Garbage @ Festival Theatre, Edinburgh, 4 Sep

Standing front and centre, practically on the tip of the stage’s edge, in an asymmetrical holographic orange sequined dress with orange crimped hair and a shock of orange makeup smeared across her eyes, Shirley Manson is easily the coolest superhero we’ve ever seen. With Manson shimmering in a solitary spotlight, Garbage confidently launch into the sombre Afterglow. Their 22-song setlist takes in every song (bar Tornado) from the 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition of Version 2.0, which tonight’s show is celebrating

The set is studded with samples from the likes of Blade Runner (‘I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe… / All those moments will be lost in time / Like tears in the rain / Time to die’), and 2001: A Space Odyssey (‘I can assure you now, very confidently, that it's going to be all right again… / Take a stress pill and think things over’). A couple of Version 2.0 tracks are given a makeover, with Wicked Ways beautifully segueing into Depeche Mode’s Personal Jesus and main set closer You Look So Fine ending on Fleetwood Mac’s Dreams. The World is Not Enough, their James Bond-soundtracking banger, also gets an airing tonight.

It’s not long then – three songs to be precise – before the majority of the Festival Theatre’s stalls are on their feet. After no break, and four songs in, we finally hear from Manson: “Edinburgh! I’m so excited to be here, so proud to bring my boys here to my home!” she says before giving a shout out to all her friends, family and “Miss Selfridge's customers” from when she used to work there. She also takes the time here to point out how important the 20th anniversary celebration of Version 2.0 is to her, as during its world tour in 1998/99 Garbage were invited to perform at the opening of the Scottish Parliament.

Noting that she lives in America for work purposes, she goes on to passionately say: “I am so proud of what Scotland is doing for women’s rights and LGBT rights… I am your dirt, you are my people.” Later in the night, she returns to the theme: “I want to give a huge shout out to Honeyblood (tonight’s support band). It’s a great privilege to play with Scottish women. Let’s get more women involved in music; let’s get more women involved in everything!” It's met with a room full of screams. All hail Queen Shirley!

Following rollicking renditions of I Think I'm Paranoid – which sees Manson writhing around the stage floor on her back – and Sleep Together, Manson tells us: “It’s the first night of our tour.” Sadly this seems to jinx an otherwise perfect set so far, as she tells us that even though she’s done this a million times she’s experiencing “first night nerves,” before going on to say that “all things considered, it’s going very well.”

Cue some minor hiccups: a false start on Dumb due to Manson being taken by her own trip down memory lane following a shout out to her sister; “You’re the best!” adding, “You’ve had to fucking deal with this!” while pointing to herself. “It distracted me so we need to start that again.” Then halfway through Lick the Pavement, she screams “I can’t hear a fucking thing!” becoming increasingly frustrated throughout.

“Before we go any further, we need to fix my sound", she states as soon as the song finishes, trailing off before apologising to the room and to her monitor engineer Josh "for putting him on the spot.” Being unable to hear pitch or clicks in her in-ear monitors, she thanks us for being so nice before wryly joking: “my band will stab me in the heart later.”

Mass singalongs follow on Push It and When I Grow Up, before Manson announces the next song (You Look So Fine) will be their last. A plethora of boos echo round the room and we’re instantly mocked. “You should know about rock and roll clichés by now,” she says, explaining that while she finds encores ridiculous her band disagree.

Following a short disappearance of the band from the stage, and a raucous turn from the crowd who whoop, cheer, stomp their feet and clap, it’s not long before Manson and her boys are back on the stage, starting their two-part encore with The Trick is to Keep Breathing.

Before their final song – an incredibly spirited cover of David Bowie’s Starman – we hear from Manson for the last time tonight: “Thank you for your patience and generosity, thanks to everyone who was there 20 years ago for making our lives full of adventure… Tonight is very special; that we’re all here together.”

She goes on to tell us that she’s had a lot of “funny feelings since David Bowie died – that everything is finite – so I’m trying to be in the moment. I hope you all have a fabulous life. Know that you were loved in this moment and appreciated in this moment. Thank you all.”