💫💙⭐"𝐈'𝐕𝐄 𝐒𝐀𝐕𝐄𝐃 𝐀 𝐋𝐎𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐌𝐎𝐍𝐄𝐘 𝐎𝐍 𝐏𝐒𝐘𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐀𝐓𝐑𝐈𝐂 𝐓𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓"⭐💙💫

📍𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐 has been up since 5am doing interview after interview after interview. He has appeared on the 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒆𝒍 𝟒 breakfast programme, 𝑹𝑰:𝑺𝑬 and has had fifteen different journalists sit before him in a row, most likely repeating the same questions. In less than 24 hours he has two live performances; one on 𝑻𝒐𝒑 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑷𝒐𝒑𝒔 and the other on the 𝑱𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝑹𝒐𝒔𝒔 𝑺𝒉𝒐𝒘.

So, you can imagine my trepidation at being the last journo to interview 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 after such a long and boring day. I presumed he would be cranky and disinterested in my questions, and with good reason. However, 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 is disarmingly friendly and charming, chatting in an open and informal way to me. He always makes eye contact when talking and his grey/blue eyes are exceptionally captivating. The man looks unfairly good considering he has been up for a long time. So, what must it be like sitting through constant interviews and being expected to be pleasant all day?
🎤“𝑻𝒐𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒂𝒚 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒑𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒕, 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆: '𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒐𝒏𝒆… 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏'. 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒎𝒚𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏 𝒉𝒂𝒔, 𝒉𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒇𝒖𝒍𝒍𝒚, 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔. 𝑯𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓, 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒂𝒏 𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒂𝒚. 𝑰 𝒂𝒎 𝒈𝒖𝒊𝒍𝒕𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒑𝒖𝒕𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒉𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒃𝒚 ‘𝒂𝒄𝒄𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒕’ 𝒐𝒄𝒄𝒂𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚.”

Photo credit: JB Mondino

𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 have bounced back into the limelight with their fourth album, ‘𝑺𝒍𝒆𝒆𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑮𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒕𝒔’ which was produced by 𝑱𝒊𝒎 𝑨𝒃𝒃𝒊𝒔𝒔, who has worked with both 𝑫𝑱 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒅𝒐𝒘 and 𝑼𝑵𝑲𝑳𝑬 respectively. With this in mind you can expect an album full of different flavours and experimentation, from the beautiful 𝑷𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝑭𝒍𝒐𝒚𝒅-𝒆𝒔𝒒𝒖𝒆 ballad, ‘𝑺𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝑵𝒆𝒆𝒅𝒔’ to electroclash inspired ‘𝑬𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒉 𝑺𝒖𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒓 𝑹𝒂𝒊𝒏’.
🎤“𝑾𝒐𝒓𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑱𝒊𝒎 𝑨𝒃𝒃𝒊𝒔𝒔 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕 – 𝒉𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝒈𝒖𝒚 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒆 𝒂𝒔𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒉𝒊𝒎 𝒕𝒐 𝒈𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒖𝒔 𝒂 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍 𝒌𝒊𝒄𝒌 𝒖𝒑 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒔𝒔. 𝑯𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒆 𝒖𝒔 𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄 𝒊𝒏 𝒂 𝒅𝒊𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒈𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒖𝒑 𝒂 𝒍𝒐𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒍. 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒏𝒐 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒖𝒍𝒂 𝒊𝒏 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒆 𝒅𝒐, 𝒘𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍 𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒌 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒆𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆, 𝒍𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒗𝒆𝒔. 𝑰 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒃𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎 𝒂𝒔 𝒂𝒏 𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝒋𝒊𝒈𝒔𝒂𝒘 𝒑𝒖𝒛𝒛𝒍𝒆.”

Which is an excellent way to describe ‘𝑺𝒍𝒆𝒆𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑮𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒕𝒔’ with its deep and personal lyrics. The title track includes the epitaph-like line “𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔 𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒅𝒊𝒆”, which tells the story of true soulmates meeting in different lifetimes. ‘𝑺𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒅 𝑺𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕’ is on the other end of the emotional scale, portraying the morning after a one night stand when one person wants more: “𝒘𝒂𝒍𝒌 𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒇𝒂𝒄𝒆 / 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒂 𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒖𝒔”. One can only imagine that there must be a plus side to airing your dirty laundry in public.
🎤“𝑰’𝒗𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒂 𝒍𝒐𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒚 𝒐𝒏 𝒑𝒔𝒚𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒂𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒄 𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑰’𝒎 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒌𝒇𝒖𝒍 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕,” laughs 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏. “𝑰 𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏 𝒂 𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒄 𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒎𝒂𝒚𝒃𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕’𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒚 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒆𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄, 𝒔𝒉𝒚 𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒊𝒕 𝒐𝒓 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒉𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒊𝒕. 𝑺𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒅𝒐𝒏’𝒕 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒔𝒐𝒓𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒇𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝒒𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒆𝒓 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒆𝒖𝒑𝒉𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒄 𝒐𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒄. 𝑰 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎 𝒊𝒔 𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒂𝒍 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒊𝒕’𝒔 𝒔𝒐 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆.”

Photo credit:  Jesus Aparicio

Surely it must be invasive having strangers (i.e. journalists) constantly grill you about your lyrics as a key to your personal life?
🎤“𝑰 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒃𝒆 𝒍𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒇 𝑰 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔𝒏’𝒕 𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆𝒔, 𝒚𝒆𝒕 𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝑰’𝒎 𝒑𝒓𝒂𝒈𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒄. 𝑰 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒛𝒆 𝒊𝒕’𝒔 𝒂 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒈𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉. 𝑯𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓, 𝒊𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒎𝒂𝒛𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒍𝒖𝒙𝒖𝒓𝒚 𝒕𝒐, 𝒂𝒔 𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒕, 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒆𝒏 𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎. 𝑰 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒃𝒐𝒕𝒉 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒎𝒚 𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒑𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒗𝒊𝒆𝒘 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒔. 𝑺𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝑰 𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒂 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒎𝒚𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏 𝒊𝒕. 𝑰 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒕’𝒔 𝒂 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒎𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑰 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒈𝒐𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒏 𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑰 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒗𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒐𝒔 𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒍𝒆𝒄𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕.”

💙 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐍𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐬 - 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 (𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨)
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But what has driven 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐 to write such creative lyrics? Are there any significant moments in his life or people that have inspired him?
🎤“𝑺𝒐 𝒎𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒊𝒏𝒇𝒍𝒖𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒅 𝒎𝒆 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔. 𝑭𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎 ['𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝑰’𝒎 𝑵𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈'] 𝒐𝒏𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒂 𝒍𝒐𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒈𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑪𝒉𝒖𝒓𝒄𝒉. 𝑰 𝒂𝒎 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒚 𝒃𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒍𝒂𝒑𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒂𝒔 𝒊𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒈𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒎𝒆 𝒔𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒂 𝒘𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒕𝒉 𝒐𝒇 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔. 𝑪𝒆𝒓𝒕𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒂 𝒍𝒂𝒓𝒈𝒆 𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒂𝒄𝒕 𝒐𝒏 𝒎𝒆 𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚. 𝑰 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒊𝒕’𝒔 𝒖𝒔𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏 𝑰’𝒎 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉. 𝑳𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈 ‘𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝑰’𝒎 𝑵𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈’, 𝒊𝒕’𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒏𝒆𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒍𝒚 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏. 𝑰 𝒖𝒔𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒃𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒔 𝑰’𝒗𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒅𝒊𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒚𝒔𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈.”

Recently, 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 completed a few warm-up shows in smaller venues than they usually play, airing the new material before the big 𝑬𝒖𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒏 tour in April. Each gig was warmly received and 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏, 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 and 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒗𝒆 looked the happiest and relaxed they had in a long time. Is this heralding a new dawn for 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 – being as content as 𝑩𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝑪𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒂𝒏 but without the band change?
🎤“𝑾𝒆’𝒓𝒆 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒂𝒎𝒂𝒛𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒚 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒆, 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄 𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎. 𝑰 𝒈𝒖𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒊𝒕’𝒔 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒚 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒅, 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒊𝒈𝒉 𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒇 𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒔. 𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝑺𝑼𝑴 𝟒𝟏 𝒐𝒓 𝑨𝒗𝒓𝒊𝒍 𝑳𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒈𝒏𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒉 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒐𝒅𝒂𝒚 𝒂𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒖𝒇𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒔, 𝑰 𝒘𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒇 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈. 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂 𝒉𝒂𝒍𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑰 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒃𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒐𝒖𝒓. 𝑰 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒘𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒙𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒂 𝒐𝒇 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒕 𝒎𝒆𝒂𝒏𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒖𝒔. 𝑾𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒂 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒇𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒈𝒕𝒉 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒂 𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒂𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝒖𝒔.”

Photo credit: David Willis

It is quite hard to believe that the articulate and sensible man sitting opposite me had a name for being a difficult interviewee and once left “𝒂 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒍 𝒐𝒇 𝒃𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒑𝒖𝒏𝒌 𝒂𝒄𝒓𝒐𝒔𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒚” in 1998 (“𝑨 𝒒𝒖𝒐𝒕𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒇𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘 𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒚 𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒗𝒆”). 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 really did have quite a reputation for drugs, sex and general misbehaviour, 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 often described as a ‘𝒅𝒓𝒖𝒈-𝒄𝒓𝒂𝒛𝒆𝒅 𝒔𝒆𝒙 𝒅𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒇’. Was this an unfair portrayal or an accurate summary of that time?
🎤“𝑰𝒏 𝒂𝒏 𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒊𝒆𝒘 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒑𝒖𝒕 𝒊𝒕 𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒘𝒆𝒍𝒍. 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅: ‘𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒂𝒏 𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒉𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒂𝒔𝒎 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒅𝒓𝒖𝒈𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒆𝒙’ 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑰 𝒃𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒂𝒄𝒄𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒖𝒔 𝒐𝒇. 𝑰𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒖𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒔𝒂𝒚 𝒘𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒂 𝒓𝒆𝒑𝒖𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒇𝒐𝒓 ‘𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒉𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒂𝒔𝒎’ 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒊𝒕’𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒃𝒐𝒅𝒚 𝒈𝒐𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉. 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒂 𝟐𝟐 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒐𝒍𝒅 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒐𝒍𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒂 𝒇𝒆𝒘 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔. 𝑮𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒉𝒊𝒎 𝒂 𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒅 𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒍, 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒚, 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒉𝒊𝒎 𝒐𝒏 𝒂 𝒃𝒖𝒔 𝒇𝒖𝒍𝒍 𝒐𝒇 𝒂𝒍𝒄𝒐𝒉𝒐𝒍, 𝒈𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒉𝒊𝒎 𝒍𝒐𝒕𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉 𝒊𝒕 𝒃𝒍𝒐𝒘 𝒖𝒑! 𝑰 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒊𝒕’𝒔 𝒂 𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒅𝒐 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝟐𝟎𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒚𝒘𝒂𝒚, 𝒊𝒕 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒔𝒐 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒆 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒅𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝒑𝒖𝒃𝒍𝒊𝒄. 𝑾𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒂 𝒍𝒐𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒃𝒓𝒂𝒗𝒂𝒅𝒐, 𝒔𝒘𝒂𝒈𝒈𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒐𝒈𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒃𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒚 𝒔𝒑𝒐𝒌𝒆 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒊𝒕 𝒂 𝒃𝒊𝒕 𝒕𝒐𝒐 𝒎𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒊𝒕’𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒚𝒕𝒉 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒔.”

𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 certainly seem a lot more chilled out now, they don’t seem to be in a rush to try everything, experience everything. Maybe, because there’s not much left for them to experience now except settling down and continuing to enjoy their music.
🎤“𝑰𝒕’𝒔 𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒂 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒚𝒍𝒆 𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒊𝒄𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒂 𝒑𝒉𝒚𝒔𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆, 𝒊𝒕’𝒔 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒅𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒚𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆. 𝑷𝒖𝒕 𝒊𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒘𝒂𝒚: 𝒊𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒐𝒐 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒄𝒖𝒓𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒌 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒅𝒐𝒏’𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝒄𝒖𝒓𝒓𝒚 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒂 𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒉 – 𝒕𝒐𝒐 𝒎𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒐𝒇 𝒂 𝒈𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝑰 𝒔𝒖𝒑𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒆. 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒛𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖’𝒓𝒆 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒊𝒎𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒂𝒍 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒔. 𝑰𝒕’𝒔 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒐 – 𝒓𝒆𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇.”

It would appear that a more mature 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 has emerged from the gritty leftovers of the 90s. ‘𝑺𝒍𝒆𝒆𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑮𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒕𝒔’ serves to represent that, justifying everything 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 has said. 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏, himself, has proved to be an honest and thoughtful person, thinking each question I ask over thoroughly to give me the best answer he can, often exploring himself through the question. So, 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 and the rest of the band, the hard work done, must be ready to sit back and watch the album do its thing.
🎤“𝑰𝒕’𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒎𝒃𝒐 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒐𝒅 𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒎𝒆𝒂𝒏𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒚𝒆𝒕. 𝑶𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒙.”

With this in mind, 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 can now go and relax with a well earned drink, safe in the knowledge that 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 have achieved No. 12 in the 𝑼𝑲 𝑻𝒐𝒑 40 and, bizarrely, No.1 in the 𝑷𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒖𝒈𝒖𝒆𝒔𝒆 charts, with their first single from the new album, ‘𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝑬𝒏𝒅’.
▪️𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑀𝑜𝑙𝑘𝑜, 𝐷𝑟𝑜𝑤𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑆𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑, 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑐𝒉 𝟐𝟓𝑡𝒉, 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟑.
✒️ 𝚋𝚢 𝚁𝚎𝚋𝚎𝚌𝚔𝚊𝚑 𝙿𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚎

Photo credit: Perou

⭐𝘋𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴, this afternoon I wanted to take you back to the time of 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐's "𝑺𝒍𝒆𝒆𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑮𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒕𝒔" album with this great interview where 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐 talks about his creative songwriting process - which I don't know about you guys, but I enjoy a lot when 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 talks about how these beautiful songs were born - and also he reflects on the band's crazy past and how they became a more mature band. 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 was wondering if people were still into the real thing, so if I may, I want to ask you soulmates, 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘰𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘣𝘰 𝘧𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮?
Before I say goodbye for today, I want to share with you the two live performances mentioned at the beginning of the interview.

🎥 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐄𝐧𝐝 - 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐭 𝐓𝐨𝐩 𝐎𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐨𝐩𝐬 🎼
https://bit.ly/3fbfodL

🎥 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 - 𝐉𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐬 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟑 (𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 + 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐄𝐧𝐝) 🎼
https://bit.ly/3sFFtod

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🌛◾ℙ𝕃𝔸ℂ𝔼𝔹𝕆 𝕃𝕌𝕃𝕃𝔸𝔹𝕀𝔼𝕊 – 𝕡𝕒𝕣𝕥 𝕀𝕏.◾🌜

⭐"𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐃𝐫𝐮𝐠𝐬 𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐠 𝐏𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰"⭐

Hello soulmates,
tonight we will spend again with Placebo lullabies.
This time I have two songs for you that will surprise you with their contrast and you can choose which will be the best for your mood today.

Today's songs are really full of contrast, maybe more so than usual for Placebo.

𝙒𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙨𝙩 𝙤𝙣𝙚, 𝙬𝙚 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙜𝙚𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙚𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙚𝙧 𝙗𝙚𝙩𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙙𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙗𝙡𝙪𝙧𝙨.

Have you ever experienced a situation where in the middle of the day your brain suddenly shuts down completely, you feel like closing your eyes and going into the dreamland for a little while...?

...You close your eyes, even when you are engaged in some important activity, but the body simply refuses to obey the brain at that moment...

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🎶🔹𝐍𝐀𝐑𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐄𝐏𝐓𝐈𝐂🔹🎶

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝟏𝟏𝐭𝐡 𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐚𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐦 "𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜".

𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨:
https://bit.ly/3W5yNxe

📌𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐰𝐢𝐤𝐢𝐩𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚:
𝘕𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘦𝘱𝘴𝘺 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨-𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘮 𝘯𝘦𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘰𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘢 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘴𝘭𝘦𝘦𝘱–𝘸𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘤𝘺𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘴.[𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘥] 𝘚𝘺𝘮𝘱𝘵𝘰𝘮𝘴 𝘰𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘥𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘥𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘺𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘴𝘭𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘧 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘴𝘭𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘦𝘱𝘪𝘴𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘴. 𝘈𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 70% 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘢𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘦𝘱𝘪𝘴𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘶𝘥𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘤𝘭𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘵𝘩, 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘢𝘴 𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘢𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘹𝘺. .../***/

I think everyone who knows the suffering of insomnia has also experienced at least small bouts of narcolepsy. I'm glad that period of falling into darkness is over for me.

The interesting thing about these states is that even during the few seconds that sleep lasts, you dream one or more dreams in very rapid succession. I used to have trouble clarifying what was dream and what was reality after waking up. They were crazy states.

Placebo's 🔹'𝐍𝐀𝐑𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐄𝐏𝐓𝐈𝐂'🔹 was my anthem at the time, mainly because of the title and one verse that touched on my states of losing track of what was real... I wanted to end everything that was hurting me, a long-term relationship, an illness, actually my life...

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⭐"...𝙄𝙩 𝙨𝙚𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙙 𝙖 𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙪𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙙𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙢..."⭐

My path to healing came in meditation... My soul was a place of peace, calm and self-acceptance, loving me unconditionally and not flooding me with constant guilt and my failure.

But to this day I still feel a connection to the song that accompanied me in difficult times, even though it was just one of many, of course...

'𝐍𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐜' is a beautiful melancholic fragile ballad mainly due to Brian's voice.

It's again about a relationship that is dying... One of the couple already feels the state of impending self-destruction, while the other doesn't want to feel it yet...


„𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙩𝙖𝙡𝙠 𝙞𝙣 𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙖𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙝𝙨 ...𝙄 𝙬𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙚 𝙢𝙮 𝙨𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 ...𝙄𝙩'𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙤𝙣, 𝙞𝙩'𝙨 𝙣𝙤 𝙡𝙞𝙚...“


The song, named after the disease of narcolepsy, seems to describe the illness of a relationship that is already on the verge of changing reality - falling asleep - dying."𝘾𝙧𝙪𝙨𝙝 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙘𝙧𝙪𝙢𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙙𝙚𝙛𝙚𝙣𝙨𝙚𝙨... 𝙄𝙩'𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙤𝙣, 𝙞𝙩'𝙨 𝙣𝙤 𝙡𝙞𝙚...

𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙛𝙧𝙖𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙝𝙤𝙩𝙤𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙝... 𝙄 𝙨𝙞𝙩 𝙤𝙣 𝙛𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙨... 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙨𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙤𝙣, 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙙𝙞𝙚..."

"𝙄𝙛 𝙬𝙚 𝙩𝙚𝙖𝙧 𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙪𝙢𝙤𝙧... 𝙄𝙩'𝙨 𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙧, 𝙣𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙨𝙤𝙤𝙣𝙚𝙧"

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Of course, drugs as an escape from painful reality also play a role here... „𝙔𝙤𝙪'𝙙 𝙗𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙠𝙚𝙚𝙥 𝙞𝙩 𝙞𝙣 𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙘𝙠... 𝙊𝙧 𝙮𝙤𝙪'𝙡𝙡 𝙚𝙣𝙙 𝙪𝙥 𝙖 𝙬𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙠... 𝘼𝙣𝙙 𝙮𝙤𝙪'𝙡𝙡 𝙣𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙬𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙪𝙥... 𝙒𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙪𝙥...“ as 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 describes in his quotes for this song:

💬🔹„𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘐 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘸𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮, 𝘐 𝘸𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘦 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘢 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘭𝘦. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘥𝘪𝘥𝘯'𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢 𝘴𝘶𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘶𝘱 𝘪𝘯 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘱𝘩𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘦. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘐 𝘸𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 "𝘕𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘤" 𝘸𝘢𝘴 "𝘓𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘋𝘳𝘶𝘨𝘴 𝘈𝘳𝘦 𝘖𝘯𝘦 𝘉𝘪𝘨 𝘗𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸". 𝘈𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯, 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 "𝘚𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘒", 𝘪𝘵 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘥𝘳𝘶𝘨𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦. "𝘚𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘒" 𝘪𝘴 𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘩 𝘰𝘧 𝘧𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦. "𝘕𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘤" 𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱𝘴, 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘧𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘵.“
(𝙼𝚎𝚕𝚘𝚍𝚢 𝙼𝚊𝚔𝚎𝚛, 𝙾𝚌𝚝𝚘𝚋𝚎𝚛 𝟸000)

💬🔹 "𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘢 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦... 𝘋𝘳𝘶𝘨𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘣𝘪𝘨 𝘱𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘴𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘶𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘢 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘯𝘢𝘮𝘣𝘶𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦, 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘴𝘭𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘸𝘢𝘭𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨.”
(𝙳𝚎𝚜 𝚌𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎𝚜 𝚎𝚝 𝚍𝚎𝚜 𝚖𝚊𝚞𝚡 𝚋𝚢 𝚂𝚎𝚋𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚎𝚗 𝙼𝚒𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚞𝚍)

A beautifully painful lullaby, what do you think?

🎬‼ 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐧𝐣𝐨𝐲 𝐢𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲'𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐎𝐋𝐘𝐌𝐏𝐈𝐀, 𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐈𝐒 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟎.‼🎬

~🔹~🔹~🔹~

𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐲 - one of Placebo's most sensual songs.

A song so hot, with such a significant sexual charge, that it has become one of my favorite lullabies.
A brilliant song with a beautifully tender musical arrangement as if directly designed for playful moments in the arms of a loved one, or for falling asleep, or for falling asleep after making love...

💞With a song like this, you just have to get the urge to cuddle...💞

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🎶🔹𝐁𝐔𝐁𝐁𝐋𝐄𝐆𝐔𝐍🔹🎶

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𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨
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This amazing song was released as b-side on the single “Slave to the wage” on September 25th 2000 and re-released on the album “B-sides 1996-2006” in 2011.

