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.
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| Photo credit: Scarlet Page (Molko), unknown (4) / edit by Silke |
Brian Molko: “You too, you too. It was a good night fot both of us.”
๐๐ช๐ญ: “๐ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฉ, ๐ช๐ต ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ง๐ถ๐ฏ; ๐ ๐จ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ต ๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ต ๐๐ฐ๐ข๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฏ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต.”
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?”
๐๐ช๐ญ: “๐ ๐ข๐ฎ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ข ๐ฑ๐ข๐ณ๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ช๐ฏ ๐๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ด๐ข๐ค๐ฐ๐ญ๐ข, ๐๐ญ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ช๐ฅ๐ข.”
Brian: “Okay – I think I'm in a studio apartment opposite the Chelsea Hotel in New York City.”
๐๐ช๐ญ: “๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ด๐ฆ๐ข ๐๐ฐ๐ต๐ฆ๐ญ. ๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ ๐ช๐ด ๐ข๐ฎ๐ข๐ป๐ช๐ฏ๐จ.”
Brian: “Yeah, it's kinda funky.”
๐๐ช๐ญ: “๐๐ฐ, ๐บ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฉ, ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ข๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ณ๐ณ๐ข๐ฏ๐จ! ๐๐ธ๐ข๐ณ๐ฅ๐ด, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฃ๐ข๐ฃ๐ญ๐บ ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ข ๐ญ๐ช๐ต๐ต๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ช๐ต...”
Brian: “No man, you were buzzing. You were on a high from getting your award, so it's a good vibe.”
๐๐ช๐ญ: “๐๐ฐ๐ธ'๐ฅ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ข๐ฏ๐ต๐ด ๐๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ ๐จ๐ฐ?”
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].”
๐๐ช๐ญ: “๐๐ฆ'๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ต๐ต๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐บ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ, ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐บ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ง๐ข๐ท๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ช๐ต๐ฆ ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ถ๐ฆ๐ด, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฃ๐ฐ๐น.”
Brian: “Yeah, I remember that.”
๐๐ช๐ญ: “๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐บ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ฅ๐ข๐บ๐ด ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐บ๐ฆ๐ฅ; ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ข๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ข๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ. ๐๐ฐ, ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ '๐๐ถ๐ค๐ฌ!'”
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.”
๐๐ช๐ญ: “๐๐ต ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ด ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐จ๐ถ๐บ๐ด ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ข ๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐บ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข๐ด๐ฆ ๐ด๐ค๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ข๐ด๐ต ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐บ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ด. ๐๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ ๐ต๐ธ๐ฐ ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฆ ๐บ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ด ๐ข ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ธ ๐ข๐ญ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ฎ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต. ๐๐ฐ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ง๐ช๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ต ๐ฅ๐ช๐ง๐ง๐ช๐ค๐ถ๐ญ๐ต ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ด๐ฑ๐ช๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ญ๐บ๐ณ๐ช๐ค๐ด?”
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.”
๐๐ช๐ญ: “๐๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ, '๐๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ด' ๐ช๐ด ๐ข๐ค๐ต๐ถ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ต๐ฐ๐ฑ ๐ง๐ช๐ท๐ฆ ๐ง๐ข๐ท๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ช๐ต๐ฆ ๐ข๐ญ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ฎ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ต๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ, ๐ด๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฌ๐ด ๐ข ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต.”
Brian: “Well, thank you.”
๐๐ช๐ญ: “๐๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ, '๐๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ด' ๐ช๐ด ๐ข๐ค๐ต๐ถ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ต๐ฐ๐ฑ ๐ง๐ช๐ท๐ฆ ๐ง๐ข๐ท๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ช๐ต๐ฆ ๐ข๐ญ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ฎ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ต๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ, ๐ด๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฌ๐ด ๐ข ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต.”
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.”
๐๐ช๐ญ: “๐๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ต๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ช๐ต'๐ด ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ช๐ณ๐ฅ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ ๐จ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ค๐ฐ๐จ๐ฏ๐ช๐ป๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฏ.”
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.”
