our lullaby series will be interrupted again by another important date.
Today is the birthday of the girl who gave her voice to one of the most iconic Placebo songs - ๐น๐ด๐ฌ๐ซ๐บ: ⭐๐๐๐๐๐๐ '๐๐' ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐⭐.
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◾๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ "๐ฑ๐ ๐'๐๐๐๐... ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐" ๐๐๐๐ ๐จ๐๐๐ ๐จ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐บ๐๐๐๐ ๐ฎ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐, ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ฑ๐๐๐ ๐ฉ๐๐๐๐๐๐. ๐ป๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ "๐ด๐๐ ๐" ๐๐ ๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐จ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ด๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ฝ๐ฝ ๐๐ ๐ป๐๐ ๐ฒ๐๐๐๐. ๐จ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐จ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ 2 ๐๐๐๐๐๐, ๐๐๐๐, ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐, ๐๐๐๐๐-๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐. ๐ป๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐.
(laughs) "Well, I've always thought that love is quite a narcistic thing. You like to see yourself reflected in your lover. Not that I was ever involved with those two, but I do think they're very beautiful women. And a duet always sounds better with someone you have the hots for."
◾๐จ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐.
"No, really? I haven't seen her in years. I know Alison from a long time ago. I went to university with Jamie (Hince, aka Hotel, the other half of The Kills). He was the first friend I made in London, and I've stayed in touch with him for the past sixteen years. Jesus, sixteen fucking years, am I really that old? (Molko has recently turned 34). I think The Kills is one of the best bands at the moment. And Alison was very easy to work with, very straightforward - a kindred soul. And you don't meet a lot of people like that. Polly Harvey, Justin Warfield, Michael Stipe... I don't think there are more than that."
(๐ต๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ผ๐๐ก๐๐๐ฃ๐๐๐ค „๐ผ'๐ ๐ ๐ก๐๐๐ ๐กโ๐๐๐“, ๐๐๐๐โ 2006)
◾๐ถ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ "๐ด๐๐ ๐", ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐, ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐จ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ด๐๐๐๐๐๐๐’๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ (๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ฝ๐ฝ ๐๐๐๐ '๐ป๐๐ ๐ฒ๐๐๐๐'). ๐ป๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐’๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐, ๐๐ ๐๐?
๐๐: No, it's not by accident. I wanted to have female vocals on "Meds". And I thought of Alison immediately. Working with her is very pleasant, and very wild too. We met a few years ago in London, she really wowed me. Since then, I have been following her career, her rise with The Kills. When I asked her to come and participate in working on a song for the album, she agreed right away. In the studio, it's a bomb: Alison is Viagra in its purest form (smiles). She has a very sexy way of singing… She is irresistible.
(๐บ๐ข๐๐ก๐๐ ๐ต๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ง๐๐๐ "๐๐๐๐๐๐๐, ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐", ๐๐๐-๐ด๐๐'06)
◾๐๐: I've known Jamie [‘Hotel’] for 16 years. When we wrote Meds, we thought that a female voice would be a good idea. It was then that Dimitri suggested Alison. Her voice is a real turn-on, like Viagra. She's from another world. When we were in the studio listening to her doing the vocals, all the guys got hard-ons. The Kills are an incredible band. We've seen Jamie in a lot of bands, and we even played with some of them¬ but The Kills!...¬ They're a musical triumph. One of the best modern rock bands.
(๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐, ๐ด๐๐๐๐ 2006)
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๐ด ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐, ๐๐ข๐๐ก๐๐๐๐ ๐ก, ๐ ๐๐๐๐ค๐๐๐ก๐๐, ๐๐๐ โ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ โ๐๐ ๐๐ค๐ ๐๐๐ โ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ก๐๐๐, ๐๐๐๐๐ก๐๐.
If I had to describe Alison's personality, I would use words like 'a woman who oozes animality on stage because she truly enjoys her creativity that drives her through life.'
๐ฆ๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ฌ๐จ๐ง, ๐๐ฅ๐จ๐ง๐ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐ง'๐ฌ ๐ฅ๐จ๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ ๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐ง๐ ๐น๐๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ '๐๐จ๐ญ๐๐ฅ' ๐๐ข๐ง๐๐๐น, ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ซ๐จ๐๐ค ๐๐ฎ๐จ ⭐๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐๐ ๐๐๐๐.
