⭐🔸 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

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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.
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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

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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 ...

Post by Marti