𝗔𝗡𝗡𝗜𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗔𝗥𝗬: 𝗙𝗜𝗥𝗦𝗧 𝗗𝗔𝗬

16 years ago, on the 30th of May 2005, “First day“ was released, so today we can celebrate its ♦️𝗔𝗡𝗡𝗜𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗔𝗥𝗬♦️. The song was a collaboration of German DJ W Timo Maas, Brian and Jokate (or Jo Kate) Benson, a relatively unknown singer from Bristol. The song reached no. 51 in the UK Single Charts.

🎬 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐎 𝐌𝐀𝐀𝐒 𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐭. 𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐌𝐎𝐋𝐊𝐎 – 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐒𝐓 𝐃𝐀𝐘
🎵 http://bit.ly/2vRUPvH 🎵

Photo credit: Screenshots of the video (3), unknown (Maas & Molko) / edit by Silke

Two different versions of the single were put out. One of them includes the radio edit of “First day“ and an extendend version, the other one consists of six remixes plus the video clip. The song also appears on the album “Pictures“ which was released in June 2005.
“First day“ was written by Brian, Jokate, Timo Maas and Martin Buttrich, the two last-named were the producers of the single. Martin is obviously an all-rounder when it comes to playing instruments he did the bass, guitar, drums and also keybords on the track.

Last but not least remember this:
It's always the first day of the rest of your life. Seize it, soulmates!

📌 𝗧𝗜𝗠𝗢 𝗠𝗔𝗔𝗦 𝗢𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗖𝗢𝗟𝗟𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 📌
"We were coming to the end of the summer and Michael (sic!) and me were kind of stuck. We'd finished the instrumentals and were looking for our dream collaborators but they weren't easy to get. Then we sent something to Brian and he was totally up for it, came over to Hannover and recorded two of the three tracks in a day, then we met up in London to do the third. It was great to work with him, to get into his world – we had a fantastic time."
(MusicOMH, June 2005)

📌 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗢𝗡 𝗖𝗢𝗟𝗟𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦 📌
"I find that aspect of working with other people collaboratively interesting. When you get into a collaboration, you have to relinquish control. The final product is up to other people. It's a good lesson for me, it teaches me to be less precious about it. I haven't necessarily been able to put that into practice when working on a Placebo record just yet."
(Suicide Girls, 2007)

Brian Molko and Timo Maas on July 31, 2018, in Ibiza at a DJ Set. Photo credit unknown

📜 𝗟𝗬𝗥𝗜𝗖𝗦
I see you found my underground
Help yourself to guns and ammo
Nothing here has ever seen the light of day
I leave it in my head
It's the first day of the rest of your life
You'll remember me, for the rest of your life
You'll remember me, for the rest of your life
It's the first day of the rest of your life
It's the first day of the rest of your life
Don't fuck it up
Don't fuck it up
You'll remember me, for the rest of your life
You'll remember me, for the rest of your life
It's the first day of the rest of your life

Timo Maas official page:
👉 https://www.facebook.com/timomaasfans/
Discography on Discogs:
👉 https://www.discogs.com/artist/1014-Timo-Maas
Maas on Soundcloud:
👉 https://soundcloud.com/timo-maas

Post by Silke

⭐𝙋𝙇𝘼𝘾𝙀𝘽𝙊 𝙇𝙄𝙑𝙀 𝘼𝙏 𝙍𝙊𝙓𝙔 𝙁𝙀𝙎𝙏 𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟳⭐

Let's go back in time to April 1st, 2017, when 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 performed at the 𝑹𝒐𝒙𝒚: 𝑴𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑮𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒐𝒎𝒊𝒄 𝑨𝒓𝒕 𝑭𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒍 in 𝑮𝒖𝒂𝒅𝒂𝒍𝒂𝒋𝒂𝒓𝒂, 𝑴𝒆𝒙𝒊𝒄𝒐.

This annual festival is considered the most successful Mexican festival in its first edition because with the quality and variety of its line-up featuring bands such as 𝑴𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒆𝒚, 𝑬𝒎𝒑𝒊𝒓𝒆 𝑶𝒇 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒖𝒏, 𝑱𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒔, 𝑺𝒎𝒂𝒔𝒉 𝑴𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒉, 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 among others, it managed to attract more than 20,000 people, of which 35% came from other cities.
The one-day festival is distinguished by the gastronomic section that brings together the best chefs in the country, as well as the fact that each edition pays tribute to a famous artist or band. In 2017, the artist honored was 𝑫𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒅 𝑩𝒐𝒘𝒊𝒆. According to the organizers, each one of the participating bands had been asked to include a 𝑩𝒐𝒘𝒊𝒆 cover in their setlist, but they all ignored the request.

Photo credit below

🔹𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 took the stage at 22:20 hrs. and for one hour and ten minutes, they celebrated their twenty years of career performing 15 of their greatest hits, with which they made the audience sing and vibrate their hearts.
There is a lot of curiosity around why 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐 wore a mask during almost the entire concert. Some rumors said it was because he was sick, since days before the concert 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 would offer in Merida had been cancelled due to illness of a member of the band - without having specified who -, but apparently it was simply because the ground of 𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒔𝒍𝒐𝒎𝒂 𝑷𝒂𝒓𝒌, where the festival was held, was very dusty and 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 decided to wear this mask so he wouldn't breathe it. In fact, there were so many complaints about the dust from the attendees that the next year the organizers decided to hold the festival in another place.

⚡𝘾𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙤𝙪𝙨 𝙁𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙨⚡

🔸𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 did not perform soundcheck because the day before this festival they played at 𝑷𝒂'𝒍 𝑵𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒆 𝑭𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒍 in 𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒓𝒆𝒚, 𝑴𝒆𝒙𝒊𝒄𝒐.

🔸Three hours before 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐's concert, 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐 went up to the stage where the Argentine artist 𝑭𝒊𝒕𝒐 𝑷𝒂́𝒆𝒛 (very good by the way) was performing to see his show and the atmosphere of the audience.

🔸𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 and 𝑴𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒆𝒚 were the most guarded artists during their stay at the festival.

Photo credit: RockArtFashionNet

✨𝐌𝐄𝐗𝐈𝐂𝐎 𝐈𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐇*𝐓 🇲🇽✨

Do you remember that photo posted on 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐's official Instagram where 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐 is wearing a jacket with the phrase "𝑴𝒆𝒙𝒊𝒄𝒐 𝑰𝒔 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒉*𝒕" on the back? Well, that photo was taken during the 𝑹𝒐𝒙𝒚 𝑭𝒆𝒔𝒕 and the jacket is a creation of Mexicans 𝑨𝒉𝒎𝒆𝒅 𝑩𝒂𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒂 and 𝑨𝒏𝒖𝒂𝒓 𝑳𝒂𝒚𝒐́𝒏 that went viral in 2016 when a photographer posed with it in front of 𝑻𝒓𝒖𝒎𝒑 𝑻𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓 as a response to the U.S. President's anti-immigrant speech and shared the image on Instagram.
It later caused controversy in Mexico because a Twitter user saw some people in a hotel wearing the jacket and thought it was an offense towards the country. For this reason, one of its creators came out to explain why they chose to put this 𝘌𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘨 phrase on their garment:

🎙️"It is not an ode or a shout to what is happening in the political issue, but an issue of what we Mexicans are doing in the world."
"The jacket is in English because we wanted to impact the world with the phrase that Mexico is cool, that Mexico is incredible for us. In Spanish it was more complicated. We all know that English is the universal language, which reigns in communication in the world, in many areas," explained 𝑨𝒏𝒖𝒂𝒓 𝑳𝒂𝒚𝒐́𝒏.

Also on the inside of each one of the jackets there is a manifesto, which reads as follows:

📢 "𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴𝘯'𝘵 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘢 𝘫𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘵, 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘢 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵.

𝘐𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘯 𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘔𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘤𝘰 𝘪𝘴 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵! 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘔𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘤𝘰 𝘪𝘴 𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵. 𝘐𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘣𝘶𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘧𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘴, 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳, 𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴, 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘷𝘰𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳.

