🔸⭐🔸𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎: 𝐖𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐌𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠🔸⭐🔸

🔸⭐🔸“𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 ℎ𝑎𝑠 300 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 ℎ𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑖𝑛 ℎ𝑖𝑠 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑑, 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑔𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑡 𝑎 𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛 ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑟. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒’𝑠 𝑠𝑜 𝑚𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑖𝑛 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑙𝑦𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒, 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑜 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑠 – 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑘, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒’𝑠 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑜𝑝𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒, 𝑡𝑜𝑜. 𝐼 𝑠𝑒𝑒 𝑎 𝑙𝑜𝑡 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑡ℎ, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑡ℎ.”🔸⭐🔸
(𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚏𝚊𝚗 𝙾𝚕𝚜𝚍𝚊𝚕, 𝚂𝚙𝚎𝚊𝚔𝚎𝚊𝚜𝚢 𝙿𝚁 𝟸0𝟸𝟸)

Photo credit: Jon Stone

Hello soulmates,today's post will be about a song that touched my soul internally the first time I heard it.
I have to say that the overall atmosphere of the new recordings is mesmerizing and soul-crushing for me, each song hurts me in its own way because this album openly points to unresolved questions.

From the whole album, which deals with the burning problems of ours, sorry - I must say, a terribly stupid civilization, I feel anger, hopelessness and sadness and at the same time the belief that not everything is lost yet. Basically, this album really got into my spiritual state of mind... But especially from the last three songs, I have completely goosebumps. And according to Brian's words, that each of us should interpret his lyrics in our own way, I discovered a song on the album that touches my life very intimately.


🔸⭐🔸𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎: 𝐖𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐌𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠🔸⭐🔸

𝑫𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖'𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒏?

🔹That you see and understand things from a much deeper level than those around you?

🔹That you are falling more and more into despair and melancholy because nobody understands you?

🔹That you no longer want to listen to the talk about the pursuit of wealth, for a better holiday, for a better car, for a better mobile phone?

Yes, I'm sure you understand me.

It is precisely for these reasons that I left the hypocritical civilization "down there" and moved with my family to the mountains in complete solitude.

Perhaps an incomprehensible step for some, but I fully understand Brian's mood and his thoughts that maybe in the next ten years he will grow his own vegetables somewhere in a deserted place.
I know not everyone can do it. But anyway, a piece of "Humble Pie" awaits each of us.

Photo credit: Jon Stone

🔸⭐🔸𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐎𝐍 𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐀𝐋𝐁𝐔𝐌 𝐀𝐍𝐃 "𝐖𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐌𝐈𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐆"🔸⭐🔸
💬“Our obsession with acquiring wealth, this philosophical attitude that it’s actually something worthwhile, I think, will eventually render us extinct. And, in a way, I can’t think of another species on the planet that deserves it more,” he says with a cynical smile, adding that people shouldn’t take him too seriously, because “we need hope at this point”.

Still, that doesn’t stop him wanting to “do a Lord Lucan” and disappear into the ether, like his narrator on ‘Went Missing’.
“More and more, I think I need silence and peace in order to rage,” says Molko. At the start of 2021, he left London after almost three decades and settled somewhere sleepier in Europe. “Hopefully in ten years you’ll find me on a patch of land on an island somewhere, bathing in rainwater and growing my own vegetables. That’s where I want to end up.”
(𝚁𝚘𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚂𝚝𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚄𝙺, 𝙵𝚎𝚋. 𝟸0𝟸𝟸)

🔹𝑰𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒅𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝑳𝒐𝒓𝒅 𝑳𝒖𝒄𝒂𝒏, 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆:
https://bit.ly/39YUUCa

💬𝑂𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑎𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑚𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑐 𝑊𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑀𝑖𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑝𝑠 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑠𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑐ℎ𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑔𝑜 𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑎 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 – 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑖𝑛𝑣𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦, 𝑎 𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑎𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑜𝑓𝑓 𝑚𝑎𝑑𝑒 𝑏𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑏𝑦 𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑙𝑦..../***/
“The thing about running away is that you’ll always take yourself with you.”

𝑆𝑜 𝐼 𝑎𝑠𝑘 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑐 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑑𝑜.
“For me, it’s about not existing in the problem and trying to live in the solution. I wanted to express something visceral, something very human. I just hope that other people will understand it and that it will move them,” ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑦𝑠.

“I hope that I’ve been somewhat courageous with this record so that it might inspire courage in others. It might help them stand up for what they believe in. That’s all. That’s what music did for me.”.../***/
“Each song really does exist in its little parallel universe. If we’re not tied down to the laws of physics that are generally accepted in the universe we see, then certainly emotion will follow. Certainly anything is possible in another reality. It allows me to speak freely about what bothers me. I try to exaggerate things to increase dramatic effect, to highlight how ridiculous our reality is.”
(𝙿𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚎𝚋𝚘 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚟𝚒𝚎𝚠, 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙶𝚞𝚊𝚛𝚍𝚒𝚊𝚗, 𝙽𝚘𝚟. 𝟸0𝟸𝟷)

Photo credit: Jon Stone

🔹🎶 𝗪𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗠𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗼:
https://bit.ly/3a2FEEu

🔹🎬 𝗔𝗺𝗮𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗮𝗻 𝗺𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼:
https://bit.ly/3OzcT16

🔸𝗟𝘆𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘀:🔸
I fell off the face of planet Earth
I went missing for a living
People were singing for what it's worth
When I went missing for a living

I took the subway to Humble Pie
And I went missing for a living
Too much temptation, I can't satisfy
So I went missing for a living

Can I have your attention?
Then take away the sky
Crash into me with spiders (spiders)

I was struck by a rubber band
So I went missing for a living
I got urges I don't understand
So I went missing for a living

I threw a flower into outer space
And I went missing for a living
Everybody sang Amazing Grace
When I went missing for a living

Can I have your attention?
Then take away the sky
Crash into me with spiders
Secret destroyers keep away 9x

Photo credit: Jon Stone

𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑑𝑜𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑚 "𝐻𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑃𝑖𝑒" 𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑛?
𝐼𝑡 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑏𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝐸𝑛𝑔𝑙𝑖𝑠ℎ ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑟𝑜𝑐𝑘 𝑏𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 1969 ...

𝐵𝑢𝑡 𝐼 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑘 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑠 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑜 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑎𝑦 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑔:

🔹𝗗𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 "𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗣𝗶𝗲"
"Being forced to eat anything is unpleasant, but humble pie must rank among the most disagreeable dishes of all. By eating it you acknowledge that you were completely wrong and that someone else – the person making you eat it – was right. But what is humble pie? And was it ever a physical rather than a metaphorical dish?

Humbles are the insides of an animal, especially a deer, used as food. The original term numbles, from the Middle French nombles, acquired a variant umbles, sometimes later spelled humbles. All three of these terms are archaic; your butcher will give you a baffled look if you ask for some umbles along with your chops.

At some point, however, the resemblance of the deer’s (h/n)umbles to the adjective humble became irresistible and the literal pie became a metaphorical one signifying self-abasement.
Today the literal meaning has vanished, lingering only in continuing ideas of humble pie as something physical, so people talk not only about ‘eating humble pie’ but about having ‘a big piece of humble pie’, or ‘another slice/helping’ of it.
The expression, as well as recalling a vanished dish redolent of the medieval past, contains a fossil word (the noun humble(s) used attributively) and a rebracketing (of umble to humble)."
(𝙼𝚊𝚌𝚖𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚒𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚊𝚛𝚢𝚋𝚕𝚘𝚐, 𝚂𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝚋𝚎𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚍 𝚆𝚘𝚛𝚍𝚜: 𝚑𝚞𝚖𝚋𝚕𝚎 𝚙𝚒𝚎)

Photo credit: Jon Stone

Yes, I admit, I'm addicted to this song.
Brian's tenderly urgent voice accompanied by a perfect musical arrangement.
I could write much more about what I feel, I have a lot of thoughts about the perversity of this corrupt system, but especially about what the Universe (and Brian) is trying to lead us to - to realize the true values. And I am very grateful for this spiritual lesson.𝑫𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔💗,
🙏𝑰 𝒉𝒐𝒑𝒆 𝑰 𝒅𝒊𝒅𝒏'𝒕 𝒃𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒐 𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒕. 𝑰 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒃𝒆 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒚 𝒊𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒖𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈.

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🩸 𝐌𝐄𝐃𝐒 - 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗵 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 🩸

💊 Among the items in the Placebo catalog, one of my favourites is the 𝑭𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒉 𝑴𝒆𝒅𝒔 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒎𝒐 𝑪𝑫.

💊 Released on March 13, 2006, this copy has the particularity of being presented in the form of a 𝒎𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒃𝒐𝒙, including the CD and a leaflet with instructions on how to take the treatment correctly. The aim of the treatment ? To be addicted to Placebo of course ! 😄

💊 The content of the leaflet is quite funny and well written. Everything is there: the dosage, the composition, the indications. And like all medicines, it is recommended "𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ 𝑜𝑓 𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑛" !

💊 The leaflet also contains a short history of the band, which is very inspired and inspiring. Lovely words.💖

I have translated it for you.

Photo credit: Nadav Kander / Edit by Laetitia

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𝙋𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙪𝙖𝙡 𝙘𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙛𝙪𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙗𝙚𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙖𝙡𝙗𝙪𝙢.

𝐼𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑠 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛.

