♦️𝗔𝗡𝗡𝗜𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗔𝗥𝗬: 𝗔 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗖𝗘 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗨𝗦 𝗧𝗢 𝗗𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗠♦️ :

Today we celebrate the ♦️𝗔𝗡𝗡𝗜𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗔𝗥𝗬♦️ of the compilation double album 🎶“𝗔 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗖𝗘 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗨𝗦 𝗧𝗢 𝗗𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗠“🎶 which offers a retrospective on 20 years of Placebo's creative output. It was released six years ago on October 7th 2016 as part of the band's 20th anniversary celebrations and reached no. 21 in the UK Albums Chart. The compilation was released as double CD, digital download and as limited edition deluxe box set pink vinyl and black vinyl. It was accompanied by a 32-page booklet featuring previously unpublished photos. Brian wrote a beautiful foreword to the album which you can read below.

”A place for us to dream” consists of 36 tracks, including songs off albums, single versions, radio edits, live performances and redux editions of previously released tracks. It includes all Placebo songs that have been released as singles, apart from "Burger Queen Français", "Twenty Years" and "The Never-Ending Why".
The compilation's title ”A place for us to dream” comes from the lyrics of the song "Narcoleptic" that can be found on Placebo's third studio album “Black market music”. The album cover is a picture taken during the 2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot (explanation below).

Photo credit: Cover of the album, unknown, ainesk, Martin Schechler / edit by Silke

📀 𝐀 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐔𝐒 𝐓𝐎 𝐃𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐌
CD 1 🎵 https://bit.ly/3cbNaIE 🎵
CD 2 🎵 https://bit.ly/3b4AWRN 🎵

📜 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡'𝗦 𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗘𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗗 𝗧𝗢 “𝗔 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗖𝗘 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗨𝗦 𝗧𝗢 𝗗𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗠“
Ladies and Gentlemen, and those of you who find yourselves in-between.
There’s a story in here somewhere, though I’m still not sure what it’s about. It’s a long movie that jumps forwards and backwards in time. There are two main characters, a very important supporting role, and guys who hit objects for a living who come and go.
Every now and then there’s a glorious cameo.
I don’t know what it all means, even though I’m the one who edited the film. I still haven’t watched it back all way through. Please have the courage to do what I can’t. Watch it from beginning to end. Take one long deep breath, allowing it all into your body as a whole and recognise the sensation in your soul. I’m still too afraid to do so.
This album is for you, not for me.
Dream of a place where we all belong.
I hope to meet you there one day.
With love,
Brian Molko
Ibiza, June 2016

Photo credit: Mondadori Portfolio 

📷 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗔𝗟𝗕𝗨𝗠 𝗖𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗥
The picture was taken on June 15th 2011 by photojournalist Richard Lam during the Vancouver Stanley Cup riot and became worldwide famous as “𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗶𝗼𝘁 𝗞𝗶𝘀𝘀“. According to Brian it's “𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑏𝑒𝑎𝑢𝑡𝑦 𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑠𝑡 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑜𝑠. 𝐼𝑡'𝑠 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑠𝑡 𝑣𝑖𝑜𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟“.

The Stanley Cup Final 2011 took place between the Vancouver Canucks and Boston Bruins. The Canucks' defeat sent the team's fans into a frenzy and ended in a riot. The police had to intervene to contain the chaos that had settled in the city. Also passers-by who just wanted to go home were stuck in the riot. And among these people was the couple featured on the cover.

This couple, Alex Thomas and her Australian boyfriend Scott Jones, were not participating in the riot. But they were in the street as the police stepped in. Alex was pushed by a police officer, inhaled tear gas and fell to the ground. She began to panic and shake. So Scott leaned over her and tried to calm and comfort her with a kiss. Richard Lam captured this moment in his iconic photograph which was called "the most compelling sports image of the year" by Sports Illustrated. First many viewers suspected the scene had been staged but evidence soon revealed the truth.
In June 2016 it was reported that Alex and Scott have moved to Perth, Australia, where they sleep under a poster of their “Riot Kiss“.

