⭐𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎 "𝐀 𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐓𝐎𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐑𝐎𝐖"⭐

Dear soulmates, today I invite you again for another documentary from 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐞 𝐓𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐭-𝐀𝐝𝐚𝐦𝐬.

🔸𝟏𝟐 𝐃𝐀𝐘𝐒
🔸 𝟓 𝐂𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐓𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐒
🔸 𝟓 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐂𝐄𝐑𝐓𝐒

⭐𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎 "𝐀 𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐓𝐎𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐑𝐎𝐖"⭐
"𝐼 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝐼'𝑚 𝑔𝑜𝑛𝑛𝑎 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝐼 𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑣𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒... 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑖𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑒𝑡 𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑡, 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑗𝑒𝑡-𝑙𝑎𝑔𝑔𝑒𝑑, 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑓𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑑..." 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑀𝑜𝑙𝑘𝑜

Photo credits: screenshots from video, edit by Marti

This great film very sensitively captures the atmosphere of Placebo's Asian tour in August 2009.
Its beginning is very sad, Brian collapses on stage in Osaka after playing the first song. And then the director gives us an insight into the story that took place before this collapse.
During beautiful shots of Asian cities, we hear Brian's charming voice telling us how he felt when they arrived in Asia after five months of touring Europe.
The plan was 5 concerts in 5 countries in just 12 days.
Few of us can imagine it ...


🔸 The very next day after arriving in Tokyo, the guys got up at five in the morning so they could be on the Tokyo radio show at seven. They were very surprised by the amount of fans who came out to meet their favourite band in person.

🔸 Then followed the trip to Taiwan. Fans at the airport took the band's breath away.
At least a hundred people welcomed the Placebo band at the airport.
...How is it possible that they know us here?...
Although the gig and the audience were absolutely perfect, Brian admitted that he was getting very tired.
His days were marked by departures and arrivals and it is terrible for a person who has an essential fear of flying.
"𝐼𝑓 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 15 𝑏𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑠... 15 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜𝑠 𝑡𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑... 𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑎 𝑤𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑓𝑢𝑙 𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑎..."

🔸 Next stops were in HongKong and Seoul, an increasingly exhausting cycle - airport - hotel - soundcheck - concert.

Photo credit: screenshot from video

In Seoul, Steve fell ill.
„𝑆𝑡𝑒𝑣𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑒𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟. 𝐸𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑏𝑜𝑑𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑘𝑠 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑠𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑓𝑙𝑢, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑛𝑜𝑏𝑜𝑑𝑦 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑔𝑜 𝑛𝑒𝑎𝑟 ℎ𝑖𝑚. 𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝑛𝑜𝑤 ℎ𝑒 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑠 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑖𝑡 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑎 𝑝𝑜𝑒𝑡.“
Funny Brian...😊

🔸 The band is flying back to Japan. The next show is the Summer Sonic Festival in Tokyo and Osaka to finish the Asian tour. In Brian's words „...𝐼𝑡'𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑚𝑎𝑧𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐼'𝑣𝑒 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 ℎ𝑎𝑑, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑓𝑢𝑙..."
The film ends with shots just before Brian's collapse.

🔸 I found a statement from Brian and the band about this sad event that caused Placebo to cancel their North American tour:
💬🔸 "When you watch the footage it's kind of scary. I was in and out of consiousness for a good few hours after the actual collapse," he reveals. "Two days before the show in question, I had a gastric virus that just emptied me and that, combined with travelling and tour fatigue, made my body give up. It was definitely exhaustion.
(𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑀𝑜𝑙𝑘𝑜, 𝐾𝑒𝑟𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑔 𝑀𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑧𝑖𝑛𝑒, 𝐷𝑒𝑐. 2009)

Photo credit: screenshot from video

💬 🔸𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨: 𝐌𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐓𝐨 𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐉𝐚𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐅𝐚𝐧𝐬: 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐥🔸
We would firstly like to thank you for all your kind words and messages of support regarding Brian’s health after fainting at the show in Osaka, Japan, yesterday.

It is always incredibly disappointing when a show cannot take place for any reason, particularly on this occasion due to Brian being unwell, as we have looked forward for such a long time to these shows in Japan!

