🎉🎈 𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐘 𝐁𝐈𝐑𝐓𝐇𝐃𝐀𝐘 𝐊𝐀𝐓𝐄 𝗕𝗨𝗦𝗛! 🎈🎉

Catherine Bush, better known as Kate Bush, is an English singer, songwriter and record producer who was born on July 30th 1958 and celebrates her 64th birthday today. She comes from an artistic background. Her mother was an amateur traditional Irish dancer, her father was an amateur pianist and both of her brothers were involved in the local folk music scene.

🎉🎈 𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐘 𝐁𝐈𝐑𝐓𝐇𝐃𝐀𝐘 𝐊𝐀𝐓𝐄! 🎈🎉

Photo credits: unknown (Kate Bush), Scarlet Page (2), Franck Courtès, Perou, James Sharrock, Nadav Kander / edit by Silke

The artist is best known for her hit “Running up that hill” which was covered by Placebo in 2003. Recently the original song gained new popularity thanks to its importance in the latest season of “Stranger Things” and reached top positions in charts all over the world.


🎬 𝗞𝗔𝗧𝗘 𝗕𝗨𝗦𝗛 – 𝗥𝗨𝗡𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗨𝗣 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗛𝗜𝗟𝗟 (𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼)
🎵 http://bit.ly/2SBzQmp 🎵


Kate Bush began to write songs at the age of eleven. She was signed to EMI Records after Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour helped produce a demo tape. Kate's debut single “Wuthering heights” was released in 1978 when she was only 19 years old and reached no. 1 in the UK Singles Chart, where it stayed for four weeks. She was the first female artist that achieved the number one with a self-written song. Kate's first album “The kick inside“ sold over a million copies alone in the UK.
Up to now Kate Bush has released ten studio albums, all of them were in the UK Top 10, two of these albums even reached no. 1.


🎬 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗖𝗘𝗕𝗢 – 𝗥𝗨𝗡𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗨𝗣 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗛𝗜𝗟𝗟 (𝗦𝘇𝗶𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟮)
🎵 https://bit.ly/3c1C8ai 🎵

Photo credut: Picture Alliance dpa

“Tour of Life“, Kate Bush's only concert tour ever, ran for six weeks in May 1979, covering Britain and mainland Europe. In 2014 she announced her first live dates in decades. This series of 22 shows running at the Hammersmith Apollo in London was called “Before the dawn“, the tickets were sold out in only 15 minutes.
In December 2018 she published her first book, a compilation of lyrics entitled “How to be invisible“.

Kate Bush was in a long-term relationship with bassist and engineer Del Palmer from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. She is now married to guitarist Danny McIntosh, they have a son named Albert. Kate dedicaded the song “Bertie” to him.


🎬 𝗞𝗔𝗧𝗘 𝗕𝗨𝗦𝗛 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗗𝗔𝗩𝗜𝗗 𝗚𝗜𝗟𝗠𝗢𝗨𝗥 – 𝗥𝗨𝗡𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗨𝗣 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗛𝗜𝗟𝗟
🎵 https://bit.ly/2T8Nwv2 🎵


With “Running up that hill” Kate recently scored her first ever Top 10 hit in the USA on the Billboard Hot 100 with the highest new entry at number 8. Her previous best was with the same song at number 30 in 1985. 37 years is by the way the longest ever gap between a song’s debut and its first appearance in the US Top 10. The track has also reached no. 2 in the UK Top 40. It peaked no. 1 in Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland and Sweden and entered top positions in many other countries all over the world. Running up that hill” climbed to number 1 on the Global Daily Spotify Chart on June 7th and was the no. 1 song in 18 different countries on Spotify and no. 1 on iTunes in Ireland, the UK and the USA. “ Last but not least it was the most searched for song in the world on the Shazam app. An impressive success, especially so many years after the original release of the single.


📀 𝗞𝗔𝗧𝗘 𝗕𝗨𝗦𝗛 – 𝗥𝗨𝗡𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗨𝗣 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗛𝗜𝗟𝗟 (𝗟𝗼𝘂𝗶𝘀 𝗟𝗮 𝗥𝗼𝗰𝗵𝗲 '𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟮' 𝗥𝗲𝗺𝗶𝘅)
🎵 https://bit.ly/3zChx9V 🎵

📌 𝗦𝗢𝗡𝗚 𝗜𝗡𝗙𝗢 📌
“Running up that hill” was the first single from Kate's 1985 album “Hounds of Love” and peaked no. 3 in the UK Singles Chart back then. It was originally named “A deal with God” but the representatives of her record label refused to release it under this title. So the single was released as “Running up that hill” but on the album the song was still listed as "Running up that hill (A deal with God)". Below you can read what Kate has to say about the meaning of the song.

Photo credit: David Redfern / Getty Images

📌 𝗞𝗔𝗧𝗘 𝗕𝗨𝗦𝗛 𝗢𝗡 “𝗥𝗨𝗡𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗨𝗣 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗛𝗜𝗟𝗟“ 📌
📢 “It's the two people in the song, a man and a woman, that want to make a deal with God in order to swap places with each other. That if the man could be the woman, and vice-versa, they would understand what it's like from that other person's point of view and that perhaps there'd be less problems in the relationship.”
(The new music, 1985)

📢 ”I was trying to say that, really, a man and a woman can't understand each other because we are a man and a woman. And if we could actually swap each other's roles, if we could actually be in each other's place for a while, I think we'd both be very surprised! [Laughs] And I think it would lead to a greater understanding. And really the only way I could think it could be done was either... you know, I thought a deal with the devil, you know. And I thought, 'well, no, why not a deal with God!' You know, because in a way it's so much more powerful the whole idea of asking God to make a deal with you. You see, for me it is still called "Deal with God", that was its title. But we were told that if we kept this title that it would not be played in any of the religious countries, Italy wouldn't play it, France wouldn't play it, and Australia wouldn't play it! Ireland wouldn't play it, and that generally we might get it blacked purely because it had God in the title.”
(Classic Album, 1991)


🎬 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗖𝗘𝗕𝗢 – 𝗥𝗨𝗡𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗨𝗣 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗛𝗜𝗟𝗟 (𝗥𝗼𝗰𝗸 𝗮𝗺 𝗥𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝟮𝟬𝟬𝟲)
🎵 https://bit.ly/3zgU3Vt 🎵


📌 𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗙𝗔𝗡 𝗢𝗟𝗦𝗗𝗔𝗟 𝗢𝗡 “𝗥𝗨𝗡𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗨𝗣 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗛𝗜𝗟𝗟“ 📌
📢 ”We’re fans of Kate Bush so, when it came to this track, we thought that the lyrics had a real depth and you can’t really get that in the original because she’s singing it so fast. We wanted to slow it down and it felt really good, and we’re really proud of it.”
𝘏𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘳 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘵?
“Yes we did, actually. We met and she does like it and we’re relieved by that fact because we’re big fans.”
(UnderGroundOnline, 2007)

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🎶𝐓𝐖𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐘 𝐘𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐒🎶

🎶 𝑾𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒆
𝒐𝒏 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝒎𝒆𝒆𝒕𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒚𝒆 🎶

The story how ”𝐓𝐖𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐘 𝐘𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐒” came into being is quite interesting. Actually the song is kind of a collaboration of Brian and Paul Campion who was the singer of Glasgow indie rock band AC Acoustics . Both were friends and had already released the song “Crush” with Paul's band in 2000.
Before that he had helped Brian with the lyrics of ”Every you Every me” when “Molks” had a writer's block. And whenever they worked on it together Campion played a specific guitar riff and sang the line ”There are twenty years to go.”
Brian once said that he had always thought it would be an amazing AC Acoustic song but Paul never wrote more than the mentioned part of the music and text. “We all grew to fall in love with that record and always said that one day we were gonna flesh this out in to, you know, a proper song”, he explained in an interview and added that he often played this riff when he picked up a guitar.
In the beginning of 2004 the band seriously started thinking about recording the song and around July the work was finished.

