✨⚡𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐒𝐓 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎⚡✨

📍𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐧, 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝟐𝟑, 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟓.
On the corner that connects the districts of 𝑪𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝑮𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒆𝒏 and 𝑺𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒕, there is a club that offers live music for lovers of the hardest genres: punk, hard core, heavy metal. This evening the 𝑵𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒓𝒔 perform there: a fairly well-known rock formation in the city. A very unknown group was called to open the concert, a trio that was formed less than a year ago. They are called 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎 and the name was chosen for that occasion. The performance is far from flawless: between whistling microphones and croaking amplifiers, the band plays a handful of loud hymns to sex and drugs. Yet, the audience is as if bewitched by that slender, androgynous and provocative figure of singer 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐. Mascara, long hair, red nail polish, 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐 has a very different look compared to that proposed by the 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒕 𝒑𝒐𝒑 stars of the moment. A look that works and begins to exert a growing fascination on the public. Until the moment in which 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎 are chosen for the 𝑼𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒈𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑪𝒊𝒕𝒚 competition, arriving in the top three despite the unsettling attitude that 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 has on stage (simulates an orgasm, screeches more than singing, shouts political slogans). Nevertheless, the proposals of the talent scouts flock. Exactly one year after that first concert at the 𝑹𝒐𝒄𝒌 𝑮𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒆𝒏, the band celebrates the release of the first official single: 𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝑯𝒐𝒎𝒆, which will become the opening track of the debut album which will be called 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎.
▪️𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑟𝑡 𝑅𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤 𝑏𝑦 𝐸𝑧𝑖𝑜 𝐺𝑢𝑎𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑚𝑎𝑐𝑐𝒉𝑖, 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒𝑔𝑎𝑡𝑒.𝑖𝑡, 𝟷𝟹.𝟶𝟸.𝟸𝟶𝟷𝟺.

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On this special day for all of us who love 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐, I thought it was the perfect day to share with you this review I found of their 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒘, which I think is quite a historical document! Let me know what you think about it. I loved the details about 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏's look and his provocative attitude on stage at the time, something so natural in him, which has always been part of 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐's discourse and so far it's still captivating us.💘🔥 It would be really amazing if there was even a small recording of that first concert, but instead we can do two things:


⭐ The first option is to listen to the songs from the setlist of the first 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 concert that I recreated in one of my old posts, but it is important to clarify that this setlist is from the first concert that 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐 and 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 𝑶𝒍𝒔𝒅𝒂𝒍 played as a 𝒕𝒘𝒐-𝒑𝒊𝒆𝒄𝒆 𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅 in 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟒. Anyway, those songs are a treasure and it's always worth listening to them. You can find the recreation of 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐's very first setlist here:

🔊 https://bit.ly/3F3cGiI 🎶✨

 Photo credit: Placebo at the doors of Rock Garden 23.01.1995 

⭐ The second option, is to listen to one of the 𝒐𝒍𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 out there, from a concert at 𝑯𝒐𝒍𝒚 𝑪𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒁𝒐𝒐 in 𝑴𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓 on September 5, 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟓. This may be the closest thing to what 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐, 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 𝑶𝒍𝒔𝒅𝒂𝒍 & 𝑹𝒐𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒕 𝑺𝒄𝒉𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒛𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒈 (who was already in the band) performed that night on January 23rd as it is a concert that took place only a few months later. This old recording from 𝑴𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓 it only features five songs, but I won't tell you which songs they are 😉 so you can discover them yourselves by clicking on the link below:

🔊 https://bit.ly/3w1OyZY 🎶✨


Finally, since we are talking about "𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐" I would like to ask you, 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘣𝘰 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰? 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘢𝘸? 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘣𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘵? 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘣𝘰 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥?

🎉 𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬! 🥳💖🎉🎶

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