx on the north by the Bronx Kill. It is joined to Wards... |
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| August 22, 2005 | Chicago | United States | Vic Theater | |
| August 25, 2005 | Winnipeg | Canada | Burton Cummings Theater | |
| August 27, 2005 | Calgary | MacEwan Hall | ||
| August 28, 2005 | Edmonton | Red's Entertainment Complex | ||
| August 30, 2005 | Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom Commodore Ballroom The Commodore Ballroom is a renowned music venue, dance floor, and nightclub located on 800 block of Granville Street in Vancouver, British Columbia. The building was built in the Art Deco style of the late 1920s by George Conrad Reifel and designed by architect H.H. Gillingham. Best known for... |
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| September 2, 2005 | Seattle Seattle, Washington Seattle is the county seat of King County, Washington. With 608,660 residents as of the 2010 Census, Seattle is the largest city in the Northwestern United States. The Seattle metropolitan area of about 3.4 million inhabitants is the 15th largest metropolitan area in the country... |
United States | Bumbershoot Bumbershoot Bumbershoot is an annual international music and arts festival held in Seattle, Washington. One of North America's largest such festivals, it takes place every Labor Day weekend at the 74-acre Seattle Center, which was built for the 1962 World's Fair. Seattle Center includes indoor theaters,... , Seattle Center Seattle Center Seattle Center is a park and arts and entertainment center in Seattle, Washington. The campus is the site used in 1962 by the Century 21 Exposition. It is located just north of Belltown in the Lower Queen Anne neighborhood.-Attractions:... |
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| September 3, 2005 | Portland Portland, Oregon Portland is a city located in the Pacific Northwest, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 583,776, making it the 29th most populous city in the United States... |
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall The Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall , opened as the Portland Publix Theater before becoming the Paramount after 1930, is a historic theater building and performing arts center in Portland, Oregon, United States... |
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| September 6, 2005 | Reno Reno, Nevada Reno is the county seat of Washoe County, Nevada, United States. The city has a population of about 220,500 and is the most populous Nevada city outside of the Las Vegas metropolitan area... |
Hilton Amphitheater Grand Sierra Resort The Grand Sierra Resort & Casino is a resort hotel located approximately three miles east of Downtown Reno, Nevada. The hotel has 2,001 guest rooms and suites, 10 restaurants, including two by celebrity chef Charlie Palmer, and a casino with of space... |
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| September 7, 2005 | Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, California Santa Cruz is the county seat and largest city of Santa Cruz County, California in the US. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, Santa Cruz had a total population of 59,946... |
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| September 10, 2005 | San Francisco | Warfield Theater | ||
| September 11, 2005 | Fresno Fresno, California Fresno is a city in central California, United States, the county seat of Fresno County. As of the 2010 census, the city's population was 510,365, making it the fifth largest city in California, the largest inland city in California, and the 34th largest in the nation... |
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| September 12, 2005 | Phoenix Phoenix, Arizona Phoenix is the capital, and largest city, of the U.S. state of Arizona, as well as the sixth most populated city in the United States. Phoenix is home to 1,445,632 people according to the official 2010 U.S. Census Bureau data... |
Dodge Theater Dodge Theater Comerica Theatre is an indoor concert hall and arena in Phoenix. The venue seats 5,500 people and hosts many musical artists and shows... |
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| September 14, 2005 | San Diego | SOMA Soma San Diego SOMA is a popular all-ages concert venue in the Midway District area of San Diego, California, right next to the San Diego Sports Arena. Over the years it has become one of the more popular concert venues in the city. Claiming to be one of the best all ages venue in the "SoCal" music scene, Soma... |
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| September 15, 2005 | Las Vegas Las Vegas, Nevada Las Vegas is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and is also the county seat of Clark County, Nevada. Las Vegas is an internationally renowned major resort city for gambling, shopping, and fine dining. The city bills itself as The Entertainment Capital of the World, and is famous... |
The Joint The Joint (music venue) The Joint is a 4,000 seat showroom located inside the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Paradise, Nevada. This is a common venue for classic rock and modern rock bands in the Las Vegas metropolitan area.... , Hard Rock Casino |
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| September 17, 2005 | Devore Devore, California Devore is a neighborhood in the city of San Bernardino, California. It is located near the northern junction of Interstate 15 and Interstate 215. The area is just outside the boundaries of the San Bernardino National Forest; nearby cities/town centers include Universitytown, Fontana, and Rialto... |
KROQ Inland Invasion, Hyundai Pavilion |
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| Australia Support acts: Silo and Red Jezebel Red Jezebel Red Jezebel is a four piece indie rock band from Perth, Western Australia.-Early years:The band competed in the WA final of the Australian National Campus Band Competition at North Perth's Planet Nightclub in 1997... |
