"It’s a full-circle moment for me and it means the world," said frontwoman Shirley Manson
By Tom Skinner 2nd December 2025
Garbage's Shirley Manson performs live. CREDIT: Kevin Winter/Getty
Garbage have announced a huge show at Edinburgh Castle for 2026. Find all the details below.
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The Scottish-American band are the final headliners for next year’s edition of the iconic venue’s summer concert series. They’ll take to the stage on Saturday July 11.
Advertisement“Bringing my band home for what most likely will be our last headline show in Scotland, feels both poignant and triumphant,” said frontwoman and former NME Icon Shirley Manson.
“It’s a full-circle moment for me and it means the world. To be asked to grace the stage with Edinburgh Castle as our backdrop will be, without doubt, one of the greatest honours of my professional career.”
Tickets go on general sale at 10am GMT this Friday (December 5) – you’ll be able to buy yours here. Premium hospitality experiences for the concert series at Edinburgh Castle are available here.
The Edinburgh Castle summer series will also host performances from Snow Patrol, James Taylor, Deacon Blue and Callum Beattie. Find more information here.
Garbage had previously announced a run of outdoor UK co-headline gigs with Skunk Anansie for next summer, including dates at Dreamland Margate, Halifax’s The Piece Hall, and Scarborough Open Air Theatre.
RecommendedThey are heading out on the road in support of their eighth and latest album, ‘Let All That We Imagine Be The Light’, which was released in May. In a glowing five-star review, NME wrote: “Not only are [Garbage] showcasing some of their most intriguing and impactful material, but they’re also paving the way into a hopeful new chapter.”
Garbage recently completed their last-ever US tour, after indicating that they were “unlikely to play many of the cities” on the run “ever again”.
Speaking to NME last year, 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.”
AdvertisementDuring an 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.”
She continued: “After my mum died and then Veela [Manson’s ‘soul dog’], I realised I had to touch love somewhere, somehow. I’ve got an amazing marriage and I love my husband so much, but I also realised that in order to move on through a different passage in my life, I had to reach out to find all the different types of love: the world, nature, the ocean, friends, my bandmates, my family.”
Garbage are currently touring in New Zealand and Australia.
