⭐️💫𝟐𝟎 𝐘𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐒 𝐎𝐅 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎 𝐓𝐎𝐔𝐑: 𝐄𝐗𝐏𝐄𝐂𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐯𝐬 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐘💫⭐️

“𝑰𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒂𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒖𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝒊𝒕'𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒗𝒂𝒍𝒖𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒈𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒔, 𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝒔𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒇𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇…”

Photo credit:  Alan Rennie 

✨𝑬𝑿𝑷𝑬𝑪𝑻𝑨𝑻𝑰𝑶𝑵…✨
In the middle of March 2016, “news had just come over”: Placebo confirmed their 20th anniversary tour!
𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 made quite a promising statement about the forthcoming shows:
📢“…Let’s just say there will be songs in the set that I’ve sworn never to play again. I think it’s time that we purposefully acknowledged what a lot of Placebo fans really want to hear. They’ve been very patient with us since we rarely play our most commercially successful material.
A 20-years anniversary tour seems like the right time to do so. That’s our intention. This tour is very much for the fans and a chance for us to revisit a lot of our early material.
So, if you want to see us play songs like ‘Pure Morning’ and ‘Nancy Boy’ which we haven’t played in almost ten years and may not play again, then you’d better come along to these shows! We’ll have some surprises in there too…”
(𝐷𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠, 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ 14, 2016)


📢𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧: […] He [Brian] definitely has a troubled relationship with his past lyrics. Because like the line: "A friend with weed is better" on ‘Pure Morning’. He wouldn't write something like that now, but he did back then. For him it's being able to walk on stage and sing with conviction without smiling or without making up different lyrics, you know.
[…]
What we tend to do is cover ourselves with quite a few versions of our songs that we've released. One of our first singles, 'Teenage Angst', has been done in piano format, it's been done in the rock format, and it has this stadium rock format. Then we went back to an electric bass led version. So in order for us to remain interested in our back catalogue we often change them and adopt them to how we feel. Sometimes a song when we record it, it's in an embryonic form it tells you ‘Listen, I'm supposed to be played this way.'”
𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒅𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒖𝒑𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐𝒖𝒓?
📢𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧: "I’m completely excited, excited about playing old songs, I like it. I think I want to see people's reactions as well."
(𝐺𝑖𝑔𝑤𝑖𝑠𝑒, 𝑆𝑒𝑝𝑡𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 23𝑟𝑑, 2016)

Photo credit: natalia_m_n IG

✨𝑹𝑬𝑨𝑳𝑰𝑻𝒀…✨
𝑻𝒂𝒍𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒐𝒖𝒓, 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒛𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒂𝒄𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝒃𝒊𝒕 𝒕𝒐𝒐 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍, 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝒖𝒑 𝒆𝒙𝒉𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒐𝒍𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒚𝒐𝒖. 𝑫𝒊𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒂𝒏 𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒂𝒄𝒕 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒅?
📢𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: I'm sure it helped shape its sonic palette. It was like a kind of rebellion against this more commercial aspect of the band's life. On 𝐍𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐋𝐞𝐭 𝐌𝐞 𝐆𝐨, we really had this sincere desire to lay ourselves bare. Every album we've done has been a reaction to the previous one, but on this one I think it was more in response to this rather masturbatory anniversary tour. On the other hand, I also realize that it did our audience a lot of good. It has taught us to accept the euphoria that the fans give us on stage. And this is probably the first time in my life that I've realized that so much, because I've always made music in a very selfish way. It's a necessary means of expression for me. If this tour has taught us anything, it's that there is value in giving pleasure to others, rather than satisfying yourself.
(𝑀𝑦 𝑅𝑜𝑐𝑘 #74, 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ 2022)


📢“I had reservations coming into this record based on the experience of touring,” says co-writer and multi-instrumentalist 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧 𝐎𝐥𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐥. “It felt like we were slowly killing ourselves, and I just didn’t know how much life I felt there was left in the band. My confidence was at an all-time low.”
“We have a tendency to do a lot that we’re asked to do, regardless of how it’s going to affect our physical and mental wellbeing, so we continued touring,” 𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐨 adds. “By the end of it, I felt like a performing monkey that was being moved around the world; kind of detached from the soul of it.”
(𝑅𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑈𝐾, 𝐹𝑒𝑏𝑟𝑢𝑎𝑟𝑦 1𝑠𝑡, 2022)