"𝘔𝘦́𝘹𝘪𝘤𝘰 𝘐𝘴 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘩*𝘵" 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺, 𝘢 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘴𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦, 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘵! 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘪𝘵, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘔𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘤𝘰 𝘢𝘴 𝘸𝘦 𝘥𝘰.

#𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘥! ”.

It is not strange to see 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐 wearing this jacket, because it is well known that since the first time 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 was in Mexico they love to come here, and we always receive them with much love. 🤗💖💕

Photo credit: Placeboworld Instagram 

After all this info, dear soulmates, let's get to the music! 🎸🎶 I have found almost all the videos of the songs 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 performed that night ( only "For What It's Worth" is missing) 😉.
Have a good time watching it. Please share your thoughts about this concert or if you were there, share your memories with us. Have a nice weekend.
❤️ Lots of love! ❤️
🪐𝑹𝒊𝒕𝒂🪐

⭐ 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐭 𝐑𝐨𝐱𝐲 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟕 ⭐

🔊 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨 (𝐇𝐊 𝐅𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐥) + 𝐏𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠
https://youtu.be/EG6zGQPIbiI

🔊 𝐏𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 + 𝐋𝐨𝐮𝐝 𝐋𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞
https://youtu.be/IDUSdiwv87A

🔊 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬' 𝐒𝐨𝐧
https://youtu.be/V83F4m6xKW8

🔊 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬
https://youtu.be/_maoZlI8Z64

🔊 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐍𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐬
https://youtu.be/HsWZv-jMKy8

🔊 𝐓𝐨𝐨 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬
https://youtu.be/c522lBdBQcM

🔊 𝐓𝐰𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐲 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬
https://youtu.be/L4HEi0ZJGMs

🔊 𝐒𝐥𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐚𝐠𝐞 😷🚬
https://youtu.be/KlfG-5j4RKU

🔊 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐊
https://youtu.be/d66fzgWY01A

🔊 𝐒𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐒𝐚𝐲 𝐆𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐛𝐲𝐞 + 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐄𝐧𝐝
https://youtu.be/oPpwuSfal-g

•♫•♬• * 𝐄𝐧𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐞 * •♫•♬•

🔊 𝐍𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐲 𝐁𝐨𝐲
https://youtu.be/tdywz1rA5jI

🔊 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐫𝐚-𝐑𝐞𝐝
https://youtu.be/g44M7WzxhJQ

🔊 𝐑𝐮𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐔𝐩 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐇𝐢𝐥𝐥
https://youtu.be/jnZDCYutuws

🔹🎵🎶🎸🎶🎵🔹


📸 Photo Credits pic 1: Setlist.me, Ixchel Wood Photography, @placeboworld IG (2), Milenio (2), ninefiction, Edgar Sagra / Edit by Rita

Post by Rita

𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗯𝗼 𝗳𝗲𝗮𝘁. 𝗥𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘁 𝗦𝗺𝗶𝘁𝗵 - 𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗜'𝗺 𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴

We all know that the single version of “𝙒𝙞𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙄'𝙢 𝙣𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜” is a collaboration of Placebo with David Bowie, but did you know that there's also a live collaboration of the song with another legendary artist? It's The Cure founder and frontman Robert Smith, style icon and role model for generations of goths.

On November 5th 2004 he was special guest at the concert at Wembley Arena in London. It was the kick-off show of the short “Once more with feeling” tour and also the only gig of that tour that took place outside of South America.
The audience didn't know that Robert Smith would be part of the evening. He entered the stage during the first encore, right after Placebo had played “Twenty years”. Robert and the band performed two songs together. They started with “Without you I'm nothing” which was followed by The Cure cover “Boys don't cry”.

 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗖𝗘𝗕𝗢 𝗳𝗲𝗮𝘁. 𝗥𝗢𝗕𝗘𝗥𝗧 𝗦𝗠𝗜𝗧𝗛 – 𝗕𝗢𝗬𝗦 𝗗𝗢𝗡'𝗧 𝗖𝗥𝗬
 https://bit.ly/3cMueC4 

But this wasn't the only time they appeared on stage together in 2004. On October 14th they collaborated again at the 20 years anniversary show of French TV channel Canal+. This time they chose a Cure cover again and played “If only tonight we could sleep” from the iconic album “Disintegration”.

Placebo and Robert Smith of The Cure at Wembley Arena, 2004. Photo credit unknown

 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗖𝗘𝗕𝗢 𝗳𝗲𝗮𝘁. 𝗥𝗢𝗕𝗘𝗥𝗧 𝗦𝗠𝗜𝗧𝗛 – 𝗜𝗙 𝗢𝗡𝗟𝗬 𝗧𝗢𝗡𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧 𝗪𝗘 𝗖𝗢𝗨𝗟𝗗 𝗦𝗟𝗘𝗘𝗣
 https://bit.ly/3oGTUnI 

In 2018 Robert Smith curated Meltdown festival in London and invited Placebo to play there. The line-up also included Nine Inch Nails, My Bloody Valentine, Death Cab For Cutie, Manic Street Preachers and The Twilight Sad. To honor Smith Placebo put “Let's go to bed” by The Cure on their setlist. They also performed the songs at three more festivals the following month.

 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗖𝗘𝗕𝗢 – 𝗟𝗘𝗧'𝗦 𝗚𝗢 𝗧𝗢 𝗕𝗘𝗗
 https://bit.ly/36DMET8 

Brian Molko and Robert Smith at Wembley Arena, 2004. Photo credit unknown 

 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗢𝗡 “𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗜'𝗠 𝗡𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗚”
 “You know, that’s about someone I used to go out with really, and that was like me exorcising the guilt or that failing relationship which I was mainly responsible for.“
(NME, December 1998)

 "'Without you I'm nothing' can be seen on three levels, I think. It's us, the band, talking to ourselves; its me talking to certain people in my past; it's also us talking to our fans."
(Chat hosted by David Bowie, March 29th 1999)

 “That song is very misunderstood. It is not a love song, the narrator is suffering from pathological low self-esteem. It’s about co-dependence, feeling like you don’t have an identity without somebody else.”
(Independent, October 17th 2017)

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𝐏𝐇𝐈𝐋𝐈𝐏𝐏𝐄 𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐑𝐄 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐎 𝐒𝐀𝐘 𝐆𝐎𝐎𝐃𝐁𝐘𝐄 VIDEO

⭐️✨𝐏𝐇𝐈𝐋𝐈𝐏𝐏𝐄 𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐑𝐄 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐎 𝐒𝐀𝐘 𝐆𝐎𝐎𝐃𝐁𝐘𝐄 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨✨⭐️Dear soulmates,
Today I’d like to share an EXCLUSIVE STORY on making of the 𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐎 𝐒𝐀𝐘 𝐆𝐎𝐎𝐃𝐁𝐘𝐄 video told by its director 𝑷𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒑𝒑𝒆 𝑨𝒏𝒅𝒓𝒆́.
𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 - 𝐒𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐓𝐨 𝐒𝐚𝐲 𝐆𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐛𝐲𝐞 (𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨, 𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧)
➡️ https://bit.ly/39uPJX4

⭐️An excerpt is taken from the 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐡 𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐊 "𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨. 𝐑𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐬𝐮𝐫 𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞" 𝐛𝐲 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐲 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐬, 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟗⭐️
I totally believe, it’s going to be a very interesting and moving read for you. Enjoy and then, please share your thoughts on the idea behing the video and Brian's response on it...💔❤️