𝐾𝑒𝑒𝑝 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑓𝑙𝑒𝑡, 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑚𝑎𝑦 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑖𝑡 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛.

𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑏𝑢𝑚 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑏𝑒𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦. 𝑁𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑖𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑒𝑙𝑠𝑒.

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Talent always comes out in the end. In 2000, while the world was wondering about the future of rock, Placebo, without pulling the wool over the eyes, sold a million copies of Black Market Music, their third album, which reached number one in almost all of Europe. Three years later, as the long-awaited new rock waves swept through London and New York, Placebo sold one and a half million copies of Sleeping With Ghosts and played to 18,000 people at Bercy. When the band of Brian Molko, Stefan Olsdal and Steve Hewitt played a sold-out show at Wembley Arena in 2004 to celebrate the release of their singles compilation Once More With Feeling, the truth became even more blinding: a decade after their debut, Placebo's persistence, blistering albums and scorching live shows had finally earned them a place on the podium of the major bands of their generation. "This rise to prominence has been a gradual process since the first album," confirms Stefan. Each of our albums has done a little better than the last and we weren't shocked. The same goes for the stage: there were five of us on the last tour, which allowed Brian and I to perform better.


What is truly remarkable about Placebo's rise to fame is that it has always been linked to a thirst for musical creativity, self-discovery and good storytelling. From the androgynous imagery of their early days, the band went on to analyze human nature (its perversions, the humiliations we inflict on others, the addictions and hope we often refuse to see), while exploring new musical territory: hip-hop and disco elements were incorporated into Black Market Music, while for Sleeping With Ghosts, Placebo dabbled in electronics. Courageously, the band challenged their audience to follow them, and saw them grow exponentially. With Meds, Placebo will take a new step.


Written in the summer of 2004 in the south of France, recorded in four months at London's RAK studios the following year with French producer Dimitri Tikovoï, and mixed by the legendary Flood (U2, Depeche Mode), Meds shows Placebo as they are now, convinced that they have written the best songs of their career. "We ended up with too many songs for this record," Brian says . In general, we were always one short. There are at least five or six singles on Meds."


Placebo have encouraged Tikovoi to tone down their enthusiasm for electronics, a direction the band thought they were going to exploit after writing Twenty Years for the singles compilation, in favour of the guitar/bass/drums formula that doesn't cheat and emphasizes the intrinsic quality of the songs. "Dimitri's idea was that we should approach this record as if it were the first," Brian explains, "to get out of our comfort zone, to put Placebo back in danger. RAK is a studio where time has stood still, it hasn't changed much since the 70s and 80s. We had to go back to the elemental side of Placebo: for example, instead of expensive vintage keyboards, we used a simple piano. We had a reputation for being a bit complicated and we liked the freedom to go back to the basics. We preferred to put a lot of emphasis on writing rather than showing how skilled we were in the studio. We favoured simplicity over elaboration."

Photo edit: Album cover, edit by Laetitia

The result is not only a detonating cocktail: Meds is certainly the most human Placebo record to date. Brian Molko no longer feels the need to define himself using his array of S&M gadgets. He has become an adult, a storyteller who can talk about life without a coded language. In Meds he tells stories of fragile souls who panic because they forgot to take their medication. (Meds with VV from the Kills), of shame seen in the bathroom mirror at dawn, of re-declining after taking certain substances (Cold Light Of Morning) and of "friends who make the worst life choices" (Song To Say Goodbye). There is also a beautiful ballad (Follow The Cops back Home) and mysterious, haunting songs like Space Monkey, which Placebo listen to again as if it were a different band. Among other encounters, Meds is also marked by the presence of Michael Stipe, who illuminates Broken Promise with his presence: "We've known Michael since Velvet Goldmine and we met him in a hotel in Paris," Brian says. It's a song about adultery and we felt it would have more substance if it was performed by two men. I was thinking of a duet with a girl but we thought Michael would do very well. With VV, we have the best of the new and old generation on the record."


At first glance, you might have thought that Placebo had covered all the topics on Meds (love, confusion, revenge and addiction), but this is not the case, as Brian explains: "In a rock band, you don't grow up as fast. There's a lot of confusion on this record because nothing is ever simple in the Placebo world ! The people the songs are about are in constant conflict with themselves and struggle to find their place..."


Meds holds the promise of new adventurous excursions that this band, which considers the unknown as its home, intends to lead. Its success deserves to be commensurate with its non-conformism. We should not forget that we are talking about a band that played in Chile last year, to fulfill an old commitment, and found that they were excessively popular in South America... without even knowing it.


By going back to their roots, by becoming themselves again, Placebo continues to grow up. Like all the bands that have marked the history of rock, they know that salvation belongs to those who dare and do not hesitate to put their destiny on the line.


With Meds, Placebo does more than just play with fire: it makes a mockery of the sun and shows that it has managed to avoid burning their wings.

Alison+Mosshart by Andrew H. Walker

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𝘾𝙊𝙈𝙋𝙊𝙎𝙄𝙏𝙄𝙊𝙉:

𝑉𝑉 ............................................... 23𝑚𝑔
𝑀𝑖𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑒𝑙 𝑆𝑡𝑖𝑝𝑒 ............................. 23𝑚𝑔
𝐹𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑑 ........................................ 144𝑚𝑔
𝑇𝑖𝑘𝑜𝑣𝑜𝑖̈ ..................................... 302𝑚𝑔
𝑆𝑝𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑀𝑜𝑛𝑘𝑒𝑦 ............................ 38𝑚𝑔
𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜 ..................................... 499𝑚𝑔


𝙈𝗢𝗗𝗘 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗥𝗢𝗨𝗧𝗘(𝗦) 𝗢𝗙 𝗔𝗗𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡:

𝐴𝑢𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑡𝑒.

𝐻𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑠 𝑚𝑎𝑦 𝑏𝑒 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑙𝑐𝑜ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑐 𝑏𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑔𝑒 (𝐴𝑙𝑐𝑜ℎ𝑜𝑙 𝑎𝑏𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑑𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑡ℎ, 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑢𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑚𝑜𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛)


𝗜𝗡𝗗𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦:

𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑠 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜.

𝐴𝑙𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑦 ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑚𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠, 𝑓𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑚𝑎𝑦 𝑜𝑐𝑐𝑢𝑟 𝑖𝑛 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑏𝑗𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑠.

𝐴 𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑖𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑎𝑑𝑑𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑝ℎ𝑒𝑛𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑜𝑛 (𝑑𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑦 𝑑𝑒𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒, 𝑛𝑜𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑙, 𝑒𝑡𝑐.) 𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜 ℎ𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑙𝑦 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑏𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒.

𝐼𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑐𝑎𝑠𝑒, 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑝𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑑.

𝐼𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑑𝑜 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙 𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑎𝑑𝑑𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑎𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑎𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑣𝑜𝑙𝑢𝑚𝑒.


𝗗𝗢𝗦𝗔𝗚𝗘:

3 𝑡𝑜 4 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑎 𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑚𝑢𝑚 (𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔, 𝑛𝑜𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔)

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Michael Stipe by Tim Roney

💊 The composition of this medicine is very well dosed and here is what the band says about the choice of 'medicinal molecules' to make the treatment all the more effective.


𝑾𝒉𝒚 𝒅𝒊𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝑫𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒕𝒓𝒊 𝑻𝒊𝒌𝒐𝒗𝒐𝒊̈ 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒅 ?
📜 We always produced our previous albums with other people while doing our B-sides or covers with Dimitri. And every time the B-side sounded much better than the rest! So at some point we thought: "Ok, this is ridiculous, now we have to work directly with him". And then he lives in London... We had a lot of discussions about this, reminding him that when he was in France he was producing Guesch Patti records and thus giving a really bad image of French music. Before the recording, we kept pounding on him that once he moved to London, he was going to do the same thing with English music...


𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒎𝒊𝒙𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚 𝑭𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒅...
📜 We didn't choose him, he did ! The truth is that we had asked him several times before and he had always refused. Then one day he came and asked if he could mix our new record. It was a no-brainer, just look at his previous collaborations: Depeche Mode, Nick Cave, Smashing Pumpkins, PJ Harvey... All the albums he's produced are records that have inspired us in our songwriting.


𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒅𝒊𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒖𝒆𝒕 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑨𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒐𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒔𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑲𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒔 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌 𝒐𝒖𝒕 ?
📜 I've been friends with Jamie for ages. We went to university and studied drama together. We've seen him play in lots of different bands. But it was once he started the Kills that we realized he had created a really important band and we were extremely proud. I've always found Alison overly intimidating. Just because of who she is, just because of her presence. And if it wasn't for Jamie, I would never have been able to talk to her. But it became possible, and as we were looking for a female voice, it seemed like a no-brainer. Her voice is like Viagra. When you see the Kills on stage, it's so sexual. She is the ultimate rock chick.


𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝑴𝒊𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒆𝒍 𝑺𝒕𝒊𝒑𝒓𝒆 ?
📜 It was a song about adultery, and we were looking for a female singer. And then one day Steve said: 'For God's sake, why does it have to be a duet between a woman and a man ? That was the trigger, we realized that the song would be stronger with two singers. And I found it interesting to play the role of the cuckold in the song. Because it didn't happen often in reality...
✔️ 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘 - 𝙻𝚎𝚜 𝙸𝚗𝚛𝚘𝚌𝚔𝚞𝚙𝚝𝚒𝚋𝚕𝚎𝚜 - 𝙻𝚎𝚜 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚎́𝚐𝚛𝚊𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝚛𝚘𝚌𝚔 #𝟷 - 𝙿𝙻𝙰𝙲𝙴𝙱𝙾

Dimitri Tikovoi. Photo credit unknown

💊 Dimitri Tikovoi brought the perfect balance to Meds, even if it was not easy for everyone ! You need what you need when you make a healing potion. 😉

📜 I was quite nervous when they asked me to make their album. Firstly, it was one of the projects I'd ever worked on. Secondly, the band had four albums under their belt, all of them very good in different genres - the last one was a huge hit. And then it was the fifth album from a band that was becoming a bit settled.

