🌟❤𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎: 𝐒𝐄𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐄𝐒 𝐂𝐎𝐍 𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐉𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐑𝐎 𝐅𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐎❤🌟

Dear soulmates let's enjoy today the very first and only acoustic session that 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 has performed in 𝑴𝒆𝒙𝒊𝒄𝒐, a private concert that took place at the 𝑻𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒓𝒐 𝑪𝒊𝒓𝒄𝒖𝒍𝒂𝒓 𝒅𝒆𝒍 𝑷𝒐𝒍𝒚𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒖𝒎 𝑪𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒍 𝑺𝒊𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒊𝒓𝒐𝒔 in 𝑴𝒆𝒙𝒊𝒄𝒐 𝑪𝒊𝒕𝒚 on March 12, 2007 where only a few lucky fans could attend and which was recorded to close the first season of the series "𝑺𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒆𝑺 𝒄𝒐𝒏 𝑨𝒍𝒆𝒋𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒓𝒐 𝑭𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒐", a concert and interview 𝑻𝑽 show created and hosted by 𝑨𝒍𝒆𝒋𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒓𝒐 𝑭𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒐 that premiered just one month later on April 12, 2007.

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📌 𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐔𝐄 𝐈𝐍𝐅𝐎 📌
The 𝑷𝒐𝒍𝒚𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒖𝒎 𝑪𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒍 𝑺𝒊𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒊𝒓𝒐𝒔 is a venue located south of 𝑴𝒆𝒙𝒊𝒄𝒐 𝑪𝒊𝒕𝒚 that, due to its imposing dimensions and high social and humanist content, attempts to call human beings to establish freedom, welfare and justice on earth through art. It was built in 1966 and inaugurated in 1971 and is a true work of art in every way, first for its innovative architectural design, a dodecahedron on the outside and an octagon on the inside, that is, 12 walls on the facade and 8 inside the building; and second because in its installations it is the largest mural in the world entitled 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒉 𝒐𝒇 𝑯𝒖𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒚 by the 𝑴𝒆𝒙𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒏 painter 𝑫𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒅 𝑨𝒍𝒇𝒂𝒓𝒐 𝑺𝒊𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒊𝒓𝒐𝒔, that is why 𝑴𝒂𝒏𝒖𝒆𝒍 𝑺𝒖𝒂́𝒓𝒆𝒛 𝒚 𝑺𝒖𝒂́𝒓𝒆𝒛 named the venue in honor of him.

Photo credit: Screenshot

The mural has an area of 2,400 meters and covers from side to side and from ceiling to floor of the 𝑭𝒐𝒓𝒖𝒎 𝑼𝒏𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒂𝒍 (main hall of the 𝑷𝒐𝒍𝒚𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒖𝒎). The work is divided into four zones and is a mixture of pictorial styles ranging from new realism, through expressionism and abstractionism, showing the evolution of humanity from the past to the present, as well as a vision of the future. In addition, part of the interior mural is three-dimensional, which gives an immersive sensation typical of 𝑺𝒊𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒊𝒓𝒐𝒔' surrealist and expressionist influences. About his work, 𝑺𝒊𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒊𝒓𝒐𝒔 wrote:
"𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒉 𝒐𝒇 𝒉𝒖𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝒕𝒐𝒕𝒂𝒍 𝒎𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒉 𝒅𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒃𝒚 𝒎𝒂𝒏'𝒔 𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇-𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕; 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒎𝒂𝒏, 𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒍𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈".

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The building consists of several spaces: the 𝑭𝒐𝒓𝒖𝒎 𝑼𝒏𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒂𝒍, the 𝑬𝒔𝒑𝒂𝒄𝒊𝒐 𝒅𝒆 𝑨𝒓𝒕𝒆 𝑬𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒆 (𝑬𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑨𝒓𝒕 𝑺𝒑𝒂𝒄𝒆), and the 𝑻𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒓𝒐 𝑷𝒐𝒍𝒚𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒖𝒎 inspired by circular theater in the classic 𝑮𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒌 style with a capacity for 500 people, in which cultural, political and social activities are held. Since 2017, the 𝑷𝒐𝒍𝒚𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒖𝒎 closed its doors for a restoration that to date has not finished, but you can take a virtual tour through 𝑮𝒐𝒐𝒈𝒍𝒆 𝑴𝒂𝒑𝒔 or if you want to see what the venue looks like, you can click on the link below.
👉 https://bit.ly/3lp5Ivw