Photo credit: Evelyn Kutschera

📢“We began to feel like wax effigies of ourselves,” Molko says, “being moved around the world for the purposes of entertainment.
(𝑉𝑖𝑐𝑒, 𝐽𝑎𝑛𝑢𝑎𝑟𝑦 17𝑡ℎ, 2022)


💬So, now we know that the whole retrospective tour ended up being mentally exhausting experience for the guys… However, they tried their best, and most of the shows became an amazing unforgettable experience for the fans❤️


💬That’s why I’d like to ask you to share 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒉𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔, your most beautiful and special memories from Placebo’s 20th anniversary tour!✨ Let’s create some positive space around those shows to confirm it was still worth it!🥰


💬And maybe now, in hindsight, when you know how it felt for Brian and Stef, you can interpret your own thoughts and feelings about the concerts you attended in a bit different way, with more empathy and understanding…


⭐️To help you dive into the atmosphere of the tour, let’s watch a very powerful and emotional performance of (my personal favourite) 𝐈 𝐊𝐍𝐎𝐖 from 𝑳𝒂𝒏𝒙𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝑨𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒂 in 𝑪𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒏𝒆, 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟔.

Pist by Olga

🌟⭐𝐀 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐔𝐬 𝐓𝐨 𝐃𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 – 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐢𝐨𝐭 𝐊𝐢𝐬𝐬 ⭐🌟

🔸I personally find the cover of 𝐴 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝐹𝑜𝑟 𝑈𝑠 𝑇𝑜 𝐷𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑚 quite powerful. The story behind this photograph is a bit unexpected and I am not surprised Placebo decided to use to illustrate their 20 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑟. What this picture is about ?🔸

Photo credits: Maud Maillard (Brian & Stefan) / Richard Lam (cover) / edit by Laetitia

⭐𝑩𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒈𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒅⭐
💠In June 2011, the Vancouver Canucks and Boston Bruins were playing each other in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final. The Canucks' defeat sent the team's fans into a frenzy and ended in a 𝑟𝑖𝑜𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑉𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑣𝑒𝑟. The police had to intervene to contain the chaos that had settled in the city. Among the people present were also passers-by who just wanted to go home. And among these people was the couple featured on the cover of 𝐴 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝐹𝑜𝑟 𝑈𝑠 𝑇𝑜 𝐷𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑚.

This photo was taken by photojournalist 𝗥𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗟𝗮𝗺 who was covering the event that night. The photo became known around the world as '𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑹𝒊𝒐𝒕 𝑲𝒊𝒔𝒔 ', because it had a worldwide impact due to the striking contradiction between the two situations.

This couple (𝑆𝑐𝑜𝑡𝑡 𝐽𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐴𝑙𝑒𝑥 𝑇ℎ𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑠) were not participating in the riot. They were in the wrong place at the wrong time. They were stuck in the street as the police launched a charge. Alex was pushed by a police officer and inhaled tear gas and fell to the ground. She began to shake and panic. As a result, Scott leaned over her to try to calm her down in kissing her.💠

Photo credit unnkown

🔸According to 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝗹𝗸𝗼, this picture represents "𝑏𝑒𝑎𝑢𝑡𝑦 𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑠𝑡 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑜𝑠, 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑠𝑡 𝑣𝑖𝑜𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟."

From my personal point of view, this photograph totally fits the world of Placebo, which always strives for the best in tormented songs. Light in the darkness. It was a genius idea to choose this photo to illustrate the 20 years of Placebo.The band has been through so much and has always overcome the problems they faced within the band. The picture can be seen as a mirror to Placebo's career.

Photo credit: Natalia

"𝐵𝑒𝑎𝑢𝑡𝑦 𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑠𝑡 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑜𝑠"... isn't that what we, fans, feel when we press the 'Play' button? Through the lyrics, 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻 has very often sung about the anguish, the pain and we all felt that it was directly addressed to us. We find sublimity in sadness.

