♦️ 𝙄𝙉𝙏𝙀𝙍𝙑𝙄𝙀𝙒 𝙒𝙄𝙏𝙃 𝙎𝙏𝙀𝙁𝘼𝙉 𝙊𝙇𝙎𝘿𝘼𝙇 (𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟯) ♦️

Photo Credits: Joseph Llanes, Vasquez Rocks, L.A.,California / Edit by Rita

💫𝑯𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒐 𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔💫

𝒀𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒅𝒂𝒚 𝒎𝒂𝒓𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝑰'𝒎 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝑷𝑳𝑨𝑪𝑬𝑩𝑶 𝑨𝑵𝒀𝑾𝑨𝒀. 𝑰𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒂 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒏 𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒎𝒆.⭐ 𝑻𝑯𝑨𝑵𝑲𝑺 𝑺𝑶 𝑴𝑼𝑪𝑯 𝒕𝒐 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒆 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒊𝒓𝒍𝒔 𝒂𝒕 𝑷𝑳𝑨𝑪𝑬𝑩𝑶 𝑨𝑵𝒀𝑾𝑨𝒀 𝑻𝑬𝑨𝑴, 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒅𝒂𝒚 𝒊𝒕'𝒔 𝒂 𝒋𝒐𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒚𝒐𝒖 ❤️ 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑻𝑯𝑨𝑵𝑲𝑺 𝑺𝑶 𝑴𝑼𝑪𝑯 𝒕𝒐 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒎𝒚 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒕𝒔, 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔, 𝑰 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒊𝒕.💖 𝑰'𝒎 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒖𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒎𝒚 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒕𝒔 𝒅𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒂𝒎𝒂𝒛𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒆𝒙𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒅!!✨❤️✨🎶

Photo credit: Contactmusic.com 

Having said that, today in my post, I want to share with you an 𝑰𝑵𝑻𝑬𝑹𝑽𝑰𝑬𝑾 that was made in Mexico with 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 𝑶𝒍𝒔𝒅𝒂𝒍 via telephone while he was at his home in Germany, which was published a few days before the release of the seventh 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 album "𝑳𝒐𝒖𝒅 𝑳𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆" (2013). I've translated it for you and I've also added some 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 music. Have a good time reading and listening! 😉 💕 Much love & take care 💜
🪐𝑹𝒊𝒕𝒂🪐

♦️ 𝙄𝙉𝙏𝙀𝙍𝙑𝙄𝙀𝙒 𝙒𝙄𝙏𝙃 𝙎𝙏𝙀𝙁𝘼𝙉 𝙊𝙇𝙎𝘿𝘼𝙇 (𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟯) ♦️

Photo credit: Oscar L. Tejeda

❶ 𝐎𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐌𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐜𝐨:
“I have always loved the warm welcome from the Mexican public. The band has a very good relationship with people, is very passionate. I remember that on one occasion we had technical problems on stage, but the audience was very patient while the matter was sorted out. They forgave us everything."

⭐𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 probably refers to the moment at 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐's concert in Mexico City on September 30, 2009, when he had technical problems with his bass and 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐 asked help to the audience to cheer him on.🥰💕 You can watch this below:

🎶𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐥 𝐈𝐧 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐬 - 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐭 𝐌𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐜𝐨 𝐂𝐢𝐭𝐲 2009
▶️ https://youtu.be/_LxLT4P6M0Y

❷ 𝐎𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐝'𝐬 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐌𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐜𝐨: “It is very certain that we will return to Mexico. Every time we have a release, the band goes on tour around the world for about two years. This new tour starts in November and will take us through Europe until the end of the year”.

🎶𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐄𝐧𝐝 - 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐭 𝐕𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐋𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐨 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 2014
▶️ https://youtu.be/jS_xL33XUjY

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❸ 𝐎𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐥𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝟐𝟎 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬: "I am very grateful. I can say that I still enjoy what I do and have a good relationship with the other members. I still have an urge to do this. On top of all this, there is always the new challenge of writing something that feels real."

🎶𝟐𝟎 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 - 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐭 𝐉𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐧 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐑𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 2013
▶️ https://youtu.be/sP43G9SjupE

❹ 𝐎𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐋𝐨𝐮𝐝 𝐋𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞: “Of course, as time goes by, the process becomes more difficult, especially because of the steps taken to do it. [In this case] we started by accident. We were writing for different reasons and through that, we ended up writing what would be our next material. The album was recorded and mixed last year."

⭐The band has stated that during the recording of the "𝑩𝟑 𝑬𝑷" (2012) came the idea of recording a new album.💿✨

🎶𝐁𝟑 - 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐭 𝐒𝐳𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 2012
▶️ https://youtu.be/x_6Csqjacz8

❺ 𝐎𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐩𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞: “It has been a strange journey. I can't say that it has improved by the year that passed to digest what was made, but we're satisfied with the final product."

🎶𝐋𝐨𝐮𝐝 𝐋𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞 - 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐭 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐓𝐮𝐛𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨𝐬, 𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐧 2013
▶️ https://youtu.be/CykEMLogFMk

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❻ 𝐎𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐛𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐚𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐦: "These are issues that have resonance in the current community and the interaction with the people around us. For example, "Too many friends" questions the relationships we form in the cyber world. Is it healthy? What kind of friendships do we have? The guy in the song is a guy who has to deal with loneliness despite the amount of friends he has on social media."

🎶𝐓𝐨𝐨 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 - 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐭 𝐎𝟐 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝, 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐧 2013
▶️ https://youtu.be/wFGTBRzKsyU

❼ 𝐎𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐦'𝐬 𝐬𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞: “It's actually VERY important. The first song on the album "Loud Like Love" would be the most uplifting, but from then on the songs get darker as the album progresses."

🎶𝐄𝐱𝐢𝐭 𝐖𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐬 - 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐭 𝐋𝐞𝐢𝐩𝐳𝐢𝐠 𝐀𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐚, 𝐆𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐲 2013
▶️ https://youtu.be/GG6tf7mWf2U

Credit: Screenshot from the "Coming up for air" documentary

❽ 𝐎𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥: “Once the songs are recorded, they start to take on a life of their own. You see that in the audience's reaction when you play one of their favorites. There are songs that survive this way (the ones we always play for example) and there are others that don't. We would like to play the new material as much as possible, but you have to give the old material space so that it can live again."

🎶𝐓𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐀𝐧𝐠𝐬𝐭 - 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐭 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐱𝐭𝐨𝐧 𝐀𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐲, 𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐧 2013
▶️ https://youtu.be/0H3CBX0kkBg

❾ 𝐎𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐡𝐞'𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐭𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠: "Yessssss... 'Pure Morning' for example. It's not that I hate them, but there are songs that I don't miss. When we play them live we just make them work within the context of the setlist."

🎶𝐏𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 - 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐭 𝐆𝐮𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 2004
▶️ https://youtu.be/XaeSnWOwSJA

❶⓿ 𝐎𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐨:
"I really liked James Blake's new album [Overgrown]. It's a pretty eclectic record and I liked what he did with the arrangements and the instrumentation."

