Garbage frontlady Shirley Manson has started work on a solo debut album. The singer has been working with film score composer David Arnold, who collaborated with Garbage on 1999 Bond theme 'The World Is Not Enough' and told Billboard: "I just went to London last week and we wrote a song together. It was really quick and fast and it was really good fun."
Manson added that writing with other people is "scary and really exciting and super-freaky. It feels really weird to talk about it!", and added that she has no fixed plan as to when the album will be released. "I've got no timetable. I'm sort of sick of timetables, to be honest. I just want to live my life a little freely and not adhere to any schedule - just make music and have fun."
She insisted, however, that her solo work was not indicative of a Garbage split, commenting on the confused reaction last year to Manson's announcement that the band were planning a hiatus. "We're still together, absolutely. We all feel like we want to go off and do a variety of things. [Drummer] Butch [Vig] is going back into production and some other guys are working on film soundtracks. Being the chaotic bunch we are, we should have put a press release together but we didn't. We were quite taken aback by how big a deal was made of it. But we love each other and we still want to work together. We're just taking a break. We've had a crazy decade."