Screenshot from the video

📖 𝐏𝐇𝐈𝐋𝐈𝐏𝐏𝐄 𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐑𝐄 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐎 𝐒𝐀𝐘 𝐆𝐎𝐎𝐃𝐁𝐘𝐄 𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨📖
Carol Fairbrother from Virgin Music asked me to write [a script of] the video for this song. And along with it, the one for the song 'Because I Want You' which was supposed to be released as single in the UK. And ‘Song To Say Goodbye’ was intended for France and other European countries. The record company asked me to come up with a common idea for both songs and was going to entrust me with shooting one of the videos. I wrote two scripts for 'Song To Say Goodbye' and two for 'Because I Want You'. I had a third option for 'Song To Say Goodbye' too, but I didn't dare send it. It was too unusual ... more like a short film than a video ... of course, the band was not supposed to appear in it. And it was kind of not in the spirit of Placebo at all, considering their previous video works. I didn’t describe my idea in the best way: ten lines on one page and several photos that I took in Los Angeles. That’s all. But luckily, I sent this option too. Brian liked the idea immediately and chose this script.
Later he told me that my idea was very different from those that he had ever received, and that I had succeeded in giving his lyrics a new interpretation. Brian knew me mostly from the video I shot for 'Another Chance' by Roger Sanchez. In it, a girl wanders around New York at night with a huge red heart in her hands which shrinks until she meets her soulmate. He said that was his favorite video. First, we talked by the phone. Everything was very simple and natural. We talked mainly about photography, cinema which he loves: Wenders, Gus Van Sente, Jarmusch and others. We had the same guidelines for the video. I told him about Antonini and Ozu, about their ideal tricks for filming children: when you place cameras at knee level to show everything as the child sees it. He and I intended to do something like a short film. He really didn't want to appear in the video. It was a feeling that we were on the same wavelength, he trusted me completely, and preparations for the filming started.

Philip doesn’t shoot many videos because he believes that videos can mostly simplify and impoverish music. But he admits that with Placebo, everything was completely different. They belong to those rare musicians who allow the author to give free rein to his imagination and expect real cooperation and response from him. “Usually, the idea comes to me when I listen to the lyrics and feel the tempo, vibration of music. I listen to the song 50 times, 100 times. First of all, it is necessary to plunge into the personal universe of the artist, the band - if I’m not familiar with them well enough. Sometimes this is not so easy, as it requires a very hasty analysis to quickly "enter" the topic and find an appropriate angle [of view]. It is absolutely impossible to fit an already existing idea into a band. It is necessary to proceed from what a band, an artist is, and look for an idea from the inside. It may sound simple, but sometimes it takes a week to develop an idea while the record label asks for a project "the next day." We have to deliberately delay the case. In the case of ‘Song To Say Goodbye’, the music was leading me to something constantly moving, floating but at the same time impetuous, and the idea of an unusual road movie came up very quickly. The emotions that were born in me when listening to the song pushed me to a narrative video, with the actors ... to a touching story. I didn't want something static, I didn't want the action to happen in one place. But at the same time, I didn’t have the opportunity to shoot in different places. But the option of moving by car was well within the budget. Sometimes difficulties lead to the fact that the idea "shrinks" and transforms in a natural way. As always, I like to start with a simple idea, it's kind of a trick. The girl who carries a huge heart with her that keeps shrinking is for Sanchez. A doll that chooses words as she pulls straw from her wounds and eventually begins to sing transforming into Emilie Simon. An eight-year-old child driving a car with a confused man behind him. His father? We don’t know that. All roles seem to be mixed up. Sometimes this thought comes immediately. Sometimes - after a long time working with the text:

𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝐺𝑜𝑑’𝑠 𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑠
𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑟𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔, 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑔𝑖𝑐 𝑤𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑠𝑘𝑖𝑛 […]
𝐵𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑖𝑛𝑛𝑜𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑡
𝐵𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑙𝑢𝑐𝑘𝑦 𝑠𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑠
𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑣𝑜𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑚𝑎𝑑𝑒 𝑚𝑒 𝑐𝑟𝑦.

Photo credits unknown

As I listened to these words and started imagining a boy driving, driving an adult he needed to take care of, I felt like I had found an idea." The director conceived a story in which he deliberately created voids in order to leave room for emotions not related to the characters in the video, and to show the beautiful acting of the actors. English is not a native language for Philippe André, and he always tries not to be literal in his understanding of a certain lyric and leave each viewer the right to add their own emotional coloring to it. Initially, Brian wanted the video to be filmed in Australia, but in the end the filming took place in California - it was easier for Philip.

“Brian had Sydney in his head, but I preferred Los Angeles where I was doing another project at the time. And to save time, I wanted to shoot the video right after I was done with this project. In addition, the local places were in perfect harmony with the plot in the style of a road movie. And also, it was much easier to cast in Los Angeles to find an 8-9-year-old to star ... we did it in just a week! During the casting, I reviewed fifty children and immediately chose two, Field Cate was among them. He's an incredible actor. I confidently say "actor", because at the age of 9 he attends acting courses besides school. His ability to concentrate, his ability to listen to the director is amazing! We only had a few rehearsals after which he played his part perfectly over the course of three days of filming. When Field was driving a huge American car, passers-by on the streets of Los Angeles stopped to look at him although they were already used to different filming. His car was pulled on a cable by another car from which we filmed, but the system I came up with allowed Field to turn the steering wheel in corners and at the same time be quite far from the car pulling him in front. So, he was completely in his role, and people on the sidewalks saw only a small head sticking out from behind the wheel.

Most of the scenes were written, but I wanted to leave some room for improvisation: we ended up filming - almost without permission - on the streets of Los Angeles downtown among the homeless. We got there at the last moment, shot some takes and left. It's quite difficult to do it in America where everything has to be organized, thought out in advance ... while the main idea of the video was to make everything look as simple as possible and not too “staged”. The same was true for the extras. I mixed them with ordinary people who didn't even know we were shooting. As for the role of the father, it was more of an anti-acting, and in fact it was not easy to play an adult, a bit wild, lost, who leaves the maximum space for the role of a child. At first, I wanted Ray Liotta to play but he refused in the end. I was also thinking about Robert Downey Jr who would be perfect for this role. Several very famous actors agreed, but Brian wanted someone who was not known to the general public to make the story more universal. He didn't want it to be, “Oh, yes! That video with ... ". Sometimes it's too easy. And I found a great actor in Michael Carr, who played this mutism excellently and also helped Field a lot during filming. I edited the clip in Los Angeles and sent it by the internet to London for feedback. Despite the fact that I was absolutely satisfied with the result of my work, having sent the video, I was worried and nervous. But luckily, the record label was delighted with the video, and so did Placebo. I know Brian was really touched by the video. I don’t think I’ll betray him if I quote the e-mail he sent me:
𝑯𝒊 𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒆
𝒂𝒃𝒔𝒐𝒍𝒖𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝑳𝑶𝑽𝑬 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒗𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒐. 𝑰𝒕 𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒆 𝒎𝒆 𝒄𝒓𝒚! 𝑼 𝒄𝒂𝒏'𝒕 𝒂𝒔𝒌 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕! […] 𝑨𝒍𝒔𝒐 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒆𝒙𝒄𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒂 𝒐𝒇 𝒂𝒏 𝟖 𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒖𝒕𝒆𝒔 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏! 𝑪𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖'𝒗𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒆 𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒎𝒂𝒛𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒑𝒊𝒆𝒄𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒇𝒊𝒍𝒎. 𝑶𝒏𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒗𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒐𝒔 𝒘𝒆'𝒗𝒆 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒉𝒂𝒅!
𝑩𝑹𝑨𝑽𝑶!
𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐

Screenshot from the video

In fact, I immediately suggested making a long version, since, I think, the road movie format favors this. Plus, I shot a lot of scenes that I didn't use in the video. Placebo gave me a terrific gift: they went back to the studio to mix the 8-minute version of the song, which allowed me to finish the long version that Virgin soon included on the DVD."
(𝐵𝑜𝑜𝑘 "𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜. 𝑅𝑜𝑐𝑘 𝑠𝑢𝑟 𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑜𝑛𝑛𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒" 𝑏𝑦 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑒𝑟𝑟𝑦 𝐷𝑒𝑠𝑎𝑢𝑙𝑒𝑠, 2009)

▪𝑇𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝐸𝑛𝑔𝑙𝑖𝑠ℎ 𝑏𝑦 𝑂𝑙𝑔𝑎 𝐵𝑢𝑟𝑙𝑎𝑘𝑎 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜 𝐴𝑛𝑦𝑤𝑎𝑦.

