✨🎉𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐘 𝐁𝐈𝐑𝐓𝐇𝐃𝐀𝐘 𝗗𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝗠𝗖𝗟𝗘𝗔𝗡!🥂🎉

🎈Today we are glad to celebrate the birthday of ✨ 𝑫𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝑴𝒄𝑳𝒆𝒂𝒏 ✨, the 𝑴𝑫 of 𝑹𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒂𝒏𝒂𝒈𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕, who along with 𝑨𝒍𝒆𝒙 𝑾𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒏 has managed 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 for 27 years and who in this long wait for the eighth 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 album gave us exciting clues with his tweets.

Photo Credits: Unknown / Dave McLean IG / City Life Dundee // Edit  by Rita

✨🎉 𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐘 𝐁𝐈𝐑𝐓𝐇𝐃𝐀𝐘 𝐃𝐀𝐕𝐄! 🎂🥂🎉

🥳 𝑾𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒔𝒉 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂 𝒇𝒂𝒃𝒖𝒍𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒅𝒂𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆, 𝒇𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒔𝒖𝒄𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒔, 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒍𝒐𝒕𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔! ⭐

🎈 𝑅𝑖𝑡𝑎 & 𝑇𝒉𝑒 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜 𝐴𝑛𝑦𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑇𝑒𝑎𝑚 ❤️✨

📌 𝑫𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝑴𝒄𝑳𝒆𝒂𝒏 was born on August 6, 1956 in 𝑫𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒆, 𝑺𝒄𝒐𝒕𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅. He began promoting concerts in his hometown in the late 1970s to earn a living. He then moved to 𝑳𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒐𝒏 and in 1989 founded the concert promotion company 𝑹𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒂𝒏𝒂𝒈𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 with 𝑨𝒍𝒆𝒙 𝑾𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒏. They started promoting almost all the bands of the grunge scene such as 𝑵𝒊𝒓𝒗𝒂𝒏𝒂, 𝑷𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒍 𝑱𝒂𝒎, 𝑺𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒈𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒆𝒏, 𝑺𝒕𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝑻𝒆𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝑷𝒊𝒍𝒐𝒕𝒔, 𝑨𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔, 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒎𝒂𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑷𝒖𝒎𝒑𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒔, among others. To date, 𝑹𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒏 has promoted over 3,000 live concerts. In the link below you can see an extensive collection of posters of the bunch of bands they have worked with.
📸 https://bit.ly/3d7DPY4 🎶


By 1995, grunge fever had faded. 𝑲𝒖𝒓𝒕 𝑪𝒐𝒃𝒂𝒊𝒏's tragic death deeply impacted the music scene and, of course, to all those who loved him and admired his enormous talent. Meanwhile, just a few months earlier, a three-piece band had formed in 𝑳𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒐𝒏 whose style caught 𝑫𝒂𝒗𝒆 and 𝑨𝒍𝒆𝒙's attention.

🎤 “𝑾𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝑲𝒖𝒓𝒕 𝑪𝒐𝒃𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝒅𝒊𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒈𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒖𝒑 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔, 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 𝒄𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒍𝒅 𝒕𝒘𝒆𝒍𝒗𝒆 𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎𝒔!”
▪️𝙳𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚌𝙻𝚎𝚊𝚗, 𝙲𝚒𝚝𝚢 𝙻𝚒𝚏𝚎 𝙳𝚞𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚎, 𝙹𝚞𝚕𝚢 𝟷𝚜𝚝, 𝟸𝟶𝟷𝟼.


It was with 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 that 𝑹𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒏 moved into artist management. Besides them, on their roster have been 𝑩𝒓𝒚𝒂𝒏 𝑭𝒆𝒓𝒓𝒚, 𝑹𝒐𝒙𝒚 𝑴𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄, 𝑬𝒙𝒑𝒂𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒕𝒆, 𝑬𝒗𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆 (𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒗𝒆 𝑭𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕's former band) and currently they also manage bands such as 𝑾𝒊𝒍𝒅 𝑩𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒔, 𝑫𝒆𝒂𝒇 𝑯𝒂𝒗𝒂𝒏𝒂, 𝑶𝒏𝒆 𝑻𝒓𝒖𝒆 𝑷𝒂𝒊𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝑪𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒏 𝑴𝒄𝒍𝒆𝒐𝒅, 𝑻𝒂𝒓𝒂 𝑳𝒆𝒆, 𝑫𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒊𝒆 𝑷𝒐𝒚𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓, 𝑷𝑬𝑨𝑲𝑺! and 𝑫𝒆𝒂 𝑴𝒂𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒂.

