Placebo

[slave2thewage]

Just got back from my week of dates in Ireland/UK (basically the last four). Dublin was probably my favourite.

[GibbonBlack]

I was at the Newport show. I didn't get to see the support but Placebo were amazing, so energetic!


Terrible venue though, especially when we had to leave

[slave2thewage]

I was at the Newport show. I didn't get to see the support but Placebo were amazing, so energetic!


Terrible venue though, especially when we had to leave

Yeah, the band were good but the crowd was pretty dead. And the sound wasn't great in there. Dublin and London were the best, they were a bit off at Brighton IMO. They seemed to just rush through the set. Minor Victories were very good live, and it helped that their drummer was very easy on the eyes!

[henryeatscereal]

They announced a date in my hometown, but i don't think i will be attending, the venue has terrible sound and it's a bad place for concerts in general (even more frustrating?, it's like 25 minutes away from my home...)

Bummer, i really wanted to see them for a 4th time

[slave2thewage]

@slave2thewage Is there an official (non-alternate) video of this? I'm not seeing it anywhere. I didn't think they released it as a single from LLL?

Figured I would ask you since you know more about this band than anyone..

No, that video is from the bonus DVD that came with the Loud Like Love boxset. It had videos for all the tracks and they were all labelled as 'Alternate'. I'm guessing they hadn't finalised the single choices.

[Substance242]

So, I kinda acknowledged existence of, and "accepted" Placebo (that is more than most groups can get from me, heheh), but only today I made my first purchase, "A Place for Us to Dream" (google play). And yes, it's good! :-) I like their melancholy mood.

[halo eighteen]

^That's probably a really good starting point, actually. I do genuinely enjoy all their albums. You might want to look further into Without You I'm Nothing and Black Market Music. Those albums in particular are pretty melancholic, aside from the big singles from them.

[Substance242]

"Someone call the ambulance, there's gonna be an accident..." - great. :-)

Edit, interesting: ""Infra-Red"'s about that, when you get very drunk and you've got a bee in your bonnet about something, and this vengeful quality emerges. You start thinking about people who've done you wrong and [want] to set the record straight."

[halo eighteen]

It looks like the first of 7 shows in Mexico was canceled last night, due to illness. That's all the info I can find on it. Sheesh, they're really not having a good track record with first shows on the 20 Years of Placebo tour.

[slave2thewage]

UK tour announced for October, pretty small venues.
October 7 – Edinburgh, Usher Hall
October 8 – Dundee, Caird Hall
October 10 – Doncaster, Doncaster Dome
October 11 – Blackpool, Empress Ballroom
October 13 – Reading, Rivermead
October 14 – Cardiff, Motorpoint Arena
October 16 – Portsmouth, Guildhall
October 17 – Swindon, Oasis Centre
October 20 – Plymouth, Plymouth Pavilions
October 21 – Wolverhampton, Civic Hall
October 23 – London, O2 Academy Brixton

I should be at the first three shows and Brixton.

[slave2thewage]

Show cancellation tonight at the Highland festival in Germany 30 minutes before the set was due to begin. Cause was given as "sudden illness".

Hmmmm.....

[ManBurning]

These guys sure do like to cancel shows...

[halo eighteen]

^Meh, they've got a long way to go before they catch up to Morrissey, the king of all non-commitments lol

[eversonpoe]

^Meh, they've got a long way to go before they catch up to Morrissey, the king of all non-commitments lol

yeah but he's not cancelling because he's wasted.

[halo eighteen]

yeah but he's not cancelling because he's wasted.

Ugh. Yep, the first Australian show was canceled at the last minute the other day ago. Fucking seriously?

[slave2thewage]

Heads up to anyone doing the UK shows this week - Brian's voice is FUCKED. He's sounded awful since the other night in Reading, it's an apparent flu but they're oddly continuing on the tour. Monotonous voice and a bunch of songs are dropped from the setlist.

He sounded great in Edinburgh last week. Dundee was good, but Brian got in a mood after he spotted a girl filming him and stopped Special Needs twice.

[GibbonBlack]

. Dundee was good, but Brian got in a mood after he spotted a girl filming him and stopped Special Needs twice.

Wow, it's just all bad news about Molko

[tremolo]

I hope they come to North America for their 20 years tour.

I also hope that Molko is doing fine and that he just has a flu and is not relapsing.

I'm not a big fan of LLL and what has come after. To me their first 3 albums are pure gold. SWG is pretty solid, and BFTS has great moments too.

[dvdglss]

All downhill since Hewitt left...

[slave2thewage]

I hope they come to North America for their 20 years tour.

Not a chance. It's ending at Brixton.

[tremolo]

Not a chance. It's ending at Brixton.

Crap.

[slave2thewage]

All downhill since Hewitt left...

Ah, the good old days when Hewitt was the "alcoholic"...

[dlb]

Oh man, didn't bother coming here, but I was at that festival in Germany and sure pissed as hell. We traveled soley for Placebo to that very festival since we had a stag night aswell and the guys were the only band we all (9 dudes) could agree on so we were really looking forward to see them. We had fun anyway and a blast during that weekend, but having them bail out 30 minutes before the show with everyone already in place and waiting for them to close the festival on a Sunday this was absolute shit. "Sudden illness"... yes of course. If he was puking or stuff like that after some bad catering, okay... Be specific as long as it's not insulting or humiliating, but this shallow message felt like a severe rip off for everyone. I suppose he was drunk out of his mind or might have had a few shots to many when strolling the festival location.

Would have loved to see them perform as did many with their 20-years shirts, but oh well...

[halo eighteen]

Looks like they did a Cure cover of Let's Go to Bed at the Meltdown fest tonight.

[dvdglss]

Brick shithouse has some amazing production on it. I know it’s not the strongest song. But man it sounds so great...

[fillow]

So what's happening with them? There's some NIN-level of radio silence going on...

[halo eighteen]

So what's happening with them? There's some NIN-level of radio silence going on...

Yeah, I don't think there's been any news of anything since last October when Brian and Stef did WYIN anniversary interviews and only alluded to the next album being experimental, changing up their songwriting process etc. I was kind of hoping your post would have been an update on stuff haha. Hopefully soon!

[firewlker]

Well... the most recent thing that I've found about Brian Molko at least

[halo eighteen]

He looks pretty fucked up there. :/

[slave2thewage]

The Instagram updated the other day showing that they’re at the “recording vocals” stage. Guess it’s definitely coming next year.