I didn't want to make another Placebo album either. So I put a lot of pressure on myself before I started to make sure I never gave up on anything, to make sure I could push the band as far as possible. [...] We've worked together before, but in a different context, and I came in with the idea that it wasn't going to be a pleasant or enjoyable job. I had to get into it from the beginning, push them, without waiting until the middle of the album. On the third day in the studio, I got angry with Brian and he stormed out. It was an immediate shock. Brian didn't want to come back. So we both cleared the air and everything became possible. We pushed each other and constantly asked ourselves if we could do better. If we felt it was possible, we started to improve again and again.
✔️ 𝙳𝚒𝚖𝚒𝚝𝚛𝚒 𝚃𝚒𝚔𝚘𝚟𝚘𝚒̈ - 𝙻𝚎𝚜 𝙸𝚗𝚛𝚘𝚌𝚔𝚞𝚙𝚝𝚒𝚋𝚕𝚎𝚜 - 𝙻𝚎𝚜 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚎́𝚐𝚛𝚊𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝚛𝚘𝚌𝚔 #𝟷 - 𝙿𝙻𝙰𝙲𝙴𝙱𝙾


💊 VV, "𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘬 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘬", contributed to the smooth preparation of the album, bringing her fragile and sensual touch despite some confusion and uncertainty about the recording of the song Meds.

📜 I came to record this duet scared to death... I ended up in the studio on October 7th and I only stayed there for 3 hours. I rediscovered the song on the spot and tried to bring what I could to it. They gave me whisky, a glass of water and an ashtray. They turned off the lights and let me get on with it. It's funny to sing someone else's lyrics: I had no idea what Brian was getting at and I didn't ask him, I didn't want to get him pissed off with my questions and then it's kind of funny to sing something you don't understand. As you're off the mark, you change the tone, the spirit...
✔️ 𝙰𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚘𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚜𝚜𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚝 - 𝙻𝚎𝚜 𝙸𝚗𝚛𝚘𝚌𝚔𝚞𝚙𝚝𝚒𝚋𝚕𝚎𝚜 - 𝙻𝚎𝚜 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚎́𝚐𝚛𝚊𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝚛𝚘𝚌𝚔 #𝟷 - 𝙿𝙻𝙰𝙲𝙴𝙱𝙾

Photo credit: Kevin Cummins

💊 In the 2006 𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚊𝚝𝚊 show, Brian regrets not calling the first album Meds, as it made sense given the name they had chosen for the band. And when Nagui points out that a placebo is a drug that doesn't cure but gives the impression that it does. Brian replies: It has a psychological effect on the patient.

That's why I personally think that presenting the album Meds in such a format was a very appropriate stroke of genius ! Placebo is just like the treatment of the same name: harmless but the therapeutic effect is undeniably effective. No adverse effect noticed 😉


⭐ 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐞 ?

⭐ 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬: 𝐃𝐢𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐬 𝐚𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐝 ?


𝑭𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝒎𝒆𝒅𝒔 𝑵𝑶𝑾, 𝒉𝒖𝒓𝒓𝒚 ! 𝑪𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒌 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒌 !
𝗠𝗘𝗗𝗦 💿 https://bit.ly/3xrKenw 🎵💊 🎶

Translation by Laetitia
Post by Laetitia

🟪 𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐘 𝐁𝐈𝐑𝐓𝐇𝐃𝐀𝐘 𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐊𝐘 🟪

💔“…𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒔. 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏…”💔

🟪One of the most heartbreaking moments on the album, 𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐘 𝐁𝐈𝐑𝐓𝐇𝐃𝐀𝐘 𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐊𝐘 has already become – surprisingly or not – an obvious festival hit.
Alongside three other singles from 𝐍𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐋𝐞𝐭 𝐌𝐞 𝐆𝐨, it’s been included into the setlists of almost all concerts so far. Although, I suppose, it sounded a bit differently in the atmosphere of the very first intimate shows and in front of the huge crowds at the festival stages.

Above, I’m sharing a video from 𝐓𝐖 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 in 𝐖𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐫, 𝐁𝐞𝐥𝐠𝐢𝐮𝐦 where Placebo played last Saturday, on June 25th (watch it to the very end💥

🟪When explaining where the lyrics, full of genuine grief and despair, come from, 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 mostly goes two directions. He speaks of someone who lost their loved ones to murder, particularly, to police brutality keeping in mind events which led to the Black Lives Matter movement. Another, more personal meaning, is connected to David Bowie’s passing which left Brian enormously devastated back in the day and definitely still influences him.
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𝑪𝒂𝒏 𝑰 𝒂𝒔𝒌 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝑯𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒚 𝑩𝒊𝒓𝒕𝒉𝒅𝒂𝒚 𝑰𝒏 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒌𝒚 𝒊𝒔 𝒅𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐?
📢𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: I don’t write songs dedicated to other people, but if I did, this song would be dedicated to someone who had their true love killed. It was inspired by the murders of black people by the police in the United States, something we were already aware of several years before the death of George Floyd.
Then the song became more abstract for me, based more upon my current relationship with David Bowie: his spirit, his influence on me as a person and his constant guidance.
(𝑅𝑢𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑀𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑧𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑛.362, 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ 2022)
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𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬: […] 𝑰'𝒎 𝒈𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚 𝑯𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒚 𝑩𝒊𝒓𝒕𝒉𝒅𝒂𝒚 𝑰𝒏 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒌𝒚 𝒏𝒐𝒘. 𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒃𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎! 𝑾𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎?
📢𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: Well, I think from two places: first David Bowie's passing which obviously had a major major impact on me. It was at that point that I actually began to reflect on how much I had been influenced as a human being by David. There's a lot about David which taught me to be a better human. To me Happy Birthday In The Sky...I have to kind of in order to get inside a song I kind of I create a narrative that's, that's my own, and I create characters, and what I did in this one is that I tried to put myself in the shoes of somebody who lost a loved one to police brutality. So it was a mixture of Bowie's passing and what was happening in the news.
(𝐵𝐵𝐶 6 𝑀𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑐 𝑅𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑜, 𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤 𝑏𝑦 𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑖𝑠 𝐻𝑎𝑤𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑠, 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ 15𝑡ℎ, 2022)
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David Bowie’s death on January 10, 2016, two days after his 69th birthday and the release of final studio album Blackstar, certainly left its mark on the members of Placebo. The aching Happy Birthday In The Sky, while not exclusively about that particular loss, pays tribute to those whose birthdays we continue to mark even after they have passed, as 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 does with his late hero. “It communicates that kind of heartbreak,” he explains. “That sense of loss. That sense of desperation. It’s as if a part of your body and soul has been ripped from you unfairly. And you pine – and you pine.”
(𝐾𝑒𝑟𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑔, 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ 23, 2022)
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🟪However, let me delicately guess that there might be much more personal background to the lyrics, especially remembering the self-explanatory line from Chemtrails, “My friends and relatives are gone / And I need a little time”.
We will never know whose passing was (also) breakiing Brian’s heart when he wrote Happy Birthday In The Sky, who he remembers of every time while performing the song on stage… And there’s no need to search for those answers🙏
It’s just an absolutely natural human thing… Too many of us can think of those to whom we wish a happy birthday in the sky every single year… and will probably do that to the end of our lives…💔
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𝑯𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒚 𝑩𝒊𝒓𝒕𝒉𝒅𝒂𝒚 𝑰𝒏 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒌𝒚 is a beautiful celebration of the ghosts that accompany us. “It’s a line I use for people who have passed away. I wish them a happy birthday in heaven. 𝑴𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒏 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝒅𝒆𝒆𝒑𝒍𝒚 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒆 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒏𝒐 𝒅𝒐𝒖𝒃𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒅. And if we had managed to convey some of that sense of tragedy, the more the better, it means 𝒘𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆.”
(𝑉𝑖𝑛𝑦𝑙𝑒 𝑒𝑡 𝐴𝑢𝑑𝑖𝑜, #12 𝑀𝑎𝑦-𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑒 2022)
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🟪Previously, 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 often admitted that it was extremely exhausting for him to communicate such difficult emotions to the audience. In the recent interviews, it was exactly 𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐘 𝐁𝐈𝐑𝐓𝐇𝐃𝐀𝐘 𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐊𝐘 that made him start honestly talking about it again. Being immensely attached to the song himself, he needs to bring the wholeness of powerful feeling to the listeners.

