Placebo Announce London Brixton Academy Gig & Ticket Details
Wednesday, 04 August 2010
Written by Stereoboard.com
After thirteen years, six studio albums, 11 million album sales, breakdowns, clean ups and the dizzy swell of global success Placebo are back in the UK for a special one off show at London's O2 Academy Brixton on Monday 27th September to celebrate the release of the 'Battle For The Sun: Redux Edition' which is released on the same day!
Still brimming with new and vibrant ideas - Molko and Olsdal returned to the form of one-on-one writing that had started the band back in 1994. By the summer of 2008 they'd amassed eighteen new songs, the freshest material they'd ever taken into the studio. They'd also amassed a new young drummer, 22-year-old Californian Steve Forrest, whom they first spotted playing with one of their US support bands Evaline in 2006.
The songs they'd written - several born from a writing stint Brian spent on a river boat moored in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower - demanded production muscle. They turned to producer Dave Bottrill, largely impressed by his work with Tool. Recorded over three months in Bottrill's Toronto studio and mixed in London by My Bloody Valentine, Smashing Pumpkins and Nine Inch Nails supremo Alan Moulder, the new album 'Battle for The Sun' is a startling, alive, vital and boundary-vaulting Placebo record.
When it came to discussions on releasing the record, Placebo took the brave and uncompromising step to secure licensing or distribution agreements for the record with a number of smaller labels in each territory - beginning with a distribution deal with PIAS for Europe - so as to own the record themselves.
Earlier this year Placebo conceived an unprecedented idea and creation based around a new edition of 'Battle For The Sun', which involved designing a T-shirt with Atticus clothing and tying it in with a brand new track.
This new creation is Battle For The Sun : Redux Edition and is available for Pre-Order now at Placeboworld.co.uk.
Monday 27th September - London O2 Academy Brixton
Placebo Tickets are priced from £29.50 and go on general sale this Friday 6th August at 9.00am.
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