Placebo have announced a sprawling UK and European 30th anniversary tour celebrating their 1996 self-titled debut album, kicking off September 28 in Porto and closing December 7 in Cardiff. Alongside the tour comes Placebo RE:CREATED, a reworked and embellished version of all ten original album tracks plus two bonus tracks, arriving June 19. Pre-orders open March 22, with an artist presale launching March 24 and general on-sale March 27.
The band describe RE:CREATED with rare precision: “We think of this record as a director’s cut. We went back to the original master tapes and brought 30 years of playing these songs live back into the record.” This is not a nostalgia exercise or a cash-in reissue. It is a deliberate act of completion, dragging a foundational record into the present while preserving everything that made it matter in the first place.
The tour is substantial by any measure. Forty-plus dates across Portugal, Spain, France, Luxembourg, Germany, Lithuania, Latvia, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Hungary, Czech Republic, Poland, Ireland, and the UK. Venues include the Ziggo Dome in Amsterdam, Accor Arena in Paris, OVO Arena Wembley in London, and OVO Hydro in Glasgow. The setlist will draw from the debut alongside its celebrated 1998 follow-up ‘Without You I’m Nothing.’
Before the main run, Placebo play a special show at London’s Royal Albert Hall on March 28 in support of the Teenage Cancer Trust, and appear at Zermatt Unplugged in Switzerland on April 11. Both dates arrive ahead of the RE:CREATED release and give a preview of what the anniversary celebration has in store.
Placebo emerged during the height of Britpop in 1996 with a sound that sat deliberately outside the era’s dominant aesthetic, darker, more confrontational, and more emotionally raw. Thirty years on, the debut still holds. RE:CREATED makes the case that it always will.
Placebo 30th Anniversary Tour 2026:
March 28 — London, UK — Royal Albert Hall (for Teenage Cancer Trust)
April 11 — Zermatt, Switzerland — Zermatt Unplugged 2026
September 28 — Porto, Portugal — Super Bock Arena
September 29 — Lisbon, Portugal — Sagres Campo Pequeno
October 1 — Madrid, Spain — Movistar Arena
October 3 — Barcelona, Spain — Sant Jordi Club
October 5 — Toulouse, France — Zénith de Toulouse
October 7 — Saint-Herblain, France — Zenith Nantes Metropole
October 9 — Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg — Rockhal
October 12 — Leipzig, Germany — QUARTERBACK Immobilien AG
October 15 — Vilnius, Lithuania — Twinsbet Arena
October 16 — Riga, Latvia — Arēna Rīga
October 18 — Helsinki, Finland — Hartwall Arena
October 20 — Stockholm, Sweden — Annexet
October 22 — Oslo, Norway — Oslo Spektrum
October 24 — Frederiksberg, Denmark — K.B. Hallen
October 26 — Hamburg, Germany — Barclays Arena
October 27 — Amsterdam, Netherlands — Ziggo Dome
October 29 — Frankfurt, Germany — Festhalle Messe Frankfurt
November 1 — Antwerp, Belgium — AFAS Dome
November 2 — Cologne, Germany — Lanxess Arena
November 4 — Zurich, Switzerland — Hallenstadion
November 6 — Milan, Italy — Unipol Forum
November 9 — Munich, Germany — Olympiahalle
November 10 — Vienna, Austria — Wiener Stadthalle
November 13 — Budapest, Hungary — Papp László Budapest Sportaréna
November 15 — Prague, Czechia — Sportovní Hala
November 16 — Berlin, Germany — Uber Arena
November 18 — Lodz, Poland — Atlas Arena
November 21 — Stuttgart, Germany — Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle
November 23 — Lyon, France — LDLC Arena
November 25 — Paris, France — Accor Arena
November 28 — Nottingham, UK — Motorpoint Arena
November 30 — Glasgow, UK — OVO Hydro
December 2 — Dublin, Ireland — 3Arena
December 4 — Manchester, UK — Co-op Live
December 5 — London, UK — OVO Arena Wembley
December 7 — Cardiff, UK — Utilita Arena Cardiff