{"id":315127,"date":"2025-11-26T16:55:03","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T16:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/315127\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T16:55:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T16:55:03","slug":"placebo-definitely-doing-something-quite-significant-to-celebrate-30-years-of-debut-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/315127\/","title":{"rendered":"Placebo “definitely doing something quite significant” to celebrate 30 years of debut album"},"content":{"rendered":"

Placebo<\/a> have teased some \u201csignificant\u201d plans to celebrate the 30th anniversary of their debut studio album.<\/p>\n

Frontman Brian Molko looked back on the band\u2019s early years during an interview with VRT Radio 1 in Antwerp, Belgium. The station recently hosted a special celebration gig for dEUS in the city, where Molko performed live with the Belgian rock outfit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He was asked if he could see Placebo embarking on a retrospective run of live dates to mark three decades of their 1996 self-titled debut, where they would play the record in full.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, we have a 30th anniversary coming up very soon, next year,\u201d Molko responded. \u201cYeah. It\u2019s the 30th anniversary of our first record. And yes, we will definitely be doing something quite significant to celebrate the 30 years.\u201d<\/p>\n

He then added: \u201cThat\u2019s a bit of a scoop for you.\u201d Watch at the six-minute-30-second mark in the video here:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Earlier in the new interview with VRT Radio 1, Molko recalled Placebo\u2019s \u201cchaotic\u201d beginnings and their time touring with dEUS in the \u201990s. \u201cI think we were as chaotic as each other, as bands,\u201d he said. \u201cWe were kind of kindred spirits. It was very cool. I really liked also the ambition that they had.\u201d<\/p>\n

Molko continued: \u201cI was obsessed with [dEUS\u2019 debut album] \u2018Worst Case Scenario\u2019. To me, it was so much more imaginative and daring and psychedelic and surrealist than any of the other popular guitar records of the time.<\/p>\n

\u201cI loved the idea that they had a violin, y\u2019know? Then it was really pushed to the front. And if you come and see my band now \u2013 for the past 20 years, we\u2019ve had a violin player. So, it\u2019s definitely an influence.\u201d<\/p>\n

Placebo embarked on a 20th anniversary tour in 2016<\/a>, where they\u2019d revisit old classics like \u2018Pure Morning\u2019 and \u2018Nancy Boy\u2019 for the first time \u201cin almost 10 years, and may not play again\u201d.<\/p>\n

1996\u2019s \u2018Placebo\u2019 earned an 8\/10 review from NME, and peaked at Number Five in the UK albums chart. The record contains the singles \u2018Nancy Boy\u2019, \u2018Teenage Angst\u2019, \u201936 Degrees\u2019 and more.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Speaking to NME in 2022<\/a>, Molko reflected on Placebo\u2019s 20th anniversary shows and their 2016 \u2018best-of\u2019 compilation, \u2018A Place For Us To Dream\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe weren\u2019t particularly comfortable with the prospect of doing a retrospective and retrospective tour,\u201d the frontman admitted. \u201cAt the time we were on Universal Records, and we had the feeling that we\u2019d lose all support from them if we didn\u2019t embark on this hideously materialistic and mercantile endeavour.\u201d<\/p>\n

His bandmate Stefan Olsdal agreed: \u201cThat tour lasted for quite a long time, and we started to get this slightly unhealthy relationship with our old material. I started to feel quite disillusioned by the band and what we were doing. I had a crisis of confidence coming into this record. I felt during the last tour that the band was over and that I couldn\u2019t continue with this.\u201d<\/p>\n

During a 2018 interview with NME<\/a>, Olsdal said the anniversary treadmill had grown \u201csaccharine\u201d. He added: \u201cWe\u2019ve always been experimentalists at heart.\u201d At the time, Placebo were marking 20 years of their 1998 second album, \u2018Without You I\u2019m Nothing\u2019.<\/p>\n

In 2020, they celebrated two decades of their third full-length effort, \u2018Black Market Music\u2019<\/a>, with a behind-the-scenes video series, and last year, Robbie Williams opened up about the impact Placebo\u2018s \u2018Nancy Boy\u2019 had on him<\/a>. The song explores fluid sexuality, gender confusion and drugs.<\/p>\n

Placebo\u2019s eighth and latest album, \u2018Never Let Me Go\u2019<\/a>, was released in 2022. In a four-star review, NME hailed it as \u201ca renaissance rock record with an experimental edge\u201d. The group haven\u2019t played a live show together since August 2024, per Setlist.FM<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Placebo have teased some \u201csignificant\u201d plans to celebrate the 30th anniversary of their debut studio album. Frontman Brian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,16127,216,1740],"class_list":{"0":"post-315127","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-indie","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-rock"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}