🔶⭐𝗔𝗡𝗡𝗜𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗔𝗥𝗬: 𝐎𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐅𝐄𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆⭐🔶

⭐✨“𝟏𝟕 𝒔𝒏𝒂𝒑𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒕𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐'𝒔 𝒈𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒆, 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒂𝒅𝒐𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒅𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒐𝒅, 𝒂 𝒑𝒉𝒐𝒕𝒐 𝒈𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒈𝒐𝒆𝒔 𝒃𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒕 𝒏𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑶𝑵𝑪𝑬 𝑴𝑶𝑹𝑬 𝑾𝑰𝑻𝑯 𝑭𝑬𝑬𝑳𝑰𝑵𝑮.” (𝐷𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑏𝑒𝑙, 𝑆𝑒𝑝𝑡𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 2004)✨⭐

🎊Exactly 18 years ago today, on 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟓𝐭𝐡, 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟒, the compilation album 𝐎𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐅𝐄𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆 - 𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐋𝐄𝐒 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟔-𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟒 and DVD 𝐎𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐅𝐄𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆 - 𝐕𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐎𝐒 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟔-𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟒 were released.

Photo credit: Scarlet Page; CD and DVD covers / edit by Olga

⭐As one of the reviews read back in the day, “now with four acclaimed albums under their belts [by 2004] Placebo have undertaken the release of a their singles collection, Once More With Feeling: Singles 1996 – 2004 retrospective which 𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒄𝒍𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒐𝒅𝒂𝒚.” (𝐹𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑙𝑜𝑢𝑑𝑒𝑟, 𝑂𝑐𝑡'04)

🔶𝐎𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐅𝐄𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆 - 𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐋𝐄𝐒🔶

➡️ https://bit.ly/3CM2I37

The CD includes 17 singles (the omissions are the band's debut single 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐦𝐞 and 𝐁𝐮𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐚𝐢𝐬 which was a French release only) and two new songs, 𝐓𝐰𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐲 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 and 𝐈 𝐃𝐨. Limited edition bonus disc contains ten remixes by artists such as Timo Maas, UNKLE, and M83. There is also a limited edition bonus disc exclusive to the Mexican market which features remixes by Mexican artists.

Photo credit:  Sebastien Dolidon 

𝑾𝒉𝒚 𝒅𝒊𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒅𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆 𝒂 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒊𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒏𝒐𝒘?
📢𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: There is no great mystery, after almost ten years of career, that's what the bands that are still there do. Many fellow artists who started at the same time as us, today no longer exist. People are looking for some deep meaning in this compilation, but there is none. It's not a record deal issue, because it doesn't count as an album for the record company. It's not a matter of ideas, because we've already written the new album. Maybe it was just about giving us a little time to do something else. We've been on tour for two years and we need to take a break, to distance ourselves from things a bit.

𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒘𝒐 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒔 (𝑻𝒘𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒚 𝒀𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑰 𝑫𝒐)?
📢𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: We put two previously unreleased songs on the compilation to tame the voracious appetite of our fans. We tried to impose Brian Eno rules on ourselves. The songs should not be longer than two and a half minutes and there should be no guitar. First, because we have never done it before. And also, because people think Placebo is a guitar band, and we don't like that label. Looking back, I think Twenty Years is probably one of our greatest songs. It's our closest track to U2's With or Without You, the ultimate song.
[…]
𝑾𝒉𝒚 𝒅𝒊𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒆𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒊𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏?
📢𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: It's not a ‘greatest hits’ compilation, it's not a ‘best of’, it's a kind of historical document, a chronological retrospective of the band, through its most accessible pieces. Choosing singles was a way of presenting the old repertoire. We are aware that there are 40% of fans today who got to know the band through Sleeping With Ghosts and specifically, The Bitter End. We see them at the concerts, they are 14-15 years old... At the time of the first album, they were still watching TV. Teenagers don't have a lot of money and if they want to listen to more Placebo, they shouldn’t necessarily buy all four albums.
(𝐿𝑒𝑠 𝐼𝑛𝑟𝑜𝑐𝑘𝑢𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑠, 𝑁𝑜𝑣'04)

Photo credit: Alvaro Villarrubia 

🔶𝐎𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐅𝐄𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆 - 𝐕𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐎𝐒🔶

➡️ https://bit.ly/3o7NRvP

Once more with feeling DVD consists of all videos that Placebo released from 1996 to 2004, except for 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐦𝐞 again. There are also several live videos, a documentary entitled 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐈𝐧 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 and an exclusive 𝐚𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐲 on all tracks by the band.

🔶𝑹𝑬𝑽𝑰𝑬𝑾 𝒃𝒚 𝑩𝑩𝑪🔶
There are many different versions of the Placebo story. […] But my favourite of all is the one about this perverse trio who wrote these extraordinary songs...
It's about a band who became famous for a song so sexually brave and confrontational that coy odes to boys called "Michael" sound feeble in comparison. A song about being a "Nancy Boy", about lube and rubbers and how "We're a couple / When our bodies double." And about how Molko, an actual functioning bisexual, has been unpleasantly dismissed as a sexual dilettante while the charlatan bisexuals reap plaudits.
Once More With Feeling is all about a band who wrote a song called "You Don't Care About Us". A track that's propelled by an unstoppable, elastic bass line and that flips manically between wise, sighing despair and spitting adolescent rage. A song which feels like it had no choice but to be written and which is one of the rawest, most brilliant singles of the last decade.
It's a story about the shuddering electronica of "Pure Morning", the sleazy sneer of "Every You, Every Me" and the searing riff of "Bruise Pristine". It's about a band constrained by their musical limitations but who thrashed happily within them. It's about the way that "Special K" climbs frantically towards its chorus before collapsing sadly under its own weight.
This is a singles collection which reveals to the listener the most seductively bruising rock band of recent years. Each song stems from a songwriter so instinctive and precise that when he writes a song called "The Bitter End", that's exactly what it sounds like.
And yes, it's a tale about an imperfect band, a band prone to sloppy sloganeering like "Slave To The Wage" or clumsy posturing like "Black Eyed". But the band remain electrifying, alive and enthralling in all those imperfections.
This is a story about a band who have remained fiercely independent in a bland pop landscape. Read it.
(𝐵𝐵𝐶, 2004, 𝑅𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤 𝑏𝑦 𝐽𝑎𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝐺𝑖𝑙𝑙)


🔶𝐎𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐅𝐄𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐂𝐃🔶
▪36 Degrees
▪Teenage Angst
▪Nancy Boy
▪Bruise Pristine
▪Pure Morning
▪You Don't Care About Us
▪Every You Every Me
▪Without You I’m Nothing (ft. David Bowie)
▪Taste In Men
▪Slave To The Wage
▪Special K
▪Black-Eyed
▪The Bitter End
▪This Picture
▪Special Needs
▪English Summer Rain
▪Protège-Moi
▪I Do
▪Twenty Years

Photo credit:  Jenny Lewis 

🔶𝐋𝐈𝐌𝐈𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐁𝐎𝐍𝐔𝐒 𝐃𝐈𝐒𝐂🔶
▪Special K (Timo Maas remix)
▪Without You I'm Nothing (Unkle remix)
▪Every You Every Me (Infected by the scourge of the earth mix)
▪Protège-Moi (M83 remix)
▪Slave To The Wage (I can't believe it's a remix)
▪Pure Morning (Les Rhythms Digitales remix)
▪Taste In Men (Alpinestars Kamikaze Skimix)
▪Black-Eyed (Placebo vs. Le Vibrator mix)
▪English Summer Rain (Freelance Hellraiser remix)
▪This Picture (Junior Sanchez remix)


🔶𝐎𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐅𝐄𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐃𝐕𝐃🔶
▪36 Degrees
▪Teenage Angst
▪Nancy Boy
▪Bruise Pristine
▪Pure Morning
▪You Don't Care About Us
▪Every You Every Me
▪Without You I’m Nothing (ft. David Bowie)
▪Taste In Men
▪Slave To The Wage
▪Special K
▪Black-Eyed
▪The Bitter End
▪This Picture
▪Special Needs
▪English Summer Rain
▪Protège-Moi (live)

Post by Olga

🔸⭐𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐝 𝐁𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐞 "𝐅𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐘𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐒", 𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐲 𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐌𝐎𝐋𝐊𝐎⭐🔸

⭐...𝘕𝘦𝘸𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳, 𝘸𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘧𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘭𝘦𝘧𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘳𝘺 𝘪𝘯
𝘕𝘦𝘸𝘴 𝘨𝘶𝘺 𝘸𝘦𝘱𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘶𝘴, 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘩 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘥𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨...⭐
(𝙳𝚊𝚟𝚒𝚍 𝙱𝚘𝚠𝚒𝚎 "𝙵𝚒𝚟𝚎 𝚈𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚜")

I dedicate my post today to a song that Brian probably delighted his friend, mentor and dare I say surrogate father David Bowie with.