For 17 years, 𝑫𝒂𝒗𝒆 has been living in 𝑩𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒌𝒐𝒌, 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅 with his family and there he also established another 𝑹𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒏 office, apart from the ones located in 𝑳𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒐𝒏 and 𝑫𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒆, which continue to discover and promote new talents.

Photo credit: Johann-Evrard

⭐ 𝑫𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝑴𝒄𝑳𝒆𝒂𝒏 is also a great storyteller, because throughout all these years of working with many artists, he has accumulated all kinds of anecdotes as funny as interesting. These are some of the stories he has told about 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐.

🔹𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐟𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨?
🎤 I have hundreds of stories about Placebo, most of which are really funny. They are the best guys I've ever worked with, they will never let you fail. We played in over seventy countries, and wherever we went, funny stories happened. Once in Argentina we were on a tour bus on our way to the airport, and Brian asked me how long it took to fly to Mexico City, and I replied: about two hours. In fact, we had to fly for eleven hours and twenty minutes! And once in Moscow, at the reception in our hotel there was a huge, very long cake (probably 60 meters long!). I think it was made to take part in the competition for the longest chocolate cake. In the evening, we were back from a concert and Brian fell into the cake, which made it two meters shorter. Next morning, Brian was very much confused and gave some money at the reception for his wrongdoing. A case in Chile: we were in the bus and I said how awful white socks looked on men and that only Michael Jackson looked good wearing them. Then Stef suddenly lifted his trouser leg, and there were white socks with black shoes! I felt quite embarrassed and said that only Michael Jackson and Stef can look good in white socks.

🔹𝐈𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐦 '𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨: 𝐀𝐥𝐭 𝐑𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐚'. 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐮𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭?
🎤 It was one of Placebo's Russian promoters who helped with the idea for ‘Placebo: Alt Russia’. He flew to me to Bangkok five years ago, and I said: it would be cool if the musicians could ride down the Trans-Siberian Railway. Richie Mattila (that's his name) promised to help us and he did! All the Placebo members were absolutely delighted and still remember this tour while we shot the film. For the first I visited Russia in 1984 and since then I’m in love with its culture and history.
▪️𝙳𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚌𝙻𝚎𝚊𝚗, КИНО ТВ/𝙲𝚒𝚗𝚎𝚖𝚊 𝚃𝚅, 𝙹𝚞𝚕𝚢 𝟸𝟹, 𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟶.

Backstage at Halloween cooccert, Hamburg, October 31st .2016. Photo credit: Placeboworld 

⭐ 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐝 𝐁𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐞 & 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 ⭐
🎤“Morrissey was meant to be going on tour with David Bowie,” 𝑴𝒄𝑳𝒆𝒂𝒏 recalls. “As Morrissey often does, he cancelled his whole tour. We’d just signed to Hut Recordings, I don’t even think we had a record out then but John Giddings, the agent for David Bowie, said, ‘Why don’t you give this young band a crack?’ Bowie listened to the tape which had ‘Nancy Boy’, ’36 Degrees’, ‘Teenage Angst’ and ‘Bruise Pristine’ on it – six really good tracks. He decided to give them 13 shows opening for him in arenas. He’d wait for them offstage and watch them from side of stage and give them advice.

“A couple of years later, he had his 50th birthday party at Madison Square Garden and he invited Placebo. He paid for all the flights, first class, hotels. The bill was David Bowie, ‘special guest: Placebo’, then under that it was something like Foo Fighters, Lou Reed, Pixies and Smashing Pumpkins or something. Then he guested with Placebo onstage at Irving Plaza [venue in New York]. The first time I got introduced to him, we were sitting in the dressing room at the Irving Plaza. He looked about 30. I said, ‘Has anyone ever told you you look like David Beckham?’ He says, ‘I’m getting that a lot these days!’”

