Check out Stef and the lad’s latest moves in the new Hotel Persona music video, To The Light!
November 2008
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Thu 27 Nov 2008
Tue 25 Nov 2008
Placebo Confirm Festival Date for 2009 + Molko on Your Radio
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Placebo have been confirmed to headline the Nova Rock Festival in Austria on Saturday 20th June, 2009. The NOVA ROCK Festival, will take place between the 19th and 21st of June 2009, on the Pannonia Fields II, in the beautiful village of Nickelsdorf, Burgenland.
Further information and tickets can be found at www.novarock.at or www.musicticket.at
Also Brian Molko recently appeared on the Steve Lamacq show via phone to talk about their forthcoming gig in Cambodia to raise awarness against human trafficking. You can hear him discuss this and many aspects of the new album here. Just fast forward to the 1hr 42minute mark and it lasts for a wonderful ten minutes.
Sat 22 Nov 2008
Placebo Perform to Raise Awarness Against Human Trafficking
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Placebo are to headline the first rock concert at Cambodia’s Angkor Wat temple complex to speak out against human trafficking.
The December 7 gig, held as part an of an MTV Exit campaign, will transform the 12th century Khmer ruins into a rock venue that will also feature US band The Click Five and a host of other international and Cambodian stars.
Lead singer Brian Molko, best known for his androgynous looks and penchant for black nail polish, told AFP he felt “honoured” to play at the historic jungle temple complex.
“It’s just one of the most breathtaking and unique places I have ever spent time in really,” the 35-year-old, who visited the ruins as a tourist three years ago, said in a telephone interview from London.
“It’s also a very spiritual and quite calming place and so to be able to perform in front of it is just ridiculous.”
But taking on the one-off gig at the crumbling ruins has presented some technical difficulties for the London-based three-piece, whose hits include “Nancy Boy” and “Pure Morning”.
“We decided that since we don’t have access to a massive wall of sound… we have been forced to deconstruct our songs, tear them to pieces and put them back together in novel and unusual ways.
“It’s very challenging and very stimulating,” he said, describing the end result as “more melody than bombast”.
Molko said he hoped the show will attract Cambodians as well as international fans and highlight the problem of this “modern form of slavery”. (more…)
