Placebo - Battle for the Sun

S.M.B.

Was debating getting a ticket for one of the gigs on this tour but looking at setlists I'm glad I didn't.

Old school Placebo ftw!!!

Placebo

gig was mind blowing mind you, they were int op form and chuffed with the crowd and they remember what happened 9 years ago when ppl got up on the top floor and the roof fell a bit, lol.

BUT SERIOUSLY.

S.M.B.

1. Ion
2. Scared Of Girls
3. Brick ****house
4. Allergic (To Thoughts Of Mother Earth)
5. You Don't Care About Us
6. Bionic
7. 36 Degrees
8. Without You I'm Nothing
9. My Sweet Prince
10. Every You Every Me
11. Bruise Pristine
12. The Crawl
13. Lady Of The Flowers
14. Nancy Boy

Encore

15. Pure Morning
17. Slackerbitch
18. Teenage Angst (piano version)
19. Evil Dildo

Now that's a quality setlist. I'd fcuking love to see them play a gig like that again.

Limerick Dude

I thought they were unbelivable last night, the energy from the band was unreal! I really think that the new drummer has put alot of life into the band and has giving them a good kick up the arse!

Stef was great last night too, such a crowd pleaser!

So sickened there was no bitter end or special k.

Love the new song trigger happy.

P.S can someone post the full set list they played last night?

L.T.D

What did he say exactly about the last time they played the Olympia and the roof falling in? I was at that gig

Going tonight, can't wait

gary the great

S.M.B. wrote: »

1. Ion
2. Scared Of Girls
3. Brick ****house
4. Allergic (To Thoughts Of Mother Earth)
5. You Don't Care About Us
6. Bionic
7. 36 Degrees
8. Without You I'm Nothing
9. My Sweet Prince
10. Every You Every Me
11. Bruise Pristine
12. The Crawl
13. Lady Of The Flowers
14. Nancy Boy

Encore

15. Pure Morning
17. Slackerbitch
18. Teenage Angst (piano version)
19. Evil Dildo

Now that's a quality setlist. I'd fcuking love to see them play a gig like that again.

Ye but come on, this isnt 1998.
Placebo of 2009 is a complete different kettle of fish and the set reflects this. They havent been playing stuff of placebo since the SWG tour...with the exception of the odd bionic or 36 degrees.

Hoping they play bitter end and special K tonight as i thought that was so good im going again :-)

Personally i think the stuff from battle for the sun is far better that anything since BMM but i hate for what its worth and Ashtray heart with a passion!

Placebo

battle for the son does not compare to meds or sleeping with ghosts or the bitter end or loads of other tracks

anyway was in bed, just got woken up to meds, sounds amazing, cudnt go again was wrecked.
prob wont see these now forever.

9 years !!!!!

Got a last minute ticket, was surprised at how many songs I knew.

Have to say, looked like a band on top of their game. Really enjoyed it

Support band were cool too. All in all a great night. Probably the most sober Ive ever been at a gig too.

Gonna try get some Placebo in my chrimbo stockings this year

S.M.B.

gary the great wrote: »

Ye but come on, this isnt 1998.
Placebo of 2009 is a complete different kettle of fish and the set reflects this. They havent been playing stuff of placebo since the SWG tour...with the exception of the odd bionic or 36 degrees.

Hoping they play bitter end and special K tonight as i thought that was so good im going again :-)

Personally i think the stuff from battle for the sun is far better that anything since BMM but i hate for what its worth and Ashtray heart with a passion!

I wouldn't actually expect them to come out with a set list like this. I'd say they haven't played Nancy Boy in years.

The Placebo I'd want to see live again is the 1998 version though, more specifically, the 13th Feb 1999 version.

Actually, seeing as I mentioned Slackerbitch up above, what's the quality of Placebo's b-sides like these days? I always thought they were of an extremely high standard back in the day.

Pet

Anyone got a setlist?

Cross-posted from the thread in gigs & events:

Seeing as they haven't bothered to play a non-festival gig here in almost 10 years, would it have hurt to play for a little longer, or play some more of their back-catalogue? I wasn't too impressed with that side of it, I have to say.

Otherwise, the songs from BftS sound good live, but not much different from on the album. I'd give it a 7/10, but then, I have no prior comparison [unless you count the Soulmates DVD, which...doesn't count].

