# Garbage tour

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The ***Garbage* tour** was the debut [concert tour](/source/Concert_tour) by American [rock](/source/Rock_music) band [Garbage](/source/Garbage_(band)), in support of their [self-titled debut album](/source/Garbage_(album)) (1995). It began on November 5, 1995, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and ended on December 18, 1996, in [Inglewood, California](/source/Inglewood,_California). For the duration of the tour, Garbage's touring line-up was augmented by Daniel Shulman, who had previously been a [session musician](/source/Session_musician) for [Run-D.M.C.](/source/Run-D.M.C.), on bass guitar. [Samplers](/source/Sampler_(musical_instrument)) and [MIDI controllers](/source/MIDI_controller) helped the band members perform the varied sounds that augmented the studio versions of the songs. Despite all the members of the group having accumulated years of touring experience prior to forming, Garbage initially had no plans to tour in support of their debut album; they changed their minds after finding that they enjoyed themselves while filming the music video for their debut single, "[Vow](/source/Vow_(Garbage_song))". Director [Samuel Bayer](/source/Samuel_Bayer) had encouraged the group to play the song live as he filmed them, rather than playing along to a [backing track](/source/Backing_track).[1][2]

The Garbage tour started off with low-key [headlining](/source/Headliner_(performances)) shows in late 1995, during which time the band visited a number of media cities in North America and Europe.[3] The band spent the following year on tour, performing as the main act, spending two separate runs as an [opening act](/source/Opening_act) for the [Smashing Pumpkins](/source/Smashing_Pumpkins) on their *[Infinite Sadness](/source/Mellon_Collie_and_the_Infinite_Sadness)* arena tour,[4] performing on TV and radio shows and performing on the bill at [rock](/source/Rock_festivals) and [radio festivals](/source/Radio_festival) around the world.[5] A number of notable acts supported Garbage throughout the run of the tour, including [Acetone](/source/Acetone_(band)), [Ash](/source/Ash_(band)), [Bis](/source/Bis_(Scottish_band)), The Elevator Drops, [Fun Lovin' Criminals](/source/Fun_Lovin'_Criminals), [The Rentals](/source/The_Rentals), [Placebo](/source/Placebo_(band)), [Polyanna](/source/Pollyanna_(band)) and [Polara](/source/Polara_(band)).[5] The tour was booked by Kevin Gasser of [Creative Artists Agency](/source/Creative_Artists_Agency).[1] Before the 1996 concerts, the band reworked the songs to make them work better live, and also adopted more [MIDI guitars](/source/Guitar_synthesizer) to use less keyboards on stage.[6]

[Video camera](/source/Video_camera) footage shot by Garbage during the early 1996 tour dates was incorporated into both that year's [opening titles](/source/Opening_titles) of the band's first long-form [VHS](/source/VHS) and [VCD](/source/Video-CD) compilation, *[Garbage Video](/source/Garbage_Video)*, and the band's hour-long retrospective documentary, *[Thanks For Your Uhhh, Support](/source/Absolute_Garbage#Absolute_Garbage_DVD)*, which featured on the group's 2007 [greatest hits](/source/Greatest_hits) DVD *[Absolute Garbage](/source/Absolute_Garbage)*.[7]

