🟪𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖, 𝗠𝗘𝗟𝗢𝗗𝗬 𝗠𝗔𝗞𝗘𝗥 𝟭𝟵𝟵𝟲 (𝗘𝗫𝗖𝗘𝗥𝗣𝗧)🟪

🟪Today I’d like to share an 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖 (an excerpt of it as it’s way too long in full) from the early days of Placebo’s career🟪
It’s caught my attention because of the PLACE where it was done - 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒇 𝒐𝒇 𝑷𝒂𝒕 𝑷𝒐𝒑𝒆’𝒔 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒉 𝑳𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒐𝒏 𝒑𝒉𝒐𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒐, “surrounded by an impressive city skyline”, on a beautiful September evening...✨
⭐️Not long ago I told you about 𝑷𝑨𝑻 𝑷𝑶𝑷𝑬, a great photographer who took many brilliant pictures surely recognizable for every Placebo fan. If you missed that post, you can take a look now.
➡ https://bit.ly/3dkEtBo

Photo credit: Pat Pope

🟪Back to the interview, Brian talked to the 𝑴𝒆𝒍𝒐𝒅𝒚 𝑴𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒓 journalist right after they all, with Stefan and Robert Schultzberg, did a photoshoot with Pat Pope. Below, I’m adding that very image where Placebo look like "𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒐𝒚𝒛𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒆 𝒓𝒐𝒄𝒌" in Stefan's opinion😃
Brian sounds smart, straightforward, and witty as always, and British press seems to be pretty much impressed by the rising stars. Enjoy reading, soulmates!
𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔, 𝑶𝒍𝒈𝒂💗

🟪▪️𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐏𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐔𝐑𝐄 𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐂𝐈𝐏𝐀𝐋▪️🟪
“We’re the Boyzone of indie rock,” states 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 𝑶𝒍𝒅𝒔𝒂𝒍, Placebo’s nine-foot-high Swedish bassist. He’s examining 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒐𝒍𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒊𝒅𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒐𝒅𝒂𝒚’𝒔 𝒑𝒉𝒐𝒕𝒐-𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒐𝒕 particularly taken by the one where he and drummer 𝑹𝒐𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒕 𝑺𝒄𝒉𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒛𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒈 look on doe-eyed as singer, 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐, a slight, black-haired Marilyn/Courtney hybrid, 𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒊𝒔𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂 𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒈𝒕𝒉 𝒐𝒇 𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒆. Oh, every inch the teen idols. But Stefan’s joking of course. Placebo are a serious band. They’d never ever align themselves with such banal, fifth generation nonsense and lowest common denominator product.
… As Brian later spits, “We’re hyper self-critical and have a very low boredom threshold. It seems the possibilities are endless. We don’t just want to be a guitar band. Fuck that. Fuck it.”

⭐️𝑪𝑶𝑰𝑵𝑪𝑰𝑫𝑬𝑵𝑪𝑬? 𝑰 𝑻𝑯𝑰𝑵𝑲 𝑵𝑶𝑻…
In a decent world, it wouldn’t be necessary to explain why Placebo are the most exciting and potentially most important new band to leap above the parapet this year. You’d just listen to the record, see them live, laugh with hysterical relief and then instantly demand that every billboard in Piccadilly Circus be given over to their cause. […]

⭐️𝑩𝑳𝑬𝑺𝑺𝑬𝑫 𝑩𝑹𝑰𝑨𝑵
“You were the one who wrote that I should be called velvet.”

𝑾𝒆’𝒓𝒆 𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒄𝒓𝒐𝒔𝒔-𝒍𝒆𝒈𝒈𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒇 𝒐𝒇 𝑷𝒂𝒕 𝑷𝒐𝒑𝒆’𝒔 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒉 𝑳𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒐𝒏 𝒑𝒉𝒐𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒐. Robert and Stefan dislike interviews, and so stay inside and read the papers. Out here, surrounded by an impressive city skyline, wasps attack as the last of the sun floods down. And, well, this next bit is essential, I’m afraid. I just can’t pretend it’s John Power or Mr Ocean Colour Scene sitting lumpenly opposite me.

Believe me, I tried. Tiny with Louise Brooks bob, Brian’s wearing a furry black coat, shimmery pink lipstick and silver-glitter nail polish. Behind huge sunglasses, his eyes are heavily shadowed with grey. He looks like he’s just stepped out of a Pierre-et-Gilles photo fantasia, heart-breakingly beautiful, with the kind of charisma usually half-glimpsed behind tinted limousine windows. OK, I might be susceptible, not coming from the pace where beautiful and charismatic pop stars roam free - but then neither do the hoards of “TOTP” kids who are soon going to be pinning their daydreams to him and the band.

Right…

Velvet? Aaaaaaargh, yes. I did write that maybe fate could have named you better.

Photo credit: Pat Pope

“I asked my friend Bill if Brian was a nerd’s name in England. He didn’t want to tell me, but I’ve gathered it is. People started sating ‘My dad’s called Brian.’ And unfortunate choice on the part of my parents.”