Also, about this couple being in the wrong place at the wrong time. I can't help but think of 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑆𝑡𝑒𝑓𝑎𝑛'𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑡ℎ 𝑖𝑛 𝐿𝑢𝑥𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑔 where they were bored and which later inspired 𝐵𝑢𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑟 𝑄𝑢𝑒𝑒𝑛.

It's not surprising that this photo caught the eye of 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻 , who said in an interview in Hungary (2016):

💬 "𝑖𝑡'𝑠 𝑖𝑡'𝑠 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑏𝑒𝑎𝑢𝑡𝑦 𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑠𝑡 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑜𝑠. 𝐼𝑡'𝑠 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑠𝑡 𝑣𝑖𝑜𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟. 𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑑𝑖𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑡𝑜𝑚𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐼 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑛, 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡'𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐼 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙 𝑝ℎ𝑜𝑡𝑜𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑝ℎ 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤. 𝐼𝑡'𝑠 𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑚𝑎𝑧𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑝𝑖𝑒𝑐𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑝ℎ𝑜𝑡𝑜𝑗𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑚 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑚𝑒𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑡𝑜𝑔𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟".

As 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑅𝑖𝑜𝑡 𝐾𝑖𝑠𝑠 ends happily, Scott and Alex are still together today and raise a family in Australia, I'd like to share the song 𝐋𝐨𝐮𝐝 𝐋𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞, which fits the cover too I think and which is the last song of this wonderful musical retrospective. 🔸

💕🎶 🎶https://bit.ly/3ofNf7b🎶 🎶💕

Post by Laetitia

𝗕𝗜𝗥𝗧𝗛𝗗𝗔𝗬 𝗦𝗣𝗘𝗖𝗜𝗔𝗟: 𝗜𝗠𝗣𝗢𝗥𝗧𝗔𝗡𝗧 𝗠𝗢𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗦 𝗜𝗡 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗠𝗢𝗟𝗞𝗢'𝗦 𝗟𝗜𝗙𝗘

🎉✨On this special day let's do a retrospective of some 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐦𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐨'𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬. Enjoy the ride dear Soulmates! 🥳💝✨🎊

Photo credits at the end of the text.

🔹𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐋𝐘 𝐘𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐒 & 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐄𝐆𝐈𝐍𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐎𝐅 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎🔹

🎤 "Well I grew up in a place called Luxembourg, which is a very boring place, and I went to the American School of Luxembourg with a ridiculously tall guy called Stefan Olsdal. He was very tall, he was playing basketball and I was very small. I was into drama, so I was a loser, so we never spoke to each other and then I went to London at seventeen and started college. He played in a school band with a chubby Swede called Robert Schultzberg and then years later Stefan and I bumped into each other on a tube station in London and he was studying music at the time. I was doing a little acoustic gig one night and he came down and we talked and discovered that we had much more in common than we had ever imagined. We started playing around with a four-track f*cked up old keyboards making music that was atonal and instrumental and stuff. We wanted to form a punk band, so we when Robert
came over in October `94 we wrote some stuff together as a band that was the start of Placebo basically."
▪️𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝚂𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜, 1997.

🎤" Basically, there are few very important bands for me, like maybe two. When I was sixteen I heard Sonic Youth for the first time and they blew my head off and changed my life really and that was just as I started to play guitar. They sort of opened up so many possibilities and they acted as a sort of trampoline. I explored bands that influenced them from the Stooges the New Wave scene and through The Joy Division and The Fall and Post punk particularly and then when I was in college I heard PJ Harvey for the first time. At that point I decided I wanted to make music that carried a similar kind of emotional weight and a similar kind of fragility and vulnerability and humanity."
▪️𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝚂𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜, 1997.

🎸 𝐍𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐲 𝐁𝐨𝐲 - 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 1995
https://youtu.be/1OjF7LBFqcA

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🔹𝐌𝐄𝐄𝐓 𝐃𝐀𝐕𝐈𝐃 𝐁𝐎𝐖𝐈𝐄🔹

🎤" My most recent most favoured treasured (memory) was being onstage at the Brit Awards with David Bowie, the two of us playing guitar and singing in harmony with each other-that was a real 'pinch me, I'm dreaming' situation. We weren't too bad, we were in the right key at least-but we could never really get the lyrics right. We were doing '20th century Boy'. We had a f***ing laugh."
▪️𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝙼𝚎𝚕𝚘𝚍𝚢 𝙼𝚊𝚔𝚎𝚛, 𝙰𝚙𝚛𝚒𝚕 1999.