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| September 21, 2005 | Canberra Canberra Canberra is the capital city of Australia. With a population of over 345,000, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth-largest city overall. The city is located at the northern end of the Australian Capital Territory , south-west of Sydney, and north-east of Melbourne... |
Australia Australia Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area... |
Royal Theatre Canberra Theatre The Canberra Theatre Centre is the Australian Capital Territory’s central performing arts venue and Australia’s first performing arts centre, the first Australian Government initiated performing arts centre to be completed, that opened on Thursday 24 June 1965 with a gala performance by the... |
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| September 23, 2005 | Sydney Sydney Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people... |
Hordern Pavilion Hordern Pavilion The Hordern Pavilion is a building located in Moore Park, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, on the grounds of the old Sydney Showground. "The Hordern", as it is affectionally known by Sydneysiders, has been an architecturally and socially significant Sydney landmark since its construction in 1924... |
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| September 24, 2005 | Brisbane Brisbane Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of... |
Convention Centre Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre The Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre is Australia’s most awarded venue and has been officially ranked among the world’s top three convention centres on three separate occasions.... |
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| September 26, 2005 | St Kilda St Kilda, Victoria St Kilda is an inner city suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 6 km south from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Port Phillip... |
Palais Theatre Palais Theatre The Palais Theatre is a former cinema, now functioning exclusively as a concert venue, located in St Kilda, Victoria, Australia. With a capacity of 2,896 people, it is the largest seated theatre in Australia.... |
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| September 28, 2005 | Melbourne Melbourne Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater... |
Forum Theatre Forum Theatre The Forum Theatre is a theatre located on the corner of Flinders Street and Russell Street in the central business district of Melbourne, Australia. The building was designed by American architect John Eberson, who has designed many theatres across the globe, along with a local architectural firm... |
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| September 29, 2005 | Adelaide Adelaide Adelaide is the capital city of South Australia and the fifth-largest city in Australia. Adelaide has an estimated population of more than 1.2 million... |
Adelaide Festival Centre Adelaide Festival Centre The Adelaide Festival Centre, Australia's first multi-purpose arts centre, was built in 1973 and opened three months before the Sydney Opera House. The Festival Centre is located approximately 50 metres north of the corner of North Terrace and King William Street, lying near the banks of the River... |
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| October 1, 2005 | Perth Perth, Western Australia Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000.... |
Burswood Theater Burswood Entertainment Complex The Burswood Entertainment Complex is located on the Swan River near the city of Perth, Western Australia, and is owned by Crown Limited. The complex includes a 24-hour casino, seven restaurants, eight bars, a nightclub, two international hotels , a Convention Centre, Theatre and the Burswood Dome... |
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| October 6, 2005 | Kortrijk Kortrijk Kortrijk ; , ; ) is a Belgian city and municipality located in the Flemish province West Flanders... |
Belgium | Xpo Kortrijk Xpo Kortrijk Xpo is one of the biggest multi-purpose indoor arenas and convention centres in the BENELUX, covering some 55,000m³ . The complex is situated in the city of Kortrijk, Belgium and is home to some internationally renowned fairs, like the Kortrijk design fair Interieur and Busworld.- History... (Canceled) |
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| October 8, 2005 | Montpellier Montpellier -Neighbourhoods:Since 2001, Montpellier has been divided into seven official neighbourhoods, themselves divided into sub-neighbourhoods. Each of them possesses a neighbourhood council.... |
France | Le Zénith (Canceled) | |
| October 9, 2005 | Lyon Lyon Lyon , is a city in east-central France in the Rhône-Alpes region, situated between Paris and Marseille. Lyon is located at from Paris, from Marseille, from Geneva, from Turin, and from Barcelona. The residents of the city are called Lyonnais.... |
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| October 10, 2005 | Paris | Le Zénith (Canceled) | ||
| October 12, 2005 | Manchester Manchester Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Manchester was 498,800. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas, the metropolitan county of Greater... |
United Kingdom | The Apollo Manchester Apollo O2 Apollo Manchester is a concert venue in Manchester, England. Locally known as The Apollo, it is a listed building, with a capacity of 3,500 .... (Canceled) |
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| October 14, 2005 | Cardiff Cardiff Cardiff is the capital, largest city and most populous county of Wales and the 10th largest city in the United Kingdom. The city is Wales' chief commercial centre, the base for most national cultural and sporting institutions, the Welsh national media, and the seat of the National Assembly for... |