At least 140 people were injured during thus incident, one of them critically. Four people were stabbed and nine police officers were hurt in the riot. Alltogether 101 people were arrested. In 2015, four years after the riot, the police investigation was finished. It led to 887 charges against more than 300 people.

Photo credit: Marco Vittur

📌 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗢𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗖𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗥 𝗣𝗛𝗢𝗧𝗢 📌
📢 “The point of the cover is about beauty amongst chaos, it's about love amongst violence and anger and that kind of dichotomy. I mean what's really important to stress is that this is a real photograph, it's an amazing piece of photohournalism and that is the first time that the couple met and they are still together.“
(M2 Petofi, Napi durrana, 2016)

📌 𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗙𝗔𝗡 𝗢𝗡 “𝗔 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗖𝗘 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗨𝗦 𝗧𝗢 𝗗𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗠“ 📌
𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘢 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵?
📢 “We’re stretching the 20th anniversary of Placebo over quite a long time. We started all that in 2014 because that was 20 years since we formed and we’re going until this year because that’s when the first album came out. This feels like a good time to do a proper respective, our last one was all singles and this time we wanted to do a mixture of the songs that have been the most commercially successful and the ones we feel have most artistic merit. It’s not a Greatest Hits.”

𝘞𝘢𝘴 𝘪𝘵 𝘥𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘥𝘪𝘥𝘯’𝘵?
📢 “It was difficult. Placing songs from 1996 next to songs from 2016 is a big leap when it comes to Placebo, but there is a thread. We wanted to start on a high and end on a high and then it goes up and down in between. It’s a journey with a lot of despair, but a bit of hope.”

𝘞𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘰𝘧𝘧?
📢 “We’ve not included ‘Twenty years’, which I think is a classic Placebo track. We had to be a bit cruel this time.”
(hmv London, October 6h 2016)

Post by Silke

🌟▪ 𝐋𝐀𝐙𝐀𝐑𝐔𝐒 ▪🌟

🔷 𝑳𝒂𝒛𝒂𝒓𝒖𝒔, which appeared as the B-side of the single 𝑴𝒆𝒅𝒔, borrows a biblical image, a common practice for Placebo. Whether in 𝐸𝑦𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐵𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑑, 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐶𝑙𝑜𝑢𝑑𝑠 𝑊𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑂𝑝𝑒𝑛 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑀𝑒, 𝑆𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑘 𝑖𝑛 𝑇𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑢𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑟 𝐵3, the references to religion are numerous. Brian's involvement with religion at a young age helps, obviously ! "𝘐 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘵 (𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘰𝘯) 𝘧𝘢𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘮𝘦 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘐 𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘮𝘺 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘧𝘢𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬. "
◾ 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘 𝚊𝚝 𝙴𝚞𝚛𝚘𝚙𝚎 𝟸 - 𝙾𝚌𝚝𝚘𝚋𝚎𝚛 𝟸𝟾, 𝟸00𝟺

𝑺𝒕𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒐 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏
🎥 https://bit.ly/3C379HF 🎶

Photo credit: Bastien Kolod, edit by Laetitia

🔷 The title 𝑳𝒂𝒛𝒂𝒓𝒖𝒔is taken from the Bible. The character of Lazarus, which in Hebrew means 𝐺𝑜𝑑 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝𝑒𝑑, was a friend and disciple of Jesus. He is best known for being resurrected by Jesus four days after his death.


♦️ 𝘽𝙍𝙄𝘼𝙉 𝘼𝘽𝙊𝙐𝙏 𝘽𝙀𝙄𝙉𝙂 𝘼 𝘽𝙊𝙍𝙉-𝘼𝙂𝘼𝙄𝙉 𝘾𝙃𝙍𝙄𝙎𝙏𝙄𝘼𝙉 ♦️
📢 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗲𝗿𝗿𝘆 𝗔𝗿𝗱𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗻: 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢 𝘮𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘢𝘵 𝘢 𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘨𝘦. 𝘈𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘰𝘧 13, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢 𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘯-𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘯.
💬 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻: 𝘠𝘦𝘴. 𝘐 𝘨𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘮𝘺 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘭 𝘵𝘰 𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘰𝘧 11. 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘰 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘐 𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘸𝘢𝘺.
◾ 𝚃𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚕𝚎 𝚖𝚘𝚗𝚍𝚎 𝚎𝚗 𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎 - 𝟸00𝟹

𝑩𝒐𝒓𝒏-𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝑪𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒂𝒏 applies to people who have accepted Jesus as their Savior, which implies a 𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙 𝑟𝑒𝑏𝑖𝑟𝑡ℎ.