⭐20𝐭𝐡 𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐲 𝐁𝐨𝐲 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐭. 𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐝 𝐁𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐭 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 1999 + 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰
https://youtu.be/_90EbhyUEVs

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🔹𝐀𝐂𝐓 𝐈𝐍 𝐕𝐄𝐋𝐕𝐄𝐓 𝐆𝐎𝐋𝐃𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐄🔹

🎤"We came to be involved in the "Velvet Goldmine" soundtrack through myself getting a role in the film. I was cast as a singer that was in a fictitious band that played "20th Century Boy" in the film, so we suggested that we record a cover for the soundtrack. Then Steve and Stef got roles in the film as well, and it just kind of snowballed from that first phone call. I was a very, very big Todd Haynes fan anyway so when I showed up for the audition I just went, "I'll do anything just let me be in your movie," and it kind of worked out. The first time we performed "20th Century Boy," it was the first day of filming. It was the first [scene shot], and the audience was Ewan McGregor and Michael Stipe. We were kind of crapping ourselves, shall we say, but we did it well. I think it's one of the high points in the movie. [...] But there's a lot of waiting around in shooting a movie, and it was kind of like a very long video shoot. We made some really good friends and we had a great time. Anytime you can go to the movies and see yourself, it's kind of a strange feeling.
▪️𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝙼𝚃𝚅, 𝙸𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚟𝚒𝚎𝚠 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝙿𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚎𝚋𝚘.

🎥 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐕𝐞𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐭 𝐆𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐞
https://youtu.be/OwTuZHMKt6I

Screenshot from the movie.

🔹𝐁𝐄𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐄 𝐀 𝐅𝐀𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑🔹

🎤"I have a four-month-old son - not planned, but more than welcome. I know for certain: my son is the best thing that's ever happened to me. I myself have a very difficult relationship with my father, and I've certainly never dreamed of fatherhood. But it happened to me and I've never felt so happy. And never so scared either.
[...] Having a child with someone is the biggest commitment you can make. People may be surprised that someone like me says things like that, but growing older I've come to the conclusion that only one thing matters: love. Unconditional love - unconditional, pure love.``
▪️𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝙷𝚞𝚖𝚘, 2006.

🎤"Being a dad has changed my personal life completely, no question," he says. "But it's had no effect whatsoever on my art."
▪️𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝙱𝚎𝚕𝚏𝚊𝚜𝚝 𝚃𝚎𝚕𝚎𝚐𝚛𝚊𝚙𝚑, 2015.

❤️𝐂𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐌𝐞 - 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 2009 (*𝑚𝑖𝑛 3:15)
https://youtu.be/gY8aDjPg4I0

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🔹𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐘 𝐀𝐓 𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐊𝐎𝐑 𝐖𝐀𝐓🔹

🎤"It's great that I can perform and create stories for the band in a place that holds special value for me on a personal level. The opportunity to play Angkor Wat was an unbelievable dream come true because I had visited this very spiritual place before. It had marked me and touched me greatly as a person and as someone who is interested in spirituality and Eastern philosophies like Buddhism and Taoism."
▪️𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝙱𝚊𝚗𝚐𝚔𝚘𝚔 𝙿𝚘𝚜𝚝, 𝙰𝚞𝚐𝚞𝚜𝚝, 2013.

💗𝐓𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐀𝐧𝐠𝐬𝐭 - 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐭 𝐀𝐧𝐠𝐤𝐨𝐫 𝐖𝐚𝐭 (2008)
https://youtu.be/IdeSZRk1VSQ

Screenshot from the video.

