NEW SINGLE, LIVE DVD, and UK DATES, Plus French Update
PLACEBO return with the release of a reworked version of ’English Summer Rain’ through Hut Recordings in the UK on February 23rd 2004. It is the fourth single to be lifted from their acclaimed fourth album, ’Sleeping With Ghosts’, which has now sold over 1.1 million copies worldwide.
The single precedes the release of a full length DVD recorded at a sold out Bercy in Paris in front of 18,000 people. Entitled ’Placebo - Soulmates Never Die - Live In Paris’, the DVD will be released in the UK on March 8th 2004. It includes additional documentary footage of the band on the road throughout 2003 as they undertook their mammoth world tour.
2003 saw PLACEBO reclaim their place in the British Rock hierarchy with another sold out UK tour and proved to be one of the UK’s strongest exports of 2003. With worldwide sales figures of over 600,000 within 3 weeks of release the album crashed into the top 10 in 20 countries world wide including Belgium (#1), Greece (#1), France (#2) and Germany (#2).
They then commenced their world tour to support the International success of the album taking in cities all over the world from Warsaw (5,000 people) to Mexico City (35,000 people) to Rock Am Ring, Germany (75,000). The next new territory on the map will be China, playing Beijing and Shanghai in the Spring, 2004.
PLACEBO are pleased to announce their return to the UK with the following dates. It will be the same production used on the European Arena dates - so quite a spectacle!
NEW SINGLE, LIVE DVD, and UK DATES,
Plus French Update
PLACEBO return with the release of a reworked version of ’English Summer Rain’ through Hut Recordings in the UK on February 23rd 2004. It is the fourth single to be lifted from their acclaimed fourth album, ’Sleeping With Ghosts’, which has now sold over 1.1 million copies worldwide.
The single precedes the release of a full length DVD recorded at a sold out Bercy in Paris in front of 18,000 people. Entitled ’Placebo - Soulmates Never Die - Live In Paris’, the DVD will be released in the UK on March 8th 2004. It includes additional documentary footage of the band on the road throughout 2003 as they undertook their mammoth world tour.
2003 saw PLACEBO reclaim their place in the British Rock hierarchy with another sold out UK tour and proved to be one of the UK’s strongest exports of 2003. With worldwide sales figures of over 600,000 within 3 weeks of release the album crashed into the top 10 in 20 countries world wide including Belgium (#1), Greece (#1), France (#2) and Germany (#2).
They then commenced their world tour to support the International success of the album taking in cities all over the world from Warsaw (5,000 people) to Mexico City (35,000 people) to Rock Am Ring, Germany (75,000). The next new territory on the map will be China, playing Beijing and Shanghai in the Spring, 2004.
PLACEBO are pleased to announce their return to the UK with the following dates. It will be the same production used on the European Arena dates - so quite a spectacle!