He did a live cover of David's song about the impending apocalypse... what a fitting theme for Brian, right?

I would start with a very nice review published by FarOut magazine in March 2020:

🔹𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨'𝐬 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐨 𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚 𝐭𝐨𝐮𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐝 𝐁𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐞'𝐬 '𝐅𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐘𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐒' 𝐉𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐥𝐞𝐲🔹

When David Bowie passed away in 2016 he left a rather large hole in the music scene. The singer had been a beacon of creativity for nearly six decades before he departed and he had an unfathomable influence on one person, in particular, Placebo’s Brian Molko.
The singer had found a kindred spirit in the Starman and his passing in 2016 provoked an emotional reaction, “He was my friend and my mentor. He gave me a lot of advice. I’m meditating more on how he was quite a sage and quite a raconteur as well.”

It’s not hard to imagine, Bowie had that effect on most people. The Thin White Duke had always been lauded as one of the most influential artists in pop history but the difference here was that Bowie was just as enamoured with Placebo and Molko.
Bowie always had his finger on the pulse of new music and as well as picking out DEVO as a band of the future, he also gravitated towards Molko’s subversive alt-rock band, Placebo during the nineties. Bowie was in an industrial phase when he first came across the band and soon enough he had them open for his Outsider Tour in 1995.

They would quickly begin working with each other in the studio too. The band welcoming Bowie on the 1998 single release of the title track of their second record Without You I’m Nothing. With some backstage footage that Placebo shared after his death, highlighting Molko’s adoration of the star, gleefully looking up at him with wonder.
The pair enjoyed an enriching relationship onwards from there. Sharing the stage in 1999 at the BRIT Awards, as they performed a tribute to Marc Bolan with a cover of T-Rex’s ’20th Century Boy’. But the footage below comes a few years after in 2004 as Placebo were welcomed to French TV to perform Bowie’s iconic song, ‘Five Years’.

It’s not easy covering Bowie. Ask the countless artists who have tried and failed. But perhaps emboldened by his connection to the star or perhaps relying on the honesty of that connection in the first place, Molko delivers an impassioned and touching cover of the track.
Shot years before Bowie’s death, rather than a cover that is haunting or brittle, we see Molko engage with the track on a level of warmth and recognition. What’s more, he does so with a heavy dose of talent and an even larger serving of appreciation for the source material.

So sit back and enjoy this touching cover of David Bowie’s ‘Five Years’ from Placebo’s Brian Molko.
🔹✨🔹✨🔹✨🔹

Photo credit unknown

Nice review, what do you think?Let's talk about the song itself and its creator:

"𝐅𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐘𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐒" is a song written by 𝐃𝐀𝐕𝐈𝐃 𝐁𝐎𝐖𝐈𝐄 and was originally released on his concept album "𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐅𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐙𝐢𝐠𝐠𝐲 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐩𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐬" in 1972.


As the opening track, the song introduces the overarching theme of the album: an impending apocalyptic disaster will destroy Earth in five years and the being who will save it is a bisexual alien rock star named Ziggy Stardust.
🔹💬 '𝘓𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 1970𝘴, 𝘉𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘦 𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘵𝘩 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦, 𝘧𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴, 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘶𝘭𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮 𝘪𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘩𝘪𝘮 𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘥𝘪𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘧𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴, 𝘪𝘯 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘢 𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘧𝘭𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨.'
(𝙽𝚒𝚌𝚑𝚘𝚕𝚊𝚜 𝙿𝚎𝚐𝚐, 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙲𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚕𝚎𝚝𝚎 𝙳𝚊𝚟𝚒𝚍 𝙱𝚘𝚠𝚒𝚎, 𝟸0𝟷𝟼)

Screenshots from the video / edit by Silke

To better understand Bowie's idea, I share with you an excerpt of 𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐦 𝐁𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝟏𝟗𝟕𝟒:

𝘽𝙪𝙧𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙨: Could you explain this Ziggy Stardust image of yours? From what I can see it has to do with the world being on the eve of destruction within five years.

𝘽𝙤𝙬𝙞𝙚: The time is five years to go before the end of the earth. It has been announced that the world will end because of lack of natural resources. [The album was released three years ago.] Ziggy is in a position where all the kids have access to things that they thought they wanted. The older people have lost all touch with reality and the kids are left on their own to plunder anything. Ziggy was in a rock & roll band and the kids no longer want rock & roll. There’s no electricity to play it. Ziggy’s adviser tells him to collect news and sing it, ’cause there is no news. So Ziggy does this and there is terrible news. “All the Young Dudes” is a song about this news. It is no hymn to the youth as people thought. It is completely the opposite.

𝘽𝙪𝙧𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙨: Where did this Ziggy idea come from, and this five-year idea? Of course, exhaustion of natural resources will not develop the end of the world. It will result in the collapse of civilization. And it will cut down the population by about three-quarters.

𝘽𝙤𝙬𝙞𝙚: Exactly. This does not cause the end of the world for Ziggy. The end comes when the infinites arrive..../***/
(𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚊𝚖 𝙱𝚞𝚛𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑𝚜 𝙸𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚟𝚒𝚎𝚠𝚜 𝙳𝚊𝚟𝚒𝚍 𝙱𝚘𝚠𝚒𝚎, 𝚁𝚘𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚂𝚝𝚘𝚗𝚎, 𝙵𝚎𝚋 𝟷𝟿𝟽𝟺)


So the idea for this opening song of the album is clear. It sets in motion the whole story that was unfolding in David's head, which he then took to the theatre stage.

His Ziggy is still immortal, don't you think?

🔹🎶 𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐝 𝐁𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐞 '𝐙𝐢𝐠𝐠𝐲 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐮𝐬𝐭' 𝐅𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐘𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐒
https://bit.ly/3PenY7d

Photo credit:  Adam Bielawski

𝙈𝙪𝙡𝙩𝙞𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙘𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙨 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙙 "𝙁𝙄𝙑𝙀 𝙔𝙀𝘼𝙍𝙎" 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙜𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙤𝙥𝙚𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙠𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚.

𝐼 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑒𝑟 𝐾𝑒𝑛 𝑆𝑐𝑜𝑡𝑡, 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝐷𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑑 𝑜𝑛 𝑓𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑏𝑢𝑚𝑠:

🔹💬 ⭐Having worked with both the Beatles (he was an Abbey Road engineer throughout the ‘60s) and David Bowie, producer Ken Scott is in the ideal position to compare the working methods of the two, and in a new interview with Strombo on Apple Music Hits, he’s been discussing the key thing that they had in common.

“I compare him to the Beatles in one respect and that's how brave they were in their ability to not care what people thought,” says Scott. “If they suddenly wanted to change direction, they would do it no matter what. And there are a lot of artists that won't do that.”

Ken Scott, who was David Bowie’s co-producer for four albums, recalled that the musician was in tears as he completed his performance of the opening track on groundbreaking album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars.
Scott explained that, while it can’t be heard as well in the final mix, he’s used an alternative version to demonstrate to fans just how much Bowie gave while he was working. “Five Years,” and an isolated vocal version, can be heard below.
He continued: “The first track on Ziggy, Five Years, by the end of the take he was bawling his eyes out, there were tears rolling down his face. Now, unfortunately when one is mixing, doing a final mix, you're trying to be dramatic should we say, and put everything across as best you can. And when you do that sometimes these little bits and pieces get a little lost. And you do hear that there's emotion in his voice at the end there. But now quite often in my talks, I will play the ending of 'Five Years'. It starts off with just the regular track, I've laid that down so it's just David and acoustic guitar, and I've had members of the audience that have heard this, they've started to bawl their eyes out. It is so moving. And that's what he gave every single time.”