## Tour dates

Date City Country Venue North American club tour Support act: Acetone[8] November 5, 1995 Minneapolis United States 7th Street Entry November 6, 1995 Milwaukee Shank Hall November 7, 1995 Chicago Cabaret Metro November 9, 1995 Detroit St. Andrews Hall November 10, 1995 Toronto Canada Opera House November 11, 1995 Montreal Cafe Campus November 13, 1995 New York City United States Irving Plaza November 14, 1995 Boston Axis November 15, 1995 Philadelphia Theater of Living Arts November 16, 1995 Washington, D.C. Black Cat November 17, 1995 Cleveland Peabody's Down Under November 19, 1995 Nashville Exit/In November 20, 1995 Atlanta The Point European club tour November 23, 1995 London United Kingdom Kentish Town Forum November 25, 1995 Amsterdam Netherlands Melkweg November 27, 1995 Hamburg Germany Grosse Freiheit November 28, 1995 Copenhagen Denmark Pumphuset November 30, 1995 Brussels Belgium VK Club December 1, 1995 Rennes France Transmusicales Festival December 3, 1995 Munich Germany Wappensaal North American club & radio shows December 5, 1995 Cambridge United States WBCN Xmas Rave, Middle East December 6, 1995 New Britain Radio 104's Jingle Bell Jam, The Sting December 7, 1995 Fairfax HFSMas Nutcracker, Patriot Center December 9, 1995 Minneapolis KEGE Holiday Festival, Target Center December 11, 1995 Portland KNRK Snow Ball, Memorial Coliseum December 12, 1995 Seattle Moe's Mo' Rockin' Cafe December 14, 1995 San Francisco Slim's December 15, 1995 Berkeley Live 105 Green Christmas, Berkeley Community Theatre December 16, 1995 San Jose KOME Almost Acoustic Christmas, SJSU Event Center December 17, 1995 Universal City KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas Universal Amphitheater December 19, 1995 Los Angeles Viper Room December 20, 1995 The Roxy North American clubs Support act: The Elevator Drops February 24, 1996 Dallas United States Deep Ellum Live February 26, 1996 Austin Liberty Lunch February 27, 1996 Houston Numbers February 28, 1996 New Orleans Howling Wolf March 1, 1996 St. Petersburg State Theater March 2, 1996 Fort Lauderdale The Edge March 3, 1996 Orlando Renaissance March 4, 1996 Pensacola Rosie O'Gradys March 6, 1996 Chapel Hill Cat's Cradle March 7, 1996 Norfolk The Bait Shack March 8, 1996 Pittsburgh Metropol March 9, 1996 Vernon Z100 SNOasis, Vernon Valley Ski Area March 11, 1996 Columbus Newport Music Hall March 12, 1996 Cincinnati Bogart's March 13, 1996 Indianapolis Vogue Nightclub March 14, 1996 Madison Barrymore Theatre UK & Europe Support Acts: Bis, The Rentals March 19, 1996 Wolverhampton United Kingdom Civic Hall March 21, 1996 Glasgow Barrowland Ballroom March 22, 1996 Manchester The Apollo March 24, 1996 London Brixton Academy March 25, 1996 Cambridge The Corn Exchange March 26, 1996 Leeds Town and Country March 27, 1996 Nottingham Rock City March 30, 1996 Ghent Belgium Vooruit April 1, 1996 Berlin Germany Metropol April 3, 1996 Paris France Élysée Montmartre April 4, 1996 Frankfurt Germany Batshkapp April 6, 1996 Luxembourg Luxembourg Den Atelier April 7, 1996 Düsseldorf Germany Philips Halle UK Radio Concert Support Act: Placebo April 9, 1996 Leeds United Kingdom BBC Sound City, Leeds Metropolitan University North America Support Act: Polara April 16, 1996 Toronto Canada Phoenix April 17, 1996 Montreal Spectrum April 18, 1996 Boston United States Avalon April 19, 1996 New York City Roseland Ballroom April 21, 1996 Richmond Classic Amphitheatre April 22, 1996 Washington, D.C. 9:30 Club April 23, 1996 Philadelphia Theater of Living Arts April 24, 1996 Toronto Canada Opera House April 25, 1996 Rochester United States New York Nites April 27, 1996 Milwaukee The Rave April 28, 1996 Chicago Cabaret Metro April 30, 1996 Denver Ogden Theatre May 1, 1996 Salt Lake City Club DV8 May 3, 1996 Seattle Club DV8 May 4, 1996 Vancouver Canada Vogue Theatre May 5, 1996 Portland United States La Luna May 7, 1996 San Francisco The Fillmore May 9, 1996 Pomona Glass House May 10, 1996 San Diego SOMA May 11, 1996 Hollywood Hollywood Palace May 12, 1996 Phoenix Electric Ballroom May 13, 1996 Albuquerque May 15, 1996 Lawrence May 16, 1996 Columbia May 17, 1996 Madison May 18, 1996 North American radio festivals May 25, 1996 Somerset United States 93.7 EdgeFest, Float Rite Park Amphitheater May 26, 1996 Chicago Q101 Jamboree, New World Music Theatre May 27, 1996 St. Louis KPNT Pointfest 5, Riverport Amphitheater May 29, 1996 Lawrence Granada Theater June 1, 1996 Washington, D.C. HFStival, RFK Stadium June 11, 1996 Mexico City Mexico Teatro Metropolitan June 14, 1996 Mountain View United States Live 105 BFD, Shoreline Amphitheatre June 15, 1996 