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🔹⭐𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎 𝐢𝐧 𝐃𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐄 (𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐈𝐈.)⭐🔹

💚 Dear friends, today we have another trip with Placebo to Dundee. Last Wednesday I reminded you why Dundee is such an important city for the band.
Today we go back in time to 2017, when Placebo played in Dundee for the second time in their history.


💚 In 2017, during the 20th Anniversary Tour, Placebo were looking forward to the October expedition in the UK. The second concert was scheduled for a stop in Dundee.
From this concert I found some nice videos and a beautiful Stefan's interview.
But first of all, I have to say how lucky the fans in Dundee were to be able to see Placebo in their city. Because the very next day Brian started to have serious problems with his vocal cords, which escalated so much that 7 days later the band had to cancel 4 concerts before the final performance at Brixton Academy in London.
However, the concert in Dundee, where Brian was still really full singing, was very good. Is there a Dundonian among us who experienced this event?

Photo credit: screenshots from Dundee gig, edit: by Marti

💚And here are a few notes from Stefan's interview before the Dundee concert:
📌 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 ‘𝐩𝐬𝐞𝐮𝐝𝐨-𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞’ 𝐚𝐭 𝐃𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐞’𝐬 𝐂𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐝 𝐇𝐚𝐥𝐥
Twenty years after releasing the breakthrough single Nancy Boy, Placebo are returning to Dundee’s Caird Hall on Sunday October 8. Here bassist Stefan Olsdal tells Michael Alexander why he is hoping for a ‘pseudo-religious experience’ in a city that ‘infiltrates’ the band’s lives.
As one half of 1990’s formed alternative rock band Placebo, guitarist-bassist Stefan Olsdal is “working his way through coffees” and still catching up on sleep following the band’s recent tour of Australia when The Courier calls him in London.
But it’s the band’s relationship with Dundee that the 43-year-old Swedish born ‘Nancy Boy’ artist is reflecting on ahead of Sunday night’s gig at the Caird Hall.
The City of Discovery is the band’s second stop on its 11-date 20th anniversary UK tour.
And it’s always been a special place for androgynous-looking lead singer Brian Molko whose mum is from Dundee and who was once quoted as saying it is “where I grew up”.
“Brian doesn’t really talk too much about his childhood to be honest,” says Stefan.
“But it’s just funny how Dundee seems to infiltrate our lives.
“Our manager is from Dundee, one of our crew is from Dundee, a band that we signed a publishing deal for – The Mirror Trap – is from Dundee. I don’t know what it is. There must be something in the water in Dundee!”
Stefan has fond memories of Placebo playing the Caird Hall in 2003.
He’s also visited for a wedding and, while he hasn’t been back recently, he hopes to find the time during this trip to explore the city’s on-going physical and cultural renaissance.
Brian Molko of Placebo has strong links with Dundee
“I keep hearing about this regeneration, how the city is coming up culturally, artistically, architecturally – I’m curious to see what all the fuss is about!” he laughs. /.../ 📌
(𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑟, 𝑂𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑏𝑒𝑟 2017)
🔹⭐🔹🔹🔹⭐🔹

Screenshot from the gig

💚 But to give you an idea of what it looks like when a singer gets sick to his vocal cords and what a huge ordeal it must be, I'm sharing videos that could be found on YT.
I will write here all the dates that were planned:


🎶 October 7 – Edinburgh, Usher Hall – Brian in great vocal condition
https://bit.ly/34gtfGt
🎶 October 8 – Dundee, Caird Hall
https://bit.ly/2Thy2oP 🔹 Nancy Boy and Infra Red
https://bit.ly/3fF95v7 🔹 Special Needs
https://bit.ly/3hC6bdf 🔹 Soumates
🎶 October 10 – Doncaster, Doncaster Dome – Brian already has big voice problems here
https://bit.ly/3vhacaZ
🎶 October 11 – Manchester
https://bit.ly/3fJnOVI here it suddenly looks better than the day before
October 13 – Reading, Rivermead – no video to find
🎶 October 14 – Cardiff, Motorpoint Arena – very painful to hear Brian's anguish with his voice
https://bit.ly/3yz12Zi 🔹 Twenty Years
https://bit.ly/3bRLu9f 🔹 Song To Say Goodbye
https://bit.ly/3bNsnNO 🔹 Infra Red


October 16 – Portsmouth, Guildhall - 🔹 cancelled
October 17 – Swindon, Oasis Centre - 🔹 cancelled
October 20 – Plymouth, Plymouth Pavilions - 🔹 cancelled
October 21 – Wolverhampton, Civic Hall - 🔹 cancelled
🔹⭐🔹🔹🔹⭐🔹

Screenshot from the gig

📌 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐'𝒔 𝒐𝒇𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒓𝒕𝒔 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒂𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒔:

“It is with great regret that Placebo are unable to play the upcoming shows at Portsmouth Guildhall on 16th October and Swindon Oasis on 17th October this coming week.


Brian Molko has been suffering from throat problems which has badly affected his voice. The band were reluctant to cancel dates and let the fans down and pressed ahead with the shows in Reading and Cardiff over the weekend but it was clear that Brian was struggling to sing. Brian will now see a specialist in London asap and following that diagnosis, we will make further announcements regarding the shows. In the meantime fans are asked to hold onto their tickets and await further information via the agents you bought tickets from or on Placebo and Gigsandtours social media/online.
“Placebo would like to apologise to the fans for this disappointment and hope for better news soon.”


Placebo confirmed the news on Facebook just after 1pm on the same day.
The statement read:
"Dear fans and ticketholders,
Placebo are very sorry to announce that they will be unable to play their shows at Plymouth Pavillions on Friday 20th October and Wolverhampton Civic Hall on Saturday 21st October.
Brian Molko saw a specialist ENT doctor who has confirmed that Brian is suffering from a throat problem which is affecting his vocal chords and he needs treatment and complete rest for the next few days."
Brian said: “The band and I are absolutely devastated and very sorry for the disappointment and great inconvenience caused by this unfortunate situation. We really wanted to end our UK tour on a high to give thanks to our fans for your incredible support over the years.
It’s very painful being unable to play so many shows and we are so sad to have let you all down."
The band have confirmed that with rest and the appropriate treatment they are still hoping to perform the shows at Brixton Academy on Monday 23rd and Tuesday 24th October.📌
🔹⭐🔹🔹🔹⭐🔹
💚 My friends, I can imagine the great disappointment from the four canceled concerts, which were experienced by both the fans and the band and Brian himself.
He also had to deal with his mental state, with a feeling of failure. And the fans were forced to understand that their beloved singer is above all a human being, and that his health comes first and always in all circumstances.

Screenshot from the gig

The band eventually played a concert at Brixton Academy. But even there, Brian was very careful about his health.
🎶 October 23 – London, O2 Academy Brixton
https://bit.ly/3bPUADC 🔹The Bitter End
https://bit.ly/3hXbVOy 🔹 Exit Wounds


𝑰𝒏 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒄𝒍𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏, 𝑰 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝒂 𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝒄𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒐 𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒂 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒚 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒃𝒐𝒓𝒏.
𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐𝟖 𝒊𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈! 𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒊𝒕 𝒂 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅𝒘𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 𝒕𝒐𝒖𝒓! 😍
💚𝑾𝒆'𝒍𝒍 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒅𝒂𝒚𝒔, 𝒅𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒃𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕? 𝑰 𝒅𝒐!💚

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𝐁𝐄𝐂𝐀𝐔𝐒𝐄 𝐈 𝐖𝐀𝐍𝐓 𝐘𝐎𝐔: 𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨 𝐛𝐲 𝐏𝐇𝐈𝐋𝐈𝐏𝐏𝐄 𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐑𝐄

Dear soulmates,
Today, I’m going to start telling you about two great Placebo videos directed by 𝑷𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒑𝒑𝒆 𝑨𝒏𝒅𝒓𝒆́: Because I Want You, today, and Song To Say Goodbye, in my next post.
𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 - 𝐁𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐈 𝐖𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐘𝐨𝐮 (𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨)
https://bit.ly/3twDXn9

The songs are both singles from Placebo’s fifth studio album 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐬, Because I Want You was released as the first single in the UK and Song To Say Goodbye in other countries.
In 2006, Placebo's management asked 𝑷𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒑𝒑𝒆 𝑨𝒏𝒅𝒓𝒆́ to write the scripts for both videos connected by a common idea. He wrote two scripts for Because I Want You and three for Song To Say Goodbye.