“Twenty years” was finally released on October 18th 2004 and reached no. 18 in the UK Singles Chart. The song was produced and mixed by Phil Vinall who had already worked on some other of Placebo's early chart successes like “Nancy Boy”. The programming was done by Phelan Kane who had also worked with the band before, namely on “Pure morning”. Apart from the release as single “Twenty years“ also appears on the best-of compilation “Once more with feeling”.

Screenshot from the official "Twenty years" video.

According to Brian ”Twenty years” is ”pure epic melancholy, a reflection on the passage of time and mortality. But it's not necessarily a sad song" (Delabel, 2004).
When it came out he was very proud of it. In an interview that took place one day after the release he said that it’s "possibly our best work so far! Y’know it’s really, really cool in that way…" (see quotes below).


The 🔸𝗟𝗜𝗩𝗘 𝗛𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗥𝗬🔸 of the “Twenty years“ started on September 29th 2004 at MTV Designerama show in Berlin, Germany. It became one of the fans favourites at Placebo concerts and was part of the setlist until 2009, then reappeared on stage during the “Loud like love“ tour in 2013. From that point on it was played live every year without pause until 2018. The last performance took place at Sion Sous Les Ètoiles festival in Switzerland on July 13th that year.
When played live the song often has an extra middle eight section added on, complete with heavy experimental guitar. Since 2009 live shows feature an arrangement of the song that was first performed during the Angkor Wat concert in Cambodia.

Up to now “Twenty years“ was played live 361 times. The shared version was recorded at Vieilles Charrues festival in France on July 21st 2006. The setlist consisted of 18 songs, and “Twenty years” was the last encore.

Screenshot from the official "Twenty years" video.

📌 𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐎𝐍 “𝐓𝐖𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐘 𝐘𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐒“ 📌
📢 “It’s kind of… I’d say it’s a meditation on the passing of time, and it’s about recognizing the value of the present and the kind of the riches that you have in front of you, the gifts that you have in front of you, the love that surrounds you today. Like ‘don’t go home and listen to the Stryper record, you know, because it’s kind of a waste of time.’ (laugh) Enjoy what you have in front of you.”
(MTV Supersonic, 2004)

📢 “‘Twenty Years’ is classic Placebo melancholy, it’s quite epic, all about the passing of time.”
(XFM.co.uk, September 2004)

📢 ”In hindsight, I think 'Twenty years' is perhaps one of our greatest tracks. It's our closest track to 'With or without you' by U2, the ultimate song.”
(Les Inrockuptibles, November 2004)

Screenshot from the official "Twenty years" video.

📢 "One of my best friends in the world is Paul Campion who was the singer of AC Acoustics and who helped me out on the lyrics when I had writers block for 'Every you Every' me on the second album. And whenever we’d sound check he’d always be playing this little guitar riff and singing the line ‘There are twenty years to go”. I always thought it would be an amazing AC Acoustic song but he never wrote it, and since he was such a good friend of mine, often when I’d pick up a guitar, to remind myself of him I’d play that riff and we all grew to fall in love with that record and always said that one day we were gonna flesh this out in to, you know, a proper song. It wasn’t until about six months ago that we actually started thinking about doing that, and three months ago since we actually did it… and it’s possibly our best work so far! [laughs] Y’know it’s really, really cool in that way…"
(Session at AOL, October 19th 2004)

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💥𝐁𝟑 𝐓𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐀𝐑𝐘💥

Exactly ten years ago today, on July 28th, 2012, Placebo went on a short 𝐁𝟑 𝐓𝐎𝐔𝐑, almost three months before their same-titled EP would be released in October 2012.
All in all, 18 concerts, including the festival shows, were planned for the tour. The first one took place on July 28th at 𝑳𝒐𝒘 𝑪𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝑭𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒍 in 𝑺𝒑𝒂𝒊𝒏.

Photo credit: Charlotte Boquet

𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 - 𝐁𝟑, 𝐋𝐨𝐰 𝐂𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟐, 𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐝𝐨𝐫𝐦, 𝐒𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐧
🎬 https://bit.ly/3QAsvCW 🎵

Not everything went smoothly during this tour (as at 𝑭𝒓𝒆𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒚 𝑭𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒍 in Austria on August 16th when the show was stopped after the first song). However, Placebo managed to play several brilliant concerts which would be always remembered by the fans as true highlights of the band’s live history.

𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 – 𝐒𝐳𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟐, 𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰, 𝐎́𝐛𝐮𝐝𝐚 𝐈𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝, 𝐇𝐮𝐧𝐠𝐚𝐫𝐲, 𝐀𝐮𝐠𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝟖𝐭𝐡, 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟐
🎬 https://bit.ly/3Abs5xh 🎵

“Next, we race back to the main stage in order to catch Placebo who are armed with new material in the form of ‘B3’ alongside the now “classic” body of work that they’ve perfected. Their energy is infectious, and it’s good to see them headlining such a credible festival bill (they’ve done it before, here too). Tonight at Sziget, it is very easy to see just how Placebo have been able to graduate from snotty androgynous punks to an internationally recognised and celebrated rock legends. This is signified in the set as well; the band leave out tracks like ‘Nancy Boy’ in favour of the (arguably) more mature (and polished) ‘Infra-Red’ to close things off. Again, it’s just obvious that this band have grown up and developed, and in our opinion that’s no bad thing.”
(𝑆𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑠𝑝ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒, 𝐿𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑅𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤, 𝐴𝑢𝑔𝑢𝑠𝑡 2012)

Photo credit: Cotorep

By the way, on that day Placebo shared the festival scene with the Belgian band 𝐝𝐄𝐔𝐒 whom 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 called one of his favourite bands and also his personal friends.
A great performance of 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝑩𝟑, shared in the video below, was recorded at this very festival. I hope you enjoy it!

𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 – 𝐓𝐚𝐮𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟐, 𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰, 𝐆𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐲, 𝐀𝐮𝐠𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝟏𝟎𝐭𝐡, 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟐
🎬 https://bit.ly/3Oh3OtG 🎵

“They were THE headliner on Friday. Only a few shows this year in Germany, and one of them at Taubertal. Huge expectations have met the fullest satisfaction. Brian Molko, singer and guitarist and frontman of the band, was fashionably polite during the 90-minute set. In good understandable German he addressed the ladies with “Remember Me” - before Special Needs from the Sleeping With Ghosts album. We will definitely not forget Placebo. The lightshow with five screens above the stage was amazing and perfectly contributed alternative rock by Placebo. As previous albums of the Brits were represented, as so the new album sounded very good.
The release of Battle For The Sun was a great return after a three-year hiatus. The version of Kate Bush’s Running Up That Hill was just fantastic as one of four encores.”
(𝑀𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑐 𝑂𝑛 𝑁𝑒𝑡, 2012)

𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 - 𝐂𝐨𝐤𝐞 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥, 𝐊𝐫𝐚𝐤𝐨𝐰, 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝, 𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰, 𝐀𝐮𝐠𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝟏𝟐𝐭𝐡, 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟐
🎬 https://bit.ly/3tSbeLN 🎵

Photo credit: Cozycot

“Although it may be difficult to find a link between the Californian rapper (Snoop Dogg) and Placebo, festivals are there to make communication possible just because the fans of both artists have fun in front of the stage together. And Placebo fans had a lot to write home about. An hour and a half of music by the band in absolutely peak form. Brian Molko has lost nothing of his magnetic charisma and kept a perfect feel of the stage. Steve Forrest, the percussionist who joined the band four years ago, clearly managed to find ground under his feet and now feels entirely confident in the company of Placebo founders. The concert opened with Kitty Litter from the still popular Battle for the Sun, the album most extensively represented during the show, but they also had surprises in store, such as, for example, I Know from their debut album or Meds, originally performed with Alison Mosshart. The second part of the concert started with Running Up That Hill from the repertoire of Kate Bush. Interestingly, just an hour earlier, the song played an important role during the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games. Alongside this cover and pieces like Infra-Red and Post Blue, the encores featured the band's only new piece – B3.”
(𝐵𝑖𝑢𝑟𝑜 𝐹𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑒, 𝐴𝑢𝑔𝑢𝑠𝑡 2012)

