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Hotel Persona essentially started when Stefan and David Amen decided to spice up their friends house parties in London by providing dance tunes to get people shaking their butts. They sporadically composed songs and did performances and dj sets for their friends.
Then Stefan and David began DJ work under the name Hotel Persona. They kept themselves busy being invited to deejay around Europe. After a while a collection of songs screamed to be recorded, metaphorically speaking, and Javier Solo was recruited to sing Spanish vocals. Stefan, after years of developing his vocal tone with Placebo, sang the English versions.
The Spanish debut album “En Las Nubes“ was released May 2008. “In the clouds“, the English version of the album, followed in June. It was a co-production of Stefan and Fabien Waltmann, who remixed “Infra-red“ for Placebo in 2006. The songs were recorded and mixed in London, Madrid and New York over two years (2005-2007) and feature additional vocals from various artists like for example Samantha Fox, Miguel Bosรฉ and of course Brian Molko.
Hotel Persona also remixed some Placebo songs and various other bands, including Queens of the Stone Age and She Wants Revenge.
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๐ข ”Hotel Persona is a side-project, when I'm not doing Placebo. I explore more of the entertainment side of making music, you know, it's more electro and it's more dance and a bit more pop-oriented. There would be no point in doing another Placebo. I mean on the first album, I got Samantha Fox in there! I guess as a musician not everything I write is going to be right for Placebo. Saying that, whenever I write a song, it always goes to Brian first and it's like "hey, do you feel this?" If he does feel it, then it becomes a Placebo song and if not, it becomes something for Hotel Persona.”
(Clic Music, April 2009)
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๐ข ”Stef DJs under the name of Hotel Persona, and has made a record as well. I think that's definitely an outlet for him, for an aspect of his musicality which he can't explore in Placebo, and which is much more gay disco. I guess that's why Hotel Persona exists, to satisfy that aspect of his musical taste and his desire to express himself in that way.”
(Suicide Girls, September 11th 2007)
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Modern kids future freaks
Following media beats
Everything is on the screen
Can't find a space
The computer erased your heart
We are modern kids
Living through a screen
No need to scour the streets
Your father is out drinking while
Your mother is home reading the bible
And you
are on your own
Go ahead let your sun shine
You've got to do it your own way
Run away don't hesitate
Run away, go run away, go run away
Tenement kids flying on E
Pretending they don't give a sh*t
Dancing for something to be
So out of place
The computer erased their hearts
We are modern kids
Living through a screen
Grabbing today because tomorrow
Is too far away
and you are alone
Go ahead let your sun shine
[They're gonna get you]
You've got to do it your own way
[Not gonna let you go]
Run away don't hesitate
[They're gonna mess you up]
Run away go run away, go run away
[Not gonna let you be yourself]
Run away, run away
run awaaaaay
[They're gonna tell you]
Run away
[Try to persuade you]
[They're always fucking with your head]
Go ahead let your sun shine
You've got to do it your own way
Run away don't hesitate
Run away go run away
Run away
Grabbing today because tomorrow is too far away
Pist by Silke