It does depend on the Brian, I suppose…

“Well, yeah, Brian Jones… Who else?”

Er, Brian Blessed? Brian the snail from “The Magic Roundabout”?

“What’s he like?”

Cheery, chirpy. Bt of a lad.

He looks askance over the top of those film-star sunglasses, pink lipstick shimmering in the sun.

“Oh yeah - that’s me in a nutshell.”

⭐️𝑳𝑳𝑶𝑹’𝑵’𝑲𝑪𝑶𝑹’𝑵’𝑺𝑮𝑼𝑹’𝑵’𝑿𝑬𝑺
So yes, it kind of goes without saying that Placebo aren’t Yob Rock. Nor, despite Brian being a loss to the cause, are they Romo, and as you’d expect from a Swedo-Lux concern, they can’t be held in the village greens of Britpop. The spectre of American alternative looms quite large - Sonic Youth, Pixies, Rodan, even Smashing Pumpkins (only with triple the intelligence and none of the bombast, stars and not dollar signs in their eyes).

But Placebo do no fit. An art rock band doused in pop, a thoroughbred Trojan horse, everything you could want form a band - only backwards.

What does fit Placebo’s splendid isolation is the fact that their new single is called “𝐓𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐀𝐧𝐠𝐬𝐭”, a dreamy rush of existential doubt that manages to grasp all the pitilessness, defiance and vulnerability of those hormone-crazed days without sloshing about in self-pity. The title even seems mocking… [...]

DO you feel you’ve grown up yet?

“𝑰’𝒎 𝟐𝟑 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒑𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒚 𝒌𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒔 𝒊𝒏, 𝑰 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍 100 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒐𝒍𝒅. 𝑺𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝑰 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒂 𝑰’𝒗𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆 - 𝒂 𝑷𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒏𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒐𝒓 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈, I don’t know, things don’t surprise me as much as I imagined they would. Maybe I’m just a fast learner. […]

⭐️𝑺𝑬𝑿
“Kinda guy that mates for life/Gotta help him find a wife/We’re a couple when out bodies double…

Photo credit: Corinne Day

Priests and parents would probably not favour “𝐍𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐲 𝐁𝐨𝐲” as a positive role model, yet “Nancy Boy” is one of the best songs on “Placebo”, a thrilling blowsy glam-punk come-on that flirts with Suede’s “The Drowners” across a crowded room. It is,, to Brian’s delight, the song that most often wins over hostile audiences, despite being the most ambiguous, licentious lyric they have.

“After doing that song on the ‘White Room’ I thought ‘𝑱𝒆𝒔𝒖𝒔 𝑪𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒕. 𝑰’𝒗𝒆 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒈𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒐𝒏 𝑻𝑽 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒖𝒏𝒈, “𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒂 𝒃𝒆𝒂𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒇𝒖𝒍 𝒂𝒔𝒔”!’ I’ve also been on ‘The Big Breakfast’ singing ‘𝑰’𝒍𝒍 𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒌 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒚 𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒅𝒍𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒎𝒚 𝒇𝒂𝒗𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆’.” [...]

You know the way you look is going to affect Placebo’s initial appeal?

“I hope so. Otherwise it wouldn’t be worth all the money I spend on facials.” He raises his hands in the air. “That’s a JOKE. The thing is, I often get mistaken for a girl. At first I felt flattered because I reckoned it meant I was quite pretty, then I thought, ‘if it’s that easy, maybe I should play around with it, bring it into the world of the band.’ Placebo’s music is full of ambiguity. It doesn’t offer answers, just questions.”

He smiles. I still can’t see his eyes.

“I mean, you don’t do it without hoping that in some way or another it’s quite sexy - but you never can tell.”

As disingenuousness goes, this is like Liam Gallagher saying he’d like to be famous, but isn’t sure if anyone’s, like, hat bothered about him. I’m impressed.

“𝑮𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒇𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒊𝒔𝒏’𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒐 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒊𝒕’𝒔 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒖𝒏𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆. When they can’t put their finger on you, that’s when you’re at your most dangerous, and I guess I like that position - not being able to have a finger put on me. So to speak.”

Not looking like your average happy shopper, don’t you get hassled all the time?

“Not really. Maybe it’s because I walk around in my own little dream world. When I’m with girls though, we both get it. I was walking round Ladbroke Grove with a girl a week ago and two blokes came up to us and said, ‘Are you looking for cock?’ that wouldn’t have happened if I looked more like a bloke. What it does is five me insight into how horrible and infantile and offensive men can be. It gives me a kind of anti-role model, encountering male attitudes in the street, in bars, that I find completely repulsive. It shows me what I’m not and keeps me in check as a man.”

Photo credit: Robin Francois

How do you feel about joining the pantheon of pansexual pin-ups?

