𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖, 𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐉𝐢𝐦𝐦𝐲 "𝐓𝐨𝐩 𝐁𝐚𝐛", 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟖

Dear soulmates,
Today I prepared an 🔸𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖🔸 for you which Placebo did right before going on stage 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐧 𝐨𝐧 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟑𝟎𝐭𝐡, 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟖 (broadcast on French TV on December 4th, 1998). It was their first time playing the famous venue in Paris.
The interview was done in kind of a mix of French and English, so I translated French parts and transcribed English ones to make it readable and of course enjoyable for you.
𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔, 𝑶𝒍𝒈𝒂💗

𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰, 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐬, 𝟑𝟎.𝟏𝟏.𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟖
➡️ https://bit.ly/2MOHNI4

Photo credit: screenshots of the video, edit by Olga

🔶𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖, 𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐉𝐢𝐦𝐦𝐲 "𝐓𝐨𝐩 𝐁𝐚𝐛", 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟖🔶
𝐏𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐞𝐮𝐯𝐫𝐞: Here’s a band that we all adore. Before going on tour to America, they’re back to France and today we have the opportunity to talk to Placebo. They also agreed to take part in our "Night of Glam". First of all, Brian, you need to clarify that you are not a glam band.
𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: No, why, it's even interesting. When ‘Ziggy Stardust’ came out, I was one year old. We are too young to remember glam. The music of our childhood was mainly disco - Blondie, ABBA, Bee Gees, etc. So glam didn't really affect us that much. And all the conversations that are going on now are caused by the fact that we appeared in the film [Velvet Goldmine], and journalists began to draw parallels ...
𝐏𝐌: But looking at your nails, Brian, people must be thinking: Brian Molko must be a glam because he’s got painted his nails!
𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧: No, he must’ve been gay! (Laughter)
𝐏𝐌: I’m going to introduce you to everyone. Brian - vocals, Steve - drums, Stefan - bass, guitar, and vocals. All together you are Placebo, and you make a lot of noise! How did you get to do this movie? Let's talk a little about Velvet Goldmine. Was it luck, was it good to do?
𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐯𝐞: (pointing to Brian) It's his fault!
𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: Yes, it's my fault. I've always been a big fan of Todd Haynes [director of Velvet Goldmine]. When I was in college, I was crazy about his movie Poison. And then ... It happened when 'Nancy boy' became a hit in England, when our faces were in all the newspapers and magazines ... He was casting for a film in London - he wanted musicians from London to star there - and as soon as I heard about it, I called him and said: "I’ll do anything, just let me in your movie, mate!" (Laughs) And then everything started spinning like a snowball, and Steve and Steph got small roles too...

Photo credit: Adrian Green

𝐏𝐌: You play musicians there, and you’re dressed really funny in that movie. Do you think these pictures are going to follow you for all your life, are you scared?
𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧: Yeah, definitely, I'm afraid already!
𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: The film came out at the same time as our album. And we knew that 'Pure morning' should now be talking about us - as part of the promotion for the new record - but not a song that we didn't even write ['20th Century Boy']. But we ended up putting it as B-side on one of the singles. And after we recorded this cover, there were rumors that we changed our image - like Marilyn Manson - and became a glam band. So, it’s possible that such associations originated from here.
𝐏𝐌: Did he give you some bit of advice? [about David Bowie]
𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: Yes ... This man went through everything, and in the end, he went a completely different way. Therefore, his music and his opinion are important to us. He advised us to never lose our spontaneity, said that we should always think about not "stagnating", and that we should not be afraid of following our inner instincts, listening to our inner voice ... He is a legend, and when the legend himself gives you such advice is a great success.
𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: The New York Dolls are much more of a smack band sat than kind of an acid… From what I've read, from a little that I’ve read about The New York Dolls, they were pretty nasty people, pretty evil. I don’t really know what happened but most of them are dead [of overdose]. (To the camera) Don't try it at home, kids! (Laughs)
𝐏𝐌: Who wants to talk about Lou Reed?
𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐯𝐞: I remember I had a job as a driver, when I was driving a racing cars that's when I went on 'Transformer' [Lou Reed's second studio album] heavy. I wasn’t hearing him really too much before 'Transformer'. I just remember driving around England in the summer and listening to this album constantly. I’ve been blown away by it when I discovered it, about eight years ago.
𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: Lou Reed is accused of goths’ coming to existsnce. (Laughter). And this, generally, is his fault. Look at the cover of 'Rock N Roll Animal' [Lou Reed's live album], that's the first goth! (Laughs) If it wasn’t for that we wouldn’t have all these [roar] vampires walking around the planet right now. For me, The Velvet Underground was a real discovery. It was the music of my sort of 17 till 22. I listened to The Velvet Underground obsessively. It’s kind of much much more important to me than their solo stuff.

Photo credit: Corinne Mariaud

𝐏𝐌: Do you like the subgenre of glam that Sweet and Slade represent?
𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: Absolutely not. It’s kind of an equivalent of Oasis. All these bands like Sweet and Mud are for Lager lags who like football, and just kind of doing it because that’s kind of what’s happening, if you know what I mean...
𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧: Bowie told once to Mick Ronson, "If you put on a dress and wear a makeup and you’ll get more chicks!" And it works! So, they get into glam rock to get chicks.
𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: Yeah, to get women, trying to get pussy, yeah.... They all are just drinker and footballer kind of people ... I’m like “Nah, get out”. Once you can see their stubble underneath their makeup...
𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧: And double chin.
𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: In one of the Bowie documentaries, I saw an interview with him where he said that Syd Barrett was the first person to suggest wearing makeup. Then I thought: it was before the 60s, but, apparently, it was Sid Barrett who was a kind of catalyst for Bowie that made him think about makeup. It was him who Bowie admired the most. Interestingly, we are not Alice Cooper fans at all, but big fans of Syd Barrett. (Laughs)
𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧: But there was also Little Richard.
𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: Little Richard, yes – if you wanna go the other way back.
𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐯𝐞: He's a king of rock and roll!
𝐏𝐌: And he was the first to publicly admit that he was homosexual, not to mention his craziness and his background.
𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: Yes, and he was a black man. It’s sort of this flamboyant… Faggy black man...
𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐯𝐞: He was freaking everybody out.
𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: I always thought he was the first punk.
𝐏𝐌: He was the first in everything!
𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: Exactly!

Photo credit: LUZ Photo Agency

𝐏𝐌: Mott The Hoople were one of the bands Bowie talked about ... Steve: Mott The Hoople? I worked with Dale Griffin (referring to Brian) remember, we had done the Peel session? Their drummer worked for the BBC Maida Vale studios, recorded [actually produced] sessions for John Peel. (Aside) Kind of old asshole[?]! (Laughter)
𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: That’s your best mate!
𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐯𝐞: Anyway, I met him, and someone said to me: "This is the drummer of Mott The Hoople." And I was like, “What? Who is that?". Then I looked more after Mott The Hoople stuff, and it’s absolutely ridiculous. I am so glad that we can get a band together right now rather than then. If you had to go through that being in a band just to make an impression... Nah...
𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: We're so happy that we’re have careers in the 90s and not in the 70s.
𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐯𝐞: Yes, there we go with that choice [Velvet Goldmine]. (Laughter).
𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: Being in this film only made us happy that we are in this time, not at that time because we would have looked so stupid! I think we look quite good now! (Everybody laughs).
𝐏𝐌: Let's talk a little about Roxy Music.
𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: I don't know much about Roxy Music and that proves once again that we are young enough to remember this kind of music. The first thing I heard from them was, I think, ‘Avalon’ or something like that. They are quite old. Not many of the songs that were played in the movie [Velvet Goldmine] I have heard before. 'Virginia Plain', '2HB', 'Ladytron', 'Baby's on Fire', some other songs by Brian Eno ... I have not heard them before, and I discovered this band [Roxy Music] precisely because of the film.
𝐏𝐌: It was very strange band, because Brian Eno was like a... who realized then he was a genius... Their first gig was at Bataclan, it was in 1972, and I attended it. By the way, it’s that very stage where you will be performing soon.
𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: Have you been to their concert in 1972? What month?
𝐏𝐌: I think it was April.
𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: April ... Before I was born!
𝐏𝐌: We have to play some T. Rex.
𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: Bowie called me this week, he just listened to our cover of '20th Century Boy', he really liked it, and he said - since he knew Mark Bolan well - he said that Mark Bolan would be proud that we made a cover of this song. I was moved by this very much.

