Over those years the band played hundreds live shows in Italy, Europe and Asia with great success, and in 2004 they even had the opportunity to personally get in touch with Placebo themselves, who on that occasion appointed 𝗘𝗳𝗳𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗼𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗯𝗼 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗲 𝗯𝗮𝗻𝗱.
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Photo credit: Trip Fontaine (top); EffettoPlacebo / edit by Silke |
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EffettoPlacebo started their career on December 20th 2003, playing in Prato (Tuscany, Italy) at the presentation of Placebo’s biography, published by Arcana.
From that moment onwards, an endless tour took the band playing in the best Italian live clubs for the following 5 years.
On March 20th and 21st 2004, EffettoPlacebo organizes together with PlaceboItalia, the first “Placeboitaliaweekend”, a two-days event with an evening live show and a fans meeting the following day in Florence auditorium.
October 2004 sees the most important week in their career: on the 23rd, the band presents the brand new single “20years” by Placebo; on the 24th they’re invited as guests at 𝗠𝗧𝗩 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗰 for the “real” Placebo’s performance, and on the 25th during MTV show TRL -Total Request Live- 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗺𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗯𝗼 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝗹𝗸𝗼 & 𝗰𝗼. 𝗮𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗱 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗯𝗼 𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗲 𝗯𝗮𝗻𝗱.
On March 16th 2006, in cooperation with Radiorock and Virgin Italia, the band is in charge of launching the preview of “Meds” album for Italy during an unforgettable show at Qube club in Rome, where they hand out gadgets and CD singles on behalf of Placebo, as a gift to their fans.
On October 9th 2006, the band is back on show in Milan at the Transilvania and they perform at the Mazda Palace just after the Placebo’s gig, in a new fans meeting, which will never be forgotten.
The band cooperate with the major Italian, French and South American websites regarding Placebo.
In December 2007 and May 2008 EffettoPlacebo leave Italy to go on tour abroad, especially in Turkey where they get a huge success, sold-out gigs and lots of interviews for MTV Turkey as most requested tribute band of the year, thus creating a twinning between the Italian and the Turkish fans communities.
In 2010 and 2011 the band leaves for the 𝗡𝗮𝗻𝗰𝘆𝗯𝗼𝘆 𝗧𝗼𝘂𝗿, 𝗮 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝗴𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗿𝗼𝗼𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗯𝗼 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝘀 𝟱 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝘀𝗶𝗮: Italy, Turkey, Cyprus, Holland and Belgium.
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Since we know more about this cover band, I want to share with you their latest production of 2016, released as a tribute to Placebo 20th anniversary:
🎬 EFFETTOPLACEBO – RUNNING UP THAT HILL
🎼https://bit.ly/3gFH0o6 🎼
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| Photo credit: EffettoPlacebo |
Several members took turns in the band from 2003 to 2012, but the two core members of EffettoPlacebo are:
𝗞𝗜𝗞𝗜 – 𝗟𝗘𝗔𝗗 𝗦𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗘𝗥 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗚𝗨𝗜𝗧𝗔𝗥
Simone Baldassin, aka Kiki, was born in Treviso. He started his song-writer career in 1995 and over the years learned to play bass guitar, acoustic guitar, synth and electronic guitar. He set up Alternathiva, an electronic music band that disbanded in 2003 when Kiki became a singer and founded EffettoPlacebo.
As side projects, he first set up the indie band Seven- with which he released two albums- and then the Killtherabbit - with which he released one debut album.
Furthermore Kiki is both the creator and the manager of the 𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗯𝗼'𝘀 𝘄𝗲𝗯𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗯𝗼𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗮.𝗰𝗼𝗺, 𝗮𝘀 𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝗮𝘀 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗯𝗼 𝗜𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗮 𝗙𝗕 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆.
