Yesterdays Placebo

Yesterday evening, again a great band played at the "Kuruçeşme Arena" in Istanbul. Who they were? Mr. Brian Molko and his fellow musicians... Placebo! As most of you must've heard they've got a new album out, it's called "Battle for the Sun", the first video of the album "For What It's Worth" premiered on the 1st of June 2009 on TV, and yesterday they made it to Istanbul.

The reason why I say they made it to Istanbul was that a funny thing (probably quite the arbitrary for the crew & venue) happened on the way. All their equipment got stuck at the Turkish Customs... So on Tuesday the 22nd June 09 I was eating dinner at home with Homenjor when a suspicious call came in. The voice on the phone said that the concert was cancelled, first I couldn't understand what happened, why would the equipment not pass through customs? A feeling of anxiety came upon me... so I checked out the news on the Internet with Homenjor and what shall I see? It was NOT cancelled, rather being delayed to the next day which I have to thank for. (see cancelled Istanbul show of Depeche Mode)

Mr. Molko also told us that it wasn't their fault and that we should complain to Turkish Customs for what happened (and believe me we're going to :), the stage decor was brilliant, the music volume was a little bit down, Steve Forrest who replaced Steve Hewitt is an genius on the drums I have to add, weather was a bit hot, all in one it was a great show, thank you Placebo!

We all here in Turkey hope they'll be soon back with a new album, Placebo is always in my opinion a "must see live" band. Another thing is that this concert was also quite interesting to me because I had the chance to see a lovely friend of mine, which I hadn’t, have seen for about 3½ years.