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✨ 𝐅𝐥𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀-𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭 ✨
𝑫𝒂𝒗𝒆’s starriest night, perhaps, came at the 1999 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒕 𝑨𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒔. “David Bowie is our special guest. You go backstage and Muhammad Ali is there and everybody’s going, ‘Champ, champ, champ!’ Then Stevie Wonder comes in asking, ‘Do you know where Cher is?’ I say, ‘I think she’s a couple of dressing rooms up there.’ Then Bjorn from ABBA arrives, or Benny, one of the two. So you’ve got Cher, Stevie Wonder, ABBA, David Bowie and Muhammad Ali, it’s not every night that happens.”
▪️𝙳𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚌𝙻𝚎𝚊𝚗, 𝙽𝙼𝙴, 𝚂𝚎𝚙𝚝𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛 𝟸𝟺, 𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟶.


⭐ In July 2016, 𝑫𝒂𝒗𝒆 revealed exclusively with the website citylifedundee.com that he was planning to make a biopic, based on his early life in 𝑫𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒆 and how he started promoting bands with his friend 𝑱𝒐𝒉𝒏 𝑮𝒊𝒃𝒔𝒐𝒏.

🎤 “We are scheduled to start shooting in August. Brian Molko of Placebo is writing the original score for the movie. My mate Ewen Bremner (Spud in ‘Trainspotting’) and Vicki McClure (Lol in ‘This is England’) are going to help with the movie stuff.“
▪️𝙳𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚌𝙻𝚎𝚊𝚗, 𝙲𝚒𝚝𝚢 𝙻𝚒𝚏𝚎 𝙳𝚞𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚎, 𝙹𝚞𝚕𝚢 𝟷𝚜𝚝, 𝟸𝟶𝟷𝟼.


With this movie titled "𝑺𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒔" filmed in 𝑫𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒆, 𝑴𝒄𝑳𝒆𝒂𝒏 made his directorial debut. It premiered on June 29, 2019 at the 𝑬𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒃𝒖𝒓𝒈𝒉 𝑰𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝑭𝒊𝒍𝒎 𝑭𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒍 where it also won the 𝑨𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝑨𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅. 🏆✨

🎤 “I’m in the music business. I’d never done films before but it seems to have gone down well all over the place,” ▪️𝙳𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚌𝙻𝚎𝚊𝚗, 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙲𝚘𝚞𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚛, 𝙹𝚊𝚗𝚞𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝟸𝟸, 𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟷.

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🎬 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐬 - 𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐫
https://bit.ly/3BZDRM7

"𝑺𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒔" has been such a success that 𝑫𝒂𝒗𝒆 is already planning to make a trilogy. The second part will be called "𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑯𝒂𝒎𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝑾𝒉𝒆𝒆𝒍". The story continues when 𝑫𝒂𝒗𝒆 moved to 𝑳𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒐𝒏 with his friend 𝑺𝒄𝒐𝒕 and how they became very successful promoting grunge bands. The soundtrack will be composed of songs from all these bands that 𝑹𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒏 promoted at that time, from the most famous to the lesser known. While the third part will be called "𝑲𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝑺𝒎𝒐𝒌𝒆".

🎤“The third one is about a festival I did in Bangkok with Oasis and Franz Ferdinand, Snow Patrol, Placebo and Ian Brown of the Stone Roses on the bill. [...] Why is the film called Knitted Smoke? My dad once said: ‘Why you doing that festival, son? It’d be easier knitting smoke!’ I thought that just nailed it!"
▪️𝙳𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚌𝙻𝚎𝚊𝚗, 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙲𝚘𝚞𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚛, 𝙹𝚊𝚗𝚞𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝟸𝟸, 𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟷.