“Of the four albums I co-produced with David, about 90% of the vocals were first take beginning to end,” he reveals. “I would run the take, get the level for his vocal, go back, hit record on the take, and what he did that one time through is what we still hear today. And that's no Auto-Tune, that's no cut and pasting things, no moving anything around. It was one performance that came from his heart every time.”
“With all of the top name artists I’ve worked with, and vocalists, I've never come across anyone quite like that,” the producer told Music Radar in a recent interview, adding of Bowie’s performances: “a friend of mine said they're perfect in their imperfection. And that's what it is. They're not totally in tune. They're not totally in time, but they come from your soul. He's putting across himself in every one of those.”


Here you can listen to both original versions of this song, which Ken Scott has made available as a lovely reminder of his time with David.

🔹🎶 David Bowie’s Full Version of ‘Five Years’
https://bit.ly/3BVLCTg

🔹🎶 David Bowie’s Isolated Vocals on ‘Five Years’
https://bit.ly/3bHwOwz

Screenshot from the video

⭐𝐋𝐘𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐒⭐
Pushing through the market square
So many mothers sighing (sighing)
News had just come over
We had five years left to cry in (cry in)
News guy wept and told us
Earth was really dying (dying)
Cried so much his face was wet
Then I knew he was not lying (lying)
I heard telephones, opera house, favorite melodies
I saw boys, toys, electric irons and TV's
My brain hurt like a warehouse, it had no room to spare
I had to cram so many things to store everything in there
And all the fat, skinny people
And all the tall, short people
And all the nobody people
And all the somebody people
I never thought I'd need so many people
A girl my age went off her head
Hit some tiny children
If the Black hadn't have pulled her off
I think she would have killed them
A soldier with a broken arm
Fixed his stare to the wheels of a Cadillac
A cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest
And a queer threw up at the sight of that
I think I saw you in an ice-cream parlor
Drinking milk shakes cold and long
Smiling and waving and looking so fine
Don't think you knew you were in this song
And it was cold and it rained, so I felt like an actor
And I thought of Ma and I wanted to get back there
Your face, your race, the way that you talk
I kiss you, you're beautiful, I want you to walk
We've got five years, stuck on my eyes
Five years, what a surprise
We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot
Five years, that's all we've got
We've got five years, what a surprise
Five years, stuck on my eyes
We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot
Five years, that's all we've got
We've got five years, stuck on my eyes
Five years, what a surprise
We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot
Five years, that's all we've got
We've got five years, what a surprise
We've got five years, stuck on my eyes
We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot
Five years, that's all we've got
Five years
Five years
Five years
Five years
🔹✨🔹✨🔹✨🔹

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Brian performed the shared cover version at 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐡 𝐓𝐕 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐟𝐢𝐜 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐪𝐮𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐅𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝟐𝟔𝐭𝐡 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟒,it was the only time that he played this song live on stage.

The show was presented and produced by Guillaume Durand, it was aired from 2002 to 2005.

I love this David song and I love Brian's live performance. Just look at the presenter enjoying that song about the end of the world... 😊

Brian's energy and the vibrancy of his voice, as if his tone belies this dystopian vision of the future... Like he's singing '...yeah, folks, in five years our end will come, it's clear and inevitable, so let's finally live to the fullest, let's fulfill our dreams so we don't leave this world feeling useless...

...and who knows, maybe then the harsh reality will change... if we start living in more joy...'
I know, it's a utopia as big as the universe...😊

Dear friends, I'll say goodbye with David's quote, which is a guide to life for all of us:

🔹"𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒈𝒐 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆𝒅 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒏𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒔𝒂𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈, “𝑰𝒇 𝑰 𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒘𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏, 𝑰 𝒄𝒆𝒓𝒕𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒆 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆.”🔹
(𝙳𝚊𝚟𝚒𝚍 𝙱𝚘𝚠𝚒𝚎, 𝙿𝚕𝚊𝚢𝚋𝚘𝚢 𝚖𝚊𝚐. 𝚂𝚎𝚙 𝟷𝟿𝟽𝟼)

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🔸 ⭐ 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎 𝐀𝐓 𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐈𝐒-𝐁𝐄𝐑𝐂𝐘 (𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟒) ⭐ 🔸

🌠 February 14 is marked by Valentine's Day 💖. In 2004, this date will also be marked by another great moment, the 𝑬𝒖𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒆 2 𝑳𝒊𝒗𝒆, broadcast live and simultaneously on MCM and Europe 2. An exceptional date, an exceptional concert. During this first Radio & TV show in France, artists such as 𝐼𝑛𝑑𝑜𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒, 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜, 𝐵𝑒𝑛 𝐻𝑎𝑟𝑝𝑒𝑟, 𝑃𝑙𝑒𝑦𝑚𝑜, 𝐸𝑎𝑔𝑙𝑒 𝐸𝑦𝑒 𝐶ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑟𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑇𝑎𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑐 took to the stage at Paris Bercy. An event that gathered no less than 18,000 people.

Photo credit: Jean Baptiste Lacroix

🌠 The audience went wild and enjoyed a half hour set from our dear and loving band 💗 𝐸𝑛𝑔𝑙𝑖𝑠ℎ 𝑆𝑢𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑟 𝑅𝑎𝑖𝑛 is worth a watch 😍

🌠 This Valentine's Day date did not escape Brian who dedicated 𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑡𝑒̀𝑔𝑒-𝑀𝑜𝑖 by declaring: "𝑺𝒐 𝒊𝒕'𝒔 𝑽𝒂𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒆'𝒔 𝑫𝒂𝒚. 𝑯𝒆𝒓𝒆'𝒔 𝒂 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔, 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒃𝒓𝒐𝒌𝒆𝒏 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒔, 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒃𝒍𝒆𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒔, 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒅 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏."


🌠 The reunion with Indochine was obviously teasing.... 😄

💬 Your last performance in France will be at Bercy, for the MCM-Europe 2 radio and television concert. You will be back with 𝑰𝒏𝒅𝒐𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒆.
𝘽𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙣: Around 1998-1999, at the beginning of their incredible comeback, they were our opening act. I remembered "L'aventurier" that I listened to when I was nine years old. It was really strange to think that a band I listened to as a kid was opening for us! Since then we've remained friends. We have quite a few fans in common, but I have to say that we look a lot better than they do.

💬 I'll tell them !
𝘽𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙣: We tease each other about it all the time.
✔️ 𝙽𝚎𝚠 𝚉𝚒𝚌 - 𝟸00𝟺


🌠 In any case, the band's sparkling mood set the audience on fire 🔥✨ . Brian even hums the lyrics of 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝑳𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑷𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒚 at the end of Pure Morning, before thanking the audience and leaving the stage.

Photo credit: Jean Baptiste Lacroix

🔸 𝑺𝑬𝑻𝑳𝑰𝑺𝑻 🔸
🎵 Taste In Men
🎵 The Bitter End
🎵 Special Needs
🎵 Protège-Moi
🎵 English Summer Rain
🎵 This Picture
🎵 Pure Morning


🌠 𝐄𝐧𝐣𝐨𝐲 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 ! 𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 (𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭) 𝐬𝐞𝐭 ! 🎸 💗 👏

𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒂𝒕 𝑷𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒔-𝑩𝒆𝒓𝒄𝒚 (2004)
🎥 https://bit.ly/3sRmcRs ✨

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♦️𝑨𝑵𝑵𝑰𝑽𝑬𝑹𝑺𝑨𝑹𝒀♦️ 𝑶𝑭 𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑫𝑨𝒀: 𝑬𝑵𝑮𝑳𝑰𝑺𝑯 𝑺𝑼𝑴𝑴𝑬𝑹 𝑹𝑨𝑰𝑵

🎶💦 𝐈'𝐌 𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐀𝐒𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓, 𝐘𝐎𝐔'𝐑𝐄 𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐊𝐘 💦🎶

𝑬𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒉 𝑺𝒖𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒓 𝑹𝒂𝒊𝒏 is the second track and the 4th single of the album 𝑺𝒍𝒆𝒆𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑮𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒕𝒔, released on February 23, 2004. The song reached number 23 in the UK charts. The single version of the song differs particularly from the one on the album, with the addition of new vocal parts and several cuts of the played parts, especially the keyboards.

