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PREVIEW: Gigs of the Week in Leeds, 13th-19th July

A preview of the best live music coming up in Leeds this week, including Tinariwen, Garbage, The Bug and the legendary Shonen Knife!

CLASSIC ’90s: Garbage – ‘Garbage’

by Ed Biggs Always one of the most underrated and overlooked groups of the ‘90s, Garbage were prime movers of the alternative rock trend that exploded in America that decade, at around the same time that Britpop was doing likewise across the Atlantic. Formed of three American producers and musicians – including Nirvana producer Butch Vig – plus their fiery Edinburgh-born Shirley Manson with her shock of red hair and streak

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