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Placebo Announce Retrospective Album, New EP and Tour

• 21st Sep 2016

Placebo celebrate an incredible 20 years with the release of a must have retrospective hits album ‘A Place For Us To Dream’, on October 7th through Universal Records

‘A Place For Us To Dream’ includes singles from the early; ‘Bruise Pristine’, ‘Come Home’, ‘Teenage Angst’, to the career defining ‘Nancy Boy’, ‘Every You Every Me’, ‘Pure Morning’, ‘The Bitter End’ right up to, ‘Meds’, ‘For What It’s Worth’ & ‘Too Many Friends’. The album also includes the stunning new single ‘Jesus’ Son’, out on August 19th.

‘A Place For Us to Dream’ will be available in the following formats:

· Limited Edition, Deluxe Vinyl Box Set – Pink Vinyl Edition
· Limited Edition, Deluxe Vinyl Box Set – Black Vinyl Edition
· 2 x CD Edition
· iTunes Digital Download – including an instant grat of ‘I Know (Version 2008)’ on pre-order & ‘Jesus’ Son’ [19.8.16]

The physical formats include a special book that contains never-before-seen photos from the past 20 years, all hand selected by Brian Molko and Stefan Olsdal from their personal archives.

To coincide with the 20 Year retrospective album on the 7th October, Placebo will release a new EP titled ‘Life’s What You Make It’. The EP features 6 previous unreleased recordings and includes the single ‘Jesus’ Son’ and a cover of the Talk Talk classic ‘Life’s What You Make It’. All the tracks are produced by Adam Noble (dEUS/Red Hot Chilli Peppers), who was at the helm for the band’s acclaimed 7th studio album ‘Loud Like Love’.

‘Life’s What You Make It’ will be available in the following formats:

· ‘Life’s What You Make It’ – 12” Springtime Green Vinyl Edition
· ‘Life’s What You Make It’ – 12” Black Vinyl Edition
· iTunes Digital Download

To celebrate today’s announcement of ‘A Place for Us To Dream’ Placebo have made their iconic single ‘Twenty Years’ available to stream on all digital platforms for the very first time!

Click here to listen.

It all began in 1996 when the band released their critically acclaimed self-titled debut album, which helped pave the way for a strong shift in British music, acting as an antithesis to Britpop and inspiring a generation of bands to follow them.

To date Placebo have sold over 12 million records worldwide, had 6 top ten albums in the UK and collaborated with iconic artists including David Bowie, Robert Smith, Frank Black, Alison Mosshart and Michael Stipe. Since then the band have won countless international awards including an MTV Award for Best Alternative Band in 2009.

Placebo remain one of the world’s biggest alternative rock bands of the last 20 years having achieved gold and platinum albums in over 30 countries.

Known for their incendiary live shows Placebo have sold out arena tours and headlined festivals in over 70 countries on 6 continents during their career, playing to over 1 million people on their last album tour alone.

Placebo begin the UK leg of their ’20 Years of’ world tour this December.

December
Friday 2nd GLASGOW, SSE Hydro
Saturday 3rd LEEDS, First Direct Arena
Monday 5th MANCHESTER, Arena
Tuesday 6th NOTTINGHAM, Motorpoint Arena
Thursday 8th BIRMINGHAM, Barclaycard Arena
Saturday 10th IRELAND, DUBLIN, 3Arena
Monday 12th NEWPORT, Centre SOLD OUT
Wednesday 14th BRIGHTON, Centre SOLD OUT
Thursday 15th LONDON, SSE Wembley Arena