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Placebo tour dates 2024

Placebo is currently touring across 9 countries and has 25 upcoming concerts.

Their next tour date is at Caribbean Gardens in Scoresby, after that they'll be at Cathy Freeman Park in Sydney.

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Caribbean Gardens

Cathy Freeman Park

Broadwater Parklands Gold Coast

Pappy & Harriet's Pioneertown Palace

Cruel World

The Piece Hall

Guildhall Square

OpenAir St. Gallen

Bristol Harbourside

Rugbysound - Isola Del Castello

FESTIVAL FETE DU BRUIT DANS ST NOLFF 2024 - VENDREDI

FESTIVAL FETE DU BRUIT DANS ST NOLFF 2024 - FORFAIT 3 JOURS

Rock in Roma

Pordenone Blues & C. Festival

Placebo + Special Guests Live | Blues Festival

Esplanade Du Lac

KüçükÇiftlik Park

Herrenacker

Schlossgarten, Schloss Schwetzingen

Uelzen Open R

Open R Uelzen

Bürgerwiese Baumberg

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Tecate Pal Norte

Teatro Metropólitan

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Unfortunately I was deeply disappointed by what was supposed to be a great event to celebrate the band's 20th anniversary... and instead turned into an unworthy gig.

They started with Pure Morning... all good, and the fact that acoustics were far from perfect was tolerable because it always seems to be like that at loud gigs (before the guys at the mixer sort it out). Then Brian Molko said he completely lost his voice 2 weeks ago and despite he really hoped to get it back in time for these 2 London dates, voice hasn't come back... "but London we're gonna have a fucking great show anyway!!!"

Apart that they didn't. It was actually such a disappointment that I left before the encore. What's the point of listening to songs that are sang in a way that it's not a wilful variation of the traditional vocals, but it's simply a shitty version of the original because he doesn't have much voice at all? I could have been on the sodding stage then...

And from where I stood (standing, middle of the room, on the right) the acoustic remained absolutely crap throughout the gig. Too much base, too much noise really and not enough enough voice. Wow, what a disappointment. I think the decent and respectful thing to do would have been to cancel the shows and be unpopular for a few weeks before the new dates, but then really smash the place down with a worthy exhibition.

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It was my third placebo's concert and it was amazing as always.

Personally I missed Fiona Brice's stage presence especially during Lazarus (one of my favorite song).

She is so "statuesque".

I have to say that Angela Chan was really good. It was clear that she was really nervous for her debut!

About her debut I didn't like that Brian didn't said a word. I mean it was her debut!!! But we all know Brian! He's not very talkative!

He spoke only once with the fans, he spoke for blaming one girl in the very front row who spent the whole concert texting and taking selfie giving her back to the stage. Still...we all know Brian! He hates cellphone and all who take photos/video during his concert and don't enjoy the concert.

Nothing new about the setlist, it's always the same, but I'd love to hear live "A Milion Little Pieces".

I was in the front rows and I had a wonderful view of the stage and the musician even when Brian asked us to stand up and dance. I knew he'd have asked something like this.

Their concerts are not concerts where you can stay sit.

The venue of the show was absolutely stunning! The "Teatro Antico di Taormina" is wonderful even when there are not events like this but for a concert it is super. At the back of the stage there wasn't any big screen so we were able to see the Etana volcano and the sea.

This was one of the best gigs I have been to and Placebo are one of the best bands I have seen ‎perform live. I wondered how they’d perform in a large arena having previously impressed me in the ‎much smaller O2 academy but boy did they step up.‎

Everything was spot on from the lighting, sound, setlist, music and performance with Brian Molko’s ‎unique brilliant voice singing every word like he meant it. ‎

A large chunk of the set was made up of less energetic songs but I found myself glued to the ‎performance and the delivery of I Know was one the best songs I have experienced live. During this ‎section enough more upbeat tracks and well known tracks were played to keep things flowing. ‎

As the final third of the show arrived, Brian Molko announced it was a birthday party and time to ‎dance. Then began an consecutive run of eight upbeat energetic tracks starting with For What It’s ‎Worth and ending with a three track encore of Teenage Angst, Nancy Boy and Infra-red with lots of ‎hand clapping, cheering, dancing and singing along. I’ve seen other reviews that have criticised the ‎order of the setlist but for me it worked perfectly. ‎

Placebo closed with their awesome cover of Running Up That Hill and rounded off a fantastic night. ‎

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It marks the group’s first trek overseas in nine years

Placebo are returning to North American next year for the first time in nine years. The trek – which was previously postponed – begins with a performance at Palacio de Los Deportes on April 17 in Mexico and wraps up on May 20 at The Fillmore in Denver.

Tickets for the 19-date trek are on-sale this Friday at 10 am local time HERE . Deap Vally open on all dates except the Mexico City performance. Cold Cave will also perform at the Los Angeles date. The originally announced Vancouver performance was unable to be rescheduled, tickets are available for refund at the point of purchase. The Austin venue has been upgraded from Emo’s to Stubbs, all tickets remain valid.

Placebo released their latest LP Never Let Me Go back in March. The record peaked at No. 3 on the UK Albums Chart and No. 1 on the UK Indie Chart. The album has been lauded by fans and critics alike.

Placebo formed in 1994, with the London-based pair of Brian Molko (vocals/guitar) and Stefan Olsdal (bass/guitar), releasing their eponymous debut just two years later. In the intervening years, Placebo have released eight studio albums that have sold over 13 million copies, filled stadiums from Moscow to Sydney, won numerous awards including a 1999 Brit Award, and pushed the boundaries of gender and sexuality.

April 17 – Mexico City, MX – Palacio de Los Deportes * April 20 – Minneapolis, MN – The Fillmore April 21 – Chicago, IL – TBD April 23 – New York, NY – Brooklyn Steel April 24 – New York, NY – Brooklyn Steel April 26 – Montreal, QC – MTelus April 27 – Toronto, ON – History April 29 – Philadelphia, PA – Franklin Music Hall April 30 – Boston, MA – Roadrunner May 2 – Washington, DC – 9:30 Club May 7 – Austin, TX – Stubb’s May 8 – Dallas, TX – House of Blues May 10 – Tempe, AZ – Marquee Theatre May 11 – Los Angeles, CA – Greek Theatre  ^ May 14 – San Francisco, CA – The Warfield May 16 – Portland, OR – Crystal Ballroom May 17 – Seattle, WA – Moore Theatre May 19 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Complex May 20 – Denver, CO – The Fillmore

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Placebo: “Making music felt like a lifeline, and that feeling still exists to this day”

For almost three decades, Brian Molko and Stefan Olsdal have been masters of their own destiny, steering Placebo into whichever creative waters they so choose. Now, after nine years lost at sea, the duo have returned with Never Let Me Go, and prescient tales of loss, surveillance and climate change. A record for our times, that could only have been made by these two…

“What’s my state of mind right now?” Brian Molko ponders, repeating Kerrang!’s question slowly, deliberately and with that unmistakable purr. “Anticipation. Mild frustration. Impatience. This has been a long time coming.” The ‘this’ the 49-year-old is referring to is Never Let Me Go, Placebo ’s forthcoming eighth album and their first since 2013. “We’ve been sitting on this record for two years longer than we probably should have been. We have to get back into this rock’n’roll machine.”

It’s a machine Brian and co-conspirator Stefan Olsdal have been at the controls of since 1994, a year after the singer graduated from Goldsmiths College. The university’s New Cross location was only a 20-minute bus ride from Brixton Academy, thereby providing drama student Brian with easy access to gigs from artists breaking out from the underground – from PJ Harvey and Pavement, to Fugazi and Sonic Youth . In 1998, Placebo headlined the same legendary venue in support of their second album, Without You I’m Nothing. “And so you have to find new dreams,” says Brian of having to recalibrate his goals. “To find new dizzying heights to scale.”

And scale those heights Placebo did, transforming from a cult concern erroneously thrown in with the Britpop movement but too edgy and interesting for membership, to arena conquerors, all without compromising their weirdness or gender fluidity. And they’re still here, still producing interesting records, albeit with Brian and Stefan as the only official members. “Relationships are hard,” the latter offers by way of explanation. “I’ll put it like this: we’ve been through four drummers.”

