Garbage at First Avenue

Oct 4, 2025 Saturday

American rock band Garbage (led by Scottish singer/actress Shirley Manson) will be headlining First Avenue on October 4, 2025, in support of their new album Let All That We Imagine Be the Light.

To be perfectly honest, we were looking forward to seeing the group at Minnesota Yacht Club Music Festival in July 2025, but was somewhat disappointed in the show. Possibly because Shirley Manson was dressed in a plastic dress and it was so hot, she admitted she was not in tip-top shape: “Manson shared how she suddenly was way too hot, being in the plastic outfit she had (“I don’t know what I was f’ing thinking”), but thankfully Garbage only had a little time left. The weather was also starting to cool down, so hopefully Manson was starting to feel a little less overheated. In any case, Garbage finished their set strong and left the stage to thankful fans.”

Starcrawler to open.

I don’t think we’ll ever forget how amazing this band is when we saw them in Oct 2019: “
Visually and performance-wise, this is probably our favorite show of Rocktober. Everything from de Wilde strangling herself with the mic cords, to Cash’s guitar playing on the Turf Club’s bar (see photo!), to that faithful cover of the Ramones’ “Pet Semetary” song was done amazingly well.”

The Los Angeles previously toured with Boris, and now with Garbage. I hate to say it, but I feel like Starcrawler’s performance may actually outshine Garbage, just based on seeing the two bands played before.

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