“Hey, why not? 𝑾𝒆’𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒏𝒊𝒖𝒎 - 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒎𝒆𝒂𝒏 𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆. They don’t mean anything to me - they never have.”

OK, there are people who find this assumption of fluid sexuality irritating. As former MM writer, the late Kris Kirk, wrote about Morrissey six years ago in “Gay Times”: “if he’s straight he should stop feeding off us. Write about heterosexual culture, defrauding on the mortgage repayments and going to football matches.”

Maybe I should have rudely demanded to know exactly who Brian’s sleeping with, asked for ratios and percentages - yet it’s totally unnecessary. The day 𝑩𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒕 𝑨𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏 came out with the old “bisexual who’s never had a homosexual experience quote” and pinned himself into a corner, was the day my love for Suede died a little. Brian is sexual, period. He’s also clever enough to know that in pop, 𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒔𝒐 𝒎𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒘𝒆𝒓.
(𝑀𝑒𝑙𝑜𝑑𝑦 𝑀𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑟 "𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑃𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑃𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑝𝑎𝑙", 𝑆𝑒𝑝'96)

Post by Olga

𝐍𝐈𝐂𝐊 𝐃𝐑𝐀𝐊𝐄: 𝐁𝐈𝐑𝐓𝐇𝐃𝐀𝐘 & "𝐁𝐄𝐄𝐍 𝐒𝐌𝐎𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐎 𝐋𝐎𝐍𝐆"

⭐️💫Soulmates, do you remember Placebo’s cover of 𝐁𝐄𝐄𝐍 𝐒𝐌𝐎𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐎 𝐋𝐎𝐍𝐆? Originally, this song was recorded by 𝑵𝑰𝑪𝑲 𝑫𝑹𝑨𝑲𝑬 who would have been celebrating his 𝟕𝟒𝐭𝐡 𝐁𝐈𝐑𝐓𝐇𝐃𝐀𝐘 today💫⭐️

𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 - 𝐁𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐒𝐦𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐓𝐨𝐨 𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐠 (𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨)
➡️ https://bit.ly/3wCfyAF


🥀𝑨 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒖𝒍𝒂𝒓 𝒎𝒚𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒑𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒍𝒎𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒖𝒏𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒆𝒅 𝒅𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒃𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒇 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆, 𝑵𝑰𝑪𝑲 𝑫𝑹𝑨𝑲𝑬 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒅𝒖𝒄𝒆𝒅 𝒔𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒍 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒍𝒚 𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒒𝒖𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒂𝒖𝒕𝒚. 𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒔𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕, 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒈𝒏𝒊𝒛𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒔 𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒌 𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒃𝒐𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒉 𝒇𝒐𝒍𝒌-𝒓𝒐𝒄𝒌 𝒔𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒓𝒆 𝒓𝒐𝒄𝒌 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓-𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒓𝒆🥀

Photo credits: Nick Drake - unknown, Brian Molko - Andy Willsher; Placeboworld IG / edit by Olga

𝐍𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐃𝐫𝐚𝐤𝐞 - 𝐁𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐒𝐦𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐓𝐨𝐨 𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐠
➡️ https://bit.ly/3PCkXin


⭐️𝑵𝑰𝑪𝑲 𝑫𝑹𝑨𝑲𝑬, in full 𝑵𝒊𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒂𝒔 𝑹𝒐𝒅𝒏𝒆𝒚 𝑫𝒓𝒂𝒌𝒆, (born June 19, 1948, Rangoon [now Yangon], Myanmar [Burma] - died November 25, 1974, Tanworth-in-Arden, England), is an English singer, songwriter, and guitarist known for emotive vocals, sombre lyrics, and rich melodies. Drake never achieved widespread recognition when he was alive but inspired a cult following in the decades following his death.
▪️Drake was raised principally in the English village of Tanworth-in-Arden and played the saxophone and clarinet in school. He took up the guitar at age 16 and began writing songs two years later.


▪️Part of Drake's failure to attract a mass audience was attributable to his almost pathological reluctance to perform live. However, it was at a live show in Cambridge, that a member of Fairport Convention saw Drake perform, and recommended the singer to producer Joe Boyd. Boyd asked Drake for a tape, and was impressed enough to give the 20-year-old a contract in 1968.

▪️Drake's debut, 𝑭𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑳𝒆𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒔 𝑳𝒆𝒇𝒕 (1969), was the first in a series of three equally impressive albums. Drake created a vaguely mysterious, haunting atmosphere, occasionally embellished by tasteful Baroque strings. His melancholic lyrics were blended with the gorgeous, uplifting melodies and Drake's calm vocals.


▪️𝑩𝒓𝒚𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝑳𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓 (1970) was his most upbeat effort, featuring traces of jazz in the arrangements.
By 1970, Drake, had given up performing live entirely.