I think that in the first part of the lyrics the narrator describes his hectic life as a rock star, the only way to turn off headaches can be a fast lane (maybe cocaine...) and also sex.
"𝙏𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙢𝙞𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙚 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙄 𝙜𝙤, 𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙖𝙨𝙩 𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙚 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙄 𝙜𝙤...
𝙏𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙢𝙞𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙚 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙄 𝙜𝙤, 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙙𝙖𝙮, 𝙜𝙤𝙣𝙣𝙖 𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙞𝙩 𝙨𝙡𝙤𝙬..."

And then the song takes a straight direction... I don't have to say anything about my idea of the narrator's loaded gun, do I?🙈🤔😊

Photo credit: Kevin Westenberg

„𝙄 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙣𝙖 𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙣 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙤𝙣... 𝙛𝙚𝙚𝙡𝙨 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙖 𝙡𝙤𝙖𝙙𝙚𝙙 𝙜𝙪𝙣...“

...and in the next verse the request is clear... the man asks someone to spit out chewing gum and give him head:

„𝙎𝙥𝙞𝙩 𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙗𝙪𝙗𝙗𝙡𝙚𝙜𝙪𝙢... 𝙄 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙣𝙖...𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙣𝙖...“

...and if you get to the end and your libido isn't bubbling yet, Brian's velvety voice is bound to bring you to your knees...

The ending of this song is the very perfection of sensuality:

„𝙄 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙣𝙖...𝙄 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙣𝙖...𝙄 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙣𝙖...𝙄 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙣𝙖 𝙘𝙪𝙢.“


There are no band's quotes for this song. So I'll borrow a quote from Brian's interview that I think fits the moment best:

💬🔹 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐭.
„𝘈 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘵 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘴, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘮𝘶𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘥, 𝘢 𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘵. 𝘏𝘢𝘩𝘢𝘩𝘢𝘩𝘢𝘩𝘢! 𝘐𝘯 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘶𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦'𝘴 𝘢 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘵𝘩, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘰𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘢 𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘶𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘺𝘰𝘶, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯. 𝘞𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘶𝘯𝘯𝘺. 𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘬 𝘮𝘺𝘵𝘩, 𝘴𝘰 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘖𝘒.“
(𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝙼𝚎𝚕𝚘𝚍𝚢 𝙼𝚊𝚔𝚎𝚛, 𝙾𝚌𝚝𝚘𝚋𝚎𝚛 𝟸0𝚝𝚑 𝟸000)
~🔹~🔹~🔹~

Photo credit: Scarlet Page

Friends, how perverse is this lullaby for you as a fan of such a provocative band?

My personal opinion is that to describe its sincere sensuality in a careful, roundabout way is an insult to this very lovely song.

And if you combine listening to it with some very pleasant intimate experiences, you give it exactly the energy for which it was created.

Unfortunately for us, this gem has never been played live. Therefore, there is no video to share with you, except for 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨𝐬, 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞:
🎬🔹 https://bit.ly/3f4TMiU

Although according to my feelings - in their music I more often fall steeply down into the depths of darkness, and therefore - you have to enjoy every moment, when it lifts us up beautifully and with a smile on our face.

💖𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐈 𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐚 𝐬𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 “𝐁𝐮𝐛𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐮𝐧”.😊

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🔶⭐𝗔𝗡𝗡𝗜𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗔𝗥𝗬: 𝐎𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐅𝐄𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆⭐🔶

⭐✨“𝟏𝟕 𝒔𝒏𝒂𝒑𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒕𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐'𝒔 𝒈𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒆, 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒂𝒅𝒐𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒅𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒐𝒅, 𝒂 𝒑𝒉𝒐𝒕𝒐 𝒈𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒈𝒐𝒆𝒔 𝒃𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒕 𝒏𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑶𝑵𝑪𝑬 𝑴𝑶𝑹𝑬 𝑾𝑰𝑻𝑯 𝑭𝑬𝑬𝑳𝑰𝑵𝑮.” (𝐷𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑏𝑒𝑙, 𝑆𝑒𝑝𝑡𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 2004)✨⭐

🎊Exactly 18 years ago today, on 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟓𝐭𝐡, 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟒, the compilation album 𝐎𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐅𝐄𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆 - 𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐋𝐄𝐒 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟔-𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟒 and DVD 𝐎𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐅𝐄𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆 - 𝐕𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐎𝐒 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟔-𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟒 were released.

Photo credit: Scarlet Page; CD and DVD covers / edit by Olga

⭐As one of the reviews read back in the day, “now with four acclaimed albums under their belts [by 2004] Placebo have undertaken the release of a their singles collection, Once More With Feeling: Singles 1996 – 2004 retrospective which 𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒄𝒍𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒐𝒅𝒂𝒚.” (𝐹𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑙𝑜𝑢𝑑𝑒𝑟, 𝑂𝑐𝑡'04)

🔶𝐎𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐅𝐄𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆 - 𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐋𝐄𝐒🔶

➡️ https://bit.ly/3CM2I37

The CD includes 17 singles (the omissions are the band's debut single 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐦𝐞 and 𝐁𝐮𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐚𝐢𝐬 which was a French release only) and two new songs, 𝐓𝐰𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐲 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 and 𝐈 𝐃𝐨. Limited edition bonus disc contains ten remixes by artists such as Timo Maas, UNKLE, and M83. There is also a limited edition bonus disc exclusive to the Mexican market which features remixes by Mexican artists.

Photo credit:  Sebastien Dolidon 

𝑾𝒉𝒚 𝒅𝒊𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒅𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆 𝒂 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒊𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒏𝒐𝒘?
📢𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: There is no great mystery, after almost ten years of career, that's what the bands that are still there do. Many fellow artists who started at the same time as us, today no longer exist. People are looking for some deep meaning in this compilation, but there is none. It's not a record deal issue, because it doesn't count as an album for the record company. It's not a matter of ideas, because we've already written the new album. Maybe it was just about giving us a little time to do something else. We've been on tour for two years and we need to take a break, to distance ourselves from things a bit.

𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒘𝒐 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒔 (𝑻𝒘𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒚 𝒀𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑰 𝑫𝒐)?
📢𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: We put two previously unreleased songs on the compilation to tame the voracious appetite of our fans. We tried to impose Brian Eno rules on ourselves. The songs should not be longer than two and a half minutes and there should be no guitar. First, because we have never done it before. And also, because people think Placebo is a guitar band, and we don't like that label. Looking back, I think Twenty Years is probably one of our greatest songs. It's our closest track to U2's With or Without You, the ultimate song.
[…]
𝑾𝒉𝒚 𝒅𝒊𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒆𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒊𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏?
📢𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: It's not a ‘greatest hits’ compilation, it's not a ‘best of’, it's a kind of historical document, a chronological retrospective of the band, through its most accessible pieces. Choosing singles was a way of presenting the old repertoire. We are aware that there are 40% of fans today who got to know the band through Sleeping With Ghosts and specifically, The Bitter End. We see them at the concerts, they are 14-15 years old... At the time of the first album, they were still watching TV. Teenagers don't have a lot of money and if they want to listen to more Placebo, they shouldn’t necessarily buy all four albums.
(𝐿𝑒𝑠 𝐼𝑛𝑟𝑜𝑐𝑘𝑢𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑠, 𝑁𝑜𝑣'04)

Photo credit: Alvaro Villarrubia 

🔶𝐎𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐅𝐄𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆 - 𝐕𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐎𝐒🔶

➡️ https://bit.ly/3o7NRvP

Once more with feeling DVD consists of all videos that Placebo released from 1996 to 2004, except for 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐦𝐞 again. There are also several live videos, a documentary entitled 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐈𝐧 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 and an exclusive 𝐚𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐲 on all tracks by the band.

🔶𝑹𝑬𝑽𝑰𝑬𝑾 𝒃𝒚 𝑩𝑩𝑪🔶
There are many different versions of the Placebo story. […] But my favourite of all is the one about this perverse trio who wrote these extraordinary songs...
It's about a band who became famous for a song so sexually brave and confrontational that coy odes to boys called "Michael" sound feeble in comparison. A song about being a "Nancy Boy", about lube and rubbers and how "We're a couple / When our bodies double." And about how Molko, an actual functioning bisexual, has been unpleasantly dismissed as a sexual dilettante while the charlatan bisexuals reap plaudits.
Once More With Feeling is all about a band who wrote a song called "You Don't Care About Us". A track that's propelled by an unstoppable, elastic bass line and that flips manically between wise, sighing despair and spitting adolescent rage. A song which feels like it had no choice but to be written and which is one of the rawest, most brilliant singles of the last decade.
It's a story about the shuddering electronica of "Pure Morning", the sleazy sneer of "Every You, Every Me" and the searing riff of "Bruise Pristine". It's about a band constrained by their musical limitations but who thrashed happily within them. It's about the way that "Special K" climbs frantically towards its chorus before collapsing sadly under its own weight.
This is a singles collection which reveals to the listener the most seductively bruising rock band of recent years. Each song stems from a songwriter so instinctive and precise that when he writes a song called "The Bitter End", that's exactly what it sounds like.
And yes, it's a tale about an imperfect band, a band prone to sloppy sloganeering like "Slave To The Wage" or clumsy posturing like "Black Eyed". But the band remain electrifying, alive and enthralling in all those imperfections.
This is a story about a band who have remained fiercely independent in a bland pop landscape. Read it.
(𝐵𝐵𝐶, 2004, 𝑅𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤 𝑏𝑦 𝐽𝑎𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝐺𝑖𝑙𝑙)


🔶𝐎𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐅𝐄𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐂𝐃🔶
▪36 Degrees
▪Teenage Angst
▪Nancy Boy
▪Bruise Pristine
▪Pure Morning
▪You Don't Care About Us
▪Every You Every Me
▪Without You I’m Nothing (ft. David Bowie)
▪Taste In Men
▪Slave To The Wage
▪Special K
▪Black-Eyed
▪The Bitter End
▪This Picture
▪Special Needs
▪English Summer Rain
▪Protège-Moi
▪I Do
▪Twenty Years

Photo credit:  Jenny Lewis 

🔶𝐋𝐈𝐌𝐈𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐁𝐎𝐍𝐔𝐒 𝐃𝐈𝐒𝐂🔶
▪Special K (Timo Maas remix)
▪Without You I'm Nothing (Unkle remix)
▪Every You Every Me (Infected by the scourge of the earth mix)
▪Protège-Moi (M83 remix)
▪Slave To The Wage (I can't believe it's a remix)
▪Pure Morning (Les Rhythms Digitales remix)
▪Taste In Men (Alpinestars Kamikaze Skimix)
▪Black-Eyed (Placebo vs. Le Vibrator mix)
▪English Summer Rain (Freelance Hellraiser remix)
▪This Picture (Junior Sanchez remix)


🔶𝐎𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐅𝐄𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐃𝐕𝐃🔶
▪36 Degrees
▪Teenage Angst
▪Nancy Boy
▪Bruise Pristine
▪Pure Morning
▪You Don't Care About Us
▪Every You Every Me
▪Without You I’m Nothing (ft. David Bowie)
▪Taste In Men
▪Slave To The Wage
▪Special K
▪Black-Eyed
▪The Bitter End
▪This Picture
▪Special Needs
▪English Summer Rain
▪Protège-Moi (live)

Post by Olga

♦️𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗩𝗜𝗘𝗪♦️ (MELODY MAKER, NOVEMBER 1999)

It's time for an ♦️𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗩𝗜𝗘𝗪♦️ again. This one was given to Melody Maker by our three Placebo boys in 1999 when they were touring Australia with Silverchair. Everyone of them had to answer five questions. I found it interesting that Brian was mainly asked stuff about touring and his festival experiences while Stefan and Steve Hewitt had to answer some quite personal questions. But Brian made up for this by using the f-word in almost every statement. ;-) Enjoy reading!

