It’s not the first time when I’m back to a pretty much remarkable ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐๐๐จ ๐๐จ๐ง๐๐๐ซ๐ญ ๐๐ญ ๐๐๐ซ๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐๐ฅ ๐ ๐ข๐ง ๐๐๐. After not playing in the States for six years, they wanted their two only US shows in October 2013 to be really special.
This time, Placebo’s choice of the support artist wasn’t obvious enough.
Hoop's style has been characterized as largely experimental with folk, rock, and electronic influences. Her early mentor, Tom Waits, described it as, "like a four-sided coin. She is an old soul, like a black pearl, a good witch or a red moon. Her music is like going swimming in a lake at night".
But we’re rather interested in what ๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐ง thinks of her, don’t we, soulmates?๐
Just a few days later after Placebo were back to London from the US Brian started his three-part program ๐ป๐๐ ๐ด๐๐๐๐๐๐ on British radio station XFM. Every Sunday evening, for an hour, he shared his favourite tracks from different artists and talked about them. About Jesca Hoop, Brian said that she’s “๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ , ๐ฐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐, ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐, ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐.”
So now, before you’re going to watch the video I’m sharing with you tonight, please go and listen to this very song, an acoustic version of ๐๐๐ฏ๐จ๐ ๐๐ง ๐๐๐๐ฏ๐๐ง, which Brian chose to play on the radio as his favoutite by Jesca Hoop.
๐ถ https://bit.ly/2OrtZUw
If you want some more, try this one…
๐๐๐ฌ๐๐ ๐๐จ๐จ๐ฉ - ๐๐๐๐ฉ๐๐ซ ๐๐๐ฏ๐๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง (๐๐ข๐ฏ๐ ๐จ๐ง ๐๐ฆ๐๐ณ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐๐ญ๐๐ซ๐ง๐จ๐จ๐ง๐ฌ)
๐ถ https://bit.ly/3tW7OpQ
✨But back to ๐๐๐ ๐จ๐ง ๐๐๐ญ๐จ๐๐๐ซ ๐๐๐ญ๐ก, ๐๐๐๐: some hours before Placebo took the stage at Terminal 5 they performed an ๐๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ ๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐จ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐๐๐ฌ๐๐ ๐๐จ๐จ๐ฉ and sat down for an ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ on the music program ๐จ-๐บ๐๐ ๐๐.
You probably can’t hear the whole beauty of Jesca Hoop’s voice while she’s doing backing vocals but you can definitely appreciate warm and charming atmosphere of this performance, as well as notice genuine respect between Brian and Jessica.
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| Placebo at Terminal 5 in 2013. Photo credit: Artistree.fm |
๐ข"Music bloggers often fall into the trap of labeling artists or jamming them into a genre they have no business being in. In the end, the game of band word association proves pointless and ring false. Readers (and music lovers) are more sophisticated then given credit for. I pride myself in not going there, but for those that do, rockers Placebo make it nearly impossible to do so. Since they debuted, the stellar UK band have switched up their sound but keep it rocking throughout the journey with their signature sound and sharp-as-a-machete lyrics. Last month, the trio dropped their seventh album entitled Loud Like Love. It’s their first new album in four years, and it’s another ear murderer. Hours before they took the stage at Terminal 5 in NYC on Oct. 15, Brian Molko, Stefan Olsdal, and Steve Forrest performed a track off the album (with Jesca Hoop) and sat down for a brief interview on A-Sides. During the course of the chat, the band chatted about their new record, a recent YouTube “LOUD LIKE LOVE TV” show they put on, and thanks to this guy (points to self), Miley Cyrus."
(thisisasides.com)
๐And here’s my ๐ญ๐ซ๐๐ง๐ฌ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ฉ๐ญ ๐จ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐๐ซ๐ฏ๐ข๐๐ฐ for you.
✨๐๐๐๐๐๐๐: ๐๐๐ ๐-๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐✨
๐ณ๐๐๐ ๐ณ๐๐๐ ๐ณ๐๐๐ ๐ป๐ฝ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐! ๐ฏ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐?
๐ข๐๐๐๐๐: We wish that we could take credit for the idea but the idea was trapped up by two younger guys who work at our management, so… It was born out of this idea kind of ’how could you play in every country that you’re releasing an album, how could you show this’. Maybe back ten years ago, certainly 20 years ago when we started, it would be impossible at all. So they trapped up this idea, and it’s just kind of snowballed, and snowballed, and snowballed to what was gonna be ambitious portrays. We ended up linking up to Tokyo and LA and London.
๐ฏ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐?
๐ข๐๐๐๐๐: People are buying less records than they used to! I guess the latest way that people are consuming music is streaming services, and it’s a big debate at the moment whether it’s a good thing or a bad thing, I don’t know.
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| Placebo at Terminal 5 in 2013. Photo credit unknown |
๐ข๐๐๐๐๐: I don’t think you could really compare those two artists, certainly we could not compare Miley Cyrus to Kate Bush at all (smiling). We grew up listening to music in the 80s. Pop music in the 80s had real kind of avant-garde edge to it, you know… If you listen to Ashes to Ashes by David Bowie or Kate Bush’s work or Peter Gabriel’s work, it’s all mainstream pop music but it was really quite weird and kooky and quite avant-garde. And since … it’s sort of come from really powerful thing into all these horrible TV shows around the world to behold an idea what pop music is and what it should be, changed from actually took this into being kind of karaoke. I think in a lot of people’s minds pop music equiles a specific way of singing, that’s either singing like a boy-band or like Mariah Carey, so that’s a real shame.
๐จ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐’๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐?
๐ข๐๐๐๐๐: That’s a great deal! You have a very dysfunctional relationship to out back catalogue. Normally, the show that we perform live at any given time is pretty much the songs that we can bear to play over that specific time when you come to see us. That’s simply because there’re a lot of songs you just have no emotional connection to anymore, and often they are your most commercially successful. But we feel that to play them, even if the fans may want them, would be a mechanical act, it wouldn’t be a truthful act, we would feel like we’re lying. We need to have an emotional connection to what we’re performing otherwise it just feels wrong.
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