Garbage frontwoman Shirley Manson has responded to headlines sparked by her rant against beach balls at Melbourne’s Good Things Festival last week, offering an on-stage apology during the band’s Brisbane performance on Sunday (Dec. 7) — while also redirecting attention to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

“I just have to address your glorious beach balls — they’re very impressive,” Manson told the Brisbane crowd at Showgrounds.

“The only thing that kind of shocks me a little is there’s been more fuss made about me offending beach balls than there has about 20,000 Palestinian kids who are now f—ing under the dirt,” she continued.

“So whilst the Brits are busy cooking up some kind of crazy, like, antichrist rhetoric, I would just like to remind you all what’s actually important in this lif

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