Photo credit unknown

🟣𝑩𝑹𝑰𝑨𝑵🟣
𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗛𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗕𝗘𝗘𝗡 𝗨𝗣 𝗧𝗢 𝗥𝗘𝗖𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗟𝗬?
📢 "The first part of the Australian tour has been riddled with injuries and serious jet lag. Stefan fell off-stage in South Africa and broke his arm, so he's got a cast with our autographs on, and Garbage's as well. That same evening I slept in the same position for 10 hours, and woke up with a compressed vertebra in my neck. Since then I haven't been able to feel half of my head. It's the strangest sensation, especially when I shower."


𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗠𝗢𝗧𝗘𝗥 𝗟𝗔𝗦𝗧 𝗡𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧 𝗥𝗘𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞𝗘𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗜𝗗𝗡'𝗧 𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗦𝗘 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗪𝗘𝗥𝗘 𝗦𝗢 𝗣𝗢𝗣𝗨𝗟𝗔𝗥.
📢 "Neither did we. The first few gigs were a little slow - we were feeling very f***ed-u, cos of fatigue and jet lag. Melbourne and Adelaide have been incredible. Silverchair attracted quite a young audience, so there's been a lot of pent-up teenage sexual energy coming out. We're doing our best, considering I get twitches in my head and Stefan can't play the songs at all the same because of his cast. Steve's OK, he's just mad. All drummers are mad."


𝗪𝗛𝗘𝗡 𝗜 𝗟𝗔𝗦𝗧 𝗠𝗘𝗧 𝗬𝗢𝗨, 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗦𝗔𝗜𝗗 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗪𝗘𝗥𝗘 𝗚𝗢𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗧𝗢 𝗥𝗘𝗟𝗢𝗖𝗔𝗧𝗘 𝗧𝗢 𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗬𝗢𝗥𝗞.
📢 "Yeah, I always think about it. I've started having a serious relationship with someone in Paris. I've been spending a lot of time on Eurostar. To change continents right now would be self-destructive again. I should allow myself to be happy.“

Photo credit: Robin Sellick 

𝗬𝗢𝗨'𝗩𝗘 𝗗𝗢𝗡𝗘 𝗔 𝗟𝗢𝗧 𝗢𝗙 𝗙𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗩𝗔𝗟𝗦 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗦 𝗬𝗘𝗔𝗥. 𝗔𝗡𝗬𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗘𝗫𝗖𝗜𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗛𝗔𝗣𝗣𝗘𝗡 𝗧𝗢 𝗬𝗢𝗨?
📢 "We did a festival in Belgium with R.E.M. recently, and it was the first end of the world this year - the Nostradamus one, I think. So I'm telling Michael Stipe this and he's like, 'F***ing hell, man, that's great, it will give me a new way of introducing the song tonight.' And my heart was just glowing, because just before the final song, 'It's the End of the World as We Know It', he said, 'I was just talking to Brian from Placebo and he informed me it was due to be the end of the world, are you listening to me, Brian? Did we f***ing make it or what?"


𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗚𝗢𝗢𝗗 𝗠𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗦 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗥.𝗘.𝗠. 𝗡𝗢𝗪?
📢 "We've seen them about quite a bit on tour, them and the Fun Lovin' Criminals, who we got totally wasted with in Greece. I had a barney with Damon Albarn in Italy. We were standing at the side of the stage watching Marilyn Manson, and he was slagging him off. I told him I didn't think he was actually that bad. SO he put his arm around me, and said very patronisingly, 'You'll learn'... and so we started this 15-minute 'F*** you!' 'F*** you!' session between us which went all the way back from the stage to the dressing-room area."


🟢𝙎𝙏𝙀𝙁𝘼𝙉🟢
𝗛𝗢𝗪 𝗗𝗜𝗗 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗔𝗥𝗠?
📢 "It happened in South Africa. Nothing as glamorous or rock'n'roll as a punch-up or sexual games. I was watching Garbage backstage and I came off the stage and the second-to-last step gave way. We were lucky we didn't have to cancel any shows. I feel a little inadequate, like a mother's boy. It's not good for my psyche. It's the hand I fondle my tool with."


𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧'𝗦 𝗜𝗧 𝗟𝗜𝗞𝗘 𝗕𝗘𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗔 𝗦𝗘𝗫 𝗦𝗬𝗠𝗕𝗢𝗟?
📢 "It helps a lot. If you don't feel like prancing round the stage, you can just stand there and let what you look like do the work. This isn't going to last forever, we might as well take advantage of it while we're young. But you don't think about it too much. Initially, our egos blew up, but now they're back to what they were before."

Photo credit:  David Murphy

𝗗𝗢 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗚𝗘𝗧 𝗠𝗔𝗡𝗬 𝗚𝗥𝗢𝗨𝗣𝗜𝗘𝗦?
📢 "I get a certain amount of gay male interest, being the only gay man in the band. I like it, same as Steve likes black women."


𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗠𝗢𝗧𝗜𝗩𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗦 𝗬𝗢𝗨?
📢 "I ask myself that a lot. Especially when you're touring, you can feel a bit brain-dead. The challenge f writing music that precedes yourself and your reputation. Pushing the boundaries, trying to figure out who you are."


𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗠𝗘𝗦𝗦𝗔𝗚𝗘 𝗗𝗢 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗖𝗘𝗕𝗢 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗠𝗨𝗡𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗧𝗘?
📢 "The right to be outspoken."


🔵𝙎𝙏𝙀𝙑𝙀 𝙃𝙀𝙒𝙄𝙏𝙏🔵
𝗗𝗢 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗚𝗘𝗧 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗟𝗞𝗘𝗥𝗦?
📢 "Brian's had a stalker, and I had a psycho woman who turned up on my doorstep claiming she's been going out with me for a year. She was quite lovely, actually... but obviously mad. Shame."


𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧'𝗦 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗘 𝗕𝗘𝗧𝗪𝗘𝗘𝗡 𝗔 𝗗𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗗 𝗙𝗔𝗡 𝗔𝗡𝗗...
📢 "... Taking the piss and being a nuisance? It's when you get the sense that they want a piece of you. The way they waltz up to you and chat to you like they're your mate. 'Get out of my face, I don't even know you!' It's just comes down to manners. You should know when to give someone some space."

𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗗𝗢 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗞 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗖𝗘𝗕𝗢 𝗥𝗘𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗧𝗢 𝗣𝗘𝗢𝗣𝗟𝗘?
📢 "Freedom. The right to believe in yourself, especially sexually. We give gay people confidence to come out - we have a lot of people coming out at us. It's so political, self motivation - if you really want to be a nutter, be a nutter, as long as you don't hurt anyone else. It's all good clean dirty fun. It's good, getting young boys and girls seeing us as personalities. On the first album, it's all about the music, but after that your career takes off and it's more about the personalities. You have to accept that."

Photo credit: Levy

𝗛𝗢𝗪 𝗢𝗙𝗧𝗘𝗡 𝗗𝗢 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗙𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡?
📢 "Brian and I have one major argument every six months, mostly along the lines of 'Who put the f***ing cheese over there, you bastard?' 'Don't know.' 'Well, it's your f***ing cheese...' It'll blow up, and be resolved in time it took to get going in the first place."


𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧'𝗦 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗩𝗜𝗕𝗘 𝗢𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗦𝗢𝗡𝗚𝗦?
📢 "I don't have a f***ing clue. Sleazy. It feels underage, in a teenage wife kinda vibe, in a 'I'll get you when you're young, you slag' way. The first album was party, the second album was coming down from the party, the third one is 'I'm going out again, but don't tell anybody'. It's more emotional, more playful, a lot of melodies coming up. It feels very Swedish. A lot of nice, brittle melodies. It's got a European feel. Teacher/pupil relationships, they're sweet. I had a few crushes at school - mostly English teachers. Female English teachers, they're f***ing sexy."
(Melody Maker, "We're falling apart at the seams", November 1999)

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🌛◾ℙ𝕃𝔸ℂ𝔼𝔹𝕆 𝕃𝕌𝕃𝕃𝔸𝔹𝕀𝔼𝕊 - 𝕡𝕒𝕣𝕥 𝕍𝕀𝕀𝕀.◾🌜

💜Hello friends,
at the beginning of today's lullabies I want to tell you a true story from my immediate surroundings.

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💔⚡Once upon a time there was a very shy not very handsome boy and a really very pretty girl. In a fairy tale, this seemingly romantic story would probably have a happy ending. But in reality it was a great tragedy that was deeply etched in my memory.
A boy fell madly in love with a girl who was admired by other classmates. He gathered all his courage and started courting her. The young lady laughed at him in front of everyone and continued to ignore him. But she was his whole life. He still had her image in his mind and his heart was bursting not only with pain but also with jealousy.
Here it feels like I'm describing Thom's reason for writing the Creep (Radiohead) song...
Well, this story continued...


The boy withdrew and for a few weeks did nothing but stand outside her window in the shade of a huge tree in her garden and watch his goddess whenever she was in her room.
I'm not going to stretch you any further. The girl's father called the police and accused the boy of obscenity. The young man could not bear the huge misunderstanding of his expressions of love and one night hanged himself from that huge tree in her garden exactly so that he was looking into her window at the moment of his death.⚡💔

🌛◾ℙ𝕃𝔸ℂ𝔼𝔹𝕆 𝕃𝕌𝕃𝕃𝔸𝔹𝕀𝔼𝕊 - 𝕡𝕒𝕣𝕥 𝕍𝕀𝕀𝕀.◾🌜

𝐃𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐥𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲'𝐬 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭?

