⭐🔸 𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐀𝐑𝐘: 𝐒𝐎𝐌𝐄 🔸⭐

Dear soulmates,
today, exactly 23 years ago, on August 31, 1998, the song "𝐒𝐎𝐌𝐄" 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐥𝐞 - 𝐃𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐌 𝐂𝐈𝐓𝐘 𝐅𝐈𝐋𝐌 𝐂𝐋𝐔𝐁 (𝐃𝐂𝐅𝐂) was released.

Photo credit: Brian Molko - Julian Broad, DCFC- unknown / Photo edit by Marti

The song "SOME" ... great music, sinful lyrics, the breathtaking saxophone of the legendary Ted Milton from the jazz band Blurt ...
Well... and why am I saying this?

It was 🔸𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍'𝐒 𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐒𝐓 𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐋𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍🔸 and we'll talk about it today.
Dream City Film Club is a band that unfortunately did not last long.
Why do I say – unfortunately?
In a retrospective biography of the group, AllMusic (an American online music database) called them "one of England's most underrated bands of the 1990s."
Perhaps, it was a bad karma, or rather strangely led PR of the band, there were not many fans who would support the band. DCFC was founded in 1995 and disbanded in 1999.
However, the music of DMFC is definitely worth listening to, as is the other solo work of the band's founder - 𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐞𝐥 𝐒𝐡𝐞𝐞𝐡𝐲.

But let's go back to Brian.
📍 Brian once said in an interview about this collaboration with DCFC:
"They are our friends: in fact, Steve was playing with Andy, the bass player, in Breed. The singer, Michael, wrote something and just asked me to come and sing. Surely because the lyrics are a bit obscene. (Smiles)
I liked it, I was like PJ Harvey."
(𝐵𝑀, 𝑀𝑎𝑔𝑖𝑐 ! 1998)

Photo credit unknown

So this is how it was:
There were friendly relations between the two bands. As we already know, Steve Hewitt once played in the band Breed together with Andy Park, who then started playing in DCFC after the break-up of Breed.
The DCFC guys supported Placebo at several concerts in France in 1997, and in 1998 they asked Brian to collaborate on a single.

📍 Singer 𝑴𝒊𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒆𝒍 𝑺𝒉𝒆𝒆𝒉𝒚 said in an interivew about working with Brian:
The song ‘Some’ has got Brian Molko from Placebo on it - how did that come about?
Michael Sheehy: “I can’t remember.“
Did you do some gigs with them, or something like that?
Michael Sheehy: “We supported them a couple of times before they became famous and that’s how that came about - it was just a bit cynical we thought “we'll get this little twat to sing on our record and maybe we’ll sell a few” - I don’t know if it totally backfired or not, I remember some of the reviews for the record were much more interested in slagging off Brian than they were about slagging off the actual record.“
𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒:
https://bit.ly/3mOiuFI

Photo credit: Julian Broad

🔸⭐🔸
I know that Michael's statement about Brian doesn't sound too flattering, but given the friendship between the two men, we can take it more as a boy's pat on the shoulders than as an insult ...
But wasn't it a fundamental mistake that the song "SOME" appeared "only" as part of the b-side single "Billy Chic"?
Maybe the history of the band DCFC would have turned out differently if they had used "SOME" as the title song of the album ... Who knows...

For the sake of interest, I will add other connections arising from this topic - DCFC's second album is called "In The Cold Light of Morning" ... does it remind you of anything?
And yet - the producer of their third album "Stranger Blues" was none other than the well-known Dimitri Tikovoi.

And in an amazing interview with Fiona Brice from 2010, we can read that:
BATTLE FOR THE SUN IS THE SECOND PLACEBO ALBUM THAT YOU'VE WORKED ON, AFTER MEDS: HOW DID YOU FIRST MEET THE BAND AND GOT TO COLLABORATE WITH THEM?
”I have known the band socially for many years because we have several friends in common in London, and we used to meet at gigs before Placebo became hugely successful and their tours took them away for long periods. Brian remembers seeing me playing violin with Michael J Sheehy about 10 years ago at the 12-bar club in London. At the time I was playing and writing with various bands, including Dream City Film Club.
🔸⭐🔸

So… karma or bad PR?
Listen to the music of Dream City Film Club and make your own judgment:
https://bit.ly/38nSIzA

𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒘𝒆 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒆'𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒐𝒅𝒂𝒚.
"𝑺𝑶𝑴𝑬" - 𝑫𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒎 𝑪𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝑭𝒊𝒍𝒎 𝑪𝒍𝒖𝒃 𝒇𝒆𝒂𝒕. 𝑩𝑹𝑰𝑨𝑵 𝑴𝑶𝑳𝑲𝑶
https://bit.ly/3mLbjy0

Photo credit: Lili Wilde

🔸𝑳𝒀𝑹𝑰𝑪𝑺🔸
Some like to live
Some like to take
Some like to give
Some take enough
Some take it all
Some will rise
And some will fall
Some like it tight
Some like it loose
Some need a reason
Some need no excuse
Some like it dirty
Some like it clean
Some like it tender
And some like it lean
Some fuck for fun
Some for prestige
Some come on their feet
And some come on their knees
Some say they're bent
Some say they're straight
Some come early
And some come late
I'm taking some
Now I'm taking some
Now I'm taking some
Now I'm taking some

🔸⭐🔸
Dear friends, I am very much looking forward to your reviews - share with us what comes to mind while listening to this exceptional song.
It almost looks as if this song was written specifically for Brian's individuality ...

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𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎 𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐄𝐋 𝐀𝐕𝐈𝐕 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟎: 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖

Placebo in Tel Aviv 2010. Photo credit: Dan Podrazhansky

Dear soulmates,
Today I’m here with a great concert 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖 again. On June 5th, 2010, Placebo performed at the 𝐏𝐢𝐜𝐍𝐢𝐜 𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 in 𝑻𝒆𝒍 𝑨𝒗𝒊𝒗, 𝑰𝒔𝒓𝒂𝒆𝒍.

🔺 Back then, the political situation in the country made it a difficult decision and a complicated experience for the band to come there. But as we know, when the choice is to play or not to play for the fans, Placebo would rather decide to do so - regardless of conditions. Also, as soon as Brian is highly interested in politics, he mostly has his own opinion on what’s going on.
🎤 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: I don't believe that one should boycott countries because of rules and regulations," Brian says. "What I do believe in is spreading a message of tolerance, togetherness and unity everywhere we go, including Russia, 𝑰𝒔𝒓𝒂𝒆𝒍 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑳𝒆𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒐𝒏. If you boycott, the government wins, so it's great to go to political hotbeds and deliver positivity. And with experience, we have seen the potential and desire for what Placebo is all about in people - a truly positive message.
(𝐵𝑒𝑙𝑓𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑇𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑝ℎ, 𝐹𝑒𝑏'15)

🔺 There’s already a post on our page that perfectly explains all the political aspects of Placebo’s participation in the festival, so you can learn more here:
 https://bit.ly/3zRW3Tl

Now, I’d like to only concentrate on the perception of the concert from the fans’ point of view. And – from Brian’s point of view, too, because first, I want to share this beautiful short 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖. Just some simple, nice, sincere words…

🔺 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 - 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 𝐢𝐧 𝐈𝐬𝐫𝐚𝐞𝐥, 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐞 𝟓𝐭𝐡, 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟎
 https://bit.ly/3A2puCs

As for the video from Tel Aviv show, I’ve chosen a classic rock version of 𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐑𝐖𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐑 for you. Please overlook the poor quality at the very beginning and enjoy a very emotional Brian’s delivery of the song.

Placebo in Tel Aviv 2010. Photo credit unknown

🔺 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐓𝐞𝐥 𝐀𝐯𝐢𝐯 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐝𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐠𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐮𝐬 𝐚 𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐢𝐭 🔺
‘We are Placebo from London, England, and we had the courage to get on a plane,” was Brian Molko’s way of introducing his band as he took the stage in Tel Aviv on Saturday. He later explained that he hated flying in general, but the crowd was already laughing and cheering him on, one proud soul waving an Israeli flag.

