✨🌠 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐌𝐎𝐋𝐊𝐎 𝐄𝐅𝐅𝐄𝐂𝐓 🌠✨

𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒏𝒚 recently sat down for a pint with 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐, the outspoken singer and songwriter with the consistently popular alternative rock band 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐, to ask about the secret of their long-standing success.
📍𝐹𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑏𝑦 𝑃𝑎𝑢𝑙 𝑀𝑖𝑡𝑐𝒉𝑒𝑙𝑙

📸Photo Credit: Franck Juery, 2009

⭐ 𝑮𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅 (𝟏𝟓 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈), 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒅𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒖𝒆 - 𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒉 𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒔 𝒚𝒆𝒕 𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 𝒂𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒄?
🎤 Well, that's the challenging equilibrium you try and strike every time you make a new record: trying to push the boundaries and limits of your sound without repeating yourself. You have to try to do something new, exciting and fresh with the band's sound and play with the band's conceived identity, but at the same time not disregarding what makes you uniquely 'you'.

⭐ 𝑫𝒐𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒊𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒈𝒐 𝒂𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒈?
🎤 I think so! The greater the body of work, the more difficult it becomes to write a fresh song; it becomes a lot more challenging. As far as longevity is concerned, I think if you look at the careers of the likes of The Cure or Depeche Mode - I use those examples because they both released albums this year, 30 years into their career - well they've made music, since day one, purely on their own terms, unaffected, unconcerned by trends, movements and fashion in music. They followed their own path and stuck to their guns, and I think that's why they're still making records which are still worthwhile listening. We're 15 years in, and that's where I'd like to be in another 15. It's not like we have any other options; we're basically unemployable, you know, so this is it.

⭐ 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐'𝒔 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒂𝒅𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆, 𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒔, 𝒔𝒂𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒆, 𝒉𝒆𝒅𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒎 𝒆𝒕𝒄. 𝑨𝒓𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒐𝒍𝒅𝒆𝒓?
🎤 I started looking back on my career around the time of Meds [fifth studio album, released in 2006]. As a lyricist I thought I was using a great deal of gimmicks. For example, the whole chemistry/medicine cabinet routine that is Commercial for Levi or a song title that screams 'Look at Me!' that is Nancy Boy! I made a decision that I wanted to stop using gimmicks and address the bigger questions in more everyday language where possible, and try and simplify it, I suppose. Say more by saying less, that's kinda the trip I'm on right now.

⭐ 𝑰𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒎𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒅𝒆𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒆 '𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒖𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏' 𝒂 𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒌𝒚 𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒆?
🎤 Everybody who writes wants to write stuff that's timeless and doesn't date, really. I think you have to be very careful if you want to do that. You have to tap into the spirit of the age but at the same time write something that transcends it. I don't think that using incredibly culturally specific language enables you to do that. So, I'm trying to transcend that and write something that can stand up to the music that I grew up listening to. Take Leonard Cohen, for example. There's a universality in his music and a simplicity which makes it appreciable and meaningful in any decade, any century really. I think that's what I'm trying to do, hopefully in some way making a difference.

Photo credit: Scarket Page

⭐ 𝑾𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆'𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒂𝒄𝒉 𝒈𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒏𝒆𝒙𝒕?
🎤 Right now I'm just wondering how the hell am I going to survive the next two years of this touring schedule and pull out of this in one piece.

⭐ 𝑶𝒏 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒗𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝑺𝒄𝒐𝒕𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖'𝒗𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒂𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚 𝒊𝒏 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅 𝒂𝒇𝒇𝒂𝒊𝒓𝒔, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒔𝒑𝒐𝒌𝒆𝒏 𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝑼𝑺 𝑷𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒚. 𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒅𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒅, 𝒊𝒇 𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒍𝒍?
🎤 It's good to have an intelligent person running one of the most powerful countries and someone who generally cares. I'm less sympathetic towards the economic problems that exist right now than some people might be, because I have never been able to understand the whole culture of living beyond your means. I mean, I've been unemployed for a long time, I've been homeless, I've slept in train stations and I didn't spend money that didn't belong to me. So I find it difficult to be incredibly sympathetic with the culture of avarice that has got us into this position.


The other thing that annoys me about this whole focus on our economic woes is that nobody is talking about the environment anymore, and if anything is going to get us in the ass, it's going to be that. The hole in the ozone layer is still there, 20 years after they discovered it, and it's getting bigger and bigger, yet this isn't news. I want to be involved in the world. I think it comes from being a parent; you want to try and contribute to make a place for your children to grow up in that's hopefully a little bit better than where you were. Unfortunately, it seems that we are heading straight towards some form of environmental armageddon, and perhaps we deserve to go the same way as the dinosaurs for our treatment of the planet.
▪️𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚂𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚗𝚢, 𝙽𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛 𝟸𝟺, 𝟸𝟶𝟶𝟿.

𝘏𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘰 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴!

Now I bring to you an interview with 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐, which is a gem from beginning to end as once again he talks to us from his side as a songwriter about how his songwriting style has changed over time, the challenges he faces and what he aspires to achieve in his songs. ⭐🎶

Photo credit: Taratata TV show, 2009

𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐 also mentions some of the bands and artists he admires and has covered at some point, so it seemed like a good idea to listen to those songs this afternoon.


🔊 𝐋𝐞𝐭'𝐬 𝐆𝐨 𝐓𝐨 𝐁𝐞𝐝 - 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐭 𝐈-𝐃𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟖 🎶
https://bit.ly/3W4YkpQ

🔊 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬 - 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 (𝐀𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜) 🎶
https://bit.ly/3FVKVe7

🔊 𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐬𝐞𝐚 𝐇𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐥 - 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐨 (𝐋𝐞𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐂𝐨𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫) 🎶
https://bit.ly/3BGNHRV


Another thing that caught my attention in this interview is that 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏's last answer reminded me of what he mentioned about the environment in the Placebo interviews we read earlier this year. A pity that 13 years later things have not changed much, so it is worth remembering that we must take care and value our planet every day with habits that are kind to nature. 🌏

🔊 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 - 𝐓𝐫𝐲 𝐁𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐍𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞 🎶
https://bit.ly/3HGYm2G


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⭐🎉 𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐘 𝐁𝐈𝐑𝐓𝐇𝐃𝐀𝐘 𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐍 𝐆𝐎𝐑𝐄! 🥂🍾 🎊⭐

🎁 Today we celebrate the 🎈𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐝𝐚𝐲🎈 of the talented songwriter, musician, singer, record producer, DJ and founding member of 𝑫𝒆𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒐𝒅𝒆, 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒏 𝑮𝒐𝒓𝒆.

Photo credits down below

📌 On July 23, 1961, 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒏 𝑳𝒆𝒆 𝑮𝒐𝒓𝒆 was born in 𝑫𝒂𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒉𝒂𝒎, 𝑬𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒙, 𝑬𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅. He was raised by his stepfather 𝑫𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒅 𝑮𝒐𝒓𝒆 and his mother 𝑷𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒍𝒂, along with his half-sisters 𝑲𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒏 and 𝑱𝒂𝒄𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆, who are younger than him. As an adult, he met his biological father who was an 𝑨𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒏-𝑨𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝑮.𝑰. stationed in 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒊𝒏. 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒏 has described his upbringing as normal and stable. However, he also said that he was introverted and preferred to spend time reading alone rather than with his classmates.


In the 1970s, he taught himself to play the keyboard. He never received formal training. He just learned to play chart hits by deciphering the structures that were published in 𝑫𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒐 𝟒𝟓 magazine. He attended 𝑵𝒊𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒂𝒔 𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒉𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑺𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒐𝒍, 𝑩𝒂𝒔𝒊𝒍𝒅𝒐𝒏, where he was the guitarist in a local band called 𝑵𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑾𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒔. He shared a class with the recently deceased 𝑨𝒏𝒅𝒚 𝑭𝒍𝒆𝒕𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒓, 𝑨𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒐𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒚𝒆𝒕 and 𝑷𝒆𝒓𝒓𝒚 𝑩𝒂𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒆 (𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑪𝒖𝒓𝒆, 𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝑨𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒔𝒕 𝑹𝒖𝒊𝒏). 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒏 became interested in electronic music upon hearing bands such as 𝑲𝒓𝒂𝒇𝒕𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒌, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑯𝒖𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝑳𝒆𝒂𝒈𝒖𝒆 and 𝑶𝒓𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒍 𝑴𝒂𝒏𝒐𝒆𝒖𝒗𝒓𝒆𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑫𝒂𝒓𝒌 (𝑶𝑴𝑫).