The band’s Swedish-born bassist-guitarist, 47, is suffering with a frozen shoulder that necessitated a cortisone injection earlier today, which has left him feeling “wobbly”. That might be why he sighs deeply before each of his answers, though it’s more likely because doing press isn’t his preferred way of spending a morning. Regardless, he’s a kind and considered interviewee, and exuding a calmness, he suggests, is one of the reasons he and Brian have avoided the rifts that can mar long-term creative unions. “He’s a fireball and I’m St. Patience. He describes things in poetic terms and I do in technical terms. He’ll hum a melody into his phone and I’ll be firing up ProTools.”

Brian and Stefan met as 19-year-olds in London. Despite both attending the same school in Luxembourg as children, they hadn’t interacted while they were there. As teenagers, however, and with outsider status in common, the two hit it off and started jamming together in a council flat in Deptford, south-east London, initially as Ashtray Heart but later as Placebo. “We were just two lost souls, trying to find a place we could belong because we didn’t know where we fit in,” suggests Stefan. “With Placebo, we found a way to create a space and a platform that we felt we could inhabit. And the music we made was the music I wanted to hear. It felt like a lifeline. And that feeling still exists to this day.”

Thirty years together is an impressive feat, even if Brian, whose androgynous visage is nowadays more akin to that of a gallant musketeer, doesn’t see still being a band as a guarantee of quality. “I’m not about to pretend that just because we’ve achieved some kind of longevity, that we are superior artistically. Michael Bublé’s achieved longevity. So has Barry Manilow. So I never know if what I do is of artistic value because I question it continuously.”

Questioning their own methods is how Placebo ended up making Never Let Me Go. As with all of their albums, starting things off brings on “a major existential crisis” in Brian, who’ll use an exercise in creativity to aid him out of his bind. This time it involved reversing the process of making a record entirely, starting with the cover art, for which he selected a striking image of a beach. At first glance, it appears to be covered by beautiful multicoloured pebbles. On closer inspection, however, it becomes clear the beach is strewn with man-made items altered by time and tide, but unable to break down entirely.

This image is the perfect accompaniment for Try Better Next Time, a song that manages the feat of being both breezy and devastatingly depressing. “It’s basically saying, ‘Good riddance humanity, try better next time you come back and get a chance to live on this beautiful planet,” explains Brian. “It’s a very disillusioned song about the climate disaster presented in a sort of three-minute Weezer -ish kind of pop-punk thing. If you dig deeper, it’s one of the more disturbing songs because it’s talking about an extinction event, you know, the extinction of human beings.”

The fifth track on Never Let Me Go, The Prodigal, pairs a downbeat vocal with spritely orchestral swells. On a record characterised by a love of synthesisers, this organic sound makes it something of a one-off. The track started out differently, though, strikingly similar to the Pixies classic Where Is My Mind? in fact, before producer Adam Noble suggested a change of approach. The finished version is more reminiscent of Eleanor Rigby, bringing Brian and Stefan’s shared love of The Beatles to the fore.

Both men greedily devoured the eight hours of Get Back, the Peter Jackson-directed documentary series of never-before-seen footage of The Fab Four that dates back to 1969. “I felt privileged to be there, that close to one of my favourite bands,” enthuses Stefan. “It’s a gift. And it’s very brave that they let people that close to them.”

Those expecting Placebo to open the archives as freely will be in for a similarly long wait, though, if any such footage exists at all. “That invasion of privacy kind of scares me,” squirms Stefan in response to the idea of doing something similarly fly-on-the-wall. He certainly practices what he preaches when it comes to avoiding oversharing; earlier when K! asked the location of the studio he’s calling from, he’ll only divulge that it’s “on Planet Earth”.

Stefan has his reasons. “When we started the band, it was something of a dawning for the age of modern technology,” he explains. “We led our lives in private and there wasn’t much intrusion, and we certainly didn’t want to parade ourselves on the red carpet. And that continues today. We’re still private people who don’t feel we need or want to share our personal moments, or intimate moments, or creative moments. It just doesn’t feature on our radar. We’ve chosen to control the narrative as much as possible, so rather than divulging too much, we’ve held back a little.”

Brian agrees, though understands this ethos isn’t for everyone, which is why he wrote Surrounded By Spies; a sleek, throbbing treatise on navigating a world in which some decry being surveilled too much, while others desperately yearn for more limelight. “If you want to talk about your most private moments on social media, if you get validation from that or if you find therapeutic relief from that, or you just want to post your dinner, it’s your prerogative,” reasons Brian. “But just because you do, don’t expect me to. Why should I make the same deal with the devil you made?”

If you’re reading this and are about to suggest that, as someone whose art has put them in the public eye, Brian can’t have it both ways, then we suggest you don’t. Not to him, anyway. “There’s a kind of tacit pressure for people who are quiet and private like me, that we should be exposing ourselves because you’re a performer,” continues Brian. “But I don’t. I don’t have a Faustian pact with the media. I don’t actively go out there and search for column inches.”

Lockdown brought forth a variety of fears in people, whether it was about their health, being enclosed, or the idea that life might never be the same again. For Brian Molko, however, a man used to periods of creative seclusion because they’re usually followed by tours in front of tens of thousands of people, it was the thought he might no longer be able to share that joyous communion. “For the first time in my life, the possibility of there not being an audience there, the possibility of us not playing concerts again, seemed real. And then all of a sudden I started asking myself questions that I’ve never asked myself before in my career, like: ‘Do I have a future?’”

Weariness and uncertainty had already crept in for other reasons. Work had begun on Placebo’s eighth album back in 2016, though was soon interrupted by a tour in support of A Place For Us To Dream, the band’s greatest hits compilation album, a one-year jaunt that soon extended to three. “By the end of it we had this really disjointed relationship with our old material,” admits Stefan. “I personally started to become quite disillusioned with what it meant to be in Placebo and what we were doing. If we’d have made this record six years ago, right after the retrospective tour, we’d have probably made an atonal, experimental noise record.”

Stefan still looks back, of course, but his focus is on the less obvious career accomplishments, with a curious focus on his band’s promos. His son remains mighty impressed that dad got to swim with sharks in the video for 1998’s You Don’t Care About Us , even if that bravery was an illusion created through technology and clever editing (“I don’t know if I want to tell him the truth just yet”). And Stefan laughs at the memory of the video for Nancy Boy with its generous sprays of white fluid that somehow went over the heads of the censors, so to speak. “There’s some overtly sexual imagery. The massive cumshot, for example.”

Talk of achievements, eventually leads us to the topic of David Bowie , who played a pivotal mentorly role in Placebo’s career – taking them on tour, guesting on the single version of the track Without You I’m Nothing, and appearing with them during live shows. Stefan recently found a photograph from the legend’s 50th birthday concert back in 1997. Taken backstage at New York’s Madison Square Garden, it features Placebo alongside members of The Cure , Foo Fighters , Smashing Pumpkins and Sonic Youth, arranged around the birthday boy who’s sat on the edge of a sofa, bleached blonde hair like a cockatoo’s crest, a cigarette between his fingers and a grin across his face. “We were trying not to wee ourselves with excitement,” Stefan admits now.

David Bowie’s death on January 10, 2016, two days after his 69th birthday and the release of final studio album Blackstar, certainly left its mark on the members of Placebo. The aching Happy Birthday In The Sky, while not exclusively about that particular loss, pays tribute to those whose birthdays we continue to mark even after they have passed, as Brian does with his late hero. “It communicates that kind of heartbreak,” he explains. “That sense of loss. That sense of desperation. It’s as if a part of your body and soul has been ripped from you unfairly. And you pine – and you pine.”

