🔷 The song was released in October 1995 as a 7' LP single.
🔷 It features the very first known version of Bruise Pristine. The song was recorded on the 𝑭𝒊𝒆𝒓𝒄𝒆 𝑷𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒂 𝑹𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒔 label at 𝑮𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒏𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒐. The rhythm is faster and Brian's vocals are rather high. He said himself that he has a "Mickey Mouse voice" on this recording.
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| Photo credit: Andy Wilsher, Bruise Pristine demo cover / edit by Laetitia |
💬 Yeah, our very first single Bruise Pristine, and it's about to be released on a Fierce Panda compilation. We really hate that version, it's so fast and, honestly, I do sound like Mickey Mouse on it. We were going to say no, but it's so ridiculous it has to be documented in some way. I can't really understand where this helium thing came from. My balls have dropped since then.
✔️ 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘭𝘬𝘰 - 𝘔𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘥𝘺 𝘔𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘳 - 𝘖𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘣𝘦𝘳 1998
🔷 Fierce Panda was founded by NME rock critics Paul Moody, John Harris and Simon Wiliams in 1993. For a long time the label specialized in releasing singles without signing artists to long term contracts, releasing the first records of noticeable bands as Coldplay, Ash or Keane. Simon Williams remembers the moment:
💬 We agreed to a single and the way they charmed meant that you just agree to everything they said. Normally, you do a settling single. Obviously, il belongs to one band and there's the A Side and the B Side but in this case, Placebo said: "We give you Bruise Pristine but on the B Side, we want our mates to have a song on there. Their mates were called Soup. We said: "Alright".
✔️ 𝘚𝘪𝘮𝘰𝘯 𝘞𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘮𝘴 - 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘣𝘰, 𝘭𝘦 𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘬 𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘳𝘰𝘨𝘺𝘯𝘦 𝘋𝘝𝘋
🔷 For the cover, Soup chose a black and white grainy picture of a light bulb. As for Placebo, it's a retouched photo by Cecil Beaton of children in a bomb shelter during the Blitz. It was a German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom in 1940 and 1941, during the Second World War. The term was first used by the British press and originated from the term Blitzkrieg, the German word for 'lightning war. It took place during September 1940 and May 1941.
▪𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐫𝐮𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞?"
💬 "It's a Cecil Beaton photograph of children in a bomb shelter during the Blitz."
✔️ 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘭𝘬𝘰 - 𝘙𝘢𝘧𝘵 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘱𝘵 𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘣𝘰 - 2001
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| Photo credit: Andy Wilsher |
Less well known is the fact that Beaton was one of Britain’s hardest working war photographers during the Second World War. As an official photographer for the British Ministry of Information, Beaton travelled far and wide to document the impact of war on people and places in his own unique style. In later life, Beaton came to regard his war photographs as his single most important body of photographic work. He took some 7,000 photographs for the Ministry of Information covering all aspects of the Second World War.
✔️ 𝘐𝘮𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘞𝘢𝘳 𝘔𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘶𝘮𝘴
🔷 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒖𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒇 𝒄𝒐𝒑𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒕 1500. Quite rare then. You are lucky if you own one ! 😄 👏
🔷 This song can be found on 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑶𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝑫𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒔 CD as well with Nancy Boy, Teenage Angst and 36 Degrees.
🔷 The 𝒍𝒚𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒔 are identical to the studio version. Just one change though. Instead of the echoing "Encore" on the standard version, you can hear Brian singing in French "encore, encore, encore, encore, encore plus bas, encore plus fort, encore", which translation is "again, again, again, again, lower, harder, again".
🔸 𝑰 𝒉𝒐𝒑𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝒅𝒆𝒕𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒔 𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆. 𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒊𝒕'𝒔 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒊𝒕 !
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