Garbage tour
Date Show Set
Sept 1995 Top of The Pops Only Happy When it Rains
November 22 , 1995 Most Wanted Queer , Only Happy When it Rains
Nov 1995 Top of The Pops Queer
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
Promotional performances
The Garbage tour was the first world concert tour cycle completed by American/Scottish alternative rock group Garbage, which took the band throughout North America, Europe, Japan, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand in support of its self-titled debut album Garbage. For the duration of the tour, Garbage's touring line-up was augmented by Daniel Shulman, who had previously been a session musician for Run-D.M.C., on bass guitar. Samplers and MIDI controllers helped the bandmembers to unleash on stage the varied sounds that augmented the studio versions of the songs. Despite all the members of the group having racked up years of touring experience between them prior to forming, Garbage had no initial plans to tour their debut set; they changed their mind when they found that they enjoyed themselves while filming the music video for their debut single, Vow. Director Samuel Bayer had encouraged the group to play the song live as he filmed them, rather than playing along to a backing track. The Garbage tour started off with low-key headlining shows in late 1995, during which time the band visited a number of media cities in North America and Europe. The band spent the following year on tour, performing as the main act, spending two separate runs as an opening act for the Smashing Pumpkins on their Infinite Sadness arena tour, performing on TV and radio shows and performing on the bill at rock and radio festivals around the world. A number of notable acts supported Garbage throughout the run of the tour, including Acetone, Ash, Bis, The Elevator Drops, Fun Lovin' Criminals, The Rentals, Placebo, Polyanna and Polara. The tour was booked by Kevin Gasser of Creative Artists Agency. Before the 1996 concerts, the band reworked the songs to make them work better live, and also adopted more MIDI guitars to use less keyboards on stage. Video camera footage shot by Garbage during the early 1996 tour dates was incorporated into both that year's opening titles of the band's first long-form VHS and VCD compilation, Garbage Video, and the band's hour-long retrospective documentary, Thanks For Your Uhhh, Support, which featured on the group's 2007 greatest hits DVD Absolute Garbage.