🔷 The song is also about rebirth, but not in the good sense of the word as it is 'ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑒𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛 / 𝑁𝑜𝑤, 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢'𝑟𝑒 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑎𝑑'.

🔷 Brian told at the French radio 𝑹𝑻𝑳2 𝒊𝒏 2016, when choosing the setlist for 𝑨 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝑭𝒐𝒓 𝑼𝒔 𝑻𝒐 𝑫𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒎, that for Placebo is looking for "𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘵𝘩, 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵, 𝘸𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘯'𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘵𝘩, 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘪𝘴 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺. 𝘖𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘸𝘪𝘴𝘦, 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘢 𝘮𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘤𝘵."

The fact that they included 𝑳𝒂𝒛𝒂𝒓𝒖𝒔 in the set list of their 20𝒕𝒉 𝑨𝒏𝒏𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑻𝒐𝒖𝒓, shows that it is one of the important songs with a special meaning and connection for the band.

𝑳𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑺𝒕 𝑷𝒆𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒃𝒖𝒓𝒈, 2016
 🎥 https://bit.ly/3K5Ohuo 🎶

Photo credit: Nadav Kander

🔷 The song could be interpreted in many different ways but for me, I don't think this song is aimed at anyone in particular, but rather at yourself from the perspective of the character in the song. Like self-disgust when you look in the mirror "horrid to see you again so bored of being you". When you talk to yourself unmercifully... A song about self-loathing in a way. I see a character who can't stand a part of himself that resurfaces after a long period of time hiding inside.


♦️ 𝙇𝙔𝙍𝙄𝘾𝙎 ♦️
It's horrid to see you again
Now, that you're back from the dead
It's horrid to see you again
So bored of being you


It's horrid to see you again
Now, that you're back from the dead
It's horrid to see you again
So bored of being alive, alive, alive


It's horrid to see you again
Acting like you're on some kind of cross
It's horrid to see you again
An emotional retard


It's horrid to see you again
Unaware that all may not be lost
It's horrid to see you again
So bored of being alive, alive
Alive, alive
Alive, alive


It's horrid to see you again
Walking around with that egg on your face
It's horrid to see you again
So full of apathy


It's horrid to see you again
Caught in a trap that you cannot escape
It's horrid to see you again
So bored of being alive, alive
Alive, alive
Alive, alive
Alive, alive


Post by Laetitia

🌟⭐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🎶 🎶💕

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⭐𝐀 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐔𝐒 𝐓𝐎 𝐃𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐌: 𝟓𝐓𝐇 𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐀𝐑𝐘⭐

A retrospective album 𝐀 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐔𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐃𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦 was released exactly 5 years ago, on October 7th, 2016, as part of Placebo’s 20th anniversary celebrations. It consists of 36 tracks, including songs off albums, single versions, radio edits, live performances and redux editions of previously released songs, as well as the 2016 single Jesus' Son. The compilation includes all Placebo songs that have been released as singles, apart from "Burger Queen Français", "Twenty Years" and "The Never-Ending Why".
The compilation album reached no. 21 in the UK Albums Chart.

Photo credit: album cover; Placebo IG; Olga / edit by Olga

𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 - 𝐀 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐔𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐃𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐫
 https://bit.ly/392e7Pf

📍As you know, "𝑨 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒖𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒎" is a lyric from the song 𝐍𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐜 from Placebo's third record, 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜.
📍The 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎 𝒄𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓 is an iconic photo of a couple kissing at the 2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot.

