✨Placebo was the headliner band at Pinkpop Festival in 2009 for the very fist time because Depeche Mode cancelled their set due to the illness of singer Dave Gahan. It was also Steve Forrest's "𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑓𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑎𝑙 𝑣𝑖𝑟𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑦", according to Brian. But it wasn't their fisrt appearaance to the oldest festival. Placebo played five times at Pinkpop: 1997, 2003, 2006, 2009 and more recently 2015.
I'd like to share with you a short interview with Brian where you can feel his excitment to play at PinkPop and his funny opinion about festivals in general.✨
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| Photo credit: Bart Notermans, Paul Bergen, Placeboworld / edit by Laetitia |
𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: Yeah maybe about an hour, an hour and a half ago or something yeah.
💬𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠. 𝐘𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐢𝐠 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐢𝐭 ?
𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: Yes of course yeah. You know, It's always a challenge to be the headline band you know. So yeah we hope that we will rise to the occasion.
💬𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐚𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐦 𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐇𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐈 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐟𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐢𝐱𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐞, '𝐁𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐮𝐧'. 𝐈𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐚𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐦 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭, '𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐬', 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐚𝐲 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐢𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 ?
𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: Well, 'Meds' is kind of like alike a grainy black-and-white film you know that's sort of with a very unhappy ending.
(𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝐵𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝐹𝑜𝑟 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑢𝑛) It offers a bit more hope than the previous album did. Yeah we're gonna play, you know, quite a few new songs today. It's important for us because I mean we could, you know, play a set that's just designed to, you know, make everybody.. the most people happy. It's more about sort of making sure that you acted you, as a band, enjoy the show, you know, so it's important for you to play songs which kind of make you excited.
A festival is kind of like a big beer picnic for everyone, you know. So everybody's sort of kind of wasted, you know, so it's more of a sort of a good you're kind of the soundtrack to a beer picnic I suppose. So you have to bear that in mind.
💬𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐤 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐦𝐮𝐜𝐡.
𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: Thank you. Cheers.
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| Pinkpop 2009, screenshot |
Brian https://bit.ly/3klpXKP
Stefan https://bit.ly/2Z0zNcM
The band https://bit.ly/3tPq6JL
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🌟✨𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭'𝐬 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰✨🌟
💬"PINKPOP WOW!
That show was one of the most wonderful experiences I have ever had. I do hope that everyone had a good time, I know I did, and I cant wait to come back.
Thank you everyone for being such an amazing audience that night. it was our pleasure to play for you and we hope to see you again. kisses.............. steve"
(𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘷𝘦'𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸 𝘰𝘯 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘣𝘰𝘸𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘥'𝘴 𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘨 - 2009)
✨What a delight to read this ! His "first time" was a win for him 😊✨
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° Kitty Litter
° Ashtray Heart
° For What It's Worth
° Follow The Cops Back Home
° Every You Every Me
° Special Needs
° The Never-Ending Why
° Meds
° Come Undone
° Special K
° Infra-red
° The Bitter End
° Taste In Men
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📍𝐀 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐃 𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐏𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐏𝐎𝐏📍
Founded by Jan Smeets, Pinkpop Festival is a large annual festival held in Landgraaf in Netherlands, usually held in June.
It is tje oldest music festival in the world as it started in 1970. It can accommodate up to 60,000 spectators per day with four different stages.
Pinkpop's name comes from two words. 'Pink' is taken from the Dutch word 'Pentecost', because the festival is hels during the Pentecost week end, ost of the time. 'Pop' stands for doll in Dutch, which explains the colourful logo.
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🔹Due to the cancellation of Depeche Mode, Placebo was chosen as the closing act of the second day of Pinkpop. 𝑨 𝒓𝒐𝒍𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚, 𝒍𝒆𝒕'𝒔 𝒃𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒄, 𝒇𝒖𝒍𝒇𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒆. The discussion among the audience was somewhat clouded in the beginning by the question whether Krezip could be a good replacement for Depeche Mode (according to many people not). And, a more fundamental question, whether it is a good idea to have an evening closed by a band that paints in shades of black and grey. Placebo are masters of plaintive music and sarcastic lyrics, and are on the same wavelength as Depeche Mode in that respect, but don't the audience prefer party music at the end of the evening?
Placebo made of it what it is. Their music proved sufficiently danceable despite its cynical undertone. And they even managed to inject some humour into the announcements, when they announced the bassist as the 'Queen of Sweden'. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒂 𝒃𝒍𝒂𝒛𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒍𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒊𝒆𝒓𝒔.🔹
(3𝑣𝑜𝑜𝑟12.𝑣𝑝𝑟𝑜.𝑛𝑙)
🔹Placebo has been out of the picture for a while. After the album Meds was released in 2006, drummer Steve Hewitt left the band after eleven years, which meant the new album had to wait longer. A replacement was found in the person of Steve Forrest, a 22-year-old American who played in the band Evaline, a band that has been Placebo's support act for many years. Meanwhile, the new album Battle For The Sun has been released and the band is back at Pinkpop after three years. The circle is complete, as Louis van Gaal would say.
Placebo are not making it easy on themselves by opening as substitutes for Depeche Mode with new material in the form of 'Kitty Litter', 'Battle for the Sun' and 'For What it's Worth'. The audience is rather uncomfortable with it, but still goes along with it. Especially the danceable character of this last song helps. Then the chords of 'Black Eyed' are started and secretly a sigh of relief goes through the audience, a starting point! But the band goes its own way by simply playing another new song, this time 'Speak in Tongues'. It has to be said though, the new material does offer some pressing points for the new album. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐠 '𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫-𝐄𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐖𝐡𝐲' 𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞.
The dusk is also a good moment for vocalist Brian Molko to take a break in the form of 'Follow The Cops Back Home', taken from the earlier mentioned album 'Meds'. The rest is short-lived though, because there it is: 'Every You, Every me', one of a number of crackers that Placebo has in their repertoire by now. They all pass by, 'Harder, Faster', 'Meds', 'Special K' and the appropriate closing song 'Song To Say Goodbye'. Placebo has clearly won over the audience and that same audience is far from finished with the band. They return for an encore in the form of 'The Bitter End', a not very appropriate title in this light. After that, Brian Molko's new drummer gets to meet the audience and receive his well-deserved applause. Just like drumming, this ritual goes very well for him. He hugs, shakes hands and runs up and down the aisle, much to the delight of the grateful audience. There is no time for a break, because the sample of 'Taste in Men' already announces the second encore. Afterwards, the guitars continue to roar, as does the adrenaline. 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 𝒄𝒂𝒎𝒆, 𝒅𝒐𝒖𝒃𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒂 𝒎𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒅.🔹
(𝑓𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑜.𝑛𝑙)
✨As you can see, the band managed to win over the public and critics when there were many doubts about their presence as the headline band. But let's be honest! None of us would have doubted their effectiveness in setting the stage on fire!🔥💘🔥
🎥Let's enjoy ourselves with the full set : https://bit.ly/3lELTQu 🎵🎶🎵
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