🔹𝐒𝐏𝐄𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐋 𝐆𝐔𝐄𝐒𝐓 𝐀𝐓 "𝐈 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄 𝐄𝐔" 𝐁𝐑𝐔𝐒𝐒𝐄𝐋𝐒 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐂𝐄𝐑𝐓🔹
(𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒆𝒍𝒈𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝒐𝒓𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒂 𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒗𝒂 𝑺𝒚𝒎𝒑𝒉𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒄𝒂)

🎤" I think we need to change the world in a positive way ... Even if people don't understand each other, they don't share the same language, they can still share the same principles and the same ideas."
▪️𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝙳𝙷.𝚋𝚎, 𝙹𝚞𝚕𝚢 2010.

💙 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐨 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐈𝐧 𝐁𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐬 2010
https://youtu.be/x6P4RCBR0_I

Photo credit: Marcel Mycielsk

🔹𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐀𝐍 𝐇𝐎𝐍𝐎𝐑𝐀𝐑𝐘 𝐅𝐄𝐋𝐋𝐎𝐖𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐏 𝐀𝐓 𝐆𝐎𝐋𝐃𝐒𝐌𝐈𝐓𝐇'𝐒 𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐆𝐄🔹

🎤"[...] That's crazy: when I'm standing in front of 50,000 people at Rock am Ring, for example, I might feel a little nervous, but I'm in control. If I stand in front of 200 people in my old university and try to give a speech, I am a nervous wreck. The award was a fantastic honor for me. In retrospect, I see this as a really positive experience. But before and during the award ceremony, I felt absolutely uncomfortable with this cape and hat. I had been up since 4 a.m., couldn't sleep, and my nerves were really bad. However, I have heard that this is not unusual. Graham and Alex von Blur are said to have felt the same way when they received their honorary membership.
▪️𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝚗-𝚝𝚟, 𝚂𝚎𝚙𝚝𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛, 2013.

🎓 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐭 𝐆𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐬𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐡'𝐬 𝐂𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐲 12.19.2012 🎖️✨
https://youtu.be/4AUvFZeE8HY

Photo credit: Goldsmith University

🔹20 𝐘𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐒 𝐎𝐅 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎🔹

🎤 "I‘m very happy that we survived these 20 last years, whom we are still there, whom we survived. That I and Stefan, our friendship, our collaboration survived a lot and I shall say the emotion which I have around that, it is the gratitude; really.
I have made it since all my adult's life, I don't know what to do or other one, it became precious for me, it became something that I have to work on so that it still lasts at least 20 years. [...] I try really a philosophy of life where I try to live in the moment, I try to be present in the moment."
▪️𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝙵𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚑 𝚃𝚅, 2016.

🎤"I feel extremely privileged because it's an amazing position to be in," he marvels. "I'd say that I feel extremely fortunate and very, very grateful. Because this is all I know how to do! I've never had a job, this is all I've done my entire adult life. Sometimes I wonder what would happen if it all collapsed tomorrow - what the f*ck would I do? I can't drive so I can't drive a cab, I refuse to tend bar, my computer skills are shit - I'm unemployable. This is all I got, so I put all of me into it.

"It wasn't our modus operandi at the beginning but we realised very quickly that our music made people happy, even though it can be very dark at times. And a whole community of outcasts has formed around the band, which we never expected to happen - we never set out to do that. We set out to express ourselves artistically and to try and make a living - just to pay the rent and be able to buy food was all we wanted - we didn't even set out to achieve global success, we just didn't want to get a job in an office because that was terrifying!
"But we realised really soon that we made a lot of people happy just through a lot of the tortured feelings that are in the songs, and there's a global community now of misshapes, of square pegs in round holes, of outcasts, of people who feel like they don't really belong to the herd. Which is exactly what myself and Stefan felt like when we were growing up, so there's the connection."
▪️𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙼𝚞𝚜𝚒𝚌 . 𝚌𝚘𝚖/𝚊𝚞, 2017.

💝 𝐋𝐨𝐮𝐝 𝐋𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞 - 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐭 𝐃𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐧 12.10.2016
https://youtu.be/pXq2JWQ-GiE

Photo credit: Ekaterina Sirazitdinova

⭐I hope you had a great time remembering these "𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐-𝑴𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔"
🔸 What's your favorite? ✨

📸 Photo Credits pic 1: Center - Unknown / Rest of the pics from left to right: Screenshot, Velvet Goldmine cap, Scarlet Page, Joseph Llanes,©Gwen, Screenshot, Unknown, Brian at AISL - Edit HD by @Placebo_HQ. / Collage edit made by Rita.

