Monday, July 25, 2022

๐Ÿ”ด ๐”ธโ„•โ„•๐•€๐•๐”ผโ„๐•Š๐”ธโ„๐• ๐Ÿ”ด ๐๐‘๐Ž๐‰๐„๐Š๐“ ๐‘๐„๐•๐Ž๐‹๐”๐“๐ˆ๐Ž๐ ๐“๐Ž๐”๐‘ ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ• ๐Ÿ”ด

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๐ŸŽธ On 25 July 2007, 15 years ago, the ๐‘ท๐’“๐’๐’‹๐’†๐’Œ๐’• ๐‘น๐’†๐’—๐’๐’๐’–๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’ ๐‘ป๐’๐’–๐’“ began and Placebo was one of the major bands on the festival, which was originally ๐’๐’‚๐’–๐’๐’„๐’‰๐’†๐’… ๐’ƒ๐’š ๐‘ณ๐’Š๐’๐’Œ๐’Š๐’ ๐‘ท๐’‚๐’“๐’Œ.

๐ŸŽธ 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.

๐ŸŽธ ๐‘ท๐’“๐’๐’‹๐’†๐’Œ๐’• ๐‘น๐’†๐’—๐’๐’๐’–๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’ 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.

๐ŸŽธ ๐‘ช๐’‰๐’†๐’”๐’•๐’†๐’“ ๐‘ฉ๐’†๐’๐’๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ๐’•๐’๐’ was very keen for Placebo and Muse to participate in the festival as he stated in Revolver Magazine: "๐‘ƒ๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘’๐‘๐‘œ ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘€๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘’ ๐‘ค๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘ ๐‘œ ๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ก๐‘œ๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘š๐‘ฆ ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘ก, ๐‘๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘€๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘™๐‘‘๐‘›'๐‘ก ๐‘‘๐‘œ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ โ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘ค ๐‘๐‘’๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘’ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘ฆ โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘‘ ๐‘œ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘š๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘š๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘ . ๐ต๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘ƒ๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘’๐‘๐‘œ ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘Ž๐‘–๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘™๐‘’."

Photo credit: Gary Miller

He also shared a funny memory about Placebo ๐Ÿ˜„ ๐Ÿ’

๐Ÿ—จ️ "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 "๐‘ƒ๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘’๐‘๐‘œ ๐บ๐‘Ž๐‘ง๐‘’๐‘๐‘œ". 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."
✔️ ๐™ฒ๐š‘๐šŽ๐šœ๐š๐šŽ๐š› ๐™ฑ๐šŽ๐š—๐š—๐š’๐š—๐š๐š๐š˜๐š— ๐š’๐š— ๐™ฐ๐šž๐šœ๐š๐š›๐šŠ๐š•๐š’๐šŠ (๐Ÿธ00๐Ÿฝ)

๐ŸŽธ In 2007, ๐‘ณ๐’Š๐’๐’Œ๐’Š๐’ ๐‘ท๐’‚๐’“๐’Œ 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. ๐‘ด๐’–๐’”๐’Š๐’„ ๐’‡๐’๐’“ ๐‘น๐’†๐’๐’Š๐’†๐’‡ is a non profit charitable organization founded by Linkin Park which helps aid victims of world catastrophes and combat global warming.

๐ŸŽธ 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 "๐‘š๐‘’๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘โ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘˜๐‘–๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘ก ๐‘‘๐‘–๐‘‘๐‘›'๐‘ก ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘™๐‘ฆ ๐‘ค๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘˜" because the audience "๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘™๐‘ฆ ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘˜๐‘–๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘๐‘˜". Not easy to deal with an audience that is not usually yours ! ๐Ÿ™‚

Photo credit: Gary Miller

◾ ๐‘ฏ๐’๐’˜’๐’” [๐‘ท๐’“๐’๐’‹๐’†๐’Œ๐’• ๐‘น๐’†๐’—๐’๐’๐’–๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’] ๐’ˆ๐’๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐’”๐’ ๐’‡๐’‚๐’“ ?

๐ŸŽค 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.
✔️ ๐š‚๐š๐šŽ๐š๐šŠ๐š— ๐™พ๐š•๐šœ๐š๐šŠ๐š• - ๐™ฐ๐š—๐šŠ๐š›๐šŒ๐š‘๐šข ๐™ผ๐šž๐šœ๐š’๐šŒ - ๐Ÿธ00๐Ÿฝ

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◾ ๐‘ฏ๐’๐’˜ ๐’…๐’Š๐’… ๐‘ท๐’๐’‚๐’„๐’†๐’ƒ๐’ ๐’ˆ๐’†๐’• ๐’•๐’ ๐’ƒ๐’† ๐’๐’๐’† ๐’๐’‡ ๐’”๐’Š๐’™ ๐’Ž๐’‚๐’Š๐’ ๐’”๐’•๐’‚๐’ˆ๐’† ๐’‚๐’„๐’•๐’” ๐’‚๐’• ๐’•๐’‰๐’Š๐’” ๐’š๐’†๐’‚๐’“’๐’” ๐‘ท๐’“๐’๐’‹๐’†๐’Œ๐’• ๐‘น๐’†๐’—๐’๐’๐’–๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’ ?
๐ŸŽค We’re here because Linkin Park invited us. Chester [Bennington] and Mike [Shinoda] are fans of the band.


