• Steve is left-handed, but Stef and Brian are both righties
  
• The band turned down a chance to play Judas Priest in the film "Metal God"
  
• Brian smokes Marlboro Lights
  
• Brian's nicknames include 'Smiler' and 'Molks'
  
• Steve used to work as a member of a Formula 1 racing team pit crew
  
• Brian once said his last name was hebrew (but he may just have been taking the piss)
  
• Stefan perfers heat more than cold
  
• Brian used to work as a paper shredder
  
• Brian makes "a wicked pasta pomodoro" (according to Stefan)
  
• The band recorded Daddy Cool (which features Steve on backing vocals) as a present for Steve's daughter
  
• Brian once sprained his thumb doing 'the worm' (the breakdancing move)
  
• Steve used to drive a forklift
  
• Brian has a fear of flying
  
• Placebo owns a records label, Elevator Records, but so far no one else has been signed to it
  
• Stefan, Brian, and Steve each have 1 older brother
  
• To relax Brian plays the drums
  
• The band plays ping-pong to keep themselves busy on tour
  
• Steve doesn't drink red wine
  
• In the US Stef once bought a guitar that cost three grand
  
• Bill likes to swim
  
• The 'Revenge' LP by the Eurythmics was the first LP Stefan ever bought
  
• Brian has a nike swoosh-shaped scar on his wrist that he got when he put his arm through a glass window
  
• All Brian's guitars are female
  
• Brian said if was able to be a woman for a day he'd be Catherine de Neuve
  
• Steve once broke his finger in a toilet room door and had to get eight stitches
  
• Stefan first learned to play drums but quit & learned bass, guitar, and piano so he could be seen more

...more facts to come soon...

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