Arena Cardiff International Arena The Cardiff International Arena was opened on 10 September 1993, by Shirley Bassey, in front of 5,500 fans. On 1 March 2011, the Cardiff International Arena was officially renamed Motorpoint Arena Cardiff, after the car sales company with a branch in Newport bought the naming rights to the Cardiff... (Canceled) |
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| October 16, 2005 | Portsmouth Portsmouth Portsmouth is the second largest city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire on the south coast of England. Portsmouth is notable for being the United Kingdom's only island city; it is located mainly on Portsea Island... |
Guildhall Portsmouth Guildhall Portsmouth Guildhall is the biggest events venue in the Hampshire city of Portsmouth in England. The building, completed in 1890, was designed in the neo-classical style by architect William Hill, who had earlier been responsible for the design of the town hall in Bolton... (Canceled) |
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| October 17, 2005 | London | Hammersmith Apollo Hammersmith Apollo Hammersmith Apollo is a major entertainment venue located in Hammersmith, London. Designed by Robert Cromie in Art Deco style, it opened in 1932 as the Gaumont Palace cinema, being re-named the Hammersmith Odeon in 1962... (Canceled) |
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| October 20, 2005 | Birmingham Birmingham Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a... |
National Indoor Arena National Indoor Arena The National Indoor Arena is a large indoor arena and is owned by the NEC Group. It is situated in central Birmingham, England and was opened in 1991, as the largest indoor arena at the time in the UK... (Canceled) |
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| October 22, 2005 | Glasgow Glasgow Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands... |
Academy (Canceled) | ||
| October 23, 2005 | Edinburgh Edinburgh Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland, the second largest city in Scotland, and the eighth most populous in the United Kingdom. The City of Edinburgh Council governs one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas. The council area includes urban Edinburgh and a rural area... |
Usher Hall Usher Hall Usher Hall is a concert hall, situated on Lothian Road, in the west end of Edinburgh, Scotland. It has hosted concerts and events since its construction in 1914 and can hold approximately 2,900 people in its recently restored auditorium, which is well loved by performers due to its acoustics... (Canceled) |
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a Butch Vig
Butch Vig
Butch Vig is an American musician and record producer, best known internationally as the drummer of the Madison, Wisconsin-based alternative rock band Garbage and the producer of multi-platinum selling album Nevermind by Nirvana....
was absent from this concert due to the death of his mother; he was replaced by Matt Walker
Matt Walker (drummer)
Matt Walker is a musician and former drummer for Filter, The Smashing Pumpkins and current drummer for Morrissey.Matt Walker began his career in Chicago in the mid 80s, when Matt began playing drums for the already well known Scott Bennett of Scott Bennett & The Obvious and did double duty playing...
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Setlists
The first full concert show on the tour took place in the Paris OlympiaParis Olympia
The Olympia is a music hall in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. Located at No. 28, Boulevard des Capucines, its closest métro/RER stations are Madeleine, Opéra, Havre – Caumartin and Auber....
music hall. The eighteen song setlist featured a mix of songs from the band's first three albums, as well as debuting five Bleed Like Me cuts. The show opened with an album-faithful arrangement of "Queer
Queer (Garbage song)
"Queer" is a 1995 song written, recorded and produced by alternative rock band Garbage and was the second international single to be taken from the band's multi-platinum debut studio album Garbage and followed up the band's debut hit "Vow"...
", a song the band hadn't performed live since 1999. Only two tracks from the band's previous album, Beautiful Garbage, make the set - both are noticeably reworked with heavier lead guitar
Lead guitar
Lead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure...
. Shirley Manson incorporated elements of Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Yeah Yeah Yeahs are an American indie rock band formed in New York City in 2000. The group is composed of vocalist and pianist Karen O, guitarist and keyboardist Nick Zinner, and drummer Brian Chase. They are complemented in live performances by second guitarist David Pajo, who joined as a touring...
' "Maps
Maps (song)
"Maps" is a single by The Yeah Yeah Yeahs from their debut full-length album, Fever to Tell . The song is about the relationship between Liars frontman Angus Andrew and Yeah Yeah Yeahs lead singer Karen O; the title is actually an acronym of the words "My Angus Please Stay". It was released on...
", Bright Eyes' "Lover I Don't Have to Love
Lover I Don't Have to Love
"Lover I Don't Have to Love" is a song by Bright Eyes released as a single in 2002 and released on the album Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground....
" into her performances of "Vow
Vow (Garbage song)
"Vow" is a 1994 song written, recorded and produced by alternative rock band Garbage and was released as their debut single in early 1995. The song, which had its themes of revenge and retaliation inspired by a newspaper article on domestic abuse, began as a demo during sessions between band...