Photo credit: Dave McIntyre

In 1980, 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒏 𝑮𝒐𝒓𝒆 reunited with classmate 𝑨𝒏𝒅𝒚 𝑭𝒍𝒆𝒕𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒓 at the 𝑽𝒂𝒏 𝑮𝒐𝒈𝒉 club. 𝑭𝒍𝒆𝒕𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒓 recruited 𝑮𝒐𝒓𝒆 into his band 𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝑺𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 along with 𝑽𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝑪𝒍𝒂𝒓𝒌𝒆. Soon the band drafted 𝑫𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝑮𝒂𝒉𝒂𝒏 to be the band's lead singer after hearing him sing "𝑯𝒆𝒓𝒐𝒆𝒔" by 𝑫𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒅 𝑩𝒐𝒘𝒊𝒆.

Thus 𝑫𝒆𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒐𝒅𝒆 was born, the name of the band was taken from the 𝑭𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒉 fashion magazine "𝑫𝒆́𝒑𝒆̂𝒄𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒐𝒅𝒆" which translates as "𝑭𝒂𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑵𝒆𝒘𝒔" or "𝑭𝒂𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑼𝒑𝒅𝒂𝒕𝒆". Their debut album "𝑺𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒌 & 𝑺𝒑𝒆𝒍𝒍" (1981) included two tracks written by 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒏: "𝑻𝒐𝒓𝒂! 𝑻𝒐𝒓𝒂! 𝑻𝒐𝒓𝒂!" and the instrumental "𝑩𝒊𝒈 𝑴𝒖𝒇𝒇". When 𝑪𝒍𝒂𝒓𝒌𝒆 announced his departure from "𝑯𝒆𝒓𝒐𝒆𝒔" in 1981, 𝑮𝒐𝒓𝒆 became the principal songwriter for the band.


𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒏 𝑮𝒐𝒓𝒆 lives in 𝑺𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒂 𝑩𝒂𝒓𝒃𝒂𝒓𝒂, 𝑪𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒏𝒊𝒂 with his wife 𝑲𝒆𝒓𝒓𝒊𝒍𝒆𝒆 𝑲𝒂𝒔𝒌𝒊, whom he married in 2014. They have two daughters together and he has three more children from his first marriage. He also has a personal studio in 𝑺𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒂 𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒄𝒂 called 𝑬𝒍𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒄 𝑳𝒂𝒅𝒚𝒃𝒐𝒚, equipped with a huge collection of synthesizers where he records his songs for 𝑫𝒆𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒐𝒅𝒆 and his solo projects.


🏆 On May 27, 1999, 𝑮𝒐𝒓𝒆 received the "𝑰𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝑨𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕" award from the 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒉 𝑨𝒄𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒎𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝑨𝒖𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒓𝒔, 𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑺𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔 at the 𝟒𝟒𝒕𝒉 𝑰𝒗𝒐𝒓 𝑵𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒐 𝑨𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒔, he was given the 𝑴𝒐𝒐𝒈 𝑰𝒏𝒏𝒐𝒗𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑨𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅 "𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒃𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒑𝒐𝒑𝒖𝒍𝒂𝒓 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄" in 2019, and became a 𝑹𝒐𝒄𝒌 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑹𝒐𝒍𝒍 𝑯𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒐𝒇 𝑭𝒂𝒎𝒆 member in late 2020 with fellow active 𝑫𝒆𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒐𝒅𝒆 members 𝑨𝒏𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒘 𝑭𝒍𝒆𝒕𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒓 and 𝑫𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝑮𝒂𝒉𝒂𝒏, as well as past members 𝑽𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝑪𝒍𝒂𝒓𝒌𝒆 and 𝑨𝒍𝒂𝒏 𝑾𝒊𝒍𝒅𝒆𝒓.

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⭐ 𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐅𝐀𝐍 𝐎𝐋𝐒𝐃𝐀𝐋'𝐒 𝐀𝐍𝐄𝐂𝐃𝐎𝐓𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐃𝐄𝐏𝐄𝐂𝐇𝐄 𝐌𝐎𝐃𝐄 ⭐
🎙️"[...] 𝘐 𝘮𝘦𝘵 𝘋𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘎𝘢𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘛𝘰𝘱 𝘰𝘧𝘵 𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘰𝘱𝘴 𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘮𝘦𝘵 𝘩𝘪𝘮 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘸𝘰 𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘬𝘴 𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘯 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘨𝘪𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘴 (𝘋𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮 𝘊𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘍𝘪𝘭𝘮 𝘊𝘭𝘶𝘣). 𝘞𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘶𝘱 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘣𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘭 𝘪𝘯 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘮𝘦 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘋𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘧𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘬𝘦𝘺 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘰. 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘴𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺 𝘋𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘥 𝘉𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘐 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥𝘯’𝘵 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺.“
▪️𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚏𝚊𝚗 𝙾𝚕𝚜𝚍𝚊𝚕, 𝙿𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚎𝚋𝚘 𝚂𝚒𝚕𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚁𝚘𝚌𝚔𝚎𝚝 𝙽𝚘. 𝟷, 𝟷𝟿𝟿𝟾.


🔥⭐ "𝐈 𝐅𝐄𝐄𝐋 𝐘𝐎𝐔" 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎 𝐂𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑 ⭐🔥

It is well known that 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 loves 𝑫𝒆𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒐𝒅𝒆's music and that it is one of the bands that has influenced them the most. 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 𝑶𝒍𝒔𝒅𝒂𝒍 in particular has declared himself a big fan of them on several occasions and has even stated that "𝑽𝒊𝒐𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒐𝒓" is a key album in his life.


🎙️"𝘐 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘬 𝘭𝘺𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵'𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘵 𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵. 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘮𝘺 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘺 𝘴𝘦𝘹𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺. 𝘐𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘮𝘺 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘋𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦'𝘴 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘱𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘭 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘬 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴."
▪️𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚏𝚊𝚗 𝙾𝚕𝚜𝚍𝚊𝚕, 𝙿𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚘𝚗𝚊𝚕 𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚘, 𝙻𝚊 𝚃𝚎𝚛𝚌𝚎𝚛𝚊, 𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚑 𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟶.


That's why in 1999 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 decided to record their cover version of "𝑰 𝑭𝒆𝒆𝒍 𝒀𝒐𝒖", a song composed by our birthday guy 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒏 𝑮𝒐𝒓𝒆, released as the first single from 𝑫𝒆𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒐𝒅𝒆's eighth album, "𝑺𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑭𝒂𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑫𝒆𝒗𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏" on February 15, 1993. It was produced by 𝑫𝒆𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒐𝒅𝒆 themselves and 𝑭𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒅 (who several years later mixed 7 of the 13 tracks on 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐's "𝑴𝒆𝒅𝒔" album). 𝑫𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝑮𝒂𝒉𝒂𝒏 said about this song:

🎙️"[𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘯] 𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘶𝘱 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢 𝘣𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘩 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘵 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘣𝘭𝘶𝘦𝘴 — 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘥 — 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘬'𝘯'𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘭. '𝘐 𝘍𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘠𝘰𝘶' 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘤, 𝘣𝘭𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘺, 𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘬'𝘯'𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘭 𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘳𝘪𝘧𝘧"
▪️𝚂𝚝𝚛𝚒𝚙𝚙𝚎𝚍: 𝙳𝚎𝚙𝚎𝚌𝚑𝚎 𝙼𝚘𝚍𝚎 𝚋𝚢 𝙹𝚘𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚛, 𝟸𝟶𝟶𝟹 .

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𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 couldn't have chosen a better 𝑫𝒆𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒐𝒅𝒆 song to cover than "𝑰 𝑭𝒆𝒆𝒍 𝒀𝒐𝒖", first of all because after the massive success 𝑫𝒆𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒐𝒅𝒆 achieved with the album "𝑽𝒊𝒐𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒐𝒓" (1990), they wanted to show their rockiest side. They had the need to keep evolving, to keep trying new things in order not to get stuck in their characteristic electronic sound but at the same time without losing their essence. The best way to start this new chapter in their career and open their new album "𝑺𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑭𝒂𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑫𝒆𝒗𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏" was with a song as radical and powerful as "𝑰 𝑭𝒆𝒆𝒍 𝒀𝒐𝒖".