The final show of the B3 tour was played on September 22nd in 𝑴𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒌, 𝑩𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒓𝒖𝒔.
𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 – 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐬, 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐤, 𝐁𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐮𝐬, 𝐒𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟐𝐧𝐝, 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟐
🎬 https://bit.ly/3HPQ5Yw 🎵

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⭐𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐎 𝐌𝐀𝐀𝐒 ⭐𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝟓𝟑𝐫𝐝 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐝𝐚𝐲

Hi soulmates,
today we have another reason to celebrate, because one of the most important gods of electronic dance music, the ever-smiling and positive DJ

💥‼ℍ𝔸ℙℙ𝕐 𝔹𝕀ℝ𝕋ℍ𝔻𝔸𝕐, 𝕋𝕀𝕄𝕆 𝕄𝔸𝔸𝕊‼💥
✨💝🤩🥂🍾🎁🎉🎶🎂💝✨

Photo credits: taken from @timo.maas IG and unknown (with Brian)

💥𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙪𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙗𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙬𝙞𝙨𝙝𝙚𝙨, 𝙢𝙖𝙮 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙚 𝙗𝙚 𝙛𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙙 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙨 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙮.💥

🔹𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼🔹
Let's start with a short passage from one of Timo's last interviews:

🔹💬𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤, 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘨𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘵𝘤𝘩 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘪𝘹?
TM: "I started collecting records in the late 1970s and started playing some music out for my friends when I was 13 that was in 1982. I understood pretty quickly that music was my language to communicate with people. I was a very shy bloke when I was young and due to my love for music, I found ways to talk to people through it."

𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵’𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘪𝘨𝘨𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘺𝘰𝘶’𝘷𝘦 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘴 𝘰𝘯?
TM: There`s many, as life is very diverse… learning never stops as long you stay openminded, grounded, honest, and have the ability of not being up your own arse“ all the time …

𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘥𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶?
TM: The love for the music, the love for having the opportunity to take people on a trip and out of reality for a bit… I really really love this.
(𝐼𝑈𝑀𝑎𝑔, 𝐽𝑢𝑙𝑦 2020)
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German DJ, producer and remixer 🎈𝗧𝗜𝗠𝗢 𝗠𝗔𝗔𝗦 🎈 was born on July 27th 1969.
Timo bought his first set of turntables when he was 17 years old and played his very first DJ set in 1982 at a party at a friend's home. In 1992 he started to Dj in the European rave scene, earning a name in the electronic underground world. Maas' first record "The Final XS" was released in 1995.
Up to now he has released three albums and almost 50 singles and EPs. His songs appear on more than 380 music compilations and he is credited on about 800 remixes.
Over the years Maas has collaborated with and remixed many artists such as 𝗗𝗲𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲, 𝗣𝗮𝘂𝗹 𝗠𝗰𝗖𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗻𝗲𝘆, 𝗠𝗮𝗱𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗮, 𝗧𝗼𝗿𝗶 𝗔𝗺𝗼𝘀, 𝗠𝗼𝗯𝘆, 𝗙𝗮𝘁𝗯𝗼𝘆 𝗦𝗹𝗶𝗺, 𝗚𝗮𝗿𝗯𝗮𝗴𝗲, 𝗝𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗿𝗼𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗶, 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗲, 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝟮𝟭 and of course 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗖𝗘𝗕𝗢. Since 2008 he runs his own record label Rockets & Ponies.


Timo's cooperation with Brian and Stefan is of course important to us.𝗪𝗵𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝘁'𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗶𝘅𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗯𝗼 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗸𝘀 (🔹"𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗞" 𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗶𝘅, 🔹"𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗸𝗲𝘆" 𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗶𝘅, 🔹"𝗔𝘀𝗵𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘆 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁" 𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗶𝘅 𝗼𝗿 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗺𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝗯𝘀𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁 🔹"𝗦𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗕𝘆 𝗦𝗽𝗶𝗲𝘀" 𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗶𝘅), 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗼'𝘀 𝟮𝟬𝟬𝟱 𝗮𝗹𝗯𝘂𝗺 🔹"𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗦", 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗸𝘀 - 𝗣𝗶𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀, 𝗙𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗗𝗮𝘆, 𝗟𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗦𝗶𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘀𝗲, 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟭 🔹"𝗖𝗢𝗟𝗟𝗘𝗚𝗘 𝟴𝟰" 𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 🔹𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝟮𝟭 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗳𝗮𝗻 𝗢𝗹𝘀𝗱𝗮𝗹.


Timo Maas is also a resident at the legendary 𝐈𝐛𝐢𝐳𝐚 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐛 𝐃𝐂𝟏𝟎, where he invited Brian to a joint DJ party 𝐈𝐃𝐎𝐋 in 2018. The photos from this iconic dance party are some of my favorites.

As Timo beautifully wrote about Brian on his Instagram:
"...𝑛𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑒 𝑖𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑐 𝑆𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑙𝑒𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑦 @𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑀𝑜𝑙𝑘𝑜, 𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑚 𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑟 𝑖𝑠 𝑚𝑦 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑔𝑢𝑒𝑠𝑡..."

“𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒆 𝑰𝑫𝑶𝑳 𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒊𝒔 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐”.
Lucky all those who could attend this event!

Brian Molko and Timo Maas on July 31, 2018, in Ibiza at the DJ Set, credit unknown

And what does working with our favorites mean to Timo?
🔹💬𝐀𝐋: 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘳 𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦. 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘢𝘺 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘣𝘰? 𝘏𝘢𝘴 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘭𝘶𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘰𝘳 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺?
𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐨 𝐌𝐚𝐚𝐬: I wouldn't go so far to say that it has influenced my personality…but surely [it] has been and is always again very inspiring, no matter working with or for Brian, the band or also Stef`s new project (remix for Digital 21). I simply love and respect the guys loads and I think this will never change.
(𝐴𝑛𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑦𝑎 𝐿𝑜𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑜𝑣𝑎 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑇𝑖𝑚𝑜 𝑀𝑎𝑎𝑠, for 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜 𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑗𝑒𝑐𝑡, 2018)

What else interesting can be said about Timo? For example, the fact that he loves cooking:
🔹💬𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘑 𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘵𝘩 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘰?
Timo Maas: I think, its no secret that I love cooking in all its forms… i also run a little IG page called @timolovescooking where i post footage of my homecooking sessions 🙂
(𝑊ℎ𝑒𝑛𝑊𝑒𝐷𝑖𝑝, 𝐽𝑎𝑛. 2021)
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Finally, dear friends, I want to share with you a link to 🔹𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐨 𝐌𝐚𝐚𝐬 / 𝐀𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐞́ 𝐖𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫 remix of 🔹"𝐒𝐔𝐑𝐑𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐃 𝐁𝐘 𝐒𝐏𝐈𝐄𝐒".

🔹🎶 https://bit.ly/3zdn98T
🎈🔴Enjoy it with me at a little dance party to celebrate Timo's birthday‼🔴🎈

Once again - ✨⭐𝑯𝑨𝑷𝑷𝒀 𝑩𝑰𝑹𝑻𝑯𝑫𝑨𝒀, 𝑫𝑬𝑨𝑹 𝑻𝑰𝑴𝑶‼⭐✨
𝑾𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒔𝒉 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒚 𝒇𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒚 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆, 𝒈𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒕𝒉 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒎𝒂𝒚 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖!💜
𝑷𝑳𝑨𝑪𝑬𝑩𝑶 𝑨𝑵𝒀𝑾𝑨𝒀 𝑻𝑬𝑨𝑴💜

⭐𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐎 𝐌𝐀𝐀𝐒 𝐨𝐧 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐠𝐬:
https://bit.ly/3cKCKFn
⭐𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐎 𝐌𝐀𝐀𝐒 𝐅𝐁 𝐩𝐚𝐠𝐞:
https://www.facebook.com/timomaasfans
⭐𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐎 𝐌𝐀𝐀𝐒 𝐨𝐧 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐝:
https://soundcloud.com/timo-maas
⭐𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐎 𝐌𝐀𝐀𝐒 𝐨𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦:
@timo.maas

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🎵 🎶 𝑴𝑼𝑺𝑰𝑪 𝑨𝑺 𝑨𝑹𝑻 ❓

🔸 In my post today, I'd like to get your opinion on how you perceive music whether you are musicians or not.
But first, let me explain the reasons for this question.

