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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."

Photo credit: Gary Miller

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 ! 🙂

Photo credit: Gary Miller

◾ 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

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◾ 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.
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◾ 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
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