 |
| Photo credit: Karen Mason Blair / Edit by Rita |
🔷✨ 𝙄𝙉𝙏𝙀𝙍𝙑𝙄𝙀𝙒 𝙒𝙄𝙏𝙃 𝙎𝙏𝙀𝙑𝙀 𝙃𝙀𝙒𝙄𝙏𝙏 (𝟮𝟬𝟬𝟭) ✨🔷
𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘭𝘬𝘰, 𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘧𝘢𝘯 𝘖𝘭𝘴𝘥𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘷𝘦 𝘏𝘦𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘔𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘤𝘰. 𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘢 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘸𝘢𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘦, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵, 𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘷𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘬 𝘵𝘰 𝘶𝘴, 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘧 "𝘚𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘒" 𝘢𝘯𝘥 "𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘠𝘰𝘶" 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘸𝘦𝘳. 𝘚𝘰 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘸𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘡𝘶𝘳𝘥𝘰𝘬 𝘳𝘦𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴𝘦 (𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵), 𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘷𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘥 𝘶𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘮…
𝗛𝗢𝗪 𝗪𝗔𝗦 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗖𝗘𝗦𝗦 𝗧𝗢 𝗪𝗥𝗜𝗧𝗘 “𝗕𝗟𝗔𝗖𝗞 𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞𝗘𝗧 𝗠𝗨𝗦𝗜𝗖”?
With the last album "Without you I'm Nothing" we did a 14-month tour and we were so busy that we couldn't write anything. When we finished, we were really tired, but we had to get to work because we were already tired of playing the songs on that album, and since we had been like monkeys playing, playing and playing, we already wanted to change the rhythm of work, and this we were only going to achieve it by writing new songs; we were excited about it.
𝗕𝗘𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗘 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗩𝗜𝗘𝗪 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗪𝗘𝗥𝗘 𝗧𝗘𝗟𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗠𝗘 𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗛𝗢𝗪 𝗠𝗨𝗖𝗛 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗟𝗜𝗞𝗘 𝗘𝗟𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗥𝗢𝗡𝗜𝗖 𝗠𝗨𝗦𝗜𝗖. 𝗜𝗦𝗡'𝗧 𝗜𝗧 𝗔 𝗕𝗜𝗧 𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗚𝗘 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗔 𝗗𝗥𝗨𝗠𝗠𝗘𝗥 𝗜𝗡 𝗔 𝗥𝗢𝗖𝗞 𝗕𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗧𝗢 𝗕𝗘 𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗗 𝗜𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗥𝗘?
I've been playing for 15 years, and from '89 to '91 I was in a techno band called K Klass. Besides, I've always liked electronic music; I'm from Manchester and there's a good movement of this kind of music there. Apart, I experienced the ecstasy of electronic music, so it's not strange that someone like me likes that genre so much.
⭐ 𝐊 𝐊𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬 - 𝐑𝐡𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐦 𝐈𝐬 𝐀 𝐌𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐲 (𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨 1991) [ 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒗𝒆 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒓𝒖𝒎𝒔 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈 ] 🎶
https://youtu.be/p1C20hCFjks
 |
| Photo credit: Nadav Kander |
About two years ago in New York we were playing a Christmas show with Kid Rock, and when we finished, Fred Durst suddenly stepped on stage and said Placebo sucked, so a big fight started. He's a poor idiot; We never cleared things up afterwards, so we were never friends again, and we weren't friends anyway. Four months later we met at a show in Australia, but since everyone already knew about the fight, the organizers planned everything so that we did not coincide, so nothing happened. But he's a real jerk; He and his band can go to hell.
𝗢𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥 𝗛𝗔𝗡𝗗, 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗛𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝗔𝗟𝗪𝗔𝗬𝗦 𝗛𝗔𝗗 𝗔 𝗚𝗢𝗢𝗗 𝗥𝗘𝗟𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗣 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗗𝗔𝗩𝗜𝗗 𝗕𝗢𝗪𝗜𝗘...
That's right, we met him when he was on tour with Morrisey, and one day, all of a sudden Morrisey disappeared. Bowie had some demos of us, so he wanted us to open some shows for him and that's when it all started. I think Bowie saw something of him in Brian in terms of lyrics. The thing is that we kept getting along, and when we released the last album, He proposed us to play together. Of course we said yes; When people like him want to do something with you, you know you're doing something right.
𝗗𝗢 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗥𝗘𝗠𝗘𝗠𝗕𝗘𝗥 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗠𝗢𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗗𝗘𝗖𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗪𝗔𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗗 𝗧𝗢 𝗕𝗘 𝗔 𝗠𝗨𝗦𝗜𝗖𝗜𝗔𝗡?
Of course I do!, it was when I was 11 and I was in school. A couple of friends wanted to form a band and they talked to me. They had older brothers who were in other bands, so they lent us their guitars, but there were only two. My brother also had his band, but he didn't lend me his guitar and anyway they told me "why don't you try the drums?" I tried it and learned to play on my own. That's when I realized I wanted to be a musician, and here I am
(laughs).
𝗦𝗨𝗣𝗣𝗢𝗦𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗖𝗢𝗨𝗟𝗗 𝗥𝗘-𝗥𝗘𝗖𝗢𝗥𝗗 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗙𝗜𝗥𝗦𝗧 𝗔𝗟𝗕𝗨𝗠, 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗪𝗢𝗨𝗟𝗗 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗡𝗚𝗘 𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗜𝗧?