Placebo performed in Israel as part of the PicNic festival, originally scheduled to include Israeli New Yorkbased duo Hank ‘n Cupcakes, UK indie rockers The Klaxons, and audio-visual outfit Gorillaz Sound System. The two latter acts canceled their performances less than two days before the festival, possibly in the aftermath of Monday’s flotilla fiasco.

To Placebo and their fans, it didn’t matter.
Placebo – founded in London in 1994 by frontman-songwriter-guitarist Molko and Swedish bassist-guitarist Stefan Olsdal – have often been described as pretentious.
Molko’s songs are invariably dramatic, with supertight hooks and melodies. His lyrics usually hint at substance abuse and other forms of depravity, though listeners over the age of 15 will immediately spot that the band is about as threatening as its namesake. Meaning it’s pretty harmless, and it’s probably pretend.

But surprisingly, there were no pretenses on Saturday night. There was nothing fake about the first-rate show nor about Placebo’s admirable willingness to go through with it without caring that in the eyes of some, the group were taking a political stand merely by performing. Molko seemed honest and true to himself, addressing the crowd with warmth, wit and a bit of Hebrew – a far cry from his notorious persona of glitzy outfits, gender confusion and indiscriminate sex.
Placebo, refreshingly, don’t dwell on the past. They reinvent themselves without looking back. Armed with Californian drummer Steve Forrest, who replaced longtime band member Steve Hewitt, the group recorded their sixth studio album, Battle for the Sun, in 2009. The album marked a divergence in the band’s career, and its overall positive message was apparent as Placebo churned out track after track in Tel Aviv.

Here and there, however, a bit of the old in-your-face Placebo shone through, in particular when during one of the first tracks – “Sleeping with Ghosts,” off the 2003 album of the same name – Molko enunciated the line “F**k the government” and gestured meaningfully to the crowd, eliciting whoops and cheers.
The setlist, predictably, mostly consisted of songs from Battle and Placebo’s previous effort, Meds. Many hits from the band’s first albums – the songs that catapulted it to popularity over a decade ago – were conspicuously absent.

Placebo in Tel Aviv 2010. Photo credit unknown

That, too, just didn’t matter. Because Placebo’s show was set up as a festival experience. The crowd had the power, the unbridled hunger and enthusiasm; they pushed, shoved, clapped, chanted, obsessed over discarded drumsticks and guitar picks and hurled colorful balloons into the cool night air.
“The Bitter End,” a Placebo classic with a powerful pop-punk beat, was one of the highlights of the evening, though its dramatic climax was cut off in the live version. “Follow the Cops Back Home,” off 2006’s Meds, became a heartfelt ballad, with hundreds in the crowd swaying back and forth and singing along. “Trigger Happy Hands,” the first encore, made the fans go wild.

“So we’re living in a culture made of death and fear/Doesn’t seem the human race will make it through the year,” the crowd sang with particular zeal, perhaps in light of recent events.
All three encores were brilliant picks. “Trigger Happy Hands” was followed by the explosive “Infra-Red,” which drove the crowd further into a frenzy. “Taste in Men,” a Sonic Youth and Depeche Mode-inspired track off the band’s third album, Black Market Music, concluded the evening and lent it a distinctly Placebo flair – sleazy for appearance’s sake, deliberately provocative, but musically speaking a direct hit.
Placebo came to Tel Aviv despite our daily reality and gave us a welcome respite from it. In this reviewer’s opinion, it was long overdue.
(𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐽𝑒𝑟𝑢𝑠𝑎𝑙𝑒𝑚 𝑃𝑜𝑠𝑡, 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑒 7𝑡ℎ, 2010)

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⚡𝙋𝙇𝘼𝘾𝙀𝘽𝙊 𝙄𝙉 𝙋𝙀𝙍𝙐, 𝙇𝙊𝙐𝘿 𝙇𝙄𝙆𝙀 𝙇𝙊𝙑𝙀 𝙏𝙊𝙐𝙍 𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟰⚡

Dear soulmates, today I will talk to you about 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐's second visit to 𝑷𝒆𝒓𝒖 in 2014 where they offered two concerts to present their album "𝑳𝒐𝒖𝒅 𝑳𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆". To start with, I have translated for you two interviews that 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 𝑶𝒍𝒔𝒅𝒂𝒍 gave prior to their performance at the 𝑪𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒔 𝑵𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝑳𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔 𝑭𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒍, where they played alongside the 𝑷𝒊𝒙𝒊𝒆𝒔 and 𝑱𝒖𝒍𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑪𝒂𝒔𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒂𝒔.

Credits: Placeboworld, A. Morote, R. C, Prado, Unknown (3) / Edit by Rita

🔸𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐲𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐲? 𝐁𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐚 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐮 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐨 𝐚 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰.
🎤𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧: Well, for us to play in a place like this is a special energy. it's a more punk energy and also for the fans. I think it's an opportunity to see the band closer and also (smiles) a very demonstrative reaction, very emotional with a lot of energy and we felt on top of the world. It will be the first time in an open air concert (in Peru) and last night if you enclose the audience and the band, the energy is more contained.

🔸𝐃𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐨 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐮𝐬 𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭?
🎤𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧: Yes, more or less yes, but today is a festival and at a festival we have to keep the energy up, so the audience is there all day and to make people not lose the intention we are going to lose a couple of slow songs. It's a great pleasure for us to perform after the Pixies, who are an influence. We did a cover of theirs, "Where Is My Mind" and we also played it on stage with Frank Black, the singer.

🔸𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐨 𝐚 𝐝𝐮𝐞𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦?
🎤𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧: Ahh Hmm… (smiles) Who knows.

🔸𝐌𝐚𝐲𝐛𝐞?
🎤𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧: Hahaha I don't know. :) Without the Pixies there would be no Nirvana, for example. They are a big influence for Nirvana.

🔸𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐝𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐭𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐭? 𝐁𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞. 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚 𝐝𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐢𝐭?
🎤𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧: Well, we are on the "Loud Like Love" tour of the last album, so there are songs from the album and also mixed with songs from the past... mmm few hits and we also do our own covers. That is, we do old Placebo songs but in a different way to keep a little bit of life in the songs.

🔸𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐠𝐨 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞, 𝐈 𝐜𝐚𝐧'𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐚𝐬𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮, 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫, 𝐰𝐚𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐢𝐭? 𝐖𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐛𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐚 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐲?
🎤𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧: Destiny... It may be. (smiles) Yes, we met by chance at a tube station in London 20 years ago. I was there with the guitar and because I'm very tall, Brian the singer saw me and said "Hey Stef! ". We were in a school a long time ago but we weren't friends at all, so it was like a weird meeting because it wasn't like "Hey old friend!", you know? But there we were in London and he had a concert and I went. He didn't have a bassist and I said after the concert "Look, I play bass, you sing, let's form a band" hahaha and so it was... And the rest is history. :)
I started playing drums and then I thought "If I'm going to play in a band I want to be closer to the audience", so I started playing bass and then piano and then guitar, so now on stage I mix… well, I play all three, guitar, bass and piano.... Not the drums because Steve does it better than I do haha.

🔸𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐮 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐞? 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐦𝐞𝐞𝐭? 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞?
🎤𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧: What have we done here? Well, rest a bit and eat very well. Ceviche, of course, and a lot of fish.

🔸𝐀 𝐦𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐬?
🎤𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧: Lots of love from us to you. Thank you so much for being our fans and we hope this is the beginning of a relationship with you that will last for many years. Without you, we wouldn't be anything!

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🔹✨🔹✨🔹✨🔹

🔸𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐦𝐬, 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨, 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐁𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐮𝐧? 𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐝𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐞? 𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭?
🎤𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧: The new one, Loud Like Love.

🔸𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐦 𝐝𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭?
🎤𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧: Yes

🔸𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐚 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐞, 𝐢𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐢𝐭?
🎤𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧: No, because if I don't like the last album we are doing something wrong, haha.

🔸𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐨?
🎤𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧: Well, we wouldn't release it.

🔸𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐝 𝐁𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐞 𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮?
🎤𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧: Well it was before the first record, he got a demo because he was touring with Morrisey and one night Morrisey decided to go home so…

🔸𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞…
🎤𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧: …he left David Bowie without an opening act and we shared at that time an agent who had our demo and so Bowie heard it and said "I like these guys" and so we started a relationship with David Bowie. We opened for him on two tours and he also sang on one of our songs.