🎶𝐎𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐧 - 𝐉𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐅𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐀𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐦
▶️https://spoti.fi/2NZdI9b 

･*✧･ﾟ✧･ﾟ* •.♡.• *･ﾟ✧･ﾟ✧*･

𝐓𝐞𝐱𝐭: 𝚂𝚘𝚞𝚙𝚜, 𝚂𝚎𝚙𝚝𝚒𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛 02, 2013
𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞: 𝚜𝚘𝚙𝚒𝚝𝚊𝚜.𝚌𝚘𝚖
𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: 𝚁𝚒𝚝𝚊 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘 𝚍𝚎 𝙻. 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝙿𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚎𝚋𝚘 𝙰𝚗𝚢𝚠𝚊𝚢

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𝗥𝗘𝗤𝗨𝗜𝗘𝗠 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗔 𝗝𝗘𝗥𝗞 – ANNIVERSARY

Exactly 15 years ago, on February 27th 2006, ”𝙍𝙚𝙦𝙪𝙞𝙚𝙢 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙖 𝙟𝙚𝙧𝙠” was released on the tribute compilation album ”Monsieur Gainsbourg revisited”. This cover version is a collaboration of Brian, French singer-songwriter Francoise Hardy and DJ David Kosten aka Faultline from the UK. The original song ”Requiem pour un con” by Serge Gainsbourg was published as single in March 1968.

🎬 Requiem for a jerk
🎵 http://bit.ly/2zowzzt 🎵

🎬 𝗢𝗿𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗯𝘆 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲 𝗚𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗯𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗴
🎵 https://bit.ly/2PDP0Zq 🎵

Photo credit: Kevin Cummins, unknown (3), edit by Silke

📌 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗢𝗡 𝗖𝗢𝗟𝗟𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦 📌
”When you get into a collaboration, you have to relinquish control. The final product is up to other people. It's a good lesson for me, it teaches me to be less precious about it. I haven't necessarily been able to put that into practice when working on a Placebo record just yet. One never knows, perhaps maybe the next one.”
(Suicide Girls, September 11th 2007)

📌 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗢𝗡 𝗖𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗥 𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦 📌
”We do covers in the studio to take a break from the psychological pressure of opposites: we still want to work, but we need to give our brains a break. So we do covers for fun. It's a way of keeping the momentum going in the studio whilst taking a break from being very precious over what we've written and obsessed with getting it right.”
(Noisy, “Rank your records“, October 13th 2016)

📌 𝗦𝗢𝗡𝗚 𝗜𝗡𝗙𝗢 📌
Artists: Faultline feat. Brian Molko and Francoise Hardy
Release date: 02/27/2006
Produced and mixed by: David Kosten
Recorded by: Benèdikte Schmitt
Vocals: Brian Molko and Francoise Hardy
Original song: ”Requiem pour un con” by Serge Gainsbourg (1968)
Written by:Serge Gainsbourg and Michel Colombier (French version) / Boris Bergman and Paul Ives (English version)

📌 𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗘 𝗜𝗡𝗙𝗢 𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗦 📌
Francoise Hardy: http://bit.ly/2CWx8Uu
Faultline: http://bit.ly/2P6AM5i
Serge Gainsbourg http://bit.ly/2zmiEK1

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Placebo live in Bologna 2013

𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏, 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝑰𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝒇𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒚 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎?

📢"My grandmother was from Bologna, but we don't have any relatives now."
(𝐼𝑙 𝑀𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑟𝑜, 𝐽𝑢𝑙𝑦 24, 2014)
Did you know about this kind of Brian’s connection to Italy?😊

Today, I want to tell you about Placebo concert in this beautiful city of Bologna on November 23th, 2013, watch some performances together with you and enjoy a stunning photo taken by photographer Nino Saetti on that day😍
To be precise, the show took place in Casalecchio di Reno, little town very close to Bologna, at the Unipol Arena (previously known as Futurshow Station).

Placebo live in Bologna. Photo credit: Nino Saetti

I translated a nice ✨𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖✨ of this concert titled ‘𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟏𝟎 𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐩𝐨𝐥 𝐀𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐚’ that was published at 𝑳𝒂 𝑹𝒆𝒑𝒖𝒃𝒃𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒂 a day after the event.
⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
Twenty years of career in one evening. An English band chose the Due Torri [*see a note down below] as the only Italian date to play and sing the most famous songs, from "Twenty years" to "Song to say goodbye", but also those taken from the last album as "Too many friends". Even if you had forgotten to take your meds, as Brian Molko asks himself in "Meds", you can count on the Placebo effect. And it works, and very well.

It's hard to be disappointed if all the songs that have made the history of the British band are in the setlist. Present, close and distant past, all the ages of Placebo are explored, twenty years of career summarized in one hundred and five minutes. From "Twenty years", in fact, the first to deserve the ovation of the ten thousand visitors of the Unipol Arena, which hosts the only Italian date, up to "Song to say goodbye". Which, contrary to what the title promises, is not a farewell but an introduction to a killing sequence that also includes "Special K" and "The bitter end" before the break. Ok, it's a shame that Molko misses the last verse on the way, but he can be forgiven. His performance is flawless characterized by the unmistakable vocal timbre. You may not like it, but in that case it makes no sense to listen to Placebo.

Among the songs from the new album, the most convincing is “Too many friends” (yes, the one where Molko says her computer thinks he's gay). At this point a separate chapter opens. Perhaps it’s kind of sick, as well as useless, to complain at every concert of smartphone screens stretched out to the sky. Once there were lighters, and some even were bothered by them (Noel Gallagher said "Put out those damn lighters, you're not at Elton John’s concert"). Now, there are cellphone pixels. They are not pleasant, but there is a reason for them. Here, it is surprising that relatively few of them light up during a song that is an undisputed hit, as well as the one with the best live impact of the evening, "Every you every me". And then, on "Too many friends" coming next, in fact, they illuminate the parterre like a starry sky. Maybe the first one was the song closest to the heart of the large portion of the audience over thirty, while the next one - of the youngest. But there is a semantic short circuit in that sea of smartphones ready to post the video on Facebook just as Molko sings, in clear controversy with the social networks, "𝑰 𝒈𝒐𝒕 𝒕𝒐𝒐 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒔 / 𝑻𝒐𝒐 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑰'𝒍𝒍 𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒎𝒆𝒆𝒕 / 𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝑰'𝒍𝒍 𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒃𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓” that “𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕'𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒚𝒘𝒂𝒚 / 𝑾𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒅𝒐 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒅𝒂𝒚 𝑰𝒔 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒂 𝒑𝒉𝒐𝒏𝒆.”