🎶 𝑬𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒉 𝑺𝒖𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒓 𝑹𝒂𝒊𝒏 (Album version)
https://bit.ly/3GfyJCL ⭐

 Photo credits: Jenny Lewis (Placebo),  CD Covers, Screenshot of the video, Edit by Laetitia

📍 It's one of the first song the band worked on after the Black Market Music Tour, during their break. This song is built on a repetition like Taste in Men. It is about long distance love, about two lovers who are separated. In the song, the protagonist looks up at planes flying high in the sky where his lover is flying to her destination, "I'm in the basement, you're in the sky". The repetition in the music can be a mirror to the pain the character is feeling: a long lasting absence, anguish and sadness.

💬 As with Taste in Men, I was trying to write something repetitive. A kind of mantra about leaving... My lover leaves me to travel, I look at the planes in the sky, I think she might be in one of them. I'm still in London, it's summer, it's raining, it's boring and I miss her terribly.
✔️ 𝘓𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘶𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘴

💬 This is one is the fisrt songs we started working on during the break period. During the eight months between touring, (the Black Market Tour ending) and going back into the studio. At that time, I was on a bit of Hip-Hop trip and wrote a couple of other tracks which are quite Dr. Dre inspired and that one was the most Placebo out of all of them.It has real kind of DJ Shadow flavour to it as well. It's a simple song, I think, as well, about missing somebody really, about being in England during the summer while it's raining and the person you love is gallivanting around the globe flying to sunny places and just wishing they were there.
✔️ 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘭𝘬𝘰 - 𝘚𝘪𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘙𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘵, 𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘶𝘦 15

📍 The English Summer Rain video is very special and different from anything Placebo has ever delivered. Brian, Stefan and Steve appear as animated puppets, playing their instruments in front of the well known 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 𝑾𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔.

📍 A character also appears in his living room, looking worried and impatient, waiting, overthinking ? It was created by 𝑮𝒓𝒆́𝒈𝒐𝒊𝒓𝒆 𝑷𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒓𝒅, a South African fan who put all the chances on his side 👏 😊

🎶 𝑬𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒉 𝑺𝒖𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒓 𝑹𝒂𝒊𝒏 (Official Music Video)
 https://bit.ly/3zPKzkv ⭐

📢 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: This is an interesting video. This is the first time that we used animation. In fact, this video was sent to us by a fan from South Africa. So it proves that initiative and persistence pays off. We find it very amusing to look ourselves as puppets. He was actually at college when he did this. He'd spend all of his time not doing his homework and doing that animation instead.

It makes us giggle. It's interesting to see ourselves in puppet form.

📢 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒗𝒆: A fantastic job. The movements of the puppets and everything.

📢 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏: This version is the remix from the album by Dimitri Tikovoi. It features extra lyrics on the end.
✔️ 𝘖𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘍𝘦𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘋𝘝𝘋

Screenshots from the video, edit by Laetitia

📍 There are various releases for this single.

💿 7" vinyle

A - English Summer Rain (Single Version)

B - This Picture (Junior Sanchez Remix)

𝑫𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒐𝒈𝒔 https://bit.ly/340Prry

💿 CD single

1 - English Summer Rain (Single Version)

2 - I'll Be Yours (Version 4AM)

𝑫𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒐𝒈𝒔 https://bit.ly/3ovXxzF

💿 CD single enhanced

1 - English Summer Rain (Album Version)

2 - English Summer Rain (Ecstasy Of St. Theresa Remix)

3 - This Picture (Junior Sanchez Remix)

𝑫𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒐𝒈𝒔 https://bit.ly/3oavGo9

📍 Remixes

🎶 𝑬𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒉 𝑺𝒖𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒓 𝑹𝒂𝒊𝒏 (Ecstasy Of St Theresa Remix) https://bit.ly/3nceyhu ⭐

🎶 𝑬𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒉 𝑺𝒖𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒓 𝑹𝒂𝒊𝒏 (Freelance Hellraiser Mix) https://bit.ly/3tihX23 ⭐

📍 The lyrics of the single contain extra lyrics which can be seen on both covers of the CDs. It magnifies the lack that the character feels, to the point of taking his breath away.

"𝙰𝚗𝚍 𝙸 𝚌𝚊𝚗'𝚝 𝚜𝚕𝚎𝚎𝚙 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚋𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐

𝙰𝚗𝚍 𝙸 𝚌𝚊𝚗'𝚝 𝚋𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚎𝚊𝚌𝚑 𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞'𝚛𝚎 𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚟𝚒𝚗𝚐

𝙰𝚗𝚍 𝙸 𝚙𝚛𝚊𝚢 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚠𝚘𝚗'𝚝 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚢 𝚊𝚠𝚊𝚢

𝚃𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚋𝚊𝚌𝚔 𝚝𝚘 𝚖𝚎 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚍𝚊𝚢"

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✨𝗔𝗡𝗡𝗜𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗔𝗥𝗬: 𝗢𝗡𝗖𝗘 𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗘 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗙𝗘𝗘𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗚✨

Today we have another 𝗔𝗡𝗡𝗜𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗔𝗥𝗬 to celebrate: 17 years ago, on October 25th 2004, the compilation album “Once more with feeling – Singles 1996-2004” and the DVD “Once more with feeling – Videos 1996-2004” were released.

💿 𝗢𝗡𝗖𝗘 𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗘 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗙𝗘𝗘𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗚 – 𝗦𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗟𝗘𝗦
🎵 https://bit.ly/3CM2I37 🎵

Brian said about the compilation that it's not a 'Best of' album but a simple single collection in chronological order and the main reason for the release was that the record label wanted them to do it (see quotes below).
The CD contained 17 singles and two new songs, “I do” and “Twenty years”. It only lacks Placebo's debut single “Come home” and “Burger Queen Francais”, which was a French release only.
There's also a limited edition of the album which includes a bonus disc with ten remixes.

📹 𝗢𝗡𝗖𝗘 𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗘 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗙𝗘𝗘𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗚 – 𝗩𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗢𝗦
🎵 https://bit.ly/3o7NRvP 🎵

Photo credit: Cover of the DVD, screenshots from the videos / edit by Silke

The “Once more with feeling” DVD consists of all videos that Placebo have released from 1996 to 2004, except for “Come home” again. Additional there are some live videos and a band interview with the title “Care in the community”. The DVD also includes an exclusive audio commentary on all tracks by the band.

📜 𝗔𝗟𝗕𝗨𝗠 𝗥𝗘𝗩𝗜𝗘𝗪
Career spanning compilation: While Placebo still retained underground status in the US, their albums have gone on to sell millions worldwide.
Clearly, the band's androgynous presence mixed with blistering guitar sounds akin to the Pixies' heaviest work have made a global impact. For those who have never heard Placebo before, this is the best place to start. Spanning an eight-year career, Once More With Feeling is an excellent introduction to this stylish and articulate band.
Here we find songs that play with sexuality ("Nancy Boy"), drug imagery ("Pure Morning", "Special K"), youth ("Teenage Angst") and love gone awry ("Without You I'm Nothing") in a clever fashion. The voice of Brian Molko is always on the edge of a breakdown against the furious drums, a guitar flurry, and keyboards--a sound that preceded the current crop of new wave influenced rock bands by years.
For those already converted to the cult of Placebo, there are two new tracks. With "I Do", the band goes against its own catalog by writing a happy song --this is a pure, simple love song that still has the Placebo stamp upon it. In contrast, "Twenty Years" is a somber guitar piece that's more typical Placebo, a bit reminiscent of the work on Without You I'm Nothing, and a nice way to round out this collection.
(Outburn #28, 2005)

