Get a free Gigulate account now

Join Gigulate,
it's free!

Start tracking your favourite bands and get access to automagical music news!

Placebo/The Horrors | Pop review

The O2, LondonSomewhere, a booker must be feeling smug about getting the Horrors and Placebo onto the same bill. There could hardly be a better representation of different eras of goth-rock. Placebo are the old stagers, still romanticising emotional pain through grindingly bleak electro-rock, while the young Horrors take the same dysfunctional premise and go off on an arty, Teutonic tangent.One of the rock stories of the year has been the younger group's progression from schlocky jokers to inven...

Read full article Share article

2 stories in this thread

Order thread by:
Importance
Date published

22:15 on December 11 2009

Placebo/The Horrors | Pop review

Guardian Music — The O2, LondonSomewhere, a booker must be feeling smug about getting the Horrors and Placebo onto the same bill. There could hardly be a better representation of differen... more info

The Horrors Placebo

10:03 on December 12 2009

Placebo/The Horrors

The O2, London Somewhere, a booker must be feeling smug about getting the Horrors and Placebo onto the same bill. There could hardly be a better representation of differe... more info

Placebo