🎙️"𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘐 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬, '𝘖𝘩, 𝘮𝘢𝘺𝘣𝘦 𝘸𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘢 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦.' 𝘐 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯, 𝘪𝘯 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘺𝘣𝘦 𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘤, 𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘨𝘰𝘵."
▪️𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚒𝚗 𝙶𝚘𝚛𝚎, 𝚂𝚝𝚛𝚒𝚙𝚙𝚎𝚍: 𝙳𝚎𝚙𝚎𝚌𝚑𝚎 𝙼𝚘𝚍𝚎 𝚋𝚢 𝙹𝚘𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚛, 𝟸𝟶𝟶𝟹.

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The case of 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 is the opposite, they are in principle a rock band whose influences of experimenting with electronic elements come precisely from 𝑫𝒆𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒐𝒅𝒆.

🎙️"𝘏𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘭𝘺, 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘺 𝘧𝘢𝘷𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴! 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘯𝘶𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴, 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯, 𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘬 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘤𝘩𝘺 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘦𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦! 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘢 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘴𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘶𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘨𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘳 𝘳𝘪𝘧𝘧. 𝘖𝘶𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘳𝘰, 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘳, 𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯. 𝘏𝘦𝘺, 𝘸𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥𝘯'𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦'𝘳𝘦 𝘢 𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘬 𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘥!"
▪️𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚏𝚊𝚗 𝙾𝚕𝚜𝚍𝚊𝚕, 𝙼𝚒𝚍𝚒 𝙻𝚒𝚋𝚛𝚎, 𝙾𝚌𝚝𝚘𝚋𝚎𝚛 𝟸𝟶𝟶𝟹.


Then, of course, the lyrics, which are passionate, making references between the erotic and the divine (heaven, angels, glory's throne, etc…).

🎙️"[𝘚𝘦𝘹] 𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘐'𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴, 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘵, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘐 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯'𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘺𝘻𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘵."
▪️𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚒𝚗 𝙶𝚘𝚛𝚎, 𝙲𝙽𝙽, 𝙰𝚙𝚛𝚒𝚕 𝟸𝟶𝟷𝟹.

🎙️"𝘐 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘢 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘮. 𝘎𝘰𝘥 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘺, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘯𝘰 𝘱𝘶𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘥, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘐 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘢 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨, 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘤 𝘰𝘧 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘶𝘱."
▪️𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚒𝚗 𝙶𝚘𝚛𝚎, 𝙻.𝙰. 𝚃𝚒𝚖𝚎𝚜.

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Exactly! 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐 also loves to mix such themes in his songs. But besides the fact that "𝑰 𝑭𝒆𝒆𝒍 𝒀𝒐𝒖" could be talking about sex, love or the deep connection between two people, some suggest that it could be talking about drugs as well, which is another thing that several 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 songs have in common with 𝑫𝒆𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒐𝒅𝒆. That's why I think this song totally resonates with 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐's musical soul.


This 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 cover was first released on a fan-club-only cassette in 1999, later featured as a bonus track on the 𝑨𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒏 and 𝑱𝒂𝒑𝒂𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒆 editions of the album "𝑩𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒌𝒆𝒕 𝑴𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄" (2000). Finally became part of the "𝑪𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔" album that collected all the covers they had done up to that point and which was released on the 𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 of the album "𝑺𝒍𝒆𝒆𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑮𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒕𝒔" on September 22, 2003.

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⚡𝐍𝐄𝐖 ⚡ with ✨𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐅𝐀𝐍 𝐎𝐋𝐒𝐃𝐀𝐋✨ (GUITARWORLD, JULY 2022)

𝐻𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑜 𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑠!
It's time to read a 𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖 with 𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐅𝐀𝐍  that was published on the website guitarworld.com last Wednesday. In it, 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇 talks about the album "𝑵𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝑳𝒆𝒕 𝑴𝒆 𝑮𝒐" but also goes back in time to tell us how he discovered his passion for music and how he became a multi-instrumentalist musician since he was a young boy, among other things.
Enjoy and share what you liked most about this interview.

Photo credit: Photo Credit: Alessio Tarpini

🎸⭐ 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎’𝐒 𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐅𝐀𝐍 𝐎𝐋𝐒𝐃𝐀𝐋:

“𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒘𝒆 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑩𝒐𝒘𝒊𝒆, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒃𝒊𝒕𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒂𝒅𝒗𝒊𝒄𝒆 – 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚’𝒗𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒄𝒌 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒖𝒔. 𝑯𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒉𝒊𝒎 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒖𝒔 𝒈𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒖𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒇𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒌𝒆𝒆𝒑 𝒈𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈” ⭐🎸

𝙱𝚢 𝙹𝚘𝚎 𝚂𝚑𝚘𝚘𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝟶𝟽.𝟶𝟼.𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟸

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐚𝐥𝐭-𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐩𝐡𝐨𝐭𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡. 𝐀𝐬 𝐎𝐥𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐥 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐝𝐨𝐱 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐬𝐨𝐨𝐧 𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞, 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞

In 2022, says 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 bassist 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 𝑶𝒍𝒔𝒅𝒂𝒍, making music includes using challenging and intriguing forms. The band’s eighth album, 𝑵𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝑳𝒆𝒕 𝑴𝒆 𝑮𝒐, had its genesis in 2019 – and 𝑶𝒍𝒔𝒅𝒂𝒍 explains that bandmate 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐 came up with a fascinating concept for it.

🎤 “𝘏𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥, ‘𝘓𝘦𝘵’𝘴 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴, 𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘥, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴. 𝘓𝘦𝘵’𝘴 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘰.’ 𝘐𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯. 𝘝𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘻𝘰𝘯𝘴, 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘵𝘦𝘳.
“𝘐𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘸𝘦’𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘨𝘶𝘯 𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘢 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘥𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘳. 𝘐𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘭 𝘧𝘭𝘢𝘵 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘮𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘣𝘳𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘰𝘺 𝘬𝘦𝘺𝘣𝘰𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘢𝘥𝘭𝘺-𝘵𝘶𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘨𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘴. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘥𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘮𝘺 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘰 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘴𝘺𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘨𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘴.”

This pared-down writing process brought another freedom to the mix. “𝘐’𝘮 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘥𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘴!” he says. “𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘮, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵; 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴, 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘴. 𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘺."

The result is an electronics-filled piece of work which, as well as providing the unique 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 crunch, has a subtlety of timbre through its meticulous focus on arrangement.

🎤 “𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦’𝘴 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘶𝘣-𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘥,” confirms 𝑶𝒍𝒔𝒅𝒂𝒍. “𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘮𝘺 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘴, 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘚𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘉𝘺 𝘚𝘱𝘪𝘦𝘴, 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘦𝘹𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦. 𝘐𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘣𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘳𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘥𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴, 𝘴𝘰 𝘸𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘷𝘪𝘣𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨.

🔊 𝐒𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐁𝐲 𝐒𝐩𝐢𝐞𝐬 - 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐭 𝐑𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐈𝐦 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟐 🎶
https://bit.ly/3AFekqu
“𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘳-𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘴 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘥𝘥 𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘮𝘵𝘩, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘺𝘯𝘵𝘩 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘴 𝘢𝘥𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘦𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘨𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘰𝘳 𝘣𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘤 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 – 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘵.”

Photo credit: Lilyjadewang  

✨⭐ 𝐏𝐔𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐀𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐒 ⭐✨

𝑵𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝑳𝒆𝒕 𝑴𝒆 𝑮𝒐 continues the band’s interest in loops and effects, and the album’s opener, 𝑭𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝑪𝒉𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒔 is an example of that approach.

🎤 “𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮 𝘣𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢 𝘸𝘦𝘪𝘳𝘥 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘱 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘧𝘧 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘱, 𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘗𝘢𝘥. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘵, 𝘱𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘷𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘦𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴𝘯’𝘵 𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘸𝘢𝘺.”

🔊 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐬 - 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐭 𝐓𝐖 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐖𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟐 🎶
https://bit.ly/3ypIBHc

That urge to push at boundaries, says 𝑶𝒍𝒔𝒅𝒂𝒍, is both inherent and valuable.

“𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸, 𝘸𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺, 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘰𝘮. 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘤𝘢𝘯’𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘺 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵’𝘴 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥. 𝘐𝘧 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘰𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘦’𝘷𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦, 𝘸𝘦 𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘭 𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘶𝘱 𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘵. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘰𝘮 𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵.”


📍𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 𝑶𝒍𝒔𝒅𝒂𝒍 was born in 𝑮𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒏𝒃𝒖𝒓𝒈, 𝑺𝒘𝒆𝒅𝒆𝒏 in 1974. It wasn’t too long before music started to speak to him, he says,

🎤 “𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 12, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘱𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘮𝘺𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧: 𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘐 𝘧𝘦𝘭𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘮𝘺 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘦𝘦𝘯𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴. 𝘐’𝘥 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘪𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘮𝘺 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘪𝘥𝘯’𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘦, 𝘰𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘵, 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥.

“𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘪𝘳 𝘥𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘘𝘶𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘳 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘺, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘐 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤, 𝘴𝘰 𝘐 𝘨𝘰𝘵 𝘢 𝘥𝘳𝘶𝘮 𝘬𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘴, 𝘓𝘦𝘥 𝘡𝘦𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘯, 𝘐𝘳𝘰𝘯 𝘔𝘢𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘪𝘹.”

He says that he soon decided to change instruments because he didn’t want to be seated behind the drums and placed at the back of the stage: As he puts it, “𝘈 𝘣𝘪𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘷𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦, 𝘴𝘰 𝘐 𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘢 𝘍𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯.”

Photo credit: Nur Photo

✨💫 𝐓𝐀𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎 💫 ✨


𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏’s older brother was a guitarist, and as anyone with siblings can confirm, there’s always a blend of rivalry in play. 𝑶𝒍𝒔𝒅𝒂𝒍 the younger decided to learn that instrument too, motivated by the opportunity to outstrip his bro’s chops. His first songwriting efforts followed soon afterwards.

🎤 “𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 𝘢 𝘱𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘰 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨. 𝘐 𝘴𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘪𝘨𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘺 𝘐 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘮𝘺𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘰𝘳𝘺. 𝘐 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦.

“𝑰 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒅 𝒄𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑫𝒆𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒐𝒅𝒆 𝒃𝒚 𝒎𝒚𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇, 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒃𝒂𝒅𝒍𝒚. 𝑰 𝒅𝒐𝒏’𝒕 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝒎𝒚𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇 𝒂 𝒃𝒂𝒔𝒔 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚𝒆𝒓, 𝒐𝒓 𝒂 𝒈𝒖𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒓 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚𝒆𝒓. 𝑰𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒎𝒂𝒍𝒈𝒂𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄 𝒊𝒏 𝒎𝒚 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆 𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏, ‘𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒑𝒖𝒕 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒃𝒐𝒕𝒕𝒐𝒎 𝒆𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔.’”

Enter 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐, who certainly was a guitarist. “𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘐 𝘴𝘢𝘸 𝘩𝘪𝘮 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺 𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘢 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘶𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘯𝘰 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵, 𝘴𝘰 𝘐 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥, ‘𝘏𝘦𝘺...’”

History often pivots on such moments of serendipity, and in 1996 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 released their self-titled debut album. 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐’s experimental post-punk leanings and 𝑶𝒍𝒔𝒅𝒂𝒍’s multi-instrumental nature proved an excellent fit.

🎤 “𝘞𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘨, 𝘴𝘰 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘵 𝘢 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘬𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘬 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘦𝘥. 𝘐𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴. 𝘞𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘦-𝘧𝘶𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 20-𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳-𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘴. 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘣𝘰 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦-𝘱𝘪𝘦𝘤𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘴𝘰 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘥𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘵𝘺𝘭𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘭𝘶𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘰𝘮𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵.

“𝘈𝘴 𝘸𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘰 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘭, 𝘐 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘦𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘴 𝘱𝘦𝘥𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘢𝘱𝘴. 𝘖𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘸𝘦’𝘷𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘪𝘹 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘦: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘦𝘷𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥, 𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴.”

Photo credit: Andrés Iglesias  

⭐🎵 𝐉𝐀𝐙𝐙 𝐑𝐎𝐎𝐓𝐒 🎵⭐

𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏’s bass guitars in the early days were a 𝑭𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝑱𝒂𝒛𝒛, which he used for the band’s first three LPs. Following that, he switched to a 𝑮𝒊𝒃𝒔𝒐𝒏 𝑻𝒉𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒃𝒊𝒓𝒅. For the new record, however, he’s turned back to a tried and trusted instrument.

🎤 “𝘐’𝘥 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗-𝘉𝘢𝘴𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 20 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 – 𝘪𝘵’𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘶𝘱 – 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘥𝘳𝘢𝘸𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘪𝘵. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘛-𝘉𝘪𝘳𝘥 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘣𝘦 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘥-𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘪𝘴 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘥, 𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘢𝘨𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦. 𝘐𝘵 𝘣𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘥𝘪𝘤 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵. 𝘐𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦, ‘𝘖𝘩, 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘰, 𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥. 𝘓𝘦𝘵’𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯’. 𝘐𝘵’𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶’𝘷𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘰𝘳 20 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭, 𝘪𝘵 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘮𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘯𝘰 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘥.”

A few years have now passed, though, since the band’s exhausting, lengthy tours. 𝑶𝒍𝒔𝒅𝒂𝒍 still bears scars from those extended travels.

🎤 “𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘸𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘸𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘢 𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦. 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘴𝘰 𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥𝘯’𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘣𝘰.

“𝘐’𝘥 𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘥. 𝘐𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘴𝘵, 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺, 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘵’𝘥 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘥 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘦𝘹𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘥 𝘷𝘪𝘣𝘦𝘴 𝘐 𝘣𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘮𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩.

“𝘔𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘱𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘮𝘺 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘺𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 𝘸𝘩𝘺 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘥.”

Famously, 𝑫𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒅 𝑩𝒐𝒘𝒊𝒆 became a 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 fan after hearing the huge hit 𝑷𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝑴𝒐𝒓𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈. At the time, the group were absolutely flying and were able, to an extent, to take it in their stride.

🎤 “𝘛𝘰 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘸𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘺𝘻𝘦𝘥, 𝘸𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘵 𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦. 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘸𝘢𝘺. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘸𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘉𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘦, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘣𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘥𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘦 – 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺’𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘤𝘬 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘶𝘴. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘪𝘮 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘶𝘴 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘨𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘶𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘬𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨.”

These days, of course, it is 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 who are the elder statesmen inspiring new generations – not that the bassist is comfortable with sitting on that particular throne.

“𝑰 𝒅𝒐𝒏’𝒕 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒊𝒕. 𝑰 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒂𝒍𝒘𝒂𝒚𝒔 𝒃𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝟏𝟐-𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓-𝒐𝒍𝒅 𝒘𝒉𝒐’𝒔 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒆𝒙𝒄𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈.” 🎸✨

▪️𝑶𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝑰𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒊𝒆𝒘
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⭐✨ 𝗛𝗔𝗣𝗣𝗬 𝗕𝗜𝗥𝗧𝗛𝗗𝗔𝗬 𝗧𝗢 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗗𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝐆𝐀𝐇𝐀𝐍! ✨👏

🔸 Born Dave Callcott on May 9, 1962, 𝑫𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝑮𝒂𝒉𝒂𝒏, 𝑫𝒆𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒐𝒅𝒆's lead singer turns 60 today!

Photo credit: Wenn, Violator cover / edit by Laetitia

🔸 On the flip side of Placebo, we remember Placebo's cover of the song 𝑰 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍 𝒀𝒐𝒖, released on cassette in 1999, and then on Covers in 2003.

𝑰 𝑭𝒆𝒆𝒍 𝒀𝒐𝒖 (𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐)
🎥 https://bit.ly/3FnGU06 🎶

🔸 This Depeche Mode song was released in February 1993 on the album Songs Of Faith And Devotion.

🔸 But the link between Dave and Placebo doesn't stop there ! 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 𝑶𝒍𝒔𝒅𝒂𝒍 has, since the beginning of Placebo's career, claimed his "𝑚𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑙𝑢𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑜𝑛 (ℎ𝑖𝑚) 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦." (𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘧𝘢𝘯 𝘖𝘭𝘴𝘥𝘢𝘭)


💬 "𝐻𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑚𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑦𝑙𝑒. 𝐼 𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐷𝑒𝑝𝑒𝑐ℎ𝑒 𝑀𝑜𝑑𝑒 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 '𝑆𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑂𝑓 𝐹𝑎𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝐷𝑒𝑣𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛' 𝑡𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑠𝑡, 𝐴𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑠𝑡. 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑛 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑐𝑟𝑢𝑐𝑖𝑓𝑖𝑥 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑒, 𝑖𝑡 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑚𝑎𝑧𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑒." (𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘧𝘢𝘯 𝘖𝘭𝘴𝘥𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘋𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘎𝘢𝘩𝘢𝘯)


▪ 𝙄 𝙛𝙚𝙚𝙡 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙗𝙮 𝘿𝙚𝙥𝙚𝙘𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙤𝙙𝙚. 𝘼 𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙥 𝙩𝙤𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙙𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙧𝙤-𝙧𝙤𝙘𝙠 𝙛𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙥𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙚...