We have undertaken a gruelling and intensive schedule over the last few months and the last couple of weeks alone played 5 countries in 9 days. Brian picked up a virus which coupled with jet lag and exhaustion caused his collapse on stage. Thanks to prompt and professional care Brian is recovering well.

We would like to extend our grateful thanks and sincere apologies to the fans who made a huge effort travelling to see us in Osaka, especially after long queue’s in the heavy rain. We would also like to extend many thanks and apologies to the promoters, Creative Man, at Summer Sonic for all their help and understanding under difficult circumstances.

We are all the more devastated after such an amazing show in Tokyo on Saturday where the crowd was incredible. We were so excited to be back in Japan after a few years away and we were reminded what a very special place Japan is to us.

Thank you all for your ongoing support and we hope to make it up to you with new dates in Japan very soon. We love your country and can’t wait to come back.

Love
Brian, Stefan, Steve - Placebo x

Photo credit: screenshot from video

And now, dear friends, it's time to watch the movie.
🔸🎬 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐦 𝐨𝐧 𝐕𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐨 𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡 𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲:
https://vimeo.com/20632600


𝐨𝐫 𝐨𝐧 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐓𝐮𝐛𝐞:
🔸 Placebo A New Tomorrow - Part 1.
https://bit.ly/3udQjmW
🔸 Part 2.
https://bit.ly/3udd1eY
🔸 Part 3.
https://bit.ly/3KhMItB

☮ Dear friends, I'm sharing this film with you ahead of our favorite band's upcoming tour.
It's clear that I am appealing to percieve everything through our hearts and not just through our egos.
As fans, we must always keep in mind that there are human beings on stage in front of us, not robots. ☮

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🎇 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎'𝐬 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐀𝐑 🎇

🔸Dear Soulmates, today I'd like to talk about an interesting item Placebo sold on their official store in december 2011, their wonderful 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐫 2012.

It contains 13 𝑝𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑠 of the band, taken by different photographers and 𝐴𝑙𝑒𝑥 𝑊𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑛, the band's manager.🔸

Photo credits at the end of the text

⭐📷Among the photographers is 𝑱𝒐𝒔𝒆𝒑𝒉 𝑳𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒆𝒔, who was involved in the artwork for 𝐿𝑜𝑢𝑑 𝐿𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝐿𝑜𝑣𝑒 with these great photos of the band at 𝑉𝑎𝑠𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑧 𝑅𝑜𝑐𝑘𝑠 𝑁𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑃𝑎𝑟𝑘 in the Los Angeles desert. He was also with Placebo when they performed at 𝐴𝑛𝑔𝑜𝑟 𝑊𝑎𝑡 in 2008. And these are some photos that we can see in the calendar. 💕


⭐📷We also find a picture of the lovely 𝑺𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒆𝒕 𝑷𝒂𝒈𝒆 who always manages to bring out the emotional side of Placebo through her soulful and beautiful pictures. 💖


⭐📷𝑺𝒂𝒎𝒊 𝑵𝒐𝒊𝒓𝒊 is a well-known fashion photographer. During the 𝑆𝑒𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑡 𝑆𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑇𝑜𝑘𝑦𝑜 𝑖𝑛 2010, where Placebo played an acoustic session, Sam Noiri was there and took this great photo of Brian smiling. Great gift eh! . 💝

⭐🎬The film director 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒊𝒆 𝑻𝒂𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒕-𝑨𝒅𝒂𝒎𝒔 is the author of the live photographs of the band in this calendar. There had to be live photos ! It should be remembered that Charlie Targett-Adams followed Placebo during concerts in 2009 and filmed them. And that's good! Because we can enjoy his incredible talent ! 💞


⭐🌟In the 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜, there is one very important person... 𝑨𝒍𝒆𝒙 𝑾𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒏. She is the director of Riverman Management, along with 𝐷𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑑 𝑀𝑐𝐿𝑒𝑎𝑛. She often follows the band on tour. She must have hundreds and hundreds of pictures of the band ! On the calendar, we can thank her for this superb photo of Brian and Stefan sitting on steps in Cambodia. 💚

Photo credit: Joseph Llanes

✨Photography is an art and all the people I have mentioned above know their stuff !