Photo credit: Neil Cooper

𝐏𝐌: We’re gonna play Placebo 'Pure Morning' video. Could you explain to us the concept of the video? Everyone is talking about it, it's a rave! Say it in French if you can.
𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: The idea came from ourselves as we wanted something special, different from what we did before. We're tired of playing instruments in music videos. And we wanted to do something like a short film. But at the same time, something abstract, where there would be tension, a certain drama. The idea was inspired by an old Grace Kelly movie about a guy who tried to jump off the eaves of a New York hotel for 14 hours. And in the video, we stop, or rather they try to stop us, and the main reason for that is that they’re going to put a small experiment on us ...
𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧: Yeah, they feed us to the sharks. (Laughter).
𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: In the next video, we're going to be put in a huge shark tank. (Laughs) But we are not paranoid!
𝐏𝐌: Thank you Brian, Stefan, and Steve. Thank you very much! You were wonderful, and now you’re gonna go on stage. The audience is impatient. How do you like France in general, French people, how do they differ from another audience?
𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: They are very emotional, they shout loudly.
𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧: They dance.
𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: And they also demand your commitment. They are very demanding. In France, you have to do your best, you always have to deliver.

Post by Olga

INTERVIEW WITH DIMITRI TIKOVOI

⭐𝑫𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒕𝒓𝒊 𝑻𝒊𝒌𝒐𝒗𝒐𝒊: „𝑳𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒒𝒖𝒆, 𝒊𝒕 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒏 𝒐𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒊𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒌𝒆𝒆𝒑 𝒆𝒗𝒐𝒍𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒅.“⭐

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🔹𝐃𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐫𝐢 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐡 𝐏𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞 - 𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐧 𝐈𝐬 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞 (𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈 𝐋𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐈𝐭)🔹

Dear friends, I have no complicated Placebo theme for you tonight. I have found an amazing interview for you that Dimitri Tikovoi gave to a Hong Kong Nightlife Guide Magazine in 2004.
We already know who 𝐃𝐈𝐌𝐈𝐓𝐑𝐈 𝐓𝐈𝐊𝐎𝐕𝐎𝐈 is. A prominent French DJ and producer who has inspired many of Placebo's works with his amazing talent and thanks to him, the MEDS album is still one of the most exceptional Placebo creations.
In 2002, Dimitri formed a group of artists for his solo project called
𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐒𝐇 𝐏𝐀𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄 and released a single and completely unique album called 𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 under the auspices of this project.
Among the most famous artists from this album are 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐕𝐞𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐭 𝐔𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝, 𝐀𝐬𝐢𝐚 𝐀𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐨.
⭐🔹⭐
I have a very nice Instagram experience with Dimitri. Last year I shared a video on my IG account from the performance of his project Trash Palace in Saint-Malo, France in 2002, it was the song The Metric System, on which Brian Molko was invited to collaborate.
I tagged Dimitri in this post and he didn't hesitate and commented early in the morning that it was a blast of the past for him and that he had played this concert but never seen it again. He even asked me to send him a video to DM, which I was very happy to do.
Dear Dimitri kindly exchanged a few sentences with me and shared this video on his profile with these words:
„𝐴 𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑏𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝐼 𝑑𝑖𝑑 𝑚𝑦 𝑠𝑜𝑙𝑜 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑗𝑒𝑐𝑡 (𝑦𝑒𝑠, 𝑖𝑡'𝑠 𝑚𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑎𝑖𝑟 :-)) 𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑇𝑟𝑎𝑠ℎ 𝑃𝑎𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑔𝑜𝑡 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑀𝑜𝑙𝑘𝑜 𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑗𝑜𝑖𝑛 𝑢𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑓 30.000 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒.“
👍Thanks man, I appreciate that you are not only a great musician, but you also like your fans.😊


So, take a nice moment at my post and read Dimitri's view of sex as part of our lives and his amazing mentions of working with Brian and the beautiful Asia Argento, who added her sexy vocals to the song
𝑱𝒆 𝑻'𝑨𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝑴𝒐𝒊 𝑵𝒐𝒏 𝑷𝒍𝒖𝒔.

Trash Palace. Photo credit unknown

📌 Sitting in a west London bar on a sunny afternoon, Trash Palace main-man and former Parisien producer Dimitri Tokovoi, speaks softly as he outlines the centrality of sex in his electronic rock band and more specifically the importance of real sex behind Trash Palace's aesthetic.
„There are so many programmes about sex on TV here but when you watch them you feel like you're at school studying a subject such as how you should give a blow job,“ he snorts.
„Sex is not about that in reality at all; it's fashion, perversion, love, whatever; it's much more complex than just the image that's portrayed in the media at the moment.“
He equally opinionated about Trash Palace's perfectly formed fusion of rock & roll and electro-disco, which he created with the help of a highly impressive cast list of collaborators.
„I deliberately set out to find different people to collaborate with because sexuality is about a relationship between two people, it's very hard to have sex by yourself,“ he points out.
„I wanted to have different views, different moods and different sorts of perversions on the album and that's why there are so many different people involved.“
That Dimitri is as persuasive as he's well-connected is clear from the characters he tracked down, who include Velvet Underground legend John Cale and Placebo singer Brian Molko. He also managed to seduce Italian sex siren Asia Argento into performing a version of „Je T'Aime“, though admits he didn't actually know her until she walked into the studio to lay down her part.
„I had this idea of doing Je T'Aime because I've always loved the track, but my idea was to invert the characters roles,“ says Dimitri.
„In the original track, Serge Gainsbourg is fucking Jane Birkin, he's doing the act of penetration and I wanted to invert the roles; to have Asia doing the role of penetrating someone else. Brian (Molko) said he would do it so I asked Asia by sending her an email. Immediately, she sent me an email back saying 'yeah, I really want to do it' so I flew to Italy to record her voice.
She was very nervous when she did it because she's not a singer and she didn't know what I was going to ask her to do, she was still shooting movies at the time,“ he continues.
„We did it in a small room with a very basic recording set-up and I remember her chain smoking with me sitting in front of her. It was a little bit of a tense atmosphere but that was good for the track. She didn't know me, I didn't know her so it was a slightly bizarre environment.“
With Asia being generally acclaimed as one of the world's sexiest starlets, the resulting track is as salacious as Dimitri presumably hoped it would be, reflecting the overall highly polished standards of all 11 tracks on Positions. Musically, he's succeeded in tapping into the talents of all his various collaborators, to produce an album of punk, funk and electro songs that genuinely (and unusually, in this day and age) truly rocks.

Photo credit: Claudia Schmölders

𝑺𝒌𝒓𝒖𝒇𝒇𝒇: 𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒅𝒊𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒓𝒖𝒊𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒔?
DT: „It was mainly down to luck. I was working with those people in different ways as a producer or programmer, and most of them I was introduced to them through my work. I told them about my project and usually I got a really enthusiastic response from them.“
𝑺𝒌𝒓𝒖𝒇𝒇𝒇: 𝑰𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒂𝒎𝒃𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒇𝒂𝒎𝒐𝒖𝒔, 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒂 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇?
DT: „No, I like to be in the shadows, I'm quite happy to be the man behind the keyboards and the computer, I prefer that, I find it more exciting not to be seen.“
𝑺𝒌𝒓𝒖𝒇𝒇𝒇: 𝑰𝒔 𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒔𝒉 𝑷𝒂𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆?
DT: „No, they're two different things, Trash Palace is my fantasy, it's something that I'm taking out of my mind. Sometimes I come very close to living it as well (chuckling) but essentially I don't want it to be an explanation of my life. If I try to recreate my life through Trash Palace it will have limitations, whereas my fantasies or those fantasies that I'm generating with other people, are limitless. With fantasies there are more possibilities.“
𝑺𝒌𝒓𝒖𝒇𝒇𝒇: 𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒅𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒓𝒆𝒈𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝑳𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒐𝒏'𝒔 𝒗𝒊𝒃𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒔𝒆𝒙 𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒎𝒔, 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝑷𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒔?
DT: „Sex is more diverse here and more pretentious in Paris. There are a lot more taboos in England which makes it a lot better because it makes everything a bit more perverse, so more interesting. There are more rules to break and places to go in the dark to break them, which I find really interesting. One of the aspects of sex I like is its danger; that makes it more exciting. In France, people are more upfront; there is less perversion in France, I think, perversion is more a part of the English culture.“📌
♦You can read the whole interview here:
https://bit.ly/3nx6B5l
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The shared video is the only live version 🔹"𝑱𝒆 𝑻'𝑨𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝑴𝒐𝒊 𝑵𝒐𝒏 𝑷𝒍𝒖𝒔"🔹 from the Trash Palace performance, where Brian sang this beautiful song live and Asia Argento was projected from a video on the screen behind him.
As we already know, this song is a cover version of the immortal song of 𝑺𝒆𝒓𝒈𝒆 𝑮𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑱𝒂𝒏𝒆 𝑩𝒊𝒓𝒌𝒊𝒏.
It was put out as a single in 1969 and reached no. one in the UK, but it was banned in several other countries due to its overtly sexual content. Gainsbourg wrote “Je t'aime moi non plus” for the famous actress and sex symbol Brigitte Bardot with whom he had a short love affair in late 1967.
Like many of us, I have known this song since childhood because my father loved it.
Dimitri's idea of overturning the roles of lovers then seemed brilliant and very amusing to me, and Brian's live performance just took my breath away🔥💗.

