♦️ 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍: 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘽𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙣 𝙈𝙤𝙡𝙠𝙤 𝙀𝙛𝙛𝙚𝙘𝙩 ♦️

"𝑰'𝒎 𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒔𝒚𝒎𝒑𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒄 𝒕𝒐𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒐𝒎𝒊𝒄 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒃𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒆𝒙𝒊𝒔𝒕 𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒎𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒃𝒆, 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒆 𝒄𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒃𝒆𝒚𝒐𝒏𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒎𝒆𝒂𝒏𝒔." ⭐ 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝗹𝗸𝗼 ⭐


🔸 𝑻𝒐 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒆 𝑩𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝑭𝒐𝒓 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒖𝒏, 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 gave an interview to 𝑷𝒂𝒖𝒍 𝑴𝒊𝒕𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒍 for the Scottish independent cultural magazine 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒏𝒚. From a rather classical beginning, the interview slowly slips into a more serious conversation, where Brian confesses the hard times when he was younger in London, leaving him with a lack of understanding of the world towards influential people filled with egocentricity, insensitivity and therefore indifference towards the most needy people. And you'll see with his last answer that since 2009, awareness concerning environment is changing, little by little, but it is changing 🙏

Photo credit: Trip Fontaine

🔷 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘 𝚎𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚌𝚝

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑛𝑦 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑠𝑎𝑡 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑎 𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑀𝑜𝑙𝑘𝑜, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑢𝑡𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑘𝑒𝑛 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑝𝑜𝑝𝑢𝑙𝑎𝑟 𝑎𝑙𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑟𝑜𝑐𝑘 𝑏𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜, 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑠𝑘 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔-𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑢𝑐𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠.


𝙂𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙫𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙖𝙣𝙙 (15 𝙮𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜), 𝙝𝙤𝙬 𝙙𝙤 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙤 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙪𝙚 - 𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙛𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙝 𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙖𝙨 𝙮𝙚𝙩 𝙧𝙚𝙢𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙋𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙚𝙗𝙤 𝙖𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙩𝙞𝙘 ?
💬 Well, that's the challenging equilibrium you try and strike every time you make a new record: trying to push the boundaries and limits of your sound without repeating yourself. You have to try to do something new, exciting and fresh with the band's sound and play with the band's conceived identity, but at the same time not disregarding what makes you uniquely 'you'.

𝘿𝙤𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙜𝙚𝙩 𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙠𝙞𝙚𝙧 𝙖𝙨 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙜𝙤 𝙖𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙜 ?
💬 I think so ! The greater the body of work, the more difficult it becomes to write a fresh song; it becomes a lot more challenging. As far as longevity is concerned, I think if you look at the careers of the likes of The Cure or Depeche Mode - I use those examples because they both released albums this year, 30 years into their career - well they've made music, since day one, purely on their own terms, unaffected, unconcerned by trends, movements and fashion in music. They followed their own path and stuck to their guns, and I think that's why they're still making records which are still worthwhile listening. We're 15 years in, and that's where I'd like to be in another 15. It's not like we have any other options; we're basically unemployable, you know, so this is it.

𝙋𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙚𝙗𝙤'𝙨 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠 𝙝𝙖𝙨 𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙖𝙙𝙙𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙖𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚, 𝙡𝙤𝙨𝙨, 𝙨𝙖𝙘𝙧𝙞𝙛𝙞𝙘𝙚, 𝙝𝙚𝙙𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙢 𝙚𝙩𝙘. 𝘼𝙧𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙨 𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙨𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙨 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙨 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙜𝙚𝙩 𝙤𝙡𝙙𝙚𝙧 ?
💬 I started looking back on my career around the time of Meds [fifth studio album, released in 2006]. As a lyricist I thought I was using a great deal of gimmicks. For example, the whole chemistry/medicine cabinet routine that is Commercial for Levi or a song title that screams 'Look at Me !' that is Nancy Boy ! I made a decision that I wanted to stop using gimmicks and address the bigger questions in more everyday language where possible, and try and simplify it, I suppose. Say more by saying less, that's kinda the trip I'm on right now.

