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PREVIEW: Placebo

by David Sue
8/12/2006

PLACEBO spent most of the Nineties being maligned as naff, posing Goth outsiders, so how did they end up headlining the MEN Arena 10 years on?

Well, the answer is somewhere in that question. Placebo frontman Brian Molko's androgynous posturing and Gothic black eyeliner chic were always a bit too incongruous, too gender-bending for laddish Brit pop.

But now that Goth outsider culture is back in vogue, everywhere from Top Shop to Russell Brand, thus making Placebo something of elder statesmen to their scene.

None of this would matter a jot if Placebo (pictured) weren't still making good music - and they are.

Latest album Meds has been met with widespread critical acclaim and the band have musically moved on without compromising the emotional territory Placebo have always excelled in - that of gloomy, never-ending adolescence.
Goths don't go away - they just come back wiser and feeling mightily vindicated.

Placebo are at the MEN Arena on Sunday.


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