Garbage

0:21MSN.CA we got Shirley and Duke from Garbage. Hey guys welcome back to Canada. Thank you. It's been a while. How long has it been? Seven years something like that. You tell me you're in the band. Yeah I think it might be eight years since we've been in Canada. The record not your kind of people talks about lies the opening track on the record talks about lies. There seems to be a thematic thing about lying going back to the lyrics on this record. That is correct. How come? Because I feel like truth is getting harder and harder to find these days. To me it's a precious commodity. I think the people aren't very honest about their feelings. They're scared to tell the truth and that bothers me. Because you know I'm a pretty straightforward person. You ask me a question more or less give you a straight answer. More or less yeah.

1:08But I don't think that's copyright common anymore. It's very unfashionable to tell the truth. Why is that? That's interesting. Why is that? I don't know why. I just feel like we're living in a sort of dishonest times. People have struggled to tell the truth about who they are, what they want, what they need, what they dream about. And I see it everywhere people not being honest. And I think you can't have the life you want unless you're prepared to be honest. How does it feel to be back on the road with the band? Did it gel right away? I think it feels amazing to be back on the road with the band. Primarily because our fans have been outrageous and the shows have been great and it's hard to feel cynical about any of it because it's been amazing.

2:00Was it easier to gel to play the live performances or the studio when you first got back in that studio the first time? What felt easier I guess? Well it's all been really easy. Everything has gelled quite nicely. Thank you very much. Our first four end of the studio was great. We had a few bottles of wine and reminisced and laughed for a while and we went and played and came up with a new song almost immediately. What song was that? Battle in me. Yeah. It was written right just jamming. I just came up with it and that was very heartening. So that was a nice, gelling experience. And keep using my word the whole time. It's such a great word isn't it? Isn't it? And the live shows I think we're playing better than we ever have. Which is a bold statement perhaps but I think it's true.

2:53And there's no guitar amps on stage? Is that true? No everything's kind of in the box. So how does that work? You plug your guitar into what? Never your mind. Okay, all right. There's memories of you inside my head. So all these pictures of us, word and baby. Battle in me. That's the moment the way rabbit references that is that correct? So there's that. You mentioned Jefferson Airplane on this record and you go back to push it. You have that little beach boys don't worry baby things. So are you trying to sneak in a little 60s music reference here and there? I try and sneak in little references whenever I can. I don't know why. I just enjoy it because I feel it's sort of a nod to what came before us. And it's a mark of respect in a funny way and yeah I don't know why I do it. Do you write all the lyrics? Or is it the whiteboard situation with the band kind of thing?

3:39I write a lot of the lyrics but the boys have ideas and they bring that in and if I relate to them I'll use them. But when you're the singer the words have to mean or at least for me they have to be as though they were my words completely always. They always seem to be a little darker a little more melancholy except for a tune like The One where it's a happy song on the record. You see I think the one is really dark. The weird thing to me though is people make a lot about me being dark and lyrically dark and I don't think my lyrics are particularly dark. I'd love to challenge somebody to actually say well what's dark about it? I mean all the things I don't know about my head. I'm trying to get stuff. I'm not going to put you on the spot like that. But I do read a lot of like Shirley Manson's dark and gothic and I'm like no I'm not dark or gothic.

4:28I will if I see like a poo on the carpet say oh look there's a poo on the carpet and a lot of people will just sort of sail on by and pretend it's not there. So my style is very sort of forthright but I don't think I'm dark and gothic maybe just a little. What do you sometimes call five questions? Five quick questions, one word answers. I love this kind of thing. Alright here we go. Road or studio? Road. Studio. Leonard McCartney. Leonard. McCartney. When you hear a song what hits you first lyrics melody or rhythm? lyrics. Song you've written your most proud of. One word one word.

5:17It can only one word. It doesn't need to be one word that's true. Vow. Cool. This one does need to be one word in one word garbage. We're two dumb times so that question. Dumb.