🔸𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐭? 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧?
🎤𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧: Well, the same energy... ahh and well at a festival many times people are there all day, so we will keep the energy we don't want to lose by playing too many slow songs.

🔸𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭?
🎤𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧: Tonight, an hour and a half.

🔹𝑺𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒄𝒆𝒔 - 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 𝑶𝒍𝒔𝒅𝒂𝒍 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒊𝒆𝒘𝒔 𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑺𝒑𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒉:

🎥 https://youtu.be/2xrRxGdLg_k

🎥 https://youtu.be/-ztLGaJgdo4

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🎶✨🇵🇪 𝐂𝐇𝐑𝐎𝐍𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎'𝐒 𝐒𝐇𝐎𝐖𝐒 𝐈𝐍 𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐔 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟒 🇵🇪✨🎶

The first of two unforgettable concerts 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 offered in 𝑷𝒆𝒓𝒖 in 2014 took place on April 7th. it was a 𝑺𝒆𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒕 𝑺𝒉𝒐𝒘 attended by around 300 fans. The band took the stage at 𝑩𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒐 𝑩𝒂𝒓 in 𝑳𝒊𝒎𝒂 at 9 pm. "𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒌 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒎𝒖𝒄𝒉, 𝒎𝒚 𝒏𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏. 𝑾𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚 𝒕𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒚𝒐𝒖", were some of the words that the band's frontman dedicated to the audience. After captivating their Peruvian fans for almost two hours with their music, 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 left the stage around 11 p.m.


The second concert was held the next day. The band was ready at Exposition Park to play at the 𝑪𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒔 𝑵𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝑳𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔 𝑭𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒍. After the 𝑷𝒊𝒙𝒊𝒆𝒔, 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐's show started at 11:30 p.m. "𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒌 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒐 𝒎𝒖𝒄𝒉, 𝒈𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝒎𝒚 𝒏𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒆'𝒓𝒆 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆," 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐 said before playing "𝑳𝒐𝒖𝒅 𝑳𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆". At another point in the concert, drummer 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒗𝒆 𝑭𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕 rushed in before "𝑻𝒐𝒐 𝑴𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝑭𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒔" but the band didn't follow. 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 laughed and 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 said "𝒘𝒆𝒍𝒍, 𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒘𝒆 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒓𝒖𝒎𝒔 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌", joking with the rest of the band. The setlist was pretty much the same as the night before, only this time they didn't play "𝟐𝟎 𝒀𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔", "𝑩𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒅" and "𝑬𝒙𝒊𝒕 𝑾𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒔". To say goodbye on the first chords of "𝑰𝒏𝒇𝒓𝒂-𝑹𝒆𝒅" 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 said "𝑩𝒓𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔, 𝒃𝒐𝒚𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒈𝒊𝒓𝒍𝒔, 𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒍 𝒏𝒆𝒙𝒕 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆."✌️💕

𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐜𝐤 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐮 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟒
https://youtu.be/9q9z88kBOVI


𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐒𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡 - 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐮 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟒
https://youtu.be/Mn80YtDSXTs

Photo credit: Alejandra Morote

Below, there's a list of videos I chose from both concerts. I hope you enjoy it.

🎶 𝐁𝟑 (𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐰)
https://youtu.be/IvhzPEDG8Fc

🎶 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡 (𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥)
https://youtu.be/TDBbFwDXBaw

🎶 𝐋𝐨𝐮𝐝 𝐋𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞 (𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐰)
https://youtu.be/EB8u-s_oVI4

🎶 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐌𝐞 (𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥)
https://youtu.be/jky4ShnpNJ8

🎶 𝐓𝐨𝐨 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 (𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥)
https://youtu.be/kca3laJ-yX8

🎶 𝐒𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐞 𝐎𝐟 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞 (𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐰)
https://youtu.be/YnMWoA8q6AY

🎶 𝐀 𝐌𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐋𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐏𝐢𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐬 (𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐰)
https://youtu.be/smViIVbAzKw

🎶 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤 𝐈𝐧 𝐓𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐞𝐬 (𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐰)
https://youtu.be/Ysc-Gtz53BE

🎶 𝐑𝐨𝐛 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐚𝐧𝐤 (𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥)
https://youtu.be/FUBK9ljym4E

🎶 𝐏𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐟𝐲 (𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐰)
https://youtu.be/9PFvEi-KFPw

🎶 𝐒𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐤𝐞𝐲 (𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥)
https://youtu.be/w06Z4tRvSik

🎶 𝐁𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐝 (𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐰)
https://youtu.be/n83934As9MM

🎶 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐬 (𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐰)
https://youtu.be/e4dzvADXvnw

🎶 𝐒𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐓𝐨 𝐒𝐚𝐲 𝐆𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐛𝐲𝐞 (𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥)
https://youtu.be/xHtUmtqldu8

🎶 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐊 (𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐰)
https://youtu.be/u2bBbXqSyrU

🎶 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐄𝐧𝐝 (𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐰)
https://youtu.be/squS86Fa6MU


*•♫•♬• * 𝑬𝒏𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒆 *•♫•♬•*
🎶 𝐓𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐀𝐧𝐠𝐬𝐭 (𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥)
https://youtu.be/M1QkpV6pr7o

🎶 𝐑𝐮𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐔𝐩 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐇𝐢𝐥𝐥 (𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐰)
https://youtu.be/Tt-TPpv6d8o

🎶 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐁𝐥𝐮𝐞 (𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥)
https://youtu.be/q1vJj3BuwQw

🎶 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐫𝐚-𝐑𝐞𝐝 (𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥)
https://youtu.be/4EuGreWhOQU


𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘶𝘷𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘴!

✒️ 𝑰𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒊𝒆𝒘𝒔 𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑪𝒓𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒕𝒔: 𝑹𝒊𝒕𝒂 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐 𝒅𝒆 𝑳. 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 𝑨𝒏𝒚𝒘𝒂𝒚.

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𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐌𝐎𝐋𝐊𝐎 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐓𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐖𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐈𝐀𝐌 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐓𝐑𝐎𝐋

Aiden singer 𝙒𝙞𝙡 𝙁𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙞𝙨 (nowadays better known under his solo project 𝙒𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙖𝙢 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙡) met Brian at the Kerrang! Awards show in 2006, where Placebo won an award for Classic Songwriter and Aiden for Best International Newcomer. Alternative Press was able to bring them both together for a chat on everything from work ethic to personal space the following year. Enjoy their conversation!
William Control, whose music I like a lot, later did a cover version of “Every me Every you” which I also share in this post. Let us know what you think about the chat and the added songs.

Photo credit: Scarlet Page (Molko), unknown (4) / edit by Silke

𝘞𝘪𝘭 𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘴 (𝘢𝘬𝘢 𝘞𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘮 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘭): “𝘐 𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘴𝘢𝘸 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘒𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨! 𝘈𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴. 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥, 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘺.”
Brian Molko: “You too, you too. It was a good night fot both of us.”

𝘞𝘪𝘭: “𝘠𝘦𝘢𝘩, 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘧𝘶𝘯; 𝘐 𝘨𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘦𝘦𝘵 𝘔𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘓𝘰𝘢𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵.”
Brian: “Ah, shit. I was downstairs doing the while pictures and press thing when Meat Loaf made his apppearance. I was very disappointed about that. Where are you?”

𝘞𝘪𝘭: “𝘐 𝘢𝘮 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘭𝘰𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘗𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘢𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘢, 𝘍𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘢.”
Brian: “Okay – I think I'm in a studio apartment opposite the Chelsea Hotel in New York City.”

𝘞𝘪𝘭: “𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘴𝘦𝘢 𝘏𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘭. 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘮𝘢𝘻𝘪𝘯𝘨.” 

Brian: “Yeah, it's kinda funky.”

𝘞𝘪𝘭: “𝘚𝘰, 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘩, 𝘸𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘒𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨! 𝘈𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘺 𝘨𝘦𝘦𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘰𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘣𝘪𝘵...”
Brian: “No man, you were buzzing. You were on a high from getting your award, so it's a good vibe.”

𝘞𝘪𝘭: “𝘏𝘰𝘸'𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘵𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘚𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘨𝘰?”
Brian: “It went really, really well. Reaqlly good. It's taken about ten years but I think America's finally waking up on us, so, I think we're going to come back and tour some more [in 2007].”