⭐𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐎𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐀𝐋𝐁𝐔𝐌 𝐂𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑⭐
📢 "That was very much out of the time, there were disturbances in London… The point of the cover is about beauty amongst chaos, it’s about love amongst violence and anger and that kind of dichotomy. I mean what’s really important to stress is that this is a real photograph, it’s an amazing piece of photojournalism and that is the first time that the couple met and they are still together."
(𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑀𝑜𝑙𝑘𝑜 𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤, 𝑀2 𝑃𝑒𝑡𝑜̋𝑓𝑖, 𝑁𝑎𝑝𝑖 𝑑𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑎́𝑠, 𝐻𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑎𝑟𝑦, 2016)
The album was released as double CD, digital download and vinyl box set.

📍The 𝑱𝒂𝒑𝒂𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒆 𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 also includes Live at Akasaka Blitz, Tokyo, Japan - March 6th, 2010, on the third bonus CD.
📍The 𝒃𝒐𝒙 𝒔𝒆𝒕 contains 4 180 GSM heavyweight vinyl LPs and a 𝟐𝟒-𝐩𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐩𝐡𝐨𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 of rare, previously unseen Placebo pictures curated by Brian and Stefan from their private collections. The images from the different times of the bands career were treated in the style of a pop art, glam scrapbook.
𝑱𝒖𝒍𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑯𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒆 of London-based independent creative agency 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨 was responsible for the artwork on the release: besides designing a photo book, he produced other collage images for the vinyl LP covers, themed around youth surviving apocalyptic events. By the way, Intro agency and particularly Julian House have also worked with Placebo on 𝐋𝐨𝐮𝐝 𝐋𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞 album artwork.
📍For all the “vinyl freaks” out there, A Place for Us to Dream has also been released as a 𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒚𝒍 𝒅𝒆𝒍𝒖𝒙𝒆 𝒃𝒐𝒙 𝒔𝒆𝒕

Photo credit unknown

⭐In the 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖 with 𝐡𝐦𝐯.𝐜𝐨𝐦, Stefan opened up on how the album came into being.
𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒅𝒊𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒂 𝒕𝒐 𝒅𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕?
📢 “We’re stretching the 20th anniversary of Placebo over quite a long time. We started all that in 2014 because that was 20 years since we formed and we’re going until this year because that’s when the first album came out. This feels like a good time to do a proper respective, our last one was all singles and this time we wanted to do a mixture of the songs that have been the most commercially successful and the ones we feel have most artistic merit. It’s not a Greatest Hits.”

𝑾𝒂𝒔 𝒊𝒕 𝒅𝒊𝒇𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒖𝒍𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒆 𝒊𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝒅𝒊𝒅𝒏’𝒕?
📢 “It was difficult. Placing songs from 1996 next to songs from 2016 is a big leap when it comes to Placebo, but there is a thread. We wanted to start on a high and end on a high and then it goes up and down in between. It’s a journey with a lot of despair, but a bit of hope.”

𝑾𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒖𝒍𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒚 𝒔𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒐𝒇𝒇?
📢 “We’ve not included ‘20 Years’, which I think is a classic Placebo track. We had to be a bit cruel this time.”

𝒀𝒐𝒖’𝒗𝒆 𝒈𝒐𝒕 𝒂 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒅 ‘𝑱𝒆𝒔𝒖𝒔’ 𝑺𝒐𝒏’ 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒐𝒐...
📢 “There are some new versions on there too. We’ve re-recorded ‘36 Degrees’ for this, it’s us covering ourselves, just a little something for the fans.”
(ℎ𝑚𝑣, 𝑂𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑏𝑒𝑟 6𝑡ℎ, 2016)

To finish this anniversary post, I want to share 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏’𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒅 to A Place For Us To Dream photo book. I think it’s wonderful and gives you if not an info then rather a feeling of what the album is about...

“Ladies and Gentlemen, and those of you who find yourselves in-between.
There’s a story in here somewhere, though I’m still not sure what it’s about. It’s a long movie that jumps forwards and backwards in time. There are two main characters, a very important supporting role, and guys who hit objects for a living who come and go.
Every now and then there’s a glorious cameo.
I don’t know what it all means, even though I’m the one who edited the film. I still haven’t watched it back all way through. Please have the courage to do what I can’t. Watch it from beginning to end. Take one long deep breath, allowing it all into your body as a whole and recognise the sensation in your soul. I’m still too afraid to do so.
This album is for you, not for me.
Dream of a place where we all belong.
I hope to meet you there one day.
With love,
Brian Molko
Ibiza, June 2016”

Post by Olga

BRIAN MOLKO INTERVIEW – MONDO SONORO 2017

✨𝐻𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑜 𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑠!

