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...

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