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Placebo to embark on massive 30th anniversary headline tour

Placebo will celebrate 30 years of their self-titled debut (plus 1998 second album Without You I’m Nothing) with a huge European and UK tour at the end of 2026.

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Placebo compose “darkly seductive and deeply theatrical” score for 2026 Royal Shakespeare Company play

Premiering this April, Placebo will soundtrack the Royal Shakespeare Company’s new production of Bertolt Brecht’s The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui.

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Robert Smith unveils 2026 Teenage Cancer Trust at the Royal Albert Hall concert series line-up

The Cure’s Robert Smith will be bringing together everyone from my bloody valentine to Garbage, Manic Street Preachers and Wolf Alice for next year’s Teenage Cancer Trust concert series.

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“It’s about letting the viewer into my world”: Scarlet Page announces new photo book, Exposed: 3 Years With Placebo

Photographer Scarlet Page has unveiled an intimate new book, Exposed: 3 Years With Placebo, consisting of 220 unseen photos of the band during their first three albums.

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Placebo have announced their first-ever live box set collection

Watch the teaser trailer for Placebo’s upcoming live release, which features performances from Mexico, Spain and London on their Never Let Me Go cycle.

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Listen: A.A. Williams has covered Placebo’s Without You I’m Nothing

A.A. Williams has unveiled a stunning cover of Placebo’s Without You I’m Nothing, and announced a winter tour with Kalandra.

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Placebo to play Dreamland for Margate Summer Series

Placebo have joined the line-up for 2023’s Margate Summer Series, happening during their previously-rescheduled December 2022 tour dates.

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Hear Placebo cover Tears For Fears’ classic Shout

Brian Molko says he was inspired to cover Shout in order to give his son and his contemporaries “a protest anthem”.

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Here are the set times for My Chemical Romance’s three Milton Keynes gigs

My Chemical Romance will play three nights at the Stadium MK in Milton Keynes – here’s all the stage times for you…

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My Chemical Romance announce UK tour supports including Placebo, Frank Turner

Here’s who will be supporting My Chemical Romance when they finally make their way across the pond for their comeback tour this summer.

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Album review: Placebo – Never Let Me Go

Placebo finally return after almost a decade with long-awaited eighth album, Never Let Me Go.

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Placebo: “Making music felt like a lifeline, and that feeling still exists to this day”

For almost three decades, Brian Molko and Stefan Olsdal have been masters of their own destiny, steering Placebo into whichever creative waters they so choose. Now, after nine years lost at sea, the duo have returned with Never Let Me Go, and prescient tales of loss, surveillance and climate change. A record for our times, that could only have been made by these two…

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Listen to Placebo’s new single, Try Better Next Time

Placebo have unveiled a brand-new single, Try Better Next Time, from their upcoming eighth album Never Let Me Go.

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Reach For The Stars: 10 must-listen covers of David Bowie songs

In honour of the Starman’s birthday, here are 10 covers of David Bowie songs by the likes of Nine Inch Nails, My Chemical Romance and Motörhead…

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Placebo announce new album, tour, and take on privacy invasion on new track Surrounded By Spies

Placebo are back with a new album Never Let Me Go, coming your way in March.

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Placebo to release new single Surrounded By Spies next week

Placebo will be following up September single Beautiful James with new track Surrounded By Spies on November 9.

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Placebo celebrate non-heteronormative love in first single in five years, Beautiful James

“If the song serves to irritate the squares and the uptight, so gleefully be it,” says Placebo's Brian Molko…

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Placebo to embark on massive 30th anniversary headline tour

Placebo compose “darkly seductive and deeply theatrical” score for 2026 Royal Shakespeare Company play

Robert Smith unveils 2026 Teenage Cancer Trust at the Royal Albert Hall concert series line-up

“It’s about letting the viewer into my world”: Scarlet Page announces new photo book, Exposed: 3 Years With Placebo

Placebo have announced their first-ever live box set collection

Listen: A.A. Williams has covered Placebo’s Without You I’m Nothing

Placebo to play Dreamland for Margate Summer Series

Hear Placebo cover Tears For Fears’ classic Shout

Here are the set times for My Chemical Romance’s three Milton Keynes gigs

My Chemical Romance announce UK tour supports including Placebo, Frank Turner

Album review: Placebo – Never Let Me Go

Placebo: “Making music felt like a lifeline, and that feeling still exists to this day”

Listen to Placebo’s new single, Try Better Next Time

Reach For The Stars: 10 must-listen covers of David Bowie songs

Placebo announce new album, tour, and take on privacy invasion on new track Surrounded By Spies

Placebo to release new single Surrounded By Spies next week

Placebo celebrate non-heteronormative love in first single in five years, Beautiful James

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