Garbage preceded the headliner with a fun and equally nostalgic 12-song set that largely covered the band’s hits, and for the most part, steered clear of its strong new album, No Gods No Masters. Garbage performs at Concord Pavilion in Concord, Calif. She charmingly ad-libbed a joke about raising kids during “You Learn.” On “Head Over Feet,” she strummed an acoustic guitar and again jammed on her harmonica while the crowd provided an impressive chorus on the refrain. She showed off her upper register on the “Everything” intro to “Mary Jane.” Even with the microphone an arm’s-length away, her voice boomed clearly. Luckily, when my eyes started wandering to the videos, Alanis Morissette would sing something really well and recapture my attention.
And perhaps the most overt audio/video pair came on “Perfect” (with a “Nemesis” intro), which included a shot of dust-covered trophies that had lost all significance. It was touching, but I again found myself losing track of where she was on stage. “Ablaze” (with “So Unsexy”) scored home videos of Morissette’s children. “Reasons I Drink” (which included an intro using “Diagnosis”) was paired with a video of uncomfortable people at an addiction meeting. During the hard-rocking “Forgiven” (which included an opening from “Hands Clean,” off 2002’s Under Rug Swept) the star was sometimes lost amid the colorful cathedral window backdrops.
The videos were likely helpful for the uninitiated, but one downside was how they sometimes distracted from Alanis Morissette’s artistry.
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