Photo credits: Scarlet Page - Ulf Andersen - Wallpaper safari - Edit by Laetitia

🔸 In 1986, in the French programme 𝐴𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑒𝑠 hosted by 𝐵𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑃𝑖𝑣𝑜𝑡, 𝑺𝒆𝒓𝒈𝒆 𝑮𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒈 said that "𝘢 𝘮𝘢𝘫𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯" whereas music is a minor art in the sense that an initiation to music is not necessary to create it, and therefore it is accessible to everyone whereas other disciplines require practice and initiation, such as painting, classical music, literature, poetry, architecture.
And when Bernard Pivot asked him if he considered the songs he composed to be part of minor art, he agreed.

𝑺𝒆𝒓𝒈𝒆 𝑮𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒈 𝒊𝒏 𝑨𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒉𝒆𝒔
https://bit.ly/3cnRn1c

🔸 The journalist 𝐽𝑜ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑎 𝑆𝑒𝑏𝑎𝑛, 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝐿𝑒𝑠 𝐼𝑛𝑟𝑜𝑐𝑘𝑢𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑠, knowing that 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 likes Serge Gainsbourg asked him what was his thought about Gainsbourg's view in 2006.

◾ 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗱𝗺𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝗾𝘂𝗼𝘁𝗲 𝗚𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗯𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗴... 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗱𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗼𝗳 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝗮𝘀 𝗮 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗿𝘁 ?
💬 I think there are two things: art and entertainment. The main function of entertainment is to make you forget your life, whereas the main function of art is to hold up a mirror to show you your existence and make you think. Both functions are equally honorable in the sense that everyone needs to escape, everyone needs Madonna. But you will always need something extra. And I like to think that we are part of those extra things. I want to believe that we are part of the art. On the other hand, for us, being in a band has always been about escape, about Peter Pan, about eternal youth. And then sometimes, to get people to think, you have to get them to dance first. That's why Public Enemy is probably the best band on earth.
✔️ 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘 - 𝙻𝚎𝚜 𝙸𝚗𝚛𝚘𝚌𝚔𝚞𝚙𝚝𝚒𝚋𝚕𝚎𝚜 - 𝙻𝚎𝚜 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚎́𝚐𝚛𝚊𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝚛𝚘𝚌𝚔 #𝟷 - 𝙿𝙻𝙰𝙲𝙴𝙱𝙾

🔸 It is interesting to see that their views are different. Serge's opinion is more centered on composing music, whereas Brian's is more focused on the ability to communicate emotions.

🔸 I've always thought that music is Art and never considered there was a minor or a major side in it. I think that music can be innate in some people and that for others it is necessary to take lessons. But also that music, in order to reach me, has to be able to touch me in the depths of my inner being, able to make me sad even when I am happy and to make me happy when I am sad. I relate more to Brian's point of view than Serge's.

If I had to define a Placebo song as a piece of art, it would certainly be a piano song. So, here's 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒐𝒗𝒊𝒆 𝑶𝒏 𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝑬𝒚𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒅𝒔...
🎥 https://bit.ly/3OflNjl

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🔴 𝔸ℕℕ𝕀𝕍𝔼ℝ𝕊𝔸ℝ𝕐 🔴 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐉𝐄𝐊𝐓 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐎𝐋𝐔𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐓𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟕 🔴

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🎸 On 25 July 2007, 15 years ago, the 𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒋𝒆𝒌𝒕 𝑹𝒆𝒗𝒐𝒍𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑻𝒐𝒖𝒓 began and Placebo was one of the major bands on the festival, which was originally 𝒍𝒂𝒖𝒏𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚 𝑳𝒊𝒏𝒌𝒊𝒏 𝑷𝒂𝒓𝒌.

🎸 The tour started in 2002 in the United States and continued in Toronto in 2007 and in some European countries in 2008. The aim of the tour was to bring together artists and fans from different styles and genres.

🎸 𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒋𝒆𝒌𝒕 𝑹𝒆𝒗𝒐𝒍𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 gathered artists such as Cypress Hill, Mudvayne, Xzibit, Korn, Snoop Dogg, The Used, My Chemical Romance, Taking Back Sunday, HIM, Placebo, Mindless Self Indulgence, et Chris Cornell.

🎸 𝑪𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝑩𝒆𝒏𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒕𝒐𝒏 was very keen for Placebo and Muse to participate in the festival as he stated in Revolver Magazine: "𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑀𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑜𝑝 𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑦 𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑡, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑀𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑𝑛'𝑡 𝑑𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑖𝑡𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠. 𝐵𝑢𝑡 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑎𝑣𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒."

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He also shared a funny memory about Placebo 😄 💝

🗨️ "The guys from Placebo are some of the nicest people. They had this thing, like I came out one day off the bus, and in front of the buses, there was like this little tent and on the front of it had been spray painted "𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜 𝐺𝑎𝑧𝑒𝑏𝑜". And they had made their own like little outdoor oasis with truck stop goodies, it was the funniest thing, like a little gnome and a little astroturf and a white picket fence that's about this tall around it, it was so funny. They'd be out there barbecuing and riding their bikes."
✔️ 𝙲𝚑𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚎𝚗𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚝𝚘𝚗 𝚒𝚗 𝙰𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚊 (𝟸00𝟽)

🎸 In 2007, 𝑳𝒊𝒏𝒌𝒊𝒏 𝑷𝒂𝒓𝒌 decided to make the tour carbon neutral by donating one dollar from every ticket sold to the forests of America through their Music for Relief Foundation. They also used biodiesel fuel on a majority of their buses, reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 350 tonnes. Information stands were set up to encourage fans to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. It's really no wonder that Placebo was seduced and accepted Chester's offer to take part in the festival. 𝑴𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑹𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒇 is a non profit charitable organization founded by Linkin Park which helps aid victims of world catastrophes and combat global warming.

🎸 The festival lasted for 29 concerts and ended on September 3, 2007. Placebo had to adapt their setlist as you will discover in the following quotes. Brian admitted in an interview that the "𝑚𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑐 𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑠𝑒𝑡 𝑑𝑖𝑑𝑛'𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘" because the audience "𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑟𝑜𝑐𝑘". Not easy to deal with an audience that is not usually yours ! 🙂

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◾ 𝑯𝒐𝒘’𝒔 [𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒋𝒆𝒌𝒕 𝑹𝒆𝒗𝒐𝒍𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏] 𝒈𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒐 𝒇𝒂𝒓 ?

🎤 Done halfway, already. It’s kinda flying by. It’s been good. It took us a while to kind of adjust to the crowd, to get the right set list together and kind of fit into the whole way for us to get through to the audience in the best possible way. We tend to be the outsiders, you know, we can’t feel quite comfortable being that. When we started we definitely felt a bit like that. We don’t scream as much as the other bands. We kind of work around that, and I think by the second week we got a good set. We’re getting more reaction from the crowd than the beginning. We play for half an hour in the middle of the day, and it’s usually baking hot with the sunshine. You gotta get people’s attention. A lot of them have never heard of us before.
✔️ 𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚏𝚊𝚗 𝙾𝚕𝚜𝚍𝚊𝚕 - 𝙰𝚗𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚑𝚢 𝙼𝚞𝚜𝚒𝚌 - 𝟸00𝟽

✨🌠✨🌠


◾ 𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒅𝒊𝒅 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒔𝒊𝒙 𝒎𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒔 𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓’𝒔 𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒋𝒆𝒌𝒕 𝑹𝒆𝒗𝒐𝒍𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 ?
🎤 We’re here because Linkin Park invited us. Chester [Bennington] and Mike [Shinoda] are fans of the band.


◾ 𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒃𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒚𝒏𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒄 𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒔 ?
🎤 It’s a really good vibe backstage. Linkin Park are very approachable – not only are they approachable but they approach you. There are no big egos floating around – it’s great… I was kind of expecting there to be a lot of people running around backstage with bottles of Jack Daniels and ruby sluts hanging off their arms… But it’s been really cool. It hasn’t been that rock-and-roll cliché. Which I’m really happy about, because I’m not a particularly big fan – not a fan at all – of that rock-and-roll cliché.
[...]