Today I bring you the translation of a 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐's interview made by the Spanish independent musical magazine 𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒐𝑺𝒐𝒏𝒐𝒓𝒐 in 2017, just before the 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 concert in Madrid, Spain.
Did you remember that article where 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 ranked 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 records from best to worst? Well, in this interview he talks about it, the secret of his long lasting friendship with 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 𝑶𝒍𝒔𝒅𝒂𝒍, among many other things. I hope this reading will make your day more enjoyable.

♦️𝘽𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙣 𝙈𝙤𝙡𝙠𝙤 𝙄𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙫𝙞𝙚𝙬 2017 - 𝙈𝙤𝙣𝙙𝙤𝙎𝙤𝙣𝙤𝙧𝙤♦️

Brian Molko performing live at WiZink Center Madrid, Spain 04.29.2017 / indyrock.es.

On April 29, Placebo offered a concert of more than 130 minutes at the WiZink Center in Madrid. A couple of hours before it, vocalist Brian Molko received us exclusively in a room located in the bowels of the pavilion. We recover it now, just after passing through Spain for the XX anniversary tour and to headline the second edition of Mallorca Live, held this weekend Brian Molko enters the room and introduces himself while finishing his cigar. He is already fully prepared for the monumental concert that, before a full capacity and together with Stefan Olsdal and company, he will offer shortly thereafter. The artist wears his eyelids richly painted in a showy blue, and chooses one of the two chairs located in the room to sit down in a relaxed posture, just before we start shooting our questions along the ten minutes (finally turned into fifteen) that the musician offers to this publication in a rigorous exclusive. This is the result of that talk, in which, among other things, we discovered his heartfelt crusade against the use of new technologies...

𝐃𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐨𝐮𝐫, 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 20𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐝, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧'𝐭 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞. 𝐈𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐚 𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐬?
Yes, it is a gift. It is the first time that we do something for the fans 100 percent. We have tried to find a balance between feeling happy with ourselves and at the same time making the fans happy. When it comes time to choose the songs we play live, what we're doing on this tour is playing the songs that have had the best response from the live audience during the last twenty years.

𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐨𝐮𝐫, 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞?
Because we're bored with them... because we didn't like them anymore... because we no longer thought they were really good... For all those reasons... (laughs)

𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦?
Well, it is a lot less painful than I imagined it would be. Yes, yes, much less painful…

𝐃𝐢𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐲𝐛𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐛𝐚𝐝 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬?
No! But what we feel is more related to the reaction of the public: that extreme pleasure that the public gets when listening to these songs. That's very satisfying, you feel very fulfilled when you see people so happy.

𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐥𝐲... 𝐃𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐞𝐧𝐣𝐨𝐲 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐰𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭? 𝐌𝐚𝐲𝐛𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐬...
I always prefer to play new songs. But I am committed to doing this 20th anniversary tour, so I will, and I will do it well… giving 100% of what I have every time I go on stage.

𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞, 𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐞, 𝐈 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐦 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞 "𝐋𝐨𝐮𝐝 𝐋𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞" (𝐄𝐥𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫, 13). 𝐈𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐨?
Yes I'm proud of it... but actually I'm proud of everyone, you know. But well, I think “Loud Like Love” was quite an achievement from the point of view of sound and in terms of what we achieved with it. If you think of music as a set of colors and how much color we can give to an album… then I think that's our most colorful album.

𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐈 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐮𝐧𝐤, 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐭… 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐝𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐞𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥 𝐧𝐨𝐰?
I think we have improved as musicians.
As performers, and… I think we are much more adapted to the art of stage design. And we have also learned how to use the stage beyond being simply a place from which to give the concert, and that it reaches only one of the senses: the ear. Music is also a physical experience and we have been working a lot in that direction. Now we work very very hard on the visual aspect of the show.