Hilarious mix of people in the audience, though. To one side, lesbians mawling each other aggressively and thin, androgynous gay men; on the other, moshing/jumping brodudes.

gary the great

Havent got a setlist, but in rough order i think it went:

FWIW
Ashtray heart
Battle for the Sun
Soulmates
Follow the Cops
Speak in Tounges
EYEM
Never ending why
Breathe Underwater
Devil in Details
Special Needs
Meds
Julien
Blind
Song to say goodbye

Bright Lights
Trigger Happy
Infra Red
TIM

Did any of you see the Angkor Watt DVD they advertised on the screen? Its really good...nearly as good as Teenage Angst used to be on the piano back in the day:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT0u_l_zfYI

IrishSerf

http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/placebo/2009/olympia-theatre-dublin-ireland-3d70d87.html

Dunno if this works but setlist here

Lavinia

was at Olympia on 16th, what a wonderful performance!
I'd say Placebo is back on track!

thank you Brian for not giving up and still making some excellent music!

Placebo

not too happy with bitter end kerrang fan kids, i know its bad to say but they were well annoying.
I dropped down around 12 second day off the gig to catch a glimpse of them leaving, there was a good few ppl waiting for hours but they escaped the back way.
was talking to few ppl from wales, cant believe they traveled all the way !

stateofflux

such a joke...they had 4 extra guitar players and 1 or two keyboard players on stage? wtf?...such a cop out, really contrived having session musicians play your songs for you.....some moments but....not a patch on the last show....

gary the great

stateofflux wrote: »

such a joke...they had 4 extra guitar players and 1 or two keyboard players on stage? wtf?...such a cop out, really contrived having session musicians play your songs for you.....some moments but....not a patch on the last show....

They didnt have 4 extra guitar players, they had Bill Lloyd who is playing with Placebo since 1999 and that other guy on the guitar. Then they had Fiona play the violin/keyboard...i thought they made a huge difference to the sound. The violin was amazing during Julien etc
Brian played guitar the whole way through...back in the day he played some songs with and some songs without the guitar? dot really get what you mean when you say its a cop out, they can only play one instrument at a time!

Nothing will ever touch the gig in 2000 though...
Black Eyed
Days before you came
Scared of Girls
Allergic
36 degrees
Bionic
Passive Aggressive
Without you im nothing
My Sweet prince
Commercial for Levi
Every you
Special K
Slave to the wage
Teenage angst (slow)
Peeping Tom

Taste in men
nancy Boy
Pure Morning

S.M.B.

gary the great wrote: »

They didnt have 4 extra guitar players, they had Bill Lloyd who is playing with Placebo since 1999 and that other guy on the guitar. Then they had Fiona play the violin/keyboard...i thought they made a huge difference to the sound. The violin was amazing during Julien etc
Brian played guitar the whole way through...back in the day he played some songs with and some songs without the guitar? dot really get what you mean when you say its a cop out, they can only play one instrument at a time!

Nothing will ever touch the gig in 2000 though...
Black Eyed
Days before you came
Scared of Girls
Allergic
36 degrees
Bionic
Passive Aggressive
Without you im nothing
My Sweet prince
Commercial for Levi
Every you
Special K
Slave to the wage
Teenage angst (slow)
Peeping Tom

Taste in men
nancy Boy
Pure Morning

Still think the 1999 setlist is better although I'd take Black Eyed instead of The Crawl.

Placebo

lets just quickly reviews classics

Teenage Angst
36 Degrees
Nancy Boy
Bruise Pristine
Pure Morning
Brick****house
Without You I'm Nothing
Every You Every Me
Scared of Girls
Taste In Men
Days Before You Came
Special K
Bullet Proof Cupid
English Summer Rain
Bitter End
Sleeping with ghosts
Special Needs
Meds
Drag
Post Blue
Blind
Song to Say Goodbye


I remember during 00 when they came here, they played mostly from BMM and its fare they play all their new stuff this time around too but seriously playing something like Follow the cops back home over the above is annoying

Im not too impressed by the new album, if it wasnt for their old stuff dont think many people would give it a second listen.

S.M.B.

Bionic & Allergic (To Thoughts of Mother Earth) are also songs that I was quite impartial to until I heard it live.

And Lady of the Flowers is still one of my favourite Placebo songs.

gary the great

i was on a bit of a Placebo buzz last night and listened to My Sweet Prince live at Hurricane, centrefolds in paris, the slow Teenage angst, the slow 36 degrees...unreal stuff.