Back to 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐, in March 2007 the band visited 𝑴𝒆𝒙𝒊𝒄𝒐 for the second time with the "𝑴𝒆𝒅𝒔 𝑻𝒐𝒖𝒓", this acoustic concert was the first of five concerts they would offer in that second visit, since after this one they performed in 𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒓𝒆𝒚, 𝑮𝒖𝒂𝒅𝒂𝒍𝒂𝒋𝒂𝒓𝒂 and two nights in a row in 𝑴𝒆𝒙𝒊𝒄𝒐 𝑪𝒊𝒕𝒚.
Besides the magnificent soulful interpretations, it was wonderful to see the smiling faces of 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐, 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 𝑶𝒍𝒔𝒅𝒂𝒍 and 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒗𝒆 𝑯𝒆𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒕 throughout the acoustic session. They must have been very happy and grateful for the warm reception from the 𝑴𝒆𝒙𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒏 fans who at the end of each song were clapping euphorically and shouting: "𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐, 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐, 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐!
𝑨𝒍𝒆𝒙 𝑳𝒆𝒆 accompanied them on stage playing guitar, keyboards, glockenspiel and doing backing vocals, while 𝑩𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝑳𝒍𝒐𝒚𝒅 participated as audio engineer and in audio post-production.

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📢 "𝘔𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 15 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘳, 𝘢 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘴 𝘨𝘭𝘢𝘮 𝘱𝘶𝘯𝘬 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘪𝘥-𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘥𝘰𝘻𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘣𝘰 𝘢 𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘲𝘶𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘳𝘦. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘱 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘭𝘬𝘰 𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘨𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘵𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘱𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘺𝘴. 𝘋𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘯 𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘥'𝘴 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘵 𝘚𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘚 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘈𝘭𝘦𝘫𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘳𝘰 𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘰."
𝚜𝚎𝚜𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚎𝚓𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚛𝚘𝚏𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚘.𝚌𝚘𝚖

🎬 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 - 𝐒𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐒 𝐜𝐨𝐧 𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐣𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐨 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐨 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟕 (𝐹𝑢𝑙𝑙 𝑠𝒉𝑜𝑤 + 𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤) 
https://bit.ly/3wsEwlG

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🎶🌟 𝐒𝐄𝐓𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐓 🌟 🎶

𝐁𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐈 𝐖𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐘𝐨𝐮

𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐬

𝐓𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐀𝐧𝐠𝐬𝐭

𝐉𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐢𝐞

**𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰**

𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐌𝐞

𝐒𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐓𝐨 𝐒𝐚𝐲 𝐆𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐛𝐲𝐞

💢 𝐂𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐅𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐬 💢
💫𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 played "𝑱𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒊𝒆" again because the first went wrong.
💫In the interview of this session we only see 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 and 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 talking, but there is another recording of this program which includes a question that 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒗𝒆 𝑯𝒆𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒕 answered and you can see it from minute 15:40 here:
🎬 https://bit.ly/3Lt0MAr
💫This was one of 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐's last concerts in 𝑴𝒆𝒙𝒊𝒄𝒐 with 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒗𝒆 𝑯𝒆𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒕 on drums.
🎶 Please, let me know your thoughts and feelings about this acoustic session. 🎶

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⭐𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 – 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐗 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐂 𝐌𝐀𝐆𝐀𝐙𝐈𝐍𝐄 𝐀𝐔𝐆𝐔𝐒𝐓 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟕⭐

𝐈 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐫𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐈 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐝. 𝐈 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐚𝐬 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐬 𝐈 𝐚𝐦 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐛𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞. 𝐖𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐤𝐢𝐝𝐬 𝐜𝐫𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧." - 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘭𝘬𝘰

🔹 𝐼𝑛 2007, 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑅𝑒𝑎𝑥 , 𝑎𝑛 𝐴𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑐 𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑧𝑖𝑛𝑒. 𝑆𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠, 𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑜𝑛𝑒.𝐿𝑒𝑡'𝑠 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑐𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑐𝑢𝑠𝑠 𝑖𝑡 𝑎𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑠 😉

Photo credit: Screenshot from Henry Rollins Show (2007)

▪ 𝑭𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔, 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒂𝒅𝒅𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒏𝒔 𝒐𝒏 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒈𝒆. 𝑰𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒕 𝑴𝒆𝒅𝒔 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒎𝒑𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒑𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒆𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 ?

⭐ After the first album, we found that the standard guitar, bass, drums format was quite limited. That's how we started our romance with technology. And we started to discover all these vintage synths, electronics, mixing stations, industry standards, until Sleeping with Ghosts which was very much computer based. Which is not necessarily a bad thing.

