𝑯𝑨𝑷𝑷𝒀 𝑵𝑬𝑾 𝒀𝑬𝑨𝑹!

𝑯𝒊 𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑯𝑨𝑷𝑷𝒀 𝑵𝑬𝑾 𝒀𝑬𝑨𝑹!🌟

It's so nice to be here with you on this special day of New Year’s Eve. It’s been a tough year for everyone, and most of us can’t wait for it to end… However, let’s try to not be sad today but send our positive thoughts and hopes into the upcoming 2021. The Universe should hear us…🙏💖
Even so we can’t have big New Year parties now, the theme of dressing up fits quite well for today. And I’m coming to make you smile, dear soulmates, and enjoy our beloved guys looking like they’re actually having a fancy dress party! Also, I want to remind you what Brian has to say about wearing make-up and playing with his androgynous look😍

Photo credit: Neil Cooper

𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐬, 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐥𝐥.
“The fans want their Brian to be girly. If I went masculine they’d be disappointed.”
𝐖𝐚𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐲𝐧𝐲 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚 𝐤𝐢𝐝?
“When I was really young, I used to have really long hair, much longer that it is now, and yeah, I remember walking around Dundee with my mum and we were going to visit my grandmother and her bumping into people that she knew from years ago and they’d say: 'So who’s your little girl then?’ So it started at that point, when I was about three. When I arrived in London, I let my hair grow again and I started being mistaken for a girl a lot of the time. And I’d worn make-up in theatre since I was 11, so I was kind of used to it. And I decided to play it up a bit. I just started making up to see if people’d be confused even more, and when the band came along I started putting more on. Nail polish is great if you play guitar because it looks really good on the fretboard as your fingers slide up and down.”
(𝑉𝑂𝑋: “𝐼𝑡’𝑠 𝑂𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑅𝑜𝑐𝑘'𝑛'𝑅𝑜𝑙𝑒 𝑅𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑎𝑙”, 𝐽𝑢𝑛'97)

𝐒𝐒: 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐛𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐞𝐱𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐠𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞...
𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: I guess so, I mean I guess I look like a girl but I kind of rock like a boy when we're on stage. I don't know what it is about a boy in make-up which really freaks people out, you know. Most of the time I just wear it for the same reason that you're wearing make-up, you know, just to try and make yourself look a little bit more attractive.

𝐒𝐒: 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐯𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐚 𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐚 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝. 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐦𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠?
𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: It's not an act, you know, it real, it's just a sort of you know an expression of who we are. It's our three personalities crammed into the music, it's not an act at all. It's not some sort of Ziggy-like attempt to create a character. I believe in honesty and nakedness and vulnerability in music, not acting in music, I leave that for Kylie.
(𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤 "𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜 𝐼𝑛 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑊𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑆𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑆𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑜𝑛", 𝐴𝑢𝑔'98)

''When I was a child, people thought I was a girl. And at the very beginning of Placebo, also. Even when I was not wearing make-up yet. So I thought it would be interesting to play with the preconceptions people have about men and women. And to play with this androgyny, since I obviously could not escape it. [...] Playing in a rock band gives you a lot of freedom [...] It's not about creating a character like Bowie did for Ziggy Stardust. But rather to slightly exaggerate a real aspect of our personality on stage."
(𝐿𝑒𝑠 𝐼𝑛𝑟𝑜𝑐𝑘𝑢𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑠, 2000)

“If I can encourage men to get in touch with their feminine side, that’s good.”
(𝑄 𝑀𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑧𝑖𝑛𝑒 "𝑂𝑢𝑡 𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑘𝑠", 𝐹𝑒𝑏'97)

"Glamour is something that I feel very comfortable with," Brian elaborates. "It's encouraging a lot of boys to wear make-up and I think it's about time for that again. It's a reaction against the anti-style and anti-glamour of grunge, it's something that's a lot larger than life. There's a lot of style involved and a much stronger sexual overtone to the whole thing."
(𝐺-𝑆𝑝𝑜𝑡 "𝐴𝑣𝑜𝑛 𝐶𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔", 𝑀𝑎𝑦'97)

𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐠𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐛𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐬𝐤𝐢𝐫𝐭?
"Sure. Only my voice gave me away."
(𝐾𝑒𝑟𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑔 "𝐻𝑒𝑙𝑙'𝑠 𝐴𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑙", 𝑀𝑎𝑦'97)

"I like the idea of being as attractive to men as women," he smiles, before letting out a filthy chuckle. "And perhaps even being available."
(𝐾𝑒𝑟𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑔 "𝑁𝑒𝑤 𝑌𝑜𝑟𝑘 𝐷𝑜𝑙𝑙", 𝐽𝑎𝑛'97)

𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧, 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐬𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐈’𝐦 𝐝𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰: 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐞𝐲𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐮𝐬𝐞?
"…Can I say that again one more time? I say as often as I can I use MAC and I would love it if they would sponsor me, you know."
(𝐶𝑎𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑔 𝑇𝑉, 𝑆𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑎𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑒, 2010)

Photo credit: Scarlet Page

And now I’d like to know who of you have ever used MAC eyeliner because of Brian?😉 Ok, ok, I’m guilty too…😂

In this lovely 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖 Brian proudly (and ironically of course!) takes all the responsibility for making men to wear eyeliner.
⭐️ https://bit.ly/3fnwaBV ⭐️

I’m sure you all remember the lines where make-up brands are mentioned too:
𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒂 𝒈𝒊𝒓𝒍 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖
𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒉𝒊𝒑𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒋𝒆𝒂𝒏𝒔
𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒘𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒎𝒚 𝒇𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖
𝑺𝒉𝒊𝒔𝒆𝒊𝒅𝒐, 𝑴𝑨𝑪 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑴𝒂𝒚𝒃𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆

𝐈 𝐃𝐨 seems to really be the only Placebo happy love song but… the last line “𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒊𝒔 ‘𝑫𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖?’” kind of turns it all upside down: it’s not that simple and obvious, it’s still Placebo ambiguous style.
Anyway, it sounds great to get into the festive mood, so let’s listen to it together.
𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 - 𝐈 𝐃𝐨
🎶 https://bit.ly/3nKXhtt

Dress up and put some make-up on tonight, dear soulmates, if you feel like that. If not, just enjoy Brian doing that😍😉 Anyway, have a great time and believe that your beautiful wishes come true next year: I’m pretty sure that one of them is finally seeing Placebo live again! Personally, I believe that by heart.

Post by Olga

💢🔸𝐘𝐄𝐀𝐑 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟎 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎🔸💢

𝐷𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑠, 𝑑𝑜 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑝𝑜𝑜𝑟 𝑖𝑛 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑒𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑚𝑖𝑐?
𝑆𝑜 𝑙𝑒𝑡'𝑠 𝑔𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐼 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑒 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜𝑔𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟.

Photo credits: Placebo, Stefan Olsdal and Digital 21 Instagram, edit by Marti

💢𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲💢
Stefan invited us on his Instagram to the first planned summer festival in 2020 - at 𝑴𝒂𝒅𝑪𝒐𝒐𝒍 𝒊𝒏 𝑴𝒂𝒅𝒓𝒊𝒅, where Placebo were going to perform. Unfortunately, he had no idea at the time that there would be no festivals this year.

𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒃𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒂𝒎𝒂𝒛𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒏𝒆𝒘𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟎 𝒄𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅 𝒂𝒄𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕 - 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 𝒔𝒊𝒈𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒂 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒅 𝒍𝒂𝒃𝒆𝒍 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒆 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐𝟖, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒇 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒕𝒑𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒅𝒖𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒂 𝒍𝒐𝒄𝒌𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒏.

💢𝑭𝒆𝒃𝒓𝒖𝒂𝒓𝒚💢
In February, Stef announced that the second 𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝟐𝟏 & 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧 𝐎𝐥𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐦 "𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐋𝐄𝐗" will be released in March, but unfortunately on March 11. he wrote a report that the release of the album was postponed due to the pandemic.