Placebo live in Bologna. Photo credit unknown

At the end of the concert, only one doubt remains: what was the use of the net that was occasionally dropped from above to stand between the stage and the audience? If in the second part of the show it is useful for visuals with projections, in the first it’s not helpful to obscure the view. Like some kind of huge mosquito net. But it’s ok. And when the first Union Jack [flag of the UK] appears in the end, you think about the show that went totally smoothly, probably more than necessary, which seems to be a peace treaty made after a stormy past in Italy (the smashed guitars in Sanremo, the insults at the Heineken Jammin’ Festival). Maybe, yes, Molko's grandmother comes from Bologna. A plate of tortellini makes everyone better.
(𝐿𝑎 𝑅𝑒𝑝𝑢𝑏𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑎, 𝑁𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 24, 2013)

*𝑳𝒆 𝑫𝒖𝒆 𝑻𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒊 (‘𝑻𝒘𝒐 𝑻𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒔’)
The Torre degli Asinelli (97.2 meters) is the tallest leaning medieval tower in the world. It was built between 1109 and 1119 and is one of the twenty towers that have survived the centuries. The Torre degli Asinelli has a little sister, the Garisenda tower. The pair of towers is a universally recognized symbol of Bologna for both visitors and locals.

Placebo live in Bologna. Photo credit: Gwen

And now it’s time for some performances. These ate fans’ recordings but it’s worth it to check them out. Running Up That Hill and Post Blue are my favourites of these🥰

𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 – 𝐓𝐰𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐲 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬, 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐩𝐨𝐥 𝐀𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐚, 𝐁𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐧𝐚, 𝟐𝟑.𝟏𝟏.𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟑
🎶 https://bit.ly/3gGqjZ7

𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 - 𝐒𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐓𝐨 𝐒𝐚𝐲 𝐆𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐛𝐲𝐞, 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐩𝐨𝐥 𝐀𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐚, 𝐁𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐧𝐚, 𝟐𝟑.𝟏𝟏.𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟑
🎶 https://bit.ly/3r2I3Tk

𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 - 𝐓𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐀𝐧𝐠𝐬𝐭, 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐩𝐨𝐥 𝐀𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐚, 𝐁𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐧𝐚, 𝟐𝟑.𝟏𝟏.𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟑
🎶 https://bit.ly/3a40NM4

𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 - 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐄𝐧𝐝, 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐩𝐨𝐥 𝐀𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐚, 𝐁𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐧𝐚, 𝟐𝟑.𝟏𝟏.𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟑
🎶 https://bit.ly/383yafe

𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 – 𝐑𝐮𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐔𝐩 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐇𝐢𝐥𝐥, 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐩𝐨𝐥 𝐀𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐚, 𝐁𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐧𝐚, 𝟐𝟑.𝟏𝟏.𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟑
🎶 https://bit.ly/3oIawvq

𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 – 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐁𝐥𝐮𝐞 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐩𝐨𝐥 𝐀𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐚, 𝐁𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐧𝐚, 𝟐𝟑.𝟏𝟏.𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟑
🎶 https://bit.ly/2W8hsFV

Post by Olga

🔸🔸⭐𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎 𝐢𝐧 𝐁𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐤𝐨𝐤 (𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐈𝐈)⭐🔸🔸

Last week, we looked at how 𝑫𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝑴𝒄𝑳𝒆𝒂𝒏, the manager of Placebo, decided to organize the first rock festival in Bangkok, the place where he lives and which he loves.
In 2006, he succeeded and of course, planned this amazing event on the next years.
But for some reasons the festival had no sequel.
Already in 2006, the festival was organized in a very difficult political situation, which continued to deteriorate over the next two years. Due to the military coup, Dave McLean had to cancel the festival planned in 2007.
In 2008, the political situation was still very unstable and a state of emergency was established in Thailand due to ongoing anti-government demonstrations.
It was clear that Dave had to give up the festival again, and this time it was a decision forever😔.
🔸🌟🌟🌟🔸

Photo credits unknown, edit by Marti

But fortunately, there was another opportunity for the fans in Bangkok to attend Placebo concert in 2010, during their Asian tour, which began immediately after the end of the Australian tour on March 5, 2010 in Tokyo, Japan.
Brian was extremely tired and exhausted, so two days later he collapsed on stage during his performance in Osaka💔.
However, he managed to miraculously recover - he deserves a huge admiration for this (I won't mention how much I want to cry every time I see a video from Osaka) - and the band were able to continue touring in Taipei, Taiwan. Through Malaysia and Singapore, we get to the performance that today's post will be about.

🔸𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐈𝐆𝐄𝐑 𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐒𝐋𝐀𝐓𝐄 𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝐁𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐤𝐨𝐤 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝟐𝟎, 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟎🔸

💢𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐨:💢

In 2005, 𝑻𝒊𝒈𝒆𝒓 𝑩𝒆𝒆𝒓 (a brand of beer from Singapore and is produced by Heineken Asia Pacific, part of Heineken) decided to organize the first year of a cultural event called 𝐓𝐈𝐆𝐄𝐑 𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐒𝐋𝐀𝐓𝐄. It was a traveling festival that took place in one of the Asian cities every year.
The aim of this and the following years was to invite young beginning artists from the given place, who would not otherwise have much chance to assert themselves, to enroll in the given year and present their works throughout the year until the event itself. Not only musicians but also artists, photographers and filmmakers could present themselves. The goal for these young Asian artists was to reach the finals, which then took place in one of the world's most famous cities, such as London.

Photo credit unknown

🔷𝐻𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑘 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑙𝑒 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑎𝑙 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 2012.🔷
https://bit.ly/3pKTv3Z

The recordings from Placebo show are not of a very good quality, but I still think that these videos are worth watching. Enjoy the great mood of Brian and the whole band, as well as the audience, which responded perfectly to the Placebo energy⚡⚡⚡.
💗You can also notice the perfect black and white dress-code of all members of the band😊🥰👍:

🎶 𝑰𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒐 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑭𝒐𝒓 𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑰𝒕'𝒔 𝑾𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒉
https://bit.ly/37DW2a8
🎶 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 𝑳𝑰𝑽𝑬 𝑻𝒊𝒈𝒆𝒓 𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔, 𝑩𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒌𝒐𝒌 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕 1
https://bit.ly/2ZLXWAQ
🎶 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 𝑳𝑰𝑽𝑬 𝑻𝒊𝒈𝒆𝒓 𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔, 𝑩𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒌𝒐𝒌 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕 2
https://bit.ly/2Nq9980
🎶 𝑨 𝒇𝒆𝒘 𝒔𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝑴𝑬𝑫𝑺
https://bit.ly/3dFPb3F
🎶 𝑷𝒊𝒄𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒔 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒊𝒈
https://bit.ly/3seOZwe
🎶 𝑻𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝑴𝒆𝒏 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝒇𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒘𝒆𝒍𝒍
https://bit.ly/2NAsdAn

💥✨✨✨💥

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And it wouldn't be perfect without these two interviews Brian gave during this Asian tour:

📌 Britain's Placebo returns to Bangkok for the Tiger Translate music and art festival on Saturday
Indie spirits will get their kicks on Saturday at the third Tiger Translate, the outdoor festival where innovative arts and sovereign music clash.
The vast parking space behind the Esplanade mall will be a massive venue for artists and musicians.
Apart from graphic installations, displays and street art by local independent groups, the festival will be booming with eclectic music all night starting at 6pm.

𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡'𝑠 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜 𝑢𝑝 𝑡𝑜?
Brian: "We're about to get on a plane from Sydney to Hong Kong, then it's over to Tokyo, and we're to play four shows in Japan.
We've just finished the Soundwave Festival in Australia, where we played to 50,000 people per show.
After the Japan shows we play in Taiwan, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur then we have a short break before flying to Latin America to play in Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Peru and Venezuela, then back to Europe to play in a few places we've never played before, like Morocco and Kosovo!"

𝐴𝑛𝑦 𝑠𝑜𝑙𝑜 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑗𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑠 𝑘𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑?
Brian: "We all have projects that we work on, but they're put to the side anytime Placebo is recording and touring. When you have something as successful and fulfilling as Placebo, it's difficult to say, "Let's have a three-year break." Although we have a busy schedule and it is pretty tiring at times, it is very exciting and enjoyable visiting all these countries and experiencing different cultures."

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑐 𝑏𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑦𝑜𝑢, 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛?
Brian: "I guess my main dislike is that people can get our music for free! I can never quite understand this. If I have to fly to New York, I can't just walk on the plane without buying a ticket. If I want to buy a car, I just can't walk in the show room and drive off - I have to pay for it. So how come anyone can download our music for free?
Luckily Placebo makes the bulk of the money from touring, and so far nobody has worked out a way of duplicating the ultimate live experience, and they never will!"

𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡'𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑛 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝐵𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑘𝑜𝑘?
Brian: "The festival has lots of Thai acts on the bill whom I have heard of before, due to my numerous visits to Thailand. The gig will be fantastic and it will be the last show of our Australia-Southeast Asia tour. We're very much looking forward to coming to Bangkok because we loved our last trip so much!"
(𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑁𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 "𝑊ℎ𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑇𝑖𝑔𝑒𝑟 𝑟𝑜𝑎𝑟𝑠", 𝑀𝑎𝑟'10)

📌 Student Weekly recently had an exclusive chat with Brian just as the guys were gearing up to rock Bangkok at this year's Tiger Translate festival.

𝑆𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑊𝑒𝑒𝑘𝑙𝑦: 𝐼𝑠 𝑖𝑡 𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑔𝑢𝑦𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑑?
Brian: "Yes, we spent five days at Karma Studio in Chon Buri. The studio was amazing and we recorded three tracks before leaving to play at the Soundwave Festival in Australia. The combination of a top quality studio and great environment made for a very productive five days. We'd love to record there again."

𝑆𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑊𝑒𝑒𝑘𝑙𝑦: 𝐼𝑠 𝑖𝑡 𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑓𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑢𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑟 𝑆𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑐 𝑓𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑎𝑙 𝑖𝑛 𝐽𝑎𝑝𝑎𝑛 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑙𝑦?
Brian: "Yes, I was exhausted. We'd just flown from the UK to Japan, then to Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea and back to Japan again! I also had to do a lot of interviews during that time. Everybody in the group was tired, and in Osaka I just ran out of energy."

𝑆𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑊𝑒𝑒𝑘𝑙𝑦: 𝐻𝑜𝑤 𝑑𝑜 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑘𝑒𝑒𝑝 𝑑𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑠𝑜 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛𝑙𝑜𝑎𝑑 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑐 𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑔𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝑑𝑎𝑦𝑠?
Brian: "The bulk of our earnings come from our live performances. I can't really get my head around the fact that people get music for nothing. If you stay in a hotel or eat at a restaurant, you have to pay for it. But people think that they should get albums for free."

𝑆𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑊𝑒𝑒𝑘𝑙𝑦: 𝐻𝑜𝑤 𝑑𝑜 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑝𝑜𝑝𝑢𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑎𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠?
Brian: "We just do our own thing and try not to follow trends. We don't listen to advice about what we should or shouldn't do, and stick to our principles.
We put a lot of effort in to our live shows, and that has earned us a loyal fan base, which we're very thankful for. And we also manage to write good songs!"
(𝑆𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑊𝑒𝑒𝑘𝑙𝑦 "𝑅𝑜𝑐𝑘 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑣𝑜𝑟𝑠 ℎ𝑖𝑡 𝐵𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑘𝑜𝑘", 𝑀𝑎𝑟'10)
💥✨✨✨💥

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For today, I say goodbye to you and look forward to next Wednesday, which will end the Bangkok adventure with the band Placebo.
Personally, I hope in my heart that one day this whole tragic situation with the Pandemic will end and I will be able to write about new Placebo adventures - and not just those in Bangkok.

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𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗠𝗘𝗧𝗥𝗜𝗖 𝗦𝗬𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗠 – 𝗔𝗡𝗡𝗜𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗔𝗥𝗬

Today we celebrate the ♦️𝗔𝗡𝗡𝗜𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗔𝗥𝗬♦️ of "𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙚𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙘 𝙨𝙮𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙢", a collaboration between Brian and 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘩 𝘗𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦, a music project by French record producer and DJ 𝘋𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘳𝘪 𝘛𝘪𝘬𝘰𝘷𝘰𝘪̈. The single came out 18 years ago today on February 24th 2003 and included the original track, two remixes and the video. But the first release of the song was four months earlier, on October 15th 2002, on the only Trash Palace album "Positions".

🎬 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗠𝗘𝗧𝗥𝗜𝗖 𝗦𝗬𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗠
🎵 http://bit.ly/2kAQ9oz 🎵

Photo credit: Screenshots from the video, edit by Silke

”The metric system” tells the story of a guy who lives in Los Angeles and sells his sperm to celebrity lesbians, so they can have children.
A strange plot, isn't it? But Brian really enjoyed working on the song. In an interview with French magazine “Les Inrockuptibles” he said that it was big fun for him. "Dimitri is my buddy. We have the same sense of humour, porn makes us laugh. What is strange is that people, the media, everybody took us very seriously," he added.

On the album "𝘗𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴" you can also find another collaboration: Brian sings the Serge Gainsbourg cover "Je t'aime, moi non plus" together with Italian actress and singer Asia Argento. She later played a role in the music video of Placebo's song "This picture". It's also worth mentioning the fact that Trash Palace founder Dimitri Tikovoi is not only a close friend of Brian but also produced the band's album “Meds” in 2006 and several of the band's early singles.

𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘥𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 ”𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘤 𝘴𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮”, 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴? 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘥𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘰?
🆂🅸🅻🅺🅴

📌 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗢𝗡 “𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗠𝗘𝗧𝗥𝗜𝗖 𝗦𝗬𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗠“ 📌
"The artist in question is a French named Dimitri, whose nickname is The Vibrator. He made an electronic record in French about pornography on wich I figure as well as John Cale, Jean-Louis-Murat. We wrote texts for Dimitri. I wrote one a la William Burrough.
It is the story of a guy who lives in Los Angeles and who sells his sperm to celebrity lesbians so they can have children: that's the story. But it was very interesting to work on this record because it's a kind of music that is very different from what we do usually, and I love this kind of music."
(M6 Music, 2001)

📌 𝗗𝗜𝗠𝗜𝗧𝗥𝗜 𝗧𝗜𝗞𝗢𝗩𝗢𝗜 𝗢𝗡 “𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗠𝗘𝗧𝗥𝗜𝗖 𝗦𝗬𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗠“ 📌
"When I worked with Placebo, I had Brian Molko listen to a song, asking him if he would work on it with me. He found the project very interesting. He said "Great! It's about sex! I want to do something like that too" and we did the song Metric system."
(POPnews, November 2002)

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𝗘𝗡𝗚𝗟𝗜𝗦𝗛 𝗦𝗨𝗠𝗠𝗘𝗥 𝗥𝗔𝗜𝗡 – 𝗔𝗡𝗡𝗜𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗔𝗥𝗬

Photo credit: Alvaro Villarrubia, screenshots from the video / edit by Silke

Today we celebrate the ♦️𝗔𝗡𝗡𝗜𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗔𝗥𝗬♦️ of “English summer rain”, the fourth single from Placebo's album “Sleeping with ghosts”. It was released 17 years ago today, on February 23rd 2004, and reached no. 23 in the UK Singles Chart.

“English summer rain” was the first song that Brian started to write on a drum kit. In an interview with Rock Sound he explained it like this: “I was on a real DJ Shadow trip with this one.”

🎬 𝗘𝗡𝗚𝗟𝗜𝗦𝗛 𝗦𝗨𝗠𝗠𝗘𝗥 𝗥𝗔𝗜𝗡 – 𝗢𝗙𝗙𝗜𝗖𝗜𝗔𝗟 𝗩𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗢
🎵 http://bit.ly/2GpzgVa 🎵

The single was available in two different designs. The regular CD included “English summer rain (single version)” and ”I'll be yours (version 4am)”. The enhanced CD consisted of the album version, two remixes and an animated video. It was the official music clip for the song and directed by Grègoire Pinard. You can watch the video with the link at the beginning of this post.

“English summer rain” was only played live from 2003 to 2005 during the “Sleeping with ghosts” and “Once more with feeling” tours. In total the song was performanced 108 times during that period.
Below you can find a live version recorded at Designerama 2004.

Photo credit: Alvaro Villarrubia

🎬 𝗘𝗡𝗚𝗟𝗜𝗦𝗛 𝗦𝗨𝗠𝗠𝗘𝗥 𝗥𝗔𝗜𝗡 – 𝗗𝗘𝗦𝗜𝗚𝗡𝗘𝗥𝗔𝗠𝗔 𝟮𝟬𝟬𝟰
🎵 https://bit.ly/2FMSE1u 🎵

📌 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗢𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗦𝗢𝗡𝗚 📌
"I wanted to write something repetitive. A sort of mantra which speaks about leaving… My lover leaves me to travel, I watch the planes in the sky, I tell myself she is perhaps into one of them. I'm still in London, it's summertime, it's raining, it's boring and I miss her terribly."
(Les Inrockuptibles N°382, March-April 2003)

📌 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗢𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗩𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗢 📌
”This was the first time we ever used animation. In fact this video was sent to us by a fan from South Africa, so it proves that initiative and persistence pays off. We find it amusing to look at ourselves as puppets. He was at college when he did this and he’d spend all his time not doing homework and doing this animation instead. Doing something useful. It’s kind of funny. It features Jesus on drums.”

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Placebo - I Know You Want To Stop (Minxus cover)

“𝑰 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒑
𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒏𝒐 𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒏 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒑𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒕 𝒐𝒏…”

Dear soulmates,
I’d like to listen to 𝐈 𝐊𝐍𝐎𝐖 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐖𝐀𝐍𝐓 𝐓𝐎 𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐏 with you tonight. Well, I know it’s not the most famous song of Placebo’s catalogue. And moreover, it is a cover. But that’s exactly what makes it interesting, I guess. Placebo’s choices about songs to cover reveal their peculiar taste and profound knowledge on different genres of music, pretty specific artists including less known bands.

📍That’s the case with 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐱𝐮𝐬, the UK indie rock band who were active in the 90s but enjoyed a short lived career. Gavin Pearce (guitar/vocal), She Rocola (bass) and Joe Whitney (drums) released only one album 𝑷𝒂𝒃𝒖𝒍𝒖𝒎 in 1995 and split up shortly after.

📍It’s hard for me to say how much popular 𝐈 𝐊𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐖𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐓𝐨 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐩 was back in the mid90s but, in my opinion, it might not be remembered that well 25 years after if Placebo didn’t do their cover version of it.

⭐️A curious fact: I found out that 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐱𝐮𝐬 played live with 𝐀𝐂 𝐀𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 whose frontman 𝑷𝒂𝒖𝒍 𝑪𝒂𝒎𝒑𝒊𝒐𝒏 happened to be Brian’s good friend (you may remember that he helped Brian with the lyrics for Every You Every Me, and the great line “There are twenty years to go” also belongs to him). However, looks like the members of Minxus, AC Acoustics and Placebo got to know each other back then. Most likely, a raw punky sound of 𝐈 𝐊𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐖𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐓𝐨 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐩 stuck in the back of Brian’s head for years and just waited for a proper time…
Finally, it was released as a second song on a five-track Placebo 𝐄𝐏 𝐁𝟑 on October 15th, 2012.

Photo credit: Getty images

𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 - 𝐈 𝐊𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐖𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐓𝐨 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐩
➡ https://bit.ly/2N1K5DK

𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐱𝐮𝐬 - 𝐈 𝐊𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐖𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐓𝐨 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐩
➡ https://bit.ly/2YT65TD

🎶The song was played live by Placebo four times in total, all during the series of 𝑨-𝑹𝒐𝒄𝒌 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔 in summer 2012: at Bataclan, Paris (June 22), Atlantico Live, Rome (25 June), Härterei Club, Zurich, (June 28) and Docks, Hamburg (July 2).

Besides the video from Hamburg that I uploaded for you, there’s another one from Paris, unfortunately not of the best quality, but it’s a document still😊

𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 - 𝐈 𝐊𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐖𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐓𝐨 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐩 - 𝐁𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐧, 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐬, 𝟐𝟐.𝟎𝟔.𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟐
➡ https://bit.ly/3aCow4t

✨𝐋𝐘𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐒✨
I know you want to stop
There is no return from this point on
Be glad for what you got
Maybe you won't take too long to burn
I recognize the smile
There are some things I cannot forget
It may be for a while
I'll pretend that we have never met
We have never met
We have never met
And maybe we will part
Will your paranoia keep you warm
I'll eat it from your heart
I will still enjoy to watch you fall
The credit starts too low
We take off our clothes and roll around
Boredom takes its toll
It shall be your eyes that let you down
Eyes that let you down
Eyes that let you down
You're still
You're still
You're still
Still...
I know you want to stop
I know you want to stop
Stop
You're still
You're still
You're still
Still...
You're still
You're still
You're still
Still...
I know you want to stop
Stop!