Here are the links to appreciate their great work✨

📍 𝘚𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘦𝘵 𝘗𝘢𝘨𝘦 https://www.scarletpage.com/

📍 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘪𝘦 𝘛𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘵-𝘈𝘥𝘢𝘮𝘴 http://www.charlietargett-adams.com/

📍 𝘚𝘢𝘮𝘪 𝘕𝘰𝘪𝘳𝘪 http://www.saminoiri.com/

📍 𝘑𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘱𝘩 𝘓𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘦𝘴 https://www.josephllanes.com/


🔸What I like about this calendar is the eclectic choice of pictures that brings together the fun, the musical universe and the committed side of Placebo. I think it sums up the 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜 perfectly.


🎵As many pictures are from the concert in Angkor Wat, let's enjoy ourselves with one of my favorite song from this live: 𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸-𝗘𝘆𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝘁 𝗔𝗻𝗴𝗸𝗼𝗿 𝗪𝗮𝘁 🎥https://bit.ly/39UoSnd🎵

𝑃ℎ𝑜𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑠:
- Joseph Llanes (6 pictures on the left + picture of the calendar taken from his IG)
- Charlie Target-Adams (4 pictures on the rignt)
- Scarlet Page (in the middle left, bottom page)
- Sami Noiri (in the middle, right bottom page)
- Alex Weston (in the middle, on top)

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⭐🔹𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎: 𝐀𝐋𝐓.𝐑𝐔𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐀 𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟔🔹⭐

😍Dear soulmates,
today I want to share an amazing interview about a documentary, that is still waiting to be released on DVD. As for me, I wasn't lucky enough to see this gem. I am dependent only on the trailer and various mentions that keep me in devotional patience.

🔹⭐🔹𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎: 𝐀𝐋𝐓.𝐑𝐔𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐀 𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟔🔹⭐🔹

In July 2017, a student Celia Lam, who studied at the University of Nottingham in Ningbo, China, interviewed the film's director Charlie Targett-Adams for a university magazine. We already know that Charlie has been a popular director for the band since 2008, among other things he made the first documentary Coming Up For Air for Placebo.
I want to share with you the most interesting moments of this conversation and I hope that you will enjoy the atmosphere of creation of this still carefully hidden treasure.


And if anyone here has been lucky enough to attend the screening of this amazing rockumentary, share your memories and feelings with us.
I wish you all a wonderful evening.


𝑰𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒊𝒆𝒘 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒊𝒆 𝑻𝒂𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒕-𝑨𝒅𝒂𝒎𝒔:
𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑨𝒍𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑵𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑷𝑳𝑨𝑪𝑬𝑩𝑶: 𝑨𝑳𝑻.𝑹𝑼𝑺𝑺𝑰𝑨
𝑸𝒖𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒃𝒚 𝑪𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒂 𝑳𝒂𝒎

🌟 Please tell me about the concept behind PLACEBO: ALT.RUSSIA. How did you establish a connection with the band and what inspired you to tell this story?
/.../ In April 2014, Alex emailed me about coming in to talk about making a documentary about the Russian tour. They were playing 10 Russian cities, eight of which they had not played before, and travelling on the Trans-Siberian express. It was a different tour for them, and a
great opportunity to make something unique. At the time Russia was all over the news with Crimea so I thought we should not concentrate on the politics and instead reach out to the people and see a different side to Russia. I went away and wrote a treatment for the film setting out the approach: going out into the cities and meeting creatives on the way. I had the name from the start, PLACEBO:
ALT.RUSSIA, because I always see Placebo being labelled as an ‘Alternative Rock’ band and thought that would be a good hook to look into alternative culture in Russia; the culture we rarely hear about in the mainstream media.