𝘞𝘪𝘭: “𝘞𝘦'𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘚𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘺 𝘧𝘢𝘷𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘶𝘦𝘴, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘩𝘰𝘸𝘣𝘰𝘹.”
Brian: “Yeah, I remember that.”

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𝘞𝘪𝘭: “𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘥𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘦 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘥; 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦. 𝘚𝘰, 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 '𝘍𝘶𝘤𝘬!'”
Brian: “Yeah, that was kind of crazy. It was around Halloween, and there were people in the audience dressed as Jesus and penises and things like that. It was fun. Jesus showed up with a nurse, actually. And this other guy was just walking around like a hard-on all night. You know, bumping into people and rubbing himself up against people. [laughs] It was a really good vibe, actually.”

𝘞𝘪𝘭: “𝘐𝘵 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘮𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘨𝘶𝘺𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘢 𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘥𝘶𝘭𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴. 𝘈𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘸𝘰 𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘢 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘶𝘵. 𝘋𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘵 𝘥𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘰𝘳 𝘭𝘺𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘴?”
Brian: “Not really, because we're the kind of band that seems to be in a continual state of writing. Stefan and I, we tinker with ideas by ourselves a lot, but we usually kind of take advantage bof the fact that we get bored of our songs quite quickly. We take advantage of the fact that we got a big PA system behind us at soundchecks, so we just kind of jam a lot – new musocal ideas come out of that quite organically. It normally starts happening six months into a tour. You know, when the songs on the new album aren't as fresh as they were for the first six months. And I think we haven't made the decision about what the Placebo sound should be and what a Placebo song is. If we write it and we like it and we have an emotional connection with it – regardless of what the instrumentation might be – it's still Placebo. It leaves us with a great deal of possibilities.”

𝘞𝘪𝘭: “𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘭, '𝘔𝘦𝘥𝘴' 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘺 𝘵𝘰𝘱 𝘧𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘷𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦, 𝘴𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘬𝘴 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵.”
Brian: “Well, thank you.”

𝘞𝘪𝘭: “𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘭, '𝘔𝘦𝘥𝘴' 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘺 𝘵𝘰𝘱 𝘧𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘷𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦, 𝘴𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘬𝘴 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵.”
Brian: “Don't be, man. Don't be. Before I was famous and I saw celebrities, I just kind of thought to myself, “Well, there's absolutely nothing I could say to them that would actually be interesting, so I'll just leave them with their own personal space”. Anything I could say they've probably heard 100 times before. Because of that, I can't really relate to that directly, but most of the time it's quite charming. If we go to Mexico we get treated like The Beatles. It's like us in 'A hard day's night' running down the street. [Wil laughs] In France, I kind of have to walk around with security – which I find extremely amusing – but I do everything I can to not appear like some kind of showoff about it because in all honesty, I would rather that I didn't have to.”

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𝘞𝘪𝘭: “𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘸𝘦𝘪𝘳𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘐 𝘨𝘰𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘨𝘯𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘯.”
Brian: “I'm in New York right now, and this time is the first time that I've ever been recognized by people here. In the USA, it's still kind of a healthy level for me. I find that over here people are much easier to talk to and are much more polite. They have a tendence to respect your privacy and your personal space as far as fans are concerned. I think you have to understand that for these people who approach you, it's something really special, and you have to do your best not to get cynical about it. But they have to understand that you could also be having a bad day and that you may not want to apend your time with them. You might be living in your own head for that day, or you've been dumped, or somebody in your family is very ill, or you haven't taken your meds by accident and you might just not be ready for it.”

𝘞𝘪𝘭: “𝘐𝘵 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘮𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘴 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘵 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭. 𝘐𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘭𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘢 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘵 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘯𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘳𝘶𝘯 𝘶𝘱 𝘵𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶, 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴, 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢, 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺'𝘭𝘭 𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘯𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘢𝘷𝘦. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯, 𝘪𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘢𝘺 “𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳”, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺'𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘬 𝘵𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶. 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘢 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵.”
Brian: “Yeah, that's been my experience as well. I don't know why it's like that. I really don't.”

𝘞𝘪𝘭: “𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵'𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘧𝘢𝘷𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘰𝘶𝘳?”
Brian: “Latin America is fantastic. Have you been there yet?”

𝘞𝘪𝘭: “𝘕𝘰, 𝘸𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘯'𝘵.”
Brian: “Oh, you gotta go! It's the craziest audiences. The most generous, demonstrative audiences. We've played in Mexico in front of 17.000 people, and honestly, I felt like we were The Beatles playing the Shea Stadium. All I could fucking hear was the snare drum and my vocals. I couldn't hear anything else apart from the 17.000 crazy Mexicans screaming.”

 
𝘞𝘪𝘭: “𝘞𝘰𝘸, 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺. 𝘞𝘦'𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘰 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴, 𝘸𝘦'𝘷𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘳 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 – 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜.𝘚. 𝘰𝘧 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦. 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘰 𝘵𝘰 𝘢 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘓𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢 𝘰𝘳 𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘮𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 “𝘞𝘰𝘸, 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦?” 𝘐𝘵 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘮𝘴 𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘻𝘺. 𝘐 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘪𝘧 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘣𝘶𝘺 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦.”
Brian: “That's starting to matter a little bit less and less. People will have heard of you because the access to music is so much simpler and more democratic these days. People will have heard of you, and you'll be surprised where you'll have an audience. WE were always surprised when we'd go to Russia or somewhere Eastern Europe. We recently went to China and Korea. You think to yourself “Fucking nobody is going to have heard of us.” But there are people there who are just obsessed. I'd say go to places even if it's not financially viable – even if the tour costs you money – because there will be fans there and what you're doing by making an effort to go to these far-flung places, you're really capturing the hearts of those people who sometimes are quite starved for music and starved for bands. So you end up with kind of the most generous and crazy crowds because of that. Bands who have lasted the test of time are bands who have made that effort to tour. To become an extremely good live band – considering that 39 out of 40 songs are downloaded off the internet illegally – the ones who rely solely on record sales may not survive. Sometimes I wonder if that's a good thing or a bad thing, but one thing it's doing is sorting out the men from the boys, as far as live performances are concerned. [Pauses] Oh, something weird just happened in this apartment that made a very strange noise...”

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𝘞𝘪𝘭: “[𝘓𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘴] 𝘋𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘺 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘵.”
Brian: “Well, I kind of have to worry about it. There's a bike suspended from the ceiling and it's dangerously close to the bed. You know, the size of these New York studio apartments aren't really...”

𝘞𝘪𝘭: “𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘕𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘺 𝘚𝘱𝘶𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘢𝘭𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘵 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘭.”
Brian: “Yeah, that's it. Even in deathshe's still an imposition.”

𝘞𝘪𝘭: “𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢 𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘶𝘱 [𝘵𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤] 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴. 𝘐𝘴 𝘪𝘵 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘰 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘶𝘨𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘶𝘮𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘕𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘩 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢, 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘵 𝘴𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘳? 𝘋𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘳?”
Brian: “Well, neither really. I say this without any false modesty: I think it's really, really good for our egos. We really enjoy coming to the States, having to work and not resting on our laurels. I think for a band who have achieved a lot of success over ten years, it's good to have that. It keeps [us] hungry and it reminds [us] that there's always work to do and that you have to put an effort into it. We've got a really good work ethic anyway, but it can happen to anybody, to begin to get complacent. This stops it from happening and also keeps us on our toes and flexible, you know?”

𝘞𝘪𝘭: “𝘐 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘺. 𝘞𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘢𝘴 𝘣𝘪𝘨, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘦 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘯, 𝘸𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘢 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦, 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘹𝘵 𝘥𝘢𝘺, 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘎𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘸𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 100, 200 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦. 𝘈𝘵 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵, 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘳𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 “𝘖𝘩, 𝘧𝘶𝘤𝘬. 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨?” 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘱𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘬𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘦𝘨𝘰 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘤 𝘶𝘱.”
Brian: “Absolutely. It's a good thing because being in a band, it's very easy to let your ego run away with itself. The system keeps it in check.”
(Alternative Press, "Wil Francis & Brian Molko", June 2007)

Here's William's cover version, it was released on his first non-electronic album “Skeleton Strings”. I also added a William Control track, so you know how he usually sounds. Last but not least there's a song recorded at a live show .Check out Wil's cool micro tricks. 

