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Hi dear soulmates!
Last week I started telling you about Placebo 𝐀𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐨𝐮𝐫 2010. Now, I’m going to continue with another great 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖 that Brian did for Australian Radio Station 𝑻𝒓𝒊𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝑱 on March 1st in Perth. Obviously, the interviewers were young and funny guys, so, together with Brian’s perfect sense of humour, the chat turned to be quite ridiculous at times but very honest as well.
Do you want to know if it's easy to become friends with Brian and how it’s like to play at the mountain ski resort at the end of December? Then here we go!
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Int. 1: 𝑾𝒆’𝒓𝒆 𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏 𝒂 𝒉𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒍 𝒍𝒐𝒃𝒃𝒚. 𝑰𝒕’𝒔 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒇𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒚 𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏… 𝑰𝒕'𝒔 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒔𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒌! 𝑾𝒆’𝒓𝒆 𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒅, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒆’𝒓𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂 𝒈𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐, 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐. 𝑯𝒊 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏!
𝐁: Good morning!
Int. 1: 𝑰'𝒎 𝒔𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒚, 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒂 𝒃𝒊𝒕 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒂𝒚 𝒈𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅?
𝐁: Yeah, we've only just met, dude, you know.
I4nt. 1: 𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕’𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒔𝒐?
𝐁: It’s alright, you know, I think it's a cultural thing you notice. I think this is certain kind of familiarity that kind of comes with being an Australian. I'm used to it, I'm in a band with an American, you know, and it's kind of like ‘Hello, I’ve just met you, you’re my best friend!’ [imitates American accent and laughs]. So I'm kinda used to it.
Int. 1: 𝑺𝒐 𝒊𝒕’𝒔 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒚𝒐𝒖’𝒗𝒆 𝒈𝒐𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒈𝒊𝒈 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅? 𝑩𝒚 𝒅𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕?
𝐁: No, no.
Int. 2: 𝑶𝒌𝒂𝒚. 𝑪𝒂𝒏 𝒘𝒆 𝒃𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒔, 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐?
𝐁: No [laughs]
Int. 2: 𝑱𝒆𝒔𝒖𝒔, 𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒅, 𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒅! 𝑵𝒐𝒘 𝒚𝒐𝒖'𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒚𝒅𝒏𝒆𝒚…
𝐁: It's way too early in the morning, you know, I haven’t had enough coffee yet to be friends with myself.
Int. 1: 𝑰 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒘𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒅𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒔 𝒑𝒓𝒆-𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒅𝒐𝒏’𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒇𝒂𝒌𝒆...
𝐁: You've just blown the whole thing… [laughs]
Int. 1: 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉 𝒎𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒘𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝑭𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒍. 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒆𝒏𝒋𝒐𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒆 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒘𝒔 𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒚, 𝒂𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒚 𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒂 𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒂𝒓 𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆-𝒖𝒑. 𝑯𝒐𝒘'𝒔 𝒊𝒕 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒈𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈?
𝐁: Oh it's going really well, yeah, so far so good, really.
Int. 1: 𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒇𝒂𝒗𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒔𝒐 𝒇𝒂𝒓?
𝐁: My favourite show was our own show that we played in Melbourne, at the Festival Hall, a few days ago. It was pretty magical, one of those moments of collective euphoria that just eveything’s just gonna slot into its place.
Int. 1: 𝑰𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒂 𝒄𝒆𝒓𝒕𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝒔𝒐𝒓𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒆𝒕… 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒈𝒐𝒕 𝒂 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒓 𝒂 𝒃𝒖𝒏𝒄𝒉 𝒐𝒇 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒔𝒐𝒓𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒈𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 ‘𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒔 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒄𝒐𝒐𝒍, 𝒘𝒆 𝒆𝒏𝒋𝒐𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒆 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈.’
𝐁: Yeah, song no.1 till song 22. [laughs]
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𝐁: That's kinda really takes off.
Int. 1: 𝑶𝒃𝒗𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒍𝒚 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝒊𝒕'𝒔 𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝒐𝒏 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒘𝒔 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒈𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕, 𝒊𝒕’𝒔 𝒈𝒐𝒐𝒅. 𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒔𝒐 𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒈, 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏, 𝒅𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒗𝒆𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒎𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔, 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇 𝒅𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂 𝒈𝒊𝒈 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒐𝒏, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖'𝒓𝒆 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒊𝒕, 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒂 𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝒃𝒊𝒕 𝒃𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒅, 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒇𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇 𝒐𝒏 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒃𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒅?