▪️Neither album sold well, and Drake, already a brooding loner, fell into serious depression that often found him unable to make music, work, or even walk and talk. He managed to produce one final full-length work, 𝑷𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝑴𝒐𝒐𝒏 (1972), a desolate solo acoustic album that ranks as one of the most naked and bleak statements in all of rock. He did record a few more songs before his death, but no more albums were completed, although the final sessions (along with some other fine unreleased material) surfaced on the posthumous compilation 𝑻𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑵𝒐 𝑹𝒆𝒑𝒍𝒚.

▪️Drake's final couple of years were marked by increasing psychiatric difficulties, and in late 1974 he died at his parents’ home from an overdose of antidepressant medication. Whether his death was an accident or suicide has not been resolved.

▪️The 1979 release of the retrospective album 𝑭𝒓𝒖𝒊𝒕 𝑻𝒓𝒆𝒆 allowed Drake's back catalogue to be reassessed. By the mid-1980s, Nick was being credited as an influence by such artists as Robert Smith of The Cure and Peter Buck of R.E.M. By the early 1990s, he had come to represent a certain type of "doomed romantic" musician in the UK music press and was frequently cited as an influence by artists including Kate Bush, Paul Weller, Aimee Mann, Beck, Robyn Hitchcock and The Black Crowes. Drake's first biography appeared in 1997, followed in 1998 by the documentary film A Stranger Among Us.

▪️Drake’s music continued to be discovered by new fans and performed by other singers. In the early 21st century his songs began appearing in films and television shows and commercials, bringing a new level of awareness to his music.
▪️Several biographies have been published including 𝐑𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞 (𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟒), a compilation of letters, photographs, and essays collected by Nick Drake’s sister, actress 𝑮𝒂𝒃𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒆 𝑫𝒓𝒂𝒌𝒆.
(𝑆𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑐𝑒𝑠: 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑎, 𝐴𝑙𝑙 𝑀𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑐)

Photo credit: Keith Morris

⭐️𝑨 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒅 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒐𝒐𝒌…
Nowadays, when Nick became fetishised, Gabrielle feels herself a guardian of her brother’s legacy trying to keep the story as true as possible.
Now it falls to her to tend Nick’s grave under the beech tree in the churchyard of St Mary Magdalene in Tanworth.

📢“We’ve just had the gravestone removed because it’s been rather badly defaced one way and another with people chipping away at it.” […] “Sometimes dead artists need to be protected from their admirers.”
It’s a beautiful book but hard to read because it includes so much hitherto private pain – not just family letters, but Rodney Drake’s diary of his son’s struggle with depression.
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📢𝐆𝐚𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞 𝐃𝐫𝐚𝐤𝐞: My brother once said to my mother, ‘If only I could feel that my music had helped anyone at all …’ and I just wish he would have known how many people have said to us over the years how his music had helped them.”
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📢Both parents admired their son’s work, she [𝐆𝐚𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞] says: “In the letters my father says, ‘Take courage, take heart, you’ve really got it. We’ve just played Five Leaves Left [Nick’s debut album] on the stereo and we think it’s beautiful.’”
(𝑆𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑐𝑒: 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐺𝑢𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑖𝑎𝑛, 𝑁𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 15𝑡ℎ, 2014)


⭐️𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒃𝒆𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈…
𝐁𝐄𝐄𝐍 𝐒𝐌𝐎𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐎 𝐋𝐎𝐍𝐆 was originally written by 𝑹𝒐𝒃𝒊𝒏 𝑭𝒓𝒆𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒌, an American songwriter and author, in the last few weeks of 1966. The song was recorded at one of her friends flat in early 1967.
In March 1967 Robin was performing folk song originals and covers with a partner in a cabaret in Aix-en-Provence (France). After one show Nick Drake introduced himself and asked if Frederick would like to get together to play some songs. Among the songs she played for him was an original composition, 𝐁𝐄𝐄𝐍 𝐒𝐌𝐎𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐎 𝐋𝐎𝐍𝐆. She and Drake became friends and Drake asked for the lyrics to the song. He recorded the song on a home demo tape in April or May 1967.

𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐢𝐧 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐤: “We spent a few evenings playing songs for each other and one night Nick asked for the lyrics to “Been smoking too long” which I wrote out for him. It’s an easy, bluesy song that seemed to capture the feel of the times. Nick picked up music very quickly. His guitar arrangement is sophisticated and smooth. Years later, when I heard his home recording, I realized he had changed a line. “Got the marijuana blues” became “Got no other life to choose” – a fatalistic turn of phrase that strikes me as very like him“.

The song appeared on the 𝑻𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑵𝒐 𝑹𝒆𝒑𝒍𝒚 album as well as the 2007 𝑭𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒚 𝑻𝒓𝒆𝒆 collection of Drake's home and demo recordings. The song has been covered by several notable artists including Placebo, Graham Coxon, Alison Faith Levy, Steve Balbi and Hederos & Hellberg.
(𝑆𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑐𝑒: 𝑟𝑜𝑏𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑘.𝑐𝑜𝑚, 𝑊𝑖𝑘𝑖𝑝𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑎)

Photo credits: unknown, Renaud Monfourny, edit by Silke

⭐️Placebo’s cover of 𝐁𝐄𝐄𝐍 𝐒𝐌𝐎𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐎 𝐋𝐎𝐍𝐆 was released as B-side on the single 𝐓𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐀𝐧𝐠𝐬𝐭, the fourth single from their self-titled debut album, on September 16th, 1996. The track was produced by Stefan Olsdal.
In 2011, the song was included into the 𝐁-𝐒𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟔-𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟔 compilation.

