โจPlacebo 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 "๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ก๐๐ฃ๐๐ ๐ฃ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ก๐ฆ", 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.โจ
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| Photo credit: Bart Notermans, Paul Bergen, Placeboworld / edit by Laetitia |
๐ฉ๐๐๐๐: Yeah maybe about an hour, an hour and a half ago or something yeah.
๐ฌ๐๐ก๐ ๐ฐ๐๐๐ญ๐ก๐๐ซ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ญ'๐ฌ ๐จ๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ . ๐๐จ๐ฎ'๐ซ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ข๐ ๐๐ฅ๐จ๐ฌ๐๐ซ ๐จ๐ ๐ญ๐จ๐ง๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฅ๐จ๐จ๐ค ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ฐ๐๐ซ๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ข๐ญ ?
๐ฉ๐๐๐๐: 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.
๐ฌ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ง๐๐ฐ ๐๐ฅ๐๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ก๐๐ซ๐ ๐ข๐ง ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐๐ง๐๐ฌ ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ค ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ข๐๐ญ๐ก ๐จ๐ซ ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฑ๐ญ๐ก ๐จ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ง๐, '๐๐๐ญ๐ญ๐ฅ๐ ๐ ๐จ๐ซ ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ง'. ๐๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฅ๐จ๐จ๐ค ๐๐ญ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐๐ฅ๐๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐๐๐๐จ๐ซ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ญ, '๐๐๐๐ฌ', ๐ฐ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐๐๐ง ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฌ๐๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ ๐๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ข๐ ๐ ๐๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐ข๐๐๐๐ซ๐๐ง๐๐ ?
๐ฉ๐๐๐๐: Well, 'Meds' is kind of like alike a grainy black-and-white film you know that's sort of with a very unhappy ending.
(๐๐๐๐ข๐ก ๐ต๐๐ก๐ก๐๐ ๐น๐๐ ๐โ๐ ๐๐ข๐) 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.
๐ฌ๐๐ก๐๐ง๐ค ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐๐ก.
๐ฉ๐๐๐๐: 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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๐โจ๐๐ญ๐๐ฏ๐ ๐ ๐จ๐ซ๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐ญ'๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐๐ฌ ๐๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐๐ข๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐๐ฅ ๐ฌ๐ก๐จ๐ฐโจ๐
๐ฌ"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"
(๐๐ต๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ'๐ด ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ท๐ช๐ฆ๐ธ ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐๐ญ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฅ'๐ด ๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฐ๐จ - 2009)
โจWhat a delight to read this ! His "first time" was a win for him ๐โจ
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| Pinkpop 2009, screenshot |
ยฐ Kitty Litter
ยฐ Ashtray Heart
ยฐ For What It's Worth
ยฐ Follow The Cops Back Home
ยฐ Every You Every Me
ยฐ Special Needs
ยฐ The Never-Ending Why
ยฐ Meds
ยฐ Come Undone
ยฐ Special K
ยฐ Infra-red
ยฐ The Bitter End
ยฐ Taste In Men
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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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| Pinkpop 2009, screenshot |
๐นDue to the cancellation of Depeche Mode, Placebo was chosen as the closing act of the second day of Pinkpop. ๐จ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐, ๐๐๐'๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐, ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐. 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'. ๐ป๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐.๐น
(3๐ฃ๐๐๐12.๐ฃ๐๐๐.๐๐)
๐นPlacebo 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. ๐๐ก๐ ๐ฌ๐จ๐ง๐ '๐๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ฏ๐๐ซ-๐๐ง๐๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ก๐ฒ' ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐ญ๐ข๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐๐ซ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ข๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฏ๐.
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. ๐ท๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐, ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐, ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ .๐น
(๐๐๐ ๐ก๐๐ฃ๐๐๐๐๐๐.๐๐)
โจAs 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!๐ฅ๐๐ฅ
๐ฅLet's enjoy ourselves with the full set : https://bit.ly/3lELTQu ๐ต๐ถ๐ต
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