📍 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗢𝗡 “𝗢𝗡𝗖𝗘 𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗘 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗙𝗘𝗘𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗚” 📍 
📢 “I must point out that this this is not our Best of. It’s just a simple singles collection, and, if anyone had asked me wether we wanted to do it, I would say no. We haven’t decided the tracklist on the base of our wish or our favourite songs. We only followed a chronological order.“
(All Music, October 2004)

📢 “Since we released 'Black Market Music' the record label wanted to release a 'singles' CD. Fortunately the label was very kind to us and postponed its release. We had many things to explore with Placebo yet and we feared that releasing a compilation album would get the wrong message. Unless there is something new in it, a 'best of' feels like a way to get money from the fans and I've always been against that. So when the 'Soulmates never die' tour ended, we decided to release the compilation with a couple of new songs and a CD with remixes of some of our songs.“
(Scars, 2006)

Cover of the album

💿  𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗖𝗞𝗟𝗜𝗦𝗧
01. 36 Degrees
02. Teenage Angst
03. Nancy Boy
04. Bruise Pristine
05. Pure Morning
06. You don't care about us
07. Every you Every me
08. Without you I’m nothing (ft David Bowie)
09. Taste in men
10. Slave to the wage
11. Special K
12. Black-Eyed
13. The bitter end
14. This Picture
15. Special needs
16. English Summer Rain
17. Protège-moi
18. I do
19. Twenty years

💿  𝗟𝗜𝗠𝗜𝗧𝗘𝗗 𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗕𝗢𝗡𝗨𝗦 𝗗𝗜𝗦𝗖
01. Special K (Timo Maas remix)
02. Without you I'm nothing (Unkle remix)
03. Every you Every me (Infected by the scourge of the earth mix)
04. Protège-moi (M83 remix)
05. Slave to the wage (I can't believe it's a remix)
06. Pure Morning (Les Rhythms Digitales remix)
07. Taste in men (Alpinestars Kamikaze Skimix)
08. Black-Eyed (Placebo vs. Le Vibrator mix)
09. English Summer Rain (Freelance Hellraiser remix)
10. This Picture (Junior Sanchez remix)

📹  𝗢𝗡𝗖𝗘 𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗘 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗙𝗘𝗘𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗗𝗩𝗗
01. 36 Degrees
02. Teenage Angst
03. Nancy Boy
04. Bruise Pristine
05. Pure Morning
06. You don't care about us
07. Every you Every me
08. Without you I’m nothing (ft David Bowie)
09. Taste in men
10. Slave to the wage
11. Special K
12. Black-Eyed
13. The bitter end
14. This Picture
15. Special needs
16. English Summer Rain
17. Protège-moi (live)

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⭐𝗔𝗡𝗡𝗜𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗔𝗥𝗬: 𝗧𝗪𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗬 𝗬𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗦⭐

“‘𝙏𝙬𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙮 𝙔𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙨’ 𝙞𝙨 𝙘𝙡𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙘 𝙋𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙚𝙗𝙤 𝙢𝙚𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙝𝙤𝙡𝙮, 𝙞𝙩’𝙨 𝙦𝙪𝙞𝙩𝙚 𝙚𝙥𝙞𝙘, 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚.”
(Brian Molko, XFM, September 2004)

Today we celebrate the 17th  𝗔𝗡𝗡𝗜𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗔𝗥𝗬 of “𝗧𝗪𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗬 𝗬𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗦”, it was released on October 18th 2004 and reached no. 18 in the UK Singles Chart.
The song was produced and mixed by Phil Vinall who also worked on some other of Placebo's early chart successes like “Pure morning” or “Nancy Boy”.

📹 𝗧𝗪𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗬 𝗬𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗦 – 𝗢𝗙𝗙𝗜𝗖𝗜𝗔𝗟 𝗩𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗢
🎵 http://bit.ly/2Gw5Rsl 🎵 

Screenshot from the video, edit by Silke

“Twenty years“ is a collaboration of Brian and his friend Paul Campion, who was the singer of Glasgow indie rock band AC Acoustics.
It's interesting how the song came into being: Campion helped Brian with the lyrics of ”Every you Every me” when Brian had a writer's block. Whenever they worked on EYEM together Campion played a specific guitar riff and sang the line ”There are twenty years to go.” Brian once said that he had always thought it would be an amazing AC Acoustic song but Paul never wrote more than the mentioned part of the music and text.
Since they were such good mates ”Molks” often played this riff when he picked up a guitar. “We all grew to fall in love with that record and always said that one day we were gonna flesh this out into, you know, a proper song”, he explained in an interview.
In the beginning of 2004 the band seriously started thinking about it and around July the work was finished and they'd actually recorded the track.

📹 𝗧𝗪𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗬 𝗬𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗦 – 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝘁 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗨𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟲
🎵 https://bit.ly/3lOAJJ5 🎵 

According to Brian ”Twenty years” is ”pure epic melancholy, a reflection on the passage of time and mortality. But it's not necessarily a sad song."
Obviously he was very proud of the track because in an interview which took place one day after the single release he said that it’s "possibly our best work so far! Y’know it’s really, really cool in that way…"
The live history of the “Twenty years“ started on September 29th 2004 at MTV Designerama show in Berlin, Germany. The song was part of the setlist until 2009, then reappeared on stage during the “Loud like love“ tour in 2013. From that point on it was played live every year without pause. The last performance was at Sion Sous Les Ètoiles festival in Switzerland on July 13th 2018. Up to now this was also the last Placebo concert that took place.
When played live the song often has an extra middle eight section added on, complete with heavy experimental guitar. Since 2009 live shows feature an arrangement of the song that was first performed during the Angkor Wat concert in Cambodia.

📹 𝗧𝗪𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗬 𝗬𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗦 – 𝗗𝗘𝗦𝗜𝗚𝗡𝗘𝗥𝗔𝗠𝗔 𝟮𝟬𝟬𝟰
🎵 https://bit.ly/3lMB674 🎵 

Photo credit: Screenshot from the video, edit by me

📍𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗢𝗡 “𝗧𝗪𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗬 𝗬𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗦“📍 
📢 ”In hindsight, I think 'Twenty years' is perhaps one of our greatest tracks. It's our closest track to 'With or without you' by U2, the ultimate song.”
(Les Inrockuptibles, November 2004)

📢 “It’s kind of… I’d say it’s a meditation on the passing of time, and it’s about recognizing the value of the present and the kind of the riches that you have in front of you, the gifts that you have in front of you, the love that surrounds you today. Like ‘don’t go home and listen to the Stryper record, you know, because it’s kind of a waste of time.’ (laugh) Enjoy what you have in front of you.”
(MTV Supersonic, 2004)

📹 𝗧𝗪𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗬 𝗬𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗦 – 𝗖𝗔𝗡𝗔𝗟+ 𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟯
🎵 https://bit.ly/3AwQGtG 🎵

📢 "One of my best friends in the world is Paul Campion who was the singer of AC Acoustics and who helped me out on the lyrics when I had writers block for 'Every you Every' me on the second album. And whenever we’d sound check he’d always be playing this little guitar riff and singing the line ‘There are twenty years to go”. I always thought it would be an amazing AC Acoustic song but he never wrote it, and since he was such a good friend of mine, often when I’d pick up a guitar, to remind myself of him I’d play that riff and we all grew to fall in love with that record and always said that one day we were gonna flesh this out in to, you know, a proper song. It wasn’t until about six months ago that we actually started thinking about doing that, and three months ago since we actually did it… and it’s possibly our best work so far! [laughs] Y’know it’s really, really cool in that way…"
(Session at AOL, October 19th 2004)

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𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐌𝐎𝐋𝐊𝐎 & 𝐀𝐌𝐘 𝐋𝐄𝐄 𝐚𝐭 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟒 𝐌𝐓𝐕 𝐄𝐌𝐀

On November 18th, 2004, Brian took part in the 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟒 𝐌𝐓𝐕 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 that were held at Tor di Valle Racecourse in 𝑹𝒐𝒎𝒆, Italy. Together with Amy Lee of Evanescence, he presented the 𝐁𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐀𝐥𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 nominees. The winners, 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐞, accepted an award from Brian’s hands.
Other artists nominated as the Best Alternative acts were Björk, Franz Ferdinand, The Hives and The Prodigy.