Photo credit: Jokko & Rob Walbers 

“𝑨𝒕 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒔𝒕? 𝑾𝒉𝒐 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒔.”
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📢𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: Happy Birthday In The Sky for me, is one of the more heartbreaking moments on the album. Happy Birthday In The Sky is a phrase that I've been using, you know, for quite some time. When I say, happy birthday to people who aren't with us anymore, you know, like David Bowie, for example, and it communicates the kind of heartbreak that we're really, really good at communicating, I think, you know, that that sense of loss, that sense of desperation. It's as if a part of your body and your soul has been ripped from you unfairly. And you pine and you pine and you wait.
I have a certain amount of drama training, you know, from Goldsmiths College, which is sort of the method, you know, so that it tells you to act from the inside out. So you start with really, really personal things and you externalise them. That’s how I manage to kind of communicate this emotion. I think truthfully and honestly to an audience, by somewhat inhabiting that feeling by putting myself in that position when it's performed and feeling the heartbreak. Concerts that come across as mechanical are ones where I find myself unable to do that, to inhabit the emotion within the song. I do that a lot during performance and put I put myself in the shoes of the narrator emotionally, which can be really draining and I think a lot of people don't understand why I wouldn't want to go to an after show party or I wouldn't want to go to a discotheque after the show when all I want is some food and to collapse, because I've basically given everything I can emotionally and there's nothing left. I'm just an empty shell. You kind of inhabit these difficult emotions 12, 13, 15, 20 times a night.
What I am thinking is that this is kind of so visceral and so intense emotionally that it's really going to communicate something very powerful to the listener. And that's basically all I'm interested in. At what cost? Who cares. As long as the song really, really moves people, then whatever sacrifices you have to make in order to get there are fine with me or that you will continue to make in the future. It's not such a bad thing to inhabit these emotions, you're very, very much alive and in the moment while you're doing them.
(𝑀𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑎𝑐𝑠 𝑂𝑛𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑒, 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ 25𝑡ℎ, 2022)
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⭐𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐀𝐑𝐘 of "𝐌𝐎𝐃𝐄𝐑𝐍 𝐊𝐈𝐃𝐒''⭐

Today is the ✨𝟏𝟒𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐀𝐑𝐘✨ of ⭐"𝐌𝐎𝐃𝐄𝐑𝐍 𝐊𝐈𝐃𝐒''⭐, the 𝑯𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒍 𝑷𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒂 song featuring 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐 that was released as the fifth track on the 𝑬𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒉 version of the band's debut album, "𝑰𝒏 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑪𝒍𝒐𝒖𝒅𝒔" (2008). The song also features additional backing vocals by 𝑳𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑾𝒂𝒓𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒕𝒐𝒏.

 Photo Credits: Thomas Rabsch / Unknown / Nigel Crane / Pinterest // Edit by Rita

⭐🌠 𝐇𝐎𝐓𝐄𝐋 𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐀 🌠⭐
𝑯𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒍 𝑷𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒂 is the electro-pop band formed by 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 𝑶𝒍𝒔𝒅𝒂𝒍 with his now husband 𝑫𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒅 𝑨𝒎𝒆𝒏 and 𝑱𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒆𝒓 𝑺𝒐𝒍𝒐. Their debut album was released first in 𝑺𝒑𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒉 called "𝑬𝒏 𝑳𝒂𝒔 𝑵𝒖𝒃𝒆𝒔" on May 5, 2008 and later in 𝑬𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒉 "𝑰𝒏 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑪𝒍𝒐𝒖𝒅𝒔" on June 27, 2008. The album was co-produced by 𝑯𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒍 𝑷𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒂 and 𝑭𝒂𝒃𝒊𝒆𝒏 𝑾𝒂𝒍𝒕𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏. The songs were recorded and mixed in 𝑳𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒐𝒏, 𝑴𝒂𝒅𝒓𝒊𝒅 and 𝑵𝒆𝒘 𝒀𝒐𝒓𝒌 between 2005 and 2007. Besides 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐, the album includes other collaborations with artists such as 𝑴𝒊𝒈𝒖𝒆𝒍 𝑩𝒐𝒔𝒆́, 𝑨𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒌𝒂 (𝑭𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒂) and 𝑺𝒂𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒉𝒂 𝑭𝒐𝒙. 𝑭𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒆 also made string arrangements for some tracks. 𝑯𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒍 𝑷𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒂 has remixed bands like 𝑸𝒖𝒆𝒆𝒏𝒔 𝑶𝒇 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒕𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝑨𝒈𝒆 or 𝑺𝒉𝒆 𝑾𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝑹𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒈𝒆 among others and even remixed some 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 songs.

💠 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 𝑶𝒍𝒔𝒅𝒂𝒍 talked more about this side project in a short interview published in 𝑹𝒐𝒄𝒌 𝑺𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝑴𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒛𝒊𝒏𝒆 at the time.

🌠 𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝑯𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒍 𝑷𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒂?
🎤"Hotel Persona is a side-project I do with David Amen. We've done remixes for (Placebo single) 'Infra Red' and She Wants Revenge, we have a DJ tour, and we've just finished recording an album of original material, at the moment called 'One', which will be coming out soon. There are a couple of interesting collaborations - Placebo fans will be surprised - and it has flamenco, disco, rock, lullabies. It's all over the shop."


🌠 𝑾𝒉𝒚 𝒅𝒊𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒅𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒅𝒐 𝒊𝒕?
🎤"I'm perfectly happy being in Placebo and I'm not leaving the band, but there are other side to what I do musically. These songs (on the album) were written over the past five years and it's just coming to fruition now. Also, what I'm trying to do now is DJ at summer festivals, because you get kind of bored when you play them."


🌠 𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒅𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝑫𝒋-𝒊𝒏𝒈?
🎤"It goes from Metallica bootlegs to PJ Harvey remixes to Depeche Mode remixes to French disco. It's just music for people to dance to and have a good time."


🌠 𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕'𝒔 𝒃𝒆𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒂𝒎𝒆?
🎤"Initially it was because the project had so many different personalities to it. Also, it's kind of transient and it's going to be happening in and around my schedule, like people coming and going from a hotel."

Hotel Persona at Razzmatazz,Barcelona, 2006. Photo credit: Transmission London

📍"𝑴𝒐𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒏 𝑲𝒊𝒅𝒔" is a pop song with electronic and alternative overtones. I don't really know what inspired 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 and 𝑫𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒅 to write the lyrics for the song, but I've always thought there are two things in particular that can be related to 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏. One is the line "𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒔 𝒉𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝑹𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒊𝒃𝒍𝒆" because 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 in several interviews said that his mother is very religious, and then the chorus

"𝑮𝒐 𝒂𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒍𝒆𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒔𝒖𝒏 𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒆
𝒀𝒐𝒖'𝒗𝒆 𝒈𝒐𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒅𝒐 𝒊𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒘𝒂𝒚
𝑹𝒖𝒏 𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒅𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒆
𝑹𝒖𝒏 𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒚, 𝒈𝒐 𝒓𝒖𝒏 𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒚, 𝒈𝒐 𝒓𝒖𝒏 𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒚",

makes me think of when 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 decided to leave his boring life in 𝑳𝒖𝒙𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒈 and traveled to 𝑳𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒐𝒏 to pursue his dreams of being an actor. I believe that's what "𝑴𝒐𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒏 𝑲𝒊𝒅𝒔" is all about, following your dreams, doing what your heart dictates and what makes you happy, no matter what anyone else says. It's a very positive song, like most of the album. Plus, the way 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 and 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏's beautiful voices sound together is just amazing. 😍🥰🎶

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⭐ 𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐅𝐀𝐍 𝐎𝐍 𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍'𝐒 𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐋𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐇𝐎𝐓𝐄𝐋 𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐀 ⭐
🎤 "Then there is also Brian Molko (Placebo's singer). Of course I have a good connection to him. One song just suited him, so he joined in right away."
▪️𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚏𝚊𝚗 𝙾𝚕𝚜𝚍𝚊𝚕, 𝚚𝚞𝚎𝚎𝚛.𝚍𝚎, 𝙼𝚊𝚢 𝟸𝟶𝟶𝟾.


⭐ 𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐎𝐍 𝐇𝐎𝐓𝐄𝐋 𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐀 ⭐
🎤 ”Stef DJs under the name of Hotel Persona, and has made a record as well. I think that's definitely an outlet for him, for an aspect of his musicality which he can't explore in Placebo, and which is much more gay disco. I guess that's why Hotel Persona exists, to satisfy that aspect of his musical taste and his desire to express himself in that way.”
▪️𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝚂𝚞𝚒𝚌𝚒𝚍𝚎 𝙶𝚒𝚛𝚕𝚜, 𝚂𝚎𝚙𝚝𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛 𝟸𝟶𝟶𝟽.

🎥 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐊𝐢𝐝𝐬 - 𝐇𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐥 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚 𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐭. 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐨 (𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨) 🎶
https://bit.ly/2U5BrWC


✨🔸𝐂𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐅𝐚𝐜𝐭🔸✨
🔹In 2009, another good friend of 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏's, with whom he currently has two musical projects, 𝑴𝒊𝒈𝒖𝒆𝒍 𝑳𝒐́𝒑𝒆𝒛 𝑴𝒐𝒓𝒂 a.k.a 𝑫𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒍 𝟐𝟏 remixed "𝑴𝒐𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒏 𝑲𝒊𝒅𝒔" which was included in his LP "𝑶𝒖𝒕𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒓" released the same year.


