Festival-goers have mocked Garbage singer Shirley Manson after her bizarre rant at a crowd in Melbourne over beach balls went viral. 

The Scottish musician, 59, hit out at her supporters at Melbourne’s Good Things Festival after noticing a giant beach ball moving around in the crowd. 

Manson paused her set to call out the man responsible for the ball, accusing him of “disrespecting” her. 

“Big man with your big f****** beach ball. Oh I’m so scared of you, so thrilled by you … what a f****** douche bag,” she was heard saying in videos shared on social media.

“You’re big f****** dudes. Wow. Oh, my God, they’re so cool. This is just so f****** outrageous, I can’t get over it. Wow. It’s disrespectful.

“We’re fed up with not getting f****** paid properly, and fed up with having to play for douche bags like you.

“You’re a f****** middle-aged man. In a f****** ridiculous hat. And you’re a f****** f*** face. I literally want to f****** ask people to punch you in the f****** face. But you know what? I’m a lady. So I won’t.

“Truly, I would love to send my crew over to mess you up. But you know what? I won’t because I pity you. Because you’re a small man with a small d***.”

It’s understood beach balls were thrown out to the crowd during Machine Head’s performance before Garbage took to the stage.

She asked for the inflatables to be returned to the stage before taking aim at one man in her expletive-filled rant. 

However, at Garbage’s next gig in Brisbane fans hit back at the Scottish singer in a very creative way by filling the crowd with several beach balls.

“I just have to address your glorious beach balls, they’re very impressive!” Manson said.

“And not only are they impressive but they are very, very big.

“The only thing that kind of shocks me a little is there’s been more fuss made about me offending beach balls than there has about 20,000 Palestinian kids who are now f****** under the dirt.”

“Maybe a beach ball brings you joy and for that I apologise. If I upset you about your blessed beach balls, I humbly apologise,” she continued.

Commentators online praised Brisbane festival-goers for getting revenge on behalf of the Melbourne crowd. 

“As someone that was at the Melbourne show I was hoping she would have an empty crowd, but this is even better,” one wrote.

“From a Melbourne attendee I wish to thank Brisbane fans,” another commented.

And another person added: “Love it when Australia gets petty.”