Sunday, February 20, 2022

๐Ÿ’Ž๐—ฃ๐—Ÿ๐—”๐—–๐—˜๐—•๐—ข ๐—œ๐—ก๐—ง๐—˜๐—ฅ๐—ฉ๐—œ๐—˜๐—ช ๐—ง๐—ข ๐—œ๐—ง๐—”๐—Ÿ๐—œ๐—”๐—ก “๐—ฅ๐—”๐——๐—œ๐—ข ๐——๐—˜๐—˜๐—๐—”๐—ฌ” ๐—ข๐—ก ๐—ฆ๐—˜๐—ฃ๐—ง๐—˜๐— ๐—•๐—˜๐—ฅ ๐Ÿฏ๐Ÿฌ๐—ง๐—› ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿญ๐Ÿฏ๐Ÿ’Ž


๐ŸŽค❞๐‘พ๐’† ๐’…๐’๐’❜๐’• ๐’ƒ๐’†๐’๐’Š๐’†๐’—๐’† ๐’•๐’‰๐’‚๐’• ๐’‚ ๐’‘๐’๐’‘๐’–๐’๐’‚๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’ ๐’Š๐’” ๐’๐’†๐’„๐’†๐’”๐’”๐’‚๐’“๐’Š๐’๐’š ๐’…๐’†๐’‡๐’Š๐’๐’†๐’… ๐’ƒ๐’š ๐’Š๐’•๐’” ๐’ˆ๐’๐’—๐’†๐’“๐’๐’Ž๐’†๐’๐’•❞๐ŸŽค

Dear Soulmates, on this Sunday evening I want to share with you an interview Placebo did in 2013 for “Tropical Pizza” a radio broadcast of the italian station Radio Deejay.
On the occasion of the promotion of their new album Loud Like Love, released just two weeks before, the guys got the chance to talk about both important issues and light topics.
Two funny aspects of the interview struck me: the first one was their heartily laughter, especially in the second half, while kidding with each other. Sure you won't be able to hear them reading the interview, but they made it really fun. ๐Ÿ˜Š๐Ÿ’–
The other one was the radio host who kept saying “you know, you know” -which I avoided writing down -...so, I wondered...was he trying to make Brian feel more comfortable? ๐Ÿ˜‰
Anyway, have a nice end of the weekend and enjoy the reading!

Photo credit: Radio Deejay, edit by Emanuela

๐Ÿ’ŽTheir chat starts with the host asking their opinion about a $90,000 crocodile coat they had seen on Facebook before the interview began...

๐ป๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘ค๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘”๐‘ข๐‘ฆ๐‘ , ๐‘Ž๐‘“๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘Ž ๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘–๐‘ก ๐ผ'๐‘‘ ๐‘ ๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ, ๐‘Ž ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ค ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘๐‘ข๐‘š ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘“๐‘–๐‘›๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘™๐‘ฆ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘คโ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘™๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘, ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘คโ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘™๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘ข๐‘‘๐‘–๐‘œ! ๐ป๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘†๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘“๐‘Ž๐‘›, โ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘†๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ โ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘–๐‘  ๐ต๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘Ž๐‘›!
๐‘Š๐‘’๐‘™๐‘๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘˜ ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘‡๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘๐‘–๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘™ ๐‘ƒ๐‘–๐‘ง๐‘ง๐‘Ž ๐‘”๐‘ข๐‘ฆ๐‘ , โ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘ค ๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘ก๐‘œ๐‘‘๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ?
๐Ÿ“ขPlacebo: Really good, thanks.