⭐ When it came time to create Meds, we first recorded two songs for the compilation of our singles (Once more with Feeling), and then we kind of felt that we were really moving towards space-rock. But under the pressure of our producer, we really felt that it was important for us to make an album as if it was the first, as if all our lives depended on it. He felt that technology was like a refuge for us, and he wanted to take us out of it. He wanted to put us in danger, to get us back to the soul and essence of a band.

⭐ We recorded the album as spontaneously as possible. We weren't too afraid of that, because we spent a lot of time doing what we call "cabaret shows", which is taking our songs and playing them on the piano, with brooms and stuff. We wanted to use the minimalist aspect of things. But that's something you can only really do if you feel you have the song to go with it.



▪ 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒄𝒆𝒓𝒕𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒄 𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒃𝒍𝒆, 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒈𝒏𝒊𝒛𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒏𝒐 𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒅𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒅𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒎𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒔𝒕𝒚𝒍𝒆. 𝑰𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒌𝒆𝒆𝒑 𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒓𝒌, 𝒐𝒓 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒊𝒏𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅'𝒔 𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒚 ?
⭐ No, we don't really think about it, to be honest. We just try not to repeat ourselves.


▪ 𝑨𝒔 𝒂 𝑭𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒅𝒊𝒂𝒏, 𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒂𝒔𝒌 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏. 𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒈𝒖𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒊𝒄𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑨𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒐𝒏 [𝑴𝒐𝒔𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒕, 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑲𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒔] 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝑴𝒆𝒅𝒔? 𝑰𝒔 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒂 𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅 ?
⭐ Yes, Alison is a friend... A fairly recent friend actually. Actually it's Jamie [Hince], her partner in crime, who I've known for over 17 years. We went to university together. I saw him start and leave a number of bands, before I met Alison and started The Kills.

Photo credit: Michael Buckner

▪ 𝑰 𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓, 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 19, 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑫𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕, 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝑫𝒂𝒚𝒕𝒐𝒏𝒂 𝒑𝒖𝒏𝒌 𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅.
⭐ I bet she has a number of shows behind her.


▪ 𝑺𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒇 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒘𝒔, 𝒂 𝒍𝒐𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆, 𝒐𝒓 𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒗𝒊𝒔𝒖𝒂𝒍 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒗𝒐𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑴𝒆𝒅𝒔. 𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝑰 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒚𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒔, 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒌𝒊𝒏 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒔𝒉𝒆𝒆𝒑 𝒕𝒐 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒃𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒃𝒆𝒂𝒖𝒕𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒎𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝒉𝒖𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆 ?
⭐ It's a very good way of putting it on the table. I hate the word Mature. It sounds like cheese to me. In England we have mature cheddar, and it's cheese. I think it's a word that's overused by journalists.

⭐ I don't think I was trying to be provocative when I started. I just think I wasn't as good a composer as I am today. The compositions were much more subversive. We were kids crying for attention. For this album, I really wanted to get away from all the fancy stuff I've used in the past, and use everyday words. In fact, this album is quite dark, not particularly happy, but not adolescent either, I don't think, just aimlessly going through the world. It's a very human album, about abuse, addiction, anaesthesia. It's not a party album, but not an emo album either.


▪ 𝑴𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝑰𝒏𝒇𝒓𝒂-𝑹𝒆𝒅, 𝒐𝒓 𝑩𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝑰 𝑾𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒀𝒐𝒖, 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒐𝒇𝒇𝒃𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖'𝒗𝒆 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒅𝒐𝒏𝒆.
⭐ That's true, but we've always done things like that, like Teenage Angst, from the first album, which was musically upbeat, and the lyrics were almost the opposite. We've always liked to play with that dichotomy, to confuse the emotions. Maybe we naturally revolve around that, because that's how we feel about life... For me, anyway.


▪ 𝑫𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒐𝒕𝒚𝒑𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒓 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒂 𝒍𝒐𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒂𝒖𝒕𝒐𝒃𝒊𝒐𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒑𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍 ?
⭐ I tell stories. They're little fictions, like little stories... But for any style of writing, they tell what you know, so I write about situations and society, with a small s, that I encounter or that I see around me... About problems, emotional difficulties. These are things, the subject and the story, that I have encountered. But there are not as many pages torn out of my diary, as there are stories with characters you know? It's what they go through, what they experience, and that's an important point of contact for me. I think that's the most important thing to explain.


