Marilyn Manson "Wants" To Tour Australia Again, But Not At An Outdoor Festival

Marilyn Manson has revealed that he “wants” to tour Australia behind his latest album Heaven Upside Down, but doesn’t want to perform at any outdoor festivals.

Speaking on triple j this morning, Manson was asked when he’d be returning to Australia, given that he last performed in the country for Soundwave Festival in 2015, which included a number of outdoor shows.

“They haven’t told me when it’s supposed to be, but I obviously want to come there,” he replied.

“I’ve never really gotten the outdoor concert thing,” he said, potentially ruling himself out of the first-ever Download Festival Australia, which is expected to be held in an outdoor venue.

“I remember I went to Lollapalooza, the very first one, and I took acid… There was a family that had a picnic blanket out and they were all covered in warts. Head to toe warts, as if they were cactus people with warts, and that was not good to watch when you’re on acid, it terrified me.

“Strangely, maybe it was the acid that put me off, or maybe I was in the shade of the wart family, but it was not that hot out — even though it was in Florida — but any other festivals that are outdoors… they seem really sweaty.

“It shows that the fans really endure the weather to get to see their favourite bands, so in that sense I appreciate it.”

Manson also told a story of how he was supposedly mistaken for KISS — who he’s previously called “four gay dudes in Halloween costumes” — when he was hospitalised following an onstage injury earlier this month.

“The night I went to the hospital, there was an older lady and there were two tall young doctors,” he said.

“And [the older lady] was afraid to ask me who I was, but I had just come off stage so I had a lot of makeup on and I was still in my stage clothes, and I was on a stretcher.

“She asked the two younger guys if I ‘was KISS’… That offended me enough that I heard it and in all of the pain I was going through I said, ‘No!'”

Explaining how the injury occurred, Manson said, “I went to stand on a lighting truss that was part of our stage show, and I put my hand on it — some people thought I was trying to climb it — I just put my hand on it, and I started to teeter back and forth so I tried to stop it, but it landed on me and I got knocked down and it crushed the bottom half of my right leg.

“Nothing’s gonna stop me, I’m too determined and too excited about what this record means to me and to its relevance in the world.”

Relive 16 times that Manson fucked with pop culture in the gallery below, as we wait ~~patiently~~ for him to announce a new Australian tour.

16 Times Marilyn Manson F*cked With Pop Culture

Times Marilyn Manson F*cked With Pop Culture

Those bloody stage antics...

Manson completely threw the rulebook (and some would argue, sanity itself) out the window when it came to live performances. His bizarre and grotesque theatrics reached their bloody zenith during a 1995 gig in San Francisco where he plunged a broken beer bottle into his own chest, leaving him with -- as he recalls in his autobio -- "one of the deepest and biggest scars on the latticework that is my torso."
...Which even got him thrown in jail one time!

In 1994, the singer was arrested at a show in Florida for allegedly "jacking off with a strap-on dildo... and urinating on the crowd". Turns out the dildo was just a figment of police's imagination, and Manson was simply wearing black rubber undies with a "dick hole", as he explains in his book. Nonetheless, his onstage behaviour still earned him a night in the slammer.
Then, when we expected more sex and gore, he gave us straight fire...

Like the time he teamed up for a surprise duet with Eminem on 'The Way I Am', representing a venomous and unified "fuck you" to a society that vilified their music for its own deep-rooted social flaws.
... Not to mention some ass

Speaking of MTV, Manson stripped down to shake his bare backside to the shock of fans everywhere back when Miley Cyrus was still in nappies. There may not have been any twerking involved, but it represented a powerful subversion of gender & beauty norms on one of the biggest stages in pop culture.
... And bewwwbs.

Manson's female, alien-like nude body on the cover of his 1998 Mechanical Animals album was confronting enough to get the LP banned in multiple department stores, including Target. Fucking with society's established ideals of beauty, gender and sexual identity in this way remains one of the shock rocker's greatest achievements. and it's certainly left a lasting impact on pop culture.
Manson could go from hailing satan one minute...

True story: Church of Satan founder Anton Szandor LaVey requested a meeting with Manson back in 1994, and on the spot decided to make him a certified reverend in the Church of Satan.
...To chilling with wholesome Disney icon Mickey Mouse the next...

They do share the same initials, after all.
...To bastardising the visage of said mouse the very next minute

Hear that? That's the sound of Mouseketeers screaming in terror for all eternity.
Whether it's wiping his arse with the American flag...

Star-spangled bum-rag anyone?
Or portraying a straight-up white supremacist on 'Sons Of Anarchy', Manson just keeps toying with our expectations.

How good was that show, though?
And he hasn't just taken over our TV screens, Manson has infiltrated pretty much every corner of pop culture. From movies...

Remember his brief but memorable turn as this creepy guy who gets framed for murder in 1999's dark chick flick Jawbreaker?
To video games...

Yep. That's Manson who voices the human-hating alien Edgar in the 2005 first-person sci-fi horror shooter game Area 51.
...To alcohol.

Yep. After years of being obsessed with absinthe, Manson went ahead and started brewing his own. And at 66.6% alcohol volume, Mansinthe is guaranteed to God-Of-Fuck you up.
But one of the times he fucked with us most was when he let us see him without makeup.

Fans couldn't believe what Marilyn Manson actually looked like under all that paint when he appeared in an episode of comedy series Eastbound & Down, looking like just another regular jackoff. Or, to be more specific, a ginger Severus Snape.
And despite controversy being the fire that forged him into a bonafide superstar, Manson has never been afraid to stand up against the lynch mob on behalf of his music, or his fans.

Like the time he faced a group of Christian mums head-on during an appearance on American TV talk show Phil Donahue, after they accused him of corrupting their children with his "violent" music.
In fact, the time he fucked with pop culture the most? Revealing that he's actually a deeply intelligent and well-spoken dude, with some powerful insights into music's relationship with society

Take a gander at his interview in Michael Moore's groundbreaking doco Bowling For Columbine - where he discusses his music being blamed for the horrific Columbine school shootings -- to see this in action. Manson is the demonic poster child for a society that habitually judges books by their covers. But luckily for us, he's proven the naysayers fucking wrong time and again.