Let's talk about what we know about Alison:
๐น๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐:๐น
๐ฆ๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ฌ๐จ๐ง ๐๐จ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ก๐๐ซ๐ญ was born on November 23rd 1978 in Verona Beach, Florida, USA.
๐ฆHer rock career started at the age of 14, when as a teenager she used to go singing in bars with her skateboarding friends.
๐ฆShe formed her first band '๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐' at the age of 17 and they recorded their first album when the band members were still in high school.
๐ฆAfter Discount disbanded, Alison moved to London in 2000, where the charismatic ๐น๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ lived in the flat above her.
๐ฆJamie is a long time friend of Brian's, they studied together at Goldsmiths and in 1997 he and his band ⭐'๐๐๐๐๐ ๐' were the opening band for Placebo:
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◾๐พ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐บ๐๐๐๐๐? ๐ซ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐? ๐ฐ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ "๐ณ๐๐ ๐ ๐ถ๐ ๐ป๐๐ ๐ญ๐๐๐๐๐๐"?
Brian: Yes, their album is great, I was in college with Jamie, the singer guitarist of Scarfo. I played drums for him when he went to Edinburgh for a festival, he had created a one-man show inspired by Burkoff, which tells the story of a skinhead teenager. There are a few lines in this play that I robbed for the little poem that I say before "Lady Of The Flowers". He is one of my best friends, we have known each other for seven years.
(๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐ข๐ ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐ข๐ก๐ ๐๐ข ๐ ๐๐๐, 14๐กโ ๐ด๐ข๐๐ข๐ ๐ก 1997)
~๐น~๐น~๐น~
๐ฆ๐๐ญ๐ช๐ด๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ฅ ๐๐ข๐ฎ๐ช๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐บ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐จ๐ถ๐ช๐ต๐ข๐ณ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ถ๐ฑ๐ด๐ต๐ข๐ช๐ณ๐ด ๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ต ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ด๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ธ ๐ด๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ข๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐บ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ฉ๐ช๐ฎ. ๐๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ด๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฅ.
๐๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ช๐ณ ๐ฃ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ช๐ญ๐ญ๐ด ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ฏ 2001. ๐๐ถ๐ต ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐บ ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฐ๐จ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ช๐ณ ๐ฏ๐ช๐ค๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ข๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ด.
❓๐๐ง๐ ๐ฐ๐ก๐ฒ ๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ฌ๐จ๐ง '๐๐' ๐๐จ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ก๐๐ซ๐ญ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ '๐๐จ๐ญ๐๐ฅ' ๐๐ข๐ง๐๐?
๐ฌ๐นWhat’s the story behind the nickname Hotel?
At the time I was squatting in an apartment in London and we didn’t have any money or jobs. We got drunk one day and named each other off the top of our heads as a stupid romantic ode to the pop art scene, where they had all these fantastic names like Paul America. I named Alison with a sound, Vv. And she came up with Hotel because at that point my apartment was like a hotel for bands.
(๐ด๐ ๐ผ๐๐ก๐๐๐ฃ๐๐๐ค ๐๐๐กโ ๐ฝ๐๐๐๐ ๐ป๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐กโ๐ ๐พ๐๐๐๐ , ๐ฟ๐๐๐๐๐ข๐ก, ๐๐๐ฆ 2009)
~๐น~๐น~๐น~
๐ฆAll, five to date, The Kills albums reached pretty high positions in the UK album charts. Their fourth album Blood Pressures (2011) considered to be their most commercially successful one.
๐ฆIn early 2009, Alison joined the supergroup ⭐'๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐', formed by Jack White, along with Jack Lawrence and Dean Fertita. In that band, her stage name is '๐๐๐๐ฒ ๐๐ฎ๐ญ๐ก๐ฅ๐๐ฌ๐ฌ'.
~๐น~๐น~๐น~
๐ฆ๐๐ญ ๐ฐ๐๐ฌ๐ง'๐ญ ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐๐๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐๐ ๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ฌ๐จ๐ง'๐ฌ ๐ญ๐๐ฅ๐๐ง๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐ฅ๐๐ฏ๐๐ญ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ข๐ซ ๐ญ๐ซ๐๐๐ค ๐๐๐๐ฌ.