Nothing, because that's what was going on at the time; That was our mentality and that's how we thought we should sound, that's why records should stay as they are, because they reflect an exact moment you are going through.
𝗟𝗘𝗧'𝗦 𝗦𝗨𝗣𝗣𝗢𝗦𝗘 𝗬𝗢𝗨'𝗥𝗘 𝗔 𝗝𝗢𝗨𝗥𝗡𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗦𝗧 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗛𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝗧𝗢 𝗔𝗦𝗞 𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗩𝗘 𝗛𝗘𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗧 𝗔 𝗤𝗨𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡, 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗪𝗢𝗨𝗟𝗗 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗔𝗦𝗞 𝗛𝗜𝗠?
What drugs do you take? Who do you sleep with? (laughs) I'd be a gossip journalist, of course! And if I had to answer I'd say "f*ck you." I'd love to ask those things just to see the reaction.
 |
| Photo credit: Sebastian Dolidon |
𝙈𝙊𝙑𝙄𝙀𝙎... 🎬 🔷
𝗔 𝗙𝗘𝗪 𝗬𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗦 𝗔𝗚𝗢 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗪𝗘𝗥𝗘 𝗜𝗡 𝗔 𝗙𝗜𝗟𝗠 𝗖𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗘𝗗 "𝗩𝗘𝗟𝗩𝗘𝗧 𝗚𝗢𝗟𝗗𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗘" 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗘𝗪𝗔𝗡 𝗠𝗖𝗚𝗥𝗘𝗚𝗢𝗥.
𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗪𝗔𝗦 𝗜𝗧 𝗟𝗜𝗞𝗘 𝗠𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗠𝗢𝗩𝗜𝗘𝗦?
I really enjoyed the experience, I made a lot of friends and it was a pleasure to work with someone like Todd Haynes (director). Of course, I'd rather be a musician than an actor because it's less tiring. When you act you have to wait for a lot of things to happen, as a musician you just do them and that's it, plus it's very tiring. From there I began to get along with Michael Stipe (R.E.M.) who was the producer, but after "Velvet Goldmine" I retired precisely because I was so tired (laughs), but it's a good movie. What I did hate is that people started to label us as a glam band after that. They don't understand that it's cinema, it's fiction, we were playing a glam band, but suddenly the reporters told us "how does it feel to be a glam band? Got damn! Anyway, the experience was wonderful.
𝗜𝗙 𝗔 𝗠𝗢𝗩𝗜𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗟𝗜𝗙𝗘 𝗪𝗔𝗦 𝗙𝗜𝗟𝗠𝗘𝗗, 𝗪𝗛𝗜𝗖𝗛 𝗔𝗖𝗧𝗢𝗥 𝗪𝗢𝗨𝗟𝗗 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗟𝗜𝗞𝗘 𝗧𝗢 𝗕𝗘 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗬𝗘𝗗 𝗕𝗬?
(laughs) I think it would be Nicolas Cage (laughs) because you can always see that he brings out the funny side of everything when he acts; That's why I like him so much, I'm like that. He's also very intense, just like me. That's a good question, I think I'm going to remember it when I go to sleep (laughs).
𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗗 𝗢𝗙 𝗠𝗢𝗩𝗜𝗘𝗦 𝗗𝗢 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗟𝗜𝗞𝗘?
I like things like "Being John Malkovich". I'm not one of those who enjoy horror movies or very gory stuff; I lean towards tapes like "Drugstore Cowboy", "Buffalo 66", "Rumble Fish", "Angel heart", that kind of thing….
 |
| Photo credit: Juliette Robert |
⭐𝗙𝗜𝗥𝗦𝗧 𝗖𝗘𝗟𝗘𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗧𝗬 𝗛𝗘 𝗠𝗘𝗧...
Julian Cope.
💿𝗙𝗜𝗥𝗦𝗧 𝗥𝗘𝗖𝗢𝗥𝗗 𝗛𝗘 𝗕𝗢𝗨𝗚𝗛𝗧...
"The Wall" by Pink Floyd...
🎸𝗙𝗜𝗥𝗦𝗧 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗖𝗘𝗥𝗧 𝗛𝗘 𝗔𝗧𝗧𝗘𝗡𝗗𝗘𝗗...
"To one of the Pixies in Manchester and opened Bloody Valentines. That changed my life, because at the time I was listening to AC/DC and stuff like that, mostly because of my brother, and when I saw Pixies they blew me away. They taught me that there was something else beyond what I was listening to." ✪
𝑻𝒆𝒙𝒕: 𝐴𝑙𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑡𝑜 𝑅𝑜𝑗𝑎𝑠
𝑺𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒄𝒆: 𝐸𝑟𝑒𝑠, 1𝑠𝑡 𝐽𝑢𝑙𝑦 2001, #313
𝑬𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒉 𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏: 𝑅𝑖𝑡𝑎 𝑀𝑜𝑙𝑘𝑜 𝑑𝑒 𝐿. 𝑒𝑥𝑐𝑙𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜 𝐴𝑛𝑦𝑤𝑎𝑦
Post by Rita
