Placebo Tickets

Great show! Staff was great as well as the sound quality

awesome performance. best night i had all of winter.

Placebo is an outstanding band! The energy they brought was awesome. I waited my entire life to see them and it was worth the wait. I wish they would visit Chicago more often. I would see them again in a heartbeat.

Truly talented musicians delivering fantastic music. It doesn't get any better than that. Placebo was quite possibly the best live performance I've experienced. Acoustics were amazing at the House of Blues. A really great venue!

I've been anxiously waiting since the cancelled October 2, 2009, show to see Placebo. They were definitely worth the wait. Placebo came out strong and stayed strong the entire show. Their energy fed the energy of the crowd. The crowd never stopped screaming, dancing and singing. Nice mix of older songs with the newer songs. Crowd was very eclectic, showing the diversity of Placebo and their music. I have been a huge fan of Placebo since 1996, and I highly recommend seeing them live if you get the chance.

No Hesitation, no delay, they came on just like special K. Placebo rocked everything harder than a person would ever have imagined. It made every song an anthem and every quiet moment, resonate with intimacy. They are a band on the top of their game. Every song is a playground for them, each one transforming itself into what it needed to be for the night. What you've heard on the albums could not prepare you for what they'll do to your ears live.

Better than my wildest expectations! I love Placebo as a band, even though the first time I ever heard them was "Every you, Every me", which I was totally obsessed with years ago, but never really looked into the band. Years later I re-discovered the song and was still obsessed with it, so I decided to look into the band and very much in love with their work. I was under some weird misconception that they weren't playing anymore, so when I got wind that they had a new album out I instantly devoured it and it's a beautiful evolved version of their sound, a listen-through album rather than a "I like a few songs" kind of deal. I was content with that, but then I found their Boston show on ticket master and KNEW I HAD to see them. I ordered them instantly and requested the days off work months in advance. Not only did I get to hear all the beautiful songs I most wanted to hear from the album, they played my initial love: "Every you, Every me". Imagine being able to hear your favorite song from your teenage years live 10 years later when you thought the opportunity had passed! Incredible. And this isn't one of those studio-only kind of bands that are terrible live and you make due. No, their albums could easily be recorded live and be just as perfect. I was totally, totally blown away. It's even better to find a band you love to have awesome personalities as in not being put off by them when they talk to the crowd and could see yourself really enjoy knowing them... you're always afraid to find out more about something you really like for fear that you'll be let down. Not so. But there are no words for a performance this amazing, so I though I'd paint a picture of what it meant to me. It also just so happened to coincide with my boyfriend and I's 5 year anniversary (he's also a big fan) and I couldn't think of a better way to have spent it!

Rare to see a group of their stature in a small venue so seeing Placebo at the Paradise was a real treat. Yup it was crowded and hot, but who cares.

Great show. Happy to see them again. Most enthusiastic people in the crowd were the young ladies from Serbia in the front row. Just a reminder of how internationally beloved Placebo are. They played well and Brian had some fun crowd banter. I am pretty much in love with Stefan's rainbow bass. This was a first time seeing the band for a lot of people around me. I don't think it was disappointing in the least!

I’m sorry, I’m sorry. At $3.50 for a beer in Les Foufounes Electriques next door, it was easier than usual to get waylaid and unforgivably miss the start of the Placebo show at Metropolis Montreal last night. But that’s what happened, so we arrived just at the end of the moody and provocative opening song which was, as it has been at most of Placebo’s gigs recently, B3. I am a proud and loyal owner of all of Placebo’s albums but this EP passed me by somehow in 2012 so I wasn’t as crestfallen as I might have been. I would, however, have been a great deal more upset if I’d missed the second song as the band stepped on the gas pedal with For What It’s Worth with its deep opening riff and rousing centrepiece. The audience bobbed and shook as one as Brian Molko tapped into the mood as he can like few others, accompanied on drums by Steve Forrest’s tattoos and muscles shimmering in the stage lighting and the willowy figure of Stefan Olsdal providing a looming guitar presence at the front of the stage. The touch paper in Metropolis was lit. I counted 7 tracks from the latest album, Loud Like Love, belted out through the evening and the uplifting, oscillating title track was first up as the momentum caught in the crowd and barely abated for the rest of the evening during the nearly 90 minute set. An early appearance (considering it’s elevated place in the Placebo back catalogue) and new perspective on Every You, Every Me rippled across the theatre to widespread joy in the audience who, you got the feeling, ranged in age from early Nancy Boy devotees to Loud Like Love first-timers. The band’s appeal may not be entirely all conquering, but it is wide reaching – tapping into the psyches of people across spectrums and delivering a comprehension and perspective of life’s twists and turns that not all bands are necessarily able to. A Million Little Pieces provided a small period for this kind of reflection and gathering of collective breaths before Too Many Friends and it’s memorably strange opening line moved in, with Rob The Bank and Purify allowing the audience to fully engage with the new album as only a live showing can permit. Single armed air thumping returned across the crowd with the anthemic One Of A Kind as the singing along began to raise the roof… I Am One, the collective shouted. The Meds album provided the structure to sweep the crowd through to the end with Song To Say Goodbye and the title track itself before The Bitter End provided a final that was anything but for the audience whose arms, from the front row to the back of the room, were now held aloft in recognition and semi-worship of a Placebo shaped ball of furious guitars, drums and angst. The 4 song encore gave the baying crowd more, and split itself in 2 – a rather strange and anticlimactic choice of Begin The End which almost killed the rampantly positive mood before Running Up That Hill rode over the horizon to remind people not to go just yet, and finishing with stamping, clapping renditions of Post Blue and Infra-Red. Molko’s perfect French gave him instant rapport with a city that he somewhat ashen-facedly admitted he hadn’t played to for over 10 years and you got the feeling he won’t leave it so long next time. The group taking a bow seemed entirely right for a great performance and judging on the excited, satiated murmurings as the crowd filed out, Placebo will be welcomed back with arms both open and aloft.

Really great concert in this beautiful club! This was my first time in the USA and enjoy this concert was beautiful!

My second time seeing them (hopefully not the last). Love, love, love Placebo! The show was amazing. Small venue, very private and intimate setting. They were incredible as always!

One of the BEST concerts I've been to in a while! Maybe the fact I follow Placebo since I was young had something to do with it, but I went to shake my bum and I sweat like I meant to! Just saying! ;)

Watching a stadium-filling band like Placebo in a small venue like the Paradise can go either way. If the band doesn't do things right, then the sound will turn into noise and it won't be enjoyable. This was not the case with Placebo, they sounded amazing, played a mix of new and old songs, and were incredible overall.

Fantastic show - as always from Placebo. I also have to give props to the staff at the Filmore. I have *never* encountered such a solicitous group of people. They were passing out cups of water to those of us standing in the front and generally being fantastic with the crowd. Made a great concert that much better!

I've been waiting years to see Placebo back in the states.

I've been waiting years to see Placebo back in the states.

placebo very good but not as awesome as expected/hoped for

Fantastic show, only wished they wouldn't have removed space monkey from the setlist!

Great show from one of my favorite groups. A real poet!