Laguna Hills KROQ Weenie Roast, Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre June 16, 1996 Santa Barbara Backstage North America arenas Supporting The Smashing Pumpkins on the Infinite Sadness tour June 25, 1996 Saginaw United States Wendler Arena June 27, 1996 Indianapolis Market Square Arena June 29, 1996 Auburn Hills Palace of Auburn Hills June 30, 1996 Detroit State Theatre July 2, 1996 Buffalo Buffalo Memorial Auditorium July 3, 1996 Cleveland Gund Arena July 5, 1996 Philadelphia CoreStates Spectrum July 6, 1996 July 7, 1996 Hampton Hampton Coliseum July 9, 1996 Washington, D.C. USAir Arena July 10, 1996 July 12, 1996 New York City Madison Square Garden (Cancelled)[9] July 13, 1996 July 14, 1996 East Rutherford Continental Airlines Arena (Cancelled)[10] July 16, 1996 Pittsburgh Civic Arena (Cancelled) July 17, 1996 Fort Wayne Allen County Arena (Rescheduled) July 19, 1996 Moline The MARK of the Quad Cities (Rescheduled) July 20, 1996 Kansas City Kemper Arena (Cancelled) July 21, 1996 Saint Louis Kiel Center (Cancelled) July 22, 1996 San Antonio Freeman Coliseum (Rescheduled) July 23, 1996 Oklahoma City Myriad Arena (Rescheduled) July 24, 1996 Dallas Reunion Arena (Rescheduled) July 26, 1996 Austin Frank Erwin Center (Rescheduled) July 27, 1996 Lafayette Cajundome (Rescheduled) European concerts & festivals Support: Fun Lovin' Criminals August 3, 1996 Benicàssim Spain Benicàssim Festival August 5, 1996 Stockholm Sweden Water Festival August 6, 1996 Oslo Norway Rockefeller Music Hall August 8, 1996 Copenhagen Denmark Grayhalle August 10, 1996 Osnabrück Germany Rock am Schloss Festival August 12, 1996 Leipzig Easy Auensee August 13, 1996 Bremen Modernes August 14, 1996 Hamburg Docks Konzerte August 16, 1996 Annecy France Festival D'Annecy August 17, 1996 Cologne Germany Bizarre Festival August 18, 1996 Saint-Malo France La Route du Rock Festival August 20, 1996 Munich Germany Nachtwerk August 21, 1996 Stuttgart Longhorn August 23, 1996 Leopoldsburg Belgium Pukkelpop Festival August 24, 1996 Reading United Kingdom Reading Festival August 25, 1996 Biddinghuizen Netherlands Lowlands Festival Asia and Australasia Support Acts: Pollyanna (Australia) and Ash (New Zealand) September 28, 1996 Singapore Singapore Harbour Pavilion October 1, 1996 Wan Chai Hong Kong Queen Elizabeth Stadium October 3, 1996 Adelaide Australia Adelaide Entertainment Centre October 5, 1996 Brisbane Livid Festival October 7, 1996 Sydney Hordern Pavilion October 8, 1996 Melbourne Festival Hall October 11, 1996 Auckland New Zealand North Shore Events Centre October 12, 1996 Wellington Queens Wharf October 15, 1996 Tokyo Japan Shibuya Club Quattro October 16, 1996 October 17, 1996 Nagoya Naka-ku Club Quattro October 18, 1996 Osaka Chuo-Ku Club Quattro North America arenas Supporting The Smashing Pumpkins on the Infinite Sadness tour October 23, 1996 Ames United States Hilton Coliseum October 25, 1996 Champaign Assembly Hall October 26, 1996 Moline The MARK of the Quad Cities October 29, 1996 Louisville Freedom Hall October 30, 1996 Fort Wayne Memorial Coliseum November 1, 1996 Hartford Hartford Civic Center November 2, 1996 Albany Knickerbocker Arena November 4, 1996 Portland Cumberland County Civic Center November 5, 1996 Boston Fleet Center November 6, 1996 Worcester Worcester Centrum November 7, 1996 New York City Beacon Theatre (Headline show)[11] November 8, 1996 University Park Bryce Jordan Center (Cancelled) November 9, 1996 Richmond Richmond Coliseum (Cancelled) November 11, 1996 Columbia Carolina Coliseum November 12, 1996 Chapel Hill Dean Smith Center November 15, 1996 Tampa Ice Palace November 16, 1996 Lakeland Lakeland Center November 17, 1996 Miami Miami Arena November 19, 1996 Atlanta The Omni November 22, 1996 Memphis Pyramid Arena November 23, 1996 Oklahoma City Myriad Arena November 24, 1996 Little Rock Barton Coliseum November 26, 1996 Lafayette Cajundome November 27, 1996 Biloxi Mississippi Coast Coliseum November 29, 1996 San Antonio Freeman Coliseum November 30, 1996 Austin Frank Erwin Center December 1, 1996 Dallas Reunion Arena December 3, 1996 Houston The Summit December 4, 1996 Las Cruces Pan American Center December 5, 1996 Albuquerque Tingley Coliseum December 7, 1996 Phoenix America West Arena December 9, 1996 Anaheim Arrowhead Pond December 10, 1996 December 11, 1996 San Diego San Diego Sports Arena December 13, 1996 Los Angeles Universal Amphitheatre December 14, 1996 San Francisco Cow Palace December 16, 1996 San Jose KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas, San Jose Arena December 17, 1996 Sacramento ARCO Arena December 18, 1996 Inglewood Great Western Forum