" while a sample from the John Lennon
John Lennon
John Winston Lennon, MBE was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music...
documentary Gimme Some Turth opens "Hammering in My Head". After the first show, "#1 Crush
Number One Crush
"#1 Crush" is a song by Garbage, released internationally on the b-side to their debut release "Vow", and in the United Kingdom on the b-side to second single "Subhuman"....
" is dropped from the set, with "Cherry Lips
Cherry Lips
"Cherry Lips", also known as "Cherry Lips " is a 2001 song written, recorded and produced by alternative rock group Garbage for their third studio album, Beautiful Garbage. It was released the following year by Mushroom Records as the albums second international single, with the exception of North...
" moved back into the encore
Encore (concert)
An encore is an additional performance added to the end of a concert, from the French "encore", which means "again", "some more"; multiple encores are not uncommon. Encores originated spontaneously, when audiences would continue to applaud and demand additional performance from the artist after the...
to take its place. "Right Between the Eyes" ends the shows and continues as the set closer for the majority of the tour's duration.
The first five North American shows followed the initial setlist launched in Europe, although "When I Grow Up" is part of the encore for a few of the first nights. On the sixth show, in Boston's Avalon Theater, Garbage debut both "Run Baby Run" and "Metal Heart" from the new record. Two shows later, in Washington D.C.'s 9:30 Club
9:30 Club
Foo Fighters Promise to come back to D.C. and play the 9:30 ClubNightclub 9:30 is a nightclub and concert venue in Washington, D.C. Originally located at 930 F Street, NW, Washington, D.C., in the 1970s it was called the "Atlantis Club", and hosted primarily rock, New Wave, and punk bands...
, both "Shut Your Mouth
Shut Your Mouth (Garbage song)
"Shut Your Mouth" is a 2001 alternative rock song by Garbage, written and recorded for their third studio album Beautiful Garbage. "Shut Your Mouth" was the album opener; it was also released as its fourth and final single....
" and "Special
Special (Garbage song)
"Special" is an alternative rock song written, performed and produced by Garbage, and was the third international single to be released from the band's platinum second album Version 2.0...
" have been dropped from the setlist to accommodate the new songs. "Sex Is Not the Enemy
Sex Is Not the Enemy
"Sex Is Not the Enemy" was a single released from Garbage's fourth album Bleed Like Me in June 2005 in United Kingdom. It was released as joint-second single from the album—around the same time the song "Bleed Like Me" was released in the U.S. and there was a parallel release for "Run Baby...
" and "When I Grow Up" are moved from the encore to the main set. "Metal Heart" became an regular encore from this point while "Run Baby Run" is only intermittently performed. Near the end of the run, the band perform a cover version
Cover version
In popular music, a cover version or cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording of a contemporary or previously recorded, commercially released song or popular song...
of Patsy Cline
Patsy Cline
Patsy Cline , born Virginia Patterson Hensley in Gore, Virginia, was an American country music singer who enjoyed pop music crossover success during the era of the Nashville sound in the early 1960s...
's "I Fall to Pieces
I Fall to Pieces
"I Fall to Pieces" is a single released by Patsy Cline in 1961, and was featured on her 1961 studio album, Patsy Cline Showcase. "I Fall to Pieces" was Cline's first #1 hit on the Country charts, and her second hit single to cross over onto the Pop charts...
" in the encores of both the Nashville
Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the health care, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home...
Ryman Auditorium
Ryman Auditorium
The Ryman Auditorium is a 2,362-seat live performance venue, located at 115 5th Avenue North, in Nashville, Tennessee and is best known as the historic home of the Grand Ole Opry....
and Colombus Newport Music Hall
Newport Music Hall
The Newport Music Hall is a music venue located at 1722 North High Street, Columbus, Ohio, across the street from the Ohio Union of the Ohio State University. It is "America's Longest Continually Running Rock Club"....
shows.
The European summer shows featured a mix of Garbage's own shows in addition to headlining performances and/or mid-bills at various rock festivals across the continent. Mid-bills necessitated a cut in the setlist to accommodate for shorter playing times, including dropping "Queer" and starting the show on "Bad Boyfriend" on a few occasions. "Run Baby Run", as the band's then-forthcoming European single release
Single (music)
In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...
, returned to the main-set for a short time, while "Special" intermittently returned as an encore. While "Not My Idea", from the band's debut album
Garbage (album)
Garbage is the debut album by Scottish/American alternative rock group Garbage. It was released in the late summer and autumn of 1995 worldwide, following critical acclaim and promising chart positions for their debut single "Vow", which entered the Billboard Hot 100.Garbage eventually spent over a...
