Placebo

In the organizer's words:

Three decades after their debut, Placebo are returning to their roots - and building an impressive bridge between past and present. With "RE:CREATED", the band reinterprets their first album and brings the songs that were once created as a radical statement against the zeitgeist back to the stage with the force of years of live experience. This special chapter in the band's history can also be experienced live in the LANXESS arena on 02.11.2026.

Sometimes a story doesn't start at the beginning, but in the echo. A guitar chord that lingers like a memory, a voice that feels as if it has survived the years without getting quieter. In 1996, at the height of Britpop, this band was a disruptive noise. While elsewhere beer, nation and nostalgia were being celebrated, Brian Molko was singing about androgyny, addiction and alienation. It was music like an open secret: vulnerable, provocative, radically honest. Songs like "Nancy Boy" or "36 Degrees" were not hits in the classic sense, but statements. Sharp-edged, uncomfortable, necessary.

With Placebo "RE:CREATED", this debut is now not simply being reissued, but re-read. More like a director's cut than a remaster. The band has opened up the old master tapes and added something that cannot be produced in the studio: three decades of live experience. Because these songs have changed on stage, night after night, city after city. They have grown, become more raw, sometimes more tender. Live, that was always the place where Placebo perfected themselves.

And then there's the stage. Where it all began and where they keep reinventing themselves. In the fall, Placebo will return to this very place, on a major tour of Germany, with songs from their first two albums, some of which have not been played live for over twenty years. An anniversary, yes. But above all: a promise.