⭐🔹𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎 𝐢𝐧 𝐃𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐄 (𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐈.)🔹⭐

Dear friends, today we will visit Scotland. I tried to find as much material as possible for the Placebo concerts in Dundee.
Why Dundee?
𝑰𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒄𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒃𝒆𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅.
𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏'𝒔 𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒃𝒐𝒓𝒏 𝒊𝒏 𝑫𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒇𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒚.
𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅'𝒔 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒂𝒈𝒆𝒓, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒄 𝑫𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝑴𝒄𝑳𝒆𝒂𝒏, 𝒂𝒍𝒔𝒐 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝑫𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒆.
𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝑫𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒇𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒂𝒓 𝒕𝒐 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒐𝒇 𝒖𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒔𝒂𝒘 𝑫𝒂𝒗𝒆'𝒔 𝒂𝒎𝒂𝒛𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒊𝒍𝒎 𝒂𝒏𝒅, 𝒊𝒏 𝒇𝒂𝒄𝒕, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆 𝒋𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒆𝒚 𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝑺𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒔.

Placebo manager Dave McLean. Photo credit unknown

Dundee has become a culturally thriving city in recent years, and I'm really looking forward to seeing it one day (you can learn all about Dundee here: https://bit.ly/3fvWU3w ).
𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒐𝒅𝒂𝒚 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒐𝒏 𝒂 𝒗𝒊𝒓𝒕𝒖𝒂𝒍 𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒑 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐.


If I was looking well, Placebo played a concert in Dundee only twice.
The first time was in April 2003. Unfortunately, there is no footage of this concert on YT. But I can share with you a part of Brian's interview from March 2003, where he mentions in more detail the upcoming concert, which his Scottish family also came to see.
⭐"𝑊𝑒 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑦𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐶𝑎𝑖𝑟𝑑 𝐻𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑚𝑦 𝑤ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑒 𝑓𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑦 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡.“⭐(Daily Record magazine, Apr. 2006)

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🔹⭐🔹𝐃𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝 "𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐄𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭", 𝐌𝐚𝐫'𝟎𝟑🔹⭐🔹

📌/.../ Placebo are back this week with a new album, Sleeping With Ghosts, which has already spawned the Top 20 hit Bitter End.
They'll be showcasing the songs when they play Glasgow's Barrowland on April 7, and the Caird Hall, Dundee, two nights later for what will be a welcome homecoming for the singer.


"My mum is from Dundee and still lives in the city," Brian said. "She met my father and by the time I was born they had moved to Europe.
But I spent a lot of time in Dundee when I was young, at my gran's house in the summers.
I remember the Wellgate Centre and playing the arcades, where I spent a lot of my time. But there wasn't that much to do and I started smoking because I was bored. I was young and restless."


Placebo's former Boo Radleys drummer Steve Hewitt is English and the band is completed by bassist Stefan Olsdal, a Swede.
But despite being an American citizen, Brian considers himself a Scot.
He said: "I don't consider myself to be American at all, certainly not these days.
If you'd forced me to have a nationalistic feeling, it would certainly be for Scotland.
That's something I keep saying to my band. `Hey guys, don't call me English'. Being able to say you're Scottish and not English comes in handy in so many situations." /.../📌
🔹⭐🔹🔹🔹⭐🔹

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Well, dear soulmates, what do you say about Brian's confession of his Scottish nationalism? 😊
Is it even necessary to belong somewhere, to join a specific community, a nation? How do you perceive it? And who is Brian for you?


Now I have to divide my writing about Placebo in Dundee. Why?
Because the tour in 2017 did not go without problems and I will be happy to bring you this more detailed information next week.

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