Now, I’d like to tell you a little bit about the director 𝑷𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒑𝒑𝒆 𝑨𝒏𝒅𝒓𝒆́ using an excerpt of the 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐡 𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐊 "𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨. 𝐑𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐬𝐮𝐫 𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞" ("𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨. 𝐑𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐨𝐧 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧") 𝐛𝐲 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐲 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐬 (𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟗).

“Passionate about music, mostly contemporary, he dreamed of becoming a conductor. After graduating from the High School of Audiovisual Art where he studied cinematography and particularly, music for films, Philippe André changed his way for becoming a director. He vowed to watch two films a day for three years. Leaving school and having several documentaries done, including 'Brackets', based on texts by Samuel Beckett and William Burroughs, the young filmmaker started working at The Centre Pompidou where he collaborated with artists to create videos for their exhibitions. Later, he created logos and captions for the Planète Câble channel, then designed the visual stuff for the Paris Première TV channel.
He shot his first music video for Zazie for the song 'Larsen' followed by videos for Ann'So, Ute Lemper, Shakedown, Reminiscent Drive, Alain Chamfort and Emilie Simon. Then - thanks to the 'Under The Bridge' video for All Saints that won the Mobo Awards in 1998 - Philippe André embarked on a ‘British' career. The talented director was approached by such artists as Youssou N'Dour, Texas, Hooverphonic, Faithless, Roger Sanchez, Morcheeba.
Since then, the young man has worked mainly between London and Los Angeles. His first short film, The Rope, was selected for the short lists of many festivals such as the Los Angeles International Film Festival, The Big Apple New York Film Festival, and the San Francisco Independent Film Festival. The Rope won first prize at the Seattle International Film Festival.
Today, Philippe Andre lives between Paris, London, and Los Angeles.”

Screenshot from the video


By the way, the cover of 𝐏𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐞 𝐀𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐞́’𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐛𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐞 represents the scene of the Song to Say Goodbye video. I think, this only fact says how much he’s proud of this incredible work he did for Placebo.
 https://www.philippe-andre.com/

Back to the 𝐁𝐄𝐂𝐀𝐔𝐒𝐄 𝐈 𝐖𝐀𝐍𝐓 𝐘𝐎𝐔 video, the shooting took place at the club 𝑲𝑶𝑲𝑶 in Camden Town, London, on January, 24th, 2006, and a lot of real (and lucky!) Placebo fans were involved in this work. The song was played 𝐟𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬 to record enough material for editing the final version of the video. After that was done, the band played a short set that included 𝑴𝒆𝒅𝒔, 𝑫𝒓𝒂𝒈, 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝑬𝒏𝒅, 𝑵𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒚 𝑩𝒐𝒚 and 𝑺𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝑻𝒐 𝑺𝒂𝒚 𝑮𝒐𝒐𝒅𝒃𝒚𝒆.
We all love “behind the scenes” shootings, don’t we, soulmates? As for Because I Want You, we can also enjoy one!
From it, we can get where Brian’s phrase "𝑵𝒐𝒘 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒃𝒐𝒅𝒚 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒈𝒐 𝒉𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒂 𝒉𝒐𝒕 𝒃𝒂𝒕𝒉!" at the end of the video comes from. On the shooting day, some of the fans spent about ten hours nearby and at the club to be a part of the video! Brian was surely honest saying that he “𝒂𝒅𝒎𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝒅𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏”

Screenshot from the video

𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 - 𝐌𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐎𝐟 𝐁𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐈 𝐖𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐘𝐨𝐮
 https://bit.ly/3stfMEE

We’ve also got another amazing “behind the scenes” piece - a homage video to Placebo fans created by Stefan’s (now) husband 𝑫𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒅 𝑨𝒎𝒆𝒏 called “𝐁𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐰𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐨𝐨”. It perfectly shows all the variability of Placebo’s crowd and is a beautiful way to say “Thank you” to many many fans in particular. The video leaves no doubts that it was totally unforgettable experience!
Enjoy watching, dear soulmates!

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🔹𝐌𝐄𝐋𝐎𝐃𝐘 𝐌𝐀𝐊𝐄𝐑 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡: 𝐈'𝐌 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐈 𝐄𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐄𝐌🔹

Today I want to share an ♦️𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖♦️ with Brian from the “Black market music” era. He talked to Melody Maker about the songs on the new album, being a pervert, the dark and violent side of love, his biggest fear and many more. Enjoy reading!

Photo credit: Kevin Westenberg

🔹𝐌𝐄𝐋𝐎𝐃𝐘 𝐌𝐀𝐊𝐄𝐑 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖: 𝐈'𝐌 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐈 𝐄𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐄𝐌🔹

You expect many things from Brian Molko, the androgynous alien sex fiend who fronts Placebo. Arrogance and sleaze. Paranoia and perversion. Mouthy soundbites and tales of hedonism strewn with the "blood and spunk" of his conquests. What you aren't quite prepared for, however, is his laugh. Half gleeful cackle and half evil snigger, it sounds like Carry On's Sid James reincarnated as a mischievous gothic imp. It sounds like a man having fun.
Lost in a big black sofa, in an East London recording studio, The Notorious Walking Tantrum Known As Brian Molko actually turns out to be engaging, intelligent company. Point out an instance of perverse nonsense in the lyrics on Placebo's new album, "Black Market Music", and, rather than spit molten venom, he smiles knowingly, raises an eyebrow, and talks about "adding to the rock myth". And then he laughs. The gleeful, contagious laugh of a man who thoroughly enjoys winding people up for a living and doesn't take himself too seriously at all.

𝗛𝗔𝗣𝗣𝗬 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗥𝗘𝗖𝗢𝗥𝗗?
📢 “I'm very happy, it's the most accomplished record that we've done so far. It feels like a much more complex and sophisticated album musically and it's like a distillation of everything we've attempted to do in the past. As a band, we were conscious that we really wanted to make a bigger-sounding rock record and maybe have a few less slow tracks on it. More upbeat and more accessible.“

𝗬𝗢𝗨'𝗩𝗘 𝗧𝗔𝗟𝗞𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗥𝗔𝗖𝗧𝗘𝗥 𝗪𝗛𝗢 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗦 𝗢𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗦𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗟𝗘 "𝗧𝗔𝗦𝗧𝗘 𝗜𝗡 𝗠𝗘𝗡". 𝗗𝗢 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗖𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗘 𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗥𝗔𝗖𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗦 𝗡𝗢𝗪, 𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗡 𝗔𝗨𝗧𝗢𝗕𝗜𝗢𝗚𝗥𝗔𝗣𝗛𝗬?
📢 “Well, my lyrics are definitely getting less and less autobiographical, less like a diary and more like stories. But at the same time, I identify with all of the characters within the stories. It's just that the narrator's voice isn't always mine. I try to make the characters sympathetic and put in as much of me as possible in order to make them personal. I'm interested more in writing stories now about strange people with intense emotions.“

𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗥𝗔𝗖𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗦 𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗗𝗥𝗔𝗪𝗡 𝗧𝗢?
📢 ““Peeping Tom“ is interesting. That's about voyeurism. Again, I try to place the listener inside the emotions of the voyeur himself and try to portray this character in a sympathetic manner. To show the love that he has for the person he spies on. The fact that this person is the only ray of light that exists in the voyeur's life. "Peeping Tom" is like "Burger Queen" pushed one step further. And it's quite beautiful and it's packed full of pathos and it's quite touching. It's trying to show the sympathetic side of the pervert. Because I don't believe everything is black and white when it comes to human emotion.“

𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗛𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝗔 𝗥𝗘𝗣𝗨𝗧𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗕𝗘𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗔 𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗧.
📢 A pervert perhaps, but like the Momus record, a tender pervert. Hahahahaha! In every reputation, there's a grain of truth, but often it's a case of your reputation preceding you, and the whole thing is blown out of proportion. Which is funny. It's all part of the rock myth, so it's OK.“

Photo credit: Kevin Westenberg

"𝗧𝗔𝗦𝗧𝗘 𝗜𝗡 𝗠𝗘𝗡" 𝗔𝗡𝗗 "𝗣𝗘𝗘𝗣𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗧𝗢𝗠" 𝗕𝗢𝗧𝗛 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗢𝗡𝗘 𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗢𝗡 𝗢𝗕𝗦𝗘𝗦𝗦𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗥 𝗔𝗡𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥.
📢 Yeah, I think on the album as well, "Special K" compares the rush of falling in love with the rush of coming up on drugs. There's a theme that runs through the album and that's that what people get addicted to most in life is love and drugs. And that they are often the same. People have the same reactions to both. That theme runs though our work. This idea of addiction, whether it be to people, emotions, substances or situations.“

𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗦 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗥𝗞𝗘𝗥, 𝗩𝗜𝗢𝗟𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗦𝗜𝗗𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗟𝗢𝗩𝗘?
📢 “Well, take a song like "Haemoglobin". That's our version of [legendary chanteuse] Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit", but where Billie's walking around observing fruit [dead slaves] hanging from the trees, we've actually placed you inside the man's head. It starts off with him hanging from a tree - he's in a state of resignation. In the second verse, he gets cut down and that resignation turns into confusion. And by the third verse, that confusion has turned into anger and a lust for revenge. It's a simple moral thing, prejudice breeds prejudice and violence breeds violence. We started this band in our early 20s and now we're getting towards our 30s and you look at the world around you a bit more. And it touches you, what people are prepared to do to each other for religion, for land. Violence still exists. There's a war every day, people getting murdered every day. If you watch the news, you get affected by that.“

𝗜𝗦𝗡'𝗧 𝗜𝗧 𝗔 𝗕𝗢𝗟𝗗, 𝗔𝗟𝗠𝗢𝗦𝗧 𝗜𝗠𝗣𝗢𝗦𝗦𝗜𝗕𝗟𝗘, 𝗠𝗢𝗩𝗘 𝗧𝗢 𝗧𝗥𝗬 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗨𝗡𝗗𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗪𝗔𝗦 𝗘𝗡𝗗𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗕𝗬 𝗔 𝗕𝗟𝗔𝗖𝗞 𝗦𝗟𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝗙𝗥𝗢𝗠 𝗔 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗣𝗟𝗘𝗧𝗘𝗟𝗬 𝗗𝗜𝗙𝗙𝗘𝗥𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗦𝗢𝗖𝗜𝗘𝗧𝗬 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗘𝗥𝗔?
📢 “Sure. That's true. But I was trying to make a bit more of a universal point. The things that happened in the American South, from slavery onwards, we're still feeling the repercussions of them today. The L.A. riots. There was something recently in America that made the Rodney King incident seem like "The Simpsons". So, it's just placing it in a historical context to make people think about whether or not it's still around today. And it is.“

"𝗦𝗣𝗜𝗧𝗘 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗠𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗖𝗘" 𝗪𝗔𝗦 𝗜𝗡𝗦𝗣𝗜𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗕𝗬 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗠𝗔𝗬 𝗗𝗔𝗬 𝗥𝗜𝗢𝗧𝗦. 𝗪𝗘𝗥𝗘 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗦𝗬𝗠𝗣𝗔𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗧𝗜𝗖 𝗧𝗢 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗧𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗦?
📢 “Absolutely. Churchill's mohican was one of the funniest things we've seen in a long time. Opening up the paper and seeing such an inventive disrespect for tradition and for the establishment was quite inspiring. I started running around and shouting, "Dope, guns, and fucking in the streets" and that made its way on to the record. I actually put the picture of Churchill's mohican in front of me when I was doing some of the recording of the lyrics.“

𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗧𝗘𝗔𝗠 𝗨𝗣 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗥𝗔𝗣𝗣𝗘𝗥 𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗡 𝗪𝗔𝗥𝗙𝗜𝗘𝗟𝗗 𝗙𝗢𝗥 "𝗦𝗣𝗜𝗧𝗘 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗠𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗖𝗘". 𝗔 𝗡𝗢𝗗 𝗧𝗢 𝗞𝗢𝗥𝗡/𝗟𝗜𝗠𝗣 𝗕𝗜𝗭𝗞𝗜𝗧'𝗦 "𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝗜𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗙𝗔𝗠𝗜𝗟𝗬"?
📢 “We're not very fond of that and we were aware of that when we were doing "Spite and Malice". I guess in the back of our minds we wanted to do something that was quite anti that. I find that kind of music extremely negative, homophobic and chauvinistic. We've dealt with difficult emotional issues and intense emotions, but there's always been a strain of positively and optimism within that. Which those bands lack, really. And also our music has a variation, whereas Korn, Limp Bizkit and Kid Rock are extremely repetitive. I find it gets a bit boring after two songs.“

𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗘 𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗦𝗢𝗠𝗘 𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗘 𝗜𝗡𝗗𝗨𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗟 𝗠𝗢𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗦 𝗢𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗔𝗟𝗕𝗨𝗠. 𝗪𝗔𝗦 𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗜𝗟𝗬𝗡 𝗠𝗔𝗡𝗦𝗢𝗡 𝗔𝗡 𝗜𝗡𝗙𝗟𝗨𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗘?
📢 Not really. More of a drinking partner, hahahahaha, than an influence, hahahahaha! And I haven't seen him in a while. A song called "Wish" off the "Broken EP" by NIN was a bit of an influence. We listened to that while we were doing "Taste in Men", going, “Let's make it that nasty, let's make it that unlistenable““.

Photo credit: Kevin Westenberg

𝗪𝗢𝗨𝗟𝗗 𝗜𝗧 𝗕𝗘 𝗙𝗔𝗜𝗥 𝗧𝗢 𝗦𝗔𝗬 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗘'𝗦 𝗔 𝗟𝗢𝗧 𝗢𝗙 𝗗𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗛 𝗢𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗦 𝗥𝗘𝗖𝗢𝗥𝗗?
📢 “Probably, yeah. "Haemoglobin" deals with death and lynching. "Salve to the Wage" is a song about not working yourself into an early grave. The day I recorded the vocals to that track was the day that I found out that Scott Piering, the legendary plugger and our friend, had died and I was thinking about him that morning. There was a cloud that was hanging over us that day. I strangely felt his presence.“

"𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗠𝗘𝗥𝗖𝗜𝗔𝗟 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗟𝗘𝗩𝗜" 𝗔𝗦 𝗪𝗘𝗟𝗟.
📢 “Yeah, yeah. That's a song about grabbing your mate by the scruff of the neck and telling him that he's walking down a rocky road to ruin. It's basically, "You're my mate and I love you, but if you don't watch out you're going to fuck up pretty bad." It's autobiographical in the sense that there have been certain points in my life where the band or other friends have had to do that to me. Which was very beneficial. I love that song because musically it's like a really sweet lullaby and lyrically it's quite a filthy number. It puts a smile on your face.“

𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗣𝗢𝗜𝗡𝗧 𝗪𝗘𝗥𝗘 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗔𝗧 𝗪𝗛𝗘𝗡 𝗦𝗢𝗠𝗘𝗢𝗡𝗘 𝗦𝗔𝗜𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗧𝗢 𝗬𝗢𝗨?
“Times on the second album. It was a place when I was emotionally... personally I had quite a lot of... sometimes you search for solace in the wrong places. It was a schizophrenic time and a time of identity crisis for me. That was a tough one. But I feel better now, thank you.“

𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗪𝗔𝗦 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗖𝗥𝗜𝗦𝗜𝗦?
📢 “Like, just not recognizing yourself in interviews. The extreme side of your personality which I chose to sort of display was snowballing and getting a life of its own. It was like looking in a mirror and not recognizing myself, looking in magazines and not recognizing myself.“

𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗦𝗔𝗬 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗪𝗘𝗥𝗘 𝗟𝗢𝗢𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗦𝗢𝗟𝗔𝗖𝗘 𝗜𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗪𝗥𝗢𝗡𝗚 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗖𝗘𝗦, 𝗕𝗨𝗧 𝗜𝗦𝗡'𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗘 𝗔 𝗥𝗘𝗙𝗘𝗥𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗘 𝗜𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗦𝗢𝗡𝗚 𝗧𝗢 𝗕𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗧𝗬?
📢 [Pause] “Hahahahahahahaha! Yeah, sure, certainly there is. Yeah, yeah. That's just, that's a bit of artistic licence, you know? Hahahahahahaha! It's just a... yeah, yeah, how filthy can you get? Hahahahahahahaha! But for the record, I've never indulged in it myself. I've seen a couple of movies.“

𝗬𝗢𝗨'𝗥𝗘 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗬𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗨𝗣 𝗧𝗢 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗜𝗠𝗔𝗚𝗘, 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗡?
📢 “Yeah, there's definetely a certain amount of irony in "Commercial for Levi", especially if it's directed towards me. I'm smiling wryly at people's opinions of me and what they imagine my lifestyle is like or what I must get up to.“

𝗜𝗧'𝗦 𝗢𝗕𝗩𝗜𝗢𝗨𝗦𝗟𝗬 𝟮𝟰-𝗛𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗕𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗧𝗬.
📢 “Yeah. And bingeing. Yeah. Hahahahaha!“

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𝗜𝗦 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗘 𝗔 𝗦𝗜𝗠𝗜𝗟𝗔𝗥 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗠𝗘 𝗥𝗨𝗡𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗧𝗛𝗥𝗢𝗨𝗚𝗛 "𝗡𝗔𝗥𝗖𝗢𝗟𝗘𝗣𝗧𝗜𝗖"?
📢 “When I first wrote down the tracklisting of the album, I wrote underneath each track a second title. They didn't make their way on to the album, but they were a summing up in one phrase of what those songs represent to me. And the one I wrote for "Narcoleptic" was "Love And Drugs Are One Big Pillow". Again, like "Special K", it explores the link between drugs and love. "SpecialK" is uppers and the rush of falling in love. "Narcoleptic" is more like downers and more like relationships, relationships that reach that point of familiarity breeding contempt.“

𝗪𝗢𝗨𝗟𝗗 𝗜𝗧 𝗕𝗘 𝗥𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧 𝗧𝗢 𝗔𝗦𝗦𝗨𝗠𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗠𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗛𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝗙𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗘𝗡 𝗜𝗡 𝗟𝗢𝗩𝗘 𝗜𝗡 𝗢𝗥𝗗𝗘𝗥 𝗧𝗢 𝗠𝗔𝗞𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗦 𝗥𝗘𝗖𝗢𝗥𝗗?
📢 “Fallen in love, fallen out of love, fallen in love, fallen out of love,
Hahahahaha. Etc. Ad infinitum. Or ad nauseam. Whichever you prefer.“

"𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗠𝗘𝗥𝗖𝗜𝗔𝗟 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗟𝗘𝗩𝗜": 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗜𝗙 𝗟𝗘𝗩𝗜'𝗦 𝗦𝗨𝗘?
📢 “Levi's our sound man. There was this one time in Milan when I got a bit too drunk at dinner and left the restaurant which was right opposite the venue and there were some fans waiting outside, and I climbed on top of this Fiat Uno, and started screaming "Nancy Boy", doing a performance for the fans. And Levi dragged me off the Fiat Uno, as the owner was approaching and waving the keys. I thought I was going to cross this road in between the two parked tour buses and took off, and Levi just grabbed me as a car zoomed by. So it's quite possible that he did save my life. If I was a Samurai, I would have to follow him around for the rest of my life and take care of him until I saved his life. But my little payback for that is to put his name in a song.“

𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗘𝗗 𝗕𝗘𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗬𝗢𝗨'𝗥𝗘 𝗔𝗣𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗔𝗖𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝟯𝟬𝗦. 𝗜𝗦 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗦𝗢𝗠𝗘𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗪𝗛𝗜𝗖𝗛 𝗖𝗥𝗘𝗘𝗣𝗦 𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗢 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗗?
📢 “I've always been conscious of mortality. Who isn't? It can happen any time. I don't really like flying and if I refused to fly, I wouldn't have a career, so every time I get on a plane I think about death. Fucking stewardess on Air Portugal said to me, "Would you like Time magazine, sir?, and on the cover was the Concorde crash! I went, "Are you nuts? Get that thing away from me!" And she took it back and just started laughing. So every time I get on an airplane, I feel like it's a confrontation with mortality. But we enjoy ourselves and enjoy life and have a lust for life and certainly we're having a good time being in Placebo at the moment. Maybe being conscious of your mortality makes you live your life to the full a bit more. On a daily basis.“

𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗨𝗧 "𝗕𝗟𝗨𝗘 𝗔𝗠𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗡" - 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧'𝗦 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗨𝗧?
📢 “It's a kind of self-disgust. Three and a half minutes of pure self-disgust, American style. The person in the song is at such a low point in his life emotionally that he's started to hit out at everything that is a part of him. He's attacking his parents, his culture, his culture's history, self-help, psychiatry. It was written when I wasn't in a particularly good mood.“

𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗜𝗡𝗦𝗣𝗜𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧?
📢 “The strangest things can inspire lyrics. I was watching a documentary on TV about novelists trying to get their first novel published and how difficult it was and I often sit and play acoustic guitar when I watch TV. And I thought of "I wrote this novel just for you/It sounds pretentious but it's true". There's a little, I would say self-deprecation in that lyric but I often try and get to a place before my detractors. Hence the "I'm so pretentious, yes it's true" line that comes at the end of the song. It's just saying, "I know exactly what you think about me"“.

Photo credit: Kevin Westenberg

𝗜𝗦𝗡'𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗘 𝗔 𝗥𝗘𝗙𝗘𝗥𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗘 𝗧𝗢 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗠𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥 𝗜𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗘?
📢 “Yeah. I wanted to say hi to my mum. I'm the anti-Eminem! Hahahahahaha!
That's really genuine, you know. Hi, Mom. It's so American. And, you know, I still love my mother. And it just fitted. When it came out, I thought it would be really nice to make her quite happy. Because I'm sure most of the subject matter of our songs doesn't make her very happy. So, at one point, maybe for one verse at least, she might think, "Oh, that's nice. My son still loves me."“

𝗛𝗔𝗦 𝗦𝗛𝗘 𝗛𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗦𝗢𝗡𝗚?
📢 “Not yet, she hasn't, no. So journalists get to hear it before parents.
Hahahahahahaha!“

𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗪𝗢𝗨𝗟𝗗 𝗕𝗘 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗕𝗜𝗚𝗚𝗘𝗦𝗧 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗥 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗙𝗨𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗖𝗘𝗕𝗢?
📢 “Plane crash. For us to lose our spark and to lose our spontaneity. But I think a lot of it comes from the fact that we're still incredibly good mates. And that will help to sustain that. I think what we enjoy most is playing music with each other. It's the most satisfying thing.“

𝗖𝗢𝗨𝗟𝗗 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗕𝗘 𝗟𝗜𝗞𝗘 𝗥𝗢𝗕𝗘𝗥𝗧 𝗦𝗠𝗜𝗧𝗛, 𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗟𝗟 𝗞𝗡𝗢𝗖𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗚𝗢𝗧𝗛 𝗣𝗢𝗣 𝗜𝗡 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝟰𝟬𝗦?
📢 I don't know. I hope we'd be more like Bowie, more like several processes of reinvention along the way. Keep a healthy desire for change in our music and a healthy contempt for formula. And to not self-censor yourself, in the way you say, "This is not a Placebo sound." We don't really have that kind of attitude. We're very open. If it comes out of us, then it's Placebo.“
(Melody Maker, "I'm the anti Eminem", October 2000)

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🎶🎸 𝙋𝙇𝘼𝘾𝙀𝘽𝙊 𝙇𝙄𝙑𝙀 𝘼𝙏 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝘽𝙇𝘼𝘾𝙆 𝙎𝙀𝙎𝙎𝙄𝙊𝙉𝙎 𝟭𝟵𝟵𝟳 🎸🎶

Among 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐's oldies but goldies performances, this afternoon I'll talk to you about 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝑺𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 from 1997.