Photo credit: Laetizia Forget

𝙄𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙢𝙥𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙤 𝙙𝙚𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙚 '𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙝𝙪𝙢𝙖𝙣 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣' 𝙖 𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙠𝙮 𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙚 ?
💬 Everybody who writes wants to write stuff that's timeless and doesn't date, really. I think you have to be very careful if you want to do that. You have to tap into the spirit of the age but at the same time write something that transcends it. I don't think that using incredibly culturally specific language enables you to do that. So, I'm trying to transcend that and write something that can stand up to the music that I grew up listening to. Take Leonard Cohen, for example. There's a universality in his music and a simplicity which makes it appreciable and meaningful in any decade, any century really. I think that's what I'm trying to do, hopefully in some way making a difference.

𝙒𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚'𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙖𝙘𝙝 𝙜𝙤𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙣𝙚𝙭𝙩 ?
💬 Right now I'm just wondering how the hell am I going to survive the next two years of this touring schedule and pull out of this in one piece.

𝙊𝙣 𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙫𝙞𝙤𝙪𝙨 𝙫𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙩𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙎𝙘𝙤𝙩𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙮𝙤𝙪'𝙫𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙢𝙤𝙖𝙣𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙮 𝙞𝙣 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙 𝙖𝙛𝙛𝙖𝙞𝙧𝙨, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙬𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙮 𝙤𝙪𝙩𝙨𝙥𝙤𝙠𝙚𝙣 𝙘𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙫𝙞𝙤𝙪𝙨 𝙐𝙎 𝙋𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙮. 𝙃𝙤𝙬 𝙙𝙤 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙛𝙚𝙚𝙡 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙙, 𝙞𝙛 𝙖𝙩 𝙖𝙡𝙡 ?
💬 It's good to have an intelligent person running one of the most powerful countries and someone who generally cares. I'm less sympathetic towards the economic problems that exist right now than some people might be, because I have never been able to understand the whole culture of living beyond your means. I mean, I've been unemployed for a long time, I've been homeless, I've slept in train stations and I didn't spend money that didn't belong to me. So I find it difficult to be incredibly sympathetic with the culture of avarice that has got us into this position.
The other thing that annoys me about this whole focus on our economic woes is that nobody is talking about the environment anymore, and if anything is going to get us in the ass, it's going to be that. The hole in the ozone layer is still there, 20 years after they discovered it, and it's getting bigger and bigger, yet this isn't news. I want to be involved in the world. I think it comes from being a parent; you want to try and contribute to make a place for your children to grow up in that's hopefully a little bit better than where you were. Unfortunately, it seems that we are heading straight towards some form of environmental armageddon, and perhaps we deserve to go the same way as the dinosaurs for our treatment of the planet.
✔️ 𝙸𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚟𝚒𝚎𝚠 𝚋𝚢 𝙿𝚊𝚞𝚕 𝙼𝚒𝚝𝚌𝚑𝚎𝚕𝚕 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚂𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚗𝚢 - 𝙽𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛 𝟸𝟺, 𝟸00𝟿

Photo credit: Scarlet Page

🔸 Again, it was a sensible and thoughtful interview that Brian granted us, but it's all about the clever questions as well. I definitely don't miss the days when journalists focused on Brian's appearance or the band's drug use !

🔸 Brian has long mentioned the universal nature of his lyrics and the universality of his songs. The fact that the band has been around for almost 30 years, there is no denying that Placebo's longevity is due in part to these two characteristics, amongst the poetry, the imagery, the tortured and tormented music, and Brian's unique and unrivalled voice 💖

🔸 What I like most of all are those people who manage to overcome the resentment they might have accumulated during disastrous periods in their lives to transform it into altruism and avoid reproducing what they have suffered or experienced. Knowing how to learn life's lessons with philosophy. It is so admirable and encouraging.

Photo credit: Joseph Llanes

🔸 After this touchy interview, there's nothing like a song about "𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂 𝒈𝒍𝒊𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒇 𝒉𝒐𝒑𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒕, 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒊𝒍𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈."
✔️ 𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚏𝚊𝚗 𝙾𝚕𝚜𝚍𝚊𝚕 - 𝙴𝚕𝚎𝚐𝚢 - 𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚑/𝙹𝚞𝚗𝚎 (𝟸00𝟿)

🎵 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑵𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓-𝑬𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑾𝒉𝒚 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒂𝒕 𝑷𝒊𝒏𝒍𝒑𝒐𝒑 (2009)
🎥 https://bit.ly/3vktCxx 🙏

⭐ 𝐌𝐲 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬, 𝐈 𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈 𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 / 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐨𝐨𝐧 / 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 😉

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