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\n\tShirley Manson<\/a> has not shifted in her stance on beach balls, even after she went viral for cursing at an audience member for relentlessly volleying them toward the stage during Garbage\u2019s recent appearance at Good Things Festival<\/a> in Melbourne. She hasn\u2019t changed her stance on the humanitarian crisis in Palestine<\/a>, either, and she\u2019s using the viral spotlight to draw attention to that instead.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cThe only thing that kind of shocks me a little is there\u2019s been more fuss made about me offending beach balls than there has about 20,000 Palestinian kids who are now fucking under the dirt,\u201d Manson said during a headlining performance in Brisbane. \u201cSo whilst the Brits are busy cooking up some kind of crazy, like, antichrist rhetoric, I would just like to remind you all what\u2019s actually important in this life.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cMaybe a beach ball brings you joy, and for that I apologize,\u201d Manson continued. This apology followed the audience member who was on the receiving end of her criticism, where she sounded off with, \u201cYou\u2019re a fucking middle-aged man in a fucking ridiculous hat \u2026 I want, literally, to ask people to fucking punch you in the fucking face. But you know what? I\u2019m a lady, so I won\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tBeach balls have a certain prevalence in some live music spaces, and Manson simply isn\u2019t a fan of the beach. In her initial response to the controversy, she doubled down. \u201cI joined a band because I HATED THE FUCKING BEACH,\u201d she wrote on Threads. \u201cI joined a band because I wanted to listen to Siouxsie and the Banshees and The Cure and be dark and beautiful\u2026 I am so tired of folks taking music for free and treating us all like circus performers.\u201d <\/p>\n \n\t\u201cIf I upset you about your blessed beach balls, I humbly apologize,\u201d Manson continued onstage to a sea of even more beach balls. \u201cHowever, I would really like it if the governments of the day apologized for what the fuck is happening in Palestine.\u201d<\/p>\n