Garbage have added some new European dates to their 2026 live schedule. Find all the details below.
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The Scottish-American band had already confirmed a run of outdoor UK co-headline gigs with Skunk Anansie for next summer, including stops at Dreamland Margate, Halifax’s The Piece Hall, and Scarborough Open Air Theatre.
Earlier this month, Shirley Manson and co. shared details of a bill-topping concert at Edinburgh Castle – which “most likely will be our last headline show in Scotland”, according to the group.
Now, an additional seven dates have been announced for Europe. These will take place between late May and mid-July in Warsaw, Vienna, Prague, Hamburg, Utrecht, Mainz and Belfast.
“In addition to our previously announced shows in the UK with our dear pals @officialskunkanansie and our date at Edinburgh Castle, we are pretty chuffed to announce some more dates coming up in Europe next year,” Garbage wrote on social media.
Tickets go on general sale at 10am local time this Friday (December 19) – you’ll be able to buy yours here. Find any remaining tickets for the previously-announced UK shows here.
Garbage’s new European tour dates for 2026 are:
MAY
30 – Progresja, Warsaw, PL
JUNE
08 – Arena Open Air, Vienna, AT
09 – Lucerna Great Hall, Prague, CZ
11 – Stadtpark Open Air, Hamburg, DE
14 – TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht, NL
27 – Zitadelle, Mainz, DE
JULY
17 – Waterfront Theater, Belfast, NI
The band recently wrapped up a tour of New Zealand and Australia in support of their eighth and latest album, ‘Let All That We Imagine Be The Light’, which was released in May.
During a show at the Sydney Opera House last Sunday (December 14), frontwoman Manson addressed the shooting at the city’s Bondi Beach. The performance took place just hours after the terrorist attack, which killed 15 people.
“This has become an astoundingly frightening, violent, hateful, intolerant world, and I think the only thing we can do really, as people who do not believe in all this separation and all this intolerance, all we can really do is really try and profess our love for one another,” she said.
The speech came after Manson went on a rant about fans holding beach balls in the crowd during their show at Melbourne’s Good Things Festival.
“Big guy with your big fucking beach ball,” Manson said, singling out one audience member. “What a fucking douchebag. You’re a fucking middle-aged man in a fucking ridiculous hat, and you’re a fucking fuckface. I want, literally, to ask people to fucking punch you in the fucking face. But you know what? I’m a lady, so I won’t.”
In other news, Garbage are set to play a special gig with Placebo at the Royal Albert Hall in London next March. The event forms part of the venue’s Teenage Cancer Trust live series, which has been curated by The Cure’s Robert Smith for 2026.
Garbage went out on their last-ever US tour this year, after indicating that they were “unlikely to play many of the cities” on the run “ever again”.
Speaking to NME in April 2024, Manson opened up about the crushing and “abusive” financial strains of the music industry.
“Now what you have are musicians who are independently wealthy – maybe they come from a wealthy family – and they can start to carve out a career for themselves in the music industry,” she told us. “You have the old guard who made records before 1995; they themselves can survive. Then the artists who enjoy phenomenal success also survive.”
During another interview with NME this summer, the singer talked about the theme of love that runs through ‘Let All That We Imagine Be The Light’: “I’ve never really written about love very much. I always think it’s been written about by people a thousand more talented than me. I’m just not a romantic person, really.”
Elsewhere in the chat, she said she didn’t “feel any responsibility towards anyone” as an older female artist. “I have a responsibility to myself. I’ve earned that,” Manson explained. “I think I’ve found my voice as an artist. That voice is outspoken and always has been.”
She added: “I don’t have to be young, I don’t have to be fast, I don’t have to be sexy, I don’t have to be appealing, I don’t have to smile. If you cancel me, you cancel me. I’ve had a fucking great career. I really don’t fucking care.”