Personally, I wish Dimitri many more successes, because he still has a head full of ideas and shares posts about his musical collaboration with many young artists on his IG account.
⭐And who knows, maybe there will be another collaboration with our beloved band?⭐🥰


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𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗙𝗔𝗡 𝗢𝗟𝗦𝗗𝗔𝗟 𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗩𝗜𝗘𝗪 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗚𝗜𝗚𝗪𝗜𝗦𝗘, 𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟲

Here's an ♦️𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗩𝗜𝗘𝗪♦️ from 2016 in which Stefan talks about the release ot the “A place for us to dream” collection, the beginning of Placebo, counting the number of concerts he played high, his approach to the next album and many more. Enjoy reading!

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𝗪𝗘𝗟𝗟 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗠𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗛𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝗛𝗔𝗗 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗙𝗔𝗜𝗥 𝗦𝗛𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗡𝗔𝗥𝗖𝗢𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗦 𝗜𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗣𝗔𝗦𝗧?
📢 "Yeah I counted the amount of gigs I did under the influence of whatever and it was a thousand gigs that I did not sober?“

𝗛𝗢𝗪 𝗠𝗔𝗡𝗬 𝗦𝗢𝗕𝗘𝗥?
📢 "Well it's been for Battle For The Sun and Loud Like Love sober.”

𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗪𝗜𝗦𝗘 𝗬𝗢𝗨'𝗗 𝗞𝗜𝗟𝗟 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥𝗦𝗘𝗟𝗙?
📢 “I'm too old to join the 27 club I also think it's a waste of life and it's terribly hard on people around you. I think humans are doomed to repeat history abut I'm trying to prove history wrong…. rock ‘n roll death, rock n roll suicide… I don't think that that's cool any more. It's been done so take care of yourself, and hold on to music.”

𝗟𝗘𝗧'𝗦 𝗚𝗢 𝗕𝗔𝗖𝗞 𝗔 𝗕𝗜𝗧... 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗘𝗗 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗖𝗘𝗕𝗢 𝗔𝗦 𝗔 𝗟𝗢𝗙𝗜 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗝𝗘𝗖𝗧 𝗖𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗦𝗛𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗬 𝗛𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗧 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗜𝗡 𝟭𝟵𝟵𝟰. 𝗜𝗦 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗥𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧?
📢 “Yeah we were 19 and we started it in his council flat in Deptford as a little art house band with a Tascam four track surrounded by cheap broken guitars and keyboards. It was an artsy little band - Brian had studied drama.“

𝗛𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗕𝗢𝗧𝗛 𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥 𝗛𝗔𝗗 𝗧𝗢 𝗛𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝗔 𝗡𝗢𝗥𝗠𝗔𝗟 𝗝𝗢𝗕?
“📢 Brian refused to get a "normal job", his Dad's a banker. So is mine I mean we had to do summer jobs here and there when we needed it but nothing much.“

𝗗𝗢𝗘𝗦 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗦 𝗘𝗫𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗘 𝗢𝗨𝗧𝗦𝗜𝗗𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗡𝗢𝗥𝗠 𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗟𝗬 𝗟𝗘𝗔𝗗 𝗧𝗢 𝗪𝗛𝗬 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗗𝗢 𝗔 𝗧𝗛𝗢𝗨𝗦𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗚𝗜𝗚𝗦 𝗨𝗡𝗗𝗘𝗥 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗜𝗡𝗙𝗟𝗨𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗘? 𝗜 𝗠𝗘𝗔𝗡, 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗗𝗢𝗡'𝗧 𝗛𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝗧𝗢 𝗕𝗘 𝗨𝗣 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗗𝗬 𝗟𝗜𝗞𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗧 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗟𝗗.
📢 “Yeah we have ultimate freedom and dare I say it there have been instances in the past when the record company have told us ‘Yeah come on do this, have this line, have a beer before you go on stage.’ We really needed to be confrontational tonight. Sometimes the record companies are at fault. I'm still in disbelief record companies can endorse and make the artists do more harm to themselves.”

Photo credit: Joseph Llanes

𝗔 𝗟𝗢𝗧 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗢𝗦𝗘 𝗘𝗫𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗘𝗦 𝗦𝗘𝗘𝗠 𝗧𝗢 𝗛𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝗦𝗘𝗘𝗣𝗘𝗗 𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗢 𝗦𝗢𝗠𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗕𝗜𝗚𝗚𝗘𝗦𝗧 𝗛𝗜𝗧𝗦. 𝗧𝗛𝗘 “𝗦𝗣𝗘𝗖𝗜𝗔𝗟 𝗞“ 𝗟𝗬𝗥𝗜𝗖𝗦 𝗢𝗥 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗟𝗬𝗥𝗜𝗖𝗦 𝗧𝗢 “𝗡𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗬 𝗕𝗢𝗬“... 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗬'𝗥𝗘 𝗘𝗫𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗘𝗦 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗟𝗢𝗧𝗦 𝗢𝗙 𝗣𝗘𝗢𝗣𝗟𝗘 𝗛𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝗚𝗢𝗡𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗥𝗢𝗨𝗚𝗛. 𝗗𝗢 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗞 𝗛𝗔𝗩𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗧𝗛𝗢𝗦𝗘 𝗗𝗥𝗨𝗚 𝗘𝗫𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗘𝗦 𝗛𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝗠𝗔𝗗𝗘 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗘 𝗥𝗘𝗟𝗔𝗧𝗔𝗕𝗟𝗘?
📢 “I think as a writer, if you're a novelist, or filmmaker or musician the most direct way to reach an audience is to base it on personal experience. In all of these songs there is a grain of truth and kind of autobiography on Brian's part. I think once we reached Black Market Music the lyrics on that whole album it's naming all the different pill boxes we had in the medicine cupboard…. [pauses] Relatable? Yeah sure. I have an issue with drugs being illegal because people are always going to be trying to find drugs, what happens is that they buy them on the street and they're impure and they die from the rat poison that's in them. It's the same thing with prostitution. Prostitution is never going to go away. They force it on the streets which makes it less safe for the prostitutes and also drives it underground to a murkier, more dangerous place where human trafficking definitely plays a part. Alcohol is a big killer. I've had more friends who've had serious issues with alcohol and more friends that have died from alcohol abuse and that's perfectly normal. It's like 'Come on! Wake up'“.

𝗜 𝗔𝗚𝗥𝗘𝗘. 𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗔𝗟𝗕𝗨𝗠𝗦 𝗥𝗘𝗙𝗟𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗗𝗜𝗙𝗙𝗘𝗥𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗛𝗔𝗕𝗜𝗧𝗦 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗛𝗔𝗗 𝗔𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗧𝗜𝗠𝗘𝗦? 𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗘 𝗔𝗡𝗬 𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗨𝗟𝗔𝗥𝗟𝗬 𝗗𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗠𝗢𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗦 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗛𝗔𝗗?
📢 “I mean at one point we were basically living and breathing Placebo. We had no family and what we would do is we would lock ourselves in a windowless basement and write and record and it was in the centre of London. So what we would do is we would go in in the afternoon play a bit go to the pub, play a bit more then that night we'd go and check out other gigs if it was Scarfo who are The Kills former band, or if it was the Pumpkins or PJ Harvey and then come back inspired and write. So it was pretty much 24/7. And basically every day in a musician’s life is a Saturday night.”

IS THE REASON THER'S SO MUCH ADRENALINE ON YOUR MATERIAL BECAUSE OF THAT LIFESTYLE?
📢 “Not necessarily. I think we were drawn to the post punk of Sonic Youth and kind of Fugazi - the visceral punk. Not the Sex Pistols but the visceral energy that comes with playing at breakneck speeds and then kind of mixing that with catchy melodies on top. It's still there with us and yeah we just naturally were drawn to that.“

𝗔𝗡𝗬 𝗧𝗜𝗠𝗘 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗙𝗘𝗟𝗧 𝗟𝗜𝗞𝗘 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗪𝗘𝗥𝗘 𝗚𝗢𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗧𝗛𝗥𝗢𝗨𝗚𝗛 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗠𝗢𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦 𝗜𝗡 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗖𝗘𝗕𝗢?
📢 "It's a state of mind. You have to make a conscious effort every night when you're on stage to think about the fact that some people have never seen you before and also people have paid good money to see you so you owe it to the audience."