Photo credit: Jo Hale, 2004 MTV EMA

𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐨 & 𝐀𝐦𝐲 𝐋𝐞𝐞 - 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟒 𝐌𝐓𝐕 𝐄𝐌𝐀
https://bit.ly/3zCGwHz

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐮𝐫𝐞 performed a set of nine songs at the pre-show, including Boys Don't Cry and Let's Go to Bed which Placebo once did their covers of.
𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐭. 𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐒𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐡 - 𝐁𝐨𝐲𝐬 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐂𝐫𝐲, 𝐖𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐲 𝐀𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐚, 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟒
https://bit.ly/3Dn0E2p

𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 - 𝐋𝐞𝐭'𝐬 𝐆𝐨 𝐓𝐨 𝐁𝐞𝐝 (𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫), 𝐈-𝐃𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐅𝐢𝐞𝐫𝐚 𝐌𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐨, 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟖
https://bit.ly/3mElrsh

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐮𝐫𝐞 – 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟒 𝐌𝐓𝐕 𝐄𝐌𝐀, 𝐑𝐨𝐦𝐞, 𝐅𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐞𝐭
https://bit.ly/3gEwePq

Photo credit unknown

𝑹𝒐𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒕 𝑺𝒎𝒊𝒕𝒉 also introduced Gwen Stefani during the main show of the event.
The Cure’s video for 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 was nominated at the Best Video category; they didn’t win though.

Linkin Park’s 𝑪𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝑩𝒆𝒏𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒕𝒐𝒏 together with Natasha Bedingfield and Joe Hahn presented Best Female nominees.
Placebo crossed paths with 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐤 quite a few times, they played some festivals together, traveled over the US during Projekt Revolution tour 2007 and just shared a nice friendly attitude towards each other.
I hope you liked this short story behind this beautiful picture of Brian and Amy.

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🔺𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐌𝐎𝐋𝐊𝐎 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖 ‘𝐋𝐀 𝐁𝐎𝐈̂𝐓𝐄 𝐀̀ 𝐐𝐔𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒’🔺

Photo credit: John Rogers, Rome, MTV EMA 2004

Recently, I realized that you like kind of laconic 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧’𝐬 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖𝐒 with his brief, sharp and accurate answers. So, here I’ve got another one for you.
This interview was done in the programme 𝑳𝒂 𝒃𝒐𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒂̀ 𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 (The question box) on the French channel 𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐥 + in 2004. The thing about this interview is that Brian could just push the button if he didn’t want to answer the question that appeared on the screen. And well, he did it a couple of times...

But still, there are some brilliant answers – let us know what’s your favourite!

📍 Here you can watch an interview in French with Spanish subs; if you don't speak any of these languages, please enjoy the translation below.

🎤 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐨 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 - 𝐋𝐚 𝐛𝐨𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐚̀ 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬, 𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐥 +, 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟒
https://bit.ly/3jGXU6W

Photo credit: John Rogers, Rome, MTV EMA 2004

⭐𝐋𝐀 𝐁𝐎𝐈̂𝐓𝐄 𝐀̀ 𝐐𝐔𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒⭐

𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: At what age did you lose your virginity?
𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: I was 14, with a French girl called Carole…

𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: Like every rock star, have you ever broken a hotel room?
𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: Yes, I’ve already broken several hotel rooms and I’m not proud of that at all.

𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: What do you do after making love?
𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: I smoke a cigarette.

𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: Would you have participated to Star Academy?
𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: No way, it’s a work of Satan!

𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: Have you ever slept with a fan?
𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 pushes the button which makes the sound ‘Nooo!!
’
𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: Is your androgyny a real attitude or…
𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 pushes the button before he finished reading the question.

𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: Who is dedicated “Embrasse-moi, mets ton doigt dans mon cul” to?
𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: It’s dedicated to me! (and he pushes the button again)

𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: How much money do you earn per month?
𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 pushes the button.

𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: How do you think you’d be look like in 10 years?
𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: I hope I won’t be too bald and not too fat!

𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: Briefs or boxers?
𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: Briefs! With boxers, when you’re on stage, it moves a little bit too much! And that’s distracting!

𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: Is that age or money which makes people being less rock ‘n’ roll?
𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: I’d say it’s rather a bad taste.

𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: What bands do you dislike the most?
𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: I'd say Simply Red, Phil Collins, but… Sting! I love The Police but Sting… No!

𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: How do you consider yourself when it comes to physical appearance?
𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: Not that great to be honest, that’s why I wear a lot of make-up.
(𝐿𝑎 𝑏𝑜𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑎̀ 𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠, 𝐶𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑙 +, 2004)

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⭐ 𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐌𝐎𝐋𝐊𝐎 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖 𝐎𝐍 "𝐋𝐈𝐁𝐄𝐑𝐓𝐄́ - 𝐄𝐆𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐄́ - 𝐌.𝐀.𝐔.𝐑.𝐀.𝐃" 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟒 ⭐

𝑯𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒐 𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔!

This afternoon I'm sure we are going to have a great time together because we're going to enjoy one of the funniest interviews you can find of 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐. It was made on October 28, 2004 on the French radio show "𝑳𝒊𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒕𝒆́ - 𝑬𝒈𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒆́ - 𝑴.𝑨.𝑼.𝑹.𝑨.𝑫" on 𝑬𝒖𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒆 𝟐.

Between questions from the fans, weird questions from the hosts and some jokes, I have chosen some fragments since the interview is pretty long. At the end I shared the link so you can listen to it in full and not miss all the atmosphere that was created in the program because there lies much of the magic of this interview.


🔸𝑩𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒘𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒕, 𝑰 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒈𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒌𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝑳𝒂𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒂 𝑬𝒗𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒂 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒆𝒙𝒄𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒆 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒊𝒆𝒘 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒕 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒖𝒔. 🙏💖💕

Photo credit: Scarlet Page

✨⭐ 𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐌𝐎𝐋𝐊𝐎 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖 𝐎𝐍 "𝐋𝐈𝐁𝐄𝐑𝐓𝐄́ - 𝐄𝐆𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐄́ - 𝐌.𝐀.𝐔.𝐑.𝐀.𝐃" 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟒 ⭐✨

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Brian Molko is with us in the studio. It's great. My niece loves you, my brother loves you. My name is Maurad. Can you say: 'I am with Maurad'?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: I am with Maurad.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Do you hear my niece? Brian Molko is with us! Brian Molko, you speak French very well, you were born in Luxembourg, right?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: No, no, I was born in Belgium.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: You lived in Luxembourg. You lived in Lebanon and now you live in London. Was the GPS invented for you?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: No, not at all. They've invented the Rizzla for me, perhaps.
🔸𝑩𝒐𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒆: Rizzla is cigarette rolling paper.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: How does feel it do...? There are a lot of people in the street…
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: How does it feel to be in the studio with you, right?

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Yes, how does it feel?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: I'm completely overwhelmed.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: There are a lot of people who want to ask you questions. You've sold over 5 million albums worldwide, 700,000 of the best-of which will be released soon. That's impressive. Laura is with us. How are you?
📞 𝑳𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂: Yes, I'm fine. My heart is beating a mile a minute.
🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: You have a question for Brian Molko?
📞 𝑳𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂: Yes. Hi Brian, I wanted to know when your next album will be released?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: In 2006. In 2005, we will produce it. We've been touring for two years now so we still need to take some time off and then we're going to do the new album in 2005 and it's going to be out in 2006.

Photo credit: Renaud Monfourny, HD edit by molko_remastered

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Let's talk about your outfit. Why do you always wear black?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: I dress in black because it's easier to travel with and it makes you look slimmer.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Slimmer?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: Yes.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Celine's here and wants to ask Brian a question. Ask your question, Celine.
📞 𝑪𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆: Hi, Brian.
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: Hi.
📞 𝑪𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆: I wanted to know why you like the French public so much?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: It's the French public that loves us. It's been a love story with the French public since the first single. There was a connection. I think it's because there's a long culture of literary romance in France. When I was at school, I studied Baudelaire…

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Do rock stars go to school?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: I even went to university.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: I thought rock stars didn't go to school, that they were rebels and stuff. You went to university and what did you study?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: Drama.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Computer science, right.
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: No... Drama.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: So you went to Star Academy?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: No, I didn't.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Celine, do you have another question for Brian?
📞 𝑪𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆: Yes. Last year, at the concert in Geneva, you fell and hurt your thumb. Did it bother you at the concert?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: I remember I fell off the stage. It was the first time I fell. I think it's a rock cliché. You have to go through the rock clichés and then I fell off the stage. These things happen. It made me laugh a lot. I didn't get hurt too much. I could have been hurt but it was okay.