## Promotional performances

Date Show Set September 28. 1995 Top of The Pops "Only Happy When it Rains", "Queer" (aired on November) November 22, 1995 MTV's Most Wanted "Queer", "Only Happy When it Rains" March 20, 1996 Top of The Pops "Stupid Girl" March 28, 1996 TFI Friday "Stupid Girl", "Only Happy When it Rains" April 2, 1996 Nulle Part Ailleurs "Queer" April 13, 1996 Saturday Night Special "Only Happy When it Rains" April 14, 1996 Modern Rock Live Modern Rock Live June 8, 1996 MTV Movie Awards "Only Happy When It Rains" July 1, 1996 Beach House "Stupid Girl" July 11, 1996 Late Show with David Letterman "Stupid Girl" July 14, 1996 An Evening of Sweet Relief "Kick My Ass", "Supernatural" Aug 1996 MTV Europe "Queer" Oct 1996 Hey Hey It's Saturday "Milk" October 24, 1996 VH1 Fashion Awards "Stupid Girl" November 14, 1996 MTV Europe Music Awards "Milk" November 18, 1996 Top of The Pops "Milk"

## Setlists

The first full concert in [Minneapolis](/source/Minneapolis) saw Garbage debut a fourteen-song set, launching with "[Supervixen](/source/Supervixen)". The initial set included eleven songs from their debut album and three [b-sides](/source/B-sides): "[Subhuman](/source/Subhuman_(Garbage_song))", "[Girl Don't Come](/source/Only_Happy_When_It_Rains)" and "[Trip My Wire](/source/Queer_(song))". For radio festivals, Garbage performed around five tracks, usually starting with "[Stupid Girl](/source/Stupid_Girl_(Garbage_song))".[3]

Garbage launched their 1996 tour in [Dallas](/source/Dallas), Texas by reordering the set, swapping "Subhuman" and "[Milk](/source/Milk_(Garbage_song))" around and moving "[Queer](/source/Queer_(song))" to the start of the night. The [arrangement](/source/Arrangement_(music)) of "Queer" is based upon a [Danny Saber](/source/Danny_Saber) [remix](/source/Remix) of the song. Garbage debuted an [electronica](/source/Electronica) version of "Dog New Tricks" and a [cover version](/source/Cover_version) of [Vic Chesnutt](/source/Vic_Chesnutt)'s "[Kick My Ass](/source/Sweet_Relief_II:_Gravity_of_the_Situation)" at the start of the run, while also dropping both "As Heaven is Wide" and "A Stroke of Luck". This set list remains largely unchanged for over six months, although "Subhuman" is dropped following a performance in [Boston](/source/Boston)'s Avalon, and both the song and "As Heaven is Wide" are intermittently played as an encore towards the end of the run.[5]

The end of 1996 and Garbage's support slot for the Smashing Pumpkins meant that the band finished the year performing an abbreviated set. Apart from at one final headline show in New York City's [Beacon Theatre](/source/Beacon_Theatre_(New_York_City)), "Supervixen", "Dog New Tricks", "Kick My Ass" and "Girl Don't Come" are retired. Garbage perform a new guitar-heavy arrangement of "Milk" a number of times before it is dropped. The run of shows also saw Garbage debut two songs live: a second Vic Chesnutt cover version ("Supernatural") and their early b-side "[#1 Crush](/source/Number_One_Crush)", which later replaces it.[3]