▪ 𝑾𝒂𝒔 "𝒃𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑼𝑺" 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒂 𝒃𝒊𝒈 𝒈𝒐𝒂𝒍 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 ?
⭐ As much as breaking into any other country I suppose.


▪ 𝑫𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒃𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒂𝒄𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒊𝒈 𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝑨𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒇𝒂𝒏𝒔 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒚𝒂𝒍, 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒂 𝒔𝒎𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒔𝒆𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒚 ?
⭐ Yeah I guess so, and that's something I encountered for a while, in Europe, and it's kind of something I like. If we don't become extremely famous [in the US], it's not a big deal, because we have a really strong and passionate cult, you know ? Which is more accessible for us, and it's quite family-like.
✔️ 𝚁𝚎𝚊𝚡 𝙼𝚞𝚜𝚒𝚌 𝙼𝚊𝚐𝚊𝚣𝚒𝚗𝚎 - 𝙰𝚞𝚐𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝟸00𝟽

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🔹 𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑦 𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑚𝑦 𝑒𝑦𝑒𝑠 :"𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑡'𝑠 𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑒, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑤𝑒'𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑑𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡, 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑇𝑒𝑒𝑛𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝐴𝑛𝑔𝑠𝑡, 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑏𝑢𝑚, 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑢𝑝𝑏𝑒𝑎𝑡, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑦𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑒. 𝑊𝑒'𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑦 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑑𝑖𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑡𝑜𝑚𝑦, 𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑓𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠. 𝑀𝑎𝑦𝑏𝑒 𝑤𝑒 𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑜𝑙𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡, 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡'𝑠 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑤𝑒 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒... 𝐹𝑜𝑟 𝑚𝑒, 𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑤𝑎𝑦."


🔹 𝐼𝑡'𝑠 𝑠𝑜 𝑜𝑏𝑣𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑦𝑒𝑡 𝐼 𝑑𝑖𝑑𝑛'𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑒 𝑖𝑡 𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑙 𝐼 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑇𝑟𝑦 𝐵𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑁𝑒𝑥𝑡 𝑇𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 ! 𝐼 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑘 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑡𝑜𝑚𝑦 𝑖𝑠 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑥𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑒. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑐 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑦𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑜 𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡, 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦, 𝑖𝑡 𝑚𝑎𝑑𝑒 𝑚𝑒 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙 𝑢𝑛𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑖𝑡. 𝑆ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝐼 𝑟𝑒𝑗𝑜𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑟 𝑛𝑜𝑡 ? 𝐼 𝑎𝑠𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑦𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 ! 𝐼𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑤𝑒𝑖𝑟𝑑. 𝑇ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝐷𝑟𝑎𝑔, 𝐵𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑈𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑤𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑟 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝐹𝑜𝑟 𝐿𝑒𝑣𝑖 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑏𝑢𝑖𝑙𝑡 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑠𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑚𝑒, 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 ℎ𝑎𝑑𝑛'𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑒𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝑜𝑛 𝑚𝑒.

𝗗𝗶𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘆 ? 𝗢𝗿 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗹𝗹 ? 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗶𝘁 ?

🔹 𝑂𝑓 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒, 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑚𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑑 𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑚𝑒. 𝐼𝑡 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑠 𝑚𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑘 𝑜𝑓 𝐻𝑢𝑔𝑧'𝑠 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑠: "𝑎 𝑗𝑜𝑘𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑎 𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑡ℎ".

𝗜𝘀 𝗮 𝗱𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗮 𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝗺𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗴𝗲 ?


🔹 𝐵𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤...

𝐼 𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑎𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑑 '𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒' 𝑖𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑦. 𝑊𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑎𝑙𝑏𝑢𝑚, 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑠𝑡, 𝑤𝑒 𝑔𝑒𝑡: '𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑏𝑢𝑚'. 𝐼𝑡'𝑠 𝑏𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔, 𝑖𝑠𝑛'𝑡 𝑖𝑡? 𝐼𝑡 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑚𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑒... 𝐼 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑘 𝑖𝑡'𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑎𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔. 𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝐼'𝑙𝑙 𝑘𝑒𝑒𝑝 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑑𝑑𝑎𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑦 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑑 😄

🔹 𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑞𝑢𝑜𝑡𝑒 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑜𝑝 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑡, 𝑖𝑡'𝑠 𝑜𝑏𝑣𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑛 2007 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑦 𝑑𝑎𝑦𝑠. 𝐴𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑎 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑟 𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑖𝑛 2007, 𝑏𝑜𝑡ℎ 𝑖𝑛 𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑚𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑐 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑙𝑦𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑠. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑒𝑙𝑜𝑑𝑖𝑒𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑆𝑡𝑒𝑓𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛'𝑠 𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑦𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛'𝑠 𝑓𝑎𝑠𝑐𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛. 💖

