Thank you for your progress. The band Placebo in Prague will present a record about invasion of privacy
After five years, the British rock band Placebo will return to the Czech Republic. The group, led by singing guitarist Brian Molek and Stefan Olsdal, who plays bass and guitar, will perform on October 31 next year at the O2 Universe in Prague. He will present his eighth studio album, Never Let Me Go, which he will release in March.
Tickets priced at 1,490 to 1,590 crowns will be available in the Ticketmaster network from next Wednesday, November 17, in the morning, the Live Nation agency announced.
Forty-eight-year-old Molko says he started writing lyrics for the new album when he found out that his neighbors were spying on him. “I started thinking about the myriad privacy that has been compromised and stolen since the introduction of CCTV cameras, which now use racist facial recognition technologies,” he said. According to him, the board deals with “the rise of the Internet and the negotiation of mobile phones, which from virtually every paparazzo user and viewer of their own lives, as well as how we mostly offered personal information to huge multinational companies, the only intention is to exploit us.”
Molko describes the new songs from the point of view of the narrator, who is at the end of his strength, “hopeless and frightened, completely at odds with our newly acquired progress,” adds the singer.
One of the most famous rock bands of the last quarter of a century has sold over 13 million albums so far. She made her debut in 1994 and at one time was an alternative to the britpop genre. They also presented a cross-section of Placebo’s career at their last concert, which was heard by around 3,000 people at the Brno Exhibition Center in June 2017. More than two dozen songs from ancient times have been heard I’m nothing without you up to newer Loud as love.
During the evening, Molko often changed guitars and remembered the late singer David Bowie, who sang backing vocals for Without You I’m Nothing. Molko always called it a role model.
The last time Placebo was in Prague was in the fall of 2016, when they performed at the sold-out Forum Karlín. They first came to Brumlovka in 2001, later they were among the stars of the Hradec Králové festival Rock for People or the then paid scene of the United Islands of Prague.
The first single from Placebo’s next album is called Beautiful James. | Video: SO Recordings
The band was founded in 1995 by deliberately androgynously styled guitarist and singer Molko with bassist and keyboardist of Swedish origin Stefan Olsdal. The trio was later joined by drummer Steven Hewitt. A year later, they released their debut album with a raw guitar sound and lyrics about sex or the search for their own identity.
“Placebo, like a few generations older Cure, has undoubted credit to teen emo kids, not least because Molko painted his nails black until recently, he performed in make-up, and most of the songs, given their ambiguity, were to recognize the topics of not very successful personal relationships and drugs, ” wrote about them in Hospodářské noviny years ago journalist Petr Vizina.
Placebos are sometimes referred to as glam rock. Before they started selling out sports halls themselves, they preceded the Irish U2, for example. Their role models include Sonic Youth, The Smashing Pumpkins and Depeche Mode.