[Closed] I always thought Placebo were American

Asprin works.

Used to think Drac rode a mountain bike!.

He does sing in a very American style.

I used to think Nobeerinthefridge was teatotal

I thought I use to ride mountain bikes.

I went to school with the drummer from placebo....

Michael Jackson was from Cardiff. Another little known fact

Rod Stewart is not Belgian

I used to think danny macaskill could only do all that stuff because he rode a silly bike

There's a guy down the chip shop swear he's Elvis.

Until I saw them at leeds festival I never noticed how gorgeous the girl who plays the violin is. Fiona Brice is the name that she is called and she's lovely. Not to mention bloody talented as well.

There's a guy down our chip shop that just swears

I thought the wheels on my bike were the right size. 🙄

I went to school with the drummer from placebo....

Which one? There's been several.

trying to pull stiches/sutures out, when they are stuck under your skin. hurts like hell.

Steve Hewitt... or chewey hewitt as we knew him 😀

Lime and lemongrass fairy liquid doesn't taste like it should.

Fiona Brice is the name that she is called and she's lovely

I thought this was a great way of just saying "her name's Fiona Brice".

Sure I heard Molko was from Sheffield.

"I always thought Placebo were American"

someone should tell them their not.

A Belgian & a (swedish) Luxemburger 🙂

Brian is a mongrel like many Brussels folk (typing this from Brussels) 😉

Nice guys too.

My mistake, he's Scottish/American born in Belgium. Of course.

My mistake, he's Scottish/American born in Belgium. Of course.

Are you going to start a rival thread:

"I always thought Brian Molko was from Sheffield"?

Fiona Brice is the name that she is called and she's lovely

I thought this was a great way of just saying "her name's Fiona Brice".

I just thought she was worth a few extra words 😀

The Thompson Twins were in fact completely unrelated by blood.

Similarly, the Proclaimers proclaim that they are Twin Brothers, when in fact, the one on the left has slightly different glasses.

The Proclaimers yesterday
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Blimey, they still going? I'd have given them 5 years max back in the day.

Edit... blimey they've been going almost 20 years. That makes me feel quite old 😕

MrSparkle - you might be thinking of Moloko, who are indeed from Sheffield.

I always thought Rik Garner invented mountain biking

I went to school with the drummer from placebo....
Steve Hewitt... or chewey hewitt as we knew him

Moloko are indeed from sheffield. Roisin Murphy speaks like a miner

chambord - that was Ricky Gervais

Which means you must have been at WHS in the 80's!

I always call David Millar ... Hong Kong Fuey

I always thought that the vocalist from McAlmont and Butler was female until I saw them on the telly.

Even now, on hearing them, I find it very difficult to believe that David McAlmont is male.

At 45, I think i'm past the point of being 'turned' - but if anyone could, Brian Molko could.

He's goygeous.

At 45, I think i'm past the point of being 'turned'

[i]I also thought Lost Prophets were American [/i]

That's because they were a (bad) Faith No More tribute band. And FnM are American.

Placebo aren't actually from anywhere. The idea that they are from somewhere is entirely psychosomatic, a figment of your imagination. In my mind they are Swiss.

Lemmy from Motorhead lived on Anglesey for a while. The home of rock n roll. Not!

Until this thread I thought Placebo were Danish.
I only popped in on the off-chance no-one had already mentioned their fellow Danes Mew, as they are/were alrightish (vocals a bit weak). Instead I'll pointlessly mention a band that are from a different country to Placebo and don't sound like Placebo. Mew. They're alrightish. 😀

Funnily enough I was listening to placebo and Meds this afternoon. I knew he was Scottish but what I don't know is why the hell does he try to sing like and speak like an American (unless he was brought up there I guess?)

I recall hearing Brian Molko is from Dundee.

The Thompson Twins were in fact completely unrelated by blood.

...and there were three of them.

The band Moloko may have been formed in Sheffield , but I'm sure the singer was from Ireland. 🙂

Really! Placebo, not from the U.S. Now that is a surprise...all these years.

Am also confused about the Flaming Lips, or is it the Smashing Pumpkins...

I found out last week I saw radio head at a festival in the 90s.

I also thought Lost Prophets were American

That's because they were a (bad) Faith No More tribute band. And FnM are American.

Is that a commonly held opinion? I am a FNM fanatic and hear absolutely nothing of FNM in the Lost Prophets (admittedly I only know a handful of their singles from some years back). I guess you could argue that FNM covers such a large scope most bands are going to overlap them somewhere....

Blondie wasn't a real blond.....

Yet I've just found out they are English, and Brian Molko is Scottish.

hahah i thought this for years aswell...

was listening to some 90's stuff the other night and Gene came on, didn't know the lead singer was Welsh.

+i now feel old as i can remember buying their first album on a long forgotten invention called a 'cassette'!

I'm eternally grateful that Placebo existed simply to give me some sort of enlightenment into the vast spectrum of sexuality, drugs and inebriation from my shitty little bigoted, xenophobic adolescent town.

I would be a completely different man without Placebo and Zane Lowe interviews with the band. Thanks to those I found Pixies, Einsturzende Neubauten and Skinny Puppy: Revolution in my eyes. And a Scot at that.

I used to think Metalicarrrrrr were dainish, I think it was because the only name I'd heared in connection with them was Lars Ulrich

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I found out last week I saw radio head at a festival in the 90s.

Heh. A mate of mine reminded me we saw Coldplay play in front of about 200 people at the edinburgh venue in about 2001- I tipped coheadliners Terris for big things but Coldplay will never amount to anything.

Molko has that pan-european accent common to many peeps that went to international schools. He was at international skool in Luxembourg and a good mate of my cousin (half french half english) who also features a funny unplaceable accent. According to my aunt he was a "sweet young man" in his pre-rascally teenage sex-midget years.

I learned last week the Jamaican ghetto stylee vocals on' 'Chant of a poor man' by Leftfield were sung by a skinny white Brummie.

"Don't you c**ts (pronounced as in Brian Cant) throw any more bottles at me or I'm off" were some of the only words I remember him saying a good few years ago at Rock City. It was only a plastic bottle but it was a good shot.

Awful fake American accents that record companies make singers use to sell more records in America.

Pretty sure the lead singer from Moloko was born/brought up about 50yds from where i'm sitting.

Depths of ireland.