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GALLERY LINKS:
- Photoshoots: Oliver Peoples 2010 Campaign (2009)
- Photoshoots: Meeting Garbage (2002)
- Photoshoots: Shoot #03 (2005)
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GALLERY LINK:
- Photoshoots: Elle (March 2009)
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The (beautiful, imho) open letter this article refers to is here. 
ROCKER Shirley Manson has told how artist Tracey Emin’s work left her sobbing in an art gallery.
The Garbage singer broke down at the show just before she went to see her ill mum Muriel for the final time before her death in 2008.
Among the controversial artist’s work at Edinburgh’s Modern Art Gallery was May Dodge, My Nan – made up of family objects collected by Emin as she grew up.
Shirley told how it summed up her own situation and left her sobbing in the middle of the gallery.
This week, she posted “An Open Letter to Tracey Emin” on her Facebook page. Read the rest of this entry »
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Like serial killers and retired movie stars, musicians tend to like making visual art, and this summer a bunch of the latter will combine forces at Merry Karnowsky Gallery in Hollywood to show their work while they celebrate the 25th anniversary of Alternative Press, the alt-rock music magazine whose posters you see pasted around Los Angeles near the publication date of each new issue.
Among the musicians whose work will be featured at the show, which opens to the public July 10, are:
Adam Jones (Tool), Black Francis (the Pixies), Joby J. Ford (the Bronx), John Gourley (Portugal. The Man), Liz McGrath (Miss Derringer), Marilyn Manson, Matt Skiba (Alkaline Trio), Pete Wentz (Fall Out Boy), Shirley Manson (Garbage), Tim Armstrong (Rancid), Travis McCoy (Gym Class Heroes), and — who else? — Shepard Fairey.
A VIP reception will happen the night before, on July 9, which will no doubt be a star-studded event filled with the musicians who made the art (and no one is stopping you from at least hanging out on La Brea near the entrance).
Alternative Press’s 25th anniversary issue arrives on newsstands June 1 and will feature a bunch of Alt Press-approved new bands posing in photographs similar to ones of hot old bands from Alt Press. For example: Hayley Williams of Paramore has been photographed to look like Shirley Manson from Garbage, and Underoath has been shot looking like the Mighty Mighty Bosstones.
Details: The Los Angeles art show will open Friday, July 9 from 7:30-11:00 p.m. (VIP opening reception) and Saturday, July 10 from 8:00-11:00 p.m. (public opening reception) at the Merry Karnowksy Gallery (170 S. La Brea, Los Angeles, CA 90036).
– Randall Roberts
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Shirley is up as ‘Hottest Sex Goddess’ at Spin’s 25th Anniversary Readers Poll – go vote!
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Is Shirley Manson, singer for the ‘90s post-grunge musical act Garbage, set to star in a feature-length horror film directed by Scottish video artist Douglas Gordon? According to Glasgow’s Herald newspaper, Manson is game: “I would love to be in it. I’d be great in horror — you know it. I’m scary. I’m in. I’m sold.” Gordon, of course, is best known for his epic 24-Hour Psycho, a projection which stretches the classic Hitchcock horror film out over a full day. Manson has had a single foray into acting, according to IMDB: a role as “Catherine Weaver”– a robot — on the TV show Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles.
Manson and Gordon are friends met at the 2008 Style Awards at Kelvingrove Art Gallery in Glasgow, where Gordon served as a judge and Manson won an award for “Most Stylish Female” (a Garbage fan board even features what appears to be a picture of Manson sticking her tongue in the artist’s mouth). The two recently paired up for a BBC program titled, creatively, “When Shirley Manson met Douglas Gordon,” which had the pair “discuss images, ideas, influences and inspiration.” Lamentably, the program is not currently available to watch online. Gordon is also one of the many visual artists the rock star lists as an influence on her Facebook page; although the list is something of a grab bag that also includes Marlene Dumas, Barbara Kruger, Helmut Newton and Robert Wilson.
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ROCKERS Shirley Manson and Fran Healy have raised thousands of pounds for the ongoing Haiti relief effort by scribbling on T-shirts.