Stefan, meanwhile, is given comfort by Bowie’s words of wisdom, which have finally borne fruit after 26 years. Placebo famously landed a support slot on some dates for his Outside Tour back in February 1996, hastily replacing Morrissey, who had unexpectedly and unhelpfully gone back to England, leaving proceedings decidedly in the lurch. Placebo, still four months away from releasing their self-titled debut album, naturally leapt at the chance. Piling into a yellow transit van, they made the 14-hour, 780-mile drive to Milan and performed for 8,500 people at the city’s now-defunct Palatrussardi venue. Not bad for their first-ever appearance in Italy. “After soundcheck [Bowie] came into our dressing room,” recalls Stefan of their esteemed host. “He was very respectful and knew our names, which obviously blew us away. Then he looked at me and said, ‘I think you should sing more.’ That’s always stuck with me but, for whatever reason, I hadn’t done it. But finally, on this record, I’ve listened to his advice.” Indeed, Stefan’s voice, a markedly different instrument to Brian’s, is another element that makes Never Let Me Go a distinct entry in Placebo’s catalogue.

“These are absurdly magnificent things to happen to a musician, to get that kind of support from such legendary figures that you grew up listening to and to find an affinity with them,” reflects Brian on how the endorsement of icons has buoyed him over the years. “That little voice in the back of your head that just keeps telling you you’re never good enough, you know, it’s slightly quietened by the support of your heroes.”

David Bowie was a notoriously prescient thinker, whether it was predicting success for Placebo, Stefan’s untapped vocal abilities, or his remarkable foresight about the societal fragmentation brought about by the internet , as explained during an interview with Jeremy Paxman in 1999. But with that inquisitive, envelope-pushing brain no longer with us, it’s up to the likes of Placebo to continue making records that ask important questions while not standing still. With Never Let Me Go exploring themes of climate change, surveillance and privacy, being released into a world growing hotter, in which more than three million people have fled the war in Ukraine and the UK has provided visas to less than 7,000 of them, it’s natural to wonder: are the two members of Placebo at all hopeful for the future?

Unsurprisingly for a self-confessed “catastrophiser”, Brian doesn’t have a good feeling. “Forgive me for saying so, because I don't want to depress a bunch of people, but I'm not particularly optimistic. I suffer from depression, so it's very difficult to have a tendency towards depression and to not have climate depression, for example, or not be completely aghast at the treatment of refugees in this country. Or not be completely aghast at the lies and manipulation we're being subjected to by the powers that be in this country. And it's very difficult, I think, to take a cold, hard look at what's going on and empathise with it and find optimism.”

Perhaps, adds Brian, none of us are in a position to see clearly at this point, given that we’re firmly in the eye of multiple storms. “There's no historical distance – we're living it – maybe it feels more intense because we're living it right now.” Stefan agrees, suggesting that our current set of circumstances, climate change notwithstanding, are nothing new, as tough as it can feel to be in the throes of them. “People have lived through pestilence and bigger wars. And somehow, in despair, humans have clung onto something to move forward, even when there is very little light. It seems the only reason we’re here is to survive and procreate, and that’s essentially all that we do. But then again we’re burdened with this consciousness that means we’re always asking, ‘Why?’” Grappling for the answers to life’s big questions is one of the most important reasons we need music. It gives us the power to understand what it means to be human, and by encouraging us to listen to a variety of different kinds of expressions, we become more open to understanding the thoughts and feelings of others. It’s a gift Placebo have provided us with for almost three decades. Without that expression, we’re nothing. And as it turns out, without people to share their expression with, Placebo would be nothing too. It’s a mutually beneficial relationship, then, so it’s vital we continue holding on to each other.

Placebo's new album Never Let Me Go is released March 25 via SO Recordings.

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Placebo Announce 2023 North American Tour

Their first outing in nine years

Placebo are hitting the road in 2023 for their first North American tour in nine years. The band had previously delayed a fall 2022 trek.

The new 21-date stretch opens in Mexico City on April 17th and hits New York for two nights as well as Philadelphia, Austin, Los Angeles, and more. The tour wraps at The Fillmore in Denver on May 20th. Also on the docket are festival appearances at Shaky Knees and Sick New World . See the complete itinerary below.

Tickets are available via Stubhub , where orders are 100% guaranteed through Stubhub’s FanProtect program. StubHub is a secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be higher or lower than face value, depending on demand.

Placebo most recently released a rendition of Tears for Fears’ “Shout” in September. Earlier this year, it was revealed that another definitive cover by the group, for Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill,” played an important behind-the-scenes role in Stranger Things Season 4.

The band’s latest LP, Never Let Me Go , was released in March and included the singles “Beautiful James” and “Surrounded by Spies.”

Placebo 2023 Tour Dates: 04/16 – Mexico City, MX @ Lunario del Auditorio Nacional 04/17 – Mexico City, MX @ Palacio de Los Deportes 04/20 – Minneapolis, MN @ The Fillmore 04/21 – Chicago, IL @ The Salt Shed 04/23 – New York, NY @ Brooklyn Steel 04/24 – New York, NY @ Brooklyn Steel 04/26 – Montreal, QC @ MTelus 04/27 – Toronto, ON @ History 04/29 – Philadelphia, PA @ Franklin Music Hall 04/30 – Boston, MA @ Roadrunner 05/02 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club 05/05 – Atlanta, GA @ Shaky Knees Festival 05/07 – Austin, TX @ Stubb’s 05/08 – Dallas, TX @ House of Blues 05/10 – Tempe, AZ @ Marquee Theatre 05/11 – Los Angeles, CA @ Greek Theatre ^ 05/13 – Las Vegas, NV @ Sick New World 05/14 – San Francisco, CA @ The Warfield 05/16 – Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom 05/17 – Seattle, WA @ Moore Theatre 05/19 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Complex 05/20 – Denver, CO @ The Fillmore 06/09 – Margate, UK @ Dreamland 06/10 – Derby, UK @ Download Festival 06/12 – Birmingham, UK @ O2 Academy Birmingham 06/13 – Cambridge, UK @ Cambridge Corn Exchange 06/16-18 – Neuhausen ob Eck, DE @ Southside Festival 06/16-18 – Schnee, DE @ Hurricane Festival 2023 06/24 – Glasgow, UK @ O2 Academy Glasgow 06/26 – Dublin, IE @ 3Arena 07/05 – Cognac, FR @ Cognac Blues Passion 07/06 – Nîmes, FR @ Arènes de Nîmes 07/08 – Barcelona, ES @ Festival Cruïlla XXS 2023 07/11 – Stupinigi, IT @ Sonic Park Stupinigi 07/13 – Lucca, IT @ Piazza Napoleone 07/14 – Imola, IT @ Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari 07/16 – Matera, IT @ Sonic Park Matera 07/17 – Madrid, ES @ Real Jardín Botánico Alfonso XIII 07/18 – Padova, IT @ Piazzola Live Festival – Anfiteatro Camerini 07/20 – Nyon, CH @ Paléo 2023 07/28-30 – Benidorm, ES @ Low Festival 2023 08/08 – Tilburg, NL @ Poppodium 013 08/10 – Bonn, DE @ Kunstrasen Bonn Gronau 08/12 – Landerneau, FR @ Les Jardins de la Palud 08/26 – Saint-Cloud, FR @ Rock en Seine

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Placebo Announce 2023 North American Tour

The post Placebo Announce 2023 North American Tour appeared first on Consequence .

Placebo are hitting the road in 2023 for their first North American tour in nine years. The band had previously delayed a fall 2022 trek.

The new 19-date stretch opens in Mexico City on April 17th and hits New York for two nights as well as Philadelphia, Austin, Los Angeles, and more. The tour wraps at The Fillmore in Denver on May 20th. LA rock duo Deap Vally will join as support along with Cold Cave on select dates. See the complete itinerary below.

Tickets for the 2023 dates go on-sale Friday, November 4th at 10:00 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster . A Live Nation pre-sale for select shows is ongoing and will run through Thursday, November 3rd at 10:00 p.m. local time (use code HEADLINE ). Meanwhile, tickets to the band’s current European and UK run are entirely up for grabs now.

Placebo most recently released a rendition of Tears for Fears’ “Shout” in September. Earlier this year, it was revealed that another definitive cover by the group, for Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill,” played an important behind-the-scenes role in Stranger Things Season 4.

The band’s latest LP, Never Let Me Go , was released in March and included the singles “Beautiful James” and “Surrounded by Spies.”