Photo credit: Stefan Olsdal IG

💢𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒉💢
Brian sent us a photo from the studio "𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝐿𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑜𝑛" with the text "ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑤𝑒 𝑔𝑜𝑛𝑛𝑎 𝑑𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛? ..."
We were happy for a while before everything changed ...

24.3. Stefan sent us a lot of love from his balcony, with the assurance that their decision to postpone working in the studio and stay at home was painful, but the right thing to do. And we all directed our positive energy to the guys to keep them healthy and safe.
💥✨31.3. 𝑤𝑒 𝑐𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏'𝒔 𝒃𝒊𝒓𝒕𝒉𝒅𝒂𝒚 𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜 𝑓𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑦.💗 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑛𝑒𝑡𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑤𝑖𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑠, 𝑝𝑒𝑟ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑠 𝑆𝑡𝑒𝑓 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑙𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑙𝑎𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒.

💢𝑨𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒍💢
Stef and his magical son Bosco greeted us from the roof of their house and played the Happy Birthday song for the 100th birthday of 𝑪𝒂𝒑𝒕𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝑻𝒐𝒎, 𝒂 𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝒘𝒉𝒐, 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒅𝒆𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏, 𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒏 𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒃𝒍𝒆 £ 𝟑𝟐 𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒂 𝑼𝑲 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒚. And do you remember that relief when you saw Stefan healthy and happy? I do...💗

Photo credit: Placebo IG

💢𝑴𝒂𝒚💢
On May 2 we celebrated 𝒖𝒏𝒐𝒇𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝑰𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 𝑫𝒂𝒚 and we had a wonderful time together. The song 🔸 "𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝑬𝒏𝒅"🔸 sounded from all sides of social network, it was a beautiful spring and our connection was almost tangible.

From Placeboworld came blue post without text. We looked at Brian's amazing pedals and the yellow pick.
💦Brian on a wave of inspiration? Definitely good news ...💦

💢𝑱𝒖𝒏𝒆💢
💥In June, the world was moved by American events started by the murder of George Floyd. The Placebo band once again actively showed an attitude towards the entire resistance movement, which rose in several parts of the world after this event.💥

Photo cedit: Placebo IG

💢𝑱𝒖𝒍𝒚💢
Placebo joined the #letthemusicplay appeal directed to the UK government with a request to support the restart of the live music industry.
Stefan was invited to the podcast 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑾𝒂𝒈𝒐𝒏 to talk openly about his path of addiction.
Great confession, thanks Stef!👍

It was the first summer in the whole long history without festivals and live concerts ... Placebo felt the weight as much as we did. 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒕'𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒖𝒔 𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒍 𝒕𝒐 𝒘𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉 𝑳𝑳𝑳 𝑻𝑽, 𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟑.
Which one of you went back in time?

💢𝑨𝒖𝒈𝒖𝒔𝒕💢
And on August 12th, an amazing surprise came from Placeboworld that brought us together for the next few weeks and improved the memory of this strange summer.
🔸𝑨 𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝟖 "𝑳𝑶𝑺𝑻 𝑻𝑨𝑷𝑬𝑺" 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒓𝒕𝒔🔸, which premiered on YT.
🥰𝐹𝑜𝑟 𝑚𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦, 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑏𝑒𝑎𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑢𝑙 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑢𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑟. 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑢𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑏𝑒𝑎𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑙𝑦, 𝑤𝑒 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑤𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑓𝑢𝑙 𝑚𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑡𝑜𝑔𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟🥰💗

💥✨𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑫𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒍 𝟐𝟏 announced the formation of a new instrumental band 🔸"𝑴𝒂𝒅𝒆 𝑭𝒐𝒓 𝑯𝒖𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒔"🔸 and the release of their first single "𝑶𝒑𝒆𝒏 𝑭𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕". Stef justified this by the need for a mental escape from life in a lockdown, and we welcomed that something new and uplifting is emerging even during these difficult days.

Photo credit: Placebo IG

💢𝑺𝒆𝒑𝒕𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓💢
Stef published a beautiful post with a photo on which he signs a limited edition of Lost Tapes posters.
14.9. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒅 𝒏𝒆𝒘𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉 𝒐𝒇 𝑨𝒏𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒔 𝑫𝒂𝒆𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏, the German drummer of the band Carrera and the chief marketing officer of Universal Music, appeared on Placeboworld. Andreas was a longtime friend of the guys and his unexpected departure hit them hard.
🕯🖤 𝑹𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝑰𝒏 𝑷𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒆, 𝑨𝒏𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒔 𝑫𝒂𝒆𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏.

🔸On Placeboworld there was the announcement of the release of the film 𝑺𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒔, 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒅𝒖𝒄𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒂𝒈𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒎 𝒂𝒕 𝑹𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝒃𝒂𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒏 𝑫𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝑴𝒄𝑳𝒆𝒂𝒏'𝒔 𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒄 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒓.
Have you seen this gem about what preceded Riverman management? Because it's definitely worth a look!

💢𝑶𝒄𝒕𝒐𝒃𝒆𝒓💢
7.10. Another amazing event awaited us - 𝒘𝒆 𝒄𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒃𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒅
𝟐𝟎 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒆𝒄𝒕 💥"𝑩𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒌𝒆𝒕 𝑴𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄"💥 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆𝒅.
We received a gift in the form of 4 episodes full of yet unpublished shots and memories of the recording of this treasure, and many of us remembered our youth.

Stefan and his photo when he was 8 years old ... It was his invitation to take part in a charity event supporting the mental health of children in schools❤

𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑢𝑠 𝑎 𝑝𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡𝑤𝑜 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑓𝑢𝑛𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑝𝑒𝑑𝑎𝑙𝑠, 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑎 𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑙 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑡ℎ 𝑎𝑢𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛.
We could also admire his ashtray with a lighted cigarette and a cup of coffee, so the picture was really very personal. Thanks Brian for that!🥰

And a few days later, a short message "𝑽𝒐𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒔 𝑻𝒐𝒅𝒂𝒚"
followed, which we rejoiced at.
In a few days, Brian showed up again with a short and concise "𝑯𝑼𝑮𝒁" report and the shared motto
"𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑖𝑠 𝑜𝑘"
💗I floated that day on a pink cloud💗.

Brian's diligence and good mood continued the next week with Jenny Holzer's beautiful motto:
"𝐼𝑛 𝑎 𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑚 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑠𝑎𝑤 𝑎 𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑗𝑜𝑦."
Brian added "𝑳𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝑵𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕".

Photo credit: Placebo IG

💢𝑵𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓💢
Stefan's post with the signing of the new album "𝑴𝒂𝒅𝒆 𝑭𝒐𝒓 𝑯𝒖𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒔", which was released three days later.
Thanks to Stefan for this positive light in these strange times...

💢𝑫𝒆𝒄𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓💢
1.12. Brian amused us😊. He shared with us a photo of the figurines displayed on the shelf in the secret bathroom. Most of us, however, knew that he was visiting "the Olsdals", because the same photo was shared by David Amen, Stefan's husband.

💥4.12. Brian offered his Fender Disgustang guitar as a winning option for anyone attending the #ILoveLive month of fundraising for @stagehandcharity and his own Placebo crew.💥
This charity event ended on December 17.
It was exciting and we did everything we could to reach the target amount.
We don't know yet who won the guitar in the end. But, it is not important.
🔸𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑠 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑤𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑜𝑔𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑦🔸❤.

💦𝟏𝟎.𝟏𝟐. 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧'𝐬 𝐝𝐚𝐲. 💦
We did not forget him, and he did not forget us.
He thanked us for our birthday wishes and again made us think about something more important, global human rights violations.
But his whole birthday was an amazing ride in the end with the participation of Riverman, who gave Like to our birthday video❤.
🔸Thanks, Dave, we appreciate that.🔸

And this year we will close with Brian's last post.
He shared with us two fun and wonderful mottos - from Bruce Nauman and Jenny Holzer:
🔸"𝑅𝑢𝑛 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑓𝑒𝑎𝑟, 𝑓𝑢𝑛 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑟"
🔸"𝐴𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑑"
And he added his words
"𝑺𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒔 & 𝒇𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒔".
Brian's statement at Christmas👍😊.
𝐼 ℎ𝑜𝑝𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢'𝑟𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑒, 𝑚𝑎𝑛, 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑟𝑒💗.