𝗪𝗜𝗟𝗟𝗜𝗔𝗠 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗧𝗥𝗢𝗟 – 𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗬 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗬 𝗠𝗘
🎵 https://bit.ly/2KIPxcm 🎵

𝗪𝗜𝗟𝗟𝗜𝗔𝗠 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗧𝗥𝗢𝗟 – 𝗔𝗡𝗔𝗟𝗢𝗚 𝗙𝗟𝗘𝗦𝗛 𝗜𝗡 𝗔 𝗗𝗜𝗚𝗜𝗧𝗔𝗟 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗟𝗗
🎵 https://bit.ly/3hlwiED 🎵

𝗪𝗜𝗟𝗟𝗜𝗔𝗠 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗧𝗥𝗢𝗟 – 𝗕𝗘𝗔𝗨𝗧𝗜𝗙𝗨𝗟 𝗟𝗢𝗦𝗘𝗥
🎵 https://bit.ly/2TDr4v1 🎵

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🔸𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐘 𝐁𝐄𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐃 𝐀 𝐏𝐈𝐂𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄 – 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐨 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐡𝐥🔸

⭐"𝑻𝒓𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒎𝒆, 𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒊𝒏, 𝒚𝒐𝒖'𝒍𝒍 𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝑹𝒊𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒍 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏"⭐

Dear friends,
The idea for this post came from my 13-year-old son.
He loves 𝐍𝐈𝐑𝐕𝐀𝐍𝐀 and in his spare time he searches for various information about his favorites on Google, just as we do.
And as we all know, 𝐃𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐆𝐑𝐎𝐇𝐋 was the drummer of Nirvana until the death of Kurt Cobain and then founded his great band Foo Fighters.
And my son came to me recently with a big smile on his face and said:
"Mom, looks like your Molko is everywhere ... 😁 Can you please explain this to me?
And he showed me one of the photos - the one with Brian and Dave's tongue ...

Photo credit: Melody Maker / Photo edit: Marti

So dear soulmates - if you don't know the history of these snapshots, now you have the opportunity to learn another piece of the mosaic of Placebo life. Here is just a part of this very long conversation that will take you to times long past - January 9, 1997.

You can read the whole interview here:
👉 https://bit.ly/3B6vevj

I wish you all a pleasant reading.

🔸⭐🔸
𝐇𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐨 𝐒𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨𝐲𝐬
𝐌𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐌𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐫 𝐅𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟕
𝐁𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝐁𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐞'𝐬 𝟓𝟎𝐭𝐡. 𝐇𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧' 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎'𝐬 𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐌𝐎𝐋𝐊𝐎 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐅𝐎𝐎 𝐅𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐒' 𝐃𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐆𝐑𝐎𝐇𝐋.


Why not get the two of them to interview each other, we thought. So we did.
The setting: Placebo's dressing room, backstage at Madison Square Garden.
David Bowie is halfway through his 50th Birthday Concert. Two of his special guests are with The Maker:
Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl who, minutes earlier, had helped Bowie perform a rousing tribal version of "Hallo Spaceboy", drumming on stage for almost the first time since Nirvana; and Placebo's Brian Molko, whose band had earlier performed a blistering opening set.
The two frontmen had met before, during last summer's round of festivals, when Dave nearly hitched a ride up to Reading in Placebo's van.
Dave looks like a Muskateer or a Fifties beat poet with his newly-grown beard; Brian looks...well, like Brian. Androgynous.
Knowing that the two musicians are massive Bowie fans, and knowing that Brian was a massive Nirvana fan and also fascinated by the whole idea of fame, I figured it'd be a good idea to have them interview each other.


🔸Brian: "Tell me about the first time you met Bowie."
🔸Dave: "It was the day before yesterday. And he looks totally fucking amazing! He's 50 years old, he could practically be my parent. He's such a gentleman."/.../
Brian: "It's interesting that you use the word 'gentleman' to describe Bowie. We did two tours in Europe with him - Morrissey gave us our big break, he disappeared and we stood in for him - and when people ask me what he's like, I reply that he's a true, true gentleman with his feet on the ground. He speaks to you. You feel like he's genuinely interested in what you have to say.
I'll tell you about the first time I met Bowie. We'd just done a little tour of England - the biggest capacity venue we played was 300 people - and we got on a plane, we flew to Milan and we show up in this place, 8000-seater! I was quite freaked, so a lot of jack and coke went into my system before I went on. The gig wasn't that fantastic. I broke a string and threw my guitar across the stage.
So we come offstage, high on adrenalin, walk towards the dressing room...there's Bowie, standing by the door, with his arms crossed, shades on, and I'm like, 'All right, Dave. Want a cigarette?' And he's like, 'No, sorry. Just put one out.' And that's the first thing I ever said to him: 'Want a fag?' How did I feel? He really went out of his way to make us feel comfortable. He's a lovely man, and he deserves to be hugged. Constantly."

Photo credit: Melody Maker 

🔸Brian: "Let's change tack. I'm known for wearing makeup, for my androgyny. On our bus, we have a video of Nirvana. Something I loved was seeing you and Kurt onstage wearing bras. So what I'd like to know is: when was the first time you wore women's clothing and have you ever been out in drag?"
🔸Dave: "I've been out in drag. When I was young, I would put on a show for the family - I was always the comedian..."
🔸Brian: "With your mum's clothes? Did you have any sisters?"
🔸Dave: "No, I think it may have been some clothing we had in the attic, something as outlandish and ridiculous as possible..." /.../
🔸Brian: "Tell me more about dressing up in women's clothing."
🔸Dave: "I was fortunate enough to grow up in a household where my parents were divorced, with only my mother and sister, so there was no male balance. There was no father who wanted you to be like dad, so you were left to be an individual because of course your mother didn't want you to grow up to be like your mother, and your sister didn't want you to grow up to be like your sister. That was nice."
🔸Brian: "I wouldn't be the person I am now if I'd grown up with a heavy fatherly influence. My father was hardly ever there." /.../


🔸Dave: "Explain the correlation between theatre and rock'n'roll."
🔸Brian: "Theatre taught me about emotional memory and how to become your character and build a history for it."
🔸Dave: "You studied that?"
🔸Brian: "I have a university degree in drama."
🔸Dave: "You do? Then you're the perfect frontman for the band, aren't you?" (Laughs)
🔸Brian: "I guess so. What that training taught me was how to open emotional doors and lose myself in something."
🔸Dave: "So you lose yourself when you step onstage."
🔸Brian: "Yeah. I put my makeup on and that's instrumental in becoming Brian Placebo instead of becoming Brian Molko. The emotions that are in the songs become easier to express. And it's a completely emotional thing for me, it really is." /.../
"Look, I don't want you to think that what I do onstage is like a Ziggy kind of character. When I step onstage, it gives me the freedom to be the person I've always wanted to be. That's why i loved acting so much, because you could go onstage and do things that, in real life, you wouldn't be able to get away with. It was an escape.
What it does is give me the power to be as large as I always wanted to be - and I'm quite a small guy - for half an hour, an hour. It's real. It opens things up. It's not a character, it's a part of me which I can't bring out all the time. It comes out when I'm drunk, when I've been tooting, when my mind's been altered in one way or another. I'm usually quite quiet, and it's good to go to extremes..."
🔸Dave: "With me, there's always this guilt, stepping onstage."
🔸Brian: "Really? You see, I won't go onstage wearing the same shirt. I'll wear the same trousers all day, but I won't wear the same shirt. Sometimes I'll be really quiet, but all I need to do is put my makeup on, and I'll be there. I'll do your makeup one day."
🔸Dave: "You should." /.../

Photo credit: Melody Maker 

🔸Dave: "When you (Brian) walk onstage, it's a celebration. A lot of the times when I walk onstage, I'm so incredibly frightened. There's guilt, there's fear. There are people out there who are standing, looking at me as if they're reaching out and will never be able to touch me. That's what scares me. Because I still believe I could make a connection if only they didn't think that about me. I want to bring down that barrier."
🔸Brian: "I understand that completely, but unfortunately for you, you were the drummer with the biggest rock band in the world. I try to speak to people after shows and depending on how much I've drunk, how I react is very strange. I'll be like, 'Don't be that way. I'm a fucking human being.'" /.../