◾ 𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒋𝒆𝒌𝒕 𝑹𝒆𝒗𝒐𝒍𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒄𝒓𝒐𝒔𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑼𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔, 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑾𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝑪𝒐𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒖𝒑. 𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒖𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒖𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒅𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒂𝒕 𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒉 𝒈𝒊𝒈 ?
🎤 Well, we started this tour with a lot of bravado because we’d spent 18 months touring the world, preaching to the choir. We walked out on stage in Seattle dressed in our French designer clothing, like we would in Europe, played our melancholic songs and then went down like a complete lead balloon. We had to really rethink it. It took us about four gigs to find the right set [of songs]. I think we realized that at 5 p.m. in the afternoon Linkin Park and My Chemical Romance fans didn’t want to be wooed with melancholia; they wanted to be slapped across the face with noisy guitars. So we’re doing a very kind of punk rock show featuring songs we haven’t played in years, such as “Pure Morning” and “Nancy Boy.”

◾ 𝑹𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 ? 𝑰 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒗𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒅 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒖𝒍𝒂𝒓 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏.
🎤 We don’t play them anymore. They were exhumed. But, it adds to the challenge: How do you play with sincerity a song that you have made a choice to never play again? And because you’re in a particular situation, you have to be flexible and not be precious.
✔️ 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘 - 𝚂𝚌𝚎𝚗𝚎&𝙷𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚍 - 𝟸00𝟽

Photo credit: Gary Miller

📍 𝙎𝙀𝙏𝙇𝙄𝙎𝙏
🎵Pure Morning
🎵Because I Want You
🎵Meds
🎵Every You Every Me
🎵Nancy Boy
🎵Special K
🎵Taste In Men
🎵The Bitter End


🌟 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗯𝗼 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗸𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗻 (𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗗𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗶𝘁) 𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝘂𝗴𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝟮𝟮, 𝟮𝟬𝟬𝟳
🎬 https://bit.ly/3yNYPtX 🎬

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⭐🎉 𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐘 𝐁𝐈𝐑𝐓𝐇𝐃𝐀𝐘 𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐍 𝐆𝐎𝐑𝐄! 🥂🍾 🎊⭐

🎁 Today we celebrate the 🎈𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐝𝐚𝐲🎈 of the talented songwriter, musician, singer, record producer, DJ and founding member of 𝑫𝒆𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒐𝒅𝒆, 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒏 𝑮𝒐𝒓𝒆.

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📌 On July 23, 1961, 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒏 𝑳𝒆𝒆 𝑮𝒐𝒓𝒆 was born in 𝑫𝒂𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒉𝒂𝒎, 𝑬𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒙, 𝑬𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅. He was raised by his stepfather 𝑫𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒅 𝑮𝒐𝒓𝒆 and his mother 𝑷𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒍𝒂, along with his half-sisters 𝑲𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒏 and 𝑱𝒂𝒄𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆, who are younger than him. As an adult, he met his biological father who was an 𝑨𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒏-𝑨𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝑮.𝑰. stationed in 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒊𝒏. 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒏 has described his upbringing as normal and stable. However, he also said that he was introverted and preferred to spend time reading alone rather than with his classmates.


In the 1970s, he taught himself to play the keyboard. He never received formal training. He just learned to play chart hits by deciphering the structures that were published in 𝑫𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒐 𝟒𝟓 magazine. He attended 𝑵𝒊𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒂𝒔 𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒉𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑺𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒐𝒍, 𝑩𝒂𝒔𝒊𝒍𝒅𝒐𝒏, where he was the guitarist in a local band called 𝑵𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑾𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒔. He shared a class with the recently deceased 𝑨𝒏𝒅𝒚 𝑭𝒍𝒆𝒕𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒓, 𝑨𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒐𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒚𝒆𝒕 and 𝑷𝒆𝒓𝒓𝒚 𝑩𝒂𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒆 (𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑪𝒖𝒓𝒆, 𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝑨𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒔𝒕 𝑹𝒖𝒊𝒏). 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒏 became interested in electronic music upon hearing bands such as 𝑲𝒓𝒂𝒇𝒕𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒌, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑯𝒖𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝑳𝒆𝒂𝒈𝒖𝒆 and 𝑶𝒓𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒍 𝑴𝒂𝒏𝒐𝒆𝒖𝒗𝒓𝒆𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑫𝒂𝒓𝒌 (𝑶𝑴𝑫).

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In 1980, 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒏 𝑮𝒐𝒓𝒆 reunited with classmate 𝑨𝒏𝒅𝒚 𝑭𝒍𝒆𝒕𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒓 at the 𝑽𝒂𝒏 𝑮𝒐𝒈𝒉 club. 𝑭𝒍𝒆𝒕𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒓 recruited 𝑮𝒐𝒓𝒆 into his band 𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝑺𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 along with 𝑽𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝑪𝒍𝒂𝒓𝒌𝒆. Soon the band drafted 𝑫𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝑮𝒂𝒉𝒂𝒏 to be the band's lead singer after hearing him sing "𝑯𝒆𝒓𝒐𝒆𝒔" by 𝑫𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒅 𝑩𝒐𝒘𝒊𝒆.

Thus 𝑫𝒆𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒐𝒅𝒆 was born, the name of the band was taken from the 𝑭𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒉 fashion magazine "𝑫𝒆́𝒑𝒆̂𝒄𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒐𝒅𝒆" which translates as "𝑭𝒂𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑵𝒆𝒘𝒔" or "𝑭𝒂𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑼𝒑𝒅𝒂𝒕𝒆". Their debut album "𝑺𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒌 & 𝑺𝒑𝒆𝒍𝒍" (1981) included two tracks written by 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒏: "𝑻𝒐𝒓𝒂! 𝑻𝒐𝒓𝒂! 𝑻𝒐𝒓𝒂!" and the instrumental "𝑩𝒊𝒈 𝑴𝒖𝒇𝒇". When 𝑪𝒍𝒂𝒓𝒌𝒆 announced his departure from "𝑯𝒆𝒓𝒐𝒆𝒔" in 1981, 𝑮𝒐𝒓𝒆 became the principal songwriter for the band.


𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒏 𝑮𝒐𝒓𝒆 lives in 𝑺𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒂 𝑩𝒂𝒓𝒃𝒂𝒓𝒂, 𝑪𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒏𝒊𝒂 with his wife 𝑲𝒆𝒓𝒓𝒊𝒍𝒆𝒆 𝑲𝒂𝒔𝒌𝒊, whom he married in 2014. They have two daughters together and he has three more children from his first marriage. He also has a personal studio in 𝑺𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒂 𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒄𝒂 called 𝑬𝒍𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒄 𝑳𝒂𝒅𝒚𝒃𝒐𝒚, equipped with a huge collection of synthesizers where he records his songs for 𝑫𝒆𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒐𝒅𝒆 and his solo projects.


🏆 On May 27, 1999, 𝑮𝒐𝒓𝒆 received the "𝑰𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝑨𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕" award from the 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒉 𝑨𝒄𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒎𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝑨𝒖𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒓𝒔, 𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑺𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔 at the 𝟒𝟒𝒕𝒉 𝑰𝒗𝒐𝒓 𝑵𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒐 𝑨𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒔, he was given the 𝑴𝒐𝒐𝒈 𝑰𝒏𝒏𝒐𝒗𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑨𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅 "𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒃𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒑𝒐𝒑𝒖𝒍𝒂𝒓 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄" in 2019, and became a 𝑹𝒐𝒄𝒌 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑹𝒐𝒍𝒍 𝑯𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒐𝒇 𝑭𝒂𝒎𝒆 member in late 2020 with fellow active 𝑫𝒆𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒐𝒅𝒆 members 𝑨𝒏𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒘 𝑭𝒍𝒆𝒕𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒓 and 𝑫𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝑮𝒂𝒉𝒂𝒏, as well as past members 𝑽𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝑪𝒍𝒂𝒓𝒌𝒆 and 𝑨𝒍𝒂𝒏 𝑾𝒊𝒍𝒅𝒆𝒓.

