๐๐ผ๐ฑ๐ฎ๐ ๐ ๐ต๐ฎ๐๐ฒ ๐ฎ ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐๐ถ๐ฒ๐ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐ผ๐ป๐ฒ ๐ด๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ ๐ฃ๐น๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฒ๐ฏ๐ผ ๐ฐ๐ผ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐๐ผ๐. ๐ช๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐ฑ๐ผ ๐๐ผ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ผ ๐ฎ ๐๐ถ๐บ๐ฒ ๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฝ ๐๐ผ ๐ฎ ๐ฐ๐ผ๐๐ป๐๐ฟ๐ ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐น๐น๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ฅ๐ผ๐บ๐ฎ๐ป๐ถ๐ฎ? ๐ฃ๐น๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฒ๐ฏ๐ผ ๐ต๐ฎ๐ฑ ๐ผ๐ป๐ฒ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐๐ผ๐ฝ๐ ๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐ ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ถ๐ฟ ๐๐ฎ๐๐๐น๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐ฟ ๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฆ๐๐ป ๐ง๐ผ๐๐ฟ ๐ถ๐ป ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ต.
In addition to this funny review, which also describes Brian's great mood, you can watch videos from this show, which I found for you on YouTube.
The videos are sorted by setlist and thanks to them you can enjoy the funny moments described in the review.
๐ธEnjoy the evening and let us know how you enjoyed the concert๐.๐ธ
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| Photo credit: Screenshots from YouTube / edit by Marti |
๐ข๐๐ข๐ฏ๐ ๐๐๐ฏ๐ข๐๐ฐ : ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐๐๐จ ๐๐ญ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐๐ฑ๐ฉ๐จ, ๐๐ฎ๐๐ก๐๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐ญ (๐๐ฎ๐ง๐ ๐๐, ๐๐๐๐)
๐๐ฒ ๐๐ข๐ค๐ข ๐. ๐๐ก๐๐ฌ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ธFor an EU capital, Bucharest is not the most tourist-oriented of cities. Finding Romexpo was quite an adventure and then finding the venue within Romexpo was quite a mini-adventure. The biggest procentege of the crowd waiting at the gates was pretty much what you would call standard Placebo fans: girls ranging from 14 to 18, wearing black and goth make-up, but looking very happy and excited. Of course, by the time access was allowed, a more “square”-looking audience started to show up. There was a bit of a delay, a bit of waiting in the sun, but there always is. …/.../
Placebo took the stage as the sun was setting and, no hello’s, no how are you’s, kicked off with perfect opener Kitty Litter. Setlist-wise, it was a standard non-festival Placebo date, circa summer of 2009. Still, for such a madding crowd, it could have just as well been an acoustic cover session of Barbra Streisand’s hits, the fans were that pleased to see their idols.
Ashtray Heart was next and only after that, Molko greeted the public and announced that they will be playing a few songs from their new album. Battle for the Sun, despite its many lyrics, was well-known by the audience. All tracks were, new or old. At the end of the title track, before Molko moaned acapella “I will battle for the sun”, he took a break and demanded more and more noise from the audience. Some decibels records in human shouting must have been broken that night, because the sound was deafening, almost in a scary way.
Molko’s big smile to his guitar-master, when changing instruments for the next song, prooved that the facts immediately sank in:
Placebo is owning this crowd. Bands always talk about the exchange of energy in concerts. Sunday night, in Bucharest, this phenomenon was as visible as it can be.
All rock’n'roll moves and postures were checked by the frontman, with his Fenders finding themselves between his legs on several occasions. Drummer Steve Forrest “broke” concert rules and catapulted his sticks into the sea of raised hands, after finishing certain songs, not just at the end of the show.
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| Credit: Screenshot from interview |
There were also some funny moments. Stefan Olsdal had some difficulties with the beginning of Speak in Tongues, fixed after changing “weapons”.
Molko ironically commented: “Sometimes, guitars play all the wrong notes”.
When presenting the band, he named Olsdal “the queen of Sweden” and Olsdal responded by calling Molko his “drama queen”.
Towards the end of Black Eyed, the frontman signaled the need of cancer-stick to one of his tech-guys๐ฌ.
Of course, a rain of cigarette packs, coming from the public, landed on stage (accompanied at one point by a bra, that is now probably a part of Placebo’s Tour Treasure… Chest๐).
He lighted before Happy You’re Gone saying: “It’s fantastic to be in a country where you can smoke on stage. Where we come from, in the UK, they’re slowly taking away every piece of freedom we have left. So, it’s great to be amongst you filling our lungs together”.
This might NOT make a good anti-smoking add.
After Song to Say Goodbye, Placebo said good night, but it was obvious that this is not the end.
The first encore was Infra-Red and Sleeping with Ghost’s hit, The Bitter End. They closed the night with the classic Taste in Men, sounding more massive than ever. The band left the stage in an impressive roar of admiration from the mesmerized crowd. Steve Forrest left with his own little piece of “treasure”: a pair of pants, thrown on stage by some really desperate-to-be-remembered fan๐.
The night wasn’t over quite yet. A group of fans situated in the left side of the stage spotted Placebo’s backstage lodgings and cheered them out of there for an impromptu autograph session.
This clearly wasn’t any promo duty for them, just a way of saying “thank you” in a more upfront personal way.
Brian Molko was smiling all throughout the signing, but Steve Forrest seemed to be really having the time of his life. He was hugged and kissed and patted on the back and made pictures with anyone asking.
He even graduated magna cum laude from the rock’n'roll stardom baptism of giving an autograph on a lady’s chest. It was the perfect ending of a perfect night (especially for that lady๐).
After such a mind-blowing response, there is no doubt that Placebo will return to Romania. If not in the following two years, they will surely make a stop when promoting their now-unborn future album.๐ธ
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| Credit: Screenshot from interview |
https://bit.ly/3IVDCBJ
๐ธ Placebo Interview in Bucharest
https://bit.ly/3L6XSCy
๐ถ Kitty Litter
https://bit.ly/3L5eSsA
๐ถ Battle For The Sun
https://bit.ly/3ohIKbC
๐ถ For What It's Worth
https://bit.ly/3AQdENf
๐ถ Soulmates
https://bit.ly/3HoprF4
๐ถ Speak In Tongues and Brian's: “Sometimes, guitars play all the wrong notes”
https://bit.ly/3GqC3Kh
๐ถ Follow The Cops Back Home
https://bit.ly/3gj4ZJG
๐ถ Every Me Every You
https://bit.ly/3ohIs4t
๐ถ Special Needs
https://bit.ly/3IXDPUW
๐ถ Black Eyed and a cute Brian begging for a cigarette
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| Credit: Screenshot from interview |
๐ถ Brian talking about smoking
https://bit.ly/3uksiv8
๐ถ Meds
https://bit.ly/3sa0LcV
๐ถ Come Undone, Brian Molko introduces the band and Stefan Olsdal returns the favour
https://bit.ly/3AR0BuO
๐ถ The Bitter End
https://bit.ly/3IWsg0f
๐ถ Taste In Men
https://bit.ly/3J0UzuL
๐ธ Placebo - FINAL live @ Romexpo Bucharest Romania 2009
https://bit.ly/3HonSqu
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