๐‘Šโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘‘๐‘œ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘›๐‘˜ ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘  $90,000 ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘‘๐‘–๐‘™๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘ค๐‘’ ๐‘ค๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘˜๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘œ๐‘› ๐น๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘’๐‘๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘˜? ๐ผ ๐‘‘๐‘–๐‘‘๐‘›'๐‘ก โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘š๐‘’ ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘ข๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘–๐‘Ÿ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘š๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘ .
๐Ÿ“ขBrian: (laughs) Well, it doesn't look as vulgar as I would imagine it to look, it is actually quite well designed. But I wonder how you could justify spending that much on a coat. Can you, can you...I have think issue just maybe think about it, and then if you have enough money, instead of buying it, you know, give $90,000 to the charities.

๐‘‚๐‘Ÿ ๐‘š๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ๐‘๐‘’, ๐‘”๐‘–๐‘ฃ๐‘’ $89,000 ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘๐‘ข๐‘ฆ ๐‘Ž ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ $1,000, ๐‘Ž ๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ ๐‘”๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘‘ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘ฆ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ!
๐Ÿ“ขBrian: Ok, yes, ok, ok...

๐‘†๐‘œ, ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘คโ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘™๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘–๐‘  โ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘‡๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘๐‘–๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘™ ๐‘ƒ๐‘–๐‘ง๐‘ง๐‘Ž. ๐น๐‘–๐‘Ÿ๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘™ ๐ผ โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘Ž๐‘ ๐‘˜ ๐ต๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘Ž๐‘› ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘ค๐‘’’๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘’๐‘’๐‘› ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘›๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ก ๐‘š๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘  (โ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘“๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘  ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘‡๐‘œ๐‘œ ๐‘€๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘ฆ ๐น๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘’๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘ ). ๐ผ'๐‘š ๐‘ ๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘”, ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘™๐‘ฆ, ๐‘ค๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐ผ๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘–๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘  ๐‘š๐‘’๐‘š๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘ง๐‘’ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘“๐‘–๐‘Ÿ๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘›๐‘’๐‘  ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘Ž ๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘”, ๐‘–๐‘ก'๐‘  ๐‘ž๐‘ข๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘’ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘’, ๐‘š๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘โ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘ข๐‘ , ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ฃ๐‘œ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘  ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘˜๐‘›๐‘œ๐‘ค. ๐ต๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘’๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘˜๐‘’ '๐‘€๐‘ฆ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘๐‘ข๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘›๐‘˜๐‘  ๐ผ'๐‘š ๐‘”๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ', ๐ผ'๐‘š โ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘’๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘‘๐‘ฆ'๐‘  ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘˜๐‘’ “๐ป๐‘’๐‘ฆ! ๐ป๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข โ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘‘ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ค ๐‘ƒ๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘’๐‘๐‘œ? ๐‘๐‘œ! ๐ถ๐‘œ๐‘š'๐‘œ๐‘›, ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘’ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘ ๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ๐‘  '๐‘€๐‘ฆ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘๐‘ข๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘›๐‘˜๐‘  ๐ผ'๐‘š ๐‘”๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ'”…๐ผ๐‘ก'๐‘  ๐‘Ž ๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ โ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘ฆ, ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘›๐‘๐‘’.
๐Ÿ“ขBrian: When I came up, when that line came to me, I did wonder for a little while whether or not I should use it, because I knew that it would be very memorable, but I also knew that people would either like love it or hate it, and that the song would be very much defined by it. But...having spent twenty years being loved and hated, I said to myself “go on, have the courage to do it!”.

Photo credit: Radio Deejay

๐ด๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘–๐‘ก ๐‘ค๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘˜๐‘’๐‘‘!
๐Ÿ“ขBrian: It was inspired by real life that actually happened to me. A few years ago up to a certain point, you know how your computer advertises to you?

๐‘‡โ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘˜๐‘–๐‘’๐‘ , ๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘”โ„Ž๐‘ก? ๐‘‡โ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘“***๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘˜๐‘–๐‘’๐‘ !
๐Ÿ“ขBrian: Yeah, all the f***ing cookies. So your computer's always sending you stuff, right? And it did advertise to me exclusively as a heterosexual male. And then one morning I got up and all the advertising changed, and it was advertising towards me like I was a homosexual male. And the first thought that went through my head was...
๐Ÿ“ขStefan: Was it the computer? Or was it Stefs? (laughs)
๐Ÿ“ขBrian: (laughs)...and then my second thought was 'how strange! My computer thinks I'm gay today!'

