Placebo Announced as Third Headliner of Atlas Weekend 2020
Legendary British band returns to the Ukrainian capital with new material.
Organizers of Ukraine's largest music festival have announced the name of the third headliner of Atlas Weekend 2020: the iconic British band Placebo.
Placebo was founded in London in 1994 by Brian Molko and Stefan Olsdal and became one of the landmark acts in British music history. In nearly 25 years of existence, Placebo have released 7 studio albums, each of which reached the top 20 of the British charts. In total, more than 12 million copies of their records have been sold.
Molko and the band last performed in Ukraine in 2018, when they also headlined Atlas Weekend.
Over their long career, the British glam rockers have worked with such giants of the music industry as Robert Smith (The Cure), Michael Stipe (R.E.M.), Black Francis (The Pixies) and David Bowie, who needs no introduction.
Although Placebo's last album (Loud Like Love) was released more than six years ago, fans of the band have no reason to despair — just yesterday the British musicians announced the upcoming release of their eighth full-length studio album, which Molko and Olsdal have been working on since last summer.
In addition to Placebo, Atlas Weekend has already officially announced the appearance of the popular American duo Twenty One Pilots, hip-hop artist A$AP Rocky, the British acts alt-J and Metronomy, the Dutch symphonic metal band Within Temptation, the distinctive German group AnnenMayKantereit, the Icelandic indie-folk band Of Monsters And Men, as well as Tom Grennan, Battle Beast, Gloryhammer. In addition, the organizers announced the debut visit to Ukraine of the indie act Two Door Cinema Club from Northern Ireland.
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