Placebo 2022-2023 Tour Dates: 11/02 – Vienna, AT @ Stadthalle D 11/04 – Esch-sur-alzette, LU @ Rockhal 11/07 – Cologne, DE @ Lanxess Arena 11/08 – Merksem, BE @ Apotheek Sportpaleis 11/10 – Maxeville, FR @ Zénith De Nancy 11/11 – Paris, FR @ Accor Arena 11/13 – Floirac, FR @ Arkéa Arena 11/18 – Portsmouth, UK @ Portsmouth Guildhall 11/19 – Brighton, UK @ The Brighton Centre 11/21 – Liverpool, UK @ Liverpool Olympia 11/22 – Manchester, UK @ Victoria Warehouse 11/24 – Cardiff, UK @ Cardiff International Arena 11/26 – London, UK @ O2 Academy Brixton 11/27 – London, UK @ O2 Academy Brixton 11/29 – Leicester, UK @ De Montfort Hall 11/30 – Leeds, UK @ O2 Academy Leeds 12/02 – Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK @ O2 City Hall Newcastle 12/03 – Glasgow, UK @ O2 Academy Glasgow 12/05 – Dublin, IE @ 3arena 12/07 – Cambridge, UK @ Cambridge Corn Exchange 12/08 – Birmingham, UK @ O2 Academy Birmingham 04/17 – Mexico City, MX @ Palacio de Los Deportes 04/20 – Minneapolis, MN @ The Fillmore * 04/21 – Chicago, IL @ TBD * 04/23 – New York, NY @ Brooklyn Steel * 04/24 – New York, NY @ Brooklyn Steel * 04/26 – Montreal, QC @ MTelus * 04/27 – Toronto, ON @ History * 04/29 – Philadelphia, PA @ Franklin Music Hall * 04/30 – Boston, MA @ Roadrunner * 05/02 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club * 05/07 – Austin, TX @ Stubb’s * 05/08 – Dallas, TX @ House of Blues * 05/10 – Tempe, AZ @ Marquee Theatre * 05/11 – Los Angeles, CA @ Greek Theatre *^ 05/14 – San Francisco, CA @ The Warfield * 05/16 – Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom * 05/17 – Seattle, WA @ Moore Theatre * 05/19 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Complex * 05/20 – Denver, CO @ The Fillmore*

* = w/ Deap Valley ^ = w/ Cold Cave

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Placebo announces September 2022 North American Tour

The long-awaited dates see the band venture through Canada, Mexico, and the United States, including performances at the iconic Greek Theatre in Los Angeles and Palacio de los Deportes in Mexico City. Tickets are on-sale this Friday at 10 am local time (Mexico City is on-sale now).

The iconic duo of Brian Molko and Stefan Olsdal recently announced their eighth studio album, “Never Let Me Go” (March 25th, 2022, Rise Records). The 13-song collection, the pair’s first since 2013’s “Loud Like Love”, grapples with humanity’s multiple crises, from “Beautiful James”, a stirring anthem for non-heteronormative relationships, to “Surrounded By Spies”, an observation on tech-saturation, “Try Better Next Time”, a track that is both a statement on climate calamity and a poetic hope for the future, and the final preview of the album: “Happy Birthday in the Sky”, a moving ode to those who are no longer with us.

“I wanted to capture the confusion of what it’s like to be alive today”, explained Molko of the impetus behind “Never Let Me Go” , “the feeling of being lost, always walking in a labyrinth, continuously being overwhelmed by information and opinions”.

“Never Let Me Go” pre-orders are available now, here . with the collection available on limited-edition 2LP red vinyl (indie retail exclusive), pink 2LP vinyl (web exclusive), standard black 2LP vinyl, cassette (a variety of limited-edition colors), and digitally.

North American Tour Dates 2022: September 4 Vancouver, BC The Commodore Ballroom September 6 Seattle, WA The Moore Theatre September 7 Portland, OR Crystal Ballroom September 9 San Francisco, CA The Warfield September 10 Los Angeles, CA The Greek Theatre (with special guests Cold Cave) September 12 Mexico City, MX Palacio de los Deportes September 14 Austin, TX Emo’s September 18 New York, NY Brooklyn Steel

Previously announced Fall and Winter 2022, UK & European tour dates. See below.

European & UK Tour Dates 2022: October 1 Frankfurt, Germany – Festhalle October 4 Stuttgart, Germany – Schleyerhalle October 6 Berlin, Germany – Mercedes-Benz Arena October 8 Copenhagen, Denmark – Vega October 10 Oslo, Norway – Sentrum Scene October 11 Stockholm, Sweden – Cirkus October 13 Helsinki, Finland – Ice Hall Black Box October 14 Tallin, Estonia – Saku Arena Black Box October 17 Warsaw, Poland – Expo XXI Hall 3 October 19 Leipzig, Germany – Quarterback Immobilien Arena October 22 Hamburg, Germany – Barclaycard Arena October 24 Amsterdam, Netherlands – Ziggo Dome October 26 Munich, Germany – Olympiahalle October 27 Milan, Italy – Mediolanum Forum October 29 Zurich, Switzerland – Samsung Hall October 31 Prague, Czech Republic – O2 Universum November 2 Vienna, Austria – Stadthalle November 4 Esch El Azette, Luxembourg – Rockhal November 7 Cologne, Germany – Lanxess Arena November 8 Antwerp, Belgium – Sportpaleis November 10 Nancy, France – Zenith November 11 Paris, France – Accorhotels Arena November 13 Bordeaux, France – Arkea Arena November 14 Rennes, France – La Liberte November 18 Portsmouth, UK – Guildhall November 19 Brighton, UK – Brighton Centre November 21 Liverpool, UK – Eventim Olympia November 22 Manchester, UK – O2 Victoria Warehouse November 24 Cardiff, UK – Motorpoint Arena November 26 London, UK – O2 Brixton Academy November 27 London, UK – O2 Brixton Academy November 29 Leicester, UK – De Montford Hall November 30 Leeds, UK – O2 Academy Leeds December 2 Newcastle, UK – O2 City Hall December 3 Glasgow, UK – O2 Academy Glasgow December 5 Dublin, Ireland – 3 Arena December 7 Cambridge, UK – Corn Exchange December 8 Birmingham, UK – O2 Academy 1

Placebo formed in 1994, with the London-based pair of Brian Molko (vocals & guitar) and Stefan Olsdal (bass & guitar), releasing their eponymous debut just two years later. In the intervening years, Placebo have released seven albums, sold in excess of 13 million albums, filled stadiums from Moscow to Sydney, won numerous awards including a 1999 Brit Award, and pushed the boundaries of gender and sexuality.

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Placebo: ‘It’s not the end of the world. It’s just the end of the human species’

The alt-rockers brought gender fluidity into the 90s mainstream – and are now reckoning with climate apocalypse, surveillance culture and how to escape our horrific reality

O n the screen of my phone, Brian Molko is trying to dodge the camera’s gaze. I’m in Colorado, video calling him in London, watching him chain smoke from across the Atlantic. He sometimes casts glances at the lens, mostly doing his best to forget it’s there.

Over the past 25 years, Molko’s band Placebo have often grappled with the question of image; with being seen, photographed and surveilled. Alongside co-writer and multi-instrumentalist Stefan Olsdal, Molko has carved out a dark and daring aesthetic universe, wrangling topics deemed taboo within alternative rock and culture. There are Placebo songs about abuse, co-dependency, violence and addiction; many seem to ring out from past the end of the world. In 1999, a few years after David Bowie took notice of the band and invited them to open for him – they later duetted on a version of the Placebo song Without You I’m Nothing – REM’s Michael Stipe dedicated It’s the End of the World As We Know It to Placebo at a festival in Belgium.

Inside the gloom, though, a sense of thrill flickers. With their distinctive palette, defined by downtuned guitars, electrified overtones and Molko’s metallic, androgynous voice, Placebo extol the pleasure that can come from kink, unbridled infatuation and queer sex. Back in 1996, when Placebo released their self-titled debut album, Molko and Olsdal wore dresses and makeup onstage and in photoshoots; Molko’s bratty, girlish affect broadcasted a way of moving through the world that flouted binaries. He cultivated a gendered and sexual expansiveness decades before the term “non-binary” slipped into mainstream vernacular.