𝗭𝗜𝗢𝗔𝗟𝗘 – 𝗕𝗔𝗦𝗦 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗕𝗔𝗖𝗞𝗚𝗥𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗗 𝗩𝗢𝗖𝗔𝗟
Alessandro “ZioAle” Pisu was born in Treviso. He learned to play bass by himself, and together with Federico Roncato, (former drummer of EffettoPlacebo) he set up Valium, a Nirvana cover band.
He joined EffettoPlacebo in 2004, and toured several countries with the band such as Cyprus, Turkey, Holland, Belgium and, of course, Italy.
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| Photo credit: EffettoPlacebo |
The band has never officially dissolved, they just decided not to perform more live shows.
From time to time they produce some studio recordings as "Running up that hill" for Placebo20's birthday and they do not exclude- sooner or later- to come back to play live. So, maybe we'll be able to see them playing live again from March 25th on 🤩🤩.
I'd like to share with you what the singer, Kiki, shared on FB last November 11th 2021: an heartfelt and nostalgic memory thinking back to some years ago when touring throughout Europe with the band:
“𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘯 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘮𝘢𝘻𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘩 𝘌𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘈𝘴𝘪𝘢, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘐'𝘮 𝘢𝘴𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘐 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳, 𝘐 𝘤𝘢𝘯'𝘵 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘱 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘔𝘢𝘺 31𝘴𝘵 2008 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘣𝘶𝘭 𝘚𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘰 𝘓𝘪𝘷𝘦.
𝘞𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘛𝘶𝘳𝘬𝘦𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 5 𝘥𝘢𝘺𝘴, 𝘸𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘥𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵, 𝘤𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 500/600 𝘬𝘮 𝘱𝘦𝘳 𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘵𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘣𝘶𝘴.
𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘮𝘺 𝘷𝘰𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 4 𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘤𝘪𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘭𝘤𝘰𝘩𝘰𝘭 𝘪𝘯 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘰𝘪𝘶𝘴 𝘥𝘢𝘺𝘴.
𝘗𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘧𝘶𝘯, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴 𝘢 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺 𝘪𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘯 𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘺 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 (…).
𝘞𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘰 𝘓𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘵 6 𝘱𝘮, 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘦𝘹𝘩𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘥, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘸𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥. 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘥, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 6.30 𝘱𝘮 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘦𝘥.
𝘞𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘶𝘱 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘢𝘵 1.30 𝘢𝘮 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘥𝘢𝘺, 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘥𝘫 𝘴𝘦𝘵, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘢𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳 𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵.
𝘐 𝘢𝘮 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘣𝘳𝘰𝘢𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘨𝘪𝘨𝘴 3500 𝘬𝘮 𝘧𝘢𝘳 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦, 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨.
𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘥𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘬'𝘯'𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘭 𝘪𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘥, 𝘯𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘳𝘦, 𝘪𝘵 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴𝘯'𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘴. 𝘍𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘨𝘶𝘦, 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘰𝘳 𝘫𝘦𝘵𝘭𝘢𝘨 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘥𝘰 𝘪𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘴𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘳𝘦”.
𝘔𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘭
(Translation by Emanuela)
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| Photo credit: EffettoPlacebo |
Here you can enjoy the cover version of “I KNOW” recorded at Studio Live, Instanbul on the 31st of May 2008:
🎬 EFFETTOPLACEBO – I KNOW
🎼https://bit.ly/3Jmggp9🎼
Reading these statements I thought of Brian's quotes about artists' nomadic way of life when on tour: as fans, we experience only the joyful aspects, the positive emotions, the “collective euphoria” using Brian's words, but for artists it is undoubtely true that “pleasure comes with a price” both physically and mentally and at times it can be really exhausting and disorienting. Anyway this is the price that artists are willing to pay to live with their passions, and we are grateful for that.
We'll come back and gather again!
Take care of each other,
To know more about EffettoPlacebo:
http://www.effettoplacebo.net/
https://www.facebook.com/effettoplaceboband
https://bit.ly/3rL1NNy
http://www.placeboworlditalia.com/
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