๐๐ช๐ญ: “๐๐ต ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ด ๐ญ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด๐ฆ๐ข๐ด ๐ช๐ต'๐ด ๐ข ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ค๐ข๐ญ. ๐๐ง ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ'๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฏ ๐ข ๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ซ๐ถ๐ด๐ต ๐ด๐ค๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฎ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ฏ๐ข๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ณ๐ถ๐ฏ ๐ถ๐ฑ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ, ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ด, ๐ญ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ค๐ข, ๐ช๐ต'๐ด ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐บ'๐ญ๐ญ ๐ด๐ค๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฎ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ฏ๐ข๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ธ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ. ๐๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ, ๐ช๐ง ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ด๐ข๐บ “๐๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ”, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐บ'๐ญ๐ญ ๐ต๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ. ๐๐ถ๐ต ๐ช๐ต'๐ด ๐ข ๐ญ๐ช๐ต๐ต๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ง๐ง๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต.”
Brian: “Yeah, that's been my experience as well. I don't know why it's like that. I really don't.”
๐๐ช๐ญ: “๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ต'๐ด ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ง๐ข๐ท๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ช๐ต๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ?”
Brian: “Latin America is fantastic. Have you been there yet?”
๐๐ช๐ญ: “๐๐ฐ, ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ'๐ต.”
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.”
๐๐ช๐ญ: “๐๐ฐ, ๐บ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฉ, ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ข๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ณ๐ณ๐ข๐ฏ๐จ! ๐๐ธ๐ข๐ณ๐ฅ๐ด, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฃ๐ข๐ฃ๐ญ๐บ ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ข ๐ญ๐ช๐ต๐ต๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ช๐ต...”
Brian: “No man, you were buzzing. You were on a high from getting your award, so it's a good vibe.”
๐๐ช๐ญ: “๐๐ฐ๐ธ'๐ฅ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ข๐ฏ๐ต๐ด ๐๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ ๐จ๐ฐ?”
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].”
๐๐ช๐ญ: “๐๐ฆ'๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ต๐ต๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐บ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ, ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐บ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ง๐ข๐ท๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ช๐ต๐ฆ ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ถ๐ฆ๐ด, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฃ๐ฐ๐น.”
Brian: “Yeah, I remember that.”
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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.”
๐๐ช๐ญ: “๐๐ต ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ด ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐จ๐ถ๐บ๐ด ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ข ๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐บ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข๐ด๐ฆ ๐ด๐ค๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ข๐ด๐ต ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐บ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ด. ๐๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ ๐ต๐ธ๐ฐ ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฆ ๐บ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ด ๐ข ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ธ ๐ข๐ญ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ฎ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต. ๐๐ฐ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ง๐ช๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ต ๐ฅ๐ช๐ง๐ง๐ช๐ค๐ถ๐ญ๐ต ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ด๐ฑ๐ช๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ญ๐บ๐ณ๐ช๐ค๐ด?”
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.”
๐๐ช๐ญ: “๐๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ, '๐๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ด' ๐ช๐ด ๐ข๐ค๐ต๐ถ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ต๐ฐ๐ฑ ๐ง๐ช๐ท๐ฆ ๐ง๐ข๐ท๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ช๐ต๐ฆ ๐ข๐ญ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ฎ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ต๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ, ๐ด๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฌ๐ด ๐ข ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต.”
Brian: “Well, thank you.”
๐๐ช๐ญ: “๐๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ, '๐๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ด' ๐ช๐ด ๐ข๐ค๐ต๐ถ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ต๐ฐ๐ฑ ๐ง๐ช๐ท๐ฆ ๐ง๐ข๐ท๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ช๐ต๐ฆ ๐ข๐ญ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ฎ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ต๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ, ๐ด๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฌ๐ด ๐ข ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต.”
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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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.”