Photo credit: Placebo IG

I must also not forget the interesting game that dear 𝑫𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝑴𝒄𝑳𝒆𝒂𝒏 plays with us on Twitter and keeps us in great tension while waiting for the new Placebo album.
𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒌𝒔 𝑫𝒂𝒗𝒆, 𝒘𝒂𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒔 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒆𝒏𝒋𝒐𝒚𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒚𝒐𝒖👍👌😊

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟏 𝐛𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞?
I'm not so sure, but I always believe in the better option.
I believe in live music performances and live culture and art.
I believe in a world that will be healed and in support of the Universe itself so that it can be.
💥💢⚡🔸𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐈 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞 - 𝐄𝐀𝐆𝐋𝐄 𝟖 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐧 𝐨𝐟𝐟!!!😍
Let's step into the new year with respect, but without fear and with determination to manage everything and help wherever it is needed. Let us remember that if we want to change something, we must make an effort, it will not work without it.
𝑶𝒖𝒓 𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒎 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒂𝒄𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒆𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒖𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒅𝒂𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒖𝒍𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒚 𝒅𝒊𝒇𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒖𝒍𝒕 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓. 𝑰𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒇𝒖𝒍𝒍 𝒐𝒇 𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒍𝒔𝒐 𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆.
𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 𝑨𝒏𝒚𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒊𝒔 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒂𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒃𝒆𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅.

Post by Marti

💢PLACEBO "MY SWEET PRINCE"💢

Last week I shared with you the first part of the interview published in 2000. 𝑅𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐸𝑣𝑖𝑙 𝐷𝑖𝑙𝑑𝑜 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑡?
So today we will continue by mentioning one of the most beautiful and sad Placebo songs, and on the next Wednesday we will also remind that Placebo supported such a famous band as U2 on tour at the very beginning of their career.
🔸🔸🔸♦🔸🔸🔸

📌So first, back to the interview that NZ Herald magazine did.

𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒏, 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎, 𝒊𝒔 "𝑴𝒚 𝑺𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒕 𝑷𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒆". 𝑰𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒂 𝒔𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒕, 𝒍𝒊𝒍𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈, 𝒊𝒕 𝒖𝒏𝒇𝒐𝒍𝒅𝒔 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒂 𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒐𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒄𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒐𝒊𝒏 𝒂𝒃𝒖𝒔𝒆. 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐'𝒔 𝒅𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒖𝒈𝒂𝒓-𝒄𝒐𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒅, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒘𝒓𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒑𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒑𝒂𝒊𝒏.
BM: "It's probably the most personal and forthright I've ever been in a song," he says. "I'm very proud of that song. I'm not proud of the story behind it, but I am proud of the lyrics and the vocal performance. It's the most naked I've ever been in a song."
🔸🔸🔸♦🔸🔸🔸

"𝑴𝒚 𝑺𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒕 𝑷𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒆" is one of Placebo songs that reliably triggers a tearful valley to me ...
The reference to drugs and love has always been obvious to me, and every time I saw a performance of this song, I understood the depth of Brian's pain. And I've always been very interested in the background of this incredibly sad song.

📌𝐼𝑛 𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑇𝑒̂𝑡𝑢 𝑛° 33: 𝐴𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑙 1999 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑:

"We wrote "My Sweet Prince" from an actual event, about one of my relationships that ended in a true tragedy.
A guy with whom the three of us were very close nearly died. It was really hard, we were rather confused by this. Because we had these very strong feellings in us, this song kind of came out of nowhere. Out of our guts. I have a strong link with this song. It refers to a relationship with a guy and a relation with a certain substance.
This two relations ended simultaneously in horrendous circonstances. He used to call me "My Sweet Prince". Lovers can sing it to each other. It's ironic, because it is about a the breakdown of a relationship.
It's one of the album's songs written from an ex-lover's standpoint speaking to me. When we were writting "My Sweet prince", a strange thought crossed my mind: this song was becoming really dark and tearing. In fact, it is about painful subjects like drugs and suicide. I assume, many people in different countries didn't really understand what it is about. But it doesn't matter to me if people don't grasp the meaning of it."

Placebo live at Libro Music Hall in Vienna, April 6th 2001. Photo credit: conny.at 

📌𝐵𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑤𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑛 𝑒𝑥𝑐𝑒𝑟𝑝𝑡 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑎 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑆𝑡𝑒𝑓𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑛 𝐻𝑖𝑝 𝑂𝑛𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑒, 𝑀𝑎𝑦 17, 1999:

"My Sweet Prince" was a female friend of Brian's who just they were just kind of busting up and that was the last thing she wrote on his mirror in his bathroom before they split up."

So was it a man or a woman?
Most likely, this is an error in the translation of a French article, the original of which, unfortunately, can no longer be traced. Because all the following mentions always talk about a girlfriend.

📌𝐼𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑆𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑆𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑜𝑛, 𝐴𝑢𝑔𝑢𝑠𝑡 1998 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑:

𝑺𝑺: '𝑴𝒚 𝑺𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒕 𝑷𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒆' 𝒊𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒂𝒔 𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒒𝒖𝒆 𝒂𝒔 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖'𝒓𝒆 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒈𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒎𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒓𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒐 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒔𝒐 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒅𝒓𝒖𝒈𝒔 𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒊𝒕 - 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒚𝒆𝒕 𝒊𝒕 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒂 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈.
Brian: It is a love song really, you know, and it's... we don't write songs with radio play in mind, you know, that was a song that... there was quite a big tragedy in our lives that occurred while we were demoing this record before Christmas and it sort of had to come out. We just kind of vomited the song forward you know. And it's kind of a song about sort of two romances, a romance with a substance and a romance with a person and they both ended very, very tragically. Hence you know the very, very downbeat mood of the song. It's so, you know... the song, even the guitars sound druggy in that song, it's weird, and that wasn't really that purposeful, it just kind of came out that way.

𝑺𝑺: 𝑫𝒐𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒍 𝒂𝒔 𝒎𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒅𝒓𝒖𝒈𝒔 𝒂𝒔 𝒊𝒕 𝒅𝒐𝒆𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒂𝒇𝒇𝒂𝒊𝒓 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒅𝒓𝒖𝒈𝒔?
Brian: It's more about the love affair with the individual really and you know, I don't really care. That's a very important song to me and it sort of... it puts in a box sort of like a very, very difficult moment of my life and you know essentially we write music for ourselves first and I find that one quite difficult to talk about.

𝑺𝑺: 𝑰𝒔 𝒊𝒕 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒔𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒇𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒊𝒏 𝒂 𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒄 𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒏?
Brian: Well yes, and I think most of the songs on the album are sort of like me purging myself of certain demons really. I think it makes it easier to live with if you've done something positive and artistic with them you know and that you1ve kind of distanced yourself a little bit from these things. You can look upon them objectively because you've put them in a song.

𝑺𝑺: 𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒈𝒆𝒅𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒅, 𝒅𝒊𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏 𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒗𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈'𝒔 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎?
Brian: Yes, she knows.

𝑺𝑺: 𝑫𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒊𝒕'𝒔 𝒂 𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒑 𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒆𝒓?
Brian: I don't know."
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Placebo live at Libro Music Hall in Vienna, April 6th 2001. Photo credit: conny.at 

Because I did a little bit of studying drug addiction during my high school studies, it was interesting for me to reveal references to heroin in Brian's verses.
You know, his verses testify not only to his experience with this addiction, but especially to his incredible talent for putting this pain into the lyrics. This song is another masterpiece in a row...

