Shirley Manson will reunite Angelfish for Palestine fundraiser gig
Shirley Manson has announced a reunion show with her old band, Angelfish, to raise funds for Palestinian children.
Before fronting the garage rock band Garbage, Manson played in a band called Angelfish. The 800-capacity venue, Edinburgh’s Liquid Room, will host the reunion show. It will mark Angelfish’s third gig since they broke up in 1995.
The venue announced the January 30th gig on social media, writing, “Shirley Manson, Martin Metcalfe, Derek Kelly, and Fin Wilson are reuniting for a very special, one-off gig in their hometown of Edinburgh, their first ever in the city!”
On October 18th, Manson took to the Garbage Instagram to decry the treatment of the children trapped in Gaza. She wrote, “Yesterday I saw a horrifying photograph of a 11 year old Palestinian schoolboy, bleeding out from his groin where he had been shot by a so called soldier during a so called ceasefire. His name was Muhammad al-Hallaq.”
The post continued tragically, “He had been playing soccer with his friends in a village schoolyard south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank. So called “soldiers” trained to “fight” opened fire on Muhammad and his friends because the kids had allegedly hurled some rocks. Adult soldiers with full impunity . Opening fire on children. Deliberately targeting AN ELEVEN YEAR OLD child in the groin.”
Calling for a “free Palestine,” Manson slammed the “fucking evil” that could do such a thing. As such, all proceeds of the new show will go to “Children in Gaza charities.”
In a recent review of their 2025 full-length release, Far Out praised Garbage, writing, “But then there’s the light, and Garbage coast this line with such finesse and charm that it becomes impossible not to look within and ask ourselves whether we’ve given up or if we’ve just entered the beginning of our own personal fight. While we try to figure it out, though, we’ve always got fist-pumping anthems and words of wisdom to push us along.”
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