𝙋𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙚𝙗𝙤 𝙇𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝘿𝙚𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙞𝙩 𝙞𝙣 𝘼𝙪𝙜𝙪𝙨𝙩 2007 🎥 https://bit.ly/3jF3CGY 💕

Posr by Laetitia

⭐𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗩𝗜𝗘𝗪 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡 – 𝗘𝗚𝗢 𝗠𝗔𝗚. 𝗕𝗨𝗟𝗚𝗔𝗥𝗜𝗔 𝟮𝟬𝟬𝟳⭐

⭐"𝙇𝙚𝙩'𝙨 𝙨𝙖𝙮 𝙞𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙬𝙖𝙮 - 𝙖𝙨 𝙖𝙣 𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙨𝙩 𝙄 𝙬𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙛𝙚𝙚𝙡 𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝙗𝙖𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙛𝙖𝙢𝙤𝙪𝙨 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙢𝙮 𝙣𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙤 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙗𝙡𝙚𝙢𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙣 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙢𝙮 𝙢𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙘..."⭐
(𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝙱𝚞𝚕𝚐𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚊 𝟸00𝟽)


Dear friends, our virtual stop today will be in Bulgaria.
Bulgaria is a beautiful country on the Black Sea coast, full of very warm and friendly people, I like to go there.
Are there Bulgarian fans among you?

Placebo have performed 4 times in Bulgaria so far. The first performance was in 2003, the last in 2017.
I found an interview for you, which Brian gave before the concert in 2007.

🔸 There are a few points that interested me - first, at the beginning, the reporter recalls the first Placebo Bulgarian concert as not very successful. I tried to find some information, but I only found out that this concert took place in a hall with seats and it was quite a big obstacle for the fans, which they probably tried to deal with in their own way.
Anyway, thanks to the reporter's mention, we know that Brian still enjoyed it😁.

🔸 I just want to talk the second point - I realized again how many life experiences the guys have gained throughout their careers so far...
You will notice this with the question about the work on the cover and the final image of their albums.

And in this post, I share with you the only quality video from this show. The song "Infra-Red" opened the setlist and this video is just amazing.
Enjoy Placebo from the MEDS era with me.


𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍

Dressed in black, with perfectly epilated chest, not taking off his sunglasses and with boots on in spite of the heat. We have an appointment with the greatest alternative singer from the Island after Thom Yorke.


Three years ago Placebo played in Bulgaria, disappointed with the venue and charmed by the audience. After he recklessly threw himself into the audience, the singer shared with us that he hadn't been touched by so many people for the last 5 years. This time Placebo were even more emotional, they changed guitars for each song and staked on long codes. An hour before the concert I am sitting with Brian in a stuffy room somewhere along the Winter Palace's corridors. He lights a cig. A nicotine one.


𝗦𝘃𝗲𝘁𝗼𝘀𝗹𝗮𝘃 𝗣𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗼𝘃: 𝗟𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗕𝘂𝗹𝗴𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗮 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘀𝗺𝗼𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗖𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗹, 𝘁𝗼𝗼!
Brian Molko: Well, let's hope next time I come I won't smoke any, ha-ha.


𝗦.𝗣.: 𝗔𝗿𝗲𝗻'𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝗼𝗳 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗮𝗹𝗯𝘂𝗺, 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝘀?
B.M.: Ha-ha, no. Why are you so negative? Are you bored?


𝗦.𝗣.: 𝗡𝗼𝘁 𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗹𝗹. 𝗕𝘂𝘁 𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗻'𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘁𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗼𝘂𝗿, 𝘆𝗲𝘁?
B.M.: Here it goes again. You're tired blah blah blah. You've said it again!?

𝗦.𝗣.: 𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘅, 𝗜 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗹.
B.M.: You are going to make me feel bad even before going onstage. Today is a beautiful sunny day. All girls are walking around almost without any clothes on.


𝗦.𝗣.: 𝗢𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝗴𝗶𝗿𝗹𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗮𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗼𝘂𝘁𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗻 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄. (𝗘𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗮 𝗣𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗮 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘀.𝗯𝗴)
B.M.: Well... in that case you have to hurry up, my friend.


𝗦.𝗣.: 𝗛𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴?
B.M.: No. We had some tiny ideas, but we are focused on doing amazing gigs.