The Garbage and Travis stars donated their art to Crafts for a Cause, leaving the American-based charity organisers “blown away” by their efforts.
Edinburgh-born Shirley said she was “amazed” when she found out somebody had bid over $1,000 for a t-shirt she painted on.
And Travis frontman Fran Healy’s handiwork with a paintbrush raised $152 for the cause.
The Scottish musicians teamed up with the likes of Neil Young, Kings of Leon, Mark Ronson and Christina Aguilera to raise over £30,000 by auctioning off their hand-made goods. The cash is now on its way to help the survivors of the devastating earthquake in Haiti, which killed over 200,000 people.
Garbage singer Shirley – who recently announced she is back in the studio with her band after a split – donated two t-shirts, with one selling for $1,001.
She said: “To the person who spent an absolute fortune on the two t-shirts I created for the auction, may I simply say that words cannot express how deeply grateful we are to you for your show of generosity.
“You have done something very pure, very wonderful.”
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GALLERY LINK:
- Photoshoots: Oliver Peoples 2010 Campaign – Captures
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Shirley was one of several artists contributing to Crafts For A Cause. You can bid on two t-shirts decorated and signed by her here and here, starting tomorrow. All proceeds will go to Artists for Peace and Justice.
GALLERY LINK:
- Misc.: Crafts for a Cause (2010)
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Finally, the long awaited video for the Oliver Peoples 2010 Campaign!
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Several news items popped up about this, one of them from fasterlouder.com.au:
Flame-haired frontwoman and occasional actress Shirley Manson has revealed she’s back in the studio with her Garbage bandmates. The four-piece has been dormant for some time now, but 2010 could see a new album.
Manson broke the news in an excited post on Facebook, soon after drummer Butch Vig picked up a Grammy for his producing prowess.
“Guess who I just spent a week in the studio with?” the singer concludes. “Would you be pleased if I said one of them was called Steve and one of them was called Duke and another was a Grammy-winning producer?”
While the band’s most recent albums couldn’t match the success of Garbage and Version 2.0, time has no doubt made the hearts of fans grow ever-fonder. Or something.
If you haven’t yet you can read the mentioned Facebook post here. 
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This was especially true when Vig and Marker’s band Garbage hit the big time in 1995, after joining forces with Scottish vocalist Shirley Manson. There was a period when Rolling Stone followed the band around town, speculating that Madison would be the site of the next musical revolution.
Zirkel, who started at the studio around the time Garbage formed, remembers when Manson came to town to audition. When the iconic singer took up residence here, the city seemed poised for a glamorous makeover.
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The mentioned post on Facebook is already from beginning of December – you can read it here if you haven’t yet – but it’s nice to see the media is picking up on it.
Former GARBAGE frontwoman SHIRLEY MANSON has spoken out in support of gay rights, slamming American politicians for refusing to allow same-sex marriages in the country.
Gay unions were made legal in California in August 2008, but the decision was overturned just six months later by state legislation Proposition 8, which ruled future same-sex marriages illegal.
Supporters were dealt another blow earlier this month (Dec09) when New York State’s senate rejected a bill that would have allowed same-sex marriage.
And Manson, who is currently carving out an acting career in Hollywood, is fuming about the decision.
She writes in a post on her public Facebook.com page, “So sad to read that the New York State Senate voted down the Gay Marriage Bill. It saddens and sickens me that modern government and society has learned nothing from history but continue the vicious cycle of ignorance and intolerance whilst quoting and twisting from a bible that at its root, preaches love and understanding and equality for all.
“Shame on all those who judge others so harshly that they will rob them of their civil liberties. Shame on those who will attempt to strip others of their dignity and their right to walk among us as equals on this earth. Shame on those who teach our children to discriminate and hate.
“Love is love is love is love. And it is rare and divine. So let all of us attempt to preserve it… in any manner we can. And by all of us, I really do mean all of us. Because lord knows there’s certainly not enough of it flowing around us in this life.”
