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Besides the video, I’d like to bring you excerpts of some very personal and passionate and imaginative ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ of Placebo’s performance at the festival.
If you’ve also been there and can share your own memories and impressions, that would be perfect
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| Meltdown Festival 2018. Photo credit: Frankowski Photography |
Meltdown is an annual festival held in London, featuring a mix of music, art, performance and film. Meltdown is held in June at Southbank Centre. Each year the festival chooses an established music artist or act as director of the event and they pick the performers of their choosing. Previous Meltdown directors have included Elvis Costello, David Bowie, Patti Smith, Lee Scratch Perry, Morrissey, Jarvis Cocker, Nick Cave, John Peel among others. The festival has been held annually since 1993, except in 2006 when the Royal Festival Hall was closed for refurbishment.
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A Buddhist chant fills the stage.
The anticipation tastes like bubble-gum on ice. Gives you brain freeze.
Let’s begin.
From the start it’s clear we are at Glam Church. The audience are up on their feet to worship their arch-angels. Three chords of ‘Pure Morning’ ring out, my skin puckers up, everyone rushes to the front. My romantic heart rides on those bars, the locks I’d put around my memory rust, fall apart. I am full of dopamine, of oxytocin, of the glory of my younger days – and fuck it, I break into dance with the best of them. This moment is pure perfection. A friend in need’s a friend, indeed. Thanks Brian.
Placebo play for two hours. They play 20 songs, which includes two encores. To accomplish this, they never talk to the crowd between numbers. No time, I guess. Stripped back black skinny jeans on them both, minimal makeup. Guess what? The Placebo you thought were all about image never needed an image at all. Surprise, they’re still heartthrobs. They’re still icons for a certain generation. I’d missed those discordant harmonies. I’d missed that scratchy string noise. My rose-tinted lenses are off, yet – I still feel the same way as I used to about the music. Turns out it does all translate. What was in my head is on the stage in front of me.
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For me, there’s two types of musical heroes. The ones who die young, and the ones who’ll make music till they die. Placebo are the latter, and these are the kind of gigs that convince old-bands to write new material. Velvet Goldmine’s Children of the Revolution are still here, and they’d like their glitter-smeared era revived – Mista BBC. With a feather boa on top.
(๐ท๐๐๐ค๐๐๐ ๐ผ๐ ๐ ๐๐ข๐๐, ๐ฝ๐ข๐๐ 18๐กโ, 2018, ๐๐ฆ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ก๐ก๐ ๐๐ฆ๐๐๐)
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| Meltdown 2018. Photo credit unknown |
Overlooking the Thames, with the sun setting across the water and the sky a fiery mix of crimson, purple and blue, the Royal Festival Hall was packed with standing, dancing and head-banging music lovers celebrating the 20-year anniversary of Placebo and the release of their retrospective album entitled A Place for Us to Dream – 20 Years of Placebo.
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On Meltdown’s second evening of events, the Royal Festival Hall became a place of hope to those in London looking for a colourful and musical future and Placebo gave many 30-somethings hope for the present by playing iconic songs that the crowd sang along with. They started off – to an ecstatic audience, whose cheers and claps echoed through the hall – with the much-loved Pure Morning. Such an overwhelming interaction between artist and fans, as was demonstrated last night, is a surreal and extremely rewarding experience, and is evidence that well-known music still exists beyond its commercial factor.
The show consisted of a good mix of new, such as Jesus’ Son, and classics like Without You I’m Nothing, which is arguably the band’s most cherished and famous song to date and was re-recorded as a duet with David Bowie, whose friendship with and support of the group is well-documented.
With a quick change of guitars between tracks, Placebo glided through the set, keeping the audience at all times on their feet and the much-anticipated Twenty Years half way through the show made sure everyone was pleased. The magic of the venue and the energy and passion of the crowd made this performance one to be forever remembered.
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They performed 'Let's Go To Bed' over the weekend.
Those lucky enough to be attending the 25th annual Meltdown Festival this month, with the 2018 edition being curated by The Cure's Robert Smith, may have managed to catch an extra special set by Placebo. They performed a stunning rendition of 'Let's Go To Bed', and it was the most perfect tribute.
The London rockers hit the Southbank Centre on Saturday (June 16th 2018) for a set at Robert Smith's Meltdown Festival, having been friends of The Cure frontman for many years now. They played 'Let's Go To Bed'; a non-album single released in 1982 which was originally recorded for The Cure's 'Pornography' album sessions.
It's not the first time Placebo have played a Cure song or vice versa. They previously performed the song 'If Only Tonight We Could Sleep' together live, from The Cure's 1987 album 'Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me'. Robert Smith also joined Placebo for a live rendition of 'Without You I'm Nothing' and 'Boys Don't Cry' at Wembley in 2004.
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