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| Placebo at Exit Festival 2010. Pgoto credit: mr-foto.net |
Dear friends, today I invite you to one of the most beautiful and exceptional festivals in Europe.
The EXIT Festival, which takes place in the Serbian city of Novi Sad, fascinated me with its amazing history - its origin.
📌 𝐅𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐕𝐀𝐋 𝐈𝐍𝐅𝐎:
"From its beginnings as a protest against the Milosevic regime, EXIT has grown into one of the biggest music festivals in Europe.
EXIT is more than that though – it is a festival that traditionally has a political message at heart and whilst this is not why the majority of about 200,000 people come together and celebrate four days on Novi Sad’s Petrovaradin fortress, the festival organisers still like to emphasise the importance of civil activism with the presence of many NGO’s and international organisations.
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐗𝐈𝐓 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐫𝐞𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐢𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐜 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐦𝐞. That year, thousands of students from Novi Sad gathered on the university campus close to the river Danube to hear local bands and DJs perform and to listen to speakers voicing their opinions about the regime that had isolated them from the rest of Europe for the past decade. The event lasted 100 days and finished off with a party and a call for all the young people of Serbia to go and vote in the elections that were to be held the following day – the day which led to the downfall of the Milosevic regime.
The success gave the team behind the initial demonstrations the impetus to organise it as a festival in the true sense of the word and 2001 saw the first EXIT festival in the format we celebrate it today – in the grounds of the Petrovaradin Fortress with a stunning view over the Danube and Novi Sad’s skyline.
In 2001 the festival lasted nine days and people still recount the mind-blowing performance that Roni Size gave back then in front of thousands of people. One of the biggest signs of progress back then was that Croatian artists came to play at the festival. These days, Croatian bands such as Lollobrigida are some of the most popular acts for the locals at the festival and it would be hard to imagine the event without them. In 2003 the festival was shortened to the present four day format.
In 2004 MTV became involved in the festival and BBC’s Radio 1 covered EXIT in 2005 and the event has become much more commercial, raising the hackles of some of the festival goers from the early years. But a more commerical outlook has led to continuous improvement of the festival line-up and diversification of the musical genres represented.
This year’s festival (2010) has one of the best line-ups of any European festival and there’s enough for fans of any music genre to get exited about."📌
(𝐵𝑎𝑙𝑘𝑎𝑛𝐼𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑚𝑎𝑔. 𝐽𝑢𝑙𝑦 2010)
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| Placebo at Exit Festival 2010. Photo credit: Aleksandar Kamasi |
And yet I must not forget to mention - 𝐌𝐓𝐕 𝐄𝐱𝐢𝐭 - does this name mean anything to you?
Yes, it's a charity founded under the banner of MTV, and it's the one that brought us awareness of human trafficking and sexual slavery in Cambodia. A wonderful concert at Angkor Wat was the work of this organization.
📌 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐎𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐋 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐎𝐍𝐄𝐍𝐓
MTV has also been one of the main promoters of social activism with their presence at EXIT festival. When the music television station started to host its own stage at EXIT, it also teamed up with the festival organisers to promote work of the MTV Europe Foundation, raising awareness on human rights issues in Serbia and the whole region. The work of Non Governmental Organisations is an important component of the festival and there will be a raft of organisations at the event hoping to promote social awareness amongst festival goers.📌
(𝐵𝑎𝑙𝑘𝑎𝑛𝐼𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑚𝑎𝑔. 𝐽𝑢𝑙𝑦 2010)
Yes, dear soulmate, music unites people all over the world and it is beautiful to use it for such purposes as enlightening about atrocities that should no longer exist in the 21st century ... Don't you think?
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Placebo at Exit Festival 2010. Photo credit: Aleksandar Zec |
There is one very nice interview from this festival, which was given to reporters by our beloved Sunshine Steve:
𝑫𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝑬𝑿𝑰𝑻?
"From promoter we heard many nice things about the festival. I can’t really say how the whole EXIT story started, but I do know it began from real reasons, that at the beginning there were no big sponsors and, all in all, that music is most important. And that is what makes this festival so special, many told us that before we came. Because of it all we’re proud to be here and I’m sure we will enjoy it in Novi Sad. And the location! It’s really fantastic. I love to play at such original places which is better and more interesting then a gig at some field. Fortresses are remembered because everything around you is unusual."
𝑾𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕, 𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒂 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒎𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅, 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒆𝒅 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒑𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒌𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖.
"Yes, baptism of fire! They wanted to break me down and then ‘rebuild’ me again. And they did it. Of course, there were moments when I was pissed and I let those things to annoy me. But on that way I became stronger and I was more ready that from drummer of a small band I suddenly get into a world of big celebrities. If there wasn’t Brian’s and Stefan’s “treatment” I don’t think I would survive these three years."
𝑶𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎 “𝑩𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒖𝒏” 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒂 𝒃𝒊𝒕, 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒂 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒖𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔, 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒍 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓𝒔…
"Brian and Stefan always try to find some new sound, they already used electronic, experimented with guitar sound… And then there was a question: what now? Then Brian came up with the idea to use wind instruments, but it was complicated to match the sound because we didn’t want those to repress other instruments. But it was fun and we had great time while recording it. Because of it all record sounds powerful and different."
𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒇𝒂𝒎𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒔 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒆𝒍𝒔𝒆. 𝑰𝒔 𝒊𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒆𝒆𝒕 𝒉𝒖𝒈𝒆 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒏𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕?
"I don’t know, we enjoy ii every time and as long as we’re having fun and the audience is pleased, we will continue it the same way. And when we don’t meet their expectations… Fuck it, it’s important that we have a good time."
(𝐵𝑙𝑖𝑐.𝑟𝑠 𝑀𝑎𝑔. 𝐽𝑢𝑙𝑦 2010)
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Placebo at Exit Festival 2010. Photo credit unknown |
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Dear friends, I was wondering whether to share a video here or just make my favorite Placebo Fan Art with a collage of photos ... Due to the political origin of this festival, I finally found it very appropriate to share the song that is most suitable for this topic - ⭐"𝐓𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐇𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬 ”⭐.
https://bit.ly/2PPxG7s
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