💬 𝐻𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑙𝑦, 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑦 𝑓𝑎𝑣𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑏𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑠 ! 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑦 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑛𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑠, 𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑛, 𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑘 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑐ℎ𝑦 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒. 𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑒𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 ! 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑎 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑠𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑢𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑝𝑝𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑔𝑢𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑟 𝑟𝑖𝑓𝑓. 𝑂𝑢𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑠 𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑟𝑜, ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑟, 𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑠𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛. 𝐻𝑒𝑦, 𝑤𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑𝑛'𝑡 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑒'𝑟𝑒 𝑎 𝑟𝑜𝑐𝑘 𝑏𝑎𝑛𝑑 !
✔️ 𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘧𝘢𝘯 𝘖𝘭𝘴𝘥𝘢𝘭 - 𝘔𝘪𝘥𝘪 𝘓𝘪𝘣𝘳𝘦 - 𝘖𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘣𝘦𝘳 2003

Photo credit: Stefan's Instagram

𝑰 𝑭𝒆𝒆𝒍 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆 (𝑫𝒆𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒐𝒅𝒆)
🎥 https://bit.ly/38VwXuE 🎶

🔸 While reading articles about Dave, Depeche Mode and Placebo, I could only see that their thoughts were similar, that the connection did not stop with the music.

🌹 𝘿𝘼𝙑𝙀 Joy comes from moments when you least expect it. It's usually simple things, like watching my son play basketball or walking through Central Park when the flowers are blooming.

🎸 𝘽𝙍𝙄𝘼𝙉 When I spend time with my son, it is the best thing in the world.

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🌹 𝘿𝘼𝙑𝙀 For me, it's always been a challenge to look for the light: to look for those spaces in your heart where there is hope and faith and try to embrace that rather than crush it.

🎸 𝘽𝙍𝙄𝘼𝙉 The gasoline in the band's car was tension since 1996. After 15 years of this tension, we decided to look for harmony. [...] We told ourselves that this time we wanted to do something with hope in it, with a lot of colour. That's the only thing we said to ourselves before we went into the studio (𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘉𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘍𝘰𝘳 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘶𝘯)

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🌹 𝘿𝘼𝙑𝙀 I have to feel the audience. I like that sense of community. There's something spiritual about it in many ways. It's like we're all doing it together.

🎸 𝘽𝙍𝙄𝘼𝙉 That immediate response from the audience that fills you with a kind of euphoria and every time you go on stage to create a collective euphoria in the hall.

Photo credit:  Paul Bergen

🌹 𝘿𝘼𝙑𝙀 There's no money you could offer me to do reality TV.

🎸 𝘽𝙍𝙄𝘼𝙉 I'd tell people not to let their hearts be stolen by this idea. The one who profit from it are the record copanies, the producers and the phone operators. If you want to be in a band, it takes a lot of work. It's not not a prize you're going to win.

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🌹 𝘿𝘼𝙑𝙀 I have a very addictive personality, so I'm even careful to want more of everything I need - even chocolate.

🎸 No quote but this quote from Dave makes me think to Protect Me From What I Want lyrics.

🔸 In 2009, Dave was unwell and Depeche Mode had to cancel their performance at Europe's oldest festival, Pinkpop. At Placebo's show that night, Brian naturally sent a get-well message to Dave, in unison with the fans. It just goes to show that Depeche Mode has a very special place in Placebo's heart. 💖

𝑮𝒆𝒕 𝒘𝒆𝒍𝒍 𝒎𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝑫𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒂𝒕 𝑷𝒊𝒏𝒌𝒑𝒐𝒑
🎥 https://bit.ly/3w70tWf 🎶


🔸 "𝐻𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑦 𝐵𝑖𝑟𝑡ℎ𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝐷𝑎𝑣𝑒" was sung by the audience in Antwerpen in 2017 when Dave turned 55. What a heartwarming moment ! 💗

𝑯𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒚 𝒃𝒊𝒓𝒕𝒉𝒅𝒂𝒚 𝑫𝒂𝒗𝒆 !
🎥 https://bit.ly/37lSCf0 🎶

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⚡INTERVIEW WITH STEFAN (ROCKAXIS, APRIL 2022)⚡

Soulmates, today I will share with you the translation of the interview with 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 𝑶𝒍𝒔𝒅𝒂𝒍 that was published in the April issue #226 of the Chilean magazine 𝐑𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐚𝐱𝐢𝐬.

A very nice chat where he told how it was the recording process of "𝑵𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝑳𝒆𝒕 𝑴𝒆 𝑮𝒐", what keeps him and 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 together besides music and if they will come back to 𝑪𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒆. Have a good time reading! 😊
💜 Much love & take care 💜

🔹𝑶𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝑰𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒊𝒆𝒘 (𝑰𝒏 𝑺𝒑𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒉)
👉 https://bit.ly/3JYrb8o

Magazine cover. Photo Credits: Mads Perch

✨💫⭐ 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎 𝐑𝐄-𝐖𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐈𝐑 𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄 ⭐💫✨
✒️ 𝒃𝒚 𝑭𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒂 𝑯𝒆𝒊𝒏


𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨'𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐥𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐚 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐦 𝐦𝐚𝐲 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐦 𝐭𝐨𝐨 𝐦𝐮𝐜𝐡, 𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐚 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐫. 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐨 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧 𝐎𝐥𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐥, 𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 "𝐍𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐋𝐞𝐭 𝐌𝐞 𝐆𝐨", 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐮𝐬𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬.

𝘐𝘧 𝘸𝘦 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘬 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘬 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴, 𝘸𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘭 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘭𝘢𝘨𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱 𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘳𝘢, 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜 . 𝘕𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘶𝘰 𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 "𝑁𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝐿𝑒𝑡 𝑀𝑒 𝐺𝑜", 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘢 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘶𝘯𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘥. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘶𝘭𝘵, 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮 (𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘭𝘶𝘤𝘬𝘺 𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘬𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦) 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘶𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘻𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥. 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘢𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘶𝘯𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘥, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮 𝘰𝘧 𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘮𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘴. 𝘐𝘵 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘮𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴. 𝘈𝘯 𝘦𝘹𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘦𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘩 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘢 𝘩𝘪𝘨𝘩 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘦: 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘯 𝘰𝘶𝘵, 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘵𝘰 𝘢 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘴. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘧𝘦𝘭𝘵 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴.

𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵, 𝑆𝑡𝑒𝑓𝑎𝑛 𝑂𝑙𝑠𝑑𝑎𝑙 𝘭𝘦𝘵 𝘶𝘴 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸, 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘵𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘶𝘴 𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘧𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘯𝘦𝘹𝘵 𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘴, 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘰𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘥𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘬𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮. 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵'𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘥 𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘵 𝘶𝘱𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯, 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴. 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘶𝘭𝘢 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘱𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮, 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 30-𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘥, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘰 𝘪𝘵. 𝘈𝘥𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭-𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘶𝘭𝘢 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘣𝘦𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘥, 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 2022 "𝑁𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝐿𝑒𝑡 𝑀𝑒 𝐺𝑜" 𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘥.

💎𝑰𝒕'𝒔 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒂𝒍𝒎𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝟏𝟎 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎, 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒊𝒕 𝒅𝒊𝒇𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒖𝒍𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒖𝒎𝒎𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒛𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎?
🎙️I don't think it's necessarily a goal of ours to summarize our lives, it's not about writing a diary but it's more like an expression of where we are right now in our lives. It's been quite a while since the last album, but what happened was we toured for a few years, then we kind of had a retrospective of a few years and we felt like we needed to take a step back from all the old stuff, because when you stop and think, you know you're coming face to face with your past. When we carried all our famous songs on tour for almost three years we started to feel like our lives were disconnected from them and not that we look down on them, not in any way, but as musicians we needed to move on. So when we made this record it was more of a way of writing ourselves and, in a way, we wanted to keep ourselves excited and approach it in a slightly different way than we had done for previous records, to keep things fresh and keep us from getting bored. In essence, that was the beginning of this record that we tried to approach it from a different angle, and what we did was to reverse the process. So, instead of ending up with a cover,the title of the album or the names of the songs, it was there where we started this time and then worked backwards. For me personally, this album wasn't really about summing up what happened in the last 10 years, it was more a case of finding my confidence to be back in the band and finding the reason why I wanted to keep making music. So I use this album as a kind of musical therapy, in a way, because music is a form of communication, it's a way to connect with another human being, to connect with a listener. That's what this album is about, finding the reason why I still wanted to do this.