, made a return to the set for the first time since 2002 on the second show of the European leg at Amsterdam
Amsterdam
Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...
's Paradiso
Paradiso (Amsterdam)
Paradiso is an iconic rock music venue and cultural center in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.-History:It is housed in a converted former church building that dates from the nineteenth century and that was used until 1965 as the meeting hall for a liberal Dutch religious group known as the "Vrije...
; "Supervixen
Supervixen
"Supervixen" is a 1995 song written, recorded and produced by alternative rock group Garbage, and was the opening track of the band's self-titled debut album. "Supervixen" was titled after Russ Meyer's 1975 violent love-triangle movie Supervixens....
" is dropped three shows into the leg. Over the course of the leg, Manson incorporated lines from "Singin' in the Rain
Singin' in the Rain
Singin' in the Rain is a 1952 American comedy musical film starring Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor and Debbie Reynolds and directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, with Kelly also providing the choreography...
" into the intro of "Only Happy When it Rains
Only Happy When It Rains
"Only Happy When It Rains" was a single written, recorded and produced by alternative rock group Garbage at their own recording studio, Smart Studios, in Madison, Wisconsin...
". At the band's show at London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
's Brixton Academy, Shirley Manson performed a verse from Cole Porter
Cole Porter
Cole Albert Porter was an American composer and songwriter. Born to a wealthy family in Indiana, he defied the wishes of his domineering grandfather and took up music as a profession. Classically trained, he was drawn towards musical theatre...
's "My Heart Belongs to Daddy
My Heart Belongs to Daddy
"My Heart Belongs to Daddy" is a song written by Cole Porter, for the 1938 musical Leave It to Me! which premiered on Nov 9, 1938. It was performed by Mary Martin who played Dolly Winslow, the young protégée of an elderly ambassador, Alonzo P. Goodhue...
" to mark her father's birthday. At Madrid
Madrid
Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
's Riviera, Garbage played a rare second encore including "Supervixen", "Shut Your Mouth" and a one-off performance of Version 2.0
Version 2.0
Version 2.0 is the second album by alternative rock group Garbage. It was released worldwide in May 1998 by Mushroom Records UK and in North America by Almo Sounds. Version 2.0 was the follow-up to the band's multi-platinum debut album Garbage. Despite a slow start, Version 2.0 went on to equal its...
album closer "You Look So Fine
You Look So Fine
"You Look So Fine" is a single released in 1999, and was the final single taken from Garbage's second album Version 2.0, where it was also the closing track...
".
Garbage's return to North America saw the band debut the last three songs from Bleed Like Me live: "Boys Wanna Fight", "Why Don't You Come Over" and "Happy Home" at Costa Mesa's Orange County Fair. While the former and latter continue in the set, "Why Don't You Come Over" is dropped from the set after a single performance. At New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
's AmsterJam
AmsterJam
AmsterJam was an American rock festival based upon the concept of the mashup fad, by transferring it to the live stage and matching up two different artists to perform their own mashups - songs or compositions created by blending two or more songs together, usually by overlaying the vocal track of...
mash-up
Mashup (music)
A mashup or bootleg is a song or composition created by blending two or more pre-recorded songs, usually by overlaying the vocal track of one song seamlessly over the instrumental track of another...
event, Garbage are joined onstage mid-set by Peaches; both artists perform mash-ups of three Garbage and Peaches works: "Why Do You Love Me"/"Rock Show", "Shut Your Mouth"/"Shake Yer Dix
Shake Yer Dix
"Shake Yer Dix" is an electroclash song written and produced by Peaches, and featuring Mignon. The song was originally released as part of a double limited vinyl A-side along with the song "Operate"...
", "Push It
Push It (Garbage song)
"Push It" is a 1998 song written, produced and performed by alternative rock group Garbage. "Push It" was the lead single released from their second album Version 2.0, in part to bridge the style evolution between the second album and their debut, and to start the campaign with a credible,...
"/"Fuck the Pain Away
Fuck the Pain Away
"Fuck the Pain Away" is an electroclash song by Peaches. It is considered her breakthrough song, and because of its widespread licensing in films as well as numerous official and unofficial cover versions is held by many of her fans to be responsible for her increasing popularity...
", and Peaches own "I Don't Give A...
Fatherfucker
Fatherfucker is the third studio album by Canadian recording artist Peaches, released on September 23, 2003 by XL Recordings. Cover versions of Electric Six's "Gay Bar" and Berlin's "Sex " are included as bonus tracks.-Writing and development:...
" which interpolates
Interpolation
In the mathematical field of numerical analysis, interpolation is a method of constructing new data points within the range of a discrete set of known data points....