๐๐ช๐ญ: “๐๐ต ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ด ๐ญ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด๐ฆ๐ข๐ด ๐ช๐ต'๐ด ๐ข ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ค๐ข๐ญ. ๐๐ง ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ'๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฏ ๐ข ๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ซ๐ถ๐ด๐ต ๐ด๐ค๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฎ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ฏ๐ข๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ณ๐ถ๐ฏ ๐ถ๐ฑ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ, ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ด, ๐ญ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ค๐ข, ๐ช๐ต'๐ด ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐บ'๐ญ๐ญ ๐ด๐ค๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฎ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ฏ๐ข๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ธ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ. ๐๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ, ๐ช๐ง ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ด๐ข๐บ “๐๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ”, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐บ'๐ญ๐ญ ๐ต๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ. ๐๐ถ๐ต ๐ช๐ต'๐ด ๐ข ๐ญ๐ช๐ต๐ต๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ง๐ง๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต.”
Brian: “Yeah, that's been my experience as well. I don't know why it's like that. I really don't.”
๐๐ช๐ญ: “๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ต'๐ด ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ง๐ข๐ท๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ช๐ต๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ?”
Brian: “Latin America is fantastic. Have you been there yet?”
๐๐ช๐ญ: “๐๐ฐ, ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ'๐ต.”
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.”
๐๐ช๐ญ: “๐๐ฐ๐ธ, ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ. ๐๐ฆ'๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฐ ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ธ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด, ๐ธ๐ฆ'๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ญ๐บ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ข๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ข๐ฎ๐ช๐ญ๐ช๐ข๐ณ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ – ๐ญ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐.๐. ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ค๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ด๐ฆ. ๐๐ถ๐ต ๐ต๐ฐ ๐จ๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ข ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฏ ๐๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ค๐ข ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐๐ณ๐ข๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ ๐ซ๐ถ๐ด๐ต ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ด ๐ญ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ “๐๐ฐ๐ธ, ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ?” ๐๐ต ๐ซ๐ถ๐ด๐ต ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ด ๐ค๐ณ๐ข๐ป๐บ. ๐ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ช๐ง ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ ๐ฃ๐ถ๐บ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ค๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฅ๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ.”
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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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...”
๐๐ช๐ญ: “๐๐ต'๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐จ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ด๐ต ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ข๐ฏ๐ค๐บ ๐๐ฑ๐ถ๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ธ๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ข๐ค๐ณ๐ฐ๐ด๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ฐ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฆ๐ญ.”
Brian: “Yeah, that's it. Even in deathshe's still an imposition.”
๐๐ช๐ญ: “๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ด๐ข๐ช๐ฅ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ญ๐ช๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฌ ๐๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ค๐ข ๐ช๐ด ๐ง๐ช๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ ๐ธ๐ข๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ถ๐ฑ [๐ต๐ฐ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ด๐ช๐ค] ๐ข๐ง๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐บ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ด. ๐๐ด ๐ช๐ต ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ง๐ณ๐ถ๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐จ๐ฐ ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐บ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฉ๐ถ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ต๐ข๐ฅ๐ช๐ถ๐ฎ๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ข๐ด ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ต๐ณ๐ช๐ฆ๐ด, ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต๐ฉ ๐๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ค๐ข, ๐ช๐ต'๐ด ๐ข ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ด๐ฎ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ณ? ๐๐ฐ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ง๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ค๐ข ๐ช๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ช๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ฆ๐ณ?”
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?”
๐๐ช๐ญ: “๐ ๐ง๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ญ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ข๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ข๐บ. ๐๐ฆ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ข๐ด ๐ฃ๐ช๐จ, ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ต ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐บ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฏ, ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐ญ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ด๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ๐ช๐ข ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ, ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ช๐ค๐ฉ ๐ช๐ด ๐ช๐ฏ๐ค๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฆ. ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐น๐ต ๐ฅ๐ข๐บ, ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ต๐ฐ ๐๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ๐บ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ด ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ 100, 200 ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ. ๐๐ต ๐ง๐ช๐ณ๐ด๐ต, ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ'๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ “๐๐ฉ, ๐ง๐ถ๐ค๐ฌ. ๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ธ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ?” ๐๐ถ๐ต ๐ช๐ต ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฑ๐ด ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฐ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฏ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฌ ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ค ๐ถ๐ฑ.”
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.
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