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𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝑺𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 were performances of live music broadcast by French radio station 𝑭𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝑰𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓. The name is a pun based on the name of their creator, 𝑩𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝑳𝒆𝒏𝒐𝒊𝒓, which translates literally as "𝑩𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝒃𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌". 𝑩𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝑳𝒆𝒏𝒐𝒊𝒓 is a famous ex radio DJ, who discovered a lot of talents in English, American and French rock/pop music. In 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝑺𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 he invited groups that are for the most part relative beginners but who often go on to become references in the world of indie rock. Unlike the 𝑩𝑩𝑪’𝒔 "𝑷𝒆𝒆𝒍 𝑺𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔", the bands played live, recorded in one take in front of an audience of 200 people and featured on the show "𝑪'𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝑳𝒆𝒏𝒐𝒊𝒓"(𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒔 𝑳𝒆𝒏𝒐𝒊𝒓). The first performance was held in 1992 and the last one took place in June 2011. These sessions were released on a CD format for mostly local radio DJs in Europe by 𝑺𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆 𝑹𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒔. The releases are marked as "promotional" and are in a limited series of 2500.

Among the artists who performed at 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝑺𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 were:
𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑪𝒖𝒓𝒆, 𝑷𝑱 𝑯𝒂𝒓𝒗𝒆𝒚, 𝑺𝒎𝒂𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑷𝒖𝒎𝒑𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒔, 𝑵𝒊𝒄𝒌 𝑪𝒂𝒗𝒆, 𝑹𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒐𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒅, 𝑷𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕, 𝑻𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒐𝒊𝒔𝒆, 𝑳𝒊𝒏𝒐𝒍𝒆𝒖𝒎, even the 𝑩𝒐𝒐 𝑹𝒂𝒅𝒍𝒆𝒚𝒔 - one of the bands where 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒗𝒆 𝑯𝒆𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒕 played the drums - and many others. 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 played here twice: in 1997 and 1998.

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♦️𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 𝐛𝐲 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐋𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐢𝐫 - 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐒𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟕♦️

𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: It's weird. I don't know if we really believe in destiny. I don't know if there's a power that brought us together but I think life is luck. It's a bit a game of luck. We have good karma or we have bad karma. I think at that point we both really needed good karma. We both came out of situations that were a little difficult or a little bit boring, not really very exciting. I think we got what we deserve. The way Placebo was created when we got together is a serie of happy accidents. I wouldn't go so far as to say it's fate or whatever.

𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐟𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐟𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐦𝐞𝐭?
𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: Totally. It was funny because the reason we started making music together was because that weekend I was doing a concert at the pub with him.

𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐯𝐞
𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: He was in another band. He couldn't be in our band. It's strange that now he's playing with us. It's like a circle. In English we say 'what goes around, comes round'. It's a little bit like that.

𝐋𝐞𝐭'𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐋𝐮𝐱𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐠 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞. 𝐈 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐧'𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐝. 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐚 𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐭.
𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: Yeah, we did a song. A new song that will be on the new album, which is called Burger Queen. It's a pun on Burger King and it also means Luxembourger queen. The queer from Luxembourg. It is a very sad story. The character in this song is in the wrong place at the wrong time. It's one of the worst things to be in the wrong place. He is homosexual, he is goth, he's on heroin and he lives in Luxembourg. These are four things you can have in your life ... No. I'm not saying that being homosexual is bad. It's the worst place where you can be all of those things. It makes us cry to listen to this song and play it.

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𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐋𝐮𝐱𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐠 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞

𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: No, we are becoming mini celebrities. I am very honest about the places where I have spent a lot of time. Even the town where my mother was born where I spent time in Scotland. I don't like it at all. I've always told to myself that you should never lie in interviews. Luxembourg is a very mercantile place, with lots of banks. A little Switzerland, without culture. Some say it is changing a little bit, but it gets richer and richer.

𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐱𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚 𝐥𝐨𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐋𝐮𝐱𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐠 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐑𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐨 𝐋𝐮𝐱𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐠. 𝐈𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐨 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. 𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐧𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰. 𝐈 𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐫 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐧𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰.
𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: Not at all. Paris is one of my favorite cities. Paris and New York.

𝐃𝐢𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐋𝐮𝐱𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐠?
𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: Yes, I did go to Paris. I also went to the Netherlands. I'm not going to say why. But it happened to me to come to Paris.

𝐂𝐚𝐧 𝐰𝐞 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐡 𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞. 𝐈𝐧 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐬, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐉𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐭. 𝐋𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞, 𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐚…
𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: French cinema has always been to me ... I grew up watching French TV. There was a beautiful cinema art house. The last four years I've spent in Luxembourg, I saw lots of French movies there. I became a fan of Téchiné and Assayas.

𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐲?
𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: We just made a film in England. It is something that I've studied. I have studied since I was 11 years old. I would very much like to make films in France with Olivier Assayas perhaps. I was told that he was at the Elysée Montmartre concert and that he is a fan of Placebo. I have his address, we will try to meet.

Photo credit: M. Petesch

𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰, 𝐊𝐥𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐡, 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧. 𝐃𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐢𝐭?
𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: No, I really don't have time. The last time we came here, we saw The Fifth Element. We had a great time.

𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐮𝐫 𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐚.
𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: I like it anyway

𝐘𝐨𝐮'𝐯𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐬. 𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐚𝐧 𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐫…
𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: No, this is not an old story. I have a university degree. Bowie or Courtney (?) don't. I am even more qualified to do it.

𝐃𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞?
𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: Not at all. We will see when this film is going to be released, it will be the beginning or the end. We will see.

⭐ Watch the rest of this very interesting interview here: 👉 https://bit.ly/3fr0RGR

Photo credit: Screenshot

And now, dear soulmates, let's enjoy 𝒔𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑵𝒐.𝟏𝟎𝟗 recorded on June 30, 1997 at 𝑺𝒕𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒐 𝟏𝟎𝟓 of the 𝑴𝒂𝒊𝒔𝒐𝒏 𝒅𝒆 𝑹𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒐 𝑭𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆.
The videos are not very good quality, but they are definitely worth watching for the wonderful setlist 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 offered, including one of the earlier versions of "𝑨𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒓𝒈𝒊𝒄" as well as one of the few videos there is of the band playing "𝑬𝒗𝒊𝒍 𝑫𝒊𝒍𝒅𝒐".

🔊 𝐁𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜 - 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐭 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐒𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟕 (𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐕𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐭) 🎶
https://youtu.be/797kLTaAwz8

🔊 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐭 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐒𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟕 (𝐅𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐭) 🎶
https://bit.ly/2SbCHYZ

It would be great if someday the band releases the whole concert with a better quality, in a kind of 𝑳𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝑻𝒂𝒑𝒆𝒔 𝑽𝒐𝒍. 𝟐 🤩…
Damn! Why didn't I ask for that in the questionnaire?!?!! 🤯🙈
I hope this concert makes your Saturday more enjoyable. Let me know what is your favorite song from this session and your impressions about the interview.
Take care & much love. 💕❤️💕

Post by Rita
Translation and transcription by our soulmate Laetitia Evalia