🔊 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐊𝐢𝐝𝐬 - 𝐇𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐥 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚 ( 𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝟐𝟏 𝐑𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐱) 🎶
https://bit.ly/3owkZwx

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🎵⭐ 𝐋𝐲𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐬 ⭐🎵
𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘬𝘪𝘥𝘴 𝘧𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘬𝘴
𝘍𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘴
𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯
𝘊𝘢𝘯'𝘵 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘦
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵

𝘞𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘬𝘪𝘥𝘴
𝘓𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘢 𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯

𝘕𝘰 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘵𝘴
𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘧𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘥𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘦
𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦
𝘙𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦
𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘰𝘸𝘯

𝘎𝘰 𝘢𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘭𝘦𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘴𝘶𝘯 𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦
𝘠𝘰𝘶'𝘷𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘰 𝘪𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘸𝘢𝘺
𝘙𝘶𝘯 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦
𝘙𝘶𝘯 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺, 𝘨𝘰 𝘳𝘶𝘯 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺, 𝘨𝘰 𝘳𝘶𝘯 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺

𝘛𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘬𝘪𝘥𝘴 𝘧𝘭𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘯 𝘦
𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘢 𝘴𝘩*𝘵
𝘋𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦
𝘚𝘰 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘴

𝘞𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘬𝘪𝘥𝘴
𝘓𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘢 𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯

𝘎𝘳𝘢𝘣𝘣𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘸
𝘐𝘴 𝘵𝘰𝘰 𝘧𝘢𝘳 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘦

𝘎𝘰 𝘢𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘭𝘦𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘴𝘶𝘯 𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦
(𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺'𝘳𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘢 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶)
𝘠𝘰𝘶'𝘷𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘰 𝘪𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘸𝘢𝘺
(𝘕𝘰𝘵 𝘨𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘢 𝘭𝘦𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘨𝘰)
𝘙𝘶𝘯 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦
(𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺'𝘳𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘢 𝘮𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘶𝘱)
𝘙𝘶𝘯 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘨𝘰 𝘳𝘶𝘯 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺, 𝘨𝘰 𝘳𝘶𝘯 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺
(𝘕𝘰𝘵 𝘨𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘢 𝘭𝘦𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘣𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧)

𝘙𝘶𝘯 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺, 𝘳𝘶𝘯 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺

𝘙𝘶𝘯 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺
(𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺'𝘳𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘢 𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘺𝘰𝘶)
𝘙𝘶𝘯 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺…
(𝘛𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘶𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶)
(𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺'𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘧*𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘥)

𝘎𝘰 𝘢𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘭𝘦𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘴𝘶𝘯 𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦
𝘠𝘰𝘶'𝘷𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘰 𝘪𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘸𝘢𝘺
𝘙𝘶𝘯 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦
𝘙𝘶𝘯 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘨𝘰 𝘳𝘶𝘯 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺

𝘙𝘶𝘯 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺…

𝘎𝘳𝘢𝘣𝘣𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘸 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘰𝘰 𝘧𝘢𝘳 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺

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✨⚡"𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝑱𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝑩𝒐𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈…"⚡✨

Today we are going to dust off one of those 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 songs that don't get much attention but are worth listening to. I'm talking about 🎸"𝐌𝐈𝐒𝐒 𝐌𝐎𝐍𝐄𝐘𝐏𝐄𝐍𝐍𝐘"🎸, a 𝒃-𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆 included in the maxi CD2 of the single "𝑵𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒚 𝑩𝒐𝒚" released on January 20, 1997. 𝑹𝒐𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒕 𝑺𝒄𝒉𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒛𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒈 recorded the drums on this track, it was produced by 𝑩𝒓𝒂𝒅 𝑾𝒐𝒐𝒅 and engineered by 𝑬𝒅 𝑲𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒉𝒂𝒏.

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"𝑴𝒊𝒔𝒔 𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒚𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒏𝒚" is also known as "𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑱𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝑩𝒐𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈" because 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐 used to introduce the song this way before playing it as you will hear it later, and the title refers to 𝑴𝒊𝒔𝒔 𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒚𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒏𝒚, 𝑱𝒂𝒏𝒆 𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒚𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒏𝒚 or 𝑬𝒗𝒆 𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒚𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒏𝒚, a fictitious character in the novels and films of 𝑱𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝑩𝒐𝒏𝒅.


📍 Created by the 𝑬𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒉 journalist, novelist and 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒉 𝑰𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝑶𝒇𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒆𝒓 𝑰𝒂𝒏 𝑭𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒚𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒏𝒚 is the secretary of 𝑴, who is 𝑩𝒐𝒏𝒅's boss and the head of the 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒉 𝑺𝒆𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒕 𝑺𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒊𝒄𝒆. According to the film "𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝑶𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝑳𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑻𝒘𝒊𝒄𝒆" (1967), she holds the rank of lieutenant in the 𝑹𝒐𝒚𝒂𝒍 𝑵𝒂𝒗𝒚. In both the 𝑱𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝑩𝒐𝒏𝒅 novels and films, 𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒚𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒏𝒚 is in love with 𝑩𝒐𝒏𝒅, although she never expresses her feelings for him. She has a small part in the films, but she is always highlighted by the connection between her and 𝑩𝒐𝒏𝒅 (something that is virtually non-existent in 𝑰𝒂𝒏 𝑭𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈's novels, but is much more apparent in the novels written by 𝑱𝒐𝒉𝒏 𝑮𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒏𝒆𝒓 and 𝑹𝒂𝒚𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒅 𝑩𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒐𝒏).


📖 In 𝑰𝒂𝒏 𝑭𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈's first novel, "𝑪𝒂𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒐 𝑹𝒐𝒚𝒂𝒍𝒆", 𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒚𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒏𝒚's name was originally "𝑴𝒊𝒔𝒔 '𝑷𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒚' 𝑷𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒂𝒗𝒂𝒍". The name "𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒚𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒏𝒚" derives from an unfinished novel by 𝑷𝒆𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝑭𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈 called "𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒆𝒕𝒕". 𝑴𝒊𝒔𝒔 𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒚𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒏𝒚 is believed to be based on two women who worked with 𝑰𝒂𝒏 𝑭𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈 in 𝑵𝒂𝒗𝒂𝒍 𝑰𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 during 𝑾𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅 𝑾𝒂𝒓 𝑰𝑰. One of them was his secretary 𝑷𝒂𝒅𝒅𝒚 𝑩𝒆𝒏𝒏𝒆𝒕𝒕; she played a key role in an operation devised by 𝑰𝒂𝒏 𝑭𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈 to deceive 𝑮𝒆𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝑰𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆. Some theories claim that 𝑰𝒂𝒏 𝑭𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈 may have been inspired by 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒉 spy 𝑽𝒆𝒓𝒂 𝑨𝒕𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒔 in the creation of the character of 𝑴𝒊𝒔𝒔 𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒚𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒏𝒚.


🎬 Her first appearance was in the film "𝑫𝒓. 𝑵𝒐" (1962) and since then she has appeared in almost every 𝑱𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝑩𝒐𝒏𝒅 film with the exception of "𝑪𝒂𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒐 𝑹𝒐𝒚𝒂𝒍𝒆" (2006) and "𝑸𝒖𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒖𝒎 𝒐𝒇 𝑺𝒐𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆" (2008). 𝑴𝒊𝒔𝒔 𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒚𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒏𝒚 has been played by actresses 𝑳𝒐𝒊𝒔 𝑴𝒂𝒙𝒘𝒆𝒍𝒍 (1962-85), 𝑪𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝑩𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒔 (1987-89), 𝑺𝒂𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒉𝒂 𝑩𝒐𝒏𝒅 (1995-2002) and most recently by 𝑵𝒂𝒐𝒎𝒊𝒆 𝑯𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒊𝒔 (2012-) in the official films; while in the unofficial films "𝑪𝒂𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒐 𝑹𝒐𝒚𝒂𝒍𝒆" (1967) and "𝑵𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝑺𝒂𝒚 𝑵𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝑨𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏" (1983) by 𝑩𝒂𝒓𝒃𝒂𝒓𝒂 𝑩𝒐𝒖𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒕 and 𝑷𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒍𝒂 𝑺𝒂𝒍𝒆𝒎 respectively.


⭐ Basically, "𝑴𝒊𝒔𝒔 𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒚𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒏𝒚" is a funny song where the band refers to the flirtation between 𝑱𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝑩𝒐𝒏𝒅 and 𝑴𝒊𝒔𝒔 𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒚𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒏𝒚, but it is also a mockery of the repetitive plot of these films ("𝘈𝘭𝘭 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘢 𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘦 𝘐𝘴 𝘢 𝘨𝘶𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘨𝘪𝘳𝘭") and the qualities to seduce women of 𝑩𝒐𝒏𝒅's character ("𝘖𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘪𝘴, 𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘨𝘶𝘯 𝘵𝘸𝘪𝘤𝘦").

Among other references to 𝑱𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝑩𝒐𝒏𝒅 such as casinos and martini, his favorite drink, we also find in the lyrics two expressions of 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒉 slang: "𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘱 𝘩𝘪𝘴 (𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘰𝘯𝘦'𝘴) 𝘴𝘵𝘺𝘭𝘦" that means to prevent someone from behaving freely or naturally and "𝘱𝘶𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 (𝘶𝘱 𝘵𝘩𝘦) 𝘥𝘢𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘦𝘴" is used to refer to someone's death in a light-hearted or humorous way.

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🎵 About the music, I read an interesting comment from a fan who said that it seemed 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 had made their own version of "𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑱𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝑩𝒐𝒏𝒅 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒎𝒆" composed by 𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒏 and 𝑱𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝑩𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒚 because although it was not an exact copy, the melody of "𝑴𝒊𝒔𝒔 𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒚𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒏𝒚" captured the spirit of the original theme of the movie but with 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐's special touch. ✨

You can listen to the song of the movie by clicking the link below and let me know if you agree with the fan's comment.