🔸Brian: "When you go to the supermarket, do you get recognised? Is that why you grew a beard?"
🔸Dave: "No. No, not at all."
🔸Brian: "I ask you that because I want to be in your position in a couple of years."
🔸Dave: "Well, OK. There's people who see that as threatening, there's people who see it as flattering. It's strange. If somebody comes up and says, 'Oh my God, yeah, that's you, I really love what you do', how are you going to react? Hide away in your basement, unable to cope with people telling you they like you? Fuck no.
You're going to say 'Thank you very much.' It doesn't happen that often and when it does happen you should feel happy about it...until you feel claustrophobic and surrounded by people who want to tear your hair out, freak out. That doesn't happen to me."
🔸Brian: "That's kind of how I feel. I get love letters, but I also get letters from really fucked up teenagers. Sometimes the letters go, 'Thank you, cos when I listen to your records I feel like there's a friend for me out there somewhere', and sometimes it's as extreme as 'When I listen to your records, I feel like I don't have to cut myself as much as I would if I didn't.'
And that fucks with your head, because you start wondering about what sort of responsibility you have - when, in fact, you don't.
The responsibility you have is to yourself, you're expressing yourself because you need to, because you'd be depressed, an alcoholic, a junkie if you didn't. What's amazing is that things happen and you don't have very much control. /.../

Photo credit: Melody Maker 

🔸Brian: "OK. I'll ask you one last question. When you're 33, what are you going to do next?"
🔸Dave: "I don't know. And you? How old are you now?"
🔸Brian: "I'm 24."
🔸Dave: "What are you going to do when you're 33?"
🔸Brian: "I'm going to make movies. David's done it, Courtney's done it, Madonna's done it. They all have. But the difference between them and me is that I have a degree from university."
🔸Dave: "Well, there you go. And there's nothing like a certificate to get your foot in the door."

Laughter. Dave gets up to leave.

🔸Dave: "I hope you're the most famous man in America. Be cool."
🔸Brian: "You too."

Post by Marti

♦️ANNIVERSARY: TOO MANY FRIENDS♦️

Today we celebrate the 𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒂𝒓𝒚 of the first single "𝑻𝒐𝒐 𝑴𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝑭𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒔" from 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐's seventh album "𝑳𝒐𝒖𝒅 𝑳𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆", which was officially released on August 23, 2013 as a 𝑳𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝑬𝒅𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒚𝒍 in Europe, as well as a 𝑪𝑫 only available in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
The song was recorded at 𝑹𝑨𝑲, 𝑨𝒊𝒓
and 𝑺𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒎 𝑺𝒕𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒐𝒔, mastered at 𝟑𝟔𝟎 𝑴𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈, produced, mixed and engineered by 𝑨𝒅𝒂𝒎 𝑵𝒐𝒃𝒍𝒆 and credits of writing include 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐, 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 𝑶𝒍𝒔𝒅𝒂𝒍, 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒗𝒆 𝑭𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕 and 𝑩𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝑳𝒍𝒐𝒚𝒅.

 Photo Credit: Single cover, /Kevin Westenberg / Edit by Rita

🎬 𝐓𝐨𝐨 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 (𝐀𝐥𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐃𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧) 
https://youtu.be/p21YfobjaVA

💿 𝐎𝐮𝐭𝐫𝐨 
https://youtu.be/2ftK8NooN9E


𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗠𝗢𝗟𝗞𝗢 𝗢𝗡 𝗧𝗢𝗢 𝗠𝗔𝗡𝗬 𝗙𝗥𝗜𝗘𝗡𝗗𝗦 
𝐋𝐞𝐭'𝐬 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐤 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞. 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞? 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐢𝐭, 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐞, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨. 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭!
🎤 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐨: Thank you very much! We are very grateful. We wanted to do something different.

𝐓𝐨𝐨 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬, 𝐈 𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐧'𝐭 𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐭.
🎤 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 : We thought the self-titled track was probably the most Placebo-ish track. So we decided to take a little risk and start the promo with something different. To start the campaign with piano notes.

𝐘𝐞𝐬, 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐢𝐭. 𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐠𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐫 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐩𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐨 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐯𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐥𝐲…
🎤 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 : When you think 'Placebo', you think 'guitar'. We didn't want to confuse the genres but to create a little bit of interest with something different. To take a little risk. That's what we did and it worked out really well actually.

𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥. 𝐈𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐠, 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐰 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐫, 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐠𝐚𝐲 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐬 𝐄𝐥𝐲𝐬𝐞́𝐞𝐬. 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐬 𝐄𝐥𝐲𝐬𝐞́𝐞𝐬?
🎤 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 : I was looking for something that rhymed with 'gay', that wasn't 'way', 'say', 'play'. So the Champs Elysées, why not! The French will love it [laughs]

𝐈𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐞, 𝐢𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐤. 𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫, 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐥.
🎤 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 : Merci.
𝙿𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚎𝚋𝚘 𝙸𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚟𝚒𝚎𝚠 𝚃𝚛𝚎́𝚜 𝚃𝚛𝚎́𝚜 𝙿𝚛𝚒𝚟𝚎́𝚎 𝚁𝚃𝙻, 𝟸𝟶𝟷𝟹.

Photo credit: Screenshots from the video / edit by Silke

📘 𝐋𝐲𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐬 
My computer thinks I'm gay
I threw that piece of junk away
On the Champs-Elysées
As I was walking home
This is my last communique
Down the superhighway
All that I have left to say
In a single tome

I got too many friends
Too many people that I'll never meet
And I'll never be there for
I'll never be there for
'Cause I'll never be there

If I could give it all away
Will it come back to me someday?
Like a needle in the hay or an expensive stone
But I got a reason to declaim
The applications are to blame
For all my sorrow and my pain
Of feeling so alone

I got too many friends
Too many people that I'll never meet
And I'll never be there for
I'll never be there for
'Cause I'll never be there

My computer thinks I'm gay
What's the difference anyway
When all the people do all day
Is stare into a phone

I got too many friends
Too many people that I'll never meet
And I'll never be there for
I'll never be there for
'Cause I'll never be there

Too many friends
Too many people that I'll never meet
And I'll never be there for
I'll never be there for
'Cause I'll never be there
I'll never be there.


 𝑬𝒙𝒄𝒆𝒓𝒑𝒕 𝑰𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒊𝒆𝒘 𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒃𝒚 𝑳𝒂𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒂 𝑬𝒗𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒂.
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⭐ 𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐌𝐎𝐋𝐊𝐎 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖 𝐎𝐍 "𝐋𝐈𝐁𝐄𝐑𝐓𝐄́ - 𝐄𝐆𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐄́ - 𝐌.𝐀.𝐔.𝐑.𝐀.𝐃" 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟒 ⭐

𝑯𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒐 𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔!

This afternoon I'm sure we are going to have a great time together because we're going to enjoy one of the funniest interviews you can find of 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐. It was made on October 28, 2004 on the French radio show "𝑳𝒊𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒕𝒆́ - 𝑬𝒈𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒆́ - 𝑴.𝑨.𝑼.𝑹.𝑨.𝑫" on 𝑬𝒖𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒆 𝟐.

Between questions from the fans, weird questions from the hosts and some jokes, I have chosen some fragments since the interview is pretty long. At the end I shared the link so you can listen to it in full and not miss all the atmosphere that was created in the program because there lies much of the magic of this interview.


🔸𝑩𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒘𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒕, 𝑰 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒈𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒌𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝑳𝒂𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒂 𝑬𝒗𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒂 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒆𝒙𝒄𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒆 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒊𝒆𝒘 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒕 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒖𝒔. 🙏💖💕

Photo credit: Scarlet Page

✨⭐ 𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐌𝐎𝐋𝐊𝐎 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖 𝐎𝐍 "𝐋𝐈𝐁𝐄𝐑𝐓𝐄́ - 𝐄𝐆𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐄́ - 𝐌.𝐀.𝐔.𝐑.𝐀.𝐃" 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟒 ⭐✨

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Brian Molko is with us in the studio. It's great. My niece loves you, my brother loves you. My name is Maurad. Can you say: 'I am with Maurad'?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: I am with Maurad.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Do you hear my niece? Brian Molko is with us! Brian Molko, you speak French very well, you were born in Luxembourg, right?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: No, no, I was born in Belgium.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: You lived in Luxembourg. You lived in Lebanon and now you live in London. Was the GPS invented for you?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: No, not at all. They've invented the Rizzla for me, perhaps.
🔸𝑩𝒐𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒆: Rizzla is cigarette rolling paper.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: How does feel it do...? There are a lot of people in the street…
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: How does it feel to be in the studio with you, right?