๐ต๐‘ข๐‘ก...๐‘คโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘‘๐‘–๐‘‘ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘โ„Ž ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘ ๐‘’ ๐‘‘๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ๐‘ ?
๐Ÿ“ขBrian: Ehm...I think I watched something...ehm...but I can't really remember what it was I watched...ehm...I think I may have watched something a bit...

๐บ๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ-๐‘–๐‘ โ„Ž?
๐Ÿ“ขBrian: Maybe...?!?!?

๐ด๐‘›๐‘‘, ๐‘คโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘ค๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘ ๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘‡๐‘œ๐‘œ ๐‘€๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘ฆ ๐น๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘’๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘ ? ๐ด๐‘  ๐‘’๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘› ๐‘‡๐‘œ๐‘œ ๐‘€๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘ฆ ๐น๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘’๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘  ๐ผ'๐‘š ๐‘ ๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘ค๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘˜๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘–๐‘ก ๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘Ž ๐‘š๐‘’๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘โ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ, ๐‘–๐‘ก'๐‘  ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘ ๐‘œ ๐‘Ž ๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ ๐น๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘’๐‘๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘˜ ๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘›๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘ก๐‘œ โ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ, ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘˜๐‘›๐‘œ๐‘ค, ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘˜๐‘’ '๐‘‚โ„Ž! ๐ผ'๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘”๐‘œ๐‘ก ๐‘ก๐‘œ๐‘œ ๐‘š๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘ฆ ๐‘“๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘’๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘ , ๐ผ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘›๐‘œ๐‘ก ๐‘Ž๐‘‘๐‘‘ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข', ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘’๐‘ฅ๐‘Ž๐‘š๐‘๐‘™๐‘’.
๐Ÿ“ขBrian: Yes, that was the other thing! It was first my computers advertised to me differently, and then my friends, two friends, said to me that they were stopping taking friend requests on the social networks because they had too many friends, and because I don't social network. I've never thought of that as a concept before. And I thought 'how interesting! How can you have too many friends?' Then I thought 'how many friends do I have?' And then I thought like 'what's the nature of friendship today? What's the value of friendship today and community with all of these social networks? And that all came together in my head and then I sat down with an acoustic guitar and started to write Too many friends.

๐‘†๐‘œ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘ค๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘ ๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘˜๐‘’ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘’ ๐‘”๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘‘ ๐‘“๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘’๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘ ?
๐Ÿ“ขBrian: About yes, you know. Of course there's my brothers, there's like, the six of us on stage, you know, all of us, between five and ten good friends. It's hard to manage more than that in life to be a good friend to all of those people, because it takes time and effort, and that's the difference between friendship in real life and friendship on the social networks. And the other thing about the social networks is that you get to edit yourself, you edit yourself, you give, you offer to the world well, how you want to be seen instead of how you really are, and that was interesting.

Photo credit: Radio Deejay

๐‘†๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘ฃ๐‘’, โ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘ค ๐‘š๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘ฆ ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘™๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘ค๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘  ๐‘‘๐‘œ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘’?
๐Ÿ“ขSteve: 9,000 followers
๐Ÿ“ขBrian: 9,000 followers?!? (laughs/claps)

