Shirley Manson’s Pre-Garbage Band Angelfish Reunite And Cover Stone Roses At Palestine Benefit

Before there was Garbage, there was Angelfish. Steve Marker first reached out to Shirley Manson about singing for Garbage after seeing her band Angelfish's video for “Suffocate Me,” which famously aired just once on MTV during the September 12, 1993 episode of 120 Minutes, at nearly 2 a.m. Last night, the short-lived early-’90s rock group reunited live for the first time in a decade with all proceeds from the show benefiting humanitarian aid charities for Palestinian children.

Angelfish — which along with Manson includes Martin Metcalfe, Derek Kelly, and Fin Wilson — headlined their Edinburgh hometown's Liquid Room on Friday (Jan. 30) with support from Iona Zajac. The Scottish band opened with "Nae Tongues," a song the members of Angelfish wrote as the Filthy Tongues years after Manson quit, then performed their 1993 self-titled LP, which was produced by Talking Heads' Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth. Angelfish encored by debuting a cover of the Stone Roses classic "I Wanna Be Adored" and closed with "Trash It" from their 1993 Suffocate EP.

Angelfish will play Liquid Room again tonight, and they're not only old band with whom Shirley Manson will be reuniting this year... sort of. Her pre-Angelfish band Goodbye Mr MacKenzie will open for Garbage at Edinburgh Castle on July 11, however Angelfish were pretty much just a Goodbye Mr MacKenzie side-project. They had the same core members, but Metcalfe handled lead vocals for GMM.

Manson's last album with Goodbye Mr MacKenzie, 1995's Five, was actually mostly written and recorded at the same time as Angelfish's sole LP. And the Angelfish track "The End," which they played last night, was first recorded by Goodbye Mr. MacKenzie as the b-side to their biggest hit, "The Rattler."

Check out videos, setlist, and photos below. There were no beach balls.

SETLIST:
"Nae Tongues" (The Filthy Tongues cover)
"Dogs In A Cage"
"Suffocate Me"
"You Can Love Her"
"King Of The World"
"Sleep With Me"
"The Sun Won’t Shine"
"Heartbreak To Hate"
"Mummy Can’t Drive"
"Tomorrow Forever"
"The End" (Goodbye Mr. Mackenzie cover)
"I Wanna Be Adored" (The Stone Roses cover)
"Trash It"