⭐️𝑨𝒏 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒂𝒄𝒕…
Early 2022, Rolling Stone magazine published an article where it is suggested that we’ve possibly got a footage of Nick Drake.

𝐍𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐃𝐫𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝟕𝟎’𝐬 𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥
➡️ https://bit.ly/389gBP7


Nick Drake remains one of the most mysterious, the most ethereal artists.
“The reason why is simple: There isn’t a lot of physical evidence left that Drake was a real person. You can go to England and visit his hometown village, Tanworth-in-Arden, pay respects at his grave and stand for a picture in front of his home. But you won’t find a museum there with the laced-up shoes from the cover of Bryter Layter, or his striped poncho in a climate-controlled case. You can read his sister Gabrielle’s 2014 biography Remembered for a While, but only a handful of known photos of Nick Drake exist on the internet. There’s also not a single video of him performing live, or any footage to demonstrate his existence at all — except for one clip. Maybe.
[…] The awful quality of the clip only adds to the mystique, as a blurry man walks with his back towards the camera at an outdoor festival. That’s it. It’s only 12 seconds long, and there’s no proof it’s actually him. […] There’s … an investigation, expertly breaking down the video and pointing out why it could be him: He indeed owned the red velvet blazer the figure is wearing in the video, and Gabrielle’s biography mentions that he played the Krumlin Festival in Yorkshire in August of 1970.”
(𝑅𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑛𝑒, 𝐹𝑒𝑏𝑟𝑢𝑎𝑟𝑦 25𝑡ℎ, 2022)

You can read the full article here:
➡️ https://bit.ly/38JxfFg


💬Dear soulmates, I’d really like to know what you think of Nick Drake and his music.
I came across the comment, which I actually loved, that stated Nick was “𝑽𝒂𝒏 𝑮𝒐𝒈𝒉 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄”. What do you say?

🍂And of course, I can’t not mention a post that once appeared on (now deleted) 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨/𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧’𝐬 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭 with a picture of Nick Drake’s 𝑭𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑳𝒆𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒔 𝑳𝒆𝒇𝒕 vinyl record (included into the collage below)🍂
"SOMETHING FOR THE WEEKEND....OLD RECORDS, NEW TOYS."

Post by Olga

🎵 𝗔𝗡𝗡𝗜𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗔𝗥𝗬: 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗖𝗘𝗕𝗢'𝗦 𝗗𝗘𝗕𝗨𝗧 𝗔𝗟𝗕𝗨𝗠 🎵

"𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒖𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒂𝒄𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆."
(Brian Molko, Cambs E News, January 1997)

Photo credits down below

Placebo's self-titled debut album was released 26 years ago today on June 17th 1996 and reached no. 5 in the UK Album Chart. It was recorded at Westland Studios in Dublin and is the only album that features the band's first drummer Robert Schultzberg.


“Placebo” is a very sexual record, packed full of youthful vigor and lust and it deales with sex, drugs and rock and roll. "There's a lot of me in there. They're people I've been at one point in my life or emotion that I've felt”, Brian said about the characters in the songs (see quotes below). But at the same time the album is a collection of short stories. According to Brian the band wanted to “take you on a journey, an emotional rollercoaster, with little surprises here and there, instead of just having a blanket sound”.


📀 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗖𝗘𝗕𝗢 (𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝗮𝗹𝗯𝘂𝗺)
🎵 http://bit.ly/2vRWQbD 🎵


📜 𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗖𝗞𝗟𝗜𝗦𝗧
01. Come home
02. Teenage Angst
03. Bionic
04. 36 degrees
05. Hang on to your IQ
06. Nancy Boy
07. I know
08. Bruise Pristine
09. Lady of the flowers
10. Swallow
11. H.K. Farewell (hidden track)


Five singles were released from the record: “Come home“, “36 degrees“, “Teenage Angst“, “Nancy Boy“ and “Bruise Pristine“. All songs on “Placebo“ were produced by Brad Wood, except for “Nancy Boy”, which was produced and mixed by Phil Vinall. The album was remastered and reissued in 2006 for its 10th anniversary, including demos and a DVD featuring live performances and music videos.