Photo credit: Scarlet Page

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: We're with Brian Molko. We're going to make him do a 'Courthouse'. We'll talk about everything that's going on with him in total freedom. Placebo's releasing a best-of album.
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: It's not a best-of.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅 : What is it then?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: It's a historical document.

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🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Honestly, among the famous people, who do you find pretty?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: I like Angelina Joly. She's pretty. Although he's dead, I've always liked River Phoenix.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: River Phoenix. What does she look like, Boudine?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: It's a boy.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: A boy? What does he look like?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: He's dead.

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🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Look what it says on the paper, it's written 'sex' on it. We're going to talk about sex with Brian Molko. But before we do, Sarah's here to ask Brian a question.
📞 𝑺𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒉: Hi, Brian!
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: Hi Sarah.
📞 𝑺𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒉: Since your beginning of your career, you've always been seen as an outsider. But with the success of the last album, do you still define yourself as an outsider?
🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: What a serious question!
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: I don't feel comfortable .... even with the idea of being Brian Molko and being the singer of Placebo. I still feel a bit of an outsider. I hope success hasn't changed me too much.

🔸𝑩𝒐𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒆: I get the impression that you don't like compliments, that you're not comfortable with compliments?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: No, not really.

🔸𝑩𝒐𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒆: Does it shock you? Does it upset you?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: No, because I don't really believe it.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Stop fussing Boudine! My 'little' Brian, we're about to go into a place…
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: I am not your 'little' Brian Molko.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: What are you to me then?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: I'm your 'big' Brian Molko.

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🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Ask your question, we'll see later.
📞 𝑨𝒅𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆: Hi, Brian.
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: Hi.

📞 𝑨𝒅𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆: You okay?
🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: [...] Ask your question Adeline.

📞 𝑨𝒅𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆: I saw you live in Vienna and you kissed Stefan on the mouth.
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: So what!

📞 𝑨𝒅𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆: This is a bit of a personal question, but I would have liked to know if it had gone further with him.
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: If I'm friend with him?

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: No. Further physically.
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: Ah! Further... No. A little bit further but not too far. We have a band together, we see each other every day.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: It's a bit complicated. Not at work.
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: Don't sh*t where you live.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅 : Exactly. Good one! That's a great metaphor. Have you ever dated guys from other bands?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: Yeah, well…

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: You don't want to tell us?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: No, I don't.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: It's only the singer from U2, you can say it!
🔸𝑩𝒐𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒆: Or Etienne Daho.
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: No, stop it. Never.

Photo credit: Alex Vanhee  

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Do you have a question for Brian Molko?
📞 𝑺𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒚: I'd like to know who's the crookest person you've ever met in showbusiness?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: The crookest person.. Sting.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Sting is an a**hole?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: Yeah, yeah. He's awful.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Why?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: I can't really explain what happened, but.. trust me, he's an a**hole.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: We're going to enter 'The Courthouse' with Brian Molko. This time you can't escape. You had the time to think about your story. It 11 pm, we're going to listen to you about a sex strory you experienced.
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: I don't know what you want me to tell. Explain to me, be more specific.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: A story you experienced in real life, a story during a tour…
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: I'm in a rock band so, lots of things happened.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: One story which ended…
🔸𝑩𝒐𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒆: Your last orgy.
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: Yeah, why not. For example…


🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Your last orgy
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: My last orgy…
🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: When was it?
🔸𝑩𝒐𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒆: With Etienne Daho.
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: Stop, stop with Etienne. He's my friend. Stop.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Tell us your last orgy.
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: The last orgy... It was a long time ago, because now I'm a very religious person these days - and I believe in Jesus and, after the broadcast, I'd like to talk about Jesus to you.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Alright.
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: I notice you're lacking of ethical fiber.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: That's not true.
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: And I'd like to talk about Jesus a bit.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Now? You're kidding me. He's kidding me! You will tell your story for sure.
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: I've tried something (...) like politicians. They never answer the question, that's cool.

Photo credit: Scarlet Page

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: [...] Aurore, are you all right? Do you have a question for Brian?
📞 𝑨𝒖𝒓𝒐𝒓𝒆: Hey, everybody, hi Brian. First of all,.... I know you don't like to talk about your past, but I wanted to know if some of your songs were a reflection of a rather difficult past life?


🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: You all ask very serious questions! Have you ever been asked such questions?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: Yeah, but it's not a bad question.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: What the kind of questions you've never been asked?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: Which question should I answer then?

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Answer Aurore's.
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: Can you repeat please?
📞 𝑨𝒖𝒓𝒐𝒓𝒆: I wanted to know if your songs reflect a difficult past life?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: Yes, yes, of course. You don't publish your diary on a record. It's a mixture of truth and fantasy. It's art, it's not a documentary. And it needs work. It's inspired by your emotions but also by the emotions of your friends, your parents, your relatives or even by TV or what you read, the cinema.
📞 𝑨𝒖𝒓𝒐𝒓𝒆: Thank you.

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🔸𝑩𝒐𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒆: After Wembley, what are you going to do?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: I'm going to India.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: India? What's in india?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: I want to go somewhere as far away from the music business as possible.

🔸𝑩𝒐𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒆: To write?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: No, to live.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: For how long?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: About three or four months. You guys are cool but I get asked questions all the time. We've been working for two years and I'm really tired of being Brian Molko. I wanna go somewhere to be Brian.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Okay. What's the one question you've never been asked that you wish you'd been asked?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: "How did you get to be so hot?"

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: But a believable question... So tell us how you got so hot. Tell us.
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: It's my parents' fault. I like to discuss religion.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Are you religious?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: No, I'm not.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Were you brought up Catholic?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: Not Catholic, but very religious. I find it fascinating and it has given me a lot of metaphors that I use in my songs. The Bible is a fascinating book. It has nothing to do with real life. It was written by frustrated people who wanted to control people. It's full of metaphors, full of violence, full of sex, full of incest and so on.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: That's life.
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: You can use these people as metaphors.

Photo credit: Tony Barson Archive 

🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: Please let me go!
🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: We'll let you go but there are still a few questions. Do you get your clothes or do you buy them ?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: I buy a lot of clothes and some are given to me too. I know people in the fashion business. It's really cool to be a musician because you get clothes to wear on TV and at the same time you have to buy stuffs. You don't wear Dior every day and at home you have to wear something.

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: Have you ever been offered to do modelling?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: I did it once and I didn't like it at all. I'm short.

🔸𝑩𝒐𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒆: There are no more criteria in modelling, when you have a look, a face, that's enough.
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: It was for a friend of mine who is a designer. I did it once. I met a lot of models and I found them quite vicious.

🔸𝑩𝒐𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒆: Another question: what's your best proof of your love you did for someone? Something incredible.
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: Oh sh*t…

🔹𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒅: In the bathroom! That's disgusting! It's scatophiliac!
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: Not my thing. Not at all.

🔸𝑩𝒐𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒆: A mind-blowing thing?
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: I find that you can make strong actions, symbolic things like that but if you listen when she/he talks, it's much more important. That's it.

🔸𝑩𝒐𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒆: It could be a song too, writing a song for someone. For love.
🎤𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: I have written a lot of songs for many people. The people who are in my songs are a composite of several people and often it's me. When I say "You", I am talking to myself.


⭐𝐋𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞:

https://youtu.be/BWrnDyQKgX4


✒️𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 & 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒃𝒚 𝑳𝒂𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒂 𝑬𝒗𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒂.

