♦️ Before the concert, Brian gave a quite funny interview to Austrian music radio station ๐ญ๐ด4. I've transcribed it for you.
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๐ป ๐ป๐๐๐๐'๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐, ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐. ๐ฐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐, ๐๐ ๐๐๐'๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ?๐ธ It's our ping pong table yeah. While we were making Black Market Music, there was a ping pong room next door to the studio and we got obsessed with ping pong. So we decided to buy our own and take it on tour with us. But there's not much space here and we don't really get the chance to do it at festivals, you know. When we play our own gigs, we set it up every day and have a few games you know beforehand just to keep you from getting tired and keep you from getting bored.
๐ป ๐ฐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ฝ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐, ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐. ๐จ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ?
๐ธ Well you just have to learn and realize and be okay with the fact that festivals by nature are completely chaotic and that nobody really gets a chance to test anything beforehand. So everything by nature is going to be more sloppy. So in a way that places a little less pressure upon you so you learn to let things go a little bit more you know.
๐ป ๐ป๐๐๐'๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐'๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐'๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐'๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ?
๐ธ Yeah, i mean it's far less precise you know. The nature of the context is much different because the audience isn't necessarily 100 yours you know. So there's an extra challenge in that to keep people's attention but also you know the whole situation is different. So you have to have a different attitude, it's a completely different context.
๐ธ It's something that's quite fun really you know because you get to hang out with other bands, you get to see people that you haven't seen in a while. Four years ago, we were playing here with Therapy you know, and we're playing here again you know it's kind of funny. So it's more like you know the season of sitting in the grass you know and kind of and just hanging out more and then it's like: "oh right, okay" it's time it's time to go play now.
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| Placebo at Forestglade 2001. Photo credit unknown |
๐ธ No, not today. I didn't walk out into the fields today, no. Well I guess it must have been in Greece just before we came here yeah.
๐ป ๐พ๐๐๐ ๐ฐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ .
๐ธ Because we worked very very hard on being concentrated and being focused and being very tight. I think people pay good money to come see you you know, and ticket prices keep going up and up you know, so it's like you really have to give them value for money, you really have to deliver you know, otherwise they can walk away feeling ripped off you know. But whatever you do, there's always people who walk away feeling ripped off or you just go on your site the next day and like people just complain and complain and complain you know. Every now and again, you have one or two many drinks before you go on stage and you're a little bit sloppy and then you go on the web the next day, and they go: "Man, he was drunk, man if i saw him i would have kicked his ass man but still they're my favorite bands.". It's like: "Wait a minute". People can be so demanding sometimes you know, we're just human beings.
๐ป ๐พ๐๐๐ ๐ฐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐'๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐, ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐'๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐, ๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐, ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐, ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ ?
๐ธ Yeah, luckily we don't really suffer from writer's block so when we have the opportunity, we try and write as much as possible on tour. Because if you don't, then you stop being creative for a really long period of time and then you start to feel like a performing monkey, it's important to keep your creative juices flowing and we try and do that. So we've always kind of continually written you know which is a good thing.
๐ป ๐บ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐-๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐, ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ?
๐ธ It takes a long time you know to come down off touring you know. It's like if you have two weeks holiday, it just doesn't work you know because it takes you a week or two to come down anyway you know. I think Michael Stipe once told me that after the new adventures in High Five Tour that it took him about four months to come down, you know. So you have a tendency to run around like a chicken with your head cut off or you just hit massive post-tour depression and you just don't know what to do, and you want to throw yourself under a bus you know. Because you feel so useless, because your life isn't organized you know, and you have nothing planned for you the next day you know. You want to call up your tour manager and go like: "Where am I supposed to be ? You know tell me what to do today !". Yeah, it's a weird feeling.
๐๐จ๐ฎ ๐๐๐ง ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ง ๐ญ๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐๐ซ๐ฏ๐ข๐๐ฐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฐ๐ก๐จ๐ฅ๐ ๐๐จ๐ง๐๐๐ซ๐ญ ๐ก๐๐ซ๐.
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