⭐ 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.

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🔸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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