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BRIAN MOLKO - SHORT INTERVIEW 2004

⭐️In 2004, 𝑳𝒆𝒔 𝑰𝒏𝒓𝒐𝒄𝒌𝒖𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒃𝒍𝒆𝒔 magazine invited Placebo leader 𝑩𝑹𝑰𝑨𝑵 𝑴𝑶𝑳𝑲𝑶 to answer the famous 𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒏𝒂𝒊𝒓𝒆 𝒃𝒚 𝑺𝒐𝒑𝒉𝒊𝒆 𝑪𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒆, an artist, writer, director and photographer. The principle is simple: answer questions with one word or a short phrase. So, simple, sincere and convincing answers from a charismatic singer and guitarist.✨✨✨

Photo credit: Sebastien Dolidon, 2004

𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐢𝐞?
When I don’t like cartoons anymore.

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐮𝐩 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠?
Cigarette.

𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠?
A Bloody Mary.

𝐃𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐛𝐞 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭?
No.

𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦?
I have no idea.

𝐃𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐲?
No.

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐬𝐞?
Heroin.

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐨𝐧?
Flipper [literally – a pinball machine, BUT "flipper" in French may also mean a state of drug intoxication].

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐨𝐟𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭?
Everything.

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐟𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬?
Flipper.

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭?
New body.

𝐍𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐞.
Sting, Sting, Sting.

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠?
Sting's right to self-expression.

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐬𝐞?
Talking to others.

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲?
Knees.

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐨 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞?
Compromise.

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫?
Impatience.

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞?
Nothing but the illusion of being less naive.

𝐌𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐩𝐡.
"Leave me alone".

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨?
Sophie Calle.
(𝐿𝑒𝑠 𝐼𝑛𝑟𝑜𝑐𝑘𝑢𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑠 "𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛", 𝑂𝑐𝑡'04)

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🔹⭐🔹𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎 IN 𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐓𝐇 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟒🔹⭐🔹

𝑺𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔,
today I will take you to one amazing concert that took place on March 13, 2004.
✨𝑫𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆?✨
Do you remember the spirited Brian with a short cheerful hairstyle and strongly made-up eyes, thanks to which I lost the firm ground under my feet and forgot about the reality around me ...
It was a tour with then new album "Sleeping With Ghosts" on which music with a typical Placebo signature took on a completely new dimension thanks to the electronic arrangement of producer Jim Abiss ...
📌 "The electronic element is indeed very present in Sleeping With Ghosts, but I think when we listen to the album, we don't have the feeling Placebo is trying to sound electronic. We tried above all to refine and reconcile all the best elements which we experimented on our three previous albums, while trying to make this album current. 2003, not 1968."
(𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑀𝑜𝑙𝑘𝑜, 𝑅𝑜𝑐𝑘 𝑀𝑎𝑔 2003)

Placebo in Perth 2004. Photo credit unknown

… 𝐴𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑉𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑂𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑏𝑒𝑟 2016, 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑏𝑢𝑚 𝑎𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑠:
📌 Sleeping With Ghosts
Brian: "This album is a bit of a wild card. I actually like this record because it's one of most sonically daring and electronic sounding records. It's the perfect mixture of what we were trying to do, which was fuse our sound with vintage synthesizers and old school analog recording techniques. It was around that time that Stefan and I began our obsession with old synthesizers, and we just couldn't stop collecting. A vintage synth is a very guilty pleasure for us. We find them very sexy and irresistible to buy if we see one, even if we don't need it."
🔸The ghosts in the title seem to detail a number of your past relationships, or the ghosts of them.
Brian: "Yeah, if I remember correctly, I was trying to lyrically explore memory and how reliable, how truthful memories are. Both the visual memories you re-experience but also your emotional memories, and I guess I was asking myself the question, "How accurate is it?" I think in one way or another, as time passes, we become film directors with our memories. We do our own director's cut of what's happened to us, and within that was this aspect of meditating the past romantic experiences and trying to sing about them in as abstract way as possible"
🔸Were you happy with the results?
Brian: "Yeah. I remember being very happy. I felt that record had a lot of color to it, so it pleased me at the time. Sorry, I never look back so this is hard."
⭐🔹⭐

Photo credit: Jo Stelmach

My dears, when you look into your heart, how do you feel about this album and such gems as the songs This Picture, The Bitter End, Protect Me From What I Want or Special Needs ...? What song from this album is your favorite?
𝐹𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐴𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑡𝑜𝑢𝑟, ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎 𝑏𝑒𝑎𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑢𝑙 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤 𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑏𝑦 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑀𝑜𝑙𝑘𝑜 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐴𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑅𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑜 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑇𝑟𝑖𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝐽 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐼 𝑎𝑚 𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎 𝑏𝑖𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑖𝑡:
📌
🔸 P: Triple J Breakfast, we’re joined by Brian Molko from Placebo... Brian, when we’re doing this interview, it’s the day of your Sydney concert on your tour, that you’re going around... It’s about 1:30 in the afternoon, where does this put you in the preparation for a gig night? Do you start thinking about the gig during the day, or is it just, you know, half an hour before the gig? What’s the sort of preparation on a gig day?


Brian: "I don’t really start thinking about the gig until we actually get to sound check... You know, if we’re touring around Europe or something, in a tour bus... then you know, we’ll spend most of the day sleeping. We’ll probably get up around 3 and start sound checking around 4. Erm, on a day like this, you know, I chuckled to myself as I was on the beach this morning, you know, sunning myself... and swimming around in God’s swimming pool and thinking about how miserable and rainy it was in London, you know. So that’s kind of how I’ve prepared today’s gig, very very relaxed, you know, getting up early and getting some rays."


🔸 P: Well, we’ve been playing English Summer Rain... It’s the single we’ve been playing at the moment for your tour. If you were going to write a song about an Australian weather condition, rather than English Summer Rain, what would you call the song?

Brian: "Oh God, I don’t know… Erm, “Sand in the vaseline”… How’s that one?"😁

🔸 P: Nice… So you said about the sound check, do you go through the same sort of thing each night, or do you do different things before the gig? Do you actually have a structure?

Brian: "Well… you kind of… because by nature what we do is very chaotic, and nomadic and we’re quite schizophrenic people, you know, you kind of crave a bit of a structure, you know, and erm... so what we normally do is sound check maybe for about 45 minutes and try and get an early dinner… because you can’t eat too close to show time, otherwise you feel heavy and you can still taste your dinner while you’re jumping around and trying to rock, you know. And then usually start having a couple of beers about two hours before the show, play some banging hip hop tunes and just try and get the energy levels up… take a lot of vitamins."

Placebo in Perth 2004. Photo credit unknown

🔸 P: People are going in the backstage at Placebo and they’re seeing these bowlfuls of pills… and it’s vitamin B1 and B2…

Brian: "Exactly, yeah."

🔸 P: I always wondered this, how much does.. ‘cos I do stand up comedy and obviously, it’s very reliant on, you know, the audience… In a rock show, can it really make a big difference, between the audience being a good audience or a bad audience?

Brian: "Absolutely. You know, it’s kind of… it’s like sex, you know. It makes a big difference, you know, both…"

🔸 P: If you’ve got an audience?!?

Brian: "No, not if you’ve got an audience, no!.. It’s like, you know, if somebody… if the person who you’re in bed with is making as much effort as you, you know, there’s nothing worse than a plank… You know, if you’ve made all that effort, all the drinks you’ve bought, you know, all the witticisms and charm you’ve put on, you know, kind of thing… there’s nothing worse than somebody that just lays there. And similarly… you know, and similarly with an audience, you know, you need… you need feedback from them, you need to have an exchange of energy, you know.. All good art, whether it’s painting, you know, or live music, you know, the artist takes a step towards the viewer or the audience… and they have to take a step towards them as well, for it to be a certain synergy."

🔸 P: And your show is a lot like sex as in it’s good, if it goes on for an hour and a half, and if people clap enough you do an encore…

Brian: "Exactly." /.../
⭐🔹⭐


So, friends, are you looking forward to the next Placebo concert? I know I don't have to ask you at all ...
To entice you even more, let's take a look at the video from the concert in Perth, which was the first stop in the Australian part of this tour.

𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒘𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒓𝒕 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆:
🎶 https://bit.ly/2SCivjw

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