Joan Jett
Joan Jett
Joan Jett is an American rock guitarist, singer, songwriter, producer and actress.She is best known for her work with Joan Jett & the Blackhearts including their hit cover "I Love Rock 'n' Roll", which was #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 from March 20 to May 1, 1982, as well as for their other popular...
's "Bad Reputation". As the leg continues, Garbage began to mix the running order around, moving "Right Between the Eyes" into the main set, and "Only Happy When it Rains" mid-set. A few different songs close the shows on alternate nights, including "When I Grow Up", "Cherry Lips", "Boys Wanna Fight" and "Stupid Girl". The band bring back both "#1 Crush" and "Shut Your Mouth" and towards the end of the tour, on a few nights Shirley performed b-side "Nobody Can Win" with Steve Marker
Steve Marker
Steve Marker is an American musician and record producer, best known internationally as the guitarist of the Madison, Wisconsin-based alternative rock band Garbage.-Early life:...
, and one-offs of their earlier "I Fall to Pieces" cover and Big Star
Big Star
Big Star was an American rock band formed in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1971 by Alex Chilton, Chris Bell, Jody Stephens and Andy Hummel. The group broke up in 1974, but reorganized with a new line-up nearly 20 years later...
's "Thirteen
Thirteen (song)
"Thirteen" is a song by the American rock band Big Star. Rolling Stone describes it "one of rock's most beautiful celebrations of adolescence", and rated it #396 in a list of the 500 greatest songs of all time...
". On the final headline show at the Las Vegas Hard Rock Hotel, Garbage performed one-offs of "You Look So Fine" and "Milk", impromtu versions of "Wicked Ways" and "Silence is Golden" as well as a full run through of The Velvet Underground
The Velvet Underground
The Velvet Underground was an American rock band formed in New York City. First active from 1964 to 1973, their best-known members were Lou Reed and John Cale, who both went on to find success as solo artists. Although experiencing little commercial success while together, the band is often cited...
's "I'm Waiting for the Man
I'm Waiting for the Man
"I'm Waiting for the Man" is a song by the American rock band The Velvet Underground, written by Lou Reed. It was first released on their 1967 debut album, The Velvet Underground & Nico....
" - with guitarist Duke Erikson
Duke Erikson
Douglas Elwin Erickson , better known as Duke Erikson, is a founding member of the band Garbage. At 16 years old he formed his first band, The British. Erickson studied art history, and financed his studies with numerous jobs such as carpenter or truck driver...
on vocals.
Promotional performances
Garbage performed on a number of TV shows and radio stations during the tour to promote Bleed Like Me and its singles. While some were fully set up live band performances, a number of them were lipsynched when the host studios were not able to accommodate the band's live equipment. One televised event, T4 on the BeachT4 on the Beach
T4 On The Beach is a British one day music event which is held on the beach at Weston-super-Mare and televised for Channel 4. The event began in 2003 as Pop Beach in Great Yarmouth, changing to the current title and venue in 2005....
was a three-hour UK-televised concert featuring a multitude of current bands and pop artists performing short sets on the Weston-super-Mare
Weston-super-Mare
Weston-super-Mare is a seaside resort, town and civil parish in the unitary authority of North Somerset, which is within the ceremonial county of Somerset, England. It is located on the Bristol Channel coast, south west of Bristol, spanning the coast between the bounding high ground of Worlebury...
beachfront: due to the quick turnaroud time of the event, each act had to lipsynch their tracks. Later, in Trieste
Trieste
Trieste is a city and seaport in northeastern Italy. It is situated towards the end of a narrow strip of land lying between the Adriatic Sea and Italy's border with Slovenia, which lies almost immediately south and east of the city...
, Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
, Garbage performed a full live six-song set for Isle of MTV in the city's Piazza Unità d'Italia
Piazza Unità d'Italia
Piazza Unità d'Italia is the main town square in Trieste, Italy. It is situated at the foot of the hill containing the castle of San Giusto and the square faces the Adriatic Sea. The square is often said to be Europe's largest square located next to the sea...
, this show was broadcast across the continent. In late August, Garbage performed a full-length live show at WTTW Studios
WTTW
WTTW channel 11 is one of three Public Broadcasting Service member public television stations serving the Chicago, Illinois market; the others are WYCC and WYIN. WTTW began broadcasting on September 6, 1955 and it is owned and operated by Window to the World Communications, Inc., a not-for-profit...
, Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
in front of a studio audience
Studio audience
A studio audience is an audience present for the taping of all or part of a television program. The primary purpose of the studio audience is to provide applause and/or laughter to the program's soundtrack . A studio audience can also provide volunteers, a visual backdrop and discussion participants...
for the series Soundstage. The show aired on PBS
Public Broadcasting Service
The Public Broadcasting Service is an American non-profit public broadcasting television network with 354 member TV stations in the United States which hold collective ownership. Its headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia....
stations a year later on July 6, 2006.
| Date | Show | Set |
|---|---|---|
| March 23, 2005 | XFM Xfm Xfm is a brand of two commercial radio stations focused on alternative music, primarily indie pop, and owned by Global Radio.-History:Xfm was created in London in 1992 by Sammy Jacob, who later co-founded NME Radio in 2008. Xfm subsequently expanded to a network of four stations; there are... |
"Why Do You Love Me", "Vow" (acoustic set) |
| March 24, 2005 | 20h10 pétantes | "Why Do You Love Me" |
| March 25, 2005 | Trafic.musique Trafic.musique Trafic.musique was a French television series that was on occasionally. It featured different types of unusual music, and was shown in Metropolitan France on France 2; in Canada, on TV5 Québec Canada. The show was presented and produced by Guillaume Durand. The first episode was broadcast 26... |
"Why Do You Love Me" |
| March 26, 2005 | cd:uk CD:UK CD:UK was a British music television programme. Originally run in conjunction with SMTV Live, the programme was first aired on ITV on 29 August 1998 to rival the BBC's Live & Kicking and was the replacement for The Chart Show, which had been airing on the network for nine and a half years.In... |
"Why Do You Love Me", "Bleed Like Me" |
| Napster Live Napster Napster is an online music store and a Best Buy company. It was originally founded as a pioneering peer-to-peer file sharing Internet service that emphasized sharing audio files that were typically digitally encoded music as MP3 format files... |
"Why Do You Love Me", "Bleed Like Me" | |
| March 27, 2005 | Popworld Popworld Popworld was a British television programme that was broadcast on Channel 4, offering pop news, trivia, gossip, interviews and music videos, as well as musical performances from the most recent top artists.... |
"Why Do You Love Me" |
| March 28, 2005 | Album de la Semaine Canal+ Canal+ is a French premium pay television channel launched in 1984. It is 80% owned by the Canal+ Group, which in turn is owned by Vivendi SA. The channel broadcasts several kinds of programming, mostly encrypted... |
"Sex is Not the Enemy", "Right Between the Eyes", "Bleed Like Me", "I Think I'm Paranoid", "Why Do You Love Me" |
| March 31, 2005 | Friday Night with Jonathan Ross Friday Night with Jonathan Ross Friday Night with Jonathan Ross was a British comedy chat show presented by Jonathan Ross. It was first broadcast on BBC One on 2 November 2001. The programme featured Ross's take on current topics of conversation, guest interviews and live music from both a guest music group and the house band... |
"Why Do You Love Me" |
| April 1, 2005 | Top of the Pops Top of the Pops Top of the Pops, also known as TOTP, is a British music chart television programme, made by the BBC and originally broadcast weekly from 1 January 1964 to 30 July 2006. After 25 December 2006 it became a radio program, now hosted by Tony Blackburn... |
"Why Do You Love Me", "Bleed Like Me" |
| April 4, 2005 | Radio Fritz | "Queer", "Bad Boyfriend", "Supervixen", "Stupid Girl", "Special", "Hammering in my Head", "Shut Your Mouth", "Vow", "Bleed Like Me", "I Think I'm Paranoid", "Push It", "Only Happy When it Rains", "Why Do You Love Me", "Cherry Lips" |
| April 20, 2005 | Comp'd Fuse TV Fuse is an American national television network dedicated exclusively to music. It features original series and specials, exclusive interviews, live concerts and video blocks.... |
"Why Do You Love Me", "Only Happy When It Rains", "Bleed Like Me", "I Think I'm Paranoid", "Sex is Not the Enemy" |
| April 21, 2005 | DC101 WWDC (FM) WWDC is a commercial radio station in Washington, D.C., broadcasting to the Washington, DC-Baltimore, Maryland area. WWDC airs an alternative rock format on 101.1 FM branded as DC101.-History:WWDC-FM signed on in 1947 as a beautiful music station... |
"Bleed Like Me, "Why Do You Love Me" (acoustic set) |
| April 23, 2005 | MusiquePlus MusiquePlus MusiquePlus is a Canadian French language Category A specialty channel owned by Astral Media operating from Montreal, Quebec.MusiquePlus is devoted to music and music related programming from various genres including pop, rock, RnB and focuses on a younger demographic than its sister station, MusiMax... |
