Shirley Manson is “drained” of being handled like a “circus performer”.
Shirley Manson has defended her viral rant
The Rubbish singer went viral after she launched a livid rant in opposition to a reveller at Melbourne’s Good Issues Pageant on Friday (05.12.25) after her group’s set was interrupted by seashore balls being thrown into the gang, and she or he has no regrets about her foul-mouthed tirade.
Shirley had fumed: “Large man together with your huge f****** seashore ball.
“What a f****** douchebag. You’re a f****** middle-aged man in a f****** ridiculous hat, and also you’re a f****** f***face. I need, actually, to ask individuals to f****** punch you within the f****** face. However you already know what? I’m a girl, so I received’t.
“We’re fed up of not getting f****** paid correctly and fed up of getting to play for douchebags such as you.”
Following on-line debate about her feedback, Shirley took to Threads and wrote: “I make NO APOLOGIES in any respect for getting irritated at seashore balls at reveals.
“I joined a band as a result of I HATED THE F****** BEACH. I joined a band as a result of I wished to take heed to Siouxsie and the Banshees and The Treatment and be darkish and exquisite.
“I really like the musical group and I wish to respect their artistry. I’m so uninterested in people taking music at no cost and treating us all like circus performers.”
The Solely Glad When it Rains hitmaker admitted in September that she was planning to surrender touring as a result of “the thievery of the report business” has made performing dwell “very troublesome”.
Throughout a gig at The Anthem venue in Washington, D.C., Shirley instructed the viewers: “We’ve got as a band determined that, on account of mainly the economics of the music business, that we have now to curtail our headline touring enterprise.
“It has, because of the thievery of the report business, made touring very, very troublesome. We’re not complaining, we’ve had a f****** nice run.”
She went on to insist she’s talking out in regards to the concern as a result of she worries about younger musicians who’re struggling to tour.
Shirley added: “I carry this up solely as a result of my concern is after all for younger musicians who go on the market and tour, they’re holding down jobs, they take two weeks off their work and so they go across the nation.
“Generally they’re sleeping of their van, generally they’re staying in actually, actually dodgy so-called motels and it’s harmful and it’s actually unacceptable and it actually has to cease. No matter’s happening, it actually has to cease. It’s unsafe and it’s unacceptable.”
Shirley added of the way forward for Rubbish: “So we have now simply determined that the economics have turn into untenable, so that is type of the final time that we’ve determined we’re going to get on a bus and simply tour throughout North America.
“It’s a incredible privilege and it’s so stunning and thrilling and wonderful. And all of the extra so as a result of I doubt that we’ll do a tour this measurement ever once more.
“All of us really feel that we’ve been so immensely privileged and we’ve loved unbelievable assist from our followers, from you.
“At occasions within the music business, they’ve instructed us we’re outdated, we’re over, no person’s , no person offers a f***, no person desires to play us on radio, no person desires to interview us. And then you definitely lot got here alongside. You have been like: ‘Get behind us, Devil’. And we received’t overlook it.”
