Placebo announce summer festival lockdown series Lost Tapes!
Starting this week, English alternative-rock band Placebo will premiere full festival performances from across their career. In the wake of a whole summer of festival appearances being unfortunately cancelled due to coronavirus, the band vaults have been opened to unveil a string of iconic festival sets, rarely seen since their first recording.
The first of the festival sets to premiere will be Phoenix festival ’96, which took place in Stratford Upon Avon, UK. Placebo had just released their self-titled debut album and took to the Phoenix stage itself, ahead of that day’s headliner – future friend and collaborator – David Bowie. The set premieres on the band’s YouTube channel this Friday, August 14th.
Footage dates will be running for the next 6 weeks, completes in 2015 as the band toured their most recent album Loud Like Love. Subscribe to the band’s official channel and make sure to set a reminder for each following premiere. Exclusive merch will be also available HERE.
“We were very disappointed that we couldn’t play live for you this summer, but even so we wanted to go on tour. To replace us playing in person, we dug out some videos from the archives and are hosting our own ‘summer tour’. These are the Lost Tapes, a series of festival concerts spanning 24 years, some never seen before. Each will premiere on YouTube. We’ll see you there!” comments the band about the upcoming online tour.