Photo credit:  Sergei Savostyanov

𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐛𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐫 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫. 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐝𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲?
Thank you… (laughs). I don't think about it, really, I don't. I think I would be a totally different person if I did. If I really believed in my own myth, how people describe me… I am much more interested in humility than fame.

𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧 𝐎𝐥𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐰. 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐬𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤? 𝐈𝐬 𝐡𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐧?
Yes, I mean… I would like to think that we are a compositional pair comparable to some of the historical compositional pairs. Placebo wouldn't exist without the two of us. It is simply impossible. I think what is interesting between the two of us is that we are very different: he has studied music in schools, he can write music, he programs music on a computer, he knows how to use computer composition technology, and basically he can play any instrument he picks up, something that I can't do. Stefan offers what we could call an academic and technological aspect to the music, while mine is more based on the song, it's more instinctive and more emotional, so when you put those two sides together you have almost a perfect circle.

𝐈𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐚𝐬 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐤 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤, 𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐝 𝐁𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐞 𝐨𝐫 𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐞𝐥 𝐒𝐭𝐢𝐩𝐞. 𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞?
Oh, hmmm… you mean other singers?

𝐘𝐞𝐬, 𝐈 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞, 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐲... Nooooooo, not really… (𝘈𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘴 𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘩 𝘭𝘦𝘵 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘢 𝘩𝘶𝘨𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘶𝘤𝘬𝘭𝘦)… I would love to work with PJ Harvey, Björk… I like Grimes… it's amazing. Hummmmm… And electronic artists. I listen to a lot of electronic music so I would like to work with really good electronic experimental artists like Vitalic or Tycho. But I also listen to a lot of what people call 'classical-modern music'... people like Max Richter, Dustin O’Halloran or Ólafurd Arnalds… That would be very interesting to me.

𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬, 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 90𝐬, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐩𝐨𝐩 𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐞𝐥, 𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐨𝐛𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐥𝐲 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐧'𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐦𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐨 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐭...
Who did that? (𝘈𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘮𝘴 𝘴𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘺𝘦𝘥)

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 90𝐬 𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐨 𝐢𝐭, 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬...
I think you're wrong... (laughs)

𝐒𝐨, 𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐚 𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐨 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐩𝐨𝐩?
No, but also I don't like it when people say Placebo is a goth band... or any other label. I don't like being pigeonholed and put inside a box. I think we are a rock & roll band and that's it. I think that's what we are.

Photo credit: Bèranger Tillard 

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐝 𝐚 𝐥𝐨𝐭 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 90𝐬. 𝐃𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧?
Yeeeeeeees, of course I do. A lot of things… I mean, when we were preparing for the 20th anniversary tour we were watching videos of the old performances, and nobody had a mobile phone. Everyone… Everyone was jumping up and down, and people were flying over each other! Everyone was in the moment and enjoying. Now sometimes you are playing for an audience that has its face glued to an electronic device, which makes it very difficult to satisfy that audience with technology glued to its face, because there is an object blocking its own energy and preventing it from reaching you. Today, there is a fascination with documenting everything over experiencing it. It's the result of having let ourselves as a society be seduced by that technology, you know... And the problem is not the technology itself, but our attitude and the ease with which we allow ourselves to be seduced by it. It is easier to have a conversation with someone through technology than face to face, because it doesn't carry any vulnerability. And vulnerability involves a very important part of what it means to be a human being. So if we continue to exist without vulnerability, without truth, without physical contact, without physical exchange in the real world, I think we will become more disconnected and lonely beings within society. Since multinationals are telling the world that they create a better place to connect people and we believe their lie… It's really crap, they exist simply to earn a huge sum of money.

(𝘈𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘥'𝘴 𝘵𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘴 𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘸𝘰 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘭𝘦𝘧𝘵)

𝐀 𝐟𝐞𝐰 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐬 𝐚𝐠𝐨 𝐈 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐌𝐄 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨'𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐦𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐬𝐭, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐦𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬. 𝐎𝐛𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐦𝐞. 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞?
Did I?? I don't remember doing it…

𝐘𝐞𝐬, 𝐈 𝐬𝐚𝐰 𝐢𝐭 𝐚 𝐟𝐞𝐰 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐬 𝐚𝐠𝐨 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐈 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐭…
Bah, I don't remember… so let's continue.

