♦️𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐀𝐑𝐘: 𝗙𝗜𝗥𝗦𝗧 𝗗𝗔𝗬♦️

Today we celebrate the ♦️𝟏𝟕𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐀𝐑𝐘♦️ of “First day”. The song was a collaboration of German DJ Timo Maas, Brian and Jokate (or Jo Kate) Benson, a relatively unknown singer from Bristol. It was released on May 30th 2005 and reached no. 51 in the UK Single Charts.

🎬 𝗙𝗜𝗥𝗦𝗧 𝗗𝗔𝗬 – 𝗢𝗙𝗙𝗜𝗖𝗜𝗔𝗟 𝗩𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗢
🎵 https://bit.ly/38darxo 🎵

Photo credit: Screenshots from the video (3), unknown (Maas & Molko) / edit by Silke

Two different versions of the single were put out. One of them includes the radio edit of “First day“ and an extendend version, the other one consists of six remixes plus the video clip.
The song also appears on the album “Pictures“ which was released in June 2005. Apart from “First day“ you can find two other songs featuring Brian on this record, namely “Like siamese“ and “Pictures“.

“First day“ was written by Brian, Jokate, Timo Maas and Martin Buttrich, the two last-named were the producers of the single. Martin is an all-rounder when it comes to playing instruments, he did the bass, guitar, drums and also keybords on the track.

Photo credit unknown

📌 𝗧𝗜𝗠𝗢 𝗢𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗖𝗢𝗟𝗟𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡 📌
📢 "We were coming to the end of the summer and Martin and me were kind of stuck. We'd finished the instrumentals and were looking for our dream collaborators but they weren't easy to get. Then we sent something to Brian and he was totally up for it, came over to Hannover and recorded two of the three tracks in a day, then we met up in London to do the third. It was great to work with him, to get into his world – we had a fantastic time."
(MusicOMH, June 2005)


📌 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗢𝗡 𝗖𝗢𝗟𝗟𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦 📌
📢 "I find that aspect of working with other people collaboratively interesting. When you get into a collaboration, you have to relinquish control. The final product is up to other people. It's a good lesson for me, it teaches me to be less precious about it. I haven't necessarily been able to put that into practice when working on a Placebo record just yet."
(Suicide Girls, 2007)

Photo credit: Nadav Kander

📜 𝗟𝗬𝗥𝗜𝗖𝗦
I see you found my underground
Help yourself to guns and ammo
Nothing here has ever seen the light of day
I leave it in my head

It's the first day of the rest of your life
You'll remember me, for the rest of your life
You'll remember me, for the rest of your life
It's the first day of the rest of your life
It's the first day of the rest of your life

Don't fuck it up
Don't fuck it up

You'll remember me, for the rest of your life
You'll remember me, for the rest of your life
It's the first day of the rest of your life


𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘰 𝘔𝘢𝘢𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘍𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬:
👉 https://www.facebook.com/timomaasfans
𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘰 𝘔𝘢𝘢𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘐𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘮:
👉 https://www.instagram.com/timo.maas
𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘰 𝘔𝘢𝘢𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘚𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘥:
👉 https://soundcloud.com/timo-maas

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