Placebo and Brian Molko at Taratata, 05 juin 2009 voir l’émission sur le site de France 4 (translated into English here) Nagui : C’est un immense honneur et un immense plaisir que vous soyez de retour Placebo dans ce Taratata. Brian : merci, merci beaucoup. Resumé de la carrière à travers les reprises. “Mais au [...]
Placebo and Brian Molko at Taratata, 05th June 2009 (Translation from French, original) Nagui: It is a great honor and a great pleasure to have you back in Taratata Placebo. Brian: Thank you, thank you very much. Summary of Placebo’s career through the covers they had done. “But in fact Brian, is there a song [...]
Interview, October 1996 – Ray Rogers // A woman fervently digs her own grave, slits her throat, punches her arm with hypodermic needles, claws, scratches, beats herself, and lets out hollow screams. This was the “silent movie”, as rendered by a sign-language interpreter, accompanying a recent live show of Placebo, a loud guitar-driven London three-piece [...]
Georgetown Voice, 19 Sept 1996 – Jake Gerli // Placebo – substitute for the real Britpop? Maybe not. Another glance sees through the charade. Not a look-alike, not a sing-along pill, it’s a three-member band full of novel androgyny and depressive deception. Frontman (woman?) Brian Molko dons tight-fitting flashy attire and cakes his face with [...]
Living Abroad Magazine (02.Mar.99) // Providing the recent highlight of this year’s Brit awards which featured them quite appropriately putting hot-wire needles into viewers heads with their blitzkreiging version of ’20th Century Boy’, Placebo rounded off a year which will simply have to go down as their annus favorablis in their by now, inimitable style. [...]
Independent On Sunday, 9 Feb 1997 // …Placebo are reminiscent of Nirvana from time to time, too: there are few other bands whose rhythm sections are so judderingly powerful that you fear for the lives of those teenagers pogoing next to the wobbling speaker stacks. Luckily, the trio have plenty of other records in their [...]
