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 [...]
Select, April 1997 // Saucy little Brian. He was shooting skag while other kids were playing tag. In Luxembourg. Possibly. Now he’s the top-five, fun-size androgyne who we all want to shag. Allegedly. Just how did he do that? Waiting backstage at Top Of The Pops is an extremely disheartening experience. Contrary to the romantic [...]
Rock Sound – Jul 1999 // Cast your mind back three years. Placebo meant nothing here. A few singles that had scraped the bottom of the charts and a yet to be released debut album. Who could have predicted that the band would soon be on the front cover of practically every magazine? Incessant [...]