Screenshot from the trailer

🌟 Please tell me about the technical process. How many cameras did you use during the shoot, and what was your plan for sound recording? Were there any challenging situations or interesting stories to come from production?
/.../ Like always in the world of rock’n’roll,
money and time weren’t on our side, so we had two weeks for the pre-production to find out as much as we could about the places we were going and who we could meet up with. We spent every waking hour researching, emailing and picking up the phone trying to set things up before we left. We explored every angle we could and contacted everyone we came across including Placebo fans to help give us their ideas about their cities. In the end a great resource for us was The Calvert Journal based in London. On their website they feature articles about the creative arts in Russia and Eastern Europe and it opened up a lot of angles on who and what to look out for.
Once we had a list of people in each city we sent them over to Stefan Olsdal and Brian Molko from the band to ask who they were interested in meeting. From there we narrowed down the choices and then the tough task of getting in contact with them. /.../ Some people we never managed to contact, others we did and they didn’t show up at our meetings and others we met but we could not fit into the edit of the documentary. Thankfully, of the people we did meet, we were really blown away by what they did and each gave their own unique angle for the film. /.../
When I shoot a concert, I am always more interested in trying to capture what it felt like to be there than document what actually happened. Therefore, I normally make my way around the whole venue picking up moments from on or off stage, trying to capture people’s reactions and emotions. /.../ The tour lasted sixteen days and in total we covered just over 13,500 km. /.../


🌟 Tell me a bit about the editing process. How did you find the narrative? Did the story of the band’s encounters with Russian artists emerge after the shoot, or before?
/.../We returned from the tour with thirty-five hours of footage.
/.../All of this is boiled down to the one hour and seven minutes running time.
/.../We knew the premise was to go out and talk to creatives to find out about living and working in Russia. We aimed to get a diverse mix of people into the film and not just the obvious type of creatives that people would associate with Russia. We wanted to get different opinions on similar topics from each of our contributors.
Jerry Chater was our editor. He had edited music documentaries about U2, Radiohead, Oasis and Joy Division and I knew he would bring so much to our film. /.../
This went on for about four months on and off before we had a first cut. Stefan from the band came into the edit on occasions and helped craft the narrative as we went. /.../

Screenshot from the trailer

🌟 What inspired your stylistic choices for the film?
/.../ The previous feature documentary was all
led by a narration from Brian. Therefore, this time we chose to have Stefan lead it and instead of it being a film that looked inwards to the band we thought it should look outwards and be guided by Stefan. He really embraced the project and was very involved at every stage of the production. He was the best champion and driving force to make sure it would see the light of day.
It was a constant dialogue on the road with Stefan. /.../ From what I knew, he had never really done any work in front of the camera like this before, leading the conversation and giving personal insight into difficult subjects on camera. Usually people would be asking him questions instead of the other way around but I feel he managed to fall straight into the role and get his own naturally inquisitive and engaging character across on camera. Then when we came to do the voice over for the
film, Jerry had written a guide dialogue and Stefan managed to spin it around into his own words to give it a real personal and engaging touch. /.../
What we did consciously seek out were people who were away from the mainstream. Hopefully by doing this we showed an alternative narrative to the mainstream reported in Russia. The film has gone down really well in Russia. I feel there is a great appetite for it because it is an alternative take on how Russians see their own country. /.../


🌟 How important are alternative narratives to the band?
One of my favourite quotes from Brian is “Placebo attracts the misshapes, the square pegs in the round holes.” From hearing several interviews they have given over the years I would say alternative narratives are important to them. I feel they are writing their own one in the history of modern Western music. They are currently in their 20th year as a band and when they started Brit Pop had emerged, lad culture and crude rivalries between bands such as Blur and Oasis.
Placebo decided to blur these false boundaries and were the antidote to that culture. Having come to fame in that way, I feel they are now put under that section of ‘alternative’ for people to easily categorize and digest their style in a single term. That is why I thought it would be good to play on that with the title of the documentary, PLACEBO: ALT.RUSSIA, and also the Alt on a computer keyboard that gives a nod to our internet age. /.../

Screenshot from the trailer

🌟 Finally, where have you screened the film so far, and where will you take it next?
The documentary has had a great response at several festivals and a theatrical release so far in Russia. We have won three film festival awards at present. To be recognised outside the world
of music with the IAFOR award was incredibly humbling for us all./.../
I feel all music documentaries grow better with time as they capture the culture of that time. We want to get
the film shown to as many people as possible all over the world through film festivals. We are going to show it in as many festivals that accept us this year and then there will be a general release at the end of the year or next year.
🔹⭐🔹

You can read the whole interview here:
https://bit.ly/2U3Yxyl

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