🔸💥𝐌𝐘 𝐒𝐖𝐄𝐄𝐓 𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐥𝐲𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐬💥🔸
Never thought you'd make me perspire
Never thought I'd do you the same
Never thought I'd fill with desire
Never thought I'd feel so ashamed
𝑴𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒓𝒂𝒈𝒐𝒏 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒔𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒚

"𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐨𝐧" is a term used when heroin is inhaled through smoking the vapours usually by heating it up on foil and using a tube to breathe them in, also smokable through a "bulb" which is a glass cylinder with a bulbed end to put the drugs in and be heated over a flame.

So before I end my day, remember
My sweet prince, you are the one
My sweet prince
You are the one
Never thought I'd have to retire
Never thought I'd have to abstain
Never thought all this could back fire
Close up the hole in my vain
𝑴𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒎𝒚 𝒗𝒂𝒍𝒖𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅

The price of one dose of heroin for the use described above can be found on the Internet, and it is not a small amount of money, it's measured in hundreds of dollars.

𝑪𝒂𝒏 𝒇𝒊𝒙 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒚

"𝐅𝐈𝐗" is another nickname for heroin

So before I end my day
Remember
My sweet prince
You are the one
My sweet prince
You are the one (5x)
Never thought I'd get any higher
Never thought you'd fuck with my brain
Never thought all this could expire
Never thought you'd go break the chain
Me and you baby
Still flush all the pain away
So before I end my day
Remember
My sweet prince
You are the one
My sweet prince
You are the one (9x)
My sweet prince
My sweet prince

Placebo live at Libro Music Hall in Vienna, April 6th 2001. Photo credit: conny.at 

In fairy tales, the prince always lands on the "White Horse", which is another nickname for heroin.
Although it is not directly mentioned in the song, many heroin addicts who felt addressed by this song formed this imaginary connection with the song.
Because heroin is at that moment for all these lost people
the "𝑷𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑾𝒉𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝑯𝒐𝒓𝒔𝒆" who comes to save them from the hardships of everyday life.

𝐼𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑟𝑦 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑑𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑀𝑦 𝑆𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑡 𝑃𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒, 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 2001 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐻𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑒 𝐹𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑎𝑙 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙, 𝑎𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑚𝑒, 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑏𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑛 𝑌𝑇.
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Finally, I would like to close this post with another Brian's quote, which was published in Rock One No. 4: November 2004:

Brian: "We wrote a song "𝑴𝒚 𝑺𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒕 𝑷𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒆", it's about heroin and suicide. I met people who told me "I make love with my girlfriend listening to "My Sweet Prince".
And I tell them: "No! you didn't get the meaning!"
It's the worst song to make love. That's crazy. I'm often told that one makes love listening to Placebo.
I want to answer: "But you don't know what was happening in my life when I wrote these songs". That's really strange. But beauty lies in innocence too. People live their lives with your music, they live their own stories through it. And fortunatelly, there is more ambiguity and depth in our songs than in Oasis' ones for example (laughters)!"
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𝐷𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑠, 𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑚𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑑𝑜 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑔 "𝑴𝒚 𝑺𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒕 𝑷𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒆"? 𝐻𝑜𝑤 𝑑𝑜 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑡?
𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑎 𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜 𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑠?💗
𝐷𝑜 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑘 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑏𝑒 𝑎𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑖𝑟𝑐𝑢𝑚𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝑎𝑚𝑎𝑧𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑔𝑒𝑚𝑠 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑?
𝑆𝑒𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑜𝑛 𝑇ℎ𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑑𝑎𝑦, 𝐷𝑒𝑐𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 31𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑, 𝑜𝑓 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒, 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟.

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𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐂𝐄𝐑𝐓 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐀 𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐘: 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐚𝐭 𝐂𝐨𝐜𝐚-𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐚 𝐌𝐓𝐕, 𝐑𝐨𝐦𝐞, 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟑

On September 10th, 2003, Placebo, alongside some other bands, played at 𝐂𝐨𝐜𝐚-𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝐌𝐓𝐕, a huge music event in Rome, Italy. What was special about it is that the fans could win the tickets sending coupons spread throughout the country, together with the crowns of Coca-Cola brands, to the company mail. Each winner was presented with a day return flight ticket to Rome, transfers to and from the venue and the entrance ticket to the show. Not bad…

 https://bit.ly/3ngym1c 
PLACEBO AT MTV COCA COLA 2003

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Here are some 𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔 related to Placebo which I found in Italian press.
“It is now time for 160 lucky Coca-Cola consumers to join thousands of people in Piazza del Popolo in Rome, to live the hair-raising experience of being part of "Coca-Cola live at MTV". The night will be hosted by popular MTV Italy personalities Paola Maugeri and Enrico Silvestrin, and will feature artists from the Italian and international music scene.
The line-up includes the band that is renowned for having introduced and developed Italian hip-hop - J Ax and DJ Jad better known as Articolo 31, and Marlene Kuntz, the leading band in the alternative rock scene in Italy. Frequently referred to be a glam version of Nirvana, Brian Molko, Stefan Olsdal and Steve Hewitt, raised to fame as Placebo, will also participate.”
(𝑇𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑀𝑎𝑙𝑡𝑎, 𝐽𝑢𝑙𝑦 20, 2003)

"This time they [people] will know, however, who exactly Placebo are, protagonists of the performance on the stage of Sanremo Festival in 2001 that literally terrified a hazy Raffaella Carrà. Catapulted then in front of an audience not suited to their style, Brian Molko's band left the stage as it did the rock stars of the past, with a completely smashed guitar. Something more pleasant, however, binds this gloomy and hedonistic band, capable to create impressive songs, to Rome, like the duet recorded with Asia Argento as a cover of "Je t'aime... moi non plus", the scandalous song by Serge Gainsbourg."
(𝐼𝑙 𝑇𝑒𝑚𝑝𝑜, 𝑆𝑒𝑝𝑡𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 8, 2003)

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I transcribed for you a short 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖 that Placebo did right before the concert.

𝑶𝒉 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆’𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒂? 𝑯𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒕 𝒊𝒔! 𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒅𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒈𝒖𝒚𝒔?
Good, thank you! How are you?
𝑯𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒈𝒊𝒈𝒔?
Yeah, yeah, we have. We saw a bit of Skin
𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒅𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅?
You guys are amazing really, I wanna produce you guys! (laugh)
𝑶𝒌, 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒊𝒕! 𝑯𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒍𝒚, 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒔?
Yeah, we got here when just Articolo 31 were going on so we could see some of the set.
𝑰𝒕’𝒔 𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆. 𝑰 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒂 𝒍𝒐𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒓𝒕 𝒕𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝑰 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒊𝒕’𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒆𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝑹𝒐𝒎𝒆. 𝑷𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒂 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒆𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆, 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒆?
We did a gig in Rome a while ago, four years ago, with Chiara & Paola presenting.
𝑨𝒘𝒘 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚? 𝑷𝒂𝒐𝒍𝒂 & 𝑪𝒉𝒊𝒂𝒓𝒂??
Year but it was a long time ago and we came for an afternoon.
𝑰𝒕 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒂𝒏 𝒐𝒅𝒅 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒃𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏!
Yeah (laugh)
𝑰𝒕’𝒔 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒐𝒅𝒅 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒌𝒔!
There you go…
𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝑰 𝒎𝒆𝒂𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖’𝒓𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒍𝒚 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆, 𝒊𝒕’𝒔 𝒈𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒃𝒊𝒈. 𝑺𝒐 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝑰 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒆𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖.
That’s cool!
𝑰 𝒎𝒆𝒂𝒏 𝒕𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒈𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒖𝒑 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒔, 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒅𝒊𝒅𝒏’𝒕 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘, 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒌𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒊𝒕 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑰𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚’𝒓𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 ‘𝑶𝒉, 𝒂𝒔 𝒎𝒖𝒄𝒉! 𝑹𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒗𝒆.’ 𝑾𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝑰 𝒔𝒂𝒚 𝑰𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒈𝒐 ‘𝑨𝒎𝒎...’, 𝒂𝒏 𝑨𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒐𝒓 𝑬𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒉 𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒈𝒐 ‘𝑴𝒎𝒎…’ 𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒊𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒅𝒊𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒕, 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚’𝒓𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆.
Aww thank you, we’re humbled and very happy to be here.
𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒂 𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝒔𝒖𝒊𝒕!
Thank you!
𝑺𝒐 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒚𝒑𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒈𝒊𝒈 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒘𝒆 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒕 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒈𝒖𝒚𝒔 𝒕𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕?
We’re gonna be playing a lot of stuff from our new album and a couple of old classics. It’s gonna be pretty rocking!
𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒅𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒑𝒊𝒄𝒌 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒄𝒔? 𝑰𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒚?
Usually it’s singles from the old albums really which is what a lot of people wanna hear. You gotta strike a good balance between the stuff you wanna play and what other people wanna hear
𝑫𝒐𝒏’𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒅𝒏’𝒕 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒎𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒂 𝒍𝒐𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒌𝒆𝒆𝒑 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈?
No, it’s more like you have some songs from the old albums that people love a lot and you hate and don’t wanna play anymore and see you disappoint a lot of people. But it’s a difficult thing, you know, you have to strike a good balance.
𝑺𝒍𝒆𝒆𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑮𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒕𝒔 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒂𝒏 𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒔𝒖𝒄𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒔, 𝒅𝒊𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒕 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒕 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔?
Not really, it feels like the album is quite experimental and quite eclectic. We decided that it was time to bring a lot of electronic and a bit of a hip-hop feeling to what we’re doing so we wanted of people kind of accept it and they have. We’re really trying to do something fresh but not turning our back to what makes us uniquely us as well which is difficult thing to do.
𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒅𝒊𝒅 𝒊𝒕 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒘𝒆𝒍𝒍!
Thank you!
(𝐶𝑜𝑐𝑎-𝐶𝑜𝑙𝑎 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑡 𝑀𝑇𝑉, 10.09.2003)