𝗦.𝗣.: 𝗔𝘁 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗱𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗹𝗯𝘂𝗺 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁?
B.M.: Oh, at the final one. How can you deal with things like these without the finished product which would inspire it? The aim of the artwork is to give the final touch and to present our ideas even better.


𝗦.𝗣.: 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗱𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗣𝗲𝘁𝗲 𝗗𝗼𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗺𝘆 𝗪𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝘀𝗲𝗲𝗺 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗰𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝘀𝘂𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗺𝗮?
B.M.: Let's say it this way - as an artist I would feel very bad to be more famous for my narco problems than for my music. Anyone can sleep with Kate Moss and take drugs. But I am more tempted to touch people with my art , to write something that can converse with them. What's the point of being the next rock&roll cliche?


𝗦.𝗣.: 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗱𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗹𝘆?
B.M.: The last albums of the Queens of the Stone Age and Eagles of Death Metal. As well as Arcade Fire.

Photo credit: Nigel Crane

𝗦.𝗣.: 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗛𝗶𝗽𝗛𝗼𝗽 𝗮𝘀 𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗹. 𝗗𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗹 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝘂𝗰𝗵 𝗮 𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗴?
B.M.: I despise gangsta' rap and all the money, women, and big cars that go with it. We've tried to experiment with such elements in songs like “Spite and Malice" from the album Black Market Music, but we don't feel like repeating.


𝗦.𝗣.: 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗱𝘂𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗗𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗱 𝗕𝗼𝘄𝗶𝗲, 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗲𝗹 𝗦𝘁𝗶𝗽𝗲, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗞𝗶𝗹𝗹𝘀. 𝗗𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗯𝗼𝗱𝘆 𝗲𝗹𝘀𝗲?
B.M.: I would be pleased to do something with Bjork. She is one of the most fantastic musicians of the last few years. But first we should make an appropriate song. I'm certainly not walking around with a list of people who we would like to work with, although there are volunteers all the time.


𝗦.𝗣.: 𝗗𝗶𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗰𝘂𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗦?
B.M.: NO, but we want to, ha-ha. Now we are going on one big tour with Linkin Park, HIM, and My Chemical Romance, so we'll see.


𝗦.𝗣.: 𝗙𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗴𝗼 𝗞𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗴! 𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗮𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗯𝗶𝗴 𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗸𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻. 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗶𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗻?
B.M.: It's almost unbelievable what kind of things people can write. I could not care less about this.


𝗦.𝗣.: 𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆, 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁'𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗳𝗮𝘃𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗮𝗯𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗹𝘆?
B.M.: You fukin' fukin' motherf***er.
(𝙴𝙶𝙾 𝚖𝚊𝚐. 𝙱𝚞𝚕𝚐𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚊 𝙹𝚞𝚗𝚎 𝟸00𝟽)

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⭐"𝑭𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒆𝒏 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐, 𝒘𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒒𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒊𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑼𝑵 𝒐𝒓 𝑵𝑨𝑻𝑶." 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐⭐

Photo credit: Kerry Torres

Dear friends,
in 2007, the band Placebo visited the Czech Republic on their MEDS tour. From this event, we have an edited video from the concert on YT and also an interview that Brian provided to the Czech media.
Enjoy today the translation of this interview as well as the concert memory of the band's dark times before drummer Steve Hewitt had to leave the band after long disagreements.


🔸🎶 You can see the edited recording from this show here, the first 10 minutes is the performance of the Finnish supporting band ManBoy:
https://bit.ly/3oXfSov

In the end, you can see a bit of the interview that Brian gave right before the concert. Unfortunately, the entire record is not available.


⭐𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐌𝐎𝐋𝐊𝐎: 𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐨 𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤⭐
The British trio Placebo stopped in Brno on tour with their new album Meds on Tuesday. Concertgoers could see that singer Brian Molko (34) is no longer a make-up being of indefinite gender.


𝐸𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑑𝑜𝑒𝑠𝑛'𝑡 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑏𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑦 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑔𝑛𝑖𝑧𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑏𝑦 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑣𝑜𝑖𝑐𝑒. 𝑊ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑑𝑖𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑧𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑣𝑜𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑢𝑠𝑢𝑎𝑙?
BM: "I happen to remember that exactly. I was thirteen, my mom and I went shopping, and I was sitting in the car in the passenger seat.
At that time, I really enjoyed the first album of the band Violent Femmes. I sang aloud to a song, and at one point I realized that my voice sounded exactly like the voice of their singer, Gordon Gan. I said to myself: Hey, maybe you could sing, you have a voice for it!"


