๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐๐๐๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ณ๐ข๐ง๐, ๐๐๐ข๐ณ๐, ๐๐๐๐
Recently, I came across a nice Brian’s interview from 2014 that he did with a local magazine from Ibiza, Spain, a few days before Placebo’s concert at ๐ฏ๐๐๐ ๐น๐๐๐ ๐ฏ๐๐๐๐ on Ibiza. An interesting thing is that I found it on a Korean(!) website as it’s not available in its original version at Pacha Magazine anymore.
Maybe some of you haven’t read it either, so please enjoy it!
By the way, a photo you can see below, was taken at that very show on Ibiza on September 12th, 2014.
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| Photo credit: Hard Rock Hotel Ibiza |
One of the most recognised voices in rock music, Brian Molko’s notoriously poetic rhymes are characterised by blister-blue moods, bondage and angelic assassinations. Using Placebo’s most definitive lyrics from some of their most famous songs as an inception point, we speak to Molko prior to his Hard Rock Hotel performance on September 12.
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“๐น๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐, ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐, ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐…”
Have you always felt compelled to escape mainstream society?
๐ข "I come from a long line of bankers, so to break with tradition and make the arts my career was met with resistance. But I was resolute and knew from the age of 11 that sitting behind a desk contemplating my in-tray was an impossibility. The very idea filled me with a profound sense of depression. I promised myself that I wouldn’t get a job until I landed a record deal. After an accidental encounter in a tube station with my old schoolmate Stefan Olsdal, our lives changed forever."
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“๐ซ๐๐’๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐, ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐. ๐ท๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐, ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐…”
Where did you rouse the following day?
๐ข "I enjoyed myself far too much in the late nineties. I developed a reputation for being a tad out of control. I didn’t understand why at the time; perhaps it was my predilection for stumbling around parties with a drink in each hand or being the musician other musicians had to step over in order to leave the party. By the ‘00s, hard drugs had begun to take over. Matters soon became darker. But I rode on valiantly until I came to accept, in around 2005, that such behaviour had become a life-threatening problem and that a complete change of lifestyle was imperative."
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| Photo credit: Joseph Llanes |
“๐ด๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฐ’๐ ๐๐๐. ๐พ๐๐๐’๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐? ๐พ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐. ๐ฐ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐…”
How has the technological revolution affected Placebo?
๐ข "‘Too Many Friends’ is a song that’s often misunderstood. It uses technology as a metaphor for loneliness. Sometimes I’m misconstrued as a Luddite because of the song, when nothing could be further from the truth. I’m fascinated by technology. Eventually somebody was going to write about social networks and loneliness, so it was a driving force for me to get in first. If a person bumps into a lamppost because they are texting and walking at the same time, the phone is not to blame but the person himself."
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“๐๐๐’๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ฐ…”
Which Placebo line holds the most significance?
๐ข "The one you’ve chosen is a fine example as it is a direct message to our fans. In song and on stage I speak my truth, but I have no delusions of grandeur that mine is absolute. There’s enough ambiguity in my writing for our fans to find their own stories in our songs. I also really like the line: “We can build a new tomorrow, today,” from ‘Speak In Tongues’. I sincerely believe it’s a call to arms to build a more tolerant future. But the change has to start within ourselves first; we all have the choice to live our lives with more compassion and kindness. I see it as karma – the more you give selflessly, the more comes back your way.
I‘m looking forward to getting an insider’s tour of the island. I wonder if we’ll bump into James Blunt!"
In addition to our published interview with Placebo's frontman Brian Molko, he talks to us exclusively here about writing their latest album 'Loud Like Love'.
๐ข"'We never plan the tone of the album before writing it. The two main inspirations are a vociferous, almost allergic reaction to its predecessor – a clamorous desire to do the opposite – coupled with the process of writing itself. It is only about half way through the process that we begin to understand what the album is about. And since this process is instinctual, we find out what is really going on inside of ourselves on an emotional level'.
'The song I am most proud of is ‘๐๐จ๐ฌ๐๐จ’. It is the most honest and vulnerable I have ever been in a song, and though it is a sad and tragic story, it proves, to me at least, that there is the capacity for redemption and forgiveness in all of us. Due to its extremely personal nature it still brings a tear to my eye when I hear it, but it also gives me hope. Hope is important, we must never lose it'."
(๐๐๐โ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ง๐๐๐, ๐๐๐๐ก๐๐๐๐๐ 4๐กโ, 2014)
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