𝗔𝗟𝗕𝗨𝗠-𝗪𝗜𝗦𝗘, 𝗪𝗔𝗦 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗘 𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥 𝗔 𝗣𝗢𝗜𝗡𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗪𝗔𝗦𝗡'𝗧 𝗔𝗦 𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗢𝗡𝗚 𝗔𝗦 𝗔𝗡𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥?
📢 "Yeah. There are certain songs that looking back on it now I wouldn't have included on albums. What we've done over the past two years is we've remastered them for vinyl I've got the good monitors so I've had to listen through to all the records and certain songs you're going what the fuck were we thinking I don't like that song ...so yeah."

𝗢𝗛 𝗬𝗘𝗔𝗛, 𝗦𝗢 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗦 𝗜𝗦 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗕𝗘𝗦𝗧 𝗢𝗙 𝗥𝗘𝗧𝗥𝗢𝗦𝗣𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗩𝗘 𝗖𝗢𝗟𝗟𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧'𝗦 𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗢𝗡 𝟳𝗧𝗛 𝗢𝗖𝗧𝗢𝗕𝗘𝗥?
📢 "Brian basically said, ‘Hey Stef, I can't stomach listening to all these songs can you do it?' And Brian's more of a visionary when it comes to artwork so he was taking care of the visual aspect so we complement each other in that way."

Photo credit: Screenshot from the video Jesus' son

𝗜𝗦 𝗜𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗦𝗘𝗟𝗙-𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗦𝗖𝗜𝗢𝗨𝗦𝗡𝗘𝗦𝗦 𝗜𝗡 𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗗𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗦𝗢𝗠𝗘𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗕𝗔𝗖𝗞 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗬𝗢𝗨-𝗩𝗘 𝗪𝗥𝗜𝗧𝗧𝗘𝗡?
📢 “I think so. He definitely has a troubled relationship with his past lyrics. Because like the line: "A friend with weed is better" on ‘Pure Morning’. He wouldn't write something like that now, but he did back then. For him it's being able to walk on stage and sing with conviction without smiling or without making up different lyrics you know.“

𝗦𝗢 𝗜𝗧'𝗦 𝗘𝗡𝗢𝗨𝗚𝗛 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗛𝗜𝗠 𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗧𝗢 𝗕𝗘 𝗔𝗕𝗟𝗘 𝗧𝗢 𝗦𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗧𝗛𝗢𝗦𝗘 𝗦𝗢𝗡𝗚𝗦 𝗡𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥 𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗗 𝗚𝗢 𝗕𝗔𝗖𝗞 𝗧𝗛𝗥𝗢𝗨𝗚𝗛 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗠 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗖𝗟𝗢𝗦𝗘𝗟𝗬.
📢 “What we tend to do is cover ourselves with quite a few versions of our songs that we've released. One of our first singles, 'Teenage Angst', has been done in piano format, it's been done in the rock format, and it has this stadium rock format. Then we went back to an electric bass led version. So in order for us to remain interested in our back catalogue we often change them and adopt them to how we feel. Sometimes a song when we record it, it's in an embryonic form it tells you ‘Listen, I'm supposed to be played this way.'”

𝗛𝗢𝗪 𝗗𝗜𝗗 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗞 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗦𝗢𝗡𝗚𝗦?
📢 “Brian did the track listing.“

𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗧𝗘𝗖𝗛𝗡𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗬 𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗜𝗙𝗙𝗘𝗥𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗘𝗦 𝗕𝗘𝗧𝗪𝗘𝗘𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗥𝗘𝗟𝗘𝗔𝗦𝗘 𝗔𝗡𝗗𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗢𝗟𝗗 𝗥𝗘𝗟𝗘𝗔𝗦𝗘𝗦?
📢 “I mean when you master something in the ‘90s it's very different to now. Now you've got to compete with so many other, especially American releases which are pumped volume-wise. Also a lot of people listen on laptop or on headphones.“

𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗣𝗔𝗡𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗘𝗣, “𝗟𝗜𝗙𝗘'𝗦 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗠𝗔𝗞𝗘 𝗜𝗧“... 𝗪𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗘 𝗗𝗜𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗦𝗘 𝗦𝗢𝗡𝗚𝗦 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗘 𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗨𝗧?
📢 “They were us having fun in the studio. We chose some covers that we were fond of. Also we did two versions of '20 years'. One that was recorded in Russia and a live one that was recorded in France. Also, we're children of the 80s so a lot of the covers we chose are from the 80s.“

𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗡𝗦 𝗚𝗢𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗪𝗔𝗥𝗗?
📢 "Yeah I mean the tour is going to take us into 2017 so by the time it finishes we're probably going to be Xmas 2017 and go back into the studio after that."

𝗛𝗢𝗪 𝗗𝗢 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗡 𝗧𝗢 𝗔𝗣𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗔𝗖𝗛 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗡𝗘𝗫𝗧 𝗔𝗟𝗕𝗨𝗠?
📢 "Both me and Brian want to approach the next album outside of the box. We feel like we've stamped our identity on the world so let's go outside of the box. Approaching the writing process in a different way."

𝗕𝗘𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗘 𝗪𝗢𝗨𝗟𝗗 𝗜𝗧 𝗕𝗘 𝗪𝗥𝗜𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗢𝗡 𝗔𝗖𝗢𝗨𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗖 𝗚𝗨𝗜𝗧𝗔𝗥𝗦 𝗟𝗔𝗬𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗩𝗢𝗖𝗔𝗟𝗦 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗬𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗔𝗥𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧?
📢 "Yeah for example songs like ‘Too Many Friends’ and ‘Battle For The Sun’ like you said were written on an acoustic guitar in a classic manner. But when me and Brian get in the studio we surround ourselves with tools and synths and broken guitars and different types of guitar and the drum machine and we just follow something we both get turned on by, be it a sound or be it a loop so we're going to try doing it in that vein."

𝗛𝗢𝗪 𝗗𝗢 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗙𝗘𝗘𝗟 𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗨𝗣𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗧𝗢𝗨𝗥?
📢 "I’m completely excited about playing old songs: I like it. I think I want to see people's reactions as well."
(Gigwise, September 34rd 2016)

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🌠✨Angkor Wat: 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗻 𝘂𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿𝘁… ✨🌠

𝑯𝑶𝑾 𝑫𝑶 𝒀𝑶𝑼 𝑭𝑰𝑵𝑫 𝑰𝑵𝑺𝑷𝑰𝑹𝑨𝑻𝑰𝑶𝑵?
𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐: People think as you're a musician, you wake up in the morning, you're surrounded by groupies, you evict them of your bed and you make an injection in the eye and inspiration comes; you're on the roof watching the moon and poetry appears, nonsense. It's not the way it is, it is discipline like all the others, like a martial art, for instance. That's what interests me, this discipline. I think that people who say: << Oh.. I can't really work my art these days because I don't feel fine, I’m too scared >> I think it's weird. I'm in a constant creativity process. It doesn't necessarily means it's good, but even if it's sh*t, what's important is it's written. It's like a muscle you train as in gym. If you don't use it every day, you forget its existence, this muscle of creativity.

Photo credit: Joseph Llanes

𝑷𝑳𝑨𝑪𝑬𝑩𝑶: 𝑨 𝑪𝑶𝑴𝑴𝑰𝑻𝑻𝑬𝑫 𝑩𝑨𝑵𝑫?
𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐: We've been in Cambodia in december 2008 to play a very special concert. We were in front of a 12th century Buddhist temple which is called Angkor Wat. We've been there because we're collaborating with a charity, MTV Exit. What we're trying to do together is essentially to stop human trafficking. There are at least 2.5 millions of people whenever, who are being trafficked; What attracted us to that charity in particular, MTV is efficient in the way it's talking directly to the most vulnerable people: teens, young adults, they are the most vulnerable to this kind of traffic. It's a true cause, we knew we could make the difference on the spot, that's why we take the effort to go to Cambodia to play this concert.

𝑫𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔, these wonderful answers have been extracted from 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐'𝒔 𝑰𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒊𝒆𝒘 𝒐𝒏 𝑺𝑭𝑹 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑨𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑴𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒒𝒖𝒆 𝑭𝒓𝒂𝒊̂𝒄𝒉𝒆 𝒊𝒏 2009. Below you can watch the full interview, in its original language, French, with English and Italian subtitles, courtesy of 𝑳𝒂𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒂 𝑬𝒗𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒂.🙏❤️
🎥 https://bit.ly/3n8CgtL

📍Since 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 mentions it in this interview, let's delve a little deeper into their trip to Cambodia.