“We did what we could within the framework that existed,” Molko says. “And we rebelled against the framework that existed. It’s much, much more complex now. But if just by being ourselves in the 90s, we made people feel less alone – if we managed to, in any way whatsoever, increase the potential and capacity for freedom just by 1% – then we’ve achieved something.”

Placebo didn’t just play music about being queer to a broad audience – they frequently hit the Top 5 of both the UK single and album charts – but made music that insisted that queerness had its delights alongside its dangers. Songs such as Nancy Boy, with its deliriously Cronenbergian music video , traced the fluid morphology of bodies. In one shot, Molko and Olsdal’s heads dissolve into each other: symbolic of how a creative partnership, or music in general, has the power to liquefy the self.

“We had a great opportunity to let parts of us show that we hadn’t up to that point in our lives,” Olsdal tells me from Stockholm a few days after I speak with Molko. “We got the confidence to show the world who we were.”

Molko echoes him. “We were just kids who just wanted to make music. But we couldn’t do it without going onstage in a dress, without talking about our sexuality. It was very, very important for us to not be ashamed,” he says. “And inadvertently, hopefully, we perhaps created something within people who listened to us where they felt that the necessity for shame was decreased.”

Placebo’s upcoming eighth studio album, Never Let Me Go, began germinating during a world tour for the 20th anniversary of that 1996 debut. Newly a duo after parting ways with drummer Steve Forrest, both Molko and Olsdal felt trepidation; reiterating songs they had written in their 20s became stifling.

“It felt like an extremely commercial exercise for me,” Molko says. “I have a very unique point of view as the writer. I’m just looking for mistakes. Having to go back and play songs which felt quite sophomoric for me at first made me want to do something that really, really broke with all of my safety nets.”

Placebo was a way to claim space in the world; the band’s 90s output was life-giving at the time, but by 2016 felt lodged in a bygone era. “We’ve never really felt that we fit in. Having searched for so long, we got tired of searching. So we built our own world instead,” Olsdal says. “That’s what we’ve inhabited. That’s what we know and what we need to find strength, to go up on stage and to perform these songs night after night. But when you build your own world, sometimes you can get trapped by it.”

In the midst of the tour, to shake the band loose, Molko decided to invert Placebo’s typical songwriting process. “What would we normally do? Let’s not do that,” he says. “If you decide to do everything in a way that you don’t actually know how to do, you’ll fall into a series of accidents which can stimulate you or disgust you. That surprise is what I live for.”

Rather than jam with a drummer to feel out the songs from the ground up, Placebo started with what usually comes last: the album cover. “Brian came in with a photograph,” Olsdal says. “And he kept throwing me song titles and potential album titles, and we worked from there.” The cover, recently revealed on Instagram , shows a rocky beach bejewelled with colourful sea glass: bits of human trash worn smooth by the ocean. The image seems to speak to the track Try Better Next Time, an upbeat and sweetly melodic rumination on climate disaster. Molko’s lyrics paint a world of extreme inequality, water shortages, militarised security and human beings growing fins to return to the encroaching sea.

“It’s not going to be the end of the world. It’s just going to be the end of the human species,” Molko says. “We call it the end of the world in our incessant hubris and narcissism. Try Better Next Time is kind of a rallying cry saying: ‘Just give it up, give it back to the animals.’ They were here first.”

While writing the album, Molko returned to the sci-fi films he had loved as a child – psychedelic ruminations on technology and power from the 1970s, such as Fantastic Planet and Silent Running . “I’m very interested in creating, with each song, an alternative universe where the laws of physics don’t necessarily apply,” he says. “Each song really does exist in its little parallel universe. If we’re not tied down to the laws of physics that are generally accepted in the universe we see, then certainly emotion will follow. Certainly anything is possible in another reality. It allows me to speak freely about what bothers me. I try to exaggerate things to increase dramatic effect, to highlight how ridiculous our reality is.”

The characters in each song further Placebo’s overarching paranoia and suspicion about the world as it stands (“I think my reaction to most things is just disappointment,” Molko tells me). The driving post-punk track Surrounded By Spies, written using the cut-up technique popularised by William S Burroughs, envisions a society in which every eye and camera is trained on the narrator – a commentary on CCTV surveillance and social media alike.

“What are the consequences of the bargain that we’ve struck in order to have all of this communication?” Molko asks. “The system is designed to take your privacy away, contribute to the loss of your freedom, and objectify you to the point that you engage in it proactively.” On the beautifully melancholic Went Missing, he dips into his darkened sprechstimme to imagine someone who can go missing for a living – someone who survives through invisibility, a reversal of the tradeoff made by those who survive by revealing themselves constantly. There are songs of tremendous grief and desperation, such as Happy Birthday in the Sky; songs that feel haunted by past selves such as Twin Demons; songs that render the profound alienation of being seen but not known.

“A lot of the writing I did was me trying to write myself out of feeling trapped in this world,” Olsdal says. “And, however scary things are, trying to engage with it somehow. As social beings, we get anxious when we’re left on our own. We miss the herd on a basic human level. It’s this dichotomy of trying to be an individual, but also having to be a part of others.”

Never Let Me Go might frame the end of humanity, but it also sounds out how we hold each other through the ruin. “I think we’ve come across this theme of ‘love in the time of cholera’,” says Olsdal. Beautiful James is about loving someone outside of heteronormative scripts, about how human affection so often spills over the channels that power digs for it. “I want to live in a world where a song like Beautiful James raises no eyebrows,” Molko tells me. That hope offers a slight opening out of the apocalypse on which so much culture now fixates.

I ask Molko if there’s any chance we make it. He doesn’t really think so. “If the tech billionaires get their way, we’re just going to colonise other planets and repeat our mistakes there,” he says. “The thing about running away is that you’ll always take yourself with you.” So I ask what music can do.

“For me, it’s about not existing in the problem and trying to live in the solution. I wanted to express something visceral, something very human. I just hope that other people will understand it and that it will move them,” he says. “I hope that I’ve been somewhat courageous with this record so that it might inspire courage in others. It might help them stand up for what they believe in. That’s all. That’s what music did for me.”

Never Let Me Go is released on 25 March 2022 on So Recordings. The singles Beautiful James and Surrounded By Spies are out now

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Live Review: Placebo @ 9:30 Club — 5/2/23

British alternative band Placebo have hit the road in support of their latest album, Never Let Me Go. The tour recently took them to DC’s 9:30 Club where they played a set with a heavy emphasis on their latest album for two sold-out shows. They are joined on tour by Poppy Jean Crawford and my mantra, “Always See The Opener,” holds true for Placebo fans.

At 9:30 Club on May 2, Poppy Jean and her band were a great match and put on a fun show, unless you were security for 9:30. Midway through her set, Poppy Jean hopped off the stage and into the photo alley where she hopped onto one of the platforms and leaned over the barrier into the crowd. I glanced at a few security guards on the side of the stage and they were all frantically chattering into their mics! I would love to have illustrated that with a photo. Unfortunately, there was a very strict two-song limit for professional photos. Security outside the venue informed everyone in line that photos were not permitted during the show, at all. One gentleman standing next to me was reprimanded for taking a selfie in front of an empty stage before the show even began. Poppy’s set was lively and wrapped up with a sexy version of Tears For Fears’ “Head Over Heels.”

Poppy Jean Crawford releases her debut album on July 14, and so to date she only had one single release. She performed that single, “The Takeover,” in her set.

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Before Placebo took the stage, singer/guitarist Brian Molko made an announcement to the crowd to refrain from photos and video. Placebo was formed in 1994 by Brian Molko and Stefan Olsdal. The live version of the bands expands upon the two founders by adding Bill Lloyd on guitar, multi-instrumentalist Nick Gavrilovic (synths, guitars, backing vocals), Matt Lunn on drums, and Angela Chan on keyboards and violin.

Placebo opened their set with the song “Forever Chemicals” from their latest release, Never Let Me Go.