"Vow", "I Think I'm Paranoid", "Bleed Like Me", "Why Do You Love Me" |
| May 3, 2005 | WXRT | "I Think I'm Paranoid", "Why Do You Love Me", "Bleed Like Me", "Only Happy When it Rains" (acoustic set) |
| May 10, 2005 | Xtreme Sessionz | "Why Do You Love Me", "Bleed Like Me", "Only Happy When it Rains" (acoustic set) |
| May 12, 2005 | The Late Show Late Show with David Letterman Late Show with David Letterman is a U.S. late-night talk show hosted by David Letterman on CBS. The show debuted on August 30, 1993, and is produced by Letterman's production company, Worldwide Pants Incorporated. The show's music director and band-leader of the house band, the CBS Orchestra, is... |
"Bleed Like Me" |
| June 19, 2005 | T4 on the Beach T4 on the Beach T4 On The Beach is a British one day music event which is held on the beach at Weston-super-Mare and televised for Channel 4. The event began in 2003 as Pop Beach in Great Yarmouth, changing to the current title and venue in 2005.... |
"Sex is Not the Enemy", "Why Do You Love Me" |
| July 14, 2005 | Isle of MTV | "I Think I'm Paranoid", "Stupid Girl", "Sex is Not the Enemy", "Run Baby Run", "Why Do You Love Me", "Only Happy When it Rains" |
| July 25, 2005 | Live@LAUNCH | "Bleed Like Me" (acoustic) |
| July 28, 2005 | The Tonight Show The Tonight Show The Tonight Show is an American late-night talk show that has aired on NBC since 1954. It is the longest currently running regularly scheduled entertainment program in the United States, and the third longest-running show on NBC, after Meet the Press and Today.The Tonight Show has been hosted by... |
"Bleed Like Me" |
| August 23, 2005 | Soundstage | "Queer", "Bad Boyfriend", "Boys Wanna Fight", "Sex is Not the Enemy", "I Think I’m Paranoid", "Push It", "Why Do You Love Me", "Vow", "Stupid Girl", "Only Happy When It Rains", "Right Between The Eyes", "Happy Home" |
| Sept 8, 2005 | Ex’pression Session KCNL KCNL is a radio station in San Jose, California and serves the San Francisco Bay Area. It is owned by The Principle Broadcasting Network San Jose, LLC and airs a Mexican Oldies format.... |
"Only Happy When it Rains" (acoustic set) |
| Sept 20, 2005 | Rove Live | "Why Do You Love Me" |
Critical reception
Garbage's performance on the Bleed Like Me tour met with a mostly-positive appraisal from music critics; some gave a more favourable reception to their shows - and Shirley Manson's stage presence and persona - than they did for the album. Reviewing Garbage's "comeback" show at London's ScalaScala Theatre
The Scala Theatre was a theatre in London, sited on Charlotte Street, off Tottenham Court Road, in the London Borough of Camden. The first theatre on the site opened in 1772, and the theatre was demolished in 1969, after being destroyed by fire...
, Catherine Yates of Kerrang!
Kerrang!
Kerrang! is a UK-based magazine devoted to rock music published by Bauer Media Group. It was first published on June 6, 1981 as a one-off supplement in the Sounds newspaper...
, felt that "[the band] are still finding their feet after so long away" but noted that with their backcatologue that "when they chose to, this is a band who can crush a crowd". A week later, Kelefa Sanneh
Kelefa Sanneh
Kelefa T. Sanneh is an American journalist and music critic. From 2000 to 2008, he wrote for the New York Times, covering the rock 'n' roll, hip-hop, and pop music scenes...
of New York Times praised Manson's "appealingly feline performance" but was not positive about the band's new material. In a review of their Brixton Academy concert for The Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
, Ian Gittins wrote "Garbage's motor has long been the chippy insecurity of singer Shirley Manson, and the dexterity with which they translate this neurosis into in-your-face defiance. This defiance was plentiful in Brixton
Brixton
Brixton is a district in the London Borough of Lambeth in south London, England. It is south south-east of Charing Cross. The area is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London....
, where lukewarm reviews for their latest album did not stop the resurgent group scorching through a fiery and frequently inspirational set". XFM
Xfm
Xfm is a brand of two commercial radio stations focused on alternative music, primarily indie pop, and owned by Global Radio.-History:Xfm was created in London in 1992 by Sammy Jacob, who later co-founded NME Radio in 2008. Xfm subsequently expanded to a network of four stations; there are...
's John Ford wrote of the band's Glastonbury performance "a revitalised Garbage pummel the Pyramid Stage as the sun goes down. [There was] a bizarre moment where Manson was actually dry humping a full-size latex sex doll. Weird, captivating and down-right good fun."