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🎶🔹𝐏𝐄𝐄𝐏𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐎𝐌🔹🎶
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𝗢𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗼
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💜𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨 𝐈'𝐦 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝐢𝐧 𝐕𝐢𝐞𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐮𝐞𝐬 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟏.💜
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⭐💬 “𝘗𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘛𝘰𝘮” 𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨. 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵'𝘴 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘷𝘰𝘺𝘦𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘮. 𝘈𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯, 𝘐 𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘷𝘰𝘺𝘦𝘶𝘳 𝘩𝘪𝘮𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘴𝘺𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘳. 𝘛𝘰 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘯. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘳𝘢𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘷𝘰𝘺𝘦𝘶𝘳'𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦. '𝘗𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘛𝘰𝘮' 𝘪𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 '𝘉𝘶𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘘𝘶𝘦𝘦𝘯' 𝘱𝘶𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘱 𝘧𝘶𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘶𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨. 𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘵𝘳𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘺𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘵. 𝘉𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘐 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘷𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯."
(𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝙼𝚎𝚕𝚘𝚍𝚢 𝙼𝚊𝚔𝚎𝚛, 𝙾𝚌𝚝𝚘𝚋𝚎𝚛, 𝟸000)


My opening story is just one of many. Every time I listen to this lullaby, I get a sense of the fatal act that cannot be undone. What I mean by this is that not every time a person accused of voyeurism is directly affected by this deviation. Sometimes human misunderstanding and condemnation results in a deeper chasm in humanity than we would expect.

🔹𝘋𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘤, 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴?
𝘏𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘢 𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘮 𝘰𝘧 𝘷𝘰𝘺𝘦𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘮? 𝘖𝘳 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘶𝘳𝘨𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘢 𝘷𝘰𝘺𝘦𝘶𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧, 𝘢𝘵 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘦? 🔹

Photo credit: Conny

𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐏𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐓𝐨𝐦 𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦?
At the beginning of this special term for the voyeur is a very old legend about Lady Godiva of Coventry, which has several versions. One of them states that her husband, Earl Leofric of Mercia, imposed an oppressive tax on the citizens.

Lady Godiva begged him to end the suffering of the people. But Leofric had a condition - he insisted that Godiva must ride naked - covered only in her long hair - through the city on horseback.

Before beginning this quest to help Coventry, Lady Godiva told everyone to stay indoors and shut their windows to preserve her modesty. She then rode through the streets, her long hair draped so that it covered almost her whole body, allowing only her legs and eyes to remain visible.

The name "Peeping Tom" for a voyeur originates from later versions of this legend, in which a tailor named Thomas watched her ride and was struck blind or killed for it.
Lady Godiva really lived and was married to her husband Leofric in the 11th century. However, the truth of the legend is denied by the fact that, according to historical sources, this noble married couple was known for their charity in favor of the church.
This means that many versions of this legend arose over the next several hundred years as a folkloric tradition associated with the annual fairs in the locality of Coventry.
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𝘈𝘭𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘷𝘰𝘺𝘦𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘮 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘣𝘦𝘥 𝘴𝘦𝘹𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘥𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘪𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘵 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴.
𝘕𝘰𝘸𝘢𝘥𝘢𝘺𝘴, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘢𝘭𝘬 𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘢 𝘴𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮, 𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘨𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘴𝘰𝘧𝘵𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘦, 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘦... 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘥𝘭𝘺 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘴𝘢𝘧𝘦𝘵𝘺... 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳 𝘷𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘸𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘶𝘴 𝘢 𝘨𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘴𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘤𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦.


🔹💬 𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐎𝐍 '𝐏𝐄𝐄𝐏𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐎𝐌'
⭐𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝑷𝒆𝒆𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑻𝒐𝒎 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒂 𝒑𝒆𝒆𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑻𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏. 𝑰𝒔 𝒊𝒕 𝒂 𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒉 𝒐𝒇 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔, 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒌 𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆?
𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻: "I wanted people listening to his songs to feel the emotions of the peeping Tom. I guess I'm trying to bring a human side to what people consider to be something quite perverse but it's interesting that these days we live in a culture where CCTV is very present. There are cameras everywhere. We're obsessed with each other's lives. There are even shows like Big Brother where we watch other people's lives."
(𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘 𝚘𝚗 𝙵𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚑 𝚃𝚅, 𝟸000)
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Photo credit:  Hamish Brown 

𝘋𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴, 𝘸𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘺 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘺 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘗𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘛𝘰𝘮, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘱𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘯 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮 𝘕𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘓𝘦𝘵 𝘔𝘦 𝘎𝘰 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘚𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘉𝘺 𝘚𝘱𝘪𝘦𝘴, 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘶𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘴 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯'𝘴 𝘣𝘢𝘥 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴:

⭐💬 “I then began to ponder the countless ways in which our privacy has been eroded and stolen since the introduction of worldwide CCTV cameras that now employ racist facial recognition technologies; the rise of the internet and the cellphone, which has turned practically every user into a paparazzo and spectators in their own lives, and how we have mostly all offered up personal information to enormous multinationals whose sole intent is to exploit us,”
(𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝙽𝙼𝙴, 𝙽𝚘𝚟' 𝟸0𝟸𝟷)

⭐💬 “We sleepwalk through the city, unaware of the fact that you can be followed from your doorstep to your destination. I thought to myself, ‘If good neighbours of mine can do this, then what else is going on?’ It’s just a microscopic version of what’s happening everywhere.”
(𝚁𝚘𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚂𝚝𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚄𝙺, 𝙵𝚎𝚋𝚛𝚞𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝟷𝚜𝚝 𝟸0𝟸𝟸)


Honestly - I stopped accepting this senseless human behavior a long time ago and that's why I live in the mountains, where I have the opportunity to think more about everything that is really important.

And no wonder Brian is increasingly asserting his dislike of cell phones at his concerts for the sake of his mental health, even having to move into the unknown because of snoopers around him.

💜𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐚𝐲 - let's try to perceive Brian's insistence with our hearts rather than with our egos. Let's try to imagine that this man is communicating with us through his talent and his work, in which he has put his heart, and therefore he welcomes our feedback, he wants to feel our hearts, our joy, our tears, our understanding.
It's about the energy that you're sending back towards the stage in that moment.

💜𝐋𝐞𝐭'𝐬 𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝 that through the screen of mobile phones, in which we fix our eyes, the pure momentary euphoria that every musician feeds on does not reach him.

💜𝐈𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞 for just a moment the uncomfortable feeling of spending every day in front of cell phones recording your every move and step and then your every gesture and word is posted on the internet, then you are well on your way to respecting Brian's decision.

Post by Marti

♦️𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖 with X-Ray (2003)♦️

In April 2003 Brian talked to a journalist from X-Ray and answered some very personal questions during their conversation. I picked out the most interesting and uncommon questions for you.

Photo credit: David Willis

𝗪𝗛𝗘𝗡 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗪𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗘 𝗪𝗘𝗥𝗘 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗛𝗔𝗣𝗣𝗜𝗘𝗦𝗧?
📢 ”There was a period in 1999 where I was gloriously happy, but I was delusional! (laughs) I was head over heels in love and I thought that this was it and that I was sorted and that a whole bag of worries had just left me, like Pilgrim’s Progress, losing the burden of the sins on his back. I felt deliriously happy. But in the immortal words of Ian McCulloch, nothing lasts forever.”


𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗜𝗦 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗙𝗜𝗥𝗦𝗧 𝗖𝗛𝗜𝗟𝗗𝗛𝗢𝗢𝗗 𝗠𝗘𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗬?
📢 ”I was in Africa where we were living at the time. I was about two years old and I remember being in my cot, and it seemed to me to be like a prison cell already. I remember staring through the bars watching our maid sweep the floor.”


𝗛𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥 𝗦𝗘𝗘𝗡 𝗔 𝗗𝗘𝗔𝗗 𝗕𝗢𝗗𝗬?
📢 ”Yes, when I was a kid, in a car wreck on the way to school one morning. I was shocked at how ghost white this body was. And it was very soon after the accident. It’s an image that’s never left me.”


𝗗𝗢 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗕𝗘𝗟𝗜𝗘𝗩𝗘 𝗜𝗡 𝗟𝗜𝗙𝗘 𝗔𝗙𝗧𝗘𝗥 𝗗𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗛?
📢 ”Organised religion has always seemed a bit of a cop-out to me, cos you’re accepting a list of rules without finding your own morality and your own principles – which takes more effort, but is infinitely more rewarding. The idea of life after death, which I grew up with all around me, is that it almost seems like an excuse for not living your life today. Life is so precious that it can’t be a rehearsal for some idyllic existence in the clouds. If you realise there could be nothing at the end of it all, it doesn’t mean you have to have a massive existential quandary about it, it just makes every second that you live all the more precious, and everything you do and every effect you have on other people much more important. When we go, we go. I’d like to believe in reincarnation. It would be nice, but I’m not too sure.”


𝗛𝗢𝗪 𝗟𝗢𝗡𝗚 𝗜𝗦 𝗜𝗧 𝗦𝗜𝗡𝗖𝗘 𝗬𝗢𝗨'𝗩𝗘 𝗧𝗔𝗞𝗘𝗡 𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗢𝗜𝗡?
📢 ”God, ’98. I don’t really do drugs anymore. After heroin, I had a real problem with cocaine as well. I remember talking to my manager and saying, “this is all getting to be too much effort, I don’t know if I can deal with it, I just want to get back to where I was before”, which was just a drinker and a smoker. It agrees with me; the rest of it doesn’t really at all. And that’s all I am now, a drinker and smoker. It’s good. A stoned band is a happy band!”

Photo credit: Jeffrey Delannoy

𝗛𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗛𝗔𝗗 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗛𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗧 𝗕𝗥𝗢𝗞𝗘𝗡?
📢 ”Many times. I’ve been a heartbreaker too. Which I find funny cos I’m the guy who couldn’t get laid at college. Which is why, when people treat you like some kind of sex symbol, I find it quite embarrassing. I’ve been a bad boy, and I’ve hurt people along the way. It’s impossible to exist and to take risks in life without hurting people along the way. There’s nothing worse than not attempting something cos you’re worried about a negative outcome. That’s self-censorship on a life level.”


𝗬𝗢𝗨'𝗩𝗘 𝗖𝗛𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗗 𝗕𝗘𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗡?
📢 ”Yes, shock horror, Brian Molko is a love cheat!”


𝗛𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥 𝗕𝗘𝗘𝗡 𝗧𝗢𝗧𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗬 𝗙𝗔𝗜𝗧𝗛𝗙𝗨𝗟 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗠𝗢𝗡𝗢𝗚𝗔𝗠𝗢𝗨𝗦?
📢 ”Yes. But not recently! (laughs) I often wonder if monogamy or marriage is one of these social constructs that has been put in place in order to control the general public. It’s a kickback to the Old Testament. It’s very uncommon for animals to mate for life. And there was a study done on pigeons and they found that 13% of pigeons are inherently homosexual. Gay pigeons, let’s go! (laughs) I’m convinced my dog was gay when I was growing up, too.”


𝗪𝗛𝗢 𝗪𝗔𝗦 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗙𝗜𝗥𝗦𝗧 𝗪𝗢𝗠𝗔𝗡 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥 𝗟𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗗?
📢 The woman I lost my virginity to. I was 14, she was 16. We lost our virginity together. She was a beautiful French girl called Carole. She was my first proper girlfriend.