After a couple of songs, Brian announced that they had just realized that it was Placebo Day, May 2. Placebo Day is based on a lyric from their song The Bitter End: 

Since we’re feeling so anesthetized/ In our comfort zone/ Reminds me of the second time/ That I followed you home/ We’re running out of alibis/ On the second of may/ Reminds me of the summertime/ On this winter’s day

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The band made the announcement and promised us, because it was Placebo Day, that they wouldn’t sound like shit. They gave the promise with the caveat that they might sound like extra shit for the next night. Unfortunately, aside from band introductions during “Slave To The Wage,” that was about it for crowd interaction.

The band was really tight and played a great set. Of the 22 songs (including the encore), 11 were from the latest album. Beyond those, the band mixed in songs from most of their other albums. The one glaring omission was the exclusion of anything from Without You, I’m Nothing. 

When a band with a career as long as Placebo’s goes out on tour, oftentimes it feels like a greatest hits show with a few new songs sprinkled into the mix. Placebo came out in full support of Never Let Me Go, and it was awesome!

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The band wrapped up their set and quickly returned for a three-song encore. The first track, to keep a theme going, was Tears For Fears’ “Shout,” a cover that was a standalone release for the band late last year after the release of Never Let Me Go. After “Fix Yourself” from the new album, Placebo closed the entire show with a wild version of Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill,” complete with Brian and Stefan staying on stage after the rest of the band left to create a soundscape with their effects boards. It was a wild, noisy finale to a fun show.

• Forever Chemicals
• Beautiful James
• Scene Of The Crime
• Happy Birthday In The Sky
• Twin Demons
• Surrounded By Spies
• Sad White Reggae
• Try Better Next Time
• Too Many Friends
• Went Missing
• For What It’s Worth
• Slave To The Wage
• Song To Say Goodbye
• Come Undone
• The Bitter End
• Shout (Tears For Fears)
• Fix Yourself
• Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) (Kate Bush)

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Placebo world tour marks the 20th anniversary of debut album - with set to include tracks Brian Molko said he’d never play again

Placebo have confirmed a world tour that kicks off in October, marking the 20th anniversary of their self-titled debut album.

The first leg begins in Europe on October 13 and ends with nine British Isles dates in December.

And frontman Brian Molko reports the set will include tracks he’d previously vowed never to perform again.

Molko says: “I think it’s time we acknowledged what a lot of Placebo fans really want to hear. They’ve been very patient with us, since we rarely play our most commercially successful material.

“A 20-year anniversary tour seems like the right time to do so. This tour is very much for the fans and a chance for us to revisit a lot of our early material.

“If you want to see us play songs like Pure Morning and Nancy Boy – which we haven’t played in almost 10 years and may not play again – you’d better come along to these shows!”

Tickets go on sale via Ticketmaster.co.uk at 9am on March 18 (Friday) with a fan pre-sale commencing 48 hours earlier.

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Oct 13: Aarhus Train, Denmark Oct 14: Copenhagen Vega Main Hall, Denmark Oct 16: Oslo Sentrum Scene, Norway Oct 18: Stockholm Cirkus, Sweden Oct 20: Helsinki Hartwall Arena, Finland Oct 22: Riga Arena, Latvia Oct 24: St Petersburg New Arena, Russia Oct 26: Moscow Olimpiyskiy, Russia Oct 29: Warsaw Torwar, Poland Oct 31: Hamburg Barclaycard Arena, Germany Nov 02: Cologne Lanxess Arena, Germany Nov 04: Munich Olympiahalle, Germany Nov 05: Leipzig Arena, Germany Nov 07: Berlin Mercedes-Benz Arena, Germany Nov 08: Prague Forum Karlin, Czech Republic Nov 10: Zagreb Cibona Hall, Croatia Nov 11: Budapest Sportarena, Hungary Nov 13: Vienna Stadthalle, Austria Nov 15: Milan Mediolanum Forum, Italy Nov 16: Zurich Hallenstadion, Switzerland Nov 18: Lille Zenith, France Nov 19: Antwerp Sportpaleis, Belgium Nov 21: Amsterdam Ziggo Dome, Netherlands Nov 23: Frankfurt Festhalle, Germany Nov 24: Stuttgart Schleyerhalle, Germany Nov 26: Amneville Galaxie, France Nov 28: Nantes Zenith Metropole, France Nov 29: Paris Accorhotels Arena, France Dec 02: Glasgow SSE Hydro, UK Dec 03: Leeds First Direct Arena, UK Dec 05: Manchester Arena, UK Dec 06: Nottingham Motorpoint Arena, UK Dec 08: Birmingham Barclaycard Arena, UK Dec 10: Dublin 3Arena, Ireland Dec 12: Newport Centre, UK Dec 14: Brighton Centre, UK Dec 15: London SSE Wembley Arena, UK

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Review: Placebo Brings an Intimate Arena Mentality to the Salt Shed

• April 25, 2023
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Placebo formed in 1994 and made a distinctive mark early in their career as a heavy guitar pop act with a true glam rock edge, alongside a daring-for-its-time fluid sexuality that added an enticing in-your-face aspect to the group's pubic image. In the almost 30 years since then, Placebo continued to churn out strong albums of music that rarely veered too far from their initial formula. Hooks, dark desires, and singer/guitarist Brian Molko's strong and clear vocal style have remained intact, with a few minor adjustments from album to album reflecting the band's current interests. Overall though, Placebo has been remarkably consistent, and that can cause people to take talent for granted.

So I was deeply curious to see the band's performance at the Salt Shed last Friday, especially since the last venue I saw the band play was Double Door in 2001. While that was an amazing show, despite being in a much smaller venue and closer to the band's days as hit-makers, it was still not exactly packed. You can imagine why sticking them in a venue that could fit about 3,600 people, when their U.S. popularity might have waned even more since 2001, seemed odd to me.

While Placebo didn't fill the Salt Shed to capacity, there was a healthy-sized crowd there to see them Friday night, and it became apparent very early on that since the band is used to playing much larger venues to much, much larger crowds, we were going to get an arena-sized show with no punches pulled. Placebo was excited to be here and they were not going to dial down the energy one whit.

Placebo wasn't going to rest on its laurels either, and elected instead to deliver a proper concert tour stop as if they'd never stopped visiting the U.S. with a set pulling half of its 22 songs from the band's 2022 release Never Let Me Go . This meant that attendees probably didn't see many of their "favorite" songs, since the band's U.S. hits emanated from earlier albums Placebo seems to have justifiably little interest in revisiting. So this current show plays like a European stadium tour, opting to focus on fans who have followed the band's entire career up to the present day instead of catering to people's nostalgia for a single era.

The remainder of the set nodded to prior hits, but from a global view, skipping over a handful of songs the casual fan might have hoped to hear. But I'll never ding a band for refusing to pander, and asking Placebo to be anything other than what they are in that current moment would probably only result in less investment live from the band. So you might not have heard "the hits" but you did get an excellently balanced set that showed Placebo is very much a vibrant, living organism set on ceaselessly moving forward.

Molko stalked the stage looking like a sexy pirate, dark locks framing his mustachioed face, while other founding member Stefan Olsdal played bass, guitar, and piano all the while somehow assuming heroes action poses through it all. The duo seemed ecstatic to see so many friendly faces returning the passion the band delivered right back at the stage, while a phalanx of touring musicians augmented the sound from the rear of the stage. And while perusal of this tour's unchanging set lists suggests a show constructed to tell a particular story about this moment in the band's career, that didn't rob the players from a spontaneous and infectious energy that filled the venue.

Hopefully it doesn't take Placebo another decade to visit Chicago, because I would certainly like to get back into the band's regular touring rotation instead of checking in with them a decade at a time. Last Friday's show only strengthened that desire for me, and would hopefully give you a chance to catch a band whose powers haven't diminished at all.

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Placebo: O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester – live review

Placebo | Cruel Hearts Club O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester 22nd November 2022

Placebo bring their European tour to Manchester for a performance that sees the band determined to live in the moment. Looking forward rather than living on past glories while taking aim at the self-centred narcissistic cell phone generation.

Since their conception in the mid-1990’s Placebo have always been a little different. They’re the perennial outsiders who stood aloof from the Brit-pop guitar bands of that era; visually, sonically and lyrically. They’ve always been determined to follow their own path and tonight they’re politely asking us to put our phones away. We’re greeted with a series of on screen messages requesting that we, “Be here now and enjoy the moment” and advising that “Taking photos or video on your phone is not welcome at this gig.”