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⭐ 𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐅𝐀𝐍 𝐎𝐋𝐒𝐃𝐀𝐋'𝐒 𝐀𝐍𝐄𝐂𝐃𝐎𝐓𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐃𝐄𝐏𝐄𝐂𝐇𝐄 𝐌𝐎𝐃𝐄 ⭐
🎙️"[...] 𝘐 𝘮𝘦𝘵 𝘋𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘎𝘢𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘛𝘰𝘱 𝘰𝘧𝘵 𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘰𝘱𝘴 𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘮𝘦𝘵 𝘩𝘪𝘮 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘸𝘰 𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘬𝘴 𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘯 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘨𝘪𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘴 (𝘋𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮 𝘊𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘍𝘪𝘭𝘮 𝘊𝘭𝘶𝘣). 𝘞𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘶𝘱 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘣𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘭 𝘪𝘯 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘮𝘦 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘋𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘧𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘬𝘦𝘺 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘰. 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘴𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺 𝘋𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘥 𝘉𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘐 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥𝘯’𝘵 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺.“
▪️𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚏𝚊𝚗 𝙾𝚕𝚜𝚍𝚊𝚕, 𝙿𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚎𝚋𝚘 𝚂𝚒𝚕𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚁𝚘𝚌𝚔𝚎𝚝 𝙽𝚘. 𝟷, 𝟷𝟿𝟿𝟾.


🔥⭐ "𝐈 𝐅𝐄𝐄𝐋 𝐘𝐎𝐔" 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎 𝐂𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑 ⭐🔥

It is well known that 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 loves 𝑫𝒆𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒐𝒅𝒆's music and that it is one of the bands that has influenced them the most. 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 𝑶𝒍𝒔𝒅𝒂𝒍 in particular has declared himself a big fan of them on several occasions and has even stated that "𝑽𝒊𝒐𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒐𝒓" is a key album in his life.


🎙️"𝘐 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘬 𝘭𝘺𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵'𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘵 𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵. 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘮𝘺 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘺 𝘴𝘦𝘹𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺. 𝘐𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘮𝘺 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘋𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦'𝘴 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘱𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘭 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘬 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴."
▪️𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚏𝚊𝚗 𝙾𝚕𝚜𝚍𝚊𝚕, 𝙿𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚘𝚗𝚊𝚕 𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚘, 𝙻𝚊 𝚃𝚎𝚛𝚌𝚎𝚛𝚊, 𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚑 𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟶.


That's why in 1999 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 decided to record their cover version of "𝑰 𝑭𝒆𝒆𝒍 𝒀𝒐𝒖", a song composed by our birthday guy 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒏 𝑮𝒐𝒓𝒆, released as the first single from 𝑫𝒆𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒐𝒅𝒆's eighth album, "𝑺𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑭𝒂𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑫𝒆𝒗𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏" on February 15, 1993. It was produced by 𝑫𝒆𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒐𝒅𝒆 themselves and 𝑭𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒅 (who several years later mixed 7 of the 13 tracks on 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐's "𝑴𝒆𝒅𝒔" album). 𝑫𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝑮𝒂𝒉𝒂𝒏 said about this song:

🎙️"[𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘯] 𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘶𝘱 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢 𝘣𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘩 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘵 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘣𝘭𝘶𝘦𝘴 — 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘥 — 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘬'𝘯'𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘭. '𝘐 𝘍𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘠𝘰𝘶' 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘤, 𝘣𝘭𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘺, 𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘬'𝘯'𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘭 𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘳𝘪𝘧𝘧"
▪️𝚂𝚝𝚛𝚒𝚙𝚙𝚎𝚍: 𝙳𝚎𝚙𝚎𝚌𝚑𝚎 𝙼𝚘𝚍𝚎 𝚋𝚢 𝙹𝚘𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚛, 𝟸𝟶𝟶𝟹 .

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𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 couldn't have chosen a better 𝑫𝒆𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒐𝒅𝒆 song to cover than "𝑰 𝑭𝒆𝒆𝒍 𝒀𝒐𝒖", first of all because after the massive success 𝑫𝒆𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒐𝒅𝒆 achieved with the album "𝑽𝒊𝒐𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒐𝒓" (1990), they wanted to show their rockiest side. They had the need to keep evolving, to keep trying new things in order not to get stuck in their characteristic electronic sound but at the same time without losing their essence. The best way to start this new chapter in their career and open their new album "𝑺𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑭𝒂𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑫𝒆𝒗𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏" was with a song as radical and powerful as "𝑰 𝑭𝒆𝒆𝒍 𝒀𝒐𝒖".

🎙️"𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘐 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬, '𝘖𝘩, 𝘮𝘢𝘺𝘣𝘦 𝘸𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘢 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦.' 𝘐 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯, 𝘪𝘯 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘺𝘣𝘦 𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘤, 𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘨𝘰𝘵."
▪️𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚒𝚗 𝙶𝚘𝚛𝚎, 𝚂𝚝𝚛𝚒𝚙𝚙𝚎𝚍: 𝙳𝚎𝚙𝚎𝚌𝚑𝚎 𝙼𝚘𝚍𝚎 𝚋𝚢 𝙹𝚘𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚛, 𝟸𝟶𝟶𝟹.

Photo credit: Jean Baptiste Mondino

The case of 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 is the opposite, they are in principle a rock band whose influences of experimenting with electronic elements come precisely from 𝑫𝒆𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒐𝒅𝒆.

🎙️"𝘏𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘭𝘺, 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘺 𝘧𝘢𝘷𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴! 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘯𝘶𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴, 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯, 𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘬 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘤𝘩𝘺 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘦𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦! 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘢 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘴𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘶𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘨𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘳 𝘳𝘪𝘧𝘧. 𝘖𝘶𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘳𝘰, 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘳, 𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯. 𝘏𝘦𝘺, 𝘸𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥𝘯'𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦'𝘳𝘦 𝘢 𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘬 𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘥!"
▪️𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚏𝚊𝚗 𝙾𝚕𝚜𝚍𝚊𝚕, 𝙼𝚒𝚍𝚒 𝙻𝚒𝚋𝚛𝚎, 𝙾𝚌𝚝𝚘𝚋𝚎𝚛 𝟸𝟶𝟶𝟹.


Then, of course, the lyrics, which are passionate, making references between the erotic and the divine (heaven, angels, glory's throne, etc…).

🎙️"[𝘚𝘦𝘹] 𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘐'𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴, 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘵, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘐 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯'𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘺𝘻𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘵."
▪️𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚒𝚗 𝙶𝚘𝚛𝚎, 𝙲𝙽𝙽, 𝙰𝚙𝚛𝚒𝚕 𝟸𝟶𝟷𝟹.

🎙️"𝘐 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘢 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘮. 𝘎𝘰𝘥 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘺, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘯𝘰 𝘱𝘶𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘥, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘐 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘢 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨, 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘤 𝘰𝘧 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘶𝘱."
▪️𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚒𝚗 𝙶𝚘𝚛𝚎, 𝙻.𝙰. 𝚃𝚒𝚖𝚎𝚜.

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Exactly! 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐 also loves to mix such themes in his songs. But besides the fact that "𝑰 𝑭𝒆𝒆𝒍 𝒀𝒐𝒖" could be talking about sex, love or the deep connection between two people, some suggest that it could be talking about drugs as well, which is another thing that several 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 songs have in common with 𝑫𝒆𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒐𝒅𝒆. That's why I think this song totally resonates with 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐's musical soul.


This 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 cover was first released on a fan-club-only cassette in 1999, later featured as a bonus track on the 𝑨𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒏 and 𝑱𝒂𝒑𝒂𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒆 editions of the album "𝑩𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒌𝒆𝒕 𝑴𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄" (2000). Finally became part of the "𝑪𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔" album that collected all the covers they had done up to that point and which was released on the 𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 of the album "𝑺𝒍𝒆𝒆𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑮𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒕𝒔" on September 22, 2003.

