Placebo frontman Brian Molko has been talking about the band's upcoming gig at Wembley Arena on 5 Nov, their biggest gig to date.
He told Xfm: "It's something that we said we'd never do, cos we love Brixton so much and it's one of those things that bands always say 'Ah, we'd rather do 17 nights at Brixton than play Wembley', but it's a bit of a benchmark for us, we want to do it once as an FU to a lot of people I s'pose and also just to say that we did it and end that section of our career really nicely. It's bonfire night so if we can get some firework action going on that'd be really cool as well."
The band are also releasing a best of collection on 18 Oct which features two new songs - 'I Do' and '20 Years' - recorded with 'Pure Morning' producer Phil Vynall. Molko says: "'20 Years' is classic Placebo melancholy, it's quite epic, all about the passing of time. And 'I Do' is our first unashamed happy love song I s'pose. And it's got no guitar on it, which we're really happy about. It's a song that sounds like it's under Prozac, its like 'Medication time boys!' It's so deliriously happy that it can't be natural."
Molko also revealed that they have made a particularly explicit promo for one of their songs: "The most challenging thing we've done recently was for a French only release for a song called 'Protect Me' which was directed by a filmmaker called Gaspard Noe. He made a film called 'Irreversible', which was quite scandalous. And we can't show it, because it is hard core porn.. But we love it. There's nothing wrong with a bit of hardcore."