“What’s my state of mind right now?” Brian Molko ponders, repeating Kerrang!’s question slowly, deliberately and with that unmistakable purr. “Anticipation. Mild frustration. Impatience. This has been a long time coming.” The ‘this’ the 49-year-old is referring to is Never Let Me Go, Placebo’s forthcoming eighth album and their first since 2013. “We’ve been sitting on this record for two years longer than we probably should have been. We have to get back into this rock’n’roll machine.” It’s a machine Brian and co-conspirator Stefan Olsdal have been at the controls of since 1994, a year after the singer graduated from Goldsmiths College. The university’s New Cross location was only a 20-minute bus ride from Brixton Academy, thereby providing drama student Brian ...
