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19.08.04
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To celebrate the release of their forthcoming singles collection, Once More With Feeling: Singles, 1996-2004, Placebo have decided to mark the occasion with a bang, by playing their largest UK show to date at Wembley Arena on 5 November.
This will be the band?s last UK show until 2006 and gives their fans the opportunity to catch them at a peak in their eight year career, marking the occasion with a show centering around their 16 singles to-date, with some very special surprises.
In March 2003 the band sold-out three nights at Brixton Academy. This was to set a precedent for the year to come. By the end of the year their fourth album Sleeping With Ghosts had sold 1.4 million copies worldwide; gone Top 10 in 20 countries (including the UK); they?d performed a duet on Pixies? Where Is My Mind with Frank Black in front of an audience of 18,000 screaming French kids, which was captured for posterity on the DVD, Soulmates Never Die, which went on to sell 200,000 copies worldwide, the biggest selling Virgin DVD ever. On top of all that, last month after debuting at no.2 and hovering around the upper echelons of the French chart for 16 months, Sleeping With Ghosts in one week climbed from 51 places, from no.52 to no.1.
Continuing with their strong work ethic, the band recently entered the studio and recorded two new songs to accompany the Once More With Feeling: Singles, 1996-2004 compilation; I Do and Twenty Years. Both these songs show a further maturity and growth in the band?s songwriting abilities. I Do, influenced by Neu! and Laurie Anderson, is Placebos? first unashamed love song. ?We?ve been threatening to do it for years and we?ve finally done it?, says Brian. The second, Twenty Years, is more in keeping with the bands? existential angst. According to Brian, it?s ?pure epic melancholy, a meditation on the passing of time and mortality?.but it?s not miserable!?
Once More With Feeling: Singles, 1996 ? 2004, will be released on 18 October. It will contain, in chronological order, all the band?s singles to date (tracklisting below), including Prot?ge Moi, previously only available in France. Since forming in 1995, Placebo have had eight Top 20 singles and sold one million albums in the UK alone and 5 million worldwide.
Tickets for the Wembley Arena show are priced at ?20.00 and go on sale on 23 August. They are available from Wembley Arena (0870 060 0870), See (0207 403 3331), Stargreen (0207 734 8932) and
www.gigsandtours.com . PLEASE DO NOT CONTACT THESE AGENCIES UNTIL MONDAY 23 AUGUST WHEN IT GOES ON GENERAL SALE.
BUT....
Exclusive to Placeboworld, you can buy tickets NOW online through a special ticket area set up for Placeboworld users. Please go to:
http://www.gigsandtours.com/index.asp?link=placebo&site=placebo
From this site you can be first to order tickets before they go onsale to the general public on Monday.
Once More With Feeling: Singles, 1996 - 2004
36 Degrees
Teenage Angst
Nancy Boy
Bruise Pristine
Pure Morning
You Don?t Care About Us
Every You Every Me
Without You I?m Nothing
Taste In Men
Slave To The Wage
Special K
Black-Eyed
The Bitter End
This Picture
Special Needs
English Summer Rain
Prot?g? Moi
I Do
Twenty Years
What are you still doing here!! Go and get those Wembley tickets!
They are so good in concert.
Soulmates Never Die 
