𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗖𝗘𝗕𝗢 𝗜𝗡 𝗦𝗣𝗔𝗜𝗡 𝟭𝟵𝟵𝟳

On June 6, 1997 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 visited Spain for the very first time and performed a single concert in the small concert venue in Madrid called 𝑬𝒍 𝑺𝒐𝒍. Sadly there is no proper recording of this concert but there are a few images of that night and other very funny scenes of the band from this visit that you can see below:

📼 https://youtu.be/yWo1W44Qb5Y

📼 https://youtu.be/WiRI-XTEjds

Photo credits at the end of the text

After a little more than a month, 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 returned to Spain, this time along with 𝑫𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒅 𝑩𝒐𝒘𝒊𝒆 to open the concerts that the "𝑾𝒉𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝑫𝒖𝒌𝒆" with his "𝑬𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒉𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑻𝒐𝒖𝒓" would offer in Madrid (07.15.97), Zaragoza (07.16.97) and San Sebastian (07.17.97).

🔹Originally, the Madrid concert was to be held at 𝑳𝒂𝒔 𝑽𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒔 bullring but it ended up taking place at 𝑨𝒒𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒖𝒏𝒈 in front of 3,000 people. The organizers stated that the concert had been moved due to the "complexity of the staging". However, other sources said that in reality there was not the expected demand for over 15,000 seats to see 𝑫𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒅 𝑩𝒐𝒘𝒊𝒆. Can you believe it? Surely now many people wish they had gotten one of those tickets to see his show because it was the last time 𝑫𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒅 visited Spain.

🔹The next day at the 𝑷𝒓𝒊́𝒏𝒄𝒊𝒑𝒆 𝑭𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒑𝒆 𝑷𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒐𝒏 in Zaragoza, 𝑩𝒐𝒘𝒊𝒆's other usual supporting act, the British band 𝑴𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒖𝒏, did not perform and was replaced by a local band called 𝑫𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒐 𝟏𝟒, followed by our 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐.

🔹In the last concert at the 𝑨𝒏𝒐𝒆𝒕𝒂 𝑽𝒆𝒍𝒐𝒅𝒓𝒐𝒎𝒆 in San Sebastian and in front of 6,000 people, 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 and 𝑫𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒐 𝟏𝟒 were again the opening act. Later, in memory of 𝑫𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒅 𝑩𝒐𝒘𝒊𝒆, the leader and voice of 𝑫𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒐 𝟏𝟒, 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏𝒐 𝑪𝒂𝒔𝒂𝒏𝒐𝒗𝒂 stated in a letter published on his Facebook account, that night 𝑫𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒅 came to their dressing room "wearing a dressing gown and white house slippers" to congratulate them for their performance, a gesture that 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏𝒐 considers as the greatest and truest music award he has ever received and something he will never forget.

Placebo live in Madrid 1997. Photo credit: Bionic

But what did 𝑫𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒅 𝑩𝒐𝒘𝒊𝒆 think about 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 opening his concerts? Well, I found an interview published in Spain that was made by 𝑫𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒅 at that time, his words are really a gem! 💖

📄" [...] 𝘓𝘶𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘭𝘺, 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘪𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘩𝘪𝘮. 𝘌𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴. 𝘐𝘧 𝘔𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘺 𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘴𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘪𝘮𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘉𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘦'𝘴 𝘮𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘩, 𝘛𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘙𝘦𝘻𝘯𝘰𝘳 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘭𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘶𝘳. 𝘖𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘤𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘳 𝘨𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘔𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘶𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘣𝘰, 𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘩 𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘦𝘥 𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯.

"𝑰𝒕'𝒔 𝒄𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑰 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐. 𝑰'𝒗𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒘𝒐 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒆'𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒏 𝒔𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒍 𝒐𝒄𝒄𝒂𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔. 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒂 𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒏 𝒆𝒙𝒄𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓. 𝑰 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒈𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒈𝒐 𝒇𝒂𝒓. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒕𝒉 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒃𝒐𝒕𝒉 𝑴𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒖𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒎𝒚 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒕𝒆 𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒗𝒂𝒍. 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒘𝒐 𝒈𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒔, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒔, 𝑰 𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒑𝒖𝒕 𝒂𝒔 𝒎𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒔 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝑰'𝒎 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏. 𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒃𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒚, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒌𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒈𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒍𝒔𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑰 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄 𝒔𝒐 𝒎𝒖𝒄𝒉".
▪️𝐷𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑑 𝐵𝑜𝑤𝑖𝑒, 𝑀𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑜𝑆𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑟𝑜, 𝐽𝑢𝑙𝑦 1997

Placebo live in Madrid 1997. Photo credit: Bionic

Have a wonderful weekend dear Soulmates! And as 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 said on one of the videos above:

🎤"…𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓 𝒌𝒆𝒆𝒑 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒏𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒄𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒏, 𝒘𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒅𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒔."

Lol! 😆 ❤️ Sending you much love on your way ✌️❤️✨

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 Photo Credits: Screenshots / Placebo playing at El Sol, Madrid - Bionic / David Bowie - Photographer unknown / Edit by Rita

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