Placebo have performed ‘Nancy Boy’ reside for the primary in six years at Obtain 2023. Watch clips of the efficiency beneath.
‘Nancy Boy’ was famous because the band’s gender-bending breakthrough hit. At this 12 months’s Obtain Fest, Placebo determined to play it for the primary time in six years.
Beforehand talking with NME, Placebo defined why they have been reluctant to play their best hits as of late. Frontman Brian Molko and the band’s co-founder Stefan Olsdal mirrored on their ‘Better of’ tour sharing that “on the time we have been on Common Information, and we had the sensation that we’d lose all assist from them if we didn’t embark on this hideously materialistic and mercantile endeavour.”
Olsdal added: “That tour lasted for fairly a very long time, and we began to get this barely unhealthy relationship with our previous materials.” He continued: “I began to really feel fairly disillusioned by the band and what we have been doing. I felt over the past tour that the band was over and that I couldn’t proceed with this.”
Followers have been ecstatic to see placebo play the monitor, later taking to social media to precise their pleasure. One fan tweeted a clip of the efficiency saying “I cant cease freaking out over Placebo taking part in ‘Nancy Boy’ tonight,” whereas one other stated: “Placebo performed Nancy Boy reside tonight and actually I may cry with happiness. Cheers!”
Placebo are at the moment on their UK and Eire tour. Their subsequent reveals are on June 15, June 24 and June 26 in Cambridge, Glasgow and Dublin. Go to right here for any final minute tickets.
Final 12 months, Placebo requested their followers to not movie or take images in the course of the band’s reside reveals.
“Pricey Placebo followers, we want to kindly ask you NOT to spend the live performance filming or taking images along with your cell phones,” the assertion started.
“It makes Placebo’s efficiency a lot harder. Harder to attach with you and to speak successfully the feelings of the songs. It is usually disrespectful to your fellow concert-goers who need to watch the present, not the again of your telephone.”