🎧 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐉𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐁𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐞 (𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐲 𝐍𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧) 🎶
https://bit.ly/3HLBQUk


As far as is known, 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 played "𝑴𝒊𝒔𝒔 𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒚𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒏𝒚" only four times live in 1998.

🔊 𝐌𝐢𝐬𝐬 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐲𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐲 - 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 (𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨) 🎶
https://bit.ly/3NamxG6

🔊 𝐌𝐢𝐬𝐬 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐲𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐲 - 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐭 𝐅𝐈𝐁 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥, 𝐒𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟖 🎶
https://bit.ly/3n8cOVX

🔊 𝐌𝐢𝐬𝐬 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐲𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐲 - 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐭 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝐃𝐨 𝐒𝐮𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞, 𝐏𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐠𝐚𝐥 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟖 🎶
https://bit.ly/3QBPqOi

Photo credit:  Anthony Saint James

⚡🎶 𝐋𝐲𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐬 🎶⚡
𝘗𝘦𝘯𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘪𝘯,
𝘏𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘢 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘦
𝘓𝘶𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘴, 𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴
𝘞𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘱 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘵𝘺𝘭𝘦
𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘢 𝘥𝘪𝘳𝘵𝘺 𝘫𝘰𝘣 𝘣𝘶𝘵
𝘚𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘨𝘶𝘯𝘴 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘺
𝘞𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘥
𝘖𝘯 𝘨𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢 𝘴𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘦.

𝘔𝘪𝘴𝘴 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘺𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘯𝘺
𝘔𝘪𝘴𝘴 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘺𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘯𝘺
𝘖𝘩
𝘔𝘪𝘴𝘴 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘺𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘯𝘺
𝘔𝘪𝘴𝘴 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘺𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘯𝘺
𝘖𝘩

𝘗𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘺𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘥
𝘖𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘦
𝘍𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘵𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘱𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦,
𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘦
𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘢𝘭𝘬 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦,
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘺
𝘖𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘪𝘴, 𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘥
𝘛𝘰 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘨𝘶𝘯 𝘵𝘸𝘪𝘤𝘦

𝘔𝘪𝘴𝘴 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘺𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘯𝘺
𝘔𝘪𝘴𝘴 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘺𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘯𝘺
𝘖𝘩
𝘔𝘪𝘴𝘴 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘺𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘯𝘺
𝘔𝘪𝘴𝘴 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘺𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘯𝘺
𝘖𝘩

𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘫𝘰𝘣 𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘪𝘳𝘭
𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘪, 𝘮𝘰𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘦
𝘉𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘢𝘺
𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺'𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘱𝘶𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘥𝘢𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘦𝘴
𝘈𝘭𝘭 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘢 𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘦
𝘐𝘴 𝘢 𝘨𝘶𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘨𝘪𝘳𝘭

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🌟𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖 with 𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍'🌟

📰It’s time to search for some 𝒐𝒍𝒅 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 𝒎𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒛𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒄𝒖𝒕-𝒐𝒇𝒇𝒔 again. Today, my finding is a short 𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍'𝐒 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖 from around 1997, I guess, where he comments on his favourite artists. Those of you who like a very young Brian’s way of expression and sense of humour, will enjoy it😉
I’m unsure about the magazine, so if you own this one and can help me with the title and issue, I’d be grateful.

Photo credit: Brian - Renaud Monfourny, 1997; magazine scans / edit by Olga

⭐𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐒⭐
𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐’𝒔 𝒇𝒂𝒗𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒔

✨𝑮𝑰𝑹𝑳𝑺 𝑨𝑮𝑨𝑰𝑵𝑺𝑻 𝑩𝑶𝒀𝑺 / 𝑺𝑬𝑩𝑨𝑫𝑶𝑯✨
“Girls Against Boys and Sebadoh – pure sex and pure emotion. When I listen to Sebadoh, it breaks my heart. I find similarities between Sebadoh and us, the way Jason and Lou play together, the way the guitar and the bass harmonise. You listen to Sebadoh before you go out and get really drunk. Then, when you do, you listen to Girls Against Boys.”


✨𝑨𝑪 𝑨𝑪𝑶𝑼𝑺𝑻𝑰𝑪𝑺✨
“The most underrated band in Britain. I sang backing vocals with them on Boxing Day in Glasgow.”


✨𝑫𝑨𝑽𝑰𝑫 𝑩𝑶𝑾𝑰𝑬✨
“I’ve thought a lot about why Bowie asked us to support him at Madison Square Garden. Obviously, he’s a fan, but what is it that he loves so much about Placebo outside of the music? I think he sees a lot of himself in us, of how he was when he was younger. Maybe he thinks we’re carrying some sort of torch he carried before he went straight. The camp Olympic Flame.”


✨𝑰𝑮𝑮𝒀 𝑷𝑶𝑷✨
“Then there’s Iggy. Just to see a 50-year-old guy with more energy than me play… I’m convinced he’s an alien. When we met him, he was standing there in his leather pants, no shirt on, shaking our hands, going, ‘Thank you. Are you from Paris?’ He’s up onstage, he’s just f***ed a Marshall stack and then he turns round to 8.000 people and says, ‘I’m going to f*** you all’ – and he does! As he walked offstage he went, ‘Girl, you, me, now!’ K-ching!’ If I can be like Iggy when I’m 50, I’d be very surprised.”


✨𝑱𝑨𝑵𝑬’𝑺 𝑨𝑫𝑫𝑰𝑪𝑻𝑰𝑶𝑵✨
“I was a big Jane’s Addiction fan. At college, I was very much into them and the Pixies. It pisses me off when people go ‘Geddy Lee’ in connection with my voice, because I’ve never listened to Rush. I really admire Perry, how dangerous and committed he is. Jane’s Addiction had a sort od knowing ‘f*** you’. It wasn’t a meathead, punk ‘f*** you’, it was an intelligent, dangerous, manipulative ‘f*** you’.”

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⭐ℍ𝔸ℙℙ𝕐 𝔹𝕀ℝ𝕋ℍ𝔻𝔸𝕐, ℕ𝕀ℂ𝕆𝕃𝔸!‼🍾🥂⭐

🔹Hi soulmates🔹
today is another reason to celebrate.
🔹𝑵𝒊𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒂 𝑺𝒊𝒓𝒌𝒊𝒔, 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝑭𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒉 𝒑𝒐𝒑 𝒓𝒐𝒄𝒌 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒘𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑰𝒏𝒅𝒐𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒆, 𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒔 𝟔𝟑 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒐𝒍𝒅.🔹

Photo credits down below

⭐ℍ𝔸ℙℙ𝕐 𝔹𝕀ℝ𝕋ℍ𝔻𝔸𝕐, ℕ𝕀ℂ𝕆𝕃𝔸!‼🎉💥🎁🍾🥂⭐

Placebo fans know him and his band because of “𝐏𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫”, Brian's collaboration with 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐥. There are three versions of the song, two of them feature Mr. Molko and were released on the album ”Alice & June Limited edition" in December 2005.

🔹𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐏𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐈𝐈.
🎶 https://bit.ly/3xKFtp3

🔹𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐏𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐈𝐈𝐈.
🎶 https://bit.ly/3zUEC7S


We already know that Nicola and Brian have a long-standing friendship.

😍𝐂𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲, 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐋𝐚𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐚 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐪𝐮𝐨𝐭𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐍𝐢𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐚 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧:
🔹💬 "𝘖𝘶𝘳 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘮𝘦𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘡𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘪𝘯 𝘑𝘢𝘯𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘺 1999, 𝘪𝘯 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘮. 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘬𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘙𝘶𝘥𝘺 𝘓𝘦́𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘵𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘩𝘪𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘵. 𝘏𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴. 𝘏𝘦 𝘪𝘴, 𝘐 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬, 𝘮𝘺 𝘣𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘪𝘥𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤, 𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘺 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘶𝘤𝘪𝘥, 𝘩𝘦 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘩𝘦 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘴 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘯 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦, 𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘌𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦, 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵'𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘐 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦. 𝘏𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘧𝘶𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘷𝘰𝘪𝘤𝘦, 𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘦𝘺𝘦𝘴, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘉𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘦 (𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘢𝘯). 𝘏𝘦'𝘴 𝘢 𝘣𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘭. 𝘐 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘸𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘣𝘴𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴...𝘴𝘦𝘹𝘶𝘢𝘭."
(𝙽𝚒𝚌𝚘𝚕𝚊 𝚂𝚒𝚛𝚔𝚒𝚜 - 𝚁𝙾𝙲𝙺 𝙼𝙰𝙶 - 𝚗°𝟼𝟷, 𝙹𝚊𝚗. 𝟸00𝟼)

How do you like Nicola's words, dear soulmates? I am very happy that Laetitia managed to find it just today ...🤩

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⭐𝐒𝐨 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐥𝐞𝐭'𝐬 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐍𝐢𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐚 𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐫:
Nicolas Henri Didier Sirchis, better known as Nicola Sirkis, was born on June 22nd 1959 in Antony, Hauts-de-Seine in France.
Nicola is the leader and the only original member of the band Indochine, which he founded in 1981. His twin Stephane played with him almost from the beginning, but after years of fighting drug addiction he died in 1999 of hepatitis C.
Nicola still has an elder brother named Christophe.

💥𝐋𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝟒𝟎 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐫.💥
On that occasion, in May 2022, they sold out the Stade de France in Paris, where 97,000 people came with them to celebrate this anniversary.
Here you can see that Nicola is still in great shape even at his age... The French love their Indochine... and certainly not just them.🥰
🔹🎬 https://bit.ly/3n8qHU8


Up to now the band has released 13 studio albums, a good number of live albums and compilations and more than 50 singles. They have sold over ten million records which makes them one of the best selling French bands.