𝐎𝐤𝐚𝐲, 𝐬𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧… 𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐬? 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐰𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨? 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐰𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞?
Currently I have no idea. I am very much into what we're doing right now. Everything now revolves around this 20th anniversary tour. It's all we are doing now. But of course we have some ideas... They are almost skeletons or embryos. It is just an idea of ​​what we want to do in the future, but not a reality right now, because we are very busy.

𝐖𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧, 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐤 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐦𝐮𝐜𝐡. 𝐈𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐚 𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞. 𝐒𝐞𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞...
You're welcome. Cool, I see you in the audience…

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

 

A Place For Us To Dream – 20 Years Of Placebo’

More Info: http://bit.ly/2dYxCOU

 

Pre-Order ´A Place For Us To Dream´ - Placebo

 

A Place For Us To Dream – 20 Years Of Placebo’ Deluxe Box Set, Pink Vinyl Edition [First 450 Orders Signed]
£70.00

Please note, this is a pre-order item and will arrive on or around 7th October 2016*

First 450 copies of this edition will be signed.

25 Random orders will receive a free copy of the 7" AA side single of 'Jesus' Son / Life's What You Make It'

4x 180 GSM heavyweight pink vinyl housed in a special hard case box.

24-page book with never-before-seen photos curated by Brian Molko & Stefan Olsdal, from throughout the band’s 20-year career.

Includes a download card for high-res WAV versions of the tracks.
Preorder here:

Vinyl 1

A1. Pure Morning (Radio Edit)

A2. Jesus’ Son (Radio Edit)

A3. Come Home

A4. Every You Every Me (Single Version)

B1. Too Many Friends

B2. Nancy Boy (Radio Edit)

B3. 36 Degrees (Version 2016)

B4. Taste In Men (Radio Edit)

B5. The Bitter End

Vinyl 2

A1. Without You I'm Nothing (feat. David Bowie)

A2. English Summer Rain (Single Verison)

A3. Breathe Underwater (Slow)

A4. Soulmates

B1. Meds (feat. Alison Mosshart)

B2. Bright Lights (Single Version)

B3. Song To Say Goodbye (Radio Edit)

B4. Infra-Red

B5. Running Up That Hill

Vinyl 3

A1. B3 (Radio Edit)

A2. For What It’s Worth

A3. Teenage Angst

A4. You Don’t Care About Us (Radio Edit)

A5. Ashtray Heart

B1. Broken Promise (feat. Michael Stipe)

B2. Slave To The Wage (Radio Edit)

B3. Bruise Pristine (Radio Edit)

B4. This Picture

B5. Protégé Moi

Vinyl 4

A1. Because I Want You (Redux Version)

A2. Black-Eyed

A3. Lazarus

A4. I Know (Version 2008)

B1. A Million Little Pieces (Radio Edit)

B2. Special Needs (Radio Edit)

B3. Special K

B4. Loud Like Love

 

A Place For Us To Dream – 20 Years Of Placebo’ Deluxe Box Set, Black Vinyl Edition [First 500 Orders Signed]
£70.00
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A PLACE FOR US TO DREAM CD Album
€15.99

• Release Date 07 October 2016

Product code

5705458

Format

Double CD Album

Label

UMC (Universal Music Catalogue)

Pre-order here

 

LIFE’S WHAT YOU MAKE IT E.P - 12" BLACK VINYL
€20.99

LIFE'S WHAT YOU MAKE IT E.P - SPRINGTIME GREEN 12" VINYL €20.99


 

Interview with Brian Molko - July 2016 - M Magazine

 



Emerging from the dank depths of nineties’ London, the band went on to help define both Britpop and the nascent emo scene.

Now with seven albums under their belts, they’ve build a cultish fan base that feeds sold-out arena tours around the globe.

Over recent years the band have become increasingly frustrated with rampant online ticket touting, leading Brian to lend his support to the FanFair Alliance, a new initiative to curb the practice.

We grabbed five minutes with him at the FanFair launch to learn more…

As an artist who’s been playing live for over 20 years, how do you feel about the growth in secondary ticketing?

