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Placebo (2006)

Interview by Gavin Martin, Rock's Backpages audio, Spring 2006

Brian Molko and pals talk about the making of their new album Meds, about songwriting, taking drugs and lots more

File format: mp3; total file size: 30.2mb, total interview length: 32' 57" sound quality: ****

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Placebo: Dingwalls, London

Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 8 February 1996

A LITTLE gender-uncertainty never hurt any band, and it might prove the making of Placebo. The Swedish-American trio is fortunate in boasting a singer, Brian ...

Placebo: LA2, London

Live Review by Dave Simpson, Melody Maker, 4 January 1997

BRIAN GIGS ...

Placebo & Foo Fighters: Hallo Spaceboys

Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 15 February 1997

THE SETTING: Placebo's dressing room, backstage at Madison Square Garden. David Bowie is halfway through his 50th Birthday Concert. Two of his special guests are ...

Placebo: Octagon, Sheffield

Live Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 15 February 1997

High on the Placebo effect ...

Placebo: Barrowlands, Glasgow

Live Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 17 May 1997

GLASGOW KISS ...

Placebo: "I Thought I Was Good At Handling Pussy"

Interview by Caitlin Moran, Select, October 1998

ROCK LIFE TOOK ITS TOLL on Placebo. They indulged themselves shamefully, spent a fortune on chemicals, and "fucked themselves empty". Worse still, guns were pulled ...

Placebo Aim To Shed Drug-Crazed Hedonist Image

Interview by Frank Tortorici, VH1.com, 3 October 1998

On upcoming second album, funk-punk trio takes mature look at personal toll of fame. ...

Placebo: Leas Cliff Hall, Folkestone

Live Review by Stephen Dalton, New Musical Express, 17 October 1998

FLACCID HOUSE ...

Placebo: Without You Nothing (Virgin)

Review by Chuck Eddy, Rolling Stone, 4 February 1999

Brits who show their glam peers how to rock ...

Robbie Williams, Gomez, Happy Mondays, Placebo, Stereophonics: Slane Castle, Dublin

Live Review by Robin Bresnark, Melody Maker, 4 September 1999

RELIGHT MY EIRE! ...

Placebo: "We're falling apart at the seams"

Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 17 November 1999

BRIAN MOLKO tells us about Internet porn, his festival experiences and the third PLACEBO album in the Melody Maker Interview ...

Placebo: Fitter. Happier. More Productive

Interview by Dorian Lynskey, Select, August 2000

THEY USED TO BADMOUTH everyone and flash their nipples in photographs. Now they've got politics, listen to Primal Scream and always sleep with the same ...

Placebo: Brixton Academy, London

Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 1 November 2000

IT'S HALLOWEEN, so it's fitting that the evening's main attraction is a petulant succubus wearing a tight purple suit and nail varnish. If you hadn't ...

Placebo: Astoria, London

Live Review by Dorian Lynskey, The Guardian, 13 March 2003

PREACHING TO THE CONVERTED: Placebo's set at the Astoria was underpinned by the buzz of low-level hysteria. ...

Placebo: Empress Ballroom, Blackpool

Live Review by Simon Price, The Independent, 9 April 2006

"I WAS CONFUSED by the birds and the bees", the Lilliputian, Luxembourgeois leader of Placebo sings, beneath the gilded plaster of Paris of the 110-year-old ...

Placebo: Birmingham Academy

Live Review by Lisa Verrico, The Times, 11 April 2006

A DECADE ON FROM THEIR CHART DEBUT — and almost as long since they were hip — Placebo have a renaissance on their hands. Their ...

Placebo: Alexandra Palace, London

Live Review by Sophie Heawood, The Guardian, 15 April 2006

WHEN PLACEBO FIRST HIT THE CHARTS in the mid-1990s, Brian Molko's thick black eyeliner and androgynous posturing caused a bit of a stir, as much ...

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