The album cover with the boy in the red hoodie was taken by Saul Fletcher. The young guy is his cousin David Fox. In 2012 Fox sued the band because allegedly the photo was used without consent.
Read the whole story here:
👉 http://bit.ly/2v6GYBB

Photo credit unknown

📌 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗢𝗡 “𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗖𝗘𝗕𝗢“ 📌
📢 “We wrote most of the album in a council flat in Deptford. The way we sounded and looked was a reaction against the place. But also a lot of our cross-dressing and transvesticism was a political statement against the music scene at the time which was very laddish and macho. We wanted to stand up and be counted. There’s no better way to do that than by putting a bunch of slap on, wearing a skirt and fucking with people’s heads. People hated us for it and I adored that. Not getting a reaction was anathema to me at the time. When I look back at the album I see naivety, missed opportunities and mistakes. But you can get your knickers in a twist about it or you can just accept they’re part of you. I view 'Nancy Boy' in a similar way that I imagine Radiohead look at 'Creep'. I just wish the song that propelled us into the limelight had been a little bit better written. It’s the lyrics that make me cringe the most. They’re me trying to find my feet. You have to listen to the album tracks to find where I really was.”
(Kerrang, July 2009)


📢 “I mean what’s strange about that record is that I think it was incredibly commercial.”
(MTV Supersonic, 2004)


📢 "We didn't want to make pure punk record, we wanted to make something that was colourful. The moodswings and frissons of Placebo's songs were carefully textured, using analogue synths, and more unorthodox sounds from toy instruments and a didgeridoo."
(Air & Style, 1998)


📢 "It's an exploration into somebody's misogyny yet heartfelt. It's angry, nasty, insulting and completely politically incorrect."
(Backbeat, March 1997)

Photo credit: Mary Scanlon

📢 "The first album was a very sexual record, packed full of youthful vigor and lust.“
(Real Detroit Weekly, March 18th 1999)


📢 "There's a lot of me in there. They're people I've been at one point in my life or emotion that I've felt. A combination of me and other people or me and a little spice. But I don't talk about anything which I haven't personally felt or experienced myself. I have great affection for the characters in the songs, because to varying degrees they do have bits of me in them, and I think that the author's attitude towards his characters is not a judgmental one in any way. It's very affectionate, and it's filled with pathos. I think the album is like ten short stories, about the same thing, but from ten different points of view."
(Vox, February 1997)


📢 "You run the risk on the first album of making a record that has one particular sound, that runs the whole way through it. And we wanted ours to be like a collection of short stories, approach every single song individually with the orchestration and vocal styles. We wanted to take you on a journey, an emotional rollercoaster, with little surprises here and there, instead of just having a blanket sound."
(Cambs E News, January 1997)


Photo credit pic 1: Cover of the album, photo credits unknown except for the black and white pics (Ian Tilton, Corinne Day) / Edit by Silke

Post by Silke

🔸𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗖𝗘𝗕𝗢'𝗦 𝗙𝗜𝗥𝗦𝗧 𝗕𝗜𝗚 𝗧𝗢𝗨𝗥🔸

On May 23rd 1996, shortly before the release of their self-titled debut album, Placebo started their 🔸𝗙𝗜𝗥𝗦𝗧 𝗕𝗜𝗚 𝗧𝗢𝗨𝗥🔸 with a concert at Luna Theatre in Brussels, Belgium. The band played 159 shows in the UK, Europe and North America. The last gig took place at Battersea Power Station in London on December 22nd 1997.

🎬 𝗣𝗛𝗢𝗘𝗡𝗜𝗫 𝗙𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗩𝗔𝗟 𝟭𝟵𝟵𝟲 (𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘄)
🎵 https://bit.ly/3we9XPC 🎵

Photo credit: Mr. Snappy

The most played song during this tour was “Nancy Boy”, followed by “Teenage Angst” and “Bruise Pristine”. You can find the average concert setlist below.
Interesting fact: The Placebo tour was the only time that the Smith cover “Bigmouth strikes again” was played live, but it was performed only once at a show in Wolverhampton, UK.


📜 𝗔𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗔𝗚𝗘 𝗦𝗘𝗧𝗟𝗜𝗦𝗧
1. Come home
2. Bionic
3. 36 degrees
4. Hang on to your IQ
5. Allergic (to thoughts of Mother Earth)
6. Bruise Pristine
7. Teenage Angst
8. Lady of the flowers
9. Nancy Boy
10. Evil Dildo

Posr by Silke

🔹𝗔𝗡𝗡𝗜𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗔𝗥𝗬: 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗘 𝗛𝗢𝗠𝗘🔹

✨💫 𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒔𝒌𝒚 𝒊𝒔 𝒃𝒍𝒖𝒆,
𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒎𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖… 💫✨


Today we celebrate the ⭐𝟐𝟔𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐲⭐ of "𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐄 𝐇𝐎𝐌𝐄", 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐's first single which was released on February 5, 1996, through the independent label 𝑫𝒆𝒄𝒆𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑹𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒔 𝑳𝒕𝒅. "𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝑯𝒐𝒎𝒆" was so well received that it reached 𝒏𝒐. 𝟖𝟔 in the 𝑼𝑲 𝑺𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒆𝒔 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒕 and led the band to sign a contract with 𝑯𝒖𝒕 𝑹𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒔, to begin work on their debut album on which they decided that this would be the opening track.

