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Just You, Us and Placebo
Go to the Placebo
messageboard if you wanna talk about Placebo.
Live Webcast
You will have another opportunity to watch Placebo play live on the
web on Tuesday 30th October 2001 onwards from 6pm as Virtue
TV host the band's recent gig at Brixton, London. come back here
to get the link.
Black Eyed
Placebo's next single is to feature in new cutting edge film 'Engel
and Joe', which will be released across Europe on 8 October 2001. '
Unfortunately it won't be released in the UK but you can hear the track
and MIXES by MBV and Le Vibrator on Sneaky Peek
as well as watch the video.
Special K The different formats featured non-album tracks and exclusive remixes
by the likes of Timo Maas who has also remixed Madonna's 'Don't Tell
Me'.
Placebo had a pretty successful year in 2000 in which their album
when straight to #1 in France and Greece. Following the sell-out tours
throughout Europe and the UK, Placebo are currently completing dates
in Japan, New Zealand and Australia where they are appearing at the
Big Day Out Festival.
Special K You can hear clips of each song on the latest Placebo album'Black
maket Music' here, or you might even want
to visit the Placebo
archive Placebo were live and online on 29th September 2000 and managed to
answer nearly all your questions on their fantastic webcast! You wanna
watch the chat? Course
you do!
The album 'Black Market Music' is the follow up to their platinum
selling 'Without You I'm Nothing', which was released way back in October
1998!
Recorded at London's Olympic Studio's and mixed at The Townhouse,
the new album has contributors aplenty including Swedish Singer-Songwriter
Stina Nordenstam, Linoleum Singer-Guitarist Caroline Finch and One-Inch
Punch Rapper Justin Warfield.
The success story so far....
Since Placebo burst onto the music scene almost six years ago, they
have made a tremendous mark with their complexed sound that takes influences
from the likes of Bowie, Waits and a little PJ Harvey. Their first taster
of the success was back in 1995 with their debut single 'Come Home'
which reached number three in the indie charts and was released through
Deceptive Records.
Shortly afterwards, Brian, Steve and Stefan signed to Hut Recordings
which lead to a spot supporting David Bowie on several European tour
dates which came about after hearing one of their demos and being extremely
impressed. This lead to other hits including 'Nancy Boy' and a guest
appearance at Bowie's 50th birthday in Madison Square Garden, New York.
The self-tilted debut album achieved gold status whilst the follow up
album 'Without You I'm Nothing' to date has sold over 300,000 copies.
With the release of their eagerly awaited third album 'Black Market
Music', comes two number 1's positions in France and Greece with three
weeks at the top in Greece. Affter the huge success of this album, Placebo
will also be performing in Europe throughout November. The Y2K is the
year of Placebo!
All three band members took part in The Raft's very first Web
Chatshow. If you missed it why not check out the full
transcript now?
Now, don't forget to slip into the new official Placebo
website. Updated by the band themselves, they even use the 24 hour
live chat area. So keep an eye out!
And don't forget you can join the official
Placebo Fan Club!
The Raft also caught up with the band in the studio and grilled them
for the Raft Informer. Check their answers
to all those questions you always wanted to ask!
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