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Yes, how does it feel?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: I'm completely overwhelmed.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: There are a lot of people who want to ask you questions. You've sold over 5 million albums worldwide, 700,000 of the best-of which will be released soon. That's impressive. Laura is with us. How are you?
📞 𝑳𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂: Yes, I'm fine. My heart is beating a mile a minute.
🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: You have a question for Brian Molko?
📞 𝑳𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂: Yes. Hi Brian, I wanted to know when your next album will be released?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: In 2006. In 2005, we will produce it. We've been touring for two years now so we still need to take some time off and then we're going to do the new album in 2005 and it's going to be out in 2006.

Photo credit: Renaud Monfourny, HD edit by molko_remastered

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Let's talk about your outfit. Why do you always wear black?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: I dress in black because it's easier to travel with and it makes you look slimmer.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Slimmer?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: Yes.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Celine's here and wants to ask Brian a question. Ask your question, Celine.
📞 𝑪𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆: Hi, Brian.
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: Hi.
📞 𝑪𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆: I wanted to know why you like the French public so much?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: It's the French public that loves us. It's been a love story with the French public since the first single. There was a connection. I think it's because there's a long culture of literary romance in France. When I was at school, I studied Baudelaire…

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Do rock stars go to school?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: I even went to university.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: I thought rock stars didn't go to school, that they were rebels and stuff. You went to university and what did you study?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: Drama.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Computer science, right.
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: No... Drama.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: So you went to Star Academy?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: No, I didn't.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Celine, do you have another question for Brian?
📞 𝑪𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆: Yes. Last year, at the concert in Geneva, you fell and hurt your thumb. Did it bother you at the concert?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: I remember I fell off the stage. It was the first time I fell. I think it's a rock cliché. You have to go through the rock clichés and then I fell off the stage. These things happen. It made me laugh a lot. I didn't get hurt too much. I could have been hurt but it was okay.

Photo credit: Scarlet Page

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: We're with Brian Molko. We're going to make him do a 'Courthouse'. We'll talk about everything that's going on with him in total freedom. Placebo's releasing a best-of album.
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: It's not a best-of.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅 : What is it then?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: It's a historical document.

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🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Honestly, among the famous people, who do you find pretty?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: I like Angelina Joly. She's pretty. Although he's dead, I've always liked River Phoenix.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: River Phoenix. What does she look like, Boudine?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: It's a boy.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: A boy? What does he look like?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: He's dead.

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🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Look what it says on the paper, it's written 'sex' on it. We're going to talk about sex with Brian Molko. But before we do, Sarah's here to ask Brian a question.
📞 𝑺𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒉: Hi, Brian!
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: Hi Sarah.
📞 𝑺𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒉: Since your beginning of your career, you've always been seen as an outsider. But with the success of the last album, do you still define yourself as an outsider?
🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: What a serious question!
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: I don't feel comfortable .... even with the idea of being Brian Molko and being the singer of Placebo. I still feel a bit of an outsider. I hope success hasn't changed me too much.

🔸𝑩𝒐𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒆: I get the impression that you don't like compliments, that you're not comfortable with compliments?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: No, not really.

🔸𝑩𝒐𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒆: Does it shock you? Does it upset you?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: No, because I don't really believe it.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Stop fussing Boudine! My 'little' Brian, we're about to go into a place…
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: I am not your 'little' Brian Molko.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: What are you to me then?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: I'm your 'big' Brian Molko.

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🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Ask your question, we'll see later.
📞 𝑨𝒅𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆: Hi, Brian.
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: Hi.

📞 𝑨𝒅𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆: You okay?
🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: [...] Ask your question Adeline.

📞 𝑨𝒅𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆: I saw you live in Vienna and you kissed Stefan on the mouth.
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: So what!

📞 𝑨𝒅𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆: This is a bit of a personal question, but I would have liked to know if it had gone further with him.
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: If I'm friend with him?

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: No. Further physically.
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: Ah! Further... No. A little bit further but not too far. We have a band together, we see each other every day.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: It's a bit complicated. Not at work.
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: Don't sh*t where you live.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅 : Exactly. Good one! That's a great metaphor. Have you ever dated guys from other bands?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: Yeah, well…

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: You don't want to tell us?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: No, I don't.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: It's only the singer from U2, you can say it!
🔸𝑩𝒐𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒆: Or Etienne Daho.
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: No, stop it. Never.

Photo credit: Alex Vanhee  

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Do you have a question for Brian Molko?
📞 𝑺𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒚: I'd like to know who's the crookest person you've ever met in showbusiness?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: The crookest person.. Sting.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Sting is an a**hole?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: Yeah, yeah. He's awful.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Why?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: I can't really explain what happened, but.. trust me, he's an a**hole.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: We're going to enter 'The Courthouse' with Brian Molko. This time you can't escape. You had the time to think about your story. It 11 pm, we're going to listen to you about a sex strory you experienced.
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: I don't know what you want me to tell. Explain to me, be more specific.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: A story you experienced in real life, a story during a tour…
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: I'm in a rock band so, lots of things happened.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: One story which ended…
🔸𝑩𝒐𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒆: Your last orgy.
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: Yeah, why not. For example…


🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Your last orgy
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: My last orgy…
🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: When was it?
🔸𝑩𝒐𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒆: With Etienne Daho.
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: Stop, stop with Etienne. He's my friend. Stop.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Tell us your last orgy.
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: The last orgy... It was a long time ago, because now I'm a very religious person these days - and I believe in Jesus and, after the broadcast, I'd like to talk about Jesus to you.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Alright.
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: I notice you're lacking of ethical fiber.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: That's not true.
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: And I'd like to talk about Jesus a bit.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Now? You're kidding me. He's kidding me! You will tell your story for sure.
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: I've tried something (...) like politicians. They never answer the question, that's cool.

Photo credit: Scarlet Page

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: [...] Aurore, are you all right? Do you have a question for Brian?
📞 𝑨𝒖𝒓𝒐𝒓𝒆: Hey, everybody, hi Brian. First of all,.... I know you don't like to talk about your past, but I wanted to know if some of your songs were a reflection of a rather difficult past life?


🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: You all ask very serious questions! Have you ever been asked such questions?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: Yeah, but it's not a bad question.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: What the kind of questions you've never been asked?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: Which question should I answer then?

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Answer Aurore's.
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: Can you repeat please?
📞 𝑨𝒖𝒓𝒐𝒓𝒆: I wanted to know if your songs reflect a difficult past life?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: Yes, yes, of course. You don't publish your diary on a record. It's a mixture of truth and fantasy. It's art, it's not a documentary. And it needs work. It's inspired by your emotions but also by the emotions of your friends, your parents, your relatives or even by TV or what you read, the cinema.
📞 𝑨𝒖𝒓𝒐𝒓𝒆: Thank you.

✨✨✨✨✨

🔸𝑩𝒐𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒆: After Wembley, what are you going to do?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: I'm going to India.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: India? What's in india?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: I want to go somewhere as far away from the music business as possible.

🔸𝑩𝒐𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒆: To write?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: No, to live.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: For how long?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: About three or four months. You guys are cool but I get asked questions all the time. We've been working for two years and I'm really tired of being Brian Molko. I wanna go somewhere to be Brian.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Okay. What's the one question you've never been asked that you wish you'd been asked?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: "How did you get to be so hot?"

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: But a believable question... So tell us how you got so hot. Tell us.
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: It's my parents' fault. I like to discuss religion.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Are you religious?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: No, I'm not.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Were you brought up Catholic?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: Not Catholic, but very religious. I find it fascinating and it has given me a lot of metaphors that I use in my songs. The Bible is a fascinating book. It has nothing to do with real life. It was written by frustrated people who wanted to control people. It's full of metaphors, full of violence, full of sex, full of incest and so on.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: That's life.
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: You can use these people as metaphors.

