Placebo have announced a big old celebration of 30 years of the band with an extensive tour and a special reworked version of their iconic debut.

SO, that album. It’s going to be called ‘Placebo RE:CREATED’ and will be released on June 19 via Elevator Lady Ltd through AWAL.

A totally reworked version of the band’s 1996 debut, they had this to say about what it represents for them:

“We think of this record as a director’s cut. We haven’t recreated it from scratch. We went back to the original master tapes and brought 30 years of playing these songs live back into the record.

“This project was about finally finishing the record, dragging it into the 21st century sonically, while preserving the integrity and the spirit of the original. It’s not about improving it, there’s nothing wrong with it, it’s about completing it.

“When we made the first album, we didn’t yet have the experience or the studio knowledge to fully translate what was in our heads. Over the years, the songs took on a life of their own onstage; they grew, they developed, they kind of completed themselves.

“It’s a celebration of where we began, and a meeting point between who we were then and who we are now. It’s a way of honouring that innocence, while letting the songs exist with the scale, confidence and energy of the band we’ve become.”

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And that tour. The band will be making their way through Europe and the UK at the end of the year, with the focus on playing songs from ‘Placebo’ and 1998’s ‘Without You I’m Nothing’. A real return to their roots.

Here are all the dates.

SEPTEMBER

28 – OPERTO Super Bock Arena
29 – LISBON Sagres Campo Pequeno

OCTOBER

01 – MADRID Movistar Arena (The Ring)
03 – BARCELONA St. Jordi Club
05 – TOULOUSE Zenith
07 – NANTES Zenith
09 – ESCH-SUR-ALZETTE Rockhal
12 – LEIPZIG Quarterback Immobilien Arena
15 – VILNIUS Twinsbet Arena
16 – RIGA Xiaomi Arēna
18 – HELSINKI Veikkaus Arena
20 – STOCKHOLM Annexet
22 – OSLO Spektrum
24 – COPENHAGEN KB Hall
26 – HAMBURG Barclays Arena
27 – AMSTERDAM Ziggo Dome
29 – FRANKFURT Festhalle

NOVEMBER

01 – ANTWERP Afas Dome
02 – COLOGNE Lanxess Arena
04 – ZURICH Hallenstadion
06 – MILAN Unipol Forum
09 – MUNICH Olympiahalle
10 – VIENNA Stadthalle
13 – BUDAPEST Arena
15 – PRAGUE Fortuna Sports Hall
16 – BERLIN Uber Arena
18 – LODZ Atlas Arena
21 – STUTTGART Hans-Martin-Schleyer-Halle
23 – LYON LDLC Arena
25 – PARIS Accor Arena
28 – NOTTINGHAM NIC Arena
30 – GLASGOW OVO Hydro

DECEMBER

02 – DUBLIN 3 Arena
04 – MANCHESTER Co-op Live Arena
05 – LONDON OVO Wembley Arena
08 – CARDIFF Utilita Arena

Tickets will be on sale from March 27.



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