Brian Molko’s interview for a Russian radio show, 2014
Courtesy of Placebo Russia.
Translated by Chrysa Galinidou who did an incredible job!
The interviewer says : It is your first tour around the Russia and Ekateringburg is the 4th city on your way, you already gave 2 concerts for the new audience do you think you will change something in your program or add more new hits, some old songs?
Brian says-''Ee had a successful winter tour around Europe which took a long time, we played together with local bands it worked excellent so we decided to bring this show in Russia as in Europe we decided to remake the visual world of the album LLL something like a psychedelic colorful world which we did by taking images turned them into movement and took them on tour.
Brian says-''Ee had a successful winter tour around Europe which took a long time, we played together with local bands it worked excellent so we decided to bring this show in Russia as in Europe we decided to remake the visual world of the album LLL something like a psychedelic colorful world which we did by taking images turned them into movement and took them on tour.
-A year before in Tattoo interview you mentioned the difficulties of performing in Russia did you come across something similar this time?
Brian answers -''I don't remember what I say in interviews. I change my mind all the time, till now the concerts are going fantastic, the audience is exciting incredibly generous full of energy. it is really important for a band it makes you to put more effort so till now we are having an excellent time.
Brian answers -''I don't remember what I say in interviews. I change my mind all the time, till now the concerts are going fantastic, the audience is exciting incredibly generous full of energy. it is really important for a band it makes you to put more effort so till now we are having an excellent time.
-We learned that you are making a film about Russia did you made shots already?
Brian responds-''We were in Novosibirsk we met a local architect in Omsk, Stefan had a conversation with the Dostoyevsky expert, we want to find the local culture, which people West will associate with Russia, we want to show how diverse it is culturally we travel huge distances so constantly come across a variety of culture so we want to make a documentary of the band traveling on the road which of course have been done thousand times before us.
Brian responds-''We were in Novosibirsk we met a local architect in Omsk, Stefan had a conversation with the Dostoyevsky expert, we want to find the local culture, which people West will associate with Russia, we want to show how diverse it is culturally we travel huge distances so constantly come across a variety of culture so we want to make a documentary of the band traveling on the road which of course have been done thousand times before us.
-On the internet all the fans from each town made special flashmobs various placards what's your attitude towards it?
Brian says: ‘It is great, it always puts a big smile on your face, you know? Yesterday during the performance Song To Say Goodbye the audience was throwing paper planes we never saw something like this, those things really make you smile a part of the audience that brings a huge delight.
-Your son is going to be 9 this year when I was 9 I didn’t have any favorite music or favorite artists there were only a music that made me smile or feel indifferent, what is Cody’s attitude towards your music?
Brian says: ‘He loves it''
Brian says: ‘He loves it''
-Placebo is twenty years old, don't you need to make a documentary?
Brian says: - ''We made documentaries and chronicles and we are doing it now, there is a chronicle about Battle For The Sun tour it is called “We Come In Pieces”.
Brian says: - ''We made documentaries and chronicles and we are doing it now, there is a chronicle about Battle For The Sun tour it is called “We Come In Pieces”.
-You were studying drama in Goldsmiths college had an experience to play a role wouldn’t you like to try your potentials with a big Hollywood role?
Brian says: ''No, no I have no desire whatsoever to have a parallel carrier; this is what Britain hip hope and R'n B artists usually do. I’m absolutely not interested in it anymore, at all, I didn’t like filming. It is a slow process I got exhausted, I wanted to make music. I would like to write soundtracks.
-Did you have any proposals?
Brian says: ''Yeah, yeah, I just recorded the begging and end songs for the soundtrack of the “Misunderstood” film “Incompressa” (by Asia Argento), which was presented this year in Cannes Festival so I’m slowly sliding into the sphere of writing the music for films which I wanted to do for a long time.''
Brian says: ''No, no I have no desire whatsoever to have a parallel carrier; this is what Britain hip hope and R'n B artists usually do. I’m absolutely not interested in it anymore, at all, I didn’t like filming. It is a slow process I got exhausted, I wanted to make music. I would like to write soundtracks.
Brian says: ''Yeah, yeah, I just recorded the begging and end songs for the soundtrack of the “Misunderstood” film “Incompressa” (by Asia Argento), which was presented this year in Cannes Festival so I’m slowly sliding into the sphere of writing the music for films which I wanted to do for a long time.''
All the questions of your last album have to do with the song “Too Many Friends” which song from the album is special for you?
Brian says: ‘‘it is probably the last one “Bosco” it is kind of stylistic deviation for Placebo, it is a very honest, tragic, sad story, you know if a band is successful. it must write a song that surpasses its past personality, otherwise, it will exists without a context personality, nobody will listen to it, so the last song from the album “Bosco” was one of those probably for the first time in our carrier.''
Brian, just as a music gurus have become more like for producers and less honest what do you think about it: 'Brian:'I don’t think it is necessarily true I think it is not always that way, that, perhaps, is what happens in the world of pop music, you know?
We got avant-garde music of Peter Gabriel quite strange music like Kate Bush, quite unusual like Ashes to Ashes, very weird song but all that mainstream is the song of my childhood.
Today with the appearances of all those horrific musical acts the mainstream becomes a karaoke competition program it is a real a shame i try not to risk if you search for risky guys you will find them in the word of hip hop ...''
We got avant-garde music of Peter Gabriel quite strange music like Kate Bush, quite unusual like Ashes to Ashes, very weird song but all that mainstream is the song of my childhood.
Today with the appearances of all those horrific musical acts the mainstream becomes a karaoke competition program it is a real a shame i try not to risk if you search for risky guys you will find them in the word of hip hop ...''
Courtesy of Placebo Russia.
Translated by Chrysa Galinidou who did an incredible job!
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