Photo Credit: Alex Weston / Screenshots  (2) / Single cover // Edit by Rita

The single version of "𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝑯𝒐𝒎𝒆" sounds a little different, rawer and faster than the one included on 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐's eponymous album produced by 𝑩𝒓𝒂𝒅 𝑾𝒐𝒐𝒅. This one

was produced by 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐, 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 𝑶𝒍𝒔𝒅𝒂𝒍 and 𝑹𝒐𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒕 𝑺𝒄𝒉𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒛𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒈 and engineered by 𝑭𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒐𝒏 𝑫𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒆𝒚 at 𝑩𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑺𝒕𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒐𝒔 in 𝑳𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒐𝒏.


As 𝒃-𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒔, on the 7" vinyl we can listen to "𝑫𝒓𝒐𝒘𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑩𝒚 𝑵𝒖𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒔", a song that they used to play often from their first concerts until the last shows of the "𝑩𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒌𝒆𝒕 𝑴𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄 𝑻𝒐𝒖𝒓" in 2001; and only on the CD format appears "𝑶𝒙𝒚𝒈𝒆𝒏 𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒆𝒇", an interesting experimental piece of scratchy guitar riffs.


🔊 𝐃𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐁𝐲 𝐍𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬 - 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 (𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨) 🎶
https://bit.ly/34jw7pg


🔊 𝐎𝐱𝐲𝐠𝐞𝐧 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐟 - 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 (𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨) 🎶
https://bit.ly/3s2KFC0


The cover artwork of the single is an image of an inflatable by 𝑨𝒅𝒂𝒎 𝑴𝒂𝒚𝒏𝒂𝒓𝒅, while on the back cover there is a picture of the band that was taken by 𝑨𝒍𝒆𝒙 𝑾𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒏, one of the managers who has been working with 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 since the beginning.


The official musical video of "𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝑯𝒐𝒎𝒆" was released the same day and was directed by 𝑹𝒐𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒕 𝑳𝒐𝒚𝒅. It's a simple video but certainly pleasant to the eye, where the band is playing the song in a small abandoned room with some interspersed images of the same performance a little distorted and highlighted with colorful filters. Also, you can notice that the band already had its own aesthetic image, that silver lipstick on 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐's lips can not go unnoticed! ✨💋✨


🎥 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐦𝐞 - 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 (𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨) 🎶
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⭐ 𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐌𝐎𝐋𝐊𝐎 𝐎𝐍 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐄 𝐇𝐎𝐌𝐄 ⭐

🎤"𝑰 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒂𝒔 𝒏𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒔 𝒗𝒖𝒍𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒂𝒔 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒍𝒆." 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘭𝘬𝘰, 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳/𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘣𝘰 𝘥𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘴 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘰𝘯 𝘢 𝘤𝘪𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘴 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘦. "𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒅𝒐𝒆𝒔 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒔𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒚, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒊𝒕'𝒔 𝒇𝒂𝒓 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍. 𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒖𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒆𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒈𝒆𝒕."

𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘱𝘪𝘦𝘤𝘦 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘣𝘰 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘢 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘱 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘢𝘷𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘣𝘢𝘳𝘣𝘦𝘥, 𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘭𝘺 𝘭𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘶𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘨𝘰-𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘶𝘯𝘬 𝘱𝘭𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘯-𝘦𝘺𝘦𝘥 𝘴𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘵𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘰𝘱. 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘦,"𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝑯𝒐𝒎𝒆", 𝘢 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘪𝘥 𝘫𝘰𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘴𝘬𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘺 𝘢𝘴 𝘣𝘶𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘳-𝘣𝘭𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘣𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘪𝘤𝘦, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘬𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘣𝘶𝘰𝘺𝘦𝘥 𝘶𝘱 𝘣𝘺 𝘔𝘰𝘭𝘬𝘰'𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦, 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘶𝘮-𝘱𝘶𝘮𝘱𝘦𝘥 𝘷𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘭.

𝘏𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘣𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘴 "𝒑𝒖𝒏𝒌 𝒑𝒐𝒑 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒕𝒑𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒔𝒖𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒔." 𝘏𝘦'𝘴 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘧 𝘫𝘰𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨.

"𝑰 𝒅𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒂 𝒈𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒎𝒚 𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒐𝒏 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆 𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒍𝒍," 𝘔𝘰𝘭𝘬𝘰 𝘴𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 4 𝘙𝘦𝘢𝘭 𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯. "𝑰𝒏 𝒇𝒂𝒄𝒕, 𝒘𝒆’𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒖𝒍 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝑰 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒅𝒓𝒂𝒘𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒖𝒃𝒋𝒆𝒄𝒕 𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕'𝒔 𝒂 𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒌𝒆𝒓, 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒐𝒏. 𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝑰'𝒎 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒐𝒅𝒅𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒔, 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒖𝒏𝒖𝒔𝒖𝒂𝒍 𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆."
▪️𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝟺 𝚁𝚎𝚊𝚕, 𝟷𝟿𝟿𝟼.