🔥𝐈 𝐅𝐞𝐞𝐥 𝐘𝐨𝐮 - 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 (𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨) 🎶
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💕🎼☀️ 𝐋𝐲𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐬 ☀️🎼💕

𝘐 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘺𝘰𝘶
𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘴𝘶𝘯 𝘪𝘵 𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴
𝘐 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘺𝘰𝘶
𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯 𝘮𝘺 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘥
𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦
𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘮𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘥𝘰𝘮 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴
𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰
𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘉𝘢𝘣𝘺𝘭𝘰𝘯

𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦
𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘸𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦
𝘐 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘺𝘰𝘶
𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴
𝘐 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘺𝘰𝘶
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘫𝘰𝘺 𝘪𝘵 𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴
𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘢𝘪𝘵𝘴
𝘛𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴
𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯
𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰
𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘰𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘯

𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦
𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘸𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦

𝘐 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘺𝘰𝘶
𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘭
𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘐 𝘢𝘮 𝘸𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘦
𝘐 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘺𝘰𝘶
𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘶𝘯
𝘔𝘺 𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘥𝘰𝘮 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴

𝘐 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘺𝘰𝘶
𝘌𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦
𝘐 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘺𝘰𝘶
𝘌𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦
𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘭𝘴 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨
𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴
𝘔𝘺 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦'𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘩𝘪𝘨𝘩
𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘮𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦
𝘛𝘰 𝘨𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘺'𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘦
𝘉𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘺

𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦
𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘸𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦
✩•.☆♫•♬•*･ﾟ♡･ﾟ*•♬•♫☆.•✩

Photo credits pic 1: Martin Gore - Photographer unknown / Placebo - Kevin Cummins / Background - Songs of Faith and Devotion & I Feel You single artwork // Edit by Rita

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🎶”𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥 𝗖𝗛𝗘𝗠𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗟𝗦” 🎶

This song is the opening track on Placebo's eight studio album “Never let me go”, released on March 25th 2022. It was actually also the song their work on that record started with in 2016. Brian and Stefan were in the studio and Brian programmed the beat on a drum machine. On this device he was able to change it and put it on to any orchestra instrument. “So I put the drum beat on a harp and I distorted it and put some delay on it. And then you've got that loop from 'Forever Chemicals' that opens the album, and it's kind of cool [...]”, Brian explained in an interview. Stefan summarized it as an example of a “happy accident that happened in the studio” (see quotes below).

Initially the song was planned to be about police brutality. Brian tried to put himself into the mind of somebody who had lost a loved one, but several people warned him to deal with this topic. Brian: “And I'm kind of glad they did because it forced me to go into sort of a more ambiguous territory with 'Forever Chemicals'. What it's actually about, I think, is that it is up to the listener” (Maniacs, March 25th 2022).
Stefan described the track as the key point of “Never let me go” and a song with a lot of emotion in it. In his opinion it's “a great way to start off the album”(Billboard Japan, April 2022).


“Forever Chemicals” was recorded at RAK Studios in London and produced by Adam Noble. It was written by Brian, Stefan and Steve Ludwin, who is also the co-writer of Placebo's “Ashtray heart” from the album “Battle for the sun” and “Hypnotized by Jane”, a song Brian and him wrote for the German band Cinema Bizarre. Both tracks were done together with American singer-songwriter Jordan Page on a vacatation in Nicaragua.


Interesting fact: Ludwin, a “semi-retired punk musician”, (Business Insider, 2021) from Connecticut who lives in London since the 80ies is not well-known for his music but (in)famous for injecting himself with potentially deadly snake venom. He does this since 30 years, first for the supposed anti-aging effect and then also for medical research. Sounds quite crazy, doesn't it?
𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦:
👉 https://bit.ly/3Oh3uv6

Placebo at Bearded Theory 2022. Photo credit:Pete Connor

Another interesting fact is the origin of the song title. PFAS (Per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances) are often called Forever Chemicals because they hardly degrade in the natural environment and are very mobile in water, which means that they remain intact for a very long time and can be transported over long distances. PFAS are the most persistent synthetic chemicals and have been found in the blood and breastmilk of people and wildlife all around the world. The substances can be toxic.
Well, when I read the title “Forever Chemicals” that surely was not what came to mind first related to Placebo. But it perfectly fits with the theme of the album.


The shared live performance of the song was recorded at Milton Keynes, UK, on May 19th 2022. It was one of three shows that Placebo opened for My Chemical Romance (isn't the band name a strange and fitting coincidence too?) before they started their own current “Never let me go” tour.



📌 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗢𝗡 “𝗙𝗔𝗢𝗥𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥 𝗖𝗛𝗘𝗠𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗟𝗦” 📌
📢 “There was something about that loop which was a real statement of intent. It’s melodic and it’s catchy, but it’s also a bit brutal. It was a ‘start as you mean to go on’ moment for us.”
(Rolling Stone UK, February 1st 2022)


📢 “Well, 'Forever Chemicals' was probably the first track on the album that we started working on, and that's probably why it's the first. In around 2016, I was sat in my studio with Stef, on the iPad, I had this drum machine, and I quickly programmed the beat, just like that. Then I realised that you could take that beat with this drum machine and put it on to any instrument from an orchestra. So I put the drum beat on a harp and I distorted it and put some delay on it. And then you've got that loop from 'Forever Chemicals' that opens the album, and it's kind of cool because it was sort of slightly reminiscent of 'Infra-Red', but more brutal kind of a statement of intent sonically, for the record, to kind of start with that and 'Forever Chemicals' is one of the songs that I rewrote over and over and over again lyrically. It started off as a song about police brutality and I tried to put myself in the heart and soul of somebody who had lost someone, uh, who'd been murdered by the police, then as I spoke to more people I was I was kind of advised not really to go there and I wondered if I was going to be inviting a great deal of aggro into my life. And I'm kind of glad they did because it forced me to go into sort of a more ambiguous territory with 'Forever Chemicals'. What it's actually about, I think, is that it is up to the listener.”
(Maniacs, March 25th 2022)

Placebo at Bearded Theory 2022. Photo credit:Pete Connor

📌 𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗙𝗔𝗡 𝗢𝗡 “𝗙𝗔𝗢𝗥𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥 𝗖𝗛𝗘𝗠𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗟𝗦” 📌
📢 “The song 'Forever Chemicals', with its harp loop and distortion, is an example of a happy accident that happened in the studio. Our album opens with this strange-sounding song to surprise the fans as they surprised us.”
(Moustique Magazine, March 25th 2022)


𝘞𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘬𝘦𝘺 𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮?
📢 “I would have to say "Forever Chemicals" at the beginning of the album. It was the first song we worked on for the album, and it starts out as a weird drum loop I had on my tablet, but I had a lot of trouble finishing it. It's a song with a lot of emotion and it's a great way to start off the album.”
(Billboard Japan, April 2022)


📢 “A lot of times things don't work the way they should work. You turn on a device and it doesn't sound like it used to, and sometimes you don't know why. Or you don't have the login, or things like that. On that track the sound that opens the song was at first a drum machine, but somehow it changed to the sound of a harp and that really caught our attention and we thought it was a much more interesting sound. So we put it on a distortion machine (you know a lot of times the industrial sound comes from distortion, from a signal that's too hot and too saturated), because we've always really liked that kind of sound and our guitars are often distorted. Thus, that harp seemed to us the perfect way to start the album. We also like, speaking of equipment, to put together things that shouldn't be connected in principle (laughs). For example, a pedal board that goes to a guitar, but instead of putting everything in the right order we put it backwards. Or plugging a keyboard directly into the speaker. That kind of experimentation has always pleased us. I think since the third album we started using the studio more as part of the process of making an album.”
(Mondo Sonoro, April 2022)

Placebo at Bearded Theory 2022. Photo credit:Pete Connor

📜 𝗟𝗬𝗥𝗜𝗖𝗦
The memory drugs make memory snow
I think but I forget
My imagination doesn't know where to go
So it goes to sleep instead


The memory tapes of memory fucking
Fill me with regret
Now my memory shapes forgot their own names
And I can't get out of bed, shit


My memory body, my memory skin
I wanna kiss your pretty face
The memory drugs are a discipline
So I can know and keep my place


And it's all good, when nothing matters
It's all good, when no one cares
It's all good, when I feel nothing
It's all good, when I'm not there


And with friends like you (oh), who needs enemies?
And with friends like you (oh), who needs enemies?
With friends like you (oh), who needs enemies?
Friends like you


And it's all good, when nothing matters
It's all good, when no one cares
It's all good, when I feel nothing
It's all good, when I'm not there

Post by Silke

🔸💢 𝗙𝗜𝗫 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥𝗦𝗘𝗟𝗙 💢🔸

🔸⭐🔸...𝐍𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐋𝐞𝐭 𝐌𝐞 𝐆𝐨 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐦... 
"𝘐 𝘱𝘶𝘵 𝘮𝘺 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵, 𝘮𝘺 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘮𝘺 𝘴𝘢𝘥𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘪𝘵. 𝘈𝘴 𝘐 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘳, 𝘐 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘳. 𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 ! 𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘶𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘎𝘦𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘦 𝘍𝘭𝘰𝘺𝘥, 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘚 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘢𝘭𝘤𝘬 𝘓𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘔𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘤, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘳𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘮𝘢𝘺𝘣𝘦 𝘢 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘳𝘥 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘸𝘢𝘳. 𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘢𝘴 𝘪𝘧 𝘸𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵, 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘺, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘥𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨... 𝘕𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳. 𝘈𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘦 𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘸𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘴 ? 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘺. 𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘰𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤" 
(𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝙻𝚎 𝙿𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚒𝚎𝚗 𝟸0𝟸𝟸)

Photo credit: Jon Stone, edit by Marti

🔹Hi soulmates,🔹
my post today will be deeply honest.

