𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎 𝐚𝐭 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐎𝐏𝐄𝐍 𝐀𝐈𝐑 𝐅𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐕𝐀𝐋, 𝐓𝐁𝐈𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐈 𝐆𝐄𝐎𝐑𝐆𝐈𝐀 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟓

🔸🍀Dear friends🍀🔸,
today's post could easily be a continuation of my series about the charitable deeds of the band Placebo. Too bad I didn't come across this report before.
On the other hand, deep down, I believe that Placebo was giving more of help than we can even know.

Photo credit: Eana Korbezashvili, Guram Muradov, Stefan Olsdal IG

🌟🔷𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎 𝐚𝐭 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐎𝐏𝐄𝐍 𝐀𝐈𝐑 𝐅𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐕𝐀𝐋, 𝐓𝐁𝐈𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐈 𝐆𝐄𝐎𝐑𝐆𝐈𝐀 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟓🔷🌟

The symbol of this article will be a photo of a hippo wandering the streets of the flood-ravaged city of Tbilisi. Why that?

13.-14. In June 2015, a devastating flood swept through the city, which resulted in many lives and a large part of the city's population was left homeless. At that time, a shot of a confused hippo wandering the muddy streets flew through the world.

Stefan's reaction to this photo was rather funny. When he saw a photo of this animal walking through the streets of the city where Placebo was soon to perform, he wrote on his IG that he could not wait to join the circus.

Poor Stefan didn't mean anything bad, but he didn't get all the information. The flood in Tbilisi completely swept away the local zoo. You can read about how horrible it was to clean up a lot of dead animals from the city streets in this article:
http://bit.ly/2PYAm2f

Georgian fans did not try to understand Stefan's attempt at a joke and wrote a lot of angry reactions to his address.
I managed to find an article from a Georgian newspaper about the whole unfortunate event that took place around Stefan, including the photo that Stefan shared on his IG:
http://bit.ly/3rWmJPk
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Photo credit: Eana Korbezashvili

You can read what happened next here in this article, which I share with you:

📌 TBILISI, DFWatch–Placebo, a British band which recently played at Tbilisi Open Air festival, has donated about USD 40,000 to the victims of the flood on June 13-14.

The website Indiegogo, which raises funds for charity, said it had received USD 39,974 from Placebo to help Tbilisi recover from the flood.

A few days after the flood, Placebo’s Stefan Osdal posted a photo of a hippo which escaped the zoo on the night of the flood and wandered the streets of Tbilisi. The hippo made the front pages worldwide, and while the subject of many jokes, some also used it as a PR tool to raise funds, drawing comparison to the situation in the well-known animated film Madagascar.

Osdal wrote that when he saw the picture from the streets of Tbilisi, where Placebo was going to perform a few weeks later, he couldn’t wait to ‘join the circus.’

This post caused outrage among the band’s Georgian fans, who started commenting everywhere in social media and on Placebo’s official pages, protesting what he said.
As a result, he deleted the photo and wrote a note of apology.

⭐Here is the full text of Stefan's apology from his IG:

💚 "It seems my recent words and photo offended some people in Tbilisi, Georgia after the natural disaster that struck the city. For this I do sincerely apologise. I never intended this to be the case, and I genuinely did not realise the true effects of what had happened. I have been looking forward to playing to our fans there and the last thing I wanted to do was to make them angry and resentful. I sincerely do hope the city can get back on its feet very soon and that no more casualties occur. Peace and love, Stefan" 💚

...continuation of the article:
📌 At a press conference before their performance in Tbilisi, band members said they were going to transfer all of their income from this performance to the victims of the flood.

The Tbilisi flood resulted in at least 19 deaths. Three people have not yet been found. The damage caused by the disaster amounts to about two hundred million laris. Many people lost their houses. Infrastructure was also badly damaged. Many zoo animals and other animals died.
(DFWatch, July 2015)📌
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Photo credit: Guram Muradov,

𝐻𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑘 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑢𝑦𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝑓𝑒𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑣𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑠.
https://bit.ly/2OTDtbk

From the next article we can read that:
📌 One of the biggest bands on the planet has contributed almost $40,000 USD to help Tbilisi recover from the devastating flood that caused immense damage to the capital city last month.
Prominent English alternative rock band Placebo donated $39,974 to the recovery efforts after raising funds at the Tbilisi Open Air festival on July 7.
At the time the world renowned band said it would donate any money received at the concert to those affected by the Tbilisi flood.[***]
Two days after the Tbilisi concert Placebo went online and thanked everyone who attended the gig.
💚"...ANOTHER CRAZY NIGHT ON THE ROAD FOR PLACEBO! SPECIAL THANKS TO ALL THE FANS IN TBILISI, GEORGIA FOR GIVING US SO MUCH LOVE AND POSITIVE ENERGY. WE TRULY HAD AN AMAZING TIME!!!,” 💚
said the band on its Facebook page.📌
(Agenda.GE, July 2015)
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Photo credit: Screenshot

So this is the story of one photo. The hippo was lucky to have survived the floods. Many other residents of the city and the local zoo died tragically.
However, the band Placebo faced the situation. I believe that they would donate the proceeds from their performance to the city even without Stefan's incident.
Because they've done it many times.🙏💗
Because they are personalities with a heart full of love and compassion.🙏💗

𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑡𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑝ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑟𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑠𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑣𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑜𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐼 𝑓𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑦𝑜𝑢.
𝐻𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 - 𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑨𝒓𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑎𝑙. 𝐼𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢'𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑭𝒖𝒄𝒌 𝑼, 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜 𝑎 𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜 𝑐𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟, 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑑𝑜 𝑖𝑡 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒:
https://bit.ly/3bTemOV

The videos are not in the best quality, but I chose the best ones and sorted them by setlist:
𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗯𝗼 𝗕𝟯
https://bit.ly/30MKXQf
𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗯𝗼 𝗔 𝗠𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗟𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗹𝗲 𝗣𝗶𝗲𝗰𝗲𝘀
https://bit.ly/3eFodd0
𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗯𝗼 𝗧𝘄𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘆 𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀
https://bit.ly/2OvSd0o
𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗯𝗼 𝗧𝗼𝗼 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀
https://bit.ly/3cBtCit
𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗯𝗼 𝗢𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗔 𝗞𝗶𝗻𝗱
https://bit.ly/38H4plJ
𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗯𝗼 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝘀
https://bit.ly/30NYBm3
𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗯𝗼 𝗦𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗦𝗮𝘆 𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗱𝗯𝘆𝗲
https://bit.ly/3cHLJUd
𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗯𝗼 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗕𝗹𝘂𝗲
https://bit.ly/3cxEHkI
𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗯𝗼 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗮 𝗥𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗳𝗮𝗿𝗲𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗹
https://bit.ly/38JKClw
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Dear soulmates, my current mood regarding the creation of this post leads me to deep reflections on tolerance and respect. Today, it is no longer a flood in one city, it is something like an apocalypse.
💚Let us approach everyone as a good person, even if they see things differently from our point of view than we do.
We do not live their lives and we do not know why they approache the matter in this way. Acting without sharpened emotions and trying to understand everyone is a topic of today.💚

Post by Marti