Garbage's return to Dublin well worth the wait

Garbage offered a pop twist on grunge’s maximalist angst when they materialised in a dramatic swirl in the mid-Nineties. Like a candy-cane Nirvana, they were bleak and baroque but with tunes you could hum in the dark.

The similarity was no coincidence. The band’s drummer, Butch Vig, had produced the definitive grunge document, Nevermind. Garbage cleaved to the same format of radio-friendly ennui.