## Box office score data

Date Show Venue City Tickets sold / available Gross revenue June 1, 1996 HFStival Robert. F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium Washington, D.C. 64,252 / 64,252 (100%) N/A[12] November 1, 1996 Smashing Pumpkins/Garbage Hartford Civic Center Hartford, Connecticut 11,840 / 11,840 (100%) $296,000[13] November 2, 1996 Knickerbocker Arena Albany, New York 12, 434 / 12, 434 (100%) $310,850[13] November 26, 1996 Cajundome Lafayette, Louisiana 10,682 / 10,682 (100%) $267,050[14]

## References

1. Borzillo, Carrie (1996). ["Garbage's Serendipitous Success"](https://books.google.com/books?id=iQ8EAAAAMBAJ&q=Garbage%20shannon%20o'shea&pg=PA97). *Billboard*. pp. 9, 97.

1. Laskin, Tom (March 8, 1996). ["Garbage on the streets"](http://www.isthmus.com/archive/isthmus-35/march-8-1996-garbage-on-the-streets/). *[Isthmus](/source/Isthmus_(newspaper))*. Retrieved October 18, 2015.

1. ["Garbage 1995 Setlists"](https://web.archive.org/web/20110711072728/http://www.garbagebase.com/g-1995.html). Garbagebase.com. Archived from [the original](http://www.garbagebase.com/g-1995.html) on July 11, 2011. Retrieved July 10, 2011.

1. ["Smashing Pumpkins Tour History – Dates"](http://www.spfc.org/tours/date.html?year=1996). SPFC.org. Retrieved April 4, 2010.

1. ["Garbage 1996 Setlists"](https://web.archive.org/web/20110711072323/http://www.garbagebase.com/g-1996.html). Garbagebase.com. Archived from [the original](http://www.garbagebase.com/g-1996.html) on July 11, 2011. Retrieved July 10, 2011.

1. Gargano, Paul. [From Spooner to Garbage](https://web.archive.org/web/20090728172013/http://garbage.net/garbage/articles/%40spoon.htm). *Shepherd Express* (April 1996)

1. ["New Best Of Album"](https://web.archive.org/web/20090620204305/http://www.garbage.com/news/news.php?uid=336). Garbage.com. Archived from [the original](http://www.garbage.com/news/news.php?uid=336) on June 20, 2009. Retrieved May 22, 2007.

1. O'Connell, Shannon (December 2, 1995). *Trash On Delivery*. UK: [Melody Maker](/source/Melody_Maker)

1. ["Canceled Shows"](http://www.splra.org/wiki/index.php?title=CanceledShows). Smashing Pumpkins Live Recording Association. Retrieved July 10, 2011.

1. [*Nightlife; Concerts*](https://books.google.com/books?id=OuECAAAAMBAJ&q=Garbage%20smashing%20pumpkins%20madison%20square%20garden&pg=PA76). New York magazine. 1996. p. 76.

1. [*Concerts*](https://books.google.com/books?id=NuECAAAAMBAJ&q=smashing%20pumpkins%20garbage&pg=PA115). New York magazine. 1996. p. 115.

1. [*Box Score Concert Gross*](https://books.google.com/books?id=qQkEAAAAMBAJ&q=boxscore%20garbage%20no%20doubt&pg=PA14). June 22, 1996. Retrieved July 7, 2011.

1. [*Box Score Concert Gross*](https://books.google.com/books?id=uAkEAAAAMBAJ&q=box%20score%20garbage%20smashing%20pumpkins&pg=PA12). December 7, 1996. Retrieved July 7, 2011.

1. [*Box Score Concert Gross*](https://books.google.com/books?id=tQkEAAAAMBAJ&q=garbage%20smashing%20pumpkins&pg=PA12). December 14, 1996. Retrieved July 7, 2011.

## External links

- [Garbage official website](http://www.garbage.com)
- [Garbage setlist archive](http://www.garbagebase.com): [1995](https://web.archive.org/web/20110711072728/http://www.garbagebase.com/g-1995.html)/[1996](https://web.archive.org/web/20110711072323/http://www.garbagebase.com/g-1996.html)

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