The "𝑫𝒆𝒕𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝑫𝒐𝒄𝒖𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒚" directed by 𝑹𝒖𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒕 𝑱𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒔 and released exclusively on the 𝑩𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝑭𝒐𝒓 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒖𝒏 - 𝑳𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝑬𝒅𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑫𝒆𝒍𝒖𝒙𝒆 𝑩𝒐𝒙 𝑺𝒆𝒕 (2009) inmortalized 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐's visit to this magical place that is 𝑨𝒏𝒈𝒌𝒐𝒓 𝑾𝒂𝒕, as well as the border town of 𝑷𝒐𝒊𝒑𝒆𝒕, where a day before the concert, the band visited a women's shelter and met with people who have been rescued from human trafficking, an experience that 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 declared it was "devastating".

⭐𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐃𝐞𝐭𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐃𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐲 2008⭐
𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭 1: https://youtu.be/0g1UjuIjf2E
𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭 2: https://youtu.be/m2TnXNi-jjI
𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭 3: https://youtu.be/BZAeooYX3QA

Photo credit: MTV

This concert in 𝑨𝒏𝒈𝒌𝒐𝒓 𝑾𝒂𝒕, held on December 7th, 2008, was pretty special for many reasons: to help raise awareness and increase prevention of human trafficking, to play in front of a wonderful sacred monument located in the Cambodian jungle, the very first rock concert in the history of this place and the first concert sharing the stage with 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒗𝒆 𝑭𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕 and 𝑭𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒆.

𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 made a selection of songs that they considered appropriate for the occasion and made new arrangements that they rehearsed for three weeks before. In front of 1,200 people - mostly Cambodians who attended for free - that night also performed 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑪𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒌 𝑭𝒊𝒗𝒆, 𝑫𝒖𝒏𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝑺𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒌, 𝑲𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝑴𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒓-𝑯𝒂𝒊𝒅𝒌𝒆 and some of Cambodia's most important artists, such as the hip-hop band 𝑷𝒉𝒐𝒖 𝑲𝒍𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒈. Then 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 took the stage and delighted the audience for 40 minutes with their music, playing an amazing semi-acoustic set.

Photo credit:  Angkor Wat documentary

🎙️“[...] I don't know if a lot of our fans and the wider audience of young people are aware of human trafficking. I don’t think they understand that slavery still exists today. I think if we can make them aware that this happens on a daily basis around the world and there are people around the world undergoing these forms of slavery, and if it deeply touches them then I hope they will be inspired to get more involved in trying to change the situation.

That's what we can do as a rock band: Use our voice and our music to spread a message and say that this situation – slavery – it unacceptable, and that we can all do something to fight it. We are not politicians, we are not heads of police. We can just try to change people's minds and inspire them to act.

It might seem that what we’re doing here is a drop in the ocean but every drop helps."
▪️𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑀𝑜𝑙𝑘𝑜, 𝑓𝑒𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑒𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡. 𝑐𝑜. 𝑢𝑘, 𝐷𝑒𝑐𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 2008.

Screenshot from the video

As we can't get enough of 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 and this breathtaking performance, let's watch it one more time! 😍💗💕

⭐𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐭 𝐀𝐧𝐠𝐤𝐨𝐫𝐖𝐚𝐭 2008⭐
🎶 https://bit.ly/32CQR79

"𝘞𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥𝘣𝘺𝘦" while you enjoy the music.✨🎶🎵✨ I send you lots of love on your way and see you next week! 

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✒️Translation Credits Interview 1
Excerpts: Laetitia Evalia

𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗩𝗜𝗘𝗪 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗵 𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗮𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗧𝗲̂𝘁𝘂, 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟯

Now I want to share an ♦𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗩𝗜𝗘𝗪♦ that Brian and Stefan did with French magazine Têtu in July 2013 while their band mate Steve Forrest was sleeping off a crazy Parisian night. 
Enjoy reading!

Photo credit unknown

𝗜𝗙 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗖𝗔𝗥𝗘𝗘𝗦 𝗪𝗔𝗦 𝗔 𝗟𝗢𝗡𝗚 𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗜𝗣𝗧𝗘𝗔𝗦𝗘, 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗦 𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗔𝗟𝗕𝗨𝗠, 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗖𝗘𝗕𝗢 𝗪𝗢𝗨𝗟𝗗 𝗙𝗜𝗡𝗜𝗦𝗛 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗔 𝗛𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗔𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗙𝗥𝗢𝗡𝗧 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗢𝗡𝗘 𝗔𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗕𝗔𝗖𝗞?
📢 𝘽𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙣: (laughing) Our previous album, BFTS was a stadium album. It followed Meds, which was a very claustrophobic one and say…very narcoleptic (smiles). We always react to the mood of the previous one.
When we started working on LLL, one theme came up very quickly, the oldest theme in music: love. Not very close to Placebo, isn’t it? We had two possibilities: either we went against the surge or we fully embraced it and didn’t hide our own vulnerability.

📢 𝙎𝙩𝙚𝙛𝙖𝙣: Even the title came up rapidly. When we were done with an album, we would say: ‘oh shit, what name are we going to give to that one?’ (laughters)

“𝗟𝗢𝗨𝗗 𝗟𝗜𝗞𝗘 𝗟𝗢𝗩𝗘“, 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗢𝗣𝗘𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗖𝗞, 𝗜𝗦 𝗔 𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗬 𝗣𝗢𝗦𝗜𝗧𝗜𝗩𝗘 𝗟𝗢𝗩𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗛𝗬𝗠𝗡 𝗕𝗨𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗔𝗟𝗕𝗨𝗠 𝗘𝗡𝗗𝗦 𝗜𝗡 𝗦𝗢𝗕𝗦 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗔𝗟𝗖𝗢𝗛𝗢𝗟 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗕𝗘𝗔𝗨𝗧𝗜𝗙𝗨𝗟 𝗦𝗢𝗡𝗚 “𝗕𝗢𝗦𝗖𝗢“. 𝗗𝗢𝗘𝗦 𝗜𝗧 𝗥𝗘𝗙𝗟𝗘𝗖𝗧 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗟𝗜𝗩𝗘𝗦?
📢 𝘽𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙣: I think these two songs underline how much we reject what we did in the past….

𝗡𝗢 𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗘 𝗥𝗢𝗖𝗞 '𝗡' 𝗥𝗢𝗟𝗟 𝗪𝗔𝗬 𝗢𝗙 𝗟𝗜𝗙𝗘?
📢 𝘽𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙣: You know, I’m a father now. My son is 7. It changes your views on life. It’s something that prevents you from behaving like a dickhead rock star. When you grow up in the public eye, you can very easily shut yourself up in a bubble and lose yourself. There was a time when I got lost, very often….

𝗜𝗡 “𝗧𝗢𝗢 𝗠𝗔𝗡𝗬 𝗙𝗥𝗜𝗘𝗡𝗗𝗦“ 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗦𝗜𝗡𝗚: “𝗠𝗬 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗣𝗨𝗧𝗘𝗥 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗞𝗦 𝗜'𝗠 𝗚𝗔𝗬“. 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗗𝗢 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗛𝗜𝗗𝗘 𝗢𝗡 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗣𝗨𝗧𝗘𝗥 𝗧𝗢 𝗦𝗨𝗚𝗚𝗘𝗦𝗧 𝗦𝗨𝗖𝗛 𝗔 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗚?
📢 𝘽𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙣: One day my computer sent me targeted ads as if I were gay. I wondered : ‘what have I done? What kind of porno have I watched so my computer thinks I’m gay (laughs)’. In the meantime, I had friends who decided not to take any more new friends on social networks because they already had ‘too many friends’. How can you have too many friends?
It made me consider our relationship to modernity. Aren’t we losing the ability to communicate in real life? For instance, we know many guys who use Grindr. It’s weird because they can’t focus on you longer than 5 mn without checking their app!

Telekom Street Gigs 2013. Photo credit unknown

𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗦𝗢𝗡𝗚 𝗜𝗦 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗕𝗘𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗛𝗘𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗢𝗦𝗘𝗫𝗨𝗔𝗟?
📢 𝘽𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙣: (smiles) I don’t know if I’m really straight. I’m not a much more different man than the one I used to be. I haven’t been in a relationship for a long time, either with a man or a woman. So if I had to come out, that’d be as an abstinent!

𝗗𝗢 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗗 𝗜𝗙 𝗪𝗘 𝗦𝗔𝗬 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗖𝗘𝗕𝗢 𝗜𝗦 𝗔 𝗤𝗨𝗘𝗘𝗥 𝗕𝗔𝗡𝗗?
📢 𝘽𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙣: That’s fine with me! I’d rather that than be a macho band!

📢 𝙎𝙩𝙚𝙛𝙖𝙣: If we have to be tagged, then yes. That’s a part of us. In the past, we’ve always been honest about our lifestyles and sexual orientations but we don’t get into a recording studio thinking ‘we’re a queer band so let’s play music for fags!

𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗙𝗔𝗡, 𝗬𝗢𝗨'𝗩𝗘 𝗠𝗔𝗗𝗘 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗔𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗬 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗥𝗧 𝗢𝗙 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗖𝗔𝗥𝗘𝗘𝗥. 𝗪𝗔𝗦 𝗜𝗧 𝗗𝗘𝗘𝗣𝗟𝗬 𝗡𝗘𝗘𝗗𝗘𝗗?
📢 𝙎𝙩𝙚𝙛𝙖𝙣: I thought it was a good thing to do. Nowadays, more artists acknowledge their homosexuality but at that time there were few homosexuals in music. I soon reckoned that if I could reveal who I was, then I’d have played my part in setting more tolerance. I’ve received a lot of mails from young gays who wanted to thank me. However, despite being successful, I’ve also suffered from a fair amount of intolerance…

Photo credit: Scarlet Page

𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗖𝗘𝗕𝗢 𝗜𝗦 𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗬 𝗣𝗢𝗣𝗨𝗟𝗔𝗥 𝗜𝗡 𝗥𝗨𝗦𝗦𝗜𝗔. 𝗗𝗢 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗔𝗟𝗧𝗘𝗥 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗕𝗘𝗛𝗔𝗩𝗜𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗪𝗛𝗘𝗡 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗬 𝗜𝗡 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗦𝗢 𝗧𝗢𝗟𝗘𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗧 𝗖𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗧𝗥𝗜𝗘𝗦?
📢 𝘽𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙣: No way! Though playing in Russia can be troublesome… But we’ve never been told: ‘you’re not allowed to play such and such songs”

📢 𝙎𝙩𝙚𝙛𝙖𝙣: It’s a bit more risky when we perform in Indonesia or Muslim countries. Sometimes we’re warned about using some words; we’re told to avoid provocative clothes and any sexual intercourse on stage!” (laughters)

𝗜𝗧 𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗡𝗦 𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗖𝗘𝗕𝗢 𝗛𝗔𝗦 𝗠𝗔𝗡𝗔𝗚𝗘𝗗 𝗧𝗢 𝗔𝗩𝗢𝗜𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗡𝗢𝗥𝗠𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗬 𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗣?
📢 𝘽𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙣: I think so! I just could have shown better taste and more sense when I chose my dresses! (laughs). I feel at ease with all this and I think we were right. Even more so nowadays with all those assholes who are demonstrating against gay wedding.

📢 𝙎𝙩𝙚𝙛𝙖𝙣: Exactly! The debate gets very close to the bone. It’s amazing to see that our society which pretends to be civilised and liberal, finally wallows in intolerance. It’s just blowing hot air!
(Têtu, July-August 2013)

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𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗙𝗔𝗡 𝗢𝗟𝗦𝗗𝗔𝗟 𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗩𝗜𝗘𝗪 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗕𝗔𝗖𝗞𝗦𝗧𝗬𝗟𝗘, 𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟱

Today I want to share a short ♦️𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗩𝗜𝗘𝗪♦️ from 2015 with Stefan. It took place shortly before the band's “20 years” tour. Enjoy reading.

Photo credit: Afterdepth Photography

𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧'𝗦 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗦𝗘𝗖𝗥𝗘𝗧 𝗧𝗢 𝗔 𝟮𝟬 𝗬𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗦 𝗢𝗟𝗗 𝗥𝗘𝗟𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗣 – 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗖𝗘𝗕𝗢 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗬𝗢𝗨?
📢 ”If you really want a relationship to work, you find a way. It's about how much it means to you and the effort you are prepared to put in.”

𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧'𝗦 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗙𝗔𝗩𝗢𝗥𝗜𝗧𝗘 𝗠𝗨𝗦𝗜𝗖 𝗜𝗡𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗨𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧?
📢 ”Cello and I wish I could play it!”

𝗛𝗢𝗪 𝗜𝗦 𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗙𝗔𝗡 𝗔𝗦 𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗧 𝗢𝗙 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗖𝗘𝗕𝗢 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗙𝗔𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗗𝗨𝗖𝗘𝗥?
📢 ”Easy to work with.”

𝗜𝗦 𝗜𝗧 𝗛𝗔𝗥𝗗 𝗧𝗢 𝗦𝗘𝗧 𝗔𝗦𝗜𝗗𝗘 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗖𝗘𝗕𝗢 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗗𝗨𝗖𝗘 𝗦𝗢𝗠𝗘𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗟𝗘𝗔𝗩𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗧𝗢𝗢 𝗠𝗨𝗖𝗛 𝗢𝗙 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥𝗦𝗘𝗟𝗙?
📢 ”I put all of myself into producing Lantalba’s album. I've been a fan for years and I couldn't help but let all my ideas flood out! Most of it she liked, but some ideas had to go, naturally.”

𝗖𝗔𝗡 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗡𝗔𝗠𝗘 𝗔 𝗙𝗘𝗪 𝗪𝗔𝗟𝗟'𝗦 𝗬𝗢𝗨'𝗩𝗘 𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗨𝗖𝗞 𝗨𝗣𝗢𝗡 𝗔𝗦 𝗔 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗗𝗨𝗖𝗘𝗥?
📢 ”I spent a few sleepless nights trying to get the rhythms right. The vocals and groove carry the song. Even though I had spent years recording, I found that some of my mixing techniques needed some adjusting. It's all about getting the best possible recorded source sound. It makes every stage up to and including mixing much easier.”

𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗗𝗨𝗖𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗢𝗥 𝗦𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗜𝗡 𝗙𝗥𝗢𝗡𝗧 𝗢𝗙 𝗔 𝟭𝟱.𝟬𝟬𝟬 𝗖𝗥𝗢𝗪𝗗?
📢 ”One is cerebrally more rewarding, whereas the live experience is more of a primal rush. My body needs both!”

𝗪𝗛𝗘𝗡 𝗪𝗔𝗦 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗟𝗔𝗦𝗧 𝗧𝗜𝗠𝗘 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗔𝗧𝗧𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗗 𝗔 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗖𝗘𝗥𝗧, 𝗕𝗘𝗦𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗦 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗢𝗪𝗡?
📢 ”Ennio Morricone in London.”

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𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗡𝗘𝗦 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗡𝗘𝗫𝗧 𝗖𝗢𝗨𝗣𝗟𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗬𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗦?
📢 ”Placebo will be doing some special events for its 20 year anniversary during the next year. I am also doing an electronic project with Digital21. The first single 'War' is out now and the album along with live shows will follow shortly.”

𝗖𝗔𝗡 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗗𝗘𝗦𝗖𝗥𝗜𝗕𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗙𝗘𝗖𝗧 𝗗𝗔𝗬 𝗜𝗡 𝗠𝗔𝗗𝗥𝗜𝗗?
📢 ”A slow stroll from one end of town to the other. It's a great city for walking as people live their lives more out on the streets.”

𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗛𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝗔 𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗢𝗡𝗚 𝗙𝗔𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗦𝗧𝗬𝗟𝗘, 𝗛𝗢𝗪 𝗗𝗜𝗗 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗕𝗨𝗜𝗟𝗗 𝗜𝗧 𝗨𝗣 𝗔𝗟𝗢𝗡𝗚 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗬𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗦, 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗜𝗡𝗦𝗣𝗜𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗬𝗢𝗨?
📢 ”It has gradually become more black and functional with too many overpriced designer shirts thrown in. I am very tall and skinny so sometimes only the catwalk sizes fit me.”

𝗜 𝗪𝗔𝗡𝗧 𝗧𝗢 𝗥𝗘𝗧𝗜𝗥𝗘...
📢 ”Musicians don't retire.”

𝗩𝗔𝗖𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗠𝗘𝗔𝗡𝗦...
📢 ”Time at home.”

𝗢𝗡 𝗠𝗬 𝗖𝗢𝗨𝗖𝗛...
📢 ”Seldom.”

𝗜𝗡 𝗠𝗬 𝗪𝗔𝗥𝗗𝗥𝗢𝗕𝗘...
📢 ”Duplicates of my favorite clothes.”