💎𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄 𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒖𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒊𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒅 𝒂 𝒍𝒐𝒕. 𝑭𝒐𝒓 𝒆𝒙𝒂𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒆, 𝒃𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒂 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒖𝒑 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒆𝒊𝒓𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒊𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒏𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒍. 𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒆𝒗𝒐𝒍𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏? 𝑫𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒋𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒄𝒆𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄 𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒖𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒅?
🎙️By no means, we were the first band to wear makeup nor the first to express ourselves through what we wore and how we presented ourselves (laughs). There were many artists who did it before us, but maybe in the mid-nineties, when we started doing it, there weren't many bands that were known for doing it, because there wasn't really a representative scene.
But times change and absolutely now there is more visibility for different genders and for different ways of presenting. There's also more visibility in kind of sexual identity and that's very positive. I'm not sure if it's moving on a large scale, but the visibility has definitely increased.

Photo Credits: Jon Stone

💎𝑰𝒕'𝒔 𝒄𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒎𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒕𝒐 𝒅𝒐 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒔𝒖𝒃𝒋𝒆𝒄𝒕, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝑰'𝒅 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒊𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒇𝒂𝒏𝒔.
🎙️We are just musicians, a couple of guys in a band who like to play guitars and write songs. We're not here to try to bring a message, we're just expressing our truth and the way we experience life. But we definitely don't look away from the fact that there may be a lot of people who listen to our music and find strength in it. If we are doing that, we have to stay true to who we are and continue to help whoever is listening to us.


💎𝑶𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅, 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎 𝒆𝒗𝒐𝒍𝒗𝒆𝒅?
🎙️Over the years one must be clear that it's easy to get stuck in certain ways of working. It's easy to fall into old habits because we are creatures of habit. So for us it was important to shake that up on this record and reverse the process. For the first time it was just Brian and I in the studio, we didn't have a drummer, so instead of seeing that as an obstacle we saw it as an opportunity and said <<fuck it, let's do everything with a drum machine>>, and it didn't end up being an album with just a drum machine. There's a song, yes, but we changed everything, we had the mentality of, instead of plugging things in the right way, doing it wrong and putting the guitar with the pedal backwards and stuff like that (laughs). Using different techniques and approaches that you already know, let you know how mistakes happen and sometimes they can be a beautiful thing. We like that things don't sound exactly the way they're supposed to, so on this record we leave everything, from scratches to mistakes. And it felt really good.


💎𝑾𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝑰 𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎, 𝑰 𝒇𝒆𝒍𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒆𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆. 𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒎𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒗𝒊𝒆𝒘 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒅 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅?
🎙️The only constant in life is change and that applies to us as humans and everything around us. So certainly if you look at a picture of us from 25 years ago, it was a different world. Not only were we much younger versions of ourselves (laughs) but we were also very confident and felt that everything we did was amazing. We had all the energy in the world and well, it felt like we could eat the world, but we're not like that anymore. I mean, it's like a disconnect with the past because going out again and release an album is like coming out of a cocoon of the last two years. It's definitely a challenge and it will be incredible. Sometimes I think too much and I have a tendency to imagine disasters that I only create in my head, but they feel very real and I have to stop and say <<enough>>. The enemy of thought is action and sometimes you just have to do something, and that's what we're doing now. We're going to turn that fear off, release the record and go on tour like we did a few years ago.


💎𝑨 𝒇𝒆𝒘 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒂𝒈𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒃𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎 𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒇𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝒔𝒖𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒅𝒆, 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒊𝒕 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒊𝒕'𝒔 𝒅𝒊𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒆 𝒖𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅?
🎙️It was a quote from when we had just finished our anniversary tour. We had been going around the world for three years playing old songs and, as I said before, it was like we were starting to feel disconnected from those songs and we said <<to hell with it>>. We wanted to make a completely dissonant, experimental sound, and when I came back into the studio three years ago, we really didn't have a clear idea of what we wanted to do, so we had to take a break. I couldn't control where we wanted to go and that's because we react to our music and songwriting in an emotional way, so if it feels good, and I look at Brian and he looks at me, that's good. From there we start.


💎𝑶𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅. 𝑫𝒊𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒍𝒘𝒂𝒚𝒔 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒂 𝒐𝒇 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔?
🎙️One of my favorite bands of all time is Depeche Mode and they are not a guitar band at all. And well, we are both children of the eighties and grew up with very experimental pop songs like those of David Bowie or Kate Bush. So what happened for this record is that we really wanted to celebrate the synthesizer and keyboard sound. All the songs have synthesizers and sometimes they overlay the guitars, other times they lead them or are atmospheric. Undoubtedly, the guitars are always going to be there, it's part of our DNA, but we had a lot of fun exploring all these things.

Photo Credits: Jon Stone

💎𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎 𝒄𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒆𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒑𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒖𝒍 𝒑𝒉𝒓𝒂𝒔𝒆 (<<𝑮𝒐 𝒇𝒊𝒙 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇 / 𝑰𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒆𝒍𝒔𝒆>>), 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒈𝒐𝒆𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒖𝒓𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆𝒔. 𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒎𝒊𝒕 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕?
🎙️We've never tried to tell the listener what to think or what to feel, and right now (mid-March) we're in the process of releasing these songs because pretty soon they're not going to be ours and whatever we express in them doesn't necessarily equate to how a listener will interpret them. I mean, they will live their own experience and story through them and that's key for us. The song "Fix yourself," for example, I can tell you how I interpret it because Brian is the main writer of the lyrics and sometimes I live my own stories with the songs (laughs), but I relate completely to the lyrics. It's understanding that you can't change another person and sometimes, before throwing the stone, take a space, look at yourself first and start from there. I think there is a bit of anger, but the message is simply <<take it, look at yourself and think if you need a more peaceful life>>. Maybe, you can smile more or things like that. Smiling relaxes you and joking is the best medicine, especially because laughter is contagious (laughs).


💎𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎 𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌𝒔 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒖𝒆𝒔 𝒔𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒂𝒔 𝒄𝒍𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆, 𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒒𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚, 𝒂 𝒔𝒐𝒄𝒊𝒆𝒕𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒗𝒆𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆, 𝒂𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔. 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 '𝑻𝒓𝒚 𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒏𝒆𝒙𝒕 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆' 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒏𝒗𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒖𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 '𝑺𝒂𝒅 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒈𝒈𝒂𝒆' 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒎 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒓. 𝑾𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒖𝒍𝒂𝒓 𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒖𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕?
🎙️We write from where we are now in our lives and all those issues you just mentioned of course are there because they are around us. For me, one of the overriding issues is that we are living with this technology revolution. A computer used to be the size of a garage or even a house, but now your smartphone can do everything and more, and that evolution happened just in 50 years. If you look at the history of the earth and of humanity, that's nothing. So it's really amazing the exponential rate of how technology has been advancing and there are many aspects that are amazing, while others not so much. I mean, technology and its advances have helped and enriched our lives and it's something we wanted to incorporate into the album because it's fun and it makes life easier, but all of this is very powerful and we have to take into account the negative aspects. As a society we don't really know the high price we have paid for everything that's happening, nor do we know where it's taking us. What is the price we have to pay? Who benefits from it? Those are some of the issues that we wanted to address and I think we're being... I don't know, since I studied marketing at university I think it's naive of us to think that they're selling us something that's only going to enrich our lives.


💎𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒂 𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝒅𝒖𝒐 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒐𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝑰 𝒈𝒖𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄 𝒊𝒔 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒌𝒆𝒆𝒑𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒐𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓, 𝒊𝒔𝒏'𝒕 𝒊𝒕?
🎙️Brian is one of the people who knows the most about me, there are even people who are supposed to be closer to me and should know me better, but I guess our relationship is a bit like a marriage, of course without sex (laughs). With Brian we've been together for almost 30 years and that's quite a long time if you think about it.


💎𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒐𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎 𝒊𝒔 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒅𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒕 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒎𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒂𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒔𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒂 𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆?
🎙️I sincerely hope that people can enjoy this album and make it their own. We are really grateful that we can still be doing this and that people still want to listen to our music. That's something very important to us and over the years we've been shown that it's amazing what we have, our fans, and people's willingness to listen to us and come to our shows, and that's wonderful.


💎𝑰𝒏 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔, 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒏𝒔. 𝑰𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒚𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒐𝒓 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒊𝒏 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒚?
🎙️Well, since you say so, I'll take the space to mention one of the drummers on this album, Pietro Garrone.

He's a member of a band called Husky Loops and it's made up of an amazing trio of Italian guys who live in London. A few years ago they supported us on a tour and we loved Pietro's drumming, so we asked him to come and play for this record on some tracks, so in a way we'd like to work with him again because it was really lovely.