But to be honest, id put Battle for the Sun up there ahead of SWG and Meds. SWG has some of their best tunes, but lots of crap filler to...
Meds for me was my least favourite, had its moments but i personally thought that with that album it was the end of Placebo. Then i seen them live a couple of times during that tour and you could tell they just werent into it anymore...they didnt seem to be enjoying it at all. I think this was probably Steve Hewitt related.

Then i listened to Battle and loved it, they seem regenerated and seem to be enjoying playing live again. I love the album...Kitty Litter, Battle for the Sun, Devil in Details (didnt like it that much till i heard it live the other night), Bright Lights, Speak in tounges, breathe underwater, come undone, kings of medicine...all great tunes imo.

Blackpitts

Placebo wrote: »

lets just quickly reviews classics

... but seriously playing something like Follow the cops back home over the above is annoying

Im not too impressed by the new album, if it wasnt for their old stuff dont think many people would give it a second listen.

+1!

stateofflux

gary the great wrote: »

They didnt have 4 extra guitar players, they had Bill Lloyd who is playing with Placebo since 1999 and that other guy on the guitar. Then they had Fiona play the violin/keyboard...i thought they made a huge difference to the sound. The violin was amazing during Julien etc
Brian played guitar the whole way through...back in the day he played some songs with and some songs without the guitar? dot really get what you mean when you say its a cop out, they can only play one instrument at a time!

Nothing will ever touch the gig in 2000 though...
Black Eyed
Days before you came
Scared of Girls
Allergic
36 degrees
Bionic
Passive Aggressive
Without you im nothing
My Sweet prince
Commercial for Levi
Every you
Special K
Slave to the wage
Teenage angst (slow)
Peeping Tom

Taste in men
nancy Boy
Pure Morning

sorry i stand corrected...not 4....it was 3, i was at the front, side of stage , i saw 1 bass guitar player, and two guitar players (1 behind amp hiding) and a keyboard player and a girl playing another keyboard? ...if you are a three piece band you are a three piece band.....i want to see the band play....not 5 unknowns making them sound amazing.....if you play in a band you would know its an unwritten rule for live rock and roll.....its not neil diamond or lionel ritchie ....maybe im too much of a purist haha :0)

that gig in 2000 was amazing ....show in sfx for wyin tour was class as well

Orlaladuck

I couldn't go the gig in dublin due to exams =[ I'm almost crying reading this thread. I'd kill to see them live, I swear next time they come anywhere near Ireland I'm going to trap them and never make them leave. I'd kill to see them play Pierrot the Clown live as well as Lady of the Flowers.

But I like the fact they've manage to release a good album this year, loads of other artists we're really disappointing, but they still keep making fantastic music ^.^

Orlaladuck

Also they're playing Sonsiphere over the summer ( that's a festival in the uk) The rest of the line isn't really in the same league as Placebo are but still it's Placebo, I'd certainly go over just to see them.

L.T.D

Hope they do an Irish fest next summer

Xavi6

Looks like I could be seeing Placebo on successive days here in Perth in March.

They play the Soundwave festival on the 1st (which is my birthday ) then their own show in a small venue on the 2nd (got a ticket for that already). Be quality to see them two days in a row, once at a festival and once with a full set.

Zimovane

Would kill to see them live:mad:

SilverScreen

I've only seen them live once, that was at Oxegen 2006. They played most of the songs off Meds and threw in a few classics so it wasn't too bad a set. But what really took away from the enjoyment of their set was being crushed at the front :eek: , wasn't a very comfortable ride. They're not really a festival band though, i'd definitely rather see them in a venue like The Olympia.

Xavi6

So I did see them on successive days and it was bloody brilliant.

The setlists for both the festival and sideshow were very Battle For The Sun orientated and I'd have like a few more oldies thrown in.

Setlist for the sideshow last night was -

*
1. For What It's Worth
2. Ashtray Heart
3. Battle For The Sun
4. Soulmates
5. Every You Every Me
6. Speak In Tongues
7. Breathe Underwater
8. The Never-Ending Why
9. Julien
10. Special Needs
11. Come Undone
12. Meds Play Video
13. Follow The Cops Back Home
14. Song To Say Goodbye
15. Special K
16. The Bitter End

Encore:

17. Bright Lights
18. Infra-red
19. Taste In Men

Orlaladuck

Not a bad line up at all! I'm so envious D=