Support act, Cruel Hearts Club ‘s selling point may not be unique but it’s certainly unusual. Young mothers by day, rock band by night. They’re a trio with plenty of rock riffs, harmony vocals, singalong choruses and some acerbic lyrics. It’s a simple but effective sound with visual appeal and echoes of the more raw side of 1970s glam rock. Their performance builds steadily, really coming to life with a trio of tracks toward the end. Dirty Rotten Scum, Suck It Up have instantly singable choruses while the slower, more reflective, Where Has The Summer Gone highlights the quality of Edie Langley’s voice. They’re definitely worth checking out again.

As the lights fade, Brian Molko’s voice echoes out of the darkness. He’s politely reiterating the on screen requests to refrain from using phones. Applause ripples through the crowd, it’s a pleasing response.

The slightly discordant opening chimes of Forever Chemicals begin proceedings. It’s pure Placebo; doom laden in tone with recurring themes of drug use and isolation. They follow it with Beautiful James with its chorus that’s just made for singing. It’s the second of 11 tracks lifted from the Never Let Me Go album and another that stands as testimony to the material’s strengths.

The new songs keep flowing. Hugz, dealing in self-doubt and more urgent in pace, features another great chorus line, A hug is just another way of hiding your face. It’s followed by Happy Birthday In The Sky; simply a great melancholy ode to grief that somehow builds to an almost uplifting cry for help.

With Brian Molko and Stefan Olsdal at the helm, Placebo’s signature sound has remained relatively unchanged over the years; it’s just been filled out with keyboards and synthesiser wash. Suddenly though, I’m reminded of their more spiky origins. Bionic takes us back to their beginnings. Immediately more urgent in pace and with complementary lyrics. It is indeed, “Harder, faster” with guitar much more to the fore. Played back to back, Twin Demons, another new track, shares that commonality of urgency and guitar.

And so it continues . . . Chemtrails is equally impressive but is it really aligning with conspiracy theorists or just expressing a yearning to escape the here and now? As song follows song from the new album, all are received warmly but it’s probably a minority that actually seem familiar with the material. That changes with Try Better Next Time. The opening chords are met with immediate recognition and the chorus brings the first signs of mass appreciation.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t last. The first 45 minutes tonight have been great but over the next few songs the intensity and momentum seem to wane. There’s nothing wrong with the material or the delivery. It just comes across as generic Placebo. Fortunately, they’ve got old classics, Slave To The Wage, The Bitter End and Infra-Red to re-energise before they close.

Returning for an encore, they open with Tears For Fears classic, Shout. Apparently chosen as a motivational call to arms against environmental and political ills, I’m not sure how many present appreciate the back story but the crowd enthusiasm is undeniable and they certainly do “shout.”

Fix Yourself is initially downbeat. In its own way, it’s another call for a rejection of political values. Live though, the song’s taken to another level by an almost orchestral coda. The four backing musicians have been faultless throughout, laying down a perfect framework for the frontmen. However, special mention must go to Angela Chan, alternating between keyboards and violin. Every time she picks up the electric violin she brings another dimension to the sound.

Almost inevitably, they close with Running Up That Hill. Slower and more bass heavy than the Kate Bush original, this is no cheap cashing in on current screen popularity. Placebo have been playing it for almost 20 years. It’s a great way to finish.

So, the decision to play Never Let Me Go almost in its entirety at the expense of old classics: Bold self-confidence and forward looking or self indulgence. Mostly it worked. For me there are 6 or 7 tracks worthy of inclusion in any Placebo set which is testimony to the album’s quality as a body of work. The Stones famously keep saying, “You can’t always get what you want,” but it would have been good to hear old classics like Pure Morning, Special K, Taste In Men. I could go on.

As for the phones . . . What a great step forward. There was no heavy security and yes there were a few in evidence. Their owners furtively taking them out for a quick snap before returning them to their pockets. Most though were happy to comply. As a reviewer who often finds himself at the back of venues, it was brilliant. Instead of trying to view proceedings through a sea of phones, I could actually see the band. Placebo really do deserve to be applauded.

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Brilliant gig from a brilliant band. I love the new material. Incredible to think Placebo pulled off a great set without playing Pure Morning, Nancy Boy or Teenage Angst. They weren’t needed.

The support band were also superb!

Excellent review but it has to be said that maybe from where you stood there wasn’t heavy security regarding phones but at the front there was. Very unwelcoming having security shining a torch in the eyes of the person next to you and threatening to remove people. I didn’t get any photos I didn’t dare.

Absolutely brilliant! Truly awesome we loved it ! Thankyou Placebo

Brilliant band, their new album is one of their best and I knew and enjoyed all the songs they played from it, but a few more classics wouldn’t have gone amiss. Overall a great concert in a wonderful old venue only spoiled by security running around trying to catch people taking pictures with their phones, my wife and I found that very distracting

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Placebo - announce massive uk tour in support of their new album.

Get your slice of Placebo in November / December!!! 

Placebo  on March 25th, 2022 will release their brand new album  'Never let me Go',  this will be the eighth studio album by the  British Alternative Rock  band. The record was recorded between 2019 and  2021, yeah! in the time of lockdown. Two singles have already been released from the brand new album,  'Happy Birthday in the Sky'  and  'Try better next Time'  which you can listen to at the bottom of the stage.

And has already getting a lot of praise, with a tour to follow in November / December. The tour that will see the band play two night at the London, Brixton Academy, plus dates all round the country. You can see the tour dates on this page, is the first big tour Placebo have done in years. Plus to get them going in the meantime the band have announced a very special intimate show that will take place at the  Islington, Assembly Hall  on the 31st of March. Tickets for all these shows are bound to sell out quickly, so don't hesitate in getting your tickets.

Placebo UK / IE 2022 headline tour dates Below:

November 18th - Portsmouth, Guildhall 19th - Brighton, Centre 21st - Liverpool, Eventim Olympia 22nd - Manchester, o2 Victoria Warehouse 24th - Cardiff, Motorpoint Arena 26th / 27th - London, o2 Brixton Academy 29th - Leicester, De Montford Hall 30th - Leeds, o2 Academy

December 02nd - Newcastle, o2 City Hall 03rd - Glasgow, o2 Academy 05th - Dublin, 3 Arena 07th - Cambridge, Corn Exchange 08th - Birmingham, o2 Academy

Tickets for the tour are available now by clicking on this link:   Here .

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CHEVELLE Announces Summer 2024 Headline Tour

Multi-platinum rock band CHEVELLE will be heading back out on the road this summer.

In addition to appearances at Inkcarceration and Rock Fest , the band will embark on a headline run that kicks off July 21 in Omaha and runs through August 10 in Madison. TIGERCUB will serve as support. All dates are below.

The general on-sale is set for Friday, April 19 at 10 a.m. local time.

CHEVELLE on tour with TIGERCUB :

Jul. 19 - Mansfield, OH - Inkcarceration Festival* Jul. 20 - Cadott, WI - Rock Fest* Jul. 21 - Omaha, NE - Steelhouse Omaha Jul. 23 - Waukee, IA - Vibrant Music Hall Jul. 24 - Tulsa, OK - Tulsa Theater Jul. 26 - Memphis, TN - Graceland Soundstage Jul. 27 - Biloxi, MS - Beau Rivage Theatre Jul. 28 - Birmingham, AL - Avondale Brewing Co. Jul. 30 - Asheville, NC - Rabbit Rabbit Asheville Jul. 31 - North Myrtle Beach, SC - House of Blues Myrtle Beach Aug. 02 - Wallingford, CT - Dome at Toyota Oakdale Theatre Aug. 03 - Montclair, NJ - The Wellmont Theater Aug. 05 - Pittsburgh, PA - Stage AE Aug. 06 - Buffalo, NY - Buffalo RiverWorks Aug. 08 - Toronto, ON - HISTORY Aug. 09 - Grand Rapids, MI - GLC Live at 20 Monroe Aug. 10 - Madison, WI - The Sylvee Sep. 28 - Louisville, KTY - Louder Than Life*

* Festival date (no TIGERCUB )

During an appearance on Joel Madden 's podcast "Artist Friendly" , CHEVELLE frontman Pete Loeffler spoke about the band's plans for the follow-up to 2021's "Niratias" LP. He said: "We've tracked 10 full-length songs at this point for the new album. We signed a new contract to put out one more [LP]. So we're in the process of finishing that up. So there's definitely one more [album] coming."

