Placebo will play its London rock in France to celebrate its 30 years of career

Thirty years of rock’n’roll are worth celebrating. Not with candles, but with concerts and a new album if your name is Placebo. The British alternative rock group announced on Wednesday that it will go on tour again in the fall of 2026 with dates across Europe, from Lisbon to Madrid, including Manchester, Berlin and Milan. During this 38-date trip, the London musicians will stop in France four times. The first time was on October 4 at the Zénith in Nantes, then the next day at the Zénith in Toulouse, on November 23 at the LDLC Arena in Lyon and finally on November 25, in Paris, at the Accor Arena.

The group formed in 1994 announced the news to its fans on Wednesday afternoon, on social networks, through mysterious publications tinted with red and white. The band of British rockers will open the tour pre-sale on Monday, March 23 at 10 a.m. The general sale will open on Friday March 27 at the same time. Cleverly, Placebo invited its fans to pre-order their next album on their site to obtain an access link to the pre-sale and avoid finding themselves deprived of their precious sesame.

A new album on June 19

Because in addition to this giant European tour, the group announced on Wednesday the release, on June 19, of a new record. Baptized PLACEBO RE:CREATEDthe album is sold as “a powerful, reworked and enriched version” of the ten titles of the original Placeboreleased in 1996, with two unreleased tracks. “We didn’t recreate it from scratchwrites the band on social networks. We went back to the original tapes and injected the thirty years of playing these songs live into the album. » Placebo explains that it wants to include their thirty-year-old work “in the 21st^e century sonically, while preserving the integrity and spirit of the original.

Founders Brian Molko and Stefan Olsdal hope to breathe new life into their careers with the anniversary shaping up to be a real celebration. The musicians will celebrate with their audience “their beginnings and the encounter with what they became”. “A way to honor this innocence, while letting the songs express themselves with the breadth, confidence and energy of the group we have become”conclude the rockers at thirty candles.