๐ผ๐‘ก'๐‘  ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘ก๐‘ก๐‘ฆ ๐‘”๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘‘, ๐‘–๐‘ก'๐‘  ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘ก๐‘ก๐‘ฆ ๐‘”๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘‘! ๐ป๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘–๐‘› ๐ผ๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘ฆ ๐‘ค๐‘’ โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘Ž ๐‘ ๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก “๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘ข๐‘’ ๐‘“๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘’๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘  ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘› ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘›๐‘ก ๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ ๐‘“๐‘–๐‘›๐‘”๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘๐‘ ”, ๐‘‘๐‘œ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘ ๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘™๐‘ฆ ๐‘–๐‘› ๐ธ๐‘›๐‘”๐‘™๐‘–๐‘ โ„Ž ๐‘ก๐‘œ๐‘œ? ๐ป๐‘œ๐‘ค ๐‘‘๐‘œ๐‘’๐‘  ๐‘–๐‘ก ๐‘”๐‘œ ๐‘–๐‘› ๐ธ๐‘›๐‘”๐‘™๐‘–๐‘ โ„Ž ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘™๐‘ฆ?
๐Ÿ“ขBrian: I can count them on both hands. Stefan was saying, was talking about sort of quantity versus quality. Now it seems people imagine that theirself worth is defined by the quantity of friends more than by the quality of them.

๐‘Šโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘› ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘›๐‘˜ ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘ƒ๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘’๐‘๐‘œ, ๐‘๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘  ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘๐‘˜ ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘š๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘”๐‘ , ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘ ๐‘œ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘›๐‘˜ ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘ก๐‘œ๐‘™๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘š๐‘  ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘ฅ๐‘ข๐‘Ž๐‘™ ๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘›. ๐‘Œ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ๐‘  ๐‘“๐‘’๐‘’๐‘™ ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘˜๐‘’, ๐‘คโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘”๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘“๐‘’๐‘’๐‘™ ๐‘–๐‘›, ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘› ๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก, ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘ข๐‘‘๐‘–๐‘’๐‘›๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘ƒ๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘’๐‘๐‘œ. ๐ด๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘–๐‘› ๐ฟ๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘œ๐‘›. ๐ป๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘–๐‘ก ๐‘’๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘œ๐‘๐‘๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘Ž ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘–๐‘ก'๐‘  ๐‘›๐‘œ๐‘ก ๐‘ ๐‘œ ๐‘“๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘’๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘™๐‘ฆ ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘กโ„Ž...
๐Ÿ“ขBrian: Yes, there are countries that we go to and play where it is not so LGBT friendly. But even though the government made legislate against LGBT people, we still go and play because the LGBT community in those countries exists and they need a band and we'll be there for them.

๐‘Šโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘’๐‘  ๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘›๐‘˜๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘ก?
๐Ÿ“ขBrian: A lot of countries in eastern Europe and further, and just a little bit next door to Eastern Europe.

๐‘…๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘Ž!
๐Ÿ“ขBrian: Yes, yes...

๐‘Šโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘กโ„Ž ๐ด๐‘š๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘๐‘Ž ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘’๐‘ฅ๐‘Ž๐‘š๐‘๐‘™๐‘’, ๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐ผ๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘ฆ?
๐Ÿ“ขBrian: I think it seems very tolerant in Italy. Maybe some of your politicians they say very very strange things about female ministers. That is a little bit, that is very backward, we read about that stuff in the UK and we read about Bunga Bunga parties as well, in the UK. But the French they have a similar situation to Berlusconi, they have Dominique Strauss-Kahn and his prostitution scandal. You know, Italy, France, the UK, America, they are tolerant countries. There is conservatism everywhere, in the system, but we don't believe that a population is necessarily defined by its government.

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๐ฝ๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘’ ๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐ผ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘™๐‘ฆ ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘Ž๐‘ ๐‘˜ ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘ƒ๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘’๐‘๐‘œ. ๐ท๐‘œ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘”๐‘ข๐‘ฆ๐‘  ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘›๐‘˜ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐ต๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘Ž๐‘› ๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘’๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘”๐‘œ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘”๐‘’๐‘ก ๐‘Ž ๐‘‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘ฃ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘๐‘’๐‘›๐‘๐‘’? ๐ผ ๐‘—๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘คโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘™๐‘’ ๐‘ค๐‘’ ๐‘ค๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก โ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘‘๐‘œ๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘›'๐‘ก!
๐Ÿ“ขStefan: Well, the first time he drove we were just on this track in Germany, he did it very well. so I don't know.
๐Ÿ“ขSteve: Do you wanna drive?
๐Ÿ“ขBrian: I do wanna drive, yes, eventually.

๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ก ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘“๐‘“๐‘–๐‘...
๐Ÿ“ขBrian: The idea of driving in traffic is a bit scary for me because I've never done it but eventually, you know, I would like to have a driving license. I'm just so busy at the moment that I just never get around to it.
๐Ÿ“ขStefan: I think it'll happen, I think on Brian priority will be to be on the back of his scooter, to go shopping...

๐ท๐‘œ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘Ž ๐‘‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘ฃ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ ๐‘’?
๐Ÿ“ขStefan: I do, yes.

๐‘†๐‘œ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘ค๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘’ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘‘ ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘๐‘–๐‘๐‘˜ ๐‘ข๐‘ ๐ต๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘Ž๐‘› ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘™ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘š๐‘’, ๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘”โ„Ž๐‘ก?
๐Ÿ“ขBrian: But Stef is so funny, right? Stefan is the tallest, one of the tallest guys I know, and Stefan decides to buy a car, and he goes and buys a Fiat 500.
๐Ÿ“ขSteve: Are you serious man?
(everybody laughing)
๐Ÿ“ขStefan: It's a comedy sketch...you see them coming out of there and you think 'how can you fit in there?' But, think about those cars, like it's actually one of the most roomy cars on the inside.

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๐‘…๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘™๐‘ฆ? ๐ผ ๐‘š๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘›...๐‘–๐‘“ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘ก ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘˜ ๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘ก?
๐Ÿ“ขStefan: No, no, I drive.
๐Ÿ“ขBrian: You have to take the back seat out!

๐ด๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘› ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข'๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘œ๐‘˜! ๐ป๐‘œ๐‘ค ๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘™ ๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘†๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘“๐‘Ž๐‘›?
๐Ÿ“ขStefan: 5 meters

๐‘‰๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ ๐‘ข๐‘›๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘ข๐‘Ž๐‘™ ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐ผ๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘ฆ 5 ๐‘š๐‘’๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ ...
๐Ÿ“ขStefan: Almost 2

๐ดโ„Ž, ๐‘œ๐‘˜ ๐‘œ๐‘˜! ๐‘†๐‘œ, ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘˜ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘ ๐‘œ ๐‘š๐‘ข๐‘โ„Ž ๐‘”๐‘ข๐‘ฆ๐‘  ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘‡๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘๐‘–๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘™ ๐‘ƒ๐‘–๐‘ง๐‘ง๐‘Ž, ๐‘๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘™๐‘ข๐‘๐‘˜ ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐ฟ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘‘ ๐ฟ๐‘–๐‘˜๐‘’ ๐ฟ๐‘œ๐‘ฃ๐‘’. ๐‘Š๐‘’'๐‘™๐‘™ ๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘’ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘Ž๐‘”๐‘Ž๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘€๐‘–๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘›, ๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘”โ„Ž๐‘ก?
๐Ÿ“ขBrian: Yes, yes, we'll be back, don't worry. Absolutely!

๐‘Œ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘‘๐‘œ๐‘›'๐‘ก ๐‘˜๐‘›๐‘œ๐‘ค ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ ๐‘๐‘’๐‘๐‘–๐‘“๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘‘๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘’?
๐Ÿ“ขBrian: At the moment we'll playing in Bologna in November, we hope to come back in a year!
(Translation by Emanuela)

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Here you can listen to the full interview, it’s worth listening to, if you want to hear all the fun laughs:
https://bit.ly/3h1NRbH
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Listening to this light and cheerful interview I couldn’t help but think about Placebo's most recent ones: it seems to be light years away from 2013, challenged topics and more concerned feelings. But, after all, we have all been very influenced by these last years and perhaps it could not have been otherwise.

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