Screenshot from the video

And now you can read a small but pretty excited 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 by the fan who visited the concert.
"Placebo. Exceptional. I was lucky enough to have a friend who won the tickets and I didn't miss a chance to see them live, since Rome is an hour's drive from my city. And I must say that all the waiting paid off totally, with a truly overwhelming live explosiveness. Opening was reserved for "Taste In Men", a song from a few years ago. During "The Bitter End", "This Picture", "Plasticine" and "Special K", performed at the top, everything happened. Great ballads "Special Needs" (exceptional live) and "Pure Morning", which was the closing song. Really very good, Brian is a character born to be on stage... just think that he changed guitar on every song!!! Absurd! Overall I give a nice 5 to this concert […] Ah... I forgot a detail: Brian of Placebo, after he finished Taste In Men came up with "Hello Rome, how the fuck are you???" ... ;)) Great!!!"
(𝐷𝑒𝑏𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟, 𝑆𝑒𝑝𝑡𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 2003)

𝐒𝐄𝐓𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐓
Taste In Men
The Bitter End
Plasticine
Special Needs
This Picture
Special K
Pure Morning

Post by Olga

𝗘𝗩𝗜𝗟 𝗗𝗜𝗟𝗗𝗢 – 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗯𝗲𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗴

Dear friends, today we move together in memories to more distant times of the band Placebo and use an article published in the magazine nzherald.co.nz in June 2000.
Here, Brian talks about the first two albums and songs that are very close to my rock soul, as well as the experiences that shaped their career at the very beginning.

𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 - 𝐍𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐮𝐧𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐝
"Desperate" is Brian Molko's one word to summarize his band's music. "Desperate, but also romantic," he adds, as he tries to encapsulate the edgy, nervous music and often intensely personal lyrics which stain Placebo's albums.
"The first record was quite enthusiastic, fresh record, full of lust, vigour and the energy of youth," says Molko, an American who makes music with a Swede (Stefan Olsdal on bass, guitar and keyboards) and a Briton (drummer Steve Hewitt).
"This time we're slightly more world-weary, broken-hearted and melancholic. It's more of a post-coital kind of record. A lot of the songs have to do with break-ups and loss."
Placebo is a band that wears its heart on its sleeve. The trio are open about sexuality and substance abuse, subjects featured in songs as well as several frank interviews with the band. More than most of the bands, Placebo takes the listener for a trip through their lives, which is sometimes a wild and frightening roller coaster.

𝑻𝒂𝒌𝒆 "𝑬𝒗𝒊𝒍 𝑫𝒊𝒍𝒅𝒐", 𝒂 𝒉𝒊𝒅𝒅𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎 𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝑰'𝒎 𝑵𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈.
"𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑡'𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑠𝑒𝑡, 𝑖𝑡'𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑚𝑝𝑠 𝑏𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔," 𝑀𝑜𝑙𝑘𝑜 𝑠𝑎𝑦𝑠. "𝐼𝑡'𝑠 𝑐𝑟𝑎𝑧𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑣𝑖𝑜𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑡. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑣𝑜𝑖𝑐𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑡 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑛 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑚𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑝ℎ𝑜𝑛𝑒. 𝐼𝑡'𝑠 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑒 𝑢𝑝 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑎𝑑𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑎𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑚𝑒. 𝐼 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑏𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑒 ?@*-𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑡 𝑜𝑛 𝑎 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑑."

𝑬𝑽𝑰𝑳 𝑫𝑰𝑳𝑫𝑶
The story behind the song is that Brian forgot to take his name out of the phonebook after the first Placebo album was realeased and there was a message on his answer machine with a sort of Steven Hawking voice. It's a quiet creepy song.
"𝐻𝑒𝑦 𝑚𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑓*𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑟, 𝐼'𝑚 𝑎𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑦𝑜𝑢. 𝐼 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒
𝐼 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑓*𝑐𝑘 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑢𝑝 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑢𝑡𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐼 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑠𝑛𝑒𝑎𝑘 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑟𝑜𝑜𝑚 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑢𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑐𝑘 𝑜𝑓𝑓
𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑓𝑓 𝑖𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑚𝑦 𝑚𝑜𝑢𝑡ℎ 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑤 𝑖𝑡 𝑢𝑝 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑚𝑦 𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑠"

Evil Dildo official audio
https://bit.ly/38dOmdX
It's interesting, however, that the similar lyrics as from Brian's answering machine are used in a song by Irish musician 𝐀𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐱 𝐓𝐰𝐢𝐧 - 𝐅𝐮𝐧𝐧𝐲 𝐋𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐧 from the Come To Daddy, which was released in 1997.

𝐀𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐱 𝐓𝐰𝐢𝐧 - wikipedia
http://bit.ly/2LEX8Km

The actual lyrics from Aphex Twin are:
"Come on little funny man, come on, come on! I would like to f*ck you up the bunghole, and then I will sneak into your room and cut your cock off and chew it up with my little pearlies."
𝐀𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐱 𝐓𝐰𝐢𝐧 - 𝐅𝐮𝐧𝐧𝐲 𝐋𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐧, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑦𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑔
https://bit.ly/3anKJFa

Aphex Twin.

Both texts are very similar, but not the same. During the song Evil Dildo, a male voice is heard from the answering machine with the words - Hey motherf*cker, I'm after you...
At the very end of the song is a very scary recording of an electronically distorted voice with this lyrics - I will f*ck you up the butt and I will sneak into your room and cut your cock off...
And stuff it in my mouth and chew it up with my little pearlies...
... even instead of the word butt, I would advocate the word "bunghole", from the original text of Aphex Twin, because the sound at that moment corresponds more to this word.
If you look above, the text of Aphex Twin is slightly different.

So how was it? Why is there a male voice in the song and an electronically distorted recording of the threat at the end? And why does it sound the same as a recording from a song released by another artist a year before, but still the lyrics are slightly different?
We will not solve this mystery, nor it is needed.
It's just one of the interesting things that should have been revealed and who knows, maybe one day the opportunity will come to ask Brian how it was ...
In any case, in my opinion, he dealt with these threats very well. Using them in such a song with such a name - guys, for me it's a masterpiece.
We will say goodbye today with 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑬𝒗𝒊𝒍 𝑫𝒊𝒍𝒅𝒐 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝑷𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒔 𝑳𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑩𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝑺𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 1997 and see you next week as this interview continues.