⭐ June 2021 saw the release of "𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑮𝒐𝑶𝑫𝑭𝑨𝑻𝑯𝑬𝑹," a documentary filmed and produced by 𝑫𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝑴𝒄𝑳𝒆𝒂𝒏 and 𝑨𝒍𝒆𝒙 𝑾𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒏. The film tells the story of 𝑭𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝑱𝒐𝒆 𝑴𝒂𝒊𝒆𝒓 who since 1972 opened 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒆𝒓𝒄𝒚 𝑪𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒆, which has served as a shelter and school for many children from the 𝑲𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒈𝑻𝒐𝒆𝒚 community in 𝑩𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒌𝒐𝒌. The original soundtrack features music by 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 and 𝑲𝒚𝒍𝒆 𝑭𝒂𝒍𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒓 & 𝑴𝒊𝒌𝒆𝒚 𝑴𝒄𝒇𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒆. In July of the same year, 𝑮𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒏𝒍𝒊𝒕 organized a special screening of the documentary and all proceeds were donated to 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒆𝒓𝒄𝒚 𝑪𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒆 to address the needs of the community due to the pandemic.

🎬 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐨𝐎𝐃𝐅𝐀𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑
https://bit.ly/3oQPVHH

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🎶”𝗦𝗔𝗗 𝗪𝗛𝗜𝗧𝗘 𝗥𝗘𝗚𝗚𝗔𝗘”🎶

”𝗦𝗔𝗗 𝗪𝗛𝗜𝗧𝗘 𝗥𝗘𝗚𝗚𝗔𝗘” is a song from “Never let me go” which was released on March 25th 2022. It was Placebo's eight studio album and produced by Adam Noble who was also the producer of the previous record “Loud like love” (2013). “Sad White Reggae”, like all other tracks on the album, was recorded at RAK Studios in London, UK, and mastered at 24-96 Mastering in Karlsruhe, Germany.

What's different about “Never let me go” is the process how it came into being because everything was done in reverse order to the usual way of working. The song titles were chosen before the lyrics were written, the work on the record started with the album artwork and picking the cover photo instead of ending with those decisions. Stefan explained that Brian came to him with that idea to try to do everything backwards. “So, there were a few factors in starting this record that were a little bit different. And I think we needed that. I mean, the end result might still sound very much like a Placebo record” (Chaos, March 4th 2022).
Brian: “This process of renewal, of looking for something new, is imperative for me, I really don't want to be bored with Placebo. You have to really push yourself to find different methods, challenging situations, things to say that you find important, to basically do something that feeds you, because without that self-feeding, why would you do that? I would ask myself that question all the time” (France Info, March 30th 2022).


📍 𝙄𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙛𝙖𝙘𝙩: Placebo once did something similar with “Infra-Red” from the album “Meds” when Brian wrote the lyrics of the song backwards. He admitted that because of that he first had no idea what “Infra-Red” was about. “I started with the last line and worked my way to the first. I’d never done that before. So it wasn’t until I got to the first line that I was able to take a step back and understand what it was about” (Suicide Girls, May 14th 2006).


Different to the previous albums Brian and Stefan also started to work on “Never let me go” without a drummer. “We wanted to make an album without drums and just do it with a drum machine and that has influenced the process a little bit. [...] And just having those beginnings a little bit different from the previous records, the result is very different from all the last records. I don't know, but it was important to incite to make the journey a little bit different”, Stefan explained in an interview with Alfa 91,3 FM Mexico. But in the end they even had two drummers instead of none at all: Matt Lunn, who is a touring member of the band and first joined them in 2004, and Pietro Garrone of Husky Loops.


Brian said that “Sad White Reggae” was written during a period of insomnia. In the middle of the night he decided to play something by The Police but ended up writing his own song (see quotes below). He stated that the title is a private joke for him. The song includes references to Jane Birkin, Samye Ling and Lama Yeshe, Dundee and Brian's mother.

Photo credit: Matej Grgić

📍𝗦𝗮𝗺𝘆𝗲 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗴 is a Buddhist monastery in Scotland. On the band's Instagram page Brian posted this text in 2021: “My friend and teacher 𝗟𝗮𝗺𝗮 𝗬𝗲𝘀𝗵𝗲 etablished the first Buddhist monastery in Europe, Samye Ling, Scotland. It is now under threat from US army. Please help us protect the monastery by signing this petition. And album8 is most deginitely on its way!”
Explanation: The military wanted to use the area for target practice. – The petition was successful and the place was safe in the end.


