DARK SECRETS: Placebo - The Real Truth

Placebo's Brian Molko reveals the one question that David Bowie asked all his musician friends

Brian Molko shares David Bowie's words of wisdom, and reveals who he'd like to portray him in a Placebo biopic

Louder · Jul 8

10 cruelly over-looked alt. rock albums from 1996 that should have been massive in a fair and just world

Thirty years on, a salute to 10 brilliant records from 1996 that deserved better

Louder · Jun 25

‘Guys would think I was a girl then get aggressive when they found out my name was Brian’: how Placebo made Nancy Boy

‘I thought I could regain some power by writing a celebration of debauchery that was so brazenly sexual it would infuriate the people who insulted me’

The Guardian - UK · Jun 22

Scarlet Page exposes rock legends Placebo – with Leica and Nikon facing off in the process

Never-before-seen shots of the iconic 90s band reveal insights into photography in the age of sex, drugs, and film

Digital Camera World · Feb 25

Placebo make theatre debut with score for Brecht production by Royal Shakespeare Company

Alt-rockers will score Hitler allegory The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, with Mark Gatiss in the title role

The Guardian - UK · Jan 28

Placebo tease something 'quite significant' to mark 30th anniversary of debut album

Placebo have something secret in the works for the 30th anniversary of their self-titled debut album.

BANG Premier · Nov 27, 2025

"It certainly rubbed some people up the wrong way": The story of the sexually ambiguous anthem that got Placebo a tour with David Bowie

A three-minute rush of hedonism, Placebo’s alt-rock anthem raised two fingers to Britpop and got them on Top Of The Pops – so why do they feel so ambivalent about it?

Louder · Oct 23, 2025

“I didn’t think that Oasis were very good songwriters. This obsession with Britishness just didn’t really compute with us”: Placebo on drugs, Bowie and standing out from Britpop ‘like a sore thumb’

Band have a new documentary coming on

MusicRadar · Oct 2, 2025

Placebo frontman Brian Molko charged with calling Meloni ‘fascist’ and ‘racist’

The singer is being charged with defamation of the far-right Italian prime minister leader while performing at a festival in Turin in 2023

The Guardian - UK · Feb 18, 2025

Placebo frontman Brian Molko charged after labelling Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni a "piece of s***, fascist, racist” and a "Nazi" during festival appearance

Brian Molko has been hit with a defamation charge after calling the Italian PM a "Nazi" during a performance at Sonic Park festival in 2023

Louder · Feb 18, 2025