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𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗩𝗜𝗘𝗪 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡, 𝗝𝗨𝗜𝗖𝗘 𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟬

Brian gave the following one to Juice magazine in July 2010 when he was in Bangkok uring the “Battle for the sun” world tour. He talked about freedom, religion, sexuality and a lot of other things. Enjoy reading.

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SO YOU'RE IN BANGKOG NOW. HAD ANYTHING INTERESTING FOR LUNCH?
“Uh…eggs.”

HOW'S THE TOUR GOING SO FAR?
“Come on, man, you know you can do better than that!”

SORRY, MUST BE THE MEDS. SOUTH EAST AFRICA IS KIND OF LIKE THE FINAL FRONTIER FOR WESTERN ROCK AND INDIE BANDS. DO YOU FEEL THAT WAY ABOUT MALAYSIA?
“Is it? Well, I don’t know. I guess because there is so much political bullsh!t. I think people really want music here in South East Asia. And I think that a lot of bands don’t want to invest in South East Asia, or Asia in general. When I say invest, I mean touching people’s hearts and not worrying about the money you’re going to make. It’s about worrying about the future that you have with these people and building a relationship. We played in Cambodia, Thailand, Japan and Singapore and it’s very much about communicating freedom with these people. When we played in China, we started a riot and it was very, very strange. The security was the army and the people in the audience were fighting with the army. They were trying to get over the barrier to get onstage with us and we were like, “Oh my god.” You know, we’re a bunch of faggots and we’re wearing make up in China and these people really connect with what we we’re doing. But for us it was very powerful, and it’s very difficult in today’s world where you have people like Simon Cowell who have manufactured pop music. Pop music for me in the old days use to be a cool thing, but now pop music is a really bad thing. People are disrespecting pop music because they make an industry out of it. It’s amazing that you can go to somewhere like China and actually feel part of some anti-authoritarian vibe and that was very much what pushed Placebo forward in the early days. Placebo, of course, is different now. I’m 37 but when I was 23 I was pissed off at the world and I wanted to f*ck society, and it was very important for us to be rebellious. Now we’ve spent 15 years in the music business and it’s a different thing. We understand society and how we can use society for a better future, and this is very much what we’re about. It’s not about rebellion anymore; it’s about working with people who have the power.”

WOW, YOU GUYS CAUSED A RIOT IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIK. HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT MALAYSIA BEING A MORALLY UPTIGHT COUNTRY WHERE PERFORMERS ARE SUBJECTED TO STRICT RULES?
“Right now, I’m in Bangkok. But for the past 3 weeks I’ve been at Koh Lanto, which is a Muslim island. I spent a long time every day communicating, being with Muslim people, and I don’t see a major problem between us. We all can get along. We really can as long as America is taken out of the situation. The focus behind America is about what we don’t understand, and basically fear and politics is based on what we don’t understand. I would like to encourage people to try and study other cultures because it’s very important. It’s amazing what you can learn from other cultures. I’ve spent the past 20 years travelling the world and I feel so blessed.”

WE HEAR YOU. TRAVELLING EXPANDS THE MIND IN MANY WAYS.
“Absolutely! People who work in the bank or for the government can’t travel like I have. I’m so grateful for that. I’m also grateful for meeting people who tell me what they believe. I can learn something from that. We’re all propelled from the same idea, which is happiness and understanding. It’s when institutions get involved, like the Catholic Church or the Vatican, for example. They make rules about what we’re supposed to believe. Well, let’s let all of that go and just communicate as people.”

WOULD YOU SAY THAT IT WOULD HAVE BEEN HARDER FOR PLACEBO TO PLAY HERE IN THE PAST?
“I’ve heard this, but I don’t know. I think that in Malaysia there are people who want to hear our music, people who identify with us and what we are. If there is any message that we want to communicate to people, it’s freedom–freedom of choice, religion and sexuality. It’s very important for us, and so if these people want to get on the Placebo bus then they can. If there’s anything that we can do to contribute to the politics, then hopefully we are an important band. So many bands like Oasis don’t care about politics. But for me, being in a band is a political statement. And I’m obsessed with 60s music–The Grateful Dead, Janice Joplin and The Doors. All these bands, when I was a kid, were really important to me. They were all fighting against the establishment, and I think that music should continuously fight against the establishment. Of course Placebo has achieved so much and, to a certain degree, we have become the establishment. However, we can still fight against it and the restrictive ideas. What we believe in is absolute, complete freedom.”

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WERE THERE ANY REASONS FOR NOT COMING TO MALAYSIA IN THE PAST AND WHY DID IT TAKE YOU SO LONG?
“Absolutely not. We are a band but we’re the type of band that, during the problems in Eastern Europe, went to Croatia [and] Kosovo. We played gigs and the people who showed up were nuns. It was really weird, but there were about 500 to 1000 people and there were about 100 nuns. And we lost a lot of money. This is really important: those people went through a revolution and no other band is prepared to come because no other band is prepared to lose money. And we went, “Yeah, well f*ck it! Let’s lose money and go there and play for the people.” It was amazing and when that happens, it’s really incredible because you will not believe the kind of people that show up. Nuns were rocking out! You know you’re in Eastern Europe when nuns are rocking out. And then you look at them and they go, “You know what? I really want to communicate with you.” And it’s a beautiful thing because these women are married to Jesus so… I don’t know. It’s something they understood; they understood what we were doing. And it all taps into this whole idea of freedom. If nuns in Croatia can come and see us play, and they can get excited, then hopefully religious talks are possible between all of us. Just because we believe in something doesn’t mean we have to kill each other. I really believe that. I come from a really religious background and I grew up from that. I have so much respect for any religion that isn’t my own. I think that we are all very similar and so much sh!t can be resolved just by talking to each other. What do you think?”

WE'RE OPEN PEOPLE. AT ONE POINT WE USED TO WORSHIP SAMUEL L. JACKSON. BUT WE GOT KIND OF JADED AFTER “SNAKES ON A PLANE”.
“I don’t like Western religion. I like Eastern religion very much.”

INTERESTING. ARE THERE ANY REASONS FOR THAT?
“I’m very attracted to Buddhism because it’s not about some bearded guy in the sky telling you what to do; it’s about you. And I think if we stopped to actually understand the effects that we have on the world, then we would make the world a better place. Unfortunately, as people we’re all very emotional and our culture is very important in terms of what we choose to believe. I think so many people have ghetto-ised religion and made it into something that is bad, but in fact it’s something that helps us all be better people and that’s what we want.”


SO WHAT WILL CAUSE THE DOWNFALL OF HUMANITY?
“Oh, that’s very easy: the environment. Have you ever been to the Maldives?”

NO, WE HAVEN'T.
“Well, I have and I’m very aware that in 50 years the island [where] I caressed little baby sharks will not be there anymore–because of rising sea levels. We as a species have completely used this planet as a garbage zone. People are so into the latest app that they can get on their tablet that they don’t give a sh!t about the world they live in.


WE KNOW; IT'S SAD. GOING BACK TO YOUR INFLUENCES, DO YOU ALSO CONSIDER DAVID BOWIE AS AN IMPORTANT FIGURE TO PLACEBO?
“Oh yes, very much. David Bowie was a very important person for us because before we had a record deal, Bowie heard our demos and decided that we were going to tour with him. At that point I was living in a house that was paid for by the government with a couple of other guys. And we were really poor, so poor that we had to scrape our money together and decide on what we were going to eat every day. And then one day the phone rang and it was like, “Hello, would you like to go on tour with David Bowie?” Before David Bowie we were playing to 300 people at small clubs in Camden, London. And all of a sudden it was like, would you like to play in front of 8000 people? He is somebody I have so much respect for.”