💎𝑷𝒆𝒓𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒔 𝒊𝒕'𝒔 𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒐𝒐 𝒔𝒐𝒐𝒏, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝑰 𝒄𝒂𝒏'𝒕 𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒑 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒂𝒔𝒌 𝒊𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝑪𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒆.
🎙️There's nothing clear yet, but I would love to be able to come back. For now we have a couple of shows scheduled over here (UK) and I hope that in the future there will be an opportunity to come back. In the last few years we have been so used to being disappointed and that the plans you have can't be fulfilled, that now we just hope that these concerts can take place. And well, I don't have to tell you because you know, but we have an incredible relationship with Chile and since the first time we went we love to come back, so I hope we can make it happen.✪

🔹𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒃𝒚 𝑹𝒊𝒕𝒂 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐 𝒅𝒆 𝑳. 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 𝑨𝒏𝒚𝒘𝒂𝒚

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✨ 🔊 𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋 𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐎: 𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐅𝐀𝐍 𝐎𝐋𝐒𝐃𝐀𝐋 𝐎𝐅 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎 🎶✨

Yesterday finally was released "𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒙", the second album by 𝑫𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒍 𝟐𝟏 + 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 𝑶𝒍𝒔𝒅𝒂𝒍 and today I brought you a great article that I have translated for you, which was published in March 2020 when the pandemic was still not reaching us and they were planning to release this album in that same month. After a very complicated year and a long wait, it is truly a celebration to be able to listen to their new material. Enjoy reading what 𝑴𝒊𝒈𝒖𝒆𝒍 (𝑫𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒍 𝟐𝟏) and 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 tell us in this article and let me know what you think about it.

Photo Credits: Screenshots from concert at de Radio 3 (2021) / Edit by Rita

✨ 🔊 𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋 𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐎: 𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐅𝐀𝐍 𝐎𝐋𝐒𝐃𝐀𝐋 𝐎𝐅 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎 🎶✨

𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 𝑶𝒍𝒔𝒅𝒂𝒍, 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐's bassist, is about to release a new album with 𝑴𝒊𝒈𝒖𝒆𝒍 𝑳𝒐́𝒑𝒆𝒛 - a.k.a. 𝑫𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒍 𝟐𝟏- called 𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒙 on March 20. It will be the second full-length of this project that debuted in 2015 with the EP 𝑹𝒆𝒃𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒐𝒏, combining electronic music and strings. On 𝑷𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒐 of this week 𝑴𝒊𝒈𝒖𝒆𝒍 talks to us about the inspirations behind this work while 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 takes the time to tell us about the five albums that changed his life forever.


"𝘛𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘪𝘨𝘨𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦," says 𝑴𝒊𝒈𝒖𝒆𝒍 𝑳𝒐́𝒑𝒆𝒛

- a.k.a. 𝑫𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒍 𝟐𝟏 -, the Spanish producer and musician who has been linked to the electronic scene since the late nineties. The duo he forms together with 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 𝑶𝒍𝒔𝒅𝒂𝒍, bassist of 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐, released their first extended play in 2015, titled 𝑹𝒆𝒃𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒐𝒏,

and subsequently their first full-length 𝑰𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆 in 2018. 𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒙, their second album, continues to expand this creative relationship where electronic music and strings come together in highly cinematic and catching landscapes.

It will be released next March 20 and, in 𝑴𝒊𝒈𝒖𝒆𝒍's words, "𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘶𝘳𝘵𝘴 𝘶𝘴 𝘰𝘳 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘴 𝘶𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴 𝘶𝘴 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭. 𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘰 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘢 𝘭𝘺𝘳𝘪𝘤 𝘰𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘢 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨, 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘶𝘱 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨 '𝘛𝘰𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳' 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘬𝘴 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘦𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤, 𝘦𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘧𝘭𝘺. 𝘐𝘵 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤 𝘦𝘷𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘶𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘴 𝘶𝘴 -𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘦- 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘶𝘳𝘵 𝘶𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥".

Digital 21 a queerfest Saint Petersburg ( Russia).Photo credit: fotovoron 3

⭐ 𝑻𝒐𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 - 𝑫𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒍 𝟐𝟏 + 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 𝑶𝒍𝒔𝒅𝒂𝒍 𝑪𝒐𝒏𝒄𝒊𝒆𝒓𝒕𝒐𝒔 𝒅𝒆 𝑹𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒐 𝟑 (𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟏) 🎶
▶️ https://youtu.be/yyjjqDTtXLE


The intention of joining as a duo was to create a sound and a world of their own, and in the seven years of the project's existence the compositions have gone through different textures, making use of winds, strings, giving rise to purely instrumental tracks or with vocals. 𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒙 summarizes this evolution: "𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴. 𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘵𝘩. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘰𝘳 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘺𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘳𝘴, 𝘰𝘳 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘩 𝘰𝘧 𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘩. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴, 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘶𝘳𝘤𝘩 𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘯 𝘰𝘳 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴. 𝘞𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘯𝘶𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘴: 𝘢 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘤 𝘰𝘯𝘦 -𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘸𝘦 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺 𝘢𝘵 𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘰𝘳 𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘣𝘴- 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘦, 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘶𝘮, 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦. 𝘓𝘪𝘷𝘦, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘸 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘸𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘦𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘦, 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘵, 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘷𝘰𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘴, 𝘴𝘺𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘳𝘴, 𝘨𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘳, 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘴, 𝘥𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘴, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘯, 𝘦𝘵𝘤. 𝘞𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴, 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘳".

🔹𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐲𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐜 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧?
🎤 It's focused on squeezing every note, recording or feeling each song to the maximum. We both like what the other part does in each song. We have the facility to play quite a few instruments and also have our own recording studios, one in London and one in Madrid. So we add up all our instruments and the two studios and our albums come out.


✨🎼 𝐁𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐊 𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐊𝐄𝐓 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐂 🎼✨
𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 founded 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 with 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐 in 1994, when the two crossed paths at London's 𝑺𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒉 𝑲𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒕𝒐𝒏 station. They had been schoolmates in Luxembourg, but had not exchanged a word until that moment when they recognized each other. 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐, realizing that 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 had a guitar with him, invited him to see a performance of his. Thus was born 𝑨𝒔𝒉𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒚 𝑯𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕 - the band's original name, taken from 𝑪𝒂𝒑𝒕𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝑩𝒆𝒆𝒇𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕.


Besides to being half composer with 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 of most of 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐's catalog, 𝑶𝒍𝒔𝒅𝒂𝒍 was also involved in the production of 𝑩𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒌𝒆𝒕 𝑴𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄, the album that exactly twenty years ago marked the introduction of more electronic sounds in the band's arsenal, evident in the tracks that close the album such as "𝑯𝒂𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒈𝒍𝒐𝒃𝒊𝒏", "𝑵𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒆𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒄" or "𝑷𝒆𝒆𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑻𝒐𝒎". Here, for 𝑷𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒐, 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 selects the five albums that changed his life and have influenced his own work.


💿𝟏. 𝐃𝐞𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞: 𝐕𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫 (1990) 🎶
▶️ https://spoti.fi/3keTANA

🎤 I heard 𝑽𝒊𝒐𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒐𝒓 for the first time while I was kissing my high school girlfriend. I was sixteen and we were in her room. My favorite songs are "𝑾𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅 𝑰𝒏 𝑴𝒚 𝑬𝒚𝒆𝒔" and "𝑬𝒏𝒋𝒐𝒚 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒊𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆". It's an album that is already a classic, that's where they started using guitars and combining them with their synthesizer sound, something they hadn't done in the ten years they had been a band. I like it because they write dark lyrics, and that's why they are best listened to at night. This album also became the soundtrack to the moment when I was coming to terms with my identity and my sexuality. It was a very troubling and emotional time in my life, and 𝑫𝒆𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒐𝒅𝒆's music helped me deal with some very dark feelings. I've always wanted to emulate that simplicity and style of songwriting in all the musical projects I've been in. 𝑽𝒊𝒐𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒐𝒓 is their most concise and most sublime album, and it's the pinnacle of synth pop.

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💿𝟐. 𝐒𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡 – 𝐆𝐨𝐨 (1990) 🎶
▶️ https://spoti.fi/3qdeDUz

🎤 I first heard 𝑮𝒐𝒐 in London in 1994 in a social housing apartment and that's when 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐 put this record on to show me. 𝑮𝒐𝒐 changed the way I saw guitar music until then. My favorite songs are "𝑻𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒄 (𝑺𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑲𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒏)" and "𝑴𝒊𝒍𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝑷𝒊𝒆𝒓𝒄𝒆". They approach their guitars in a pretty punk way, uninterested in all the standard chord shapes and tunings, even creating their own sound passages, almost melodies made with feedback, which is usually seen as just noise or an unwanted by-product of playing electric guitar. Often, when I'm composing something on guitar and I feel that I like what I'm doing, I end up realizing that I'm playing something that 𝑺𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒄 𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒉 had already done (laughs). This is their most punkish expression, more melodic but also more abrasive.