◾ ๐‘ฏ๐’๐’˜ ๐’˜๐’๐’–๐’๐’… ๐’š๐’๐’– ๐’…๐’†๐’”๐’„๐’“๐’Š๐’ƒ๐’† ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’…๐’š๐’๐’‚๐’Ž๐’Š๐’„ ๐’ƒ๐’†๐’•๐’˜๐’†๐’†๐’ ๐’‚๐’๐’ ๐’•๐’‰๐’†๐’”๐’† ๐’…๐’Š๐’‡๐’‡๐’†๐’“๐’†๐’๐’• ๐’ƒ๐’‚๐’๐’…๐’” ?
๐ŸŽค 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 clichรฉ. Which I’m really happy about, because I’m not a particularly big fan – not a fan at all – of that rock-and-roll clichรฉ.
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◾ ๐‘ท๐’“๐’๐’‹๐’†๐’Œ๐’• ๐‘น๐’†๐’—๐’๐’๐’–๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’ ๐’‰๐’‚๐’” ๐’•๐’‚๐’Œ๐’†๐’ ๐’š๐’๐’– ๐’‚๐’„๐’“๐’๐’”๐’” ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐‘ผ๐’๐’Š๐’•๐’†๐’… ๐‘บ๐’•๐’‚๐’•๐’†๐’”, ๐’”๐’•๐’‚๐’“๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐’๐’ ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐‘พ๐’†๐’”๐’• ๐‘ช๐’๐’‚๐’”๐’• ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’•๐’‰๐’†๐’ ๐’Ž๐’‚๐’Œ๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐’š๐’๐’–๐’“ ๐’˜๐’‚๐’š ๐’–๐’‘. ๐‘พ๐’‰๐’‚๐’• ๐’‰๐’‚๐’—๐’† ๐’š๐’๐’– ๐’”๐’†๐’†๐’ ๐’„๐’‰๐’‚๐’๐’ˆ๐’† ๐’‡๐’“๐’๐’Ž ๐’—๐’†๐’๐’–๐’† ๐’•๐’ ๐’—๐’†๐’๐’–๐’†, ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’…๐’ ๐’š๐’๐’– ๐’‘๐’๐’‚๐’š ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’”๐’‚๐’Ž๐’† ๐’”๐’๐’๐’ˆ๐’” ๐’‚๐’• ๐’†๐’‚๐’„๐’‰ ๐’ˆ๐’Š๐’ˆ ?
๐ŸŽค 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.”

◾ ๐‘น๐’†๐’‚๐’๐’๐’š ? ๐‘ฐ ๐’•๐’‰๐’๐’–๐’ˆ๐’‰๐’• ๐’š๐’๐’– ๐’—๐’๐’˜๐’†๐’… ๐’๐’๐’• ๐’•๐’ ๐’‘๐’๐’‚๐’š ๐’•๐’‰๐’๐’”๐’† ๐’‘๐’‚๐’“๐’•๐’Š๐’„๐’–๐’๐’‚๐’“ ๐’”๐’๐’๐’ˆ๐’” ๐’‚๐’ˆ๐’‚๐’Š๐’.
๐ŸŽค 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.
✔️ ๐™ฑ๐š›๐š’๐šŠ๐š— ๐™ผ๐š˜๐š•๐š”๐š˜ - ๐š‚๐šŒ๐šŽ๐š—๐šŽ&๐™ท๐šŽ๐šŠ๐š›๐š - ๐Ÿธ00๐Ÿฝ

Photo credit: Gary Miller

๐Ÿ“ ๐™Ž๐™€๐™๐™‡๐™„๐™Ž๐™
๐ŸŽตPure Morning
๐ŸŽตBecause I Want You
๐ŸŽตMeds
๐ŸŽตEvery You Every Me
๐ŸŽตNancy Boy
๐ŸŽตSpecial K
๐ŸŽตTaste In Men
๐ŸŽตThe Bitter End


๐ŸŒŸ ๐—ฃ๐—น๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ฒ๐—ฏ๐—ผ ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐—–๐—น๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ธ๐˜€๐˜๐—ผ๐—ป (๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ ๐——๐—ฒ๐˜๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ถ๐˜) ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—”๐˜‚๐—ด๐˜‚๐˜€๐˜ ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฎ, ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿณ
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