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WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE INDIE BANDS TODAY, ESPECIALLY BRITISH INDIE BANDS? ARE THEY A DIME A DOZEN?
“You know what? I’ve been asked this for like 10 years, and this is what I’ve always said. There is good music and there is sh!t music. In the 60s, there was good music and there was sh!t music. The only difference is that we only remember the good music. So there is the same amount of bands today who are sh!t and the same amount of bands who are really good. And that’s it. How old are you?”

OLD ENOUGH TO VOTE AND TO KNOW WHEN TO STOP DRINKING...
“I’m 37. I’m very old, but I look very young. Have you heard Grinderman?”

YEAH, NICK CAVE IS AWESOME!
“For me the guy is like 50 and he’s more rock ‘n’ roll than any f*cking 20 year old I know. “Honey bee, honey bee suck my d!ck, honey bee, honey bee suck my d!ck.” This is what we’re on about. We’re on about the primal stuff. This is why you’re interested in music. The primal stuff really agrees with you. Check this out…(slapping sound) That’s just me slapping my stomach.”

THAT SOUNDS VERY PRIMAL. CAN WE ASK YOU SOMETHING ABOUT DRUGS? AS A BAND THAT HAS GONE THROUGH THAT WHOLE ROCK 'N' ROLL LIFESTYLE IN THE PAST AND SURVIVED, WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNED FROM IT?
“Let me make this very clear. We don’t do drugs anymore. It’s very important for us as a band to be drug-free and we believe that we can be better musicians, better personalities, better people if we’re drug-free. I’ve been to rehab twice. It was very difficult for me and I’ve learnt how to deal with life without drugs. When we made Battle For The Sun, we decided that we would make a record that was hopeful and we wanted to inspire people because we felt finally free from the addiction.”

WAS IT A LONG PERIOD OF TIME?
“About 10 years. When me and Stefan made this new record, we gave up everything–alcohol as well. We decided we were going to make a record that was inspiring for people. All we wanted to do was something that made people feel less alone. And that is really important because when I was a kid, I listened to music and felt less alone. I think the only thing that’s important to us as people is to make people like us as well. We want people in Malaysia to know they have a friend, that we can be a friend for them, that we understand what they are feeling. Do the people in Malaysia relate to the people who are in charge?”

WE CAN'T GERERALISE, BUT THERE ARE MANY FACTIONS HERE.
“There you go. I want to tell you something very important. My purpose is absolutely not to relate to these people. Because culturally, I have so much of a different thing with England and Ireland. However, if I can make an idea of freedom within these people, then I think it’s really good.”

WELL, WE COULD USE A REVOLUTION. THANKS FOR YOUR TIME. IT'S BEEN AN ENLIGHTENING CONVERSATION.
“Likewise. See you soon.”
(Juice, March 2010)

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𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗳𝗲𝗮𝘁. 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝗹𝗸𝗼: 𝗣𝗜𝗡𝗞 𝗪𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗥

“𝗣𝗜𝗡𝗞 𝗪𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗥”, a collaboration between Brian and French band Indochine, was released 15 years ago on December 19th 2005. Three different versions of the song were recorded: ”Pink water 2” is the English interpretation sung by Brian and Nicola Sirkis of Indochine. The duet in French called ”Pink water 3”. Both songs were released on Indochine's ”Alice and June” limited edition, the French one also appears on the regular album. Finally also a single was produced but the band's record labels decided to put out a version without Brian as guest vocalist. Nicola Sirkis: ”[…] his own record company refused to let us release it with him.” I don't understand this decision, but I agree with Nicola who also said: ”What is important is that the song exists, it is historic, and it comes in different versions.”

📀 𝗜𝗡𝗗𝗢𝗖𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗘 𝗳𝗲𝗮𝘁. 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗠𝗢𝗟𝗞𝗢 – 𝗣𝗜𝗡𝗞 𝗪𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗥 𝟮
http://bit.ly/2U2IAE3

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In an interview with Rock Sound Brian explained how the song came into being: “Nicola wanted to write something in English. He called me and asked me to help correct his grammatical errors”. Sirkis made it more concrete: "In fact, I had started working on a text in French but on an English gibberish. I asked him to help me with that, because I wanted an English version of this song, but consequently he made me a full text and even added voice melodies” (Indofr, 2005).
Brian also agreed to be on hand when Indochine would record ”Pink water” so he could help the French artist with the phonetics. A few days before the meeting he called Sirkis and offered that he'd sing it as a duet wit him. Nicola about the session: ”We did the recording on a Sunday in a studio near his home, Brian came with a bottle of Chablis and we spent the afternoon together”. Sounds nice, doesn't it?

📀 𝗜𝗡𝗗𝗢𝗖𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗘 𝗳𝗲𝗮𝘁. 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗠𝗢𝗟𝗞𝗢 – 𝗣𝗜𝗡𝗞 𝗪𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗥 𝟯
🎵 https://bit.ly/30OZZpy 🎵

🎬 𝗜𝗡𝗗𝗢𝗖𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗘 – 𝗣𝗜𝗡𝗞 𝗪𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗥 (𝗢𝗙𝗙𝗜𝗖𝗜𝗔𝗟 𝗦𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗟𝗘)
🎵 http://bit.ly/2FS3tyS 🎵

📌 𝗪𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗡𝗔𝗠𝗘 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗘𝗦 𝗙𝗥𝗢𝗠 📌
Pink water is a distinct type of wastewater associated with TNT. It is produced from equipment washing processes after munitions filling or demilitarization operations.

📌 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗢𝗡 “𝗣𝗜𝗡𝗞 𝗪𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗥“ 📌
“We did that song for us, for our own pleasure, because we adore each other and to have the opportunity to work together. Many people have asked us to know if we were going to work together. We just had to find the good context, the reason to do it, and there was this song. We didn’t want to please the others, but we wanted to please us!“
(Rock Magazine, December 2005)

📌 𝗡𝗜𝗖𝗢𝗟𝗔 𝗦𝗜𝗥𝗞𝗜𝗦 𝗢𝗡 “𝗣𝗜𝗡𝗞 𝗪𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗥“ 📌
”It's quite interesting because his own record company refused to let us release it with him (it's the version with Nicola alone that was released as a single of Alice & June). I told him: "Look, you have written the lyrics, you could do what you want". Anyway, it proves that he likes the song and that, once again, his own record compagny is a big shit (laughs)! And nevermind, it doesn't matter, it's the business. What is important is that the song exists, it is historic, and it comes in different versions ...
I have seen him, he was in Paris in February, and the video was played, and he was disgusted that it was this version wich was released. On the other hand, I think that if he had really wanted to, he could have stressed and made his own record compagny give in. It is a bit strange, what happened with this song. I find it great, he found it great, we did it together, and so, the story ends there ...”
(Rock Mag N°78, June 2007)

Brian Molko and Nicola Sirkis in Nimes, France. Photo credit unknown

📍 𝙈𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙞𝙣𝙛𝙤 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙄𝙣𝙙𝙤𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙚 📍
http://bit.ly/2FTFD5N

📜 𝗟𝗬𝗥𝗜𝗖𝗦: 𝗣𝗜𝗡𝗞 𝗪𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗥 𝟮 📜
Sky, I’m gonna leave tonight
You know, I’ve got a life to live
And it’s getting late

So
I’m gonna leave tonight

I can’t decide
If I’m the one you need
Or what you want out of life
I always thought
You’d be the one to leave
The one to change your mind

I’m on a rocket
To a dying star
You have to stay behind
Can’t take you with me
‘cause it’s very far
And you don’t have the time

Get me out of this place
Get me out of this place
Get me out of this place

Sky, I’m gonna leave tonight
You know, I’ve got a life to live
And it’s getting late

I can’t decide
If I’m the one you need
Or what you want out of life
I always thought
You’d be the one to leave
The one to change your mind