𝗦𝗧𝗬𝗟𝗘 𝗜𝗦...
📢 ”You.”
(Backstyle, June 2015)

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🔶🔸𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎 𝐀𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐀𝐓𝐀𝐂𝐋𝐀𝐍: 𝐁𝐈𝐓𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐖𝐄𝐄𝐓 𝐌𝐄𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐒🔸🔶

The first time Placebo played at the 𝑩𝒂𝒕𝒂𝒄𝒍𝒂𝒏, a well-known concert venue in Paris, on November 30th, 1998. They also did a great interview on that day which I’m going to share in my next post. Today, I want to tell you a little bit about this historical place and share some performances from Placebo 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐂𝐄𝐑𝐓 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟐.
But the story has got its sad page, too… Brian couldn’t stay indifferent to the tragedy that happened in Paris in 2015😔

Photo credit: Julien Perez

📍Let’s start with some nice memories though. 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐨𝐧 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐞 𝟐𝟐𝐧𝐝, 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟐 was part of a five-piece series of 𝑨-𝑹𝒐𝒄𝒌 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔 organized by Mercedes-Benz.
Here’s an excerpt from the concert 🔶𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖🔶.
“There is indeed Brian with more assertive voice, more frank new arrangements, clear and refined, ‘colourful” strings and brass which come to warm up the choruses that remain well in mind, such as Ashtray Heart […] A few touches from the oldest albums enliven this set with a beautiful nostalgic luster. Public support is at its peak when they play Black Eyed, Taste In Men and Special K from the third record (Black Market Music), Bitter End from the fourth (Sleeping With Ghosts) and Nancy Boy from the first (Placebo). From the second opus, Without You I'm Nothing, we gladly find Every You Every Me and, above all, the eponymous song from the album, which we still remember as a duet with David Bowie! Conversely, there are very few titles from Meds, which we expected a little.
The performance is therefore up to our expectations, even if we regret that Brian does not speak more between songs as he used to. We can bet that the commercial aspect of this private concert has something to do with it, that he will not lose contact with his audience thereafter and will continue to tell us about his favorite subject: Love, Love, and more Love! As for Stefan Olsdal, he still has a thunderous sex appeal and his frenzied waves make more than one in the room pale. The neat lights also contribute, creating the sulphurous atmosphere with which the band were once haloed.”
(𝑆𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑉𝑖𝑜𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒, 2012)

𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 - 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐬, 𝐁𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐧, 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐬, 𝟐𝟐.𝟎𝟔.𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟐
➡ https://bit.ly/2YPIfIy
𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 - 𝐈𝐧 𝐚 𝐅𝐮𝐧𝐤, 𝐁𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐧, 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐬, 𝟐𝟐.𝟎𝟔.𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟐
➡ https://bit.ly/3cQsWYm
𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 - 𝐍𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐲 𝐁𝐨𝐲, 𝐁𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐧, 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐬, 𝟐𝟐.𝟎𝟔.𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟐
➡ https://bit.ly/3joVMQX
𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 - 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐈'𝐦 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐁𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐧, 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐬, 𝟐𝟐.𝟎𝟔.𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟐
➡ https://bit.ly/36SnLmV

Photo credit: Mauro Melis

🔶𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐔𝐄 𝐇𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐘🔶
𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒂𝒕𝒂𝒄𝒍𝒂𝒏 is a theatre located at 50 Boulevard Voltaire in Paris. Designed in 1864 by the architect Charles Duval, its name refers to Ba-ta-clan, an operetta by Jacques Offenbach.
The Bataclan originated as a large café-concert in the Chinoiserie style (the building had a typical pagoda roof back in the days), with the café and theatre on the ground floor and a large dance hall at first-floor level.
Since the early 1970s, the Bataclan has been a venue for rock music. Generally, it’s known for a very eclectic programme of events, including rock and pop concerts, spectacles, comedy, discos and café-théâtre.
For 40 years, until 2015, the Bataclan had Jewish owners, and the theatre was a target for anti-Zionist activists, since the venue often held pro-Israel events.

On 13 November 2015, as part of a series of ISIL terrorist attacks across Paris, three gunmen conducted a mass shooting at the Bataclan. It happened while an American rock band Eagles of Death Metal were in the middle of their performance.
As a result of the attacks, 90 people were killed and over 200 were wounded. The band members of Eagles of Death Metal and most of the road crew escaped unharmed, but their merchandise manager was among the fatalities.
After the tragedy, the theatre was closed and reopened one year later with an exclusive Sting concert where a thousand members of the victims' families were invited.
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📍And now, I'm going to continue with this exceptionally serious topic…
📢In the 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒊𝒆𝒘 𝒐𝒏 𝑳𝒆 𝑷𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒆𝒏 𝑻𝑽 - which I shared in my previous post - 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 told that he spent a sleepless night on a phone worrying about his friends in Paris and trying to find out if they were alive…

Photo credit: Gwen

On November 13th, 2016, Brian shared a memorable 𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐀𝐆𝐄 on 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭. It was one year after the tragedy…
📢“...THINKING OF MY FRIEND THOMAS TODAY, WHO DIED IN THE PARIS ATTACKS ONE YEAR AGO. SENDING LOVE AND HOPE TO THE SURVIVORS AND THE FAMILIES OF THE VICTIMS. IT IS ONLY THROUGH LOVE, COMPASSION, SELFLESSNESS, UNITY AND ACTION THAT WE CAN FIGHT THE FORCES OF FEAR, TERROR, PREJUDICE AND ANAESTHETISATION AND THEIR ATTEMPTS TO ROB US OF OUR TRUE HUMANITY. BROTHERS AND SISTERS, PLEASE DO NOT SURRENDER TO THE MYTH OF THE INDIVIDUAL WHOSE PURPOSE IS TO RENDER US DISCONNECTED, PACIFIED AND UNABLE TO ENGAGE. WE ARE ONE PEOPLE, ONE SPECIES. IT IS ONLY TOGETHER THAT WE CAN MAKE OUR PLANET A BETTER PLACE TO LIVE. PEACE. #bataclan”
Original post: ➡ https://bit.ly/39I6nDf

💬Finishing my post with these BIG words I don’t want to make you sad, dear soulmates, but the other way round, send you a kind reminder of how much really depends on every one of us, on our deep beliefs in the power of love and tolerance – and our everyday actions according to these beliefs.
Take care

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#Placebo #PlaceboAnyway #PlaceboWorld #BrianMolko #StefanOlsdal #Molko #Soulmates #PlaceboHistory #PlaceboConcertReview #PlaceboWorldInstagram #Bataclan

🔹𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐚𝐭 𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐨 𝐒𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐨 𝐕𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐚 𝐝𝐢 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐚 𝐈𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟗🔹

Dear friends, today I will take you to the beautiful site of a medieval castle in Italy.
On July 18, 2009, Placebo performed as part of their BFTS tour at a place called 𝑪𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒐 𝑺𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒆𝒓𝒐 𝒊𝒏 𝑽𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒂𝒇𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒂 𝒅𝒊 𝑽𝒆𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒂. A beautiful medieval castle mentioned by William Shakespeare himself in a few scenes from a love story about Romeo and Juliet.

Photo credits: Ambra Rebecchi, FonzisKi, Diego Martini. Photo edit:Marti

Concerts of various musical genres have been held here since 1995, in 1998 Bob Dylan performed there and in 2000 the band Coldplay at their very first Italian concert.
Placebo also played here for the first time in 2009. This concert was exceptional in Placebo's history by one very nice event:
It so happened that the support band, which was supposed to be the opening act for Placebo, could not perform. I couldn't find the name of the band or the reason why they didn't take part in the event. However, Brian solved the matter in his own way and asked a newcomer to the band, drummer Steve Forrest if he would play a few songs from his own musical work. Steve presented several songs from his side project 𝑭𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒆́ 𝑭𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒐, a band that next to him consists of friends from California and whose music goes towards country rock.

Dear Steve, although he was very nervous, accepted the offer and played as the opening act for his band!
I have not only a nice interview for you, which he gave to Italian journalists two months before the upcoming Italian concert, but also a couple of amazing shots directly from his performance, which Brian and manager Alex Weston watched from backstage.
⭐🔸🔹🔸⭐

Photo credit: FonzisKi

📌 𝐑𝐎𝐂𝐊𝐎𝐋 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐕𝐄 𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐓: '𝐌𝐄, 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐍'

Rockol exchanged a few words with Steve Forrest, the new member of Placebo. The American drummer, in fact, brings a breath of fresh air to a now historic core, obviously the one made up of frontman Brian Molko and Stefan Olsdal, who have been together for fifteen years. Placebo are about to release the new album “Battle for the Sun” (arrives, depending on the market, from 5th to 9th June) and, next summer, they will be in Italy for two dates.
The appointments are set in Livorno (July 17, Italy Wave Love Festival) and at the Scaligero Castle in Villafranca (VR, July 18).
Forrest is Californian, and it shows, with his cheerful and friendly attitude.