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☀️𝙋𝙇𝘼𝘾𝙀𝘽𝙊 𝙇𝙄𝙑𝙀 𝘼𝙏 𝘽𝙄𝙂 𝘿𝘼𝙔 𝙊𝙐𝙏 𝙁𝙀𝙎𝙏𝙄𝙑𝘼𝙇 2001☀️

Hello 𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔!

It's time to remember a lively 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 performance, and I refer to their participation at the 𝑩𝒊𝒈 𝑫𝒂𝒚 𝑶𝒖𝒕 𝑭𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒍 that began on January 19, 2001 in Auckland, New Zealand, passing through Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Gold Coast and ended on February 4 in Perth, Australia.

Big Day Out in Melbourne. Photo credit: Liam Nicholls

🎬 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐁𝐢𝐠 𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝐎𝐮𝐭 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 2001 (𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐨 1) https://youtu.be/jS2bUok7qS0

🎬 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐁𝐢𝐠 𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝐎𝐮𝐭 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 2001 (𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐨 2) https://youtu.be/lAdOV0a2xe4

𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 played in all the cities mentioned above, they were headlining along with 𝑷𝑱 𝑯𝒂𝒓𝒗𝒆𝒚 (It was during this festival that was taken that photo where Brian appears alongside her), 𝑪𝒐𝒍𝒅𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚, 𝑹𝒂𝒎𝒎𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒊𝒏, 𝑸𝒖𝒆𝒆𝒏𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒕𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝑨𝒈𝒆, 𝑨𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑫𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑰𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅… 𝑳𝒊𝒎𝒑 𝑩𝒊𝒛𝒌𝒊𝒕, with whose leader they had that famous incident in New York in 1998 and who kept spreading "bad vibes" as 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 𝑶𝒍𝒔𝒅𝒂𝒍 revealed to 𝑹𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑺𝒕𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝑨𝒖𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒂 after their show in Gold Coast that you can read here:
👉 https://bit.ly/37olO1W

Big Day Out in Melbourne. Photo Credit: Liam Nicholls

But well, we are not going to pay more attention to that individual and his negativity, so now I want share with you two reviews from fans who saw 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 on the first and last day respectively of this edition of the festival:

📣"𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘣𝘰 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘥 (2001) 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 17. 𝘔𝘺 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴 𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘨𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘥𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘢𝘵 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘸𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘦𝘥 "𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘺" (𝘡𝘦𝘥, 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦'𝘴 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶, 𝘬𝘪𝘥𝘴). 𝘍𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺, 𝘸𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘰𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘧𝘵 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵, 𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘒𝘪𝘸𝘪 𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘺, 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘢 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘥𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘦𝘵, 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘥𝘺𝘦: 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘭𝘬𝘰 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘨𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘸𝘢𝘺, 𝘴𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘥, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘴 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘩𝘪𝘮 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘢𝘺, 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘳𝘺𝘭𝘺, "𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘮𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘬 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘛𝘓𝘊". 𝘕𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘐 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘰𝘯 𝘥𝘦𝘩𝘺𝘥𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘢 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘺𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘧𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘥𝘺𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘺 𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘪𝘴𝘵. 𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘧𝘢𝘯 𝘖𝘭𝘴𝘥𝘢𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘸 𝘢 𝘸𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘶𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘵 𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘺𝘦, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥𝘯'𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘺 𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘻𝘺 𝘧𝘭𝘶𝘴𝘩 𝘰𝘧 𝘧𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘳𝘭 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴."
▪️𝙱𝚢 𝙷𝚊𝚢𝚕𝚎𝚢, 𝙱𝚒𝚐 𝙳𝚊𝚢 𝙾𝚞𝚝 19.01.2001, 𝙰𝚞𝚌𝚔𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝙽𝚉, 𝚒.𝚜𝚝𝚞𝚏𝚏.𝚌𝚘.𝚗𝚣

📣"𝘉𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥, 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘣𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘥 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘦. 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘮𝘪𝘥𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘭𝘬𝘰 𝘪𝘴. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘥𝘦𝘣𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴𝘵 𝘮𝘺 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘣𝘰'𝘴 𝘴𝘦𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦. 𝘋𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘢 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘵. 𝘋𝘶𝘤𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘛𝘳𝘪𝘱𝘱𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘵. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘧𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘣𝘰'𝘴 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘴, 𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘕𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘺 𝘉𝘰𝘺, 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘋𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘊𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘈𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘜𝘴, 𝘚𝘭𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘗𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨. 𝘋𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘔𝘰𝘭𝘬𝘰 𝘴𝘶𝘣𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘭𝘺𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘘𝘖𝘛𝘚𝘈'𝘴 𝘍𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘎𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘏𝘪𝘵 𝘖𝘧 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘶𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘳, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘘𝘖𝘛𝘚𝘈 𝘳𝘢𝘯 𝘰𝘯 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘨𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘣𝘰'𝘴 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘹𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘴 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘧𝘢𝘯 𝘢 𝘥𝘳𝘺 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘱."
▪️𝙱𝚢 𝙳𝚊𝚟𝚎, 𝙱𝚒𝚐 𝙳𝚊𝚢 𝙾𝚞𝚝 04.02.2001, 𝚖𝚞𝚜𝚒𝚌𝚒𝚜𝚌𝚛𝚊𝚙.𝚌𝚘𝚖

Placebo at Big Day Out in Melbourne.

Here’s also a couple of interviews of the band, on the second video are just some scenes of them and it's seems they were having a good time 😊

🎥 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 𝐁𝐢𝐠 𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝐎𝐮𝐭 𝐀𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝 01.19.2001
https://youtu.be/4-li2Ggtnik

🎥 𝐄𝐧𝐭1 - 𝐁𝐢𝐠 𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝐎𝐮𝐭 𝐄𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐃𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐲 https://youtu.be/AzzxK2jnMFg

📍The historic 𝑩𝒊𝒈 𝑫𝒂𝒚 𝑶𝒖𝒕 𝑭𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒍 was the first annual festival held in Australia, since 1992, after 𝑽𝒊𝒐𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝑭𝒆𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒔 announced an Australian tour and promoters 𝑲𝒆𝒏 𝑾𝒆𝒔𝒕 and 𝑽𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑳𝒆𝒆𝒔 got 𝑵𝒊𝒓𝒗𝒂𝒏𝒂 to support their concert at the 𝑯𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒏 𝑷𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒐𝒏 in Sydney. Later, the festival expanded to include other cities in Australia and Auckland in New Zealand. It mainly featured international rock acts but there was also electronic music, hip hop, punk, heavy metal and other genres. Each city had the same headlining bands, as well as additional local live bands in each location. The partnership between the founders 𝑾𝒆𝒔𝒕 and 𝑳𝒆𝒆𝒔 was dissolved in November 2011. The American company 𝑪3, which has owned the entire festival since June 2014, stated that the 2015 festival was being canceled and that it was intended to bring back the festival in the coming years, which has not happened so far.