Photo credit: Tony Barson Archive 

🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: Please let me go!
🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: We'll let you go but there are still a few questions. Do you get your clothes or do you buy them ?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: I buy a lot of clothes and some are given to me too. I know people in the fashion business. It's really cool to be a musician because you get clothes to wear on TV and at the same time you have to buy stuffs. You don't wear Dior every day and at home you have to wear something.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Have you ever been offered to do modelling?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: I did it once and I didn't like it at all. I'm short.

🔸𝑩𝒐𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒆: There are no more criteria in modelling, when you have a look, a face, that's enough.
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: It was for a friend of mine who is a designer. I did it once. I met a lot of models and I found them quite vicious.

🔸𝑩𝒐𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒆: Another question: what's your best proof of your love you did for someone? Something incredible.
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: Oh sh*t…

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: In the bathroom! That's disgusting! It's scatophiliac!
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: Not my thing. Not at all.

🔸𝑩𝒐𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒆: A mind-blowing thing?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: I find that you can make strong actions, symbolic things like that but if you listen when she/he talks, it's much more important. That's it.

🔸𝑩𝒐𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒆: It could be a song too, writing a song for someone. For love.
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: I have written a lot of songs for many people. The people who are in my songs are a composite of several people and often it's me. When I say "You", I am talking to myself.


⭐𝐋𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞:

https://youtu.be/BWrnDyQKgX4


✒️𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 & 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒃𝒚 𝑳𝒂𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒂 𝑬𝒗𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒂.

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💠 𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐀𝐑𝐘: 𝐉𝐄𝐒𝐔𝐒’ 𝐒𝐎𝐍 💠

Today we celebrate the 𝟓𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐀𝐑𝐘 of 𝐉𝐄𝐒𝐔𝐒’ 𝐒𝐎𝐍

🎵 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 - 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬' 𝐒𝐨𝐧, 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨
 https://bit.ly/36S7TAh

🎵 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 - 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬' 𝐒𝐨𝐧, 𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐨 𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭
 https://bit.ly/3kzHhMO

The song was released as a single on this day, August 19th, in 2016 and was featured on Placebo's 2016 EP 𝑳𝒊𝒇𝒆'𝒔 𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝑴𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝑰𝒕 as well as the band's compilation album 𝑨 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑼𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝑫𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒎 later that year, on October 7th, 2016.
The single was released on 7" vinyl, with Placebo's cover of Talk Talk's 𝑳𝒊𝒇𝒆'𝒔 𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝑴𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝑰𝒕 as a double A-side.

A "double A-side" is a single where both sides are designated the A-side, with no designated B-side; that is, both sides are prospective hit songs and neither side will be promoted over the other.
The single's cover art features Brian Molko's son, 𝑪𝒐𝒅𝒚, wearing an oxygen mask.

𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: “This is possibly like our most optimistic, life-affirming, positive, spiritual single ever. There isn’t a lot of darkness in this song, there’s a lot of light.”
And, at the same time…
𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: “Our last single ‘Jesus Son’ and the Talk Talk cover ‘Life Is What You Make It’ are possibly two of the most commercial tracks that we’ve ever done.”
(𝑁𝑀𝐸, 5𝑡ℎ 𝑂𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑏𝑒𝑟 2017)

Stefan’s husband 𝑫𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒅 𝑨𝒎𝒆𝒏 called the song the best summer soundtrack.

Photo credit: single cover, screenshots from the video / edit by Olga

We can find some great 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖𝐒 of the single on PopMatters.
"Spirited and soaring, Placebo’s new single is an anthem for living life and doing it without fear. It’s an especially relevant message for a fearful world, an ode to letting go of worry. Orchestral swells juxtaposed with raw, heart-on-sleeve lyrics make for a song both lofty and grounded, big enough that it can’t help but be noticed and still universal in its message of hope. The feeling of freedom extends to the vivid imagery of the video: horses running, waves crashing, pagan warriors unfettered by modern society as they roam the streets of ancient Sardinian ruins. If you’re looking for a moment of spiritual comfort in a chaotic year, Placebo’s your band."

"There is no “placebo effect” in faking that this is a fun track. On a slightly heavier side of the indie rock spectrum, the instrumentals are strong with energy and impact, especially with some slamming drums. The guitars have a great high pitch which adds to the energy; not an electric high, but sort of that rainbow/bubblegum pop. Vocals fit great with the vibe, making them easy to follow and sing along too. For a band who has been around for 20 years, well… it is never too late to discover great jams."
(𝑃𝑜𝑝𝑀𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠, 𝑆𝑒𝑝𝑡𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 1𝑠𝑡, 2016)

The 𝐎𝐅𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐋 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐂 𝐕𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐎 for Jesus' Son was shot under the blazing sun of Sardinia, at the beautiful Scivu beach in the southwest of the island, in July 2016.
It was Brian’s idea to choose this special location: “One day I found out about this festival that took place in Sardinia called Duna Jam, and it was really really small, like a hundred and fifty people with on the beach and the bands with play on the beach. I saw the location on YouTube, the sceneries are just mind-blowing! And I thought, THAT’s the place that we should film the video for Jesus’ Son.”

🎵 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 - 𝐌𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐎𝐟 '𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬’ 𝐒𝐨𝐧'
 https://bit.ly/3wNdSRt

Music video commissioner John Moule brought Placebo into contact with the director 𝑱𝒐𝒆 𝑪𝒐𝒏𝒏𝒐𝒓 who wrote the script based on the wonderful ancient culture of Sardinia. “I had a phone call with Brian and we decided on a feel and an approach based on the idea I'd written, so it was a bit of both on this job,” remembers 𝑱𝒐𝒆 𝑪𝒐𝒏𝒏𝒐𝒓. (𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜 𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑗𝑒𝑐𝑡)

📌 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎 𝐉𝐄𝐒𝐔𝐒' 𝐒𝐎𝐍 𝐁𝐘 𝐉𝐎𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐍𝐎𝐑 📌
Joe Connor takes a trip to Sardinia with the evergreen Placebo, and marks the band's 20th birthday with this uplifting rock workout radiating away-from-it-all summer vibes and, most importantly, acquainting us with the guys in the furry suits and the brilliant horned masks.
You can add this to a long list of estimable Placebo videos, but there's also something of Anton Corbijn's work with Depeche Mode in its cool mystery and use of locations.

Photo credit: Screebshots from the video / edit by Silke

📌 𝐉𝐎𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐍𝐎𝐑 📌
"It was such a wonderful pleasure to help Placebo celebrate their 20th year in the industry by shooting this video with them. It was one of those special projects where the creative concept and the band really gelled. I wanted to make something arresting, energetic and bold for them, something that reintroduced them but in true placebo style; something that felt otherworldly, special and unseen.
"I won’t explain too much as I feel the joy of this video is in letting the images and the culture presented in this video wash over you but needless to say it was a wonderful shoot in Sardinia and I’ll be travelling back to document the characters depicted in the promo in further detail later in the year. I loved making this one.
"Massive shout out to the producer Dom at Shoot Sardinia and all his crew on the island that helped to craft such a lovely video and a wonderful experience. Major props."
(𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑤𝑠, 𝐴𝑢𝑔𝑢𝑠𝑡 23𝑟𝑑 2016)
Besides the band playing with their feet in the sand all dressed in white the video features traditional characters of Sardinian Carnival.

📌 𝐉𝐄𝐒𝐔𝐒’ 𝐒𝐎𝐍 – 𝐋𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐇𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐘 📌
The song was played live in 2016 to 2018, 94 times in total.
For the first time, it was performed on October 3rd, 2016 at Maida Vale Studios on BBC Radio 6 Music. The latest performance dates on July 13, 2018 at Sion Sous Les Étoiles Festival in Sion, Switzerland.

🎵 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 - 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬 𝐒𝐨𝐧, 𝟔 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝐌𝐚𝐢𝐝𝐚 𝐕𝐚𝐥𝐞, 𝐁𝐁𝐂 𝐑𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐨 𝟔, 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟔
 https://bit.ly/3ew40oU

🎵 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 - 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬' 𝐒𝐨𝐧, 𝐃𝐞𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟕
 https://bit.ly/3wKJcjP

🎵 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 - 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬' 𝐬𝐨𝐧, 𝐒𝐭.𝐏𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐠, 𝟐𝟒.𝟏𝟎.𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟔
 https://bit.ly/3xLEd3M
 
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