Alison is always on the move, even during the tour she can accept any offer to collaborate. Among the many famous names are ๐ญ๐ถ๐ถ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฏ๐ป๐ฌ๐น๐บ, ๐ท๐น๐ฐ๐ด๐จ๐ณ ๐บ๐ช๐น๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ด, ๐จ๐น๐ช๐ป๐ฐ๐ช ๐ด๐ถ๐ต๐ฒ๐ฌ๐๐บ, ๐ช๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐ป๐ฏ๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ณ๐ฌ๐ท๐ฏ๐จ๐ต๐ป...
๐ฆAlison is also a painter, she debuted her artwork as part of ArtNowNY's collaborative exhibit, Push It, in 2014. She also had first solo art show, Fire Power, in 2015 in New York. In 2016 she featured in the Impossible Project in Berlin where she exhibited photographs.
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In this interview, Alison describes how she got into playing in a band as a young teenager and I have to say, her story is simply fantastic. But most importantly – ๐ข๐ญ'๐ฌ ๐ก๐๐ซ ๐จ๐ง๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐จ๐ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ค๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐๐๐จ:
…/***/ Her eclectic career is both a testament to her malleable voice — although known for a glitter-bluesy melodic howl, her guest appearances can be ghostly or guttural — but also her restless, nomadic creative nature. “I’ve always, always loved working with people,” Mosshart says. “The power of more people is wonderful, and different ideas and different interpretations. It’s so fascinating to me to work outside of the Kills, work in the Dead Weather, but then also go do stuff with other bands and go sing on someone’s song. You go inside whatever their creative process is and explore. Everyone does something differently. You never walk away having not learned something. It’s great.”
When I was digging into all the places you’ve contributed guest vocals, I was blown away. I forgot that you were on Placebo’s record, Meds, and Primal Scream’s Riot City Blues that same year. How did you end up on both of those records? Were you doing the vocals in person in the studio? Or were you sending stuff back and forth?
๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐: ๐ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ต๐ถ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฐ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฆ ๐จ๐ถ๐บ๐ด. ๐๐ณ๐ช๐ข๐ฏ [๐๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฌ๐ฐ] ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐๐ญ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ๐ฃ๐ฐ ๐ช๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ด๐ค๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ญ ๐ง๐ณ๐ช๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ข๐ฎ๐ช๐ฆ’๐ด, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ข ๐ง๐ข๐ฏ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ช๐ญ๐ญ๐ด, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ด๐ฐ ๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ด๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฎ๐ฆ. ๐๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ, ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ค๐ข๐ถ๐ด๐ฆ, ๐ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฅ๐ฏ’๐ต ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ ๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐๐ญ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ๐ฃ๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฐ๐ฐ ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ค๐ฉ. ๐๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ต’๐ด ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ ๐ข ๐ด๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ ๐ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ ๐ฅ๐ฐ. ๐๐ง ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ ๐ข ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ ๐ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ๐ฏ’๐ต ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ ๐ฅ๐ฐ, ๐’๐ฎ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ถ๐ณ๐ช๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด, ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ? ๐’๐ฎ ๐ญ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ, “๐๐ถ๐ฉ. ๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ญ. ๐’๐ฎ ๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ด๐ค๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฅ. ๐๐ฆ๐ต’๐ด ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ง๐ช๐ฏ๐ช๐ต๐ฆ๐ญ๐บ ๐ฅ๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด.” [๐๐ข๐ถ๐จ๐ฉ๐ด]
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~๐น~๐น~๐น~~๐น~๐น~๐น~~๐น~๐น~๐น~~๐น~๐น~๐น~
Dear friends, I hope you enjoyed today's reading about Placebo working with this beautiful being as much as I did. And if you thought they only met in the studio, ๐ ๐ก๐๐ฏ๐ ๐ ⭐๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ง๐: ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐๐๐จ ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐๐ฒ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ๐ ๐๐ญ๐ก๐๐ซ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ฌ๐จ๐ง ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฏ๐:
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