🎤 "𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘨, 𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘧𝘶𝘯. 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘻𝘺. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘶𝘴, 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘳𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘥𝘪𝘤, 𝘱𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘶𝘭, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘰𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳. 𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘢𝘮𝘣𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘰 𝘢𝘯 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘫𝘰𝘣. 𝘐 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴. 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘧𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘥 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘸𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘰 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵. 𝘞𝘦 𝘸𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘦 𝘩𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘸 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘩 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨: 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘺 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦."
▪️𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝙻𝚎 𝙿𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚒𝚎𝚗, 𝟸𝟶𝟷𝟼.

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🌟 𝐂𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐅𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐬 🌟

🔹"𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝑯𝒐𝒎𝒆" was one of two favorite songs to play live for 𝑹𝒐𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒕 𝑺𝒄𝒉𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒛𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒈, 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐's first drummer, the other song was "𝑩𝒓𝒖𝒊𝒔𝒆 𝑷𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒆".

🔹"𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝑯𝒐𝒎𝒆" was the only 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 single that was not included in the compilation album "𝑶𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝑴𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑭𝒆𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈" (2004). However, years later in 2016, they included it in their retrospective album "𝑨 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝑭𝒐𝒓 𝑼𝒔 𝑻𝒐 𝑫𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒎", with which they celebrated their 𝟐𝟎 years of career, again "𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝑯𝒐𝒎𝒆" was the opening track.

🔹The black t-shirt with a white bull print worn by 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 𝑶𝒍𝒔𝒅𝒂𝒍 in the official music video of "𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝑯𝒐𝒎𝒆" was one of the items the band offered at the "𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 𝑹𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝑨𝒖𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏" that they held on September 29, 2017, to mark the end of their 𝟐𝟎𝒕𝒉 𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒂𝒓𝒚 celebrations. The proceeds were donated to 𝑪.𝑨.𝑳.𝑴 (𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑪𝒂𝒎𝒑𝒂𝒊𝒈𝒏 𝑨𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕 𝑨𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕 𝑳𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑴𝒊𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒚) a charity dedicated to the prevention of male suicide in the 𝐔𝐊 and to 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒆𝒓𝒄𝒚 𝑪𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒆, a shelter for underprivileged children in 𝑩𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒌𝒐𝒌, 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅.

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🎶💫⭐𝐋𝐲𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐬⭐💫🎶


𝘚𝘵𝘶𝘤𝘬 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘰 𝘰𝘳 𝘥𝘪𝘦

𝘐 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥

𝘏𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘐 𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘳𝘺,

𝘐’𝘭𝘭 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘴𝘱𝘩𝘺𝘹𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥

𝘚𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵,

𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘭𝘦𝘧𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘰.


𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘴𝘬𝘺 𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘭𝘶𝘦,

𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶.


𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦


𝘎𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘭, 𝘷𝘰𝘥𝘬𝘢, 𝘨𝘪𝘯,

𝘐𝘵 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘦.

𝘛𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘸 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘴𝘬𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘬𝘪𝘯,

𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘪𝘵 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴𝘯'𝘵 𝘥𝘶𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘯

𝘝𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘢 𝘭𝘪𝘱𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘬 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘦,

𝘐𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘴 𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺.


𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘥 𝘪𝘴 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘺,

𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘺𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘥𝘢𝘺


𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦


𝘈𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘨𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯,

𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘐 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘺 𝘪𝘵

𝘎𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘢 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘬𝘦𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘧 𝘢 𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯,

𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘩𝘦'𝘴 𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘳𝘺 𝘪𝘵

𝘕𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘥,

𝘐 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘰


𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘴𝘬𝘺 𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘭𝘶𝘦,

𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶


𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦


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Today I have something rare and quite funny for you. Here is one of the earliest reviews of a Placebo show that I've ever read, it was printed in Melody Maker in early 1996. Enjoy reading!

Photo credit unknown, scan from the review

💥𝗥𝗘𝗩𝗜𝗘𝗪💥
If there's anything better than watching Placebo take set-of-the-day by a twisted mile, it's watching boys watch Placebo. Jee-zus, how some of them distrust Brian (who's only made up of Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood, Theda Bara and Brett Anderson, crossed with a panther, after all) like a bad smell, or one of those scary dreams about kissing a girl who, unnnh, turns out to have a dick. Of course, maybe it's just his voice, – a greedy, teasing yowl skating like a cat on butter – that gets 'em nervous.
“This is a song...” Brian begins. “Another song in a fucking squeaky voice,” interjects a nearby fat bloke, sourly. “... about a robot fuck. It's called 'Bionic',” Brian concludes, deadpan, and then lunges.
Fat bloke shuts the fuck up. And Placebo careen, heels flashing, through their sugar-and-venom minefield of razorwire, bruises, cold blood and, ooh, far too much hot blood. When I look over, Fat Bloke is bouncing. Wait 'til his next puzzlingly ambiguous sexy dream, I betcha.
(Melody Maker, 1996)

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