𝐵𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑡 𝑡𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 𝑡𝑒𝑛 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑔. 𝑊ℎ𝑦 𝑑𝑖𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑦 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒?
BM: "By agreeing on several things, such as a change of interests, boredom, dissatisfaction. At school, I played, directed, and made films ...
I only came close to imagining what I wanted to do by making movies, otherwise I felt that it didn't suit me to be a character in a story made up by someone else.
But I still found the shooting laborious. It didn't have the same magic of the moment as when you hit the strings of an electric guitar and there is a noise and you immediately see the reaction of the people.Thanks to music, you can create your unique universe on the stage."


𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑡'𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟 - ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑑𝑜 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑠𝑒𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑖𝑚𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑜𝑑𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑟 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑔𝑒?
BM: "It doesn't matter how I feel, but when you ask, it's something between embarrassment and flattery.
Embarrassment, because in those ten years I have committed several crimes against fashion ..."


𝐹𝑜𝑟 𝑒𝑥𝑎𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒?
BM: "For example, leggings with a leopard pattern which I had on the Top Of The Pops show, I don't think was the best idea.
I could have chosen something more moderate ... On the other hand, I'm not sorry at all that I started to dress as a woman in my time, it was great fun.
But to those fans - you know, there's no theater on stage for me, it's more of one of my faces, a side of my personality.
Exhibitionist, a flashy part of me that needs to be seen. I don't want to be like that in everyday life, but it's convenient that there is a place where I can express myself. Ninety minutes four times a week on stage is enough for me."

Placebo live in California, USA. Photo credit unknown

𝑆𝑜 𝑦𝑜𝑢'𝑟𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑡𝑒𝑚𝑝𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝑚𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑒? 𝐴𝑠 𝑎 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑝𝑜𝑝𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟, 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑜𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑠 ...
BM: "There aren't that many... But I also have no great desire to star in a movie. After all, I also don't make hip-hop records, in this style it's common to have simultaneous careers in film and music. I'm quite good at what I do - being a musician and a singer, writing songs. I want to focus on that and improve. I used to have a lot of offers about movies, but mostly to play vampires or someone like that. It does not interest me. And I also think that a musician who wants to be an actor has to be careful. I'll sum it up in one word - Madonna ..."


𝑊𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜, 𝑦𝑜𝑢 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑢𝑐𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑓𝑢𝑙 𝑏𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 𝑡𝑒𝑛 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠. 𝐷𝑜 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑖𝑡 𝑎𝑠 𝑎 ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑦 𝑐𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒, 𝑜𝑟 𝑑𝑖𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑢𝑝 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑔𝑦?
BM: "In fact, it would be enough for me not to have to go to work ... That was my driving force from the beginning - that I would earn rent and food without having to sit somewhere in the office.
I wouldn't mind if we didn't sell so many records, it would be enough for me to survive. The whole meteoric rise was just a pleasant surprise. The problem is that flying up is not nearly as difficult as staying there. So each new record must be a better art work than the previous one. You can't stay where you are, repeat yourself."


𝐵𝑢𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢'𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑖𝑛 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑤𝑜 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 ...
BM: "Sure, but we haven't slept together in a long time, we're only in the band for the money!"

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𝐷𝑜 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑢𝑒?
BM: "Still. For ten years in Placebo, we are qualified to work for the UN or NATO.
We have become masters of diplomacy, we know how to deal with each other, we know all the important tricks. It would be an interesting sociological study. Watching a dysfunctional relationship between three guys who have talent but also difficult problems. They have to stay together for ten years and spend more time together than with the people they sleep with. It's a very strange relationship, something like a surrogate family."


𝐵𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑎𝑛𝑠 - 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑑𝑜𝑛'𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒-𝑢𝑝 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑎 𝑔𝑖𝑟𝑙 𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒, 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑑𝑜𝑛'𝑡 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑛𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑠. 𝐷𝑜 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑎𝑛𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑤 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑦𝑜𝑢? 𝐷𝑜𝑛'𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑐 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑦?
BM: "We are definitely not music for the party and I have this impression for quite a while. I want to make more serious music.
The topics on the last two records, in my opinion, had their depth. It is not easy to talk about human emotions, emotional violence, identity issues or the feeling that you have not found your place in the world, but it is precisely these aspects of human existence that interest me.
I think Placebo has always had a strong flavor of melancholy, I call it happily sad music. Things that make you cry, but at the same time you are happy that you are alive and you can feel something like that at all. A large part of our fans have grown up with our music. At the same time, we see very young people in the front row who were about five years old when we started. I'm glad that those who loved our debut when it came out are still with us. But I'm also glad that guys in their thirties, by which I mean us, have something to say to fifteen-year-olds. However, I try my best not to think about it - I would start consciously trying to do what should go naturally to a person."
(𝐿𝑖𝑑𝑜𝑣𝑘𝑦 𝑚𝑎𝑔., 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑒 2007)

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Hi, dear soulmates, do you remember last Wednesday and post about Xavior Roid?
Today, we move to the times when, alongside the Placebo guys, we saw on stage a strong personality of a musician who then continued to successfully develop his music career.