Regarding a possible timetable for the release of the new CHEVELLE music, Pete said: "It's hard to say when it'll [be released]. It's kind of stewing right now. We did eight songs, set 'em aside, took a break, did two more recently. I was actually just wrapping it up yesterday — the second song — and burned a mix so I could listen to it on the plane on the way here. I've gotta go revisit those other eight now and say, 'Are they done?' We mixed one and it sounded great. [I'm] super happy about it. That whole process started again. I went back and I listened to it. I was, like, 'Can I rewrite this song?' as a just kind of something to try and wrote an entirely different model of that song again. And this is what Pro Tools will get you into. You're, like, 'Oh, I can, I can quickly do something that in the past I'd have to sit down and map out with my brother in real time.' So it's good and bad. The only bad side is that I'm spending the time to learn that system instead of writing."

Back in 2022, CHEVELLE drummer Sam Loeffler told Knotfest 's Cori Westbrook about the band's songwriting process: "Well, Pete 's our songwriter so he's our lyricist and everything. Basically, he just writes about what's going on around him. If he's taking the garbage out that night or has a bad day driving, he's watching a documentary that really affected him, he hears a podcast — so he's writing about those kinds of things. So if you're able to internalize that kind of a thing, I think you have a lot to write about. It doesn't just have to be a relationship that — a relationship with your dad or your significant other. I think those are some pretty powerful feelings — I get it — but if you are able to bring in all those other things in from your everyday life, there's a lot more to write about. So as far as inspiration goes, it's not hard to find; it's everywhere; it's all around you. And especially nowadays, we have so much access to what's going on around us that there's even more ideas to pull from."

In a separate interview with Heavy New York , Sam said that he and Pete had "a whole bunch of music written... Because that's what we do — you put music out, you write… It'll be our first record in a long time not with a major label, which is just neither here nor there," he added. " Epic Records did a lot of good stuff; we were with them for a long time, but we're finished with that contract now. So now we're doing something different. And we'll see how different it is."

Released in March 2021 via Epic Records , "Niratias" was recorded throughout 2019 and 2020 with longtime producer Joe Barresi ( AVENGED SEVENFOLD , QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE ). The album artwork was designed by Boris Vallejo — the famed and award-winning artist is responsible for the posters used for films like "Knightriders" and "National Lampoon's Vacation" , as well as iconic '70s and '80s science fiction novel covers and magazines (such as Heavy Metal ).

Over the course of its career, the Chicago rockers have generated nearly half a billion streams, notched seven No. 1 hits, and sold out shows worldwide. Their catalog spans the double-platinum "Wonder What's Next" , which boasts the double-platinum smash "The Red" and the platinum hit "Send The Pain Below" . "This Type Of Thinking (Could Do Us In)" attained platinum status, while "Vena Sera" was certified gold. CHEVELLE has landed four Top 10 debuts on the Billboard 200, including "Sci-Fi Crimes" (2009), "Hats Off To The Bull" (2011), "La Gárgola" (2014) and "The North Corridor" (2016). The latter two each captured the No. 1 slot on the Top Rock Albums chart.

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“C’mon”: Liam Gallagher shares footage of son Gene’s band Villanelle, after denying claims of nepotism ahead of support tour

Gallagher said Gene’s “hero” was Kurt Cobain, and revealed other son Lennon’s band Automotion were also asked to support but “politely refused”

Liam Gallagher has shared footage of his son’s band, after denying claims of nepotism and announcing the band as the support for his upcoming tour.

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The update was shared on the former Oasis frontman’s X/Twitter page last night (April 14), and comes following the announcement that his son Gene’s band – called Villanelle – will be the support act for the ‘Definitely Maybe’ 30th anniversary tour .

He previously said that he thought that the band were “good” and added: “I’m gonna put them on first for [the ‘Definitely Maybe’] tour”. Villanelle will join Cast and The View as support acts on the upcoming dates .

Now, following what seems to be some mixed responses to the announcement, Gallagher has hit back at accusations of nepotism, and shared footage of the band performing live to explain why they were chosen.

Posted last night, the video appears to be screen-recorded footage of the band playing during a live show, which they originally shared on their Instagram Stories, and comes with the simple caption: ‘Cmon’.

Cmon pic.twitter.com/iWIJ8vklH7 — Liam Gallagher (@liamgallagher) April 14, 2024

Whilst they currently don’t have any official music out, Villanelle have recently been spotted supporting Brummie rockers Overpass on tour – presumably where the footage was captured. Most notably, they performed at King Tut’s in Glasgow on March 21, which is the same location where Oasis were signed to Creation in an infamous debacle .

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As for their sound, Villanelle seem to harness a similar Britpop influence as seen in Oasis, although also take on inspiration from the ‘90s grunge scene. This was emphasised by Liam himself, who responded to someone saying that they were “getting Kurt Cobain vibes” from Gene’s on-stage outfit, saying “That’s his hero”.

That’s his hero — Liam Gallagher (@liamgallagher) April 14, 2024

According to another recent update, Liam’s other son, Lennon, was asked if his band Automotion wanted to join the upcoming 30th anniversary ‘Definitely Maybe’ tour, but “politely refused”.

He was asked and politely refused — Liam Gallagher (@liamgallagher) April 5, 2024

Previously, Gene launched a three-piece band called Grimmo in 2018 and Liam described his music as “in your face, Arctic Monkeys style”, compared to his brother Lennon, whose music was more “spaced out, like early Verve, pretty chilled”.

He also performed with his dad in 2019 on Later… with Jools Holland , and was also seen recording some bongos on the track ‘One Of Us’ on the album ‘ Why Me? Why Not ‘.

Earlier this month, Liam again defended his decision to have Villanelle join him on tour, writing online: “I’ve given many opportunities to many young bands over the years it’s what you do if you can now it’s VILLANELLES turn if you don’t like it FUCKOFF”.

He also told a fan that the harsh words were him “putting a few mouthy c***s in [their] place”, and denied accusations of nepotism by saying: “Is it fuck he’s my son it’s what you do”.

I’ve given many opportunities to many young bands over the years it’s what you do if you can now it’s VILLANELLES turn if you don’t like it FUCKOFF LG x — Liam Gallagher (@liamgallagher) April 5, 2024

Just putting a few mouthy cunts in there place that’s all it’s what I do — Liam Gallagher (@liamgallagher) April 5, 2024

Is it fuck he’s my son it’s what you do — Liam Gallagher (@liamgallagher) April 5, 2024

Reverend & The Makers also backed Liam in the decision shortly afterwards too, adding how both “Liam and Noel gave us a chance when they didn’t have to”, and adding that “Anybody giving him shit for putting his lad on needs to do one. Anyone would do the same surely”

Liam and Noel gave us a chance when they didn’t have to Anybody giving him shit for putting his lad on needs to do one. Anyone would do the same surely 🤷‍♂️ https://t.co/lGrCNIPkqe — Reverend&TheMakers (@Reverend_Makers) April 8, 2024

Liam will be embarking on his 30th anniversary ‘Definitely Maybe’ tour in June, which will kick off in Sheffield. He is due to perform the entirety of Oasis’ seminal album along with some “naughty” B-sides . Get any remaining tickets here .

As for his other son, Lennon, Automotion recently released their new track ‘Liquify’ produced by The Horrors ‘ Faris Badwan and inspired by old-school jungle tracks. Automotion released their debut EP ‘In Motion’ back in 2021, and their second EP ‘Ecstatic Oscillations’ in 2022.

Most lately though, the band shared a new single called ‘Lost In The Spinal Labyrinth, and confirmed that it will appear on the group’s upcoming EP ‘Dissolve’ – due for release on June 19.

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