The whole Never Let Me Go album is a crazy mental cleansing for me. But by the last song, I stop breathing... This song is the best ending this 13-point ride through the human soul could have had.

Thank you, Brian, if I ever decide to get a tattoo, it will be this track: "Go fix yourself, instead of someone else."

🔸💢ℙ𝕃𝔸ℂ𝔼𝔹𝕆: "𝔽𝕀𝕏 𝕐𝕆𝕌ℝ𝕊𝔼𝕃𝔽"💢🔸
🔹🎶 https://bit.ly/3v2sJth

I admit, Brian's comments on this song give me chills:
🔹💬 𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎 𝒊𝒔 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈. 𝑰𝒕'𝒔 𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝑵𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝑳𝒆𝒕 𝑴𝒆 𝑮𝒐. 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒖𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒚. 𝑰𝒕'𝒔 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒚 𝒄𝒓𝒂𝒛𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒕'𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒃𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝑭𝒊𝒙 𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝒔𝒂𝒚𝒔:
𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇, 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒔.
"That's it."

𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒕'𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒂𝒈𝒆.
"Absolutely. It seems to me that most people are out in the world, telling other people how to live without looking at themselves. If you can't help someone else without helping yourself, what the hell are you doing telling other people how to live their lives basically ? So yeah, fix yourself before you try to fix somebody else."(𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝙸𝚗𝚏𝚘, 𝟸0𝟸𝟸)

🔹💬 "Fix Yourself is another fuck you song, you know, it's the anti ‘Fix You’ by Coldplay. Why would somebody want to fix someone else? Therapists make livings out of it, parents want to fix their children, want to mold their children into their own image or an image of what they think is worthwhile. Society tries to make you conform morally and ethically to whatever is accepted as being moral and ethical during that day or that period of history.
The most powerful line for me in Fix Yourself is ‘I'm bored of your Caucasian Jesus.’ I'm bored of the hypocrisy, I'm bored of the bullshit, I'm bored of the lies. I'm bored of people who are as fucked up as I am, making a living fixing other people, I'm like ‘physician, heal thyself, fix yourself first’, instead of walking around, trying to tell everybody else what to feel, how to feel, who to be, what's right, what's wrong, what's moral, what's immoral. Bullshit! I call bullshit on it all. Just bourgeois societal mores that we all kind of aspire to so that we don't have to think. I'm bored of it, and that's what I'm expressing in this song. And for me, it was kind of that was sort of the perfect way to end to end the record."
(𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚊𝚌𝚜𝙾𝚗𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 𝚖𝚊𝚐., 𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚑 𝟸0𝟸𝟸)

Photo credit: Jon Stone

🔹💬 𝑰𝒏𝒕: 𝑫𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌 𝒊𝒏 “𝑭𝒊𝒙 𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇” 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒂𝒈𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒇𝒊𝒙 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇?
Brian: “No, “Fix yourself“ is a “Fuck you“-Song. It is not about me. It is about all those lying, lousy hypocrites out there. “I am bored of your Caucasian Jesus“ is one of my favourite lines, that I’ve ever written. This song is aimed everyone who are walking around and mean that they have to spread their moralities. Starting with the church. I won‘t let a priest tell me how to live or what to think. They should start to change their own lives and own settings by themselves.“

𝑰𝒏𝒕:𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒓𝒚 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑪𝒉𝒖𝒓𝒄𝒉?
Brian:“God, no. To all. Also on these activists on social media, who are making their own god damn personal attitude to the only true one and force it to everyone else. Who do these Keyboard-fascists they are? They don’t have to tell me anything. I am a free spirit and a free thinker.“
(𝚂𝙻𝙰𝙼, 𝙸𝚜𝚜𝚞𝚎 𝟷𝟸𝟷, 𝙰𝚙𝚛𝚒𝚕 𝟸0𝟸𝟸)


🔸⭐𝐋𝐘𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐒⭐🔸
No way
I won't deal
Go fuck yourselves
Don't tell me how to feel
Now I'm bored
Of your caucasian Jesus

Not seen
But isn't even there
And I dream
What you could never dare

My thoughts are not who I am
I've killed, I've died
And I've tried the best I can
I run from you
Harbingers of doom

'Cause I won't be pacified
By what you're scared to lose
And I won't efface myself
So I can be like you

Go fix yourself
Instead of someone else
Go fix yourself
Instead of someone else
Go fix yourself
Instead of someone else
Go fix yourself
Instead of someone else
Go fix yourself
Instead of someone else

Go fix yourself
Go fix yourself
Go fix yourself
Instead of someone else
Go fix yourself

Go fix yourself
Instead of someone else
Go fix yourself
Instead of someone else

Go fix yourself
Instead of someone else
Go fix yourself
Go fix yourself
Instead of someone else
Go fix yourself
Instead of someone else

Photo credit: Jon Stone

This song is the perfect anthem for everything that characterizes the hypocritical life of our civilization in the 21st century.
You know, my inner perception of life was marked by two famous quotes:
The first of these was 𝐄𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐢𝐧'𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲:
🔹“𝑰𝒏𝒔𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒊𝒔 𝒅𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒅𝒊𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒔.”🔹

And the second was 𝐚 𝐪𝐮𝐨𝐭𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐃𝐫. 𝐖𝐚𝐲𝐧𝐞 𝐃𝐲𝐞𝐫:
🔹"𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒆𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒆𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆."🔹

Now, honestly, why am I writing about this - do you feel that our civilization is on the way to a better life?
That after all the human suffering we've been through, we're doing our best not to repeat the same mistakes over and over again?


I will only mention a few points, although I could talk for hours on this topic:
🔹 Doesn't it seem crazy to you that the powers of this world want to wage war again and again and keep humanity in pain and suffering?

🔹 That while in some countries farmers are forced to destroy their crops due to price controls, in others children are dying by the hundreds a day of starvation?🔹 That human rights are now being suppressed even more and more in most of the world?
🔹 That we strive for more and more material wealth, even though we know that in another part of the world even small children have to work to survive another day?
🔹 That perhaps your new mobile phone also comes from the suffering of children searching for precious metals in rubbish dumps?
🔹 That satisfying our craving for exotic crops causes a huge ecological burden due to their transport across the ocean?
🔹 That we will allow the orangutan population to disappear from the world thanks to our voracious appetites?

🔹 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚 (𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬, 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐬, 𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬) 𝐬𝐮𝐛𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 "𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭" 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐮𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝?

𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐰𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞, 𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬, 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐰𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐰𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤?

Don't you ever feel like a tiny part of a huge social experiment?

Photo credit: Jon Stone

It's just that this song has a powerful message for all of us:
We all live in our own personal bubble and what is within our reach we have the ability to change for the better.

It may be a cliché, but this is exactly how we can change the world.

🔹𝐈𝐟 𝐰𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐱 𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐬.🔹

Simply try to see things from a bigger perspective and not to be influenced by the majority opinion that someone imposes on us "for our own good".
⭐𝐋𝐞𝐭'𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐰𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐧. 𝐁𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐲 𝐛𝐞 𝐮𝐩...⭐

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