Garbage Considers Orchestral Route for New Album, Scales Back Extensive Touring

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Manson lamented at the time when “most of the music industry” is not comprised of mega pop stars making “billions and billions” of dollars, but rather working musicians grinding it out, sleeping in vans and working multiple jobs to afford hitting the road it’s getting harder to justify the expense of a traditional coast-to-coast tour.

<em>Billboard</em> caught up with drummer/producer **Butch Vig** this month and he offered some clarity on what <a data-tag="touring" id="auto-tag_touring" href="https://www.billboard.com/t/touring/">touring</a> might look like in the future for the group &mdash;&nbsp;which also includes bassist/guitarist **Duke Erikson** and guitarist/keyboardist **Steve Marker** &mdash;&nbsp;and what they are cooking up for their follow-up to last year&rsquo;s <em>Let All That We Imagine Be the Light</em> studio album.








&ldquo;Shirley was referring to us not doing 60-show a headlining tour like we did last year, which is a lot for us,&rdquo; said **Vig**, 70. &ldquo;The grind of traveling wears you down and it&rsquo;s more expensive to put on the kind of shows we put on, so we won&rsquo;t tour like that anymore.&rdquo;






That doesn&rsquo;t mean the &ldquo;Only Happy When It Rains&rdquo; band is saying no more live shows at all. In fact, this week they added three more dates to their 2025 U.K./European tour, at Stockholm&rsquo;s **Grona Lund Tivoli** (June 3), London&rsquo;s **Roundhouse** (July 14), and Dublin&rsquo;s **Iveagh Gardens** (July 18). Those shows join a roster of 23 gigs lined up for this spring/summer across Europe, a mix of festival stops and headlining concerts.






Before the new shows announced, **Vig** joked, &ldquo;Boise, I love you, but I&rsquo;m not sure we&rsquo;ll be back,&rdquo; adding that singer **Manson** was in &ldquo;peak form&rdquo; at the moment and, &ldquo;we are already talking about shows in Europe next summer&hellip; it&rsquo;s easy to do festival runs.&rdquo;






**Vig**, who just finished producing the next album by **Silversun Pickups** and a &ldquo;weird, abrasive&rdquo; synth-focused soundtrack for the upcoming &ldquo;nasty&rdquo; home invasion horror film <em>The Third Parent</em>, also gave a sneak peek at some ideas **Garbage** is kicking around for their as-yet-untitled ninth studio album.






He said they&rsquo;ve been talking about starting work on the LP in the fall and possibly doing some &ldquo;stripped down&rdquo; shows with an orchestra, or residency runs in Los Angeles or Berlin, as they work out the new songs. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re thinking about taking that approach as we work on the new songs and try to put a show together that&rsquo;s different from a full-on rock show,&rdquo; he said.