I’m on a rocket
To a dying star
You have to stay behind
Before I met you
I was crushing cars
And I was doing fine

Get me out of this place
Get me out of this town
Before I drown in your deep
Pink water
I won’t remember your face
I can’t remember your frown
Because I’ll drown in your deep
Pink water

10 ... 9 ... 8 ... 7 ... 6 ...
5 ... 4 ... 3 ... 2 ... 1

Sky, I’m gonna leave tonight
You know, I’ve got a life to live
And it’s getting late

I’m on a rocket
To a dying star
You have to stay behind
Can’t take you with me
‘cause it’s very far
And you don’t have the time
I’m on a rocket
To a dying star
You have to stay behind

Before I met you
I was crushing cars
And I was doing fine

Get me out of this place
Get me out of this town
Before I drown in your deep
Pink water
I won’t remember your face
I can’t remember your frown
Because I’ll drown in your deep
Pink water

Get me out of this place
Get me out of this town
Before I drown in your deep
Pink water
I won’t remember your face
I can’t remember your frown
Because I’ll drown in your deep
Pink water

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𝐀 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐂𝐄𝐑𝐓 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐀 𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐘: 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐚𝐭 𝐌𝐚𝐦𝐚 𝐊𝐢𝐧’𝐬, 𝐁𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐧, 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟖

𝑫𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔!
We’re used to see our favourite band performing in front of a huge excited crowd. But can you imagine Placebo playing for twenty people?.. And no, it wasn’t at the very beginning of their career when they’ve been completely unknown.
I’m gonna tell you about such a concert in Placebo history, of course, from the only point of view of experience (never a shame!) which probably every band have to go through to become massive.
The gig I’m talking about took place at 𝐌𝐚𝐦𝐚 𝐊𝐢𝐧’𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐁𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝐬𝐭, 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟖.
To tell the story, I picked up two excerpts of the 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖𝐒 where Brian, Stef and Steve shared their memories of that day. But first, I’d like to mention some facts about the venue because it was the one of a pretty interesting history.

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🌟𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐔𝐄 𝐈𝐍𝐅𝐎🌟
𝑴𝒂𝒎𝒂 𝑲𝒊𝒏'𝒔, also known as 𝑴𝒂𝒎𝒂 𝑲𝒊𝒏 𝑴𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄 𝑯𝒂𝒍𝒍, was a music club owned by American hard rock band 𝐀𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐡, opened in December 1994 in their hometown of Boston, Massachusetts. The club was named after Aerosmith’s famous song "𝑴𝒂𝒎𝒂 𝑲𝒊𝒏" which appeared on their 1973 self-titled debut album. The song was written by lead singer Steven Tyler. It was a live staple of Aerosmith concerts throughout the band's career and appeared on several live albums.
Later, the club was owned by House of Blues and renamed into Lansdowne Street Music Hall; closed in 1999.

📢Now, let’s start from sort of a diary of a short Placebo US tour back in 1998 published in Q magazine.

𝐓𝐔𝐄𝐒𝐃𝐀𝐘 𝐃𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐄𝐑 𝟏, 𝐁𝐎𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐍 𝐖𝐁𝐂𝐍 𝐂𝐇𝐑𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐌𝐀𝐒 𝐒𝐇𝐎𝐖
𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐇𝐞𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐭 (𝐝𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐬): Up a 9.30am for our flight to Boston. Watch The Truman Show on the plane. There's a 50-year-old queen on the plane, worn by years of flying, called Jeff. He is always there for us when we need him. Americans always probe us, so we turn the tables. Jeff is a gentleman so we take him up on his offer to hear his life story.

Arriving in Boston we go straight to a motel for two hours sleep while the crew set up the gig. We are haunted by Jeffs. We then go to the venue and are on stage at 10pm US time. After three weeks in Europe our body clocks are pointing at 4am. The venue is as far removed as possible from anything we're used to. There are no lights and no dressing room. We decide to enjoy it anyway.

𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧 𝐎𝐥𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐥 (𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐬): We've jetted to the US to start a round of shows and promos to back up the release of Pure Morning. We weren't really meant to go over to the US until the New Year, but some of the most important radio stations have jumped on the track and we're plunged into the nightmare scenario of trying to "break America". Radio stations are all powerful and to be successful in the States you have to play their game. Tonight is the first time on this tour that we play to a crowd that only really knows one of our songs, such are the perils of a successful radio record. We also say hello to our haven for the next few days - our giant silver tour bus. Those bunks will never be so comfortable as they are tonight...

𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐨 (𝐠𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐫, 𝐯𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐬): The venue for tonight's gig - Mama Kin - is owned by Aerosmith but is a bit of a toilet. We have to play with Rancid, which we're not happy about. Everybody is a Rancid fan and so we end up playing in front of about 20 people, after having played in front of two thousand in Paris. We have serious jetlag and feel decidedly inhuman.
(𝑄 "𝐵𝑖𝑔 𝐼𝑛 𝐴𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎", 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ 1999)

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📢Later, in 2003, while touring the US again, Brian was asked about the concert at Mama Kin’s, in comparison to their recent shows in America, by Anais of Suicide Girls.

Anais: How do you find the US tours now vs. 1996, 1998 etc.? I mentioned to you that I was there in Boston, first gig off of the European...

Brian: At Mama Kin’s?

A: Yeah, twenty of us...

B: The Mama Kin’s culture shock. Yeah, yeah.

A: You did have a few devoted fans there but out of twenty it had to have been a culture shock.

B: Yeah, from three thousand people to twenty. It was a bit much. We weren’t really prepared for it at that point. We’d just done kind of the biggest tour in our lives which took us up to an eighteen-thousand-person gig in Paris, you know, which is really intense. We had been touring since March and so by the seventh month I started to really sort of buckle a little bit under the pressure. Really feel the weight of expectation. I was getting tired. So even though these were kind of like the biggest shows of our lives, with a massive crew and three big visual screens and lots of projection, it was very show biz. Towards the end of it I kind of, I lost a little bit of a connection with the audience and it was kind of bringing me down. Coming here, it’s been so refreshing. It’s been like learning the ropes again. It’s been a long while since we’ve done this kind of tour and I think it’s going to turn us into a better band. We’re finally getting energy again. We’re feeling such immediate energy. You can see the whites of the eyes of the people in the audience. You know, you stand on the barrier and they’re trying to unzip your fly, you know stuff like that, it’s much more punk rock. We’re really, really enjoying it. It’s fresh. It’s brought a real freshness back to Placebo. I’m having a great time. It’s taken a little bit of readjustment but we’ve thrown ourselves kind of head long into it and are going back in time and learning again. Learning what it feels like to do these kind of shows, learning from them. I think it’s one of the best things that’s ever happened.

A: Yeah, I do have the say the show other night, aside from Portland's lethargic audiences, that was one of the best shows I have seen of you.

B: Oh that’s cool. Yeah in? Portland the audience was amazing. Seattle was six hundred and five people, you know, and it just, it ranks in my top five gigs of all time. I had the most amazing time that night. I crowd surfed for the first time in years. It was electric.

A: Yeah Portland audiences can be snotty. I have a problem with that. There’s a cartoon slashed down the middle, LA and New York. It’s a guy in LA saying Hey how are you doing? and there’s a thought bubble above his head, Hey, Fuck you, and the New York side is Hey fuck you, and a thought bubble above his head Hey, how are you doing? That for me explains a lot of East Coast and West Coast. Well, my experiences with it.
(𝑆𝑢𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝐺𝑖𝑟𝑙𝑠 “𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑀𝑜𝑙𝑘𝑜 𝑜𝑓 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜”, 𝐷𝑒𝑐𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 14, 2003)

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Here you can see 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 𝒔𝒆𝒕𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒕 of the concert at Mama Kin’s signed by Stefan and Steve for the fan😍
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