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Brian Molko PLACEBO 120 · The inside story

The inside story

Coincidence

It all started when I needed a 12AT7 reverb driver valve for a classic Rivera era Fender Super Champ I had sold on e-Bay.

Popping in to see Denis Cornell to buy the valve, we discussed the possibility of working together on some sales and marketing ideas.

As luck would have it, the buyer of the Fender combo turned out to be Craig ‘Hoppy’ Hope, the guitar tech for Chris Martin of COLDPLAY!

Rather than just send it to him, as I’d had dealings with COLDPLAY when I worked at Marshall, I decided to get on a train and meet up with him in London. I thought he might be interested in doing something with Cornell.

During our two hour catch up meeting at the Brewhouse & Kitchen microbrewery on Corsica Street, Islington, Craig happened to mention that he had recently done some tech work for PLACEBO, as Adi Vines, Brian Molko’s guitar tech had taken a couple of weeks off to get married. I said that I’d give him a call as I hadn’t spoken to him for ages.

 

Standing outside The Garage music venue in Islington, I called Adi only to get an overseas ringtone. He was in Frankfurt doing a show with PLACEBO.

I explained that I was helping Denis Cornell, and that if he was interested, I’d love to go through the Cornell range with him when he was back in the UK.

About a week later he called me from Hamburg. He said that he was having trouble with Brian’s Fender ’65 Twin Reissue that was struggling as it was being run flat out with a bunch of distortion pedals, pushing it to its limit, and that it was starting to make some strange noises of its own!

 

 

He said that he’d had a similar problem with a ’60’s Fender Bassman back in the day, when he looked after Gavin Rossdale of BUSH.
The solution back then, was to have a more powerful custom copy made by another valve amp maker.

With this in mind, he asked if Denis would be interested in quoting against another custom amp builder…
After a few consultations it was a natural decision to select Cornell for the Placebo project. Denis Cornell has such a solid understanding of the issues and how to solve them, and has decades of experience building touring-grade equipment that world class artists can rely on.

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Sources and photo credits: http://www.envisioning.co.uk

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Brian Molko Interview - French TV 2016 - English version

 

 

Here we have the interview with Mr. Brian Molko (Placebo) with the French TV, translatet into English.

Brian Molko en interview : "Je n'aime pas écouter Placebo"

 

 

 

Thank you Holly Hy for the translation.

 

 

Brian Molko: I‘m very happy that we survived these 20 last years, whom we are still there, whom we survived.

That I and Stefan, our friendship, our collaboration survived a lot and I shall say the emotion which I have around that, it is the gratitude; really.
I make it since all my adult's life, I don't know what to do of other one, it became precious for me, it became something that I have to work above so that still lasts at least 20 years.
There were fantastic openings: U2; we made 1st parts with U2.

We spent 5 years with David Bowie, we recorded together.
I try really a philosophy of life where I try to live in the moment, I try to be present in the moment.

 As a result, I don’t care a lot, because I don’t think of things of fronts that they arrive.

As the tour for example.
I think of it not at all. I know that it is the fait accompli, that I’m going to make it but I shall take care of it when it is time.

 

 

 I think that it is important to make it, to mean playing the Bataclan and I think that it is "Eagles du Death Metal", to say it in French, who should play here in 1st.

They made our opening often. We made many tours with them. It is our buddies.

This night, I was of course, I worried about my Parisian buddies but also about them, because I didn’t know if they were alive. I spent a sleepless night by the telephone.

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A Couple Of Pure Mornings After Placebo’s Performance in Aarhus 13/10/16

By Steffen Paust @steffenpaust · On October 19, 2016

Photos From Cirkus in Stockholm by Björn Bergenheim Rockfoto
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It has been almost a week since Placebo canceled their Train concert after only two tracks. After that, Danish media quickly spread the news, and some medias even stated that Brian Molko and Stefan Olsdal had launched a lengthy discussion on stage, which, in our opinion, is an exaggeration of reality. Since then, Placebo have performed in Copenhagen, Oslo, and Stockholm, and received great reviews. Today, we received a submission, written a couple of pure mornings after the concert. Giedre, a Lithuanian music journalist who just moved to Aarhus, sent us this beautiful piece, published below. What can we learn from it? Musicians are people like you and me – especially Brian Molko.

