Garbage

Garbage is an American-Scottish alternative rock band formed in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1993. The group consists of Scottish musician Shirley Manson (vocals, keyboards, guitar) and American musicians Duke Erikson (bass, guitar, keyboards), Steve Marker (guitar, keyboards), and Butch Vig (drums, percussion). All four members are involved in songwriting and production. The band have counted worldwide album sales of over 17 million units.

Their debut album, Garbage, was critically acclaimed, sold over 4 million copies, and was certified double platinum in the UK, US, and Australia while accompanied by a string of increasingly successful singles in 1995–1996, including "Stupid Girl" and "Only Happy When It Rains". Follow-up Version 2.0, released in 1998 after a year of production, had an equal commercial success, topping the UK Albums Chart and getting nominations for two Grammy Awards. Garbage followed this up by performing and co-producing the theme song to the nineteenth James Bond movie The World Is Not Enough. (read more on wikipedia)

Links To Peel
Peel mentioned on his 29 December 1995 show that he unlikely played Garbage's Vow track on his shows, but after playing the song when it reached number 45 in the 1995 Festive Fifty, he then corrected himself and read out a press release that mentioned him and Lamacq playing the song on the radio in December 1994.

Festive Fifty Entries

 * 1995 Festive Fifty: Vow #45

Shows Played
1994 1995 1996
 * 10 December 1994 / Peel December 1994: Vow (Various Artists CD - Volume Twelve - Winter Sports Special ) Volume
 * 29 December 1995: 'Vow (7 inch)' (Discordant) (JP: 'Time to go over straight away to our immediate self-correction department, because I found a press release in the record which reads thus: "Vow is Garbage's first single. It was featured on CD Magazine Volume in December 94, and was picked up by John Peel and Steve Lamacq at Radio 1. This prompted a release on March 20 on newly-formed indie label Discordant", so I was wrong about that.)
 * 20 March 1996: Stupid Girl (single) Mushroom (Peel sitting in for Mark Radcliffe)