𝗪𝗛𝗢 𝗪𝗔𝗦 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗙𝗜𝗥𝗦𝗧 𝗠𝗔𝗡 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗙𝗘𝗟𝗟 𝗜𝗡 𝗟𝗢𝗩𝗘 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛?
📢 ”I was 17. It’s when I moved to London, and fell in love with a third year drama student. I think he relished the idea of breaking me in probably more than was actually in love with me! I’ve had sporadic relationships with men since. I remember a fantastic quote of Derek Jarman’s which was “the world has to realise that heterosexuality is not the norm, it’s just common”. That says it all for me.”

Photo credit: Carole Epinette

𝗛𝗢𝗪 𝗖𝗟𝗢𝗦𝗘 𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗧𝗢 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗙𝗔𝗠𝗜𝗟𝗬?
📢 ”My father and I don’t communicate anymore. We’re just not good for each other so we’re not in each other’s lives. I love my mum but she’s deeply religious. Our conversation is limited because I essentially do something that is not the way of the Lord. She’s just had to get used to it. I think the make-up is the thing that annoys my mum the most. Thankfully she’s hard of hearing, so she hasn’t really got the records fully. I have an older brother who I’m really close with, and that’s it.”


𝗗𝗢 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗕𝗘𝗟𝗜𝗘𝗩𝗘 𝗜𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗔𝗣𝗬?
📢 ”I’ve considered it many times. I’ve been very close to going to see people; I’ve cancelled appointments on the day for many different reasons. But to be honest, I’m lucky to have the music, that’s totally where I get it out. I’m quite happy with the amount of neuroses I’ve got now. They keep me ticking over. If I got rid of them all, who knows, I might become Sting for God’s sake, and I can’t imagine anything worse on this planet!”


𝗜𝗙 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗠𝗘𝗧 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗚𝗘𝗥 𝗦𝗘𝗟𝗙 𝗡𝗢𝗪, 𝗪𝗢𝗨𝗟𝗗 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗕𝗘 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗨𝗗 𝗢𝗙 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗬𝗢𝗨'𝗗 𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗡𝗘𝗗 𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗢?
📢 ”Yes, I'm improving as a human being. I have more respect for people, I'm learning to become less egocentric and arrogant and I'm learning to listen to people a lot more, which I think is really important. If I was able to go back to my younger self, I think I'd say to myself "drink more water and don't worry about it, it's going to get better". And I think it does. For me, my twenties were definitely a second adolescence which I feel I'm coming out of right now. It was a chaotic, schizophrenic and excessive time and I experienced a lot and learned a great deal from it. I would have a real problem as a human being if I hadn't.
I do think it gets better. I wouldn't necessarily do my twenties again, cos it was a very difficult time. But the demons don't shout as loud anymore. It's okay being me right now.”

Post by Silke

⭐ 𝟏𝟎𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐀𝐑𝐘 of 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐's "𝐁𝟑 𝐄𝐏" ⭐

🎉 Today we celebrate the ⭐ 𝟏𝟎𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐀𝐑𝐘 of 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐's "𝐁𝟑 𝐄𝐏" ⭐, which was released three days later than originally announced, on October 15, 2012.

The "𝑩𝟑 𝑬𝑷", was produced by 𝑨𝒅𝒂𝒎 𝑵𝒐𝒃𝒍𝒆, 𝑫𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒅 𝑩𝒐𝒕𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒍𝒍 and 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐; consists of five tracks, two new songs ("𝑩𝟑", "𝑰.𝑲.𝑾.𝒀.𝑳"), two unreleased songs that were recorded in the sessions of the previous album "𝑩𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝑭𝒐𝒓 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒖𝒏" ("𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑬𝒙𝒕𝒓𝒂", "𝑻𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝑰𝒔 𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒚") and finally, "𝑰 𝑲𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝑾𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝑻𝒐 𝑺𝒕𝒐𝒑", the cover of the 90s band 𝑴𝒊𝒏𝒙𝒖𝒔.

Photo cedits: Band - Kevin Westenberg, CD & vinyl covers - Helena Berg // Edit by Rira

💫 𝐁𝟑 🎼
https://bit.ly/3D0gzFV

💫 𝐈 𝐊𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐖𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐓𝐨 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐩 🎼
https://bit.ly/3s3yCV7

💫 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐚 🎼
https://bit.ly/3gc1FU4

💫 𝐈.𝐊.𝐖.𝐘.𝐋 🎼
https://bit.ly/3D0gzFV

💫 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐈𝐬 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐲 🎼
https://bit.ly/3S1XDL5


On May 31, 2012, the band announced on their website that after taking a well-deserved break, they had returned to the studio to record new music.


📍𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅 𝟎𝟓.𝟑𝟏.𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟐
📜“[...] 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."

Photo cedits: Charlotte Boquet

And so it was, the following month 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 premiered "𝑰 𝑲𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝑾𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝑻𝒐 𝑺𝒕𝒐𝒑" a cover version of the band 𝑴𝒊𝒏𝒙𝒖𝒔, in four of the five concerts of the mini tour "𝑨 𝑹𝑶𝑪𝑲 𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔", which are to date the only times the band has played this song live.


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


Then, on July 28, 2012 at the 𝑳𝒐𝒘 𝑪𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝑭𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒍 in 𝑩𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒅𝒐𝒓𝒎, 𝑺𝒑𝒂𝒊𝒏, almost at the end of the show, 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐 paused to premiere their brand new song, which he introduced speaking in 𝑺𝒑𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒉, saying more or less like this:


✨🎤 "𝑭𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒔, 𝒈𝒊𝒓𝒍𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒔… 𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒂 𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒆, 𝒂 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕… 𝑭𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅𝒘𝒊𝒅𝒆, 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈, 𝒇**𝒌 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒉!! 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒔 𝑩𝟑" 🎶✨


🎸 𝐁𝟑 - 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐭 𝐋𝐨𝐰 𝐂𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟐 🎶
https://bit.ly/3EEXAlr


💫⭐ 𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐌𝐎𝐋𝐊𝐎 𝐎𝐍 𝐁𝟑 𝐄𝐏 ⭐💫
🎙️"We reconvened in the summer of 2012 ostensibly to record a new single as we had just signed a new record deal. That single morphed into the five-track B3 EP which we released in the autumn to placate the more militant factions of our fanbase."
▪️𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝚋𝚔.𝚊𝚜𝚒𝚊-𝚌𝚒𝚝𝚢.𝚌𝚘𝚖, 𝟸𝟶𝟷𝟹.

🎙️"[...] At the time we got in the studio to record one and only single, just one song. Then we thought fans would like to hear more, that's where the idea of the EP came from. While we were in the studio recording "B3", the idea of working on a full album insidiously came in our minds. Spontaneously, we were already writing Loud Like Love."
▪️𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝙼𝚢 𝚁𝚘𝚌𝚔, 𝙹𝚞𝚕𝚢 𝟸𝟶𝟷𝟹.

Photo cedits: Getty Images

💫⭐ 𝐁𝟑 𝐄𝐏 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐊 ⭐💫
The cover photo of both the CD and the limited edition clear vinyl is very special, as the boy kissing the glass and behind those clouds of steam is none other than 𝑪𝒐𝒅𝒚 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐. The photographs were taken by his mother, the photographer 𝑯𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒂 𝑩𝒆𝒓𝒈. On the other hand, the internal images of the sky were taken by 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐 and the design was done by 𝑨𝒏𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒏𝒚 𝑪𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒌. Along with the release of the "𝑩𝟑 𝑬𝑷", 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 launched the "#𝑩𝟑𝑲𝒊𝒔𝒔 𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏" 💋 where fans had to recreate the cover to win a framed test print of the "𝑩𝟑 𝑬𝑷" cover picture signed by 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏, 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 and 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒗𝒆 𝑭𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕. The winner was chosen by the band members themselves.


⭐ 𝐂𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐅𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐬 ⭐
✨ On the occasion of 𝑹𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒅 𝑺𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝑫𝒂𝒚 on April 20, 2013, a limited edition of the "𝑩𝟑 𝑬𝑷" was released on 10-inch clear vinyl.

✨ The "𝑩𝟑"official video was released on October 17, 2012 and was directed by 𝑬𝒓𝒊𝒄 𝑬𝒑𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒊𝒏.

✨ About the title track, 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 and 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 stated that:
🎙️" 'B' means "Brian", and 3... well, it’s just a number."
▪️𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚏𝚊𝚗 𝙾𝚕𝚜𝚍𝚊𝚕, 𝚃𝚒𝚖𝚎 𝙾𝚞𝚝, 𝚂𝚎𝚙𝚝𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛 𝟸𝟶𝟷𝟹.

🎙️ "I am dissatisfied with who I am.That's why the song, 'B3' is about the freedom to pursue what is essential. But identifying that is difficult because you change. I'm different than when the band was founded. And now I'm bored when I look in the mirror and put on the make-up."
▪️𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘,𝙺𝚞𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚛, 𝟸𝟶𝟷𝟸.


🎸 𝐁𝟑 - 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐭 𝐒𝐳𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟐 🎶
https://bit.ly/3ewLsYX

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🎶𝐃𝐀𝐘𝐒 𝐁𝐄𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐂𝐀𝐌𝐄🎶

“𝐃𝐀𝐘𝐒 𝐁𝐄𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐂𝐀𝐌𝐄” is a song from Placebo's third record "𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰" (2000). An album about which Brian said that it “rocks harder then the first two put together. It deals with violence quite a lot” (Kerrang, July 15th 2000). In another interview with the same magazine he stated that it's “anger and energy. It's the final part of our trilogy“.

So what about the debut album (“Placebo”) and its follow-up (“Without you I'm nothing”)? – In hindsight Brian saw it like this: “You know, the first album dealt with sex, drugs and rock and roll. Crazy sex, wild sex, sex on drugs, all that. On the second we're dealing with the after effects of that“ (Circus, May 1999). Or in other words: "The first album was a bit of a party and the second album is kind of the hangover. I describe this record as a post-coital depression" (Steve Hewitt, The Mirror, March 18th 1999).

Photo credit:  Claudia Schmölders 

But back to “Black market music”. The themes that run through the album, actually through Placebo songs in general, are love and drugs. Brian: “That's what people get addicted to most in life. And they are often the same. People have the same reactions to both” (Melody Maker, October 20th 2000). He also said that for him this idea of addiction is not only related to substances and people but also to emotions or situations.
Although “Black market music” is still about the same themes as the previous records it adds something new to the songs: “'It is more of a political record, an anger record. It's simply because we've ceased to navel-gaze as much and started to react to the injustice and the pain of the outside world" (Brian, Eye Weekly, April 26th 2001).

According to Brian “Days before you came” isn't written about someone in particular. He explained that the lyrics can be read either about someone falling in love or someone kicking an intense drug habit. Brian: “I think the provisional line in the song is 'I didn't want you anyway' about something taking over your life without you asking for it (see quote below).

“Days before you came” was recorded at Townhouse Studios in London and produced by Paul Corkett. It was engineered by Lorraine Francis and mastered by Ian Cooper.
The song was played live mainly during the “Black market music” tour in 2000 and 2001. After that it was performed only at three more occasions in early 2003. Altogether it was brought on stage 104 confirmed times. The shared video was recorded at Bizarre Festival in Germany on August 18th 2000. This was a quite short set consisting of only twelve songs.