A COUPLE OF PURE MORNINGS AFTER PLACEBO’S PERFORMANCE IN AARHUSSubmission by: Giedre Matulaityte

Now that almost a week has passed after the unfortunate Brian Molko’s breakdown in Train, it’s possible to look at it from a new perspective that might be not as harsh as on the night of the concert. All is good. They apologized. They promised to come back. Are we still going if they do?

Some rock stars have big egos. Some people tend to think they are the center of the universe. Some people think it’s all about them. Some people don’t give a damn about others.

I don’t think Brian is that kind of rock star. Having battled depression and anxiety for too many years I’ve developed an ability to spot those who might be a bit alike. The ones around you might assume that the only thing you care about is you. Obviously, that makes you to shut down even more which might translate as a lack of compassion to others and an excuse to withdraw from your direct responsibilities. But the truth is, there is no ‘self’ left in a broken heart. You distance yourself from the ones you care about. So you’re alone in this battle. The only way to survive is to figure some kind of escape strategy, which among other things might be creating something. Or the sex. Or the drugs. But then the complications follow, for the distractions work for just a mere second before you find yourself as hopeless as ever in the cold light of day.

In what kind of circumstances do you usually listen to Placebo? Is it possible not to take their music personally? It’s not party music. It’s the kind of music you’re most likely to listen to alone in your room. The kind of music you only share with a handful of people who might understand. The kind of music that reaches the darkest point of your inner void and lifts you up just enough to battle yet another pure morning when it’s 4 am and you’re still awake.

I could never imagine what it feels like to play your own songs that are 20 years old. I will probably never know what it feels like to make your “The Best of…” album. But I’m starting to feel what it means to be getting older. Getting weaker. Hopefully, you’ve been doing something you’re good at. Hopefully, you found somebody that liked what you’ve created. And now what? You see others having learned to appreciate life for what it is. You see others capable of having fun. You see others and you realize that everybody goes through something difficult at some point of their lives. And that they learn to live with their traumas. They do, but you probably never will. So you shut down again.

And then there is us, the crowd. Some of us are standing in the back with their eyes shut, taking in every word and every sound. Some of us are cheering in the front row, trying to reach out to our idols. We are the living proof that in 20 years of band’s existence the music no longer belongs to the author. It belongs to the listener, it’s become a soundtrack for many moments that have turned into memories, and even more moments that we probably forgot, and yet they made us who we are now.

Brian Molko: “If you touch something and it doesn’t feel real, then it’s not there”.
A voice from the audience: “But we’re real”.
Brian Molko: “…Really? Then touch me”.

Distancing yourself from the pressure you’ve been trying to put up with throughout the years is sure a healthy thing to do. The moment you’re actually done with being productive, efficient and goal-oriented, you finally get a sense of real freedom. You’re no longer afraid of getting nothing done. And sometimes you just let yourself not to feel well. You just don’t feel it, it doesn’t seem to be real. So probably it’s not there.

Concerts get canceled. People are allowed not to feel well. People are free to do what they want. But there are also the people who you managed to reach at some point of time in their lives. The bond you are responsible for, whether you want this or not. You said something. Somebody took it to heart.

We got it – life sucks sometimes. Being out there is challenging. Connection with people is hard to maintain. So sometimes you just don’t feel like doing any of that. However, didn’t we know that before we came to Train last Thursday? Sure we did, we are Placebo fans after all.

So what exactly was the message we were left with back then? We got Pure Morning and Loud Like Love. Whichever we choose, some of us are sending back all of that love back to Brian. While doing our best in reaching beyond our disappointment and hurt egos.

Life's What You Make It - Booklet - Brian Molko - Placebo

 

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Brian Molko & Ray Cokes at Radioeins.de 12/10/16

 

Brian Molko & Ray Cokes are live on the air at 12th of October from 18 to 20!
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