-𝑹𝒐𝒄𝒌𝒐𝒍: “𝑭𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒆'𝒗𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅,“𝑩𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒖𝒏” 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒔 𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒚 𝒂𝒔 𝑱𝒂𝒏𝒖𝒂𝒓𝒚. 𝑾𝒉𝒚, 𝒊𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕'𝒔 𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒆, 𝒕𝒐 𝒘𝒂𝒊𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒇𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒉𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒅?"
-Forrest: “January? No, we actually finished it already in September. It was a long process, after recording the mixing took time, then a piece of mastering was redone, then the label sent it back. We would have liked to have it out sooner, but these are things beyond the control of the band. Although, I must say, in the end it is actually better that it comes out now: we are closer to our performances at the summer festivals, we have a new record practically for the occasion, maybe it's better this way ".

-𝑹𝒐𝒄𝒌𝒐𝒍: "𝑫𝒊𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 𝒅𝒓𝒖𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒓 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒗𝒆 𝑯𝒆𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒕? 𝑫𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒘𝒐 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌 𝒕𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒉𝒊𝒎? ”
-Forrest: “Yes they talk to me about him ... Yes, I met him, it was in 2006. My band at the time supported Placebo at a concert. It was such a situation, you know, like he came out of the dressing room, I went back into the dressing room, 'ah you're Steve the drummer, ah hah, I'm Steve the drummer too.' We both laughed at it... We also went out together, very good, he's a very nice type. For the rest I can't help you much. You know that it was a kind of divorce within the band, I know the other two prefer not to talk about it and I respect their decision."

-𝑹𝒐𝒄𝒌𝒐𝒍: "𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑬𝒗𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆?"
-Forrest: “Evaline was my first real band. We all started together when we were 15 or 16, we stayed together for five or six years, then in February 2007 we separated. They actually left me. It was a very bitter thing, very very difficult. For a year I did various jobs, I took what I found, a bit of everything. Then Brian contacted me and in January 2008 I moved to London. I now live in the Shepherd's Bush area."

-𝑹𝒐𝒄𝒌𝒐𝒍: "𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒅𝒐𝒆𝒔 𝒊𝒕 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍 𝒕𝒐 𝒋𝒐𝒊𝒏 𝒂 𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒇𝒊𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔?"
-Forrest: “It actually feels very good. It is also a bit ironic. can you tell that with my friends, before Brian called me, we were talking about something like: think if one day they ask you to join a band that has been together for a long time. And here it is. Strong, right? It's nice, also because I had the opportunity to change the sound of Placebo a little. We grow together, it's a very nice feeling.”

𝑹𝒐𝒄𝒌𝒐𝒍: "𝑪𝒂𝒏 𝑰 𝒂𝒔𝒌 𝒚𝒐𝒖, 𝒊𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒅𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒅, 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒅𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅? 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝒊𝒔 𝒃𝒊, 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 𝒊𝒔 𝒈𝒂𝒚, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖?"
-Forrest: “But no, it's ok for me that you ask. Straight! I'm perfectly straight. I must say that this is absolutely not a problem. Everyone has their preferences and makes their own choices. If one goes with a man, I am absolutely not interested.”

-𝑹𝒐𝒄𝒌𝒐𝒍: "𝑾𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒆 𝒘𝒆'𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆: 𝒈𝒊𝒓𝒍𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅?"
-Forrest: “Yes, I have a girlfriend. She's English. In fact, half English and half Scottish."

 Photo credit: Roberta Hofer 

-𝑹𝒐𝒄𝒌𝒐𝒍: "𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒅𝒊𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓 '𝑩𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒖𝒏' 𝒈𝒐?"
-Forrest: “We worked in Canada, it was very good. Four months to compose the album, then two months of recordings. I think these two months have changed us, we became different when it was over, or at least it was I who changed because it was a tough experience. The fact is, we spent half a year together, we also became more friends.”

𝑹𝒐𝒄𝒌𝒐𝒍: 𝑺𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒇 𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒑: 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒃𝒆 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒑 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒉𝒊𝒎? 𝑰𝒔 𝒉𝒆 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅, 𝒐𝒓 𝒊𝒔 𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒔𝒐 𝒂 𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅? "
-Forrest: “Brian… well… is a band leader in many ways. He has a lot of personality. I think we can say that we are also friends.”

-𝑹𝒐𝒄𝒌𝒐𝒍: “𝑯𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒍𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒚 𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒉𝒆𝒅 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐𝒖𝒓? 𝑨𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒅𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒖𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒓 𝒇𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒍𝒔, 𝑰 𝒎𝒆𝒂𝒏 ”.
-Forrest: "I know the tour will start in fall, maybe as early as the end of September, I think we'll be around a lot, maybe until December".

-𝑹𝒐𝒄𝒌𝒐𝒍: “𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒘𝒐 𝒅𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔 𝒔𝒐𝒐𝒏 𝒊𝒏 𝑰𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒚. 𝑯𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒍𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒚 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚𝒆𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆? 𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒅𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒕? "
-Forrest: “Have never been to Italy yet. Yesterday I went around Milan for a while, I saw the cathedral, the square, it's beautiful. I have many Italian fans who write to me. What do I expect? Passionate people, something exciting, something made with (he says it in Italian) 'gusto' ".
(𝑅𝑜𝑐𝑘𝑜𝑙.𝑖𝑡 𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑧𝑖𝑛𝑒, 𝑀𝑎𝑦 2009)
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As for Steve's performance, I also found a nice review by an Italian fan who attended the concert:

📌„𝐼 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑔𝑢𝑦𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑚𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑏𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝐼 𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑑, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑑𝑟𝑢𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎 𝑐𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑐 𝑔𝑢𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑟 𝑠𝑎𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 "𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑜𝑛𝑒, 𝑎𝑠 𝑡𝑜𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑤𝑒 𝑑𝑜𝑛'𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎 𝑠𝑢𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡 𝑏𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑠𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑦𝑜𝑢" 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑟 ¾ 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑛 ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑜𝑛 ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑢𝑑𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑏𝑦 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝐴𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑓𝑜𝑙𝑘 𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑠. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑜𝑦𝑠 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑦 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑔𝑒, 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝑓𝑜𝑟 ¾ 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑛 ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑝𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑢𝑑𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑢𝑦 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑑𝑜 𝑖𝑡!“
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 Photo credit: Diego Martini

And you will now be able to attend this concert as well. Enjoy Steve's performance with acoustic guitar and subsequent Placebo videos recorded by fans at the concert. Again, I tried to choose the videos with the best quality and sort the songs according to the official setlist.

🎶 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒗𝒆 𝑭𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 - "𝑯𝒐𝒏𝒌𝒚 𝑻𝒐𝒏𝒌𝒊𝒏"
https://bit.ly/3dww5fL
🎶 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒗𝒆 𝑭𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕 - "𝑺𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑻𝒊𝒎𝒆"
https://bit.ly/3mXyROc
🎶 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒗𝒆 𝑭𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕 - "𝑰 𝑺𝒆𝒆 𝑩𝒊𝒓𝒅𝒊𝒆𝒔"
https://bit.ly/3akQrqg

🎶 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒗𝒆, 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒐 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒓𝒕:
https://bit.ly/3dtEtwy
🎶 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 "𝑲𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒚 𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓"
https://bit.ly/3n8Cmle
🎶 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 "𝑩𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒖𝒏"
https://bit.ly/3mWXKK7
🎶 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒏𝒔 𝒆𝒏𝒓𝒂𝒈𝒆𝒅 𝒇𝒂𝒏𝒔, 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒏 "𝑺𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔"
https://bit.ly/3uVcOKS
🎶 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 "𝑺𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒌 𝒊𝒏 𝑻𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒖𝒆𝒔"
https://bit.ly/3tzOONk
🎶 𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 "𝑭𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑪𝒐𝒑𝒔 𝑩𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝑯𝒐𝒎𝒆"
https://bit.ly/3glve3r
🎶 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 "𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝑴𝒆" 𝒈𝒖𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒓 𝒔𝒐𝒍𝒐
https://bit.ly/3swShKW
🎶 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 "𝑺𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝑵𝒆𝒆𝒅𝒔"
https://bit.ly/2QyyvS8
🎶 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 "𝑴𝒆𝒅𝒔"
https://bit.ly/3aECZht
🎶 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 "𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝑼𝒏𝒅𝒐𝒏𝒆"
https://bit.ly/2QFmFpa
🎶 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 "𝑺𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝑲"
https://bit.ly/3tBOCgA
🎶 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 "𝑺𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝑻𝒐 𝑺𝒂𝒚 𝑮𝒐𝒐𝒅𝒃𝒚𝒆"
https://bit.ly/3gtBJ46
🎶 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 "𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝑬𝒏𝒅" - filmed by a dancing fan, however, I really enjoyed the shots of Brian enjoying this song with the fans
https://bit.ly/3uYWt84
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Dear soulmates, there is nothing left but to say goodbye. I hope you enjoyed today's trip to the Italian medieval castle in beautiful summer weather?
I definitely did, and 🌞Sunshine Steve🌞 was a really nice bonus, which unfortunately we won't be able to experience anymore. But I believe the Placebo guys can always surprise us with something new.
I can't wait for a new album at the moment!

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