📍𝗝𝗮𝗻𝗲 𝗕𝗶𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻 is an English-French singer and actress who Brian admires. She is best known for her releationship with Serge Gainsbourg and their scandalous duet “Je t'aime moi non plus” which Brian and Asia Argento covered for Dimitri Tikovoi's music project Trash Palace in 2002. Two years later Brian recorded a song called “Smile” with Birkin, it was released on her album “Rendez-vous”.


📍 “Sad White Reggae” is not the first song that has a 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧'𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 in the lyrics. There's also “Blue American” from the 2000 album “Black market music”. Amongst others it include the line “I wrote this novel just for Mom / For all the mommy things she's done”.


📍 𝗗𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗲 is a coastal city in Scotland where Brian partly grew up. Despite the fact that he had to move a lot with his family when he was young he also once said that if he were to have some patriotic feelings it would be for this place.


“Sad White Reggae” is part of the current tour. The shared video was recorded at Bearded Theory's Spring Gathering festival on May 27th 2022. This song is one of my absolute favorites on the new album and also live.

Photo credit: Matej Grgić

📌 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗢𝗡 “𝗦𝗔𝗗 𝗪𝗛𝗜𝗧𝗘 𝗥𝗘𝗚𝗚𝗔𝗘 ” 📌
📢 "A lot of these songs were written during periods of insomnia and 'Sad White Reggae' is one of them. It's about three o'clock in the morning. Can't sleep. And for some reason I decided I was going to work out how to play Roxanne by The Police, and I couldn't and I ended up writing this song instead. And because I was trying to copy The Police I called it, 'Sad White Reggae' because that's essentially what the first two Police albums is. It's just 'Sad White Reggae', so it's a little in-joke for me, private joke, which kind of makes its way onto the album. That's my song for Scotland. I think Dundee is going to give me the key to the city when this record comes out. I managed to get Jane Birkin, Lama Yeshe, and my mum into the same song and Dundee. "
(Maniacs, March 25th 2022)


📌 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗢𝗡 “𝗡𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥 𝗟𝗘𝗧 𝗠𝗘 𝗚𝗢” 📌
📢 “I wanted to express something visceral, something very human. I just hope that other people will understand it and that it will move them. I hope that I’ve been somewhat courageous with this record so that it might inspire courage in others. It might help them stand up for what they believe in. That’s all. That’s what music did for me.”
(The Guardian, November 12th 2021)


𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘣𝘰 𝘦𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘸𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘯𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘭 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴 (𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴𝘢𝘭 𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘮 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘴, 𝘫𝘢𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘰) 𝘪𝘯 𝘧𝘢𝘷𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘥𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴. 𝘚𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘯 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘯 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦.
📢 “For me, it was also about trying to create discomfort. My friend and mentor David Bowie always used to say `if you're feeling comfortable, you're doing it wrong.’”
(Vice Magazine, January 17th 2022)


📢 “I wanted to do something that had a certain brutality to it, either sonically or lyrically.”
(Rolling Stone UK, February 1st 2022)


📢 “It is our “Fuck you record”, quite right. It is by far the most angriest and most upset we ever did . And it is very focused in its vexation and anger. Because of my lifestyle change I got much more clarity as in former times. The drugs no longer stand in the way of my attitude. I’m more precise and concrete in these songs. I communicate big ideas in a few words as possible.“
(SLAM Issue 121, April 2022)

Photo credit: Matej Grgić

📜 𝗟𝗬𝗥𝗜𝗖𝗦
I got the man on the way
I wanna sleep on the way down
So many miles away
I used to dance in a fountain


I got the man on the way
Measure for measure
So many miles away
Drunk on a mountain


I got a message for Jane
Float on a feather
I hope the kids are okay
Now for the kicker


I'm stuck on a train
Heading for Scotland
They took my mom away
Illuminati


And I'm thin as rake
I'm no longer fleshy
I'll go to Samye Ling
See Lama Yeshe


Where the skies are grey
And the skies are cloudy
And every river flows
Back to Dundee


I won't give into the pain
I'll smile in the mirror
There's no one else to blame


Collapse into never, collapse into never
Collapse into never, collapse into never
Collapse into never, collapse into never
Collapse into never, collapse into never
Collapse into never, collapse into never
Collapse into never, collapse into never
Collapse into never, collapse into never

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