The video shared is from the 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 show on January 26, 2001 in Sydney.
It's not the complete set but the songs featured are some of their greatest classics today and we can also see 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐 in one of his most flamboyant looks: long red skirt, 𝑨𝒈𝒏𝒆̀𝒔 𝑩 white top and a cowboy hat.✨🤘🤠❤️✨

Enjoy watching and share your thoughts about this concert or your memories if you were in one of the dates of the 𝑩𝒊𝒈 𝑫𝒂𝒚 𝑶𝒖𝒕 𝑭𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒍 2001 😉

Big Day Out in Melbourne. Photo credit: Liam Nicholls

⭐𝑩𝒐𝒏𝒖𝒔⭐

☀️ 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐌𝐞 - 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐭 𝐁𝐢𝐠 𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝐎𝐮𝐭 01.26.2001
https://youtu.be/ocQxBV5oSxU

☀️ 𝐏𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 - 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐭 𝐁𝐢𝐠 𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝐎𝐮𝐭 01.26.2001 (*𝐹𝑢𝑙𝑙 𝑆𝑜𝑛𝑔)
https://youtu.be/jNhmNzCN_o0

Post by Rita 

𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐘 𝐁𝐄𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐃 𝐀 𝐏𝐈𝐂𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄: 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐞 𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨

“𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒂𝒃𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒔. 𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑪𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒏𝒆 𝑫𝒂𝒚.”
With these words Brian Molko introduced Nirvana’s cover 𝐀𝐥𝐥 𝐀𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐞𝐬 at the outstanding concert at Brixton Academy in London on September 28th, 2010.
➡️ https://bit.ly/2L2SWDV
A bit earlier, on September 1st, Placebo dedicated 𝐒𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐓𝐨 𝐒𝐚𝐲 𝐆𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐛𝐲𝐞 particularly to Corinne while playing at Un Palco In Collina Festival in Noci, Italy.
The video is of a bad quality but you can clearly hear Brian saying: “I’d like to dedicate this next song to Corinne Day. Thank you.”
➡️ https://bit.ly/3lQHnMK

A heartfelt tribute to a world famous photographer - and a friend, since the early days of Placebo. Then, it was only five days after she passed away aged only 48.
Do you know who she was?

Photo credit: Corinne Day

✨𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐍𝐄 𝐃𝐀𝐘 (1962 – 2010) was a British photographer whose influence on the style and perception of photography in the early 1990s and onwards has been immense. Self-taught, she became well-known for her raw, intimate and documentary-style images, which defined the 90s and specifically, the times of grunge culture.

✨Corinne Day worked on a photography for Placebo’s second album 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐈’𝐦 𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 and most of its singles: 𝐏𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐃𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐔𝐬, 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐌𝐞.
📸 https://bit.ly/3qGA3Hx
📸 https://bit.ly/2VLkfFa

𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕’𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒃𝒆𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒃𝒆𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒓𝒆-𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒕 𝒂𝒔 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝒄𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒃𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔?
📢Sarah and Sally, the twins on the cover, run a magazine called Blag, which started in the early 90s. So we’ve been in the same kind of circles since we moved to London around the age of 18. Over the years we’ve been meaning to connect and hang out and see how everyone’s doing and it just never happened. So [re-shooting the album cover] was the perfect opportunity to touch base and reminisce about Corinne Day, who shot the cover and is sadly now passed away. Sometimes it feels like you have to take the time to reconnect with events that are important for you, and this certainly was an important point in our lives and a little bit for them as well. […]
(𝑆𝑡𝑒𝑓𝑎𝑛 𝑂𝑙𝑠𝑑𝑎𝑙, 𝑉𝑖𝑐𝑒, 𝑂𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑏𝑒𝑟 2018)

Photo credit: Corinne Day

✨𝑪𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒏𝒆 𝑫𝒂𝒚 entered the fashion world by chance but ended up revolutionising it: she launched Kate Moss’ career and set a precedent for a new style of fashion photography.

▪️Born in London on February 19th, 1962, Corinne was raised by her grandmother and left home at 16. While living in Japan in 1985, she met an Australian guy in a subway, Mark Szaszy and they never separated since. He had a keen interest in film and photography and taught her to use the camera.

▪️Corinne started experimenting and photographing her friends, who were models, in their everyday lives. She crossed the line and captured what was behind the luxury and the glamour that shaped their jobs. She rather focused on their poor salaries: living in dumps, struggling to pay the rent, dirt, drugs, shabby clothes and scruffy styles. She said of that time that they lived “on bread and wine and spliffs.” Later, it would bring out a controversial term ‘𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒐𝒊𝒏 𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒄’ as a style in fashion industry.

▪️Corinne Day was neither interested in the commercial side of photography nor the artificiality. For her, it was all about honesty, realism, and putting a person in a center. She found beauty in anyone and any situation, everything could be interesting for her artistic creations.

▪️In November 1996, Corinne Day was diagnosed with a slow-growing brain tumour called oligoastrocytoma and had to undergo a brain surgery. The surgeon and oncologist gave her a prognosis of 8 years left to live, however Day outlived this prognosis by more than six years.

▪️Being ill, Corinne returned to fashion photography and was regularly commissioned by British, Italian and Japanese Vogue amongst many others. Her work has been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery, Victoria & Albert Museum, Tate Modern, Saatchi Gallery, The Science Museum, The Design Museum, The Photographers' Gallery, Gimpel Fils Gallery and was also included in The Andy Warhol exhibition at the Whitney Museum, New York.
Corinne Day sadly passed away on August 27th, 2010.
(𝑆𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑐𝑒𝑠: 𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑑𝑎𝑦.𝑐𝑜.𝑢𝑘; 𝐻𝑒𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑠 𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑧𝑖𝑛𝑒)

Here you can watch a documentary about Corinne as part of Masters of Photography series.
𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐍𝐄 𝐃𝐀𝐘 / 𝐅𝐈𝐁 𝟓 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐭𝐞 𝐖𝐞𝐛-𝐃𝐨𝐜𝐨 - 𝐌𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐡𝐨𝐭𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐲 𝐕𝐨𝐥 𝟏𝟏 '𝐈𝐦𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐬'
➡️ https://bit.ly/2JwOwVH

Photo credit: Corinne Day

Tomorrow, on February 19th, Corinne Day would turn 59. Together with Placebo, let's say 'THANK YOU' for capturing the moments and bringing us back in time...

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🔸PLACEBO IN BANGKOK & DAVE MCLEAN'S OASIS DIET🔸

Dear friends, the idea for today's post came to me from two sides.

🔸Firstly, I found an amazing interview that Brian gave at the Sonic Bang Festival in Bangkok in 2013 and that I will share with you next time.
The interview mentions that Placebo performed in Bangkok for the third time.
🔸And then I read a couple of loving and very funny articles earlier this year, where Dave McLean of Riverman Management was interviewed about two sequels to his film Schemers, which are being prepared for filming.
𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒘𝒐 𝒇𝒊𝒍𝒎𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒃𝒆 𝒅𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑵𝒊𝒓𝒗𝒂𝒏𝒂 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒊𝒍𝒎 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒃𝒆 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝑫𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒛𝒆
𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑭𝑰𝑹𝑺𝑻 𝑹𝑶𝑪𝑲 𝑭𝑬𝑺𝑻𝑰𝑽𝑨𝑳 𝑰𝑵 𝑩𝑨𝑵𝑮𝑲𝑶𝑲.