📌 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗢𝗡 “𝗗𝗔𝗬𝗦 𝗕𝗘𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗘 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗖𝗔𝗠𝗘” 📌
📢 "It isn't written about anyone in particular, it's a song for no one really. It's straightforward lyrically and you can read it as someone falling in love or even someone kicking a really intense drug habit. I think the provisional line in the song is 'I didn't want you anyway' about something taking over your life without you asking for it. Or if you have to give up something bad in your life, healthwise, it's not necessarily because you want to, it could be something as simple as cigarettes or something far more dangerous."
(Brian, unknown magazine, 2000 [source: angelfire])

Photo credit:  Claudia Schmölders 

📜 𝗟𝗬𝗥𝗜𝗖𝗦
Days before you came
Freezing cold and empty
Towns that change their name
And a horn of plenty

Days before you came
Counting breaths inside me
Even crack-cocaine
couldn't start to hide me

Won't you join me now?
Baby's looking torn and frayed
Join the masquerade
Join the masquerade

Won't you join me now?
Baby's looking to get laid
Join the masquerade
Join the masquerade.

Days before you came
It always seemed enticing
to be naked and profane
There is no denying

Days before you came
Thunderbolt and lightning
Each day a brand new vein
Each tourniquet colliding

I didn't want you anyway 

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⭐𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐈'𝐌 𝐍𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐀𝐑𝐘⭐

🔹"𝙄 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙠 𝙞𝙩'𝙨 𝙖 𝙧𝙤𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙘 𝙖𝙡𝙗𝙪𝙢, 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙄 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙠 𝙞𝙩'𝙨 𝙦𝙪𝙞𝙩𝙚 𝙙𝙚𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙖𝙨 𝙬𝙚𝙡𝙡. 𝙄𝙩'𝙨 𝙢𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙢𝙮𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛 𝙪𝙥 𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚, 𝙗𝙖𝙨𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮. 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚'𝙨 𝙖 𝙡𝙤𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙗𝙞𝙡𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙫𝙞𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙤𝙡 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙪𝙢𝙚 𝙞𝙩'𝙨 𝙙𝙞𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙖𝙩 𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙨, 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙞𝙩'𝙨 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙙𝙞𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙖𝙩 𝙢𝙚."🔹
(𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, '𝙽𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚢 𝙱𝚘𝚢' 𝚁𝚘𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚂𝚝𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝙽𝚘𝚟'𝟿𝟾)

Photo credit: Corinne Day, Frank W. Ockenfels III., David Tonge, rest unknown edit by Marti

Hello friends,

Placebo has released 8 studio albums, compilations, covers and many successful singles during its existence. The guys have toured the world several times. They've met a lot of people important to their work and their lives.

Why am I writing all this?
Because every event in the life of this successful and beloved duo deserves our memory and a little celebration.

𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐰𝐞 𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟐𝟒𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐦 𝐢𝐧 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨'𝐬 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐫.

‼⭐𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐈'𝐌 𝐍𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐀𝐑𝐘⭐‼

🔹🎶𝐎𝐅𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐋 𝐀𝐔𝐃𝐈𝐎
https://bit.ly/3FDgYxi

It is full of gems in which each of us will find the story of our lives.
Can you admit which song from this album you like the most and what memories connect you to it?
Who among you was already a fan when Placebo released this yellow gem?
And which of you became their devoted soul thanks to this album?
So let's break the series of lullabies again today and immerse ourselves in memories.

Photo credit: Corinne Mariaud 

⭐𝐀𝐋𝐁𝐔𝐌 𝐅𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐒
'𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐈'𝐦 𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠' 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨 𝐚𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐦 𝐛𝐲 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐦
- was recorded over three months in 1998 at Real World Studios in Wiltshire (except Pure Morning - see text below).

- 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝟏𝟐𝐭𝐡 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟖 by record labels Hut, Virgin Records and Elevator Music on CD, cassette and vinyl.

- was produced by 𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐕𝐄 𝐎𝐒𝐁𝐎𝐑𝐍𝐄 (Suede, A-Ha, U2).

- The CD was made in two colors - black and red.

- contains 12 tracks plus the 13th hidden track – Evil Dildo


𝟓 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐦:
◾"Pure Morning"
Released: 3 August 1998
◾"You Don't Care About Us"
Released: 28 September 1998
◾"Every You Every Me"
Released: 25 January 1999
◾"Without You I'm Nothing"
Released: 16 August 1999
◾"Burger Queen Français"
Released: 22 November 1999


⭐𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐌𝐄𝐑𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐋 𝐒𝐔𝐂𝐂𝐄𝐒𝐒:
'WYIN' is probably the most admired album by fans and critics to date, peaking at number 7 on the UK Albums Chart and at number 20 on the US Billboard Heatseekers Albums chart. Without You I'm Nothing went platinum in the UK and gold in France and has sold over one million copies to date.

⭐𝐖𝐘𝐈𝐍 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐂 𝐂𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐒:
Without You I'm Nothing has been generally well received by critics.

I really like this one from James Oldham of NME:
📌Molko's skill lies in his inherent grasp of what makes for an exciting pop record. He might cite Sonic Youth as his prime influence, but they have never made a record that's come close to matching the muscular force of this album. The sheer clarity and power of the sounds here frequently take your breath away: the cranked-out guitar line of 'Pure Morning', the rumbling fuzz of 'Allergic (To Thoughts Of Mother Earth)', the strung-out, mechanical beauty of 'My Sweet Prince', they're all fantastic moments, glossed and fattened by Steve Osbourne's amazing production and strongly reminiscent of both Nirvana's 'Nevermind' and Hole's 'Celebrity Skin'.

That's what Placebo are pushing towards all the time: the perfect radio hit. These aren't songs that need to be studied too carefully. Whatever Molko says about the vulnerability and self-criticism of the lyrics on this record, the overall effect hardly reeks of repentance or fragility, the songs here are too confident for that, too sure of both where they're going and how they're going to get there.
A thrilling record, then, made by freaks, for freaks. Just don't expect to leave with your soul intact.


⭐𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐅𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐒:
Twelve songs were originally recorded in the sessions, excluding "Pure Morning" and including another track, "Kitsch Object".
🔹”𝐊𝐈𝐓𝐒𝐂𝐇 𝐎𝐁𝐉𝐄𝐂𝐓”🔹 is an officially unreleased song from 1997 and exists only as demo version. It was planned to be included in the album “Without you I'm nothing”, but after about 15 attempts to record a proper studio version that they were satisfied with the band decided that “Kitsch Object” would solely be played at live concerts.
But apparently the live context didn't work for the song neither, there are only eight confirmed performances of this song to be found., all of them took place in 1997.

🔹🎶 𝐊𝐈𝐓𝐒𝐂𝐇 𝐎𝐁𝐉𝐄𝐂𝐓 𝐃𝐄𝐌𝐎 𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍:
https://bit.ly/3CNKZem

🔹🎬 𝐊𝐈𝐓𝐒𝐂𝐇 𝐎𝐁𝐉𝐄𝐂𝐓 𝐋𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍 (Brixton Academy 1997)
https://bit.ly/3VmQMyz

Photo credit: Scarlet Page

⭐𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐏𝐔𝐑𝐄 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐃𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐂𝐄𝐒𝐒:
In 2016, Brian took part in a poll organized by Vice magazine called "𝙍𝙖𝙣𝙠 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙍𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙨". His memories are still very vivid today:

💬 "I guess we were still learning how to use the studio, and we were looking to flesh out our sound beyond the power trio format. But it was a difficult record to make because we had a very dysfunctional relationship with our producer [Steve Osborne]. By the end of it, we weren't even talking. And it wasn't as if we'd had any major arguments. We started off not talking much anyway, and then as the months went by, it became less until there was no talking. It was such a strange atmosphere. The breakthrough track was "Pure Morning," and we didn't record that until our work with Steve was done. We recorded that during a B-side session with a different producer, Phil Vinall. That was like we were kids in a candy shop. It was borne out of chaos, because the pressure was off. So we just started playing around with all of these different sounds and that song was the result. I hadn't heard it in about ten years until recently, and I was actually surprised at how timeless and modern that song actually sounds. I have no issues whatsoever with the music—I actually really quite like the music—I just don't think the lyrics are my best. That's kind of why we haven't played it in concert for the last decade. Probably nine years to be precise. "Nancy Boy" neither, which is why we decided to resurrect them from the grave for this tour we're embarking on."

🔹𝘑𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘴𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸, 𝘪𝘯 2009 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘣𝘰'𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮.
💬 "Did I? Well there you go. [Laughs] In 2009? How can I respond to that? Only stupid don't change their minds? And Christians? It just goes to show how strange this exercise is for me."
(𝚁𝚊𝚗𝚔 𝚈𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚁𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚛𝚍𝚜, 𝚅𝚒𝚌𝚎 𝙼𝚊𝚐., 𝙾𝚌𝚝. 𝟸0𝟷𝟼)


⭐𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐀𝐋𝐁𝐔𝐌 𝐓𝐈𝐓𝐋𝐄
One of the reasons for choosing the album title was the 🔹𝐒𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐚 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐦 '𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐈'𝐦 𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠' 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟎:🔹


🔹𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮... 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘦... 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘶𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘭𝘦, 𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘐'𝘮 𝘕𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨. 𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘷𝘢 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦. 𝘈𝘮 𝘐 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵?
💬 "You're right. It's also a Sandra Bernhard movie. It came from there. But it was also like the working title of the album because it seemed to reflect and project the scheme. This album is a real exploration of the emotions that we've been through in the last one and a half years. It's been complete heartbreak, really. So it's not surprising that you have a whole album that is practically filled with love songs. And that works on several levels -- there's one person in my past who it is kind of about."
(𝙸𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚟𝚒𝚎𝚠 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘 𝚋𝚢 𝚁𝚒𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚍 𝚂𝚖𝚒𝚝𝚑, 𝙶𝚊𝚢 𝚃𝚒𝚖𝚎𝚜, 𝙳𝚎𝚌'𝟿𝟾)

You can read more about this interesting film in this review.
https://bit.ly/3Thgra6

Photo credit: Kevin Westenberg

🔹💬 “It's a very romantic title and when we were demoing the album it seemed to sort of emerge as something that... a way of getting the theme of the record across. You know the record's like sort of primarily about an ever-pervading loneliness and heartbreak really and you know there's quite a few relationship songs in there so on one level it's kind of like us... it's a message for us, from us to ourselves, to each other in the band. It's a message to our fans and it's also sort of something that's universal in the way that most people have felt that at least once in their lives.“
(𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝙿𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚎𝚋𝚘 𝚒𝚗 𝙲𝚘𝚗𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚂𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚂𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚝𝚘𝚗, 1998)


🔹𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘰𝘳 𝘸𝘩𝘰𝘮 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵?
💬 B."You know, that’s about someone I used to go out with really, and that was like me exorcising the guilt or that failing relationship which I was mainly responsible for."
(𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝙽𝙼𝙴, 𝙳𝚎𝚌' 𝟿𝟾)

~*~*~*~*~
𝐀𝐬 𝐰𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐯𝐞, 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧'𝐬 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐞𝐫 𝐎𝐬𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐞𝐬𝐭. 𝐇𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐥 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐚𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐦 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟏:


🔹𝐍𝐘𝐑𝐎𝐂𝐊: 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘥 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘗𝘢𝘶𝘭 𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘦𝘵𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦....
💬 𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍: "That's true, yes. I don't want to mock Steve [Osborne, producer of the previous album], he's killer when it comes to dance grooves, which is one of the reasons why we wanted to work with him in the first place. We always liked to introduce electronic elements into rock, but it just didn't spark enough. It didn't spark the way we wanted it to spark. I think where our debut was under produced, Without You I'm Nothing was overproduced, not grossly overproduced but still overproduced. None of the albums sounded phat enough for our taste. They were all good albums and we're still proud of them, but they just weren't exactly what we wanted them to be, exactly what we imagined."