💿𝟑. 𝐀𝐁𝐁𝐀 – 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐕𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬 (1981) 🎶
▶️ https://spoti.fi/3C3fc5H

🎤 I first heard 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑽𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒔 on my parents' record player when I was a kid in the suburbs of Stockholm. They had parties on Saturdays and invited all their friends, who came to eat, drink and dance. My favorite song is "𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑫𝒂𝒚 𝑩𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝑪𝒂𝒎𝒆". I love that analog pop sound, and I can just imagine the magnetic tape spinning as 𝑩𝒋𝒐̈𝒓𝒏 and 𝑩𝒆𝒏𝒏𝒚 (the 𝑩's of 𝑨𝑩𝑩𝑨) sit at an old console, putting the finishing touches to that mix, with all the amazing backing vocals and those keyboards and guitars that fit so perfectly. They write perfect pop free of fat and that sounds warm. I have a ritual of dancing to 𝑨𝑩𝑩𝑨, but only for my birthday. They're a bit like cake to me, they're great for once in a while, but if it's too much I don't feel very good. Sometimes I find I do bass lines that remind me of some of their vocal melodies, as the talent they have for hooks is amazing. That's their last album and also the darkest and most melancholic, and that's an emotion that they deal with in a very beautiful way.


💿𝟒. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐥𝐞𝐬 – 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐫 (1966) 🎶
▶️ https://spoti.fi/3q8lVc6

🎤 I first heard 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒍𝒆𝒔' 𝑹𝒆𝒗𝒐𝒍𝒗𝒆𝒓 when I was a thirteen year old teenager, smoking a bunch of cigarettes with a friend in my room after school. My favorite song is "𝑻𝒐𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒐𝒘 𝑵𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝑲𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒔". 𝑹𝒆𝒗𝒐𝒍𝒗𝒆𝒓 was my introduction to 60s psychedelic pop. Here there are things like songs where the sitar is the main instrument, and others about life being nothing more than a dream. They were experimenting with recording techniques and sounds, and they were very adventurous with the structures of these songs. I listen to this album and it sounds timeless to me, every time I listen to it I discover new subtleties, even though it was only recorded on four tracks. There are lessons to be learned here, about melody and making a personal musical statement in two minutes. Most of the songs are only that long.

Photo credit: Javier Alonso and Marina Sanz

💿𝟓. 𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐀𝐠𝐞 – 𝐒𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐟 (2002) 🎶
▶️ https://spoti.fi/3mSyc24

🎤 I went to 𝑻𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓 𝑹𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒔 in London the same day 𝑺𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝑭𝒐𝒓 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑫𝒆𝒂𝒇 was released, in 2002. I went straight to my house so I could listen to it. My favorite song here is "𝑮𝒐 𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑭𝒍𝒐𝒘". This album made me feel the thrill of being in a rock band again. It's sexy, it's hard, it's melodic, it's motivating and it's as cool as 𝑱𝒐𝒔𝒉 𝑯𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒆 himself. He's like a modern 𝑬𝒍𝒗𝒊𝒔, and he's a huge influence on me as a person and as a musician. I was fortunate to be on tour with him when 𝑸𝒖𝒆𝒆𝒏𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒕𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝑨𝒈𝒆 released this record and I think I just wanted whatever they inspired me to do. Having 𝑫𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝑮𝒓𝒐𝒉𝒍

on drums is something that separated this record from the others, he is a very accomplished rock drummer with good taste.✪


✒️𝙾𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕 𝚃𝚎𝚡𝚝: 𝑁𝑢𝑛𝑜 𝑉𝑒𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑜 04.03.2020
▪️𝚂𝚘𝚞𝚛𝚌𝚎: 𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑐𝑒𝑟𝑎.𝑐𝑜𝑚
▪️𝚃𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚜𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝚂𝚙𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚜𝚑: 𝑅𝑖𝑡𝑎 𝑀𝑜𝑙𝑘𝑜 𝑑𝑒 𝐿. 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜 𝐴𝑛𝑦𝑤𝑎𝑦

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Depeche Mode singer DAVE GAHAN turns 59

Today DAVE GAHAN, frontman of legendary DEPECHE MODE, celebrates his 59th birthday.

🎈🎉 𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐘 𝐁𝐈𝐑𝐓𝐇𝐃𝐀𝐘, 𝐃𝐀𝐕𝐄! 🎉🎈

Photo credit: Stefan Olsdal IG, unknown (8), edit by Silke

Brian and especially Stefan are huge fans of Depeche Mode. That's one of the reasons why they covered the song “I feel you” at a very early stage of their career. It was first published on a casette available only for members of the Placebo fan club Silver Rocket in 1999. The song was officially released on a bonus disc as part of the “Sleeping with ghosts” Special edition in 2003. This extra CD was then re-released as regular album “Covers” in 2010. “I feel you” can also be found on the American edition of “Black market music”.

🎬 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗖𝗘𝗕𝗢 – 𝗜 𝗙𝗘𝗘𝗟 𝗬𝗢𝗨
🎵 http://bit.ly/3bQhtVG 🎵
Video by PlaceboGirl

English artist Dave Gahan was born as David Callcott on May 9th 1962. When he was only six months old his father left the family. After the divorce his mother Sylvia married her second husband Jack Gahan. Dave and his sister Sue were raised under the impression that he was their natural father.
In his youth he got into trouble with the police, was suspended from school and ended up in juvenile court several times. “I was pretty wild, but music saved me“, Dave stated in hindsight.

In spring 1980 he joined the new formed band Composition of Sound. It was soon renamed to Depeche Mode, a suggestion that came from Dave after he had come across a same-titled fashion magazine. This was the start of an incredible successful career. Up to now Depeche Mode have sold more than 100 million records. Dave Gahan has also released some solo albums and collaborations with other artists.

He is a recovering heroin addict. In 1996 Dave Gahan overdosed on a speedball (mixture of cocaine and heroin) which resulted in his heart stopping for two minutes and a near-dead experience before he was revived by paramedics. Several months later he sought help at a rehabilitation center. There were relapses, but in May 2011 he celebrated ten years of sobriety. Dave said about his drug addiction that "it's fun to party and I had a lot of fun, and I kind of used up all my chips in that department." In 2009 an ultrasound revealed a malignant tumor in his bladder, which was removed.

Dave has lived in New York City since 1997. He has a daughter with his third wife Jennifer and a son from a former marriage.

Photo credit: Anton Corbijn

🎬 𝗗𝗘𝗣𝗘𝗖𝗛𝗘 𝗠𝗢𝗗𝗘 – 𝗜 𝗙𝗘𝗘𝗟 𝗬𝗢𝗨

🎵 http://bit.ly/324LYTi 🎵

The shared photo of Stefan and Dave Gahan was taken in London at the TV show Top of the Pops on January 31st 1997. Placebo performed their no. 4 single “Nancy Boy” and Depeche Mode did “Barrel of a gun”.
Stefan said that he was “tripping on cloud nine” when he got the chance to meet his heroes backstage. “This band has had a massive influence on me musically and personally. I spent my awkward teens covering their songs and turning the lights off in my room to immerse myself in their latest release”, he explained.

Photo credit: Anton Corbijn

🎬 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗯𝗼 - 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗝𝗲𝘀𝘂𝘀

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🎬 𝗗𝗲𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲 - 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗝𝗲𝘀𝘂𝘀 (𝗟𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗕𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗮 𝟮𝟬𝟬𝟵)

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📌 𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗙𝗔𝗡 𝗢𝗡 𝗠𝗘𝗘𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗗𝗔𝗩𝗘 📌
“I met Dave Gahan after Top oft he Pops once and then met him again two weeks later in Paris when we were doing a gig with the Dreams (=Dream City Film Club). We all ended up in the lobby oft he most expensive hotel in Paris with me playing Depeche Mode songs very off the key on the piano. Martin then asked me to play David Bowie songs which I couldn’t play.“
(First issue of Silber Rocket fanzine, 1998)

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