Photo credit: Kevin Cummins, unknown / edit by Marti

📌“The third one is about a festival I did in Bangkok with Oasis and Franz Ferdinand, Snow Patrol, Placebo and Ian Brown of the Stone Roses on the bill.
“I actually call it the Oasis diet because I lost 12 kilos while I was promoting them.
“Why is the film called Knitted Smoke?
My dad once said: ‘Why you doing that festival, son? It’d be easier knitting smoke!’
I thought that just nailed it!"
(Dave McLean, The Courier Jan 2021)

Photo credit: Kevin Cummins

🔸*🔸💢𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎 𝐢𝐧 𝐁𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐊𝐎𝐊 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟔💢🔸*🔸

📌 𝐃𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐎𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐮𝐩
"Years later, I met a drinks promoter in Bangkok called Cyril Legrande. He said: “I really want to put on a festival. I’ll sponsor $2m providing you book Oasis.”
We got Oasis, Snow Patrol, Franz Ferdinand and Ian Brown. Then I got a fax:
“The sponsorship has gone down to $1m.” Then another: “$500,000.” The Thai promoter said: “You’ll have to cut the band fees – is it absolutely necessary to have Mr Franz and Mr Ferdinand? Can’t we just have one?” 😁😁😁
Then he added: “You need to guarantee that Oasis turn up, or else you will have to pay their $500,000 fee.”
This was when Oasis were renowned for cancelling.
I woke up the next day and thought: “I’m going to have to sell my house.”
When they walked out on stage I leapt in the air with ecstasy. My girlfriend went: “I never knew you liked Oasis so much … ”
(Dave McLean, The Guardian Sep 2020)

📌“The gig happens, the crowd turns up, it’s a big success,” adds McLean. “I kept going backstage to see if everything’s okay because at that time they were a bit frosty, anything could happen. So when they went on stage I jumped up and punched the air singing ‘you gotta roll with it!’
My partner said: ‘I never thought you liked Oasis that much!’ She never knew that I’d guaranteed £500,000 of my own money. I actually call it the Oasis diet because I lost 12 kilos in six weeks while I was promoting them.”
(Dave McLean, NME Sep 2020)

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Brian with Oasis singer Liam Gallagher.

Do you like Dave's memories?😁😍🥰
The festival was organized despite all the possible problems and the first year was really unforgettable.
A few mentions that could be found on the Internet:

📌 Held at Lakeside Muangthong Thani, an expansive carpark site situated about a 30-minute drive from the Bangkok city centre, the festival boasted a bill that read like a who’s who of British indie rock.
On the first day last Saturday, Britpop giants 𝐎𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐬 headlined a bill that also included Scottish art rockers
𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐳 𝐅𝐞𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐝, ex-Stone Roses frontman 𝐈𝐚𝐧 𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐧
and Belgian experimentalist outfit 𝐃𝐞𝐮𝐬. It was some feat pulling together such an indie treat. Day two saw art-school punks the Futureheads and Mercury Prize-nominated quartet Maximo Park sharing the bill with indie heavy hitters
𝐒𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐏𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥 and 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨. Not too bad either.
Although there were some teething problems for the organisers (Riverman, Matching Entertainment and Pernod Ricard), which is understandable as it was the first time they had attempted to stage an event of this magnitude, the festival was generally very well organised. Logistical support from the Thai government was a big plus.
Headliners 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 worked hard to get the crowd going but as much as 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐨 tore into a nearly indie metal-sounding set, the night really belonged to Snow Patrol and their singer Gary Lightbody who sang beautifully throughout with soul and emotion.
(Live4ever.proboards.com Feb 2006)
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Photo credit: Kevin Cummins

𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑘𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑒𝑥𝑐𝑒𝑟𝑝𝑡 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑙𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑇𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ 2006, 𝑤𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑏𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝐵𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑘𝑜𝑘 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑔𝑢𝑦𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑎 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒.

📌At dusk between the crowded market stalls of Patpong, Bangkok's touristy red light district, Placebo are brandishing copies of their new album for the first time. The band are more incredulous than proud, however, as they have just handed over 100 Baht (Pounds 1.45) each to buy some illegal bootleg CDs from a street vendor.
Meds, the fifth Placebo album, is not due on shelves anywhere until next month.

"Hey, this is us! This is our new album," Brian Molko, the band's diminutive singer and guitarist, berates the Thai teenager sitting behind dozens of racks of counterfeit discs. The stallholder looks nonplussed, scrutinising the unofficial sleeve artwork, cobbled together from magazine images. Looking back in turn at Molko's mascara-lined, milky-blue eyes, the improbably tall bassist Stefan Olsdal and the lank-haired drummer Steve Hewitt, confusion turns to astonishment as he realises who his latest customers are.😍
Molko might have been expected to throw a tantrum at the stall, given his reputation as the bisexual ringleader of a drug-fuelled glam-rock'n'roll circus...(...)

But, ten years on, Placebo prefer to laugh off their black- market encounter. Over drinks in a bar where bored-looking Thais in bikinis dance for sex tourists, Molko checks the spelling of his lyrics on the bogus sleevenotes. "You have to have a sense of humour about it," he chuckles, "I mean, did you see the look on the guy's face?"
Hewitt, a straight-talking Mancunian, is more forthright. "It's like someone shagging your missus, it feels that personal," he fumes.
"I've not even held the finished thing in my hand and already you can get it here. That makes me really irate."
Molko shrugs. "It's something that would have really bugged me a few years ago but now I try not to let it," he says, further confounding his reputation as a drama queen.
"What's the point of trying to stop something you can't control? When the album was leaked on the internet (there have been 26,000 illegal downloads since), I got really upset that day - you are minded to get very vengeful - but you have to move on."

Although Placebo are content to celebrate long into the night, confirmation of how much they have calmed down comes as their afterparty, fuelled by alcoholic drinks company sponsors, is suddenly hijacked by a teetotal Ian Brown.
Silencing the DJ with a show of Mancunian bravado, the former Stone Roses singer loudly protests that he has lost his favourite pair of camouflage-print sunglasses, which - after much effing and blinding and threats to strip-search everyone - turn up in a fridge. Brown switches back into amiable mode as if nothing has happened and the party goes on.
"And you were expecting me to be a diva," Molko jokes, while remaining conspicuously out of harm's way.😊
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Placebo in Bangkok, 2006. Photo credit unkown

Unfortunately, I won't show you much from the band's concert itself, because the only recording is not in good quality. But that's the way it goes sometimes. Even so, it does not make this topic less attractive.
🎶 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 - 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐌𝐞 (𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐁𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐤𝐨𝐤 𝟏𝟎𝟎 𝐑𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝟏𝟗.𝟎𝟐.𝟎𝟔)
https://bit.ly/3dfswLr

⭐Anyway, you can enjoy my collage of photos from this event.⭐

Post by Marti