🔹𝐍𝐘𝐑𝐎𝐂𝐊: 𝘐 𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘩 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮𝘴. 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘥𝘪𝘥𝘯'𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘠𝘰𝘶?
💬 𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍: "Don't get me wrong, I don't have a problem with it. I wanted it to sound really phat but if I look back now, I think Without You has too many slow songs for a second album. But what the hell, that's how we felt during that phase, we were in a slow mood."
(𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘 𝙸𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚟𝚒𝚎𝚠, 𝙽𝚈𝚁𝙾𝙲𝙺 𝚖𝚊𝚐., 𝙰𝚙𝚛𝚒𝚕 𝟸00𝟷)


⭐𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐀𝐋𝐁𝐔𝐌 𝐂𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑:
The iconic yellow cover was designed and created by the well-known English photographer Corrine Day, who also photographed the covers for the album's promotional singles.

✨𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐍𝐄 𝐃𝐀𝐘 (1962 – 2010) was a British photographer whose influence on the style and perception of photography in the early 1990s and onwards has been immense. Self-taught, she became well-known for her raw, intimate and documentary-style images, which defined the 90s and specifically, the times of grunge culture.

The guys had a friendly bond with Corinne, as we know from the few references that can be found:


“𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒂𝒃𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒔. 𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑪𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒏𝒆 𝑫𝒂𝒚.”
With these words Brian Molko introduced Nirvana’s cover 𝐀𝐥𝐥 𝐀𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐞𝐬 at the outstanding concert at Brixton Academy in London on September 28th, 2010.
➡️ https://bit.ly/2L2SWDV

A bit earlier, on September 1st, Placebo dedicated 𝐒𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐓𝐨 𝐒𝐚𝐲 𝐆𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐛𝐲𝐞 particularly to Corinne while playing at Un Palco In Collina Festival in Noci, Italy.
The video is of a bad quality but you can clearly hear Brian saying: “I’d like to dedicate this next song to Corinne Day. Thank you.”
➡️ https://bit.ly/3lQHnMK

Photo credit: Adrian Green

🔹💬 "Sarah and Sally, the twins on the cover, run a magazine called Blag, which started in the early 90s. So we’ve been in the same kind of circles since we moved to London around the age of 18. Over the years we’ve been meaning to connect and hang out and see how everyone’s doing and it just never happened. So [re-shooting the album cover] was the perfect opportunity to touch base and reminisce about Corinne Day, who shot the cover and is sadly now passed away. Sometimes it feels like you have to take the time to reconnect with events that are important for you, and this certainly was an important point in our lives and a little bit for them as well. […]"
(𝑆𝑡𝑒𝑓𝑎𝑛 𝑂𝑙𝑠𝑑𝑎𝑙, 𝑉𝑖𝑐𝑒, 𝑂𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑏𝑒𝑟 2018)


The album cover features two women, sisters 𝐒𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐄𝐝𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 (who nowadays run the online 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐠 𝐌𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐞), sitting on a table in front of each other, looking down at the table. The light coming in from the curtains makes a yellow colour on the cover of the album.

📌 𝘐𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘖𝘭𝘨𝘢'𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦:
https://bit.ly/3CNKwJ8


⭐𝐖𝐘𝐈𝐍 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐃𝐀𝐕𝐈𝐃 𝐁𝐎𝐖𝐈𝐄
When we talk about this album, we also can't forget the mentor and personal friend of the band, David Bowie, who raised the title song to the highest level.

Here I like to use 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧'𝐬 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐚 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟕 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭, where he remembers David after his death:

📌 𝘐𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘋𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘥 𝘉𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘢 𝘳𝘦-𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮 𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘐’𝘮 𝘕𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘶𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘥’𝘴 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘦.

💬 “That song is very misunderstood” says Molko, “it is not a love song, the narrator is suffering from pathological low self-esteem. It’s about co-dependence, feeling like you don’t have an identity without somebody else.”

𝘐𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘺, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘯 𝘰𝘯 𝘢 𝘸𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢 𝘧𝘢𝘳 𝘥𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘔𝘰𝘭𝘬𝘰 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘉𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘦’𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘪𝘯 𝘑𝘢𝘯𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘺 2016. 𝘐𝘯 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘣𝘰’𝘴 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘥𝘢𝘺𝘴, 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘺 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘱 𝘴𝘸𝘪𝘱𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘥, 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘉𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘦’𝘴 𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘺𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘥𝘶𝘮𝘣 𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘢 𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘬𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴. 𝘈𝘴 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘰𝘯𝘵, 𝘉𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮, 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱.

💬“We’ve been flashing up images of David whilst playing ‘Without You I’m Nothing’ on this tour and some nights it's been such an emotional experience that I've come very close to breaking down into tears" Molko confides. "There was a point during the summer where I said to Stefan 'I'm not too sure if I can play this anymore, it's tearing me apart'. But I’ve got over that now and instead, it has become a celebration of who David Bowie was and the impact he had on me as a human being, as well as a musician. The best advice he ever gave us was 'whatever you do, never lose your spontaneity'. David was always one for taking left-corners and going off on tangents and I think he infused a courage in us to do exactly that, to constantly re-invent ourselves. So yes the significance has changed, it's become a lot more about David for me, which is ok. He's kind of constantly with me at the moment, which is quite sweet and I reflect on our conversations, on his advice and what it was like to see him play every night for five years when we were touring together; he's like my guardian angel!”

💗🎬𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐝𝐮𝐞𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞:
Bowie / Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing - Irving Plaza, 29th March 1999
https://bit.ly/3MojHOI

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🔹𝐀𝐥𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐚 𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧'𝐬 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐪𝐮𝐞 𝐠𝐞𝐦, 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐎𝐬𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐖𝐘𝐈𝐍 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲.🔹
I'm putting his statement at the end of today's post and now I'm going to say goodbye.

The memory of the release of this yellow treasure is very personal to me today. Thanks to this album, I got to know a band that made its mark on my heart and still holds a vital place in it today.
I will be happy if you share with us the feelings that songs like Pure Morning, Brick Shithouse, You Don't Care About Us, The Crawl or My Sweet Prince left in you..

𝙉𝙤 𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙄 𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙒𝙔𝙄𝙉, 𝙞𝙩 𝙖𝙡𝙬𝙖𝙮𝙨 𝙝𝙞𝙩𝙨 𝙢𝙮 𝙙𝙚𝙨𝙥𝙖𝙞𝙧, 𝙙𝙚𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙧 𝙢𝙚𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙝𝙤𝙡𝙮. 𝙄𝙛 𝙮𝙤𝙪'𝙫𝙚 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙛𝙚𝙡𝙩 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙖𝙣 𝙤𝙪𝙩𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙧, 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙖𝙡𝙗𝙪𝙢 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙮𝙤𝙪.


📌𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐮𝐬 𝐎𝐟… 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐈’𝐦 𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐲 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨📌

While Placebo’s debut revelled in hedonism, its sequel was all emotional aftermath, and demonstrated more assured songwriting. Producer 𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐕𝐄 𝐎𝐒𝐁𝐎𝐑𝐍𝐄 tells us more.
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With its more robust sonics and more complex emotions serving a series of perspectives on relationship breakdown, Without You I’m Nothing would verify Molko and musical partner Stefan Olsdal’s songwriting prowess – and their faculty for crafting bewitching arrangements.
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Dissatisfied with the ‘thin’ sound of their debut and the frustration of building each track one instrument at a time, the band largely recorded Without You I’m Nothing live. After meeting Happy Mondays and New Order producer Steve Osborne – a big fan of the band’s debut – following a show in Manchester, Placebo agreed to work with him to craft this more direct-sounding album at Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studios.

“They already had pretty much everything ready to go when it came to making the album,” Osborne tells us. “There was stuff like Brick Shithouse, which needed a little more production in terms of the sound, but overall our approach was to make an old-school band-playing-in-a-room record.”

These idiosyncratic approaches fed into Molko’s magnetism. “What you do is develop your own style through mistakes,” the guitarist told Alternative Press in 1999. “If you don’t know what the rules are, then there are no rules in the first place. You’ll find you’re doing some crazy chord which, if you were taking a course, you wouldn’t attempt until three years into it.”
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Photo credit: David Tonge

Osborne was hugely impressed by the 26 year-old’s abilities. “Brian totally had his own style, his own way of playing,” he tells Guitar.com. “I mean, I think that’s the thing about Placebo. They’ve got this very unique sound. Stefan too, he would be playing bass chords on the Fender VI. That made it difficult to mix the low end sometimes but, together, their whole ethos and sound was attractive.”

The album’s 12 songs sketched out a multi-hued postmortem of a relationship, digging into suffering via the depressive plod of The Crawl and the thorny swing of Summer’s Gone. But at the album’s core was an optimistic, radiant little gem that motored along with a headstrong chordal thrust and seemed destined for rock radio airplay. The buoyant Every You Every Me was an obvious single and a perfect counterpoint to the anguish that surrounded it. It remains Osborne’s favourite from the record. “I’m a sucker for a good single.”

Released in October 1998, Without You I’m Nothing was immediately recognised as a deeper work than the band’s debut. It drew a wider assortment of listeners into Placebo’s fold too, resonating with those in the alt crowd looking for blistering rock driven by relatable themes like regret and heartbreak.

“Without You I’m Nothing, I mean, that’s a good album.” says Osborne. “It’s something that I’d put up there with one of my favourites. The sound of it comes down to the way they wanted to do it, which was real. It sounds real because it was done real. There’s no tidying up or anything. It was just captured as it was played in the studio. It’s the opposite of the way records are being made now.”(𝙱𝚢 𝙰𝚗𝚍𝚢 𝙿𝚛𝚒𝚌𝚎 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝙶𝚞𝚒𝚝𝚊𝚛.𝚌𝚘𝚖, 𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚑 𝟸0𝟸𝟸)
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