Dear soulmates,
Today I have a wonderful live version of ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ for you, which was played at ๐๐ ๐๐ฉ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐จ ๐ข๐ง ๐๐๐ง๐๐ก๐๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ซ ๐จ๐ง ๐๐๐ซ๐๐ก ๐๐๐ญ๐ก, ๐๐๐๐. The excerpt of the review will help you feel the atmosphere of the show - or bring your memories back if you’ve been lucky enough to enjoy one of the concerts of Loud Like Love tour.
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| Placebo live in Manchester 2015. Photo credit: Shirlaine Forrest |
The lights dimmed, the crowd huddled together and started to sway to the familiar beat playing ever so quietly. And then from completely out of sight Brian Molko’s ethereal voice broke through the darkness with the opening of Pure Morning.
Some of their followers have been there from the very beginning, some are just discovering Placebo now […]
And looking around at the crowd last night it was obvious a fair share of every type of fan was there to show support and have their minds blown.
The head bangers banged – their heads not each other – the ageing not-so-gracefully rockers rocked and the teenyboppers bopped as they churned out hit after hit peppered with some of the new bits.
A set-list that included oldies but goodies like Song to Say Goodbye, Infra-Red, Special K, Meds and The Bitter End and newer soon-to-be-classics such as Exit Wounds, Scene of the Crime and Rob the Bank was never going to disappoint!
Every one unique, every one breathtaking in its own way, and yet every one harmonised in their melancholy – an angst of a youth not yet forgotten or perhaps still being endured – and the songs were alright too.
Non-gender specific royalty of androgyny, frontman Brian, delivered every song with total perfection. Not a single note was off-key and not a single beat was missed.
In almost every track each musician was given their time in the spotlight to show how well-deserved their place in one of the most successful British rock bands is with impeccable solos. They haven’t come this far or achieved so much for no reason.
The power behind his iconic high-pitched, angelic vocals is astounding when backed with instruments let alone when laid bare, vulnerable and gorgeous in front of you.
Those moments alone made the night one the audience would carry with them forever.
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| Placebo live in Manchester 2015. Photo credit: Shirlaine Forrest |
Then when you throw in the musical aptitude of Placebo’s other integral members, the chemistry, the performance factor, the bone-shaking bass of the sound system, and an endlessly impressive light show…
Well, then you get a band who not only have fans coming back for more so many years on, but a band who even after two decades are still gaining new followers.
You get musicians who bring together people from every clique and circumstance with lyrics of hope and pain to which they can all relate – a band with a vocalist whose tone is the only crutch you’ll need to get you through the tragedy of your teens and the turmoil of adulthood.
You get a band who seemed to master their art so long ago and yet somehow deliver even more at every show – last night being no exception.
You get a five-piece instrumental extravaganza whose members walked back onto the Apollo stage, at the end of their set and an encore, applauding and thanking their AUDIENCE before holding hands and taking a bow.
They are a band who ‘are not gods but men’ yet fill your soul with whatever the opposite of loneliness is. Placebo, here’s to 20 more years.
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| Placebo live in Manchester 2015. Photo credit: Shirlaine Forrest |
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๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐ง:
"…the second-to-last song, which is “Begin The End,” which is the point in a relationship when you realize that you’re still in it, but you’ve passed the tipping point, that you know it’s over even though it’s not physically over yet. "
(๐๐๐๐ฆ๐๐๐๐๐, ๐๐๐ก’13)
๐๐ญ๐๐๐๐ง:
…I think the track Begin the End is a place where we haven’t really gone before rhythmically. There’s a groove that’s there to the very end, that’s quite hypnotic. So yeah, we’re exploring different avenues that we haven’t done before.
(๐ป๐ข๐๐๐๐ "๐โ๐ ๐ผ๐๐ก๐๐๐ฃ๐๐๐ค: ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐", ๐ด๐ข๐'13)
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