A low-angle shot shows Shirley Manson, the lead singer of the band Garbage, performing on stage. She is wearing a bold outfit consisting of a black and white pinstripe suit jacket over a white shirt with an orange polka-dot tie. Her hair is styled in a spiky blonde ponytail. She is holding a microphone with her left hand and pointing forward with her right. The background is dark and smoky, with green stage lights illuminating her from below. — Shirley Manson of Garbage, which plays Jannus Live in St. Petersburg, Florida on September 6, 2025. Credit: Phil DeSimone

Wisconsin band Garbage has racked up a considerable amount of local history in its 22 years. But its goodbye to Tampa Bay is much more intimate than area shows of the last few years.

When COVID-19 restrictions loosened up and concerts made a comeback in summer of 2021, the alt-rock fourpiece hadn’t played a gig in Tampa Bay since opening for U2 nearly 20 odd years prior. But that changed when it supported Alanis Morissette at the old Gary amphitheater. Shirley Manson and friends would hit the same stage in the summers to come as an opener for Tears For Fears, and as headliners for their own tour, featuring Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds playing support.

But this weekend, the band—which is pushing its uber-positive new album Let All That We Imagine Be the Light—is taking to the much-smaller Jannus Live for what appears to be its last-ever stop in town before calling it a day. L.A.-based glam rock outfit Starcrawler opens.

Tickets to see Garbage play St. Pete’s Jannus Live on Saturday, Sept. 6 are still available and cost $69.54.