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
roper - MemberI 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.