In 1992 Nicola released the solo album “Dans la Lune“ on which he covered some of his favourite songs in French or English. He is also the author of the collection of short stories called "Les Mauvaises Nouvelles" that was published in 1998.


⭐Nicola is a great fighter against discrimination, racism and homophobia.
In his texts he writes about tolerance and understanding.
He helps victims of school bullying and fights against it. Related to this is a video clip for his single 🔹𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗲 𝗕𝗼𝘆🔹 from 2013, which caused a big stir.
It's a very cruel video, but it's definitely worth seeing.
🔹🎬 https://bit.ly/3NdmXeO

⭐Nicola also supports LGBT community rights organizations.
It's amazing that right on the band's official website below you will find links to many of the organizations we usually know, such as 𝑨𝒎𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒚 𝑰𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍, 𝑫𝒂𝒚 𝑨𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕 𝑯𝒐𝒎𝒐𝒑𝒉𝒐𝒃𝒊𝒂, 𝑮𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒏𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒆, 𝑭𝒓𝒆𝒆 𝑻𝒊𝒃𝒆𝒕, but also to 𝑭𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒉 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒊𝒔𝒎, 𝒘𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒏'𝒔 𝒆𝒒𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚, 𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒍 𝒄𝒓𝒖𝒆𝒍𝒕𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒖𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒗𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅, 𝒄𝒖𝒓𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒊𝒏 𝑼𝒌𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒆.

Below I'm sharing parts of two interviews with Nicola from 2020 because they perfectly capture what has influenced his character.
Enjoy reading, dear soulmates, and feel free to write if you enjoyed getting to know this exceptional human being.

Photo credit: Stephane Cardinale Corbis / Getty Images

🔹💬 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝟒𝟎 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐒𝐰𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 – 𝐍𝐢𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐚 𝐒𝐢𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐋𝐮𝐝𝐰𝐢𝐠 𝐃𝐚𝐡𝐥𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐠 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰𝐞𝐝

🔹.../***/ 𝑊ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑏𝑖𝑔 40𝑡ℎ 𝐴𝑛𝑛𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑖𝑛 2021, 𝑑𝑖𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑠𝑖𝑡 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑏𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑠𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠?


- No, I actually sat down by myself. I’m very lucky that the band trusts me when it comes to bigger plans and visions for the band. 

I wanted to get away from the classic ”album release followed by an album tour” thinking, so with the 40th Anniversary of the band – which is totally crazy by the way – coming up, I thought about some sort of collection of what we have done so far. 

In the past I’ve been a bit skeptical of compilations. For example I’ve seen the blue and the red compilation albums by The Beatles and always thought ”how can you sum up a band’s career on just one or two compilations?”.
But this time I thought ”why not try it?”.

🔹𝐶𝑎𝑛 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑢𝑠 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑙𝑒 ”𝑁𝑜𝑠 𝐶𝑒́𝑙𝑒́𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠”? 


- It was a bit strange this time, because now all the focus was on just one song that would be put on a compilation of almost only number one hits from the past. Usually we work with a lot of different songs at once.



🔹𝑌𝑒𝑠, 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑤𝑒 𝑚𝑒𝑡 𝑖𝑛 2015 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑒 100 𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑏𝑢𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑒 ”13”. 𝐷𝑖𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡?


- I do write a lot of songs and I think I got to 66 songs for the ”13” album. So quite a lot of the song ideas end up in the trash bin.

🔹𝐴𝑠 𝑆𝑤𝑒𝑑𝑒𝑠 𝑤𝑒 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑒𝑒 𝐺𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑎 𝑇ℎ𝑢𝑛𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑔 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑐 𝑣𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑜 𝑓𝑜𝑟 ”𝑁𝑜𝑠 𝐶𝑒́𝑙𝑒́𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠”. 𝑊𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑖𝑛𝑣𝑜𝑙𝑣𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑣𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑜 𝑎𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑙?
- Yes, and Greta is really one of the… no, she’s the best thing that has happened for youths in the world today.

🔹𝐼𝑡’𝑠 𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑎 𝑝𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑣𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑜 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜 𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑜𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑣𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑜𝑠 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑏𝑢𝑙𝑙𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔, ℎ𝑜𝑚𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑜𝑏𝑖𝑎 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑠𝑠𝑢𝑒𝑠. 𝐻𝑎𝑠 𝑖𝑡 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑡𝑜 𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑠𝑒 𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑠𝑠𝑢𝑒𝑠 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑜𝑤 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛? 


- We’ve been lucky here in Europe that we’ve been able to live and be creative in very secure and comfortable democracies. However, a risk with democracies is that we open up to lies and to people who lies. This is very clear nowadays when it comes to people like Boris Johnson and Donald Trump. 

For many years I mainly stayed as an observer of all this but lately it has become more important for me to also speak up. 

The video for ”College Boy”, which is about homophobia and bullying, got a very strong response. A lot of young people got in touch with us to say it strengthened them and gave them courage to go out in the world with their heads held high.
🔹𝗡𝗼𝘀 𝗰𝗲́𝗹𝗲́𝗯𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 official video
🔹🎬 https://bit.ly/3QHcjQc
(𝚁𝚎𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚜𝚎 𝙼𝚞𝚜𝚒𝚌 𝙼𝚊𝚐𝚊𝚣𝚒𝚗𝚎, 𝙰𝚞𝚐𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝟸0𝟸0)

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🔹💬𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐍𝐢𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐚 𝐒𝐢𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐬

🔹𝑇𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑢𝑠 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑢𝑝𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑑… 𝐻𝑜𝑤 𝑑𝑜 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑑?
This is the first time we have written a song on its own I mean without a complete album project. I'm always worried when a new record is released.

🔹𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑑?
My 40 years of life within the band and going through all the different changes that happened in the world.

🔹𝑇𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑢𝑠 𝑎 𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠...
Things are very simple to be honest: when we arrive at the studio for a session, we just get going and let it go naturally and improvise as we go along, this is why it is always so magical when we go into a studio. It is just so natural for us to put a song together.

🔹𝐼𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑑 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑙, 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑙 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑖𝑡 𝑏𝑒?
I would say a bird, more specifically a seagull as I love the idea of them having complete freedom to travel when and where they like.

🔹𝐷𝑒𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑓𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑠…
Let’s say: dream, pop, rock, energetic, emotional.

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🔹𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛?
No doubt, Diamond Dogs by David Bowie.
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🔹𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑏𝑢𝑚?
Aladdin Sane by David Bowie.

🔹𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑟𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑛?
Prince and his “love sexy tour” in Paris.

🔹𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑑𝑖𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑤𝑠?
Never stop, No breaks, always up to date, always looking ahead of the next tour and new technologies.

🔹𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑒𝑥𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚?
Patti Smith. I'm a huge fan.

🔹𝐼𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚, 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢 ℎ𝑜𝑝𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑑?
The most beautiful love song.

🔹𝐼𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑖𝑐𝑘 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑒𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑛𝑒𝑥𝑡 𝑡𝑜, 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑏𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑦?
The Cure, Depeche Mode and U2 ... all are considered as the survivors of the 80s.

🔹𝐼𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑗𝑎𝑚 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑜𝑟 𝑑𝑒𝑎𝑑, 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑖𝑡 𝑏𝑒?
John Lennon

🔹𝐼𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑛 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑏𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑠𝑡, 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑖𝑡 𝑏𝑒?
Heroes by David Bowie

🔹𝑆𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑓𝑖𝑙𝑚 𝑜𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒, 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑦 𝑦𝑜𝑢?
Timothee Chalamet
(𝙻𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚊𝚜𝚑𝚒𝚛𝚎 𝚃𝚒𝚖𝚎𝚜, 𝙹𝚞𝚗𝚎 𝟸0𝟸0)

Photo credit pic 1: Photo credit: Nicola Sirkis by Stéphane Ridard, Brian and Nicola by Carole Epinette, screenshot from recording of Pink Water / edit by Marti

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🎸 𝐌𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐬-𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐳: '𝐀 𝐑𝐎𝐂𝐊 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬' 🎸

🎉 𝟏𝟎 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒂𝒈𝒐 𝒕𝒐𝒅𝒂𝒚, it began in 𝑷𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒔 ⭐𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐌𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐬-𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐳: '𝐀 𝐑𝐎𝐂𝐊 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬' 🎸⭐, a mini-tour of only 𝒇𝒊𝒗𝒆 concerts through different 𝑬𝒖𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒏 cities that 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 made in collaboration with a famous 𝑮𝒆𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒏 luxury car brand to launch the new 𝑨-𝑪𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒔. After some time away from the stage, the band announced this tour on their official website as follows:

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✨ 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅 𝟎𝟓.𝟑𝟏.𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟐

📢 "𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘢 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘸𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘢𝘯 𝘶𝘱𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘣𝘰 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘺, 𝘴𝘰 𝘸𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘶𝘱 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵'𝘴 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘴.

𝘞𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘢 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘬 𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘪𝘯 15 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘯𝘫𝘰𝘺𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘧𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴, 𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘫𝘶𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘧𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘴𝘰 𝘸𝘦'𝘳𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘰 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘯 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭. 𝘈 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘦 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸!!!