𝐁: Would you like a diplomatic answer or a truthful one?
Int. 1: 𝑰 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒂 𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒕𝒉𝒇𝒖𝒍 𝒐𝒏𝒆.
𝐁: Everybody has a bad day, certainly it happens to everyone. I think the most recent one was on the 22nd of December, 2009, and we played in a ski resort in Italy, and the weather was terrible, it took us like 2 days to get up the mountain, when we got there it was like a football field covered in snow with 50 people in it. We’re on stage and the stage is leaking water, all the equipment is just breaking, and you just ask yourself like, "Why am I here? What am I doing?" It's 3 days from Christmas and I’m stuck up a mountain, nothing works, nobody's here, "What am I doing with my life?" and I was just like, I put some sunglasses on and just kind of grinned and bared it to the end. So obviously it's got a lot to do with the whole bunch of different conditions, really.
Int. 1: 𝑯𝒆𝒓𝒆’𝒔 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐, 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒇 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐, 𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒖𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒘… 𝑴𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒕’𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂 𝒃𝒊𝒕 𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒘…
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Int. 2: 𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒅𝒊𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒐𝒇 𝒉𝒊𝒎 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝒔𝒂𝒘 𝒉𝒊𝒎, 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏?
Int. 1: 𝑰 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒈𝒐𝒐𝒅.
Int. 2: 𝑽𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒓𝒕!
Int. 1: 𝑯𝒆'𝒔 𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒓𝒕.
Int. 2: 𝑺𝒉𝒐𝒓𝒕 𝒎𝒂𝒏, 𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒏.
Int. 1: 𝑯𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒘𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂 𝒉𝒂𝒕, 𝒘𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂 𝒔𝒖𝒏𝒏𝒊𝒆𝒔, 𝒔𝒖𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒔 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝒊𝒔 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒊𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖’𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒂 𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅, 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒊𝒕.
Int. 2: 𝑰 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒉𝒆’𝒔 𝒈𝒐𝒐𝒅, 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝑰'𝒗𝒆 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒍𝒅 𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒇𝒇, 𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 8 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒂𝒈𝒐. 𝑯𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒘𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂 𝒉𝒂𝒕, 𝒘𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂 𝒔𝒖𝒏𝒏𝒊𝒆𝒔, 𝒔𝒖𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒔 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝒊𝒔 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒊𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖’𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒂 𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅, 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒊𝒕.
Int. 1: 𝑺𝒆𝒆𝒎𝒔 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒈𝒐𝒐𝒅, 𝒊𝒕'𝒔 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒖𝒕…
Int. 2: 𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒎𝒆… 𝑯𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒈𝒐𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒂 𝒔𝒍𝒂𝒑, 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒂 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆-𝒖𝒑 𝒐𝒏…
Int. 2: 𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒔 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒈𝒊𝒈𝒔 𝒅𝒐𝒏’𝒕 𝒈𝒐 𝒔𝒐 𝒘𝒆𝒍𝒍.
𝐁: For a band, when you’re kinda… when the instruments are not working or when you have technical problems, you just feel like an amputee on stage, that's one condition that makes it quite difficult. Everybody has a bad day, everybody wakes up occasionally at the wrong side of the bed, everybody has stuff going on in their life which can kind of influence a bad show sometimes as well, so we are only human. But the thing about the band is that regardless of all these factors, we try to pay maximum respect to the people who show up and so we do our best to give 100% whatever the conditions are. But, being human, this is only so much that we can do on certain days.
Int. 1: 𝑯𝒂𝒔 𝒊𝒕 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒊𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖'𝒗𝒆 𝒈𝒐𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒏 𝒐𝒍𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖’𝒗𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒂 𝒃𝒊𝒕 𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒆𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒇𝒇 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒘?
𝐁: Well, I think what you do from the time is that you learn to sort of become less precious, you kind of understand the context a lot more of what you're doing. When you are 22-23, every little tiny thing that goes wrong is sort of like a matter of life and death to you. I think you sort of get more distance and more balance from the whole thing, just through experience. So you’re a little bit kind of less emotional about the whole thing. You understand like ‘It’s quite ok, this too shall pass’, you know.
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▪️Source: Audio - Brian Molko Interview by Triple J, 1 March 2010, Australia
Part 1 https://bit.ly/3rNHs8b
Part 2 https://bit.ly/2MgWYsW
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