🔶🔸𝐋𝐄 𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐈𝐒𝐈𝐄𝐍 𝐓𝐕: 𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐌𝐎𝐋𝐊𝐎'𝐒 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖 🔸🔶

On November 28th, 2016, just before Placebo shows in France as part of 20 Years of Placebo Tour, Brian Molko did an 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖 on 𝑳𝒆 𝑷𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒆𝒏 𝑻𝑽. You can watch a shortened version of it in a beautiful video while I’d like to share a full text which was published on their website. Brian discussed some milestones of Placebo’s career, remembered their first concert in France and shared his thoughts about the terrorist attack at Bataclan in 2015.

✨𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐨: "𝐖𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐝 𝐁𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐞", 𝐋𝐞 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐞𝐧 𝐓𝐕, 𝟐𝟖.𝟏𝟏.𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟔
https://bit.ly/3pK1fnA

Photo credit: screenshot of the video interview by Le Parisien, 2016

🔶𝐅𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐆𝐄𝐒 𝐎𝐅 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎 𝐄𝐅𝐅𝐄𝐂𝐓🔶
𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒉 𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒄𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒃𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 20 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔, 𝒕𝒘𝒐 𝒅𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓, 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐, 𝒔𝒖𝒎𝒎𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒛𝒆𝒔.
“Happy birthday Placebo! To celebrate their 20th anniversary, the British rock trio released "A Place for Us to Dream", a pantagruelic compilation of 2:15 and 36 tracks, with duets (David Bowie, Michael Stipe, etc.), covers, B-sides, new versions and a new one, “Jesus' Son”. “To show all the colors of Placebo, light and shade, the risks we took,” comments singer and guitarist Brian Molko in French. Like a retrospective in a museum." Their anniversary tour stops tonight in Nantes and tomorrow at Paris-Bercy (now AccorHotels Arena). To satisfy their fans, who have been consulted on the Internet, Placebo replay old nuggets like "Nancy Boy", "Pure Morning" and "Protège-moi", French version of "Protect Me". “We also turned 36 Degrees into a ballad,” says Molko. Bands play the same song for decades, but we're not like that. We get bored very quickly."

🔸𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟓-𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟐. 𝐈𝐧 𝐁𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐞'𝐬 𝐨𝐫𝐛𝐢𝐭
“We had the same agent as David Bowie. And one evening, on his Outside tour, singer Morrissey left, without warning anyone, to his mother's house. An opening act had to be found urgently. Our agent played our demos to Bowie, and he liked them. A few days later, we were in Italy in front of 8,000 spectators. We toured his albums Outside, Earthling and Heaven. I spent seven years in his orbit, and it was absolutely amazing. I learned a lot from him. During the tours, every evening, I would go down to the backstage, I smoked a joint and I observed him. What a lesson, what an opportunity! And in 1998, the surprise of my life! On vacation, my brother wakes me up. He hands me the phone: it's Bowie. Oh okay (laughs). He tells me that he would like to sing our song Without You I'm Nothing as a duet, which he loves. I'm half asleep, I don't immediately realize the enormity... "

Photo credit: Maud Maillard

🔸𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟔. "𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐦𝐞", 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞
“I was young, I had a lot of fun. But we worked like crazy. There were three of us, I was trying to write something abrasive and melodic, powerful, and popular. I had only one ambition, it was not to do an office job. I would have been happy to be in a band with average success. But fate changed everything because we had success from the first album. And we said to ourselves that we had to do everything to make it last. We wrote hundreds of songs that we threw in the trash before thinking: This song deserves to be listened to by people."

🔸𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟔-𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟕. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞
“I remember with emotion our first concert in France, in 1996, at Route du Rock, Saint-Malo festival. It was so lovely. The reception from the French audience was immediately warm. They opened their arms to us."

🔸𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟕. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐨 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐝𝐞
“At the time of Sleeping With Ghosts tour and Meds album, there were troubles in the band. It was quite a traumatic time. We no longer spoke to each other, we protected each other in our corner. I've invested my whole professional life into this band, I wasn't going to let a character as old-fashioned as Mr. Hewitt ruin it for me. He hadn't always been like that, but success, money, drugs were there, as always..."

Photo credit: Marco Vittur

🔸𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟓. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐧 𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐚
“I spent a sleepless night, I was absolutely upset, I was looking for my friends from our record company who were in the venue, but also the Eagles of Death Metal, whom I know well. I spent the night on the phone trying to reach them (he sighs). I really like Bataclan, we played there a lot when we started. There is something magical about this venue. I would love to be back, it is necessary. If anyone hears me..."
(𝐿𝑒 𝑃𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑒𝑛 𝑇𝑉, 𝑁𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 28, 2016)

📍To add something special to my post, I found a short video from 𝐑𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐞 𝐝𝐮 𝐑𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 that took place in Saint Malo on August 14th, 1997 and, as Brian said, was 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐’𝒔 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝑭𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆.

✨𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 – 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 & 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞, 𝐒𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐌𝐚𝐥𝐨 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥, 𝟏𝟒.𝟎𝟖.𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟕
https://bit.ly/39IREru

📢𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐨: “I always felt that our band would attract a little bit crazy and wild fans, and it really looks like becoming a truth. […] The most passionate fans can see that our technique changed a lot since Steve Hewitt joined the band. There’s much more admiration, much more love and respect from European audience, and our creative process liberated a lot.”

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