Photo credit at the end of the post

𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐱 𝐋𝐞𝐞 (𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝟏𝟔, 𝟏𝟗𝟕𝟎 𝐢𝐧 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐥, 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝) 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐚 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐠𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐄𝐃𝐒 𝐭𝐨𝐮𝐫.


In the 80's and 90's, he played in the bands The Blue Airplanes and Strangelove.
In the late 1990s, he was a live player in the band SUEDE, so in early 2000 he replaced keyboardist Neil Codling and became a full member of Suede. He remained there until their break-up in 2003.


⭐ In January 2006, Lee was recruited for Placebo's live line-up and played with them on their Meds world tour which finished in September 2007. He played guitar and keyboards on the album Live At La Cigale.⭐


Furthermore, his artistic career is very extensive, I would mention mainly original music for ground-breaking documentary series Alone in the Wild in September 2009 and also original music to Hawking, a film about the life of scientist Stephen Hawking directed by Stephen Finnigan released in September 2013.


𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐚𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐱 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐌𝐞𝐳𝐳𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟗. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐧 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐅𝐁 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐮𝐲𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐬:
⭐ "WHAT A GAS IT WAS TO SEE OUR OLD FRIEND & TOURING GUITARIST : ALEX LEE : PLAYING GUITAR WITH THE MIGHTY : @massiveattackofficial : AND WHAT A SHOW IT WAS!!! THANKS TO ALL WHO WORKED HARD TO GIVE US SO MUCH PLEASURE. PEACE & LOVE."⭐

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I am very glad that I managed to find a nice interview where Alex recalls working with Placebo:
🔸⭐𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐱 𝐋𝐞𝐞 – 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨, 𝐒𝐮𝐞𝐝𝐞⭐🔸
Alex Lee has been lucky enough to have enjoyed 17 years of playing guitar for a living. The many band’s he’s played for include Strange Love, Suede and now Placebo. I caught up with him on tour with Placebo at London’s Wembley Arena.


𝑊ℎ𝑦 𝑑𝑜𝑛’𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑜𝑓𝑓 𝑏𝑦 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑏𝑖𝑡 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑟 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑙𝑢𝑑𝑒𝑑?
"Well, my name’s Alex Lee and I’ve been playing guitar full time now for about 17 years. I left school and started playing in bands straight away and I’m still doing it now! I played in bands at school, was about 15 when I did my first gig and then within six months of leaving school I was asked to join a Bristol band called Blue Airoplanes. They needed a new guitar player to go on tour supporting a band called The Darling Birds who had a top 40 hit at the time so it was great! That went really well and they asked me to stay and pretty soon after we ended up signing a major deal. It snowballed from there really and things started happening really quickly for the band. There was just a big transition at that point from being on a indie label to being on a major and having enough money to go on tour properly and pay everyone a modest wage."


𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑔𝑜 𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒?
"After that I played with a band called Strange Love who were all friends of mine from Bristol. We put that band together after I left the Airoplanes. Strange Love then went on to support Suede and that’s when they needed someone new to play guitar. They knew me already as I’d spent quite a long time touring with them whilst playing with Strange Love. So really it’s all about meeting people and realising you’re on a similar wavelength as people."..../.../


𝐻𝑜𝑤 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑏𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑟𝑜𝑙𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜?
"Well, i’m replacing the keyboard player who was playing on the last tour so it was a Keyboard player that they were originally looking for. The fact that I could play guitar was obviously appealing to them as there are a lot of songs on the new album that are guitar based. It also frees Brian and Stef up to do other things if they want. Brian can now put the guitar down for certain songs live and go off and not have to worry about that which can make for more of a visual thing. Then I can free Stef up sometimes so he can give me the meat and potato parts and he can go and do some of the more interesting parts."


𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡’𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒? 𝐻𝑜