𝘞𝘦'𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘈𝘥𝘢𝘮 𝘕𝘰𝘣𝘭𝘦 (𝘥𝘌𝘜𝘚, 𝘙𝘦𝘥 𝘏𝘰𝘵 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪 𝘗𝘦𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴) 𝘰𝘯 𝘢 𝘣𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘩 𝘰𝘧 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘸𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘚𝘶𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘳. 𝘞𝘦'𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨. 𝘞𝘦'𝘳𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘢 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘰 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘳 𝘯𝘦𝘹𝘵 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳.

𝘞𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘢 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘵 𝘚𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦, 𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘯 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘦𝘯𝘫𝘰𝘺𝘦𝘥 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘮 𝘶𝘱 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘸𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘓𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘱𝘰𝘰𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘌𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘨𝘩. 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘬𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘸𝘴 (𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘥𝘪𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘓𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘱𝘰𝘰𝘭)! 𝘐𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘧𝘶𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘦'𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘨𝘪𝘨𝘴 𝘸𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘺𝘰𝘶.

𝘞𝘦'𝘷𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘶𝘱 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘮 𝘢𝘵 𝘔𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘴-𝘉𝘦𝘯𝘻 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘯 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘴 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥𝘸𝘪𝘥𝘦. 𝘔𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘔𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘋 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘦 𝘉𝘰𝘺𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘓𝘈 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘙𝘢𝘧 𝘚𝘪𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘴 (𝘧𝘢𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘦𝘳 𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘶𝘱 𝘋𝘪𝘰𝘳) 𝘪𝘯 𝘉𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘪𝘯 𝘰𝘯 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘈𝘷𝘢𝘯𝘵-𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘦 𝘋𝘪𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴.

𝘞𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘔𝘉'𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯, 𝘧𝘢𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤, 𝘴𝘰 𝘸𝘦'𝘷𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢 𝘳𝘶𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘸𝘴 (𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘸𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘒) 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘩 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘈 𝘊𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴 𝘤𝘢𝘳 𝘪𝘯 𝘷𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘴 𝘌𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘹𝘵 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘩.

𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘢 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 5 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘸𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘴, 𝘙𝘰𝘮𝘦, 𝘡𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘩, 𝘏𝘢𝘮𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘨, 𝘔𝘢𝘥𝘳𝘪𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘍𝘙𝘌𝘌 𝘵𝘰 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘣𝘰 𝘧𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘷𝘪𝘢 𝘢𝘯 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯.

𝘍𝘰𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘸𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘵𝘴, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘴-𝘉𝘦𝘯𝘻 𝘸𝘦𝘣𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘸, 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘢𝘥𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘬𝘴.

𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯, 𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘧𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘷𝘦 𝘹
✨🚗✨🚗✨🚗✨🚗✨

Placebo live at Le Bataclan, Paris,June 22nd 2006. Photo credit: Mauro Melis

As you just read, to attend these shows you only had to register on the new car model's website and be very lucky 🍀, as ticket winners were selected at random. Each concert was limited to an audience of around 800 people. The mini-tour started on June 22, 2012 in 𝑷𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒔 and ended on July 5, 2012 in 𝑴𝒂𝒅𝒓𝒊𝒅.


⭐ 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐌𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐬-𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐳: '𝐀 𝐑𝐎𝐂𝐊 - 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬' 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐨𝐬:
🎬 https://bit.ly/3b1IxoX 🚗

🎬 https://bit.ly/39o2Xs8 🚗

⚡ Enjoy watching some videos of these shows! I ordered them according to the setlist they used to play during this tour. 🎶


🎸 𝑲𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒚 𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓 - 𝑳𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑨 𝑹𝑶𝑪𝑲 𝑴𝒂𝒅𝒓𝒊𝒅
https://bit.ly/3mXO4jo

🎸 𝑺𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒌 𝑰𝒏 𝑻𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒖𝒆𝒔 - 𝑳𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑨 𝑹𝑶𝑪𝑲 𝑷𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒔
https://bit.ly/3tHtl6X

🎸 𝑩𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝑬𝒚𝒆𝒅 - 𝑳𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑨 𝑹𝑶𝑪𝑲 𝑴𝒂𝒅𝒓𝒊𝒅
https://bit.ly/39u3Waf

🎸 𝑴𝒆𝒅𝒔 - 𝑳𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑨 𝑹𝑶𝑪𝑲 𝑷𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒔
https://bit.ly/3mVyvZj

🎸 𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝑰'𝒎 𝑵𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 - 𝑳𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑨 𝑹𝑶𝑪𝑲 𝑷𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒔
https://bit.ly/3b0FcXj

🎸 𝑻𝒆𝒆𝒏𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝑨𝒏𝒈𝒔𝒕 - 𝑳𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑨 𝑹𝑶𝑪𝑲 𝑯𝒂𝒎𝒃𝒖𝒓𝒈
https://bit.ly/3MZAneh

🎸 𝑺𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝑲 - 𝑳𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑨 𝑹𝑶𝑪𝑲 𝑷𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒔
https://bit.ly/3OkK73P

🎶🔹 𝐄𝐧𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐞🔹 🎶
🎸 𝑵𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒚 𝑩𝒐𝒚 - 𝑳𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑨 𝑹𝑶𝑪𝑲 𝑷𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒔
https://bit.ly/3N0672L

🎸 𝑷𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝑩𝒍𝒖𝒆 - 𝑳𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑨 𝑹𝑶𝑪𝑲 𝑯𝒂𝒎𝒃𝒖𝒓𝒈
https://bit.ly/3NW7nFs

🎸 𝑻𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒆 𝑰𝒏 𝑴𝒆𝒏 - 𝑳𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑨 𝑹𝑶𝑪𝑲 𝑷𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒔
https://bit.ly/3zJmxtB

🎸 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 𝑳𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒁𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒉 (𝑮𝒊𝒈 𝑺𝒏𝒊𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒕𝒔)
https://bit.ly/3b6WPF9

Photo credot: usgang.ch

🌟 𝐂𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐅𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐬 🌟

🔸At the first concert of this tour in 𝑷𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒔, 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 played "𝑰𝒏 𝑨 𝑭𝒖𝒏𝒌", the 𝒃𝒐𝒏𝒖𝒔 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒌 from "𝑩𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝑭𝒐𝒓 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒖𝒏 - 𝑱𝒂𝒑𝒂𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒆 𝑬𝒅𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏" (2009). It is the only time the band has performed this song live.

🎸 𝑰𝒏 𝑨 𝑭𝒖𝒏𝒌 - 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 𝑳𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝑷𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒔 𝟐𝟐.𝟎𝟔.𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟐
https://bit.ly/3N14BNL

🔸Another song they played only on the first four concerts of this tour was.

""𝑰 𝑲𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝑾𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝑻𝒐 𝑺𝒕𝒐𝒑", an original song by the band 𝑴𝒊𝒏𝒙𝒖𝒔, which they later recorded and released on the "𝑩𝟑 𝑬𝑷" (2012).

🎸 𝑰 𝑲𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝑾𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝑻𝒐 𝑺𝒕𝒐𝒑 - 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 𝑳𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝑯𝒂𝒎𝒃𝒖𝒓𝒈 𝟎𝟐.𝟎𝟕.𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟐
https://bit.ly/3zIYVFl

🔸The band also released a series of short films of each show directed and edited by their friend 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒊𝒆 𝑻𝒂𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒕-𝑨𝒅𝒂𝒎𝒔, who had previously worked with them making the documentaries "𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑼𝒑 𝑭𝒐𝒓 𝑨𝒊𝒓" (2010) and "𝑨 𝑵𝒆𝒘 𝑻𝒐𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒐𝒘" (2011), and later he made the film "𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐: 𝑨𝑳𝑻. 𝑹𝒖𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒂" (2014).

🎥 𝑷𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒔 𝟐𝟐.𝟎𝟔.𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟐
https://bit.ly/3zJXYwq

🎥 𝑹𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝟐𝟓.𝟎𝟔.𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟐
https://bit.ly/3QmNAk9

🎥 𝒁𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝟐𝟖.𝟎𝟔.𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟐
https://bit.ly/3zAoSqC

🎥 𝑯𝒂𝒎𝒃𝒖𝒓𝒈 𝟎𝟐.𝟎𝟕.𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟐
https://bit.ly/3zFQiex

🎥 𝑴𝒂𝒅𝒓𝒊𝒅 𝟎𝟓.𝟎𝟕.𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟐
https://bit.ly/3zGwBDx

Tour poster

📍A year later, Brian talked in an interview about his experiences on this tour.

💠𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐌𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐬 (𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐥𝐚𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐌𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐀-𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬).
🎤𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: (evasive) "I don't have a driver's license."

💠𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧. 𝐒𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐧'𝐭 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐚 𝐌𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐀?
🎤𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 : "No, but I would have accepted it. Every now and then, sit in my Mercedes A in the garage: I think it's fine (laughs). No, that event for Mercedes ... is not something we will do ever again. A big disappointment. From the moment advertising agencies come into play, you can say goodbye to your artistic butt. I'm not going to hang other people's dirty clothes, but I met the abdomen there. ”

💠𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐮𝐥.
🎤𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: “If people were still buying records instead of copying them, artists like us wouldn't have to do things like this. And I'm a father, I have a seven-year-old son, so you think differently. But as stated, we will never do it again. "
▪️𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝙷𝚄𝙼𝙾, 𝟸𝟶𝟷𝟹.


Some things are enough to do once and 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏's reasons for not doing such collaborations again are very reasonable and respectable. In my opinion, if people enjoyed the shows then it wasn't all that bad, don't you think? 

Photo credits pic 1: Mercedes-Benz 'A ROCK', 07.05.2012 / Screenshot from short film / Charlotte Bocquet Photography / Usgang.ch/ rocknconcert // Edit by Rita

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