I think the brazen profiteering of these corporations is absolutely scandalous. I can only speak for myself and my band – Placebo certainly do not want our fans to be victims of this unethical profiteering. It appears to be institutionalised, the laws against this aren’t enforced and music fans are unaware that they’re being ripped off by fat cats in suits.

Why are you here today?

To educate myself, to speak to other artists and try to get them involved in the campaign and to use whatever platform I have to spread the message.

How has this situation affected your band and your tours?

It gets to a point where people in difficult economic times can’t afford to go to shows, so this practice impacts both the fans and the artists as well. Not solely on a financial level, but, as an artist, you want your venue to be filled with people having a good time. That’s what you live for. It’s the kind of energy that feeds your soul, it affects us that way.

This situation affects new bands too. If a ticket costs £30 but is offered on a secondary ticketing site for £60 and someone buys it, they won’t have the spare cash to spend £10 on seeing a smaller band. It makes it more difficult for up and coming artists.

Do you feel powerless in all of this?

No, not at all. I think it’s just the beginning. I’m passionate about this and I intend to make as many people as possible aware of this scandalous behaviour. Hopefully this is movement that can go global, eventually.

Placebo hit the road in October, arriving in the UK early December for a string of shows. Find out where they’re playing: http://www.placeboworld.co.uk/shows

FanFair Alliance was launched today (Thursday) by the managers of Arctic Monkeys, One Direction, Mumford & Sons and PJ Harvey to unite businesses, artists and fans against online ticket touting.

 

Sources: M Magazine

A Place For Us To Dream - Best Of - Placebo

 

 

 

Placebo celebrate their 20th birthday and go on a world tour in autumn.

Their journey around the globe starts October 13th in Denmark and ends December 15th in the London Wembley Arena.

The band promises that they are going to play songs from all periods of their long career at those shows.

Brian Molko announces: "Let me just say that much: We are going to play songs that I swore I'd never play again. We have to recognize what the many Placebo fans out there really want to hear.
They've always been very patient with us cause we just seldom play our commercial successful material.

But a 20th birthday seems appropriate to us to rethink that attitude. That is what we intend.
We are going on this world tour for the Fans and it offers us the opportunity to rediscover our early music. So if you want to hear pieces like "Pure morning" or "Nancy boy", which we didn’t play in ten years and maybe will never be playing again, you better come to those shows! Of course we will have some surprises as well."

 

Besides on 7th of October appears a new best-of album called "A Place For Us To Dream" with three unpublished songs.

Sources: .universal-music.de /  http://bit.ly/2a430K8

Placebo - ALT.RUSSIA Documentary 2016

 

New Placebo rockumentary discovers creativity in remotest parts of Russia
A documentary about Placebo premiered at BEAT Film Festival in Moscow on Monday, to mark the 20th anniversary of the English rockband. Directed by Charlie Targett-Adams, it focuses on Placebo’s tour across Russia in 2014, and was created with the help of The Calvert Journal.

“I had already made a “rockumentary” about the band back in 2012 that told the story of an international band touring the world. So for this documentary I wanted to do something different and came up with the concept of taking the band out to meet creatives in Russia. To see first hand what creativity was happening in Russia that we rarely hear about in Europe,” Targett-Adams told The Calvert Journal.

The director and associate producer Stephanie Fyfe turned to The Calvert Journal in constructing the story for the documentary: “The amount of information about the creative arts in Russia was great and it gave us a great starting place to see what was happening in each of the cities the band would travel to,” Targett-Adams revealed.

Earlier this year Placebo announced the 20 Years world tour scheduled for this autumn, starting in Denmark on 13 October and ending at London Wembley on 15 December. You can follow their 2014 tour from Krasnoyarsk to Voronezh in photos the band took on a disposable camera for The Calvert Journal.
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TEXT:Liza Premiyak
Soruces: calvertjournal.com

Placebo World Tour 2016/17 - First shows announced

20 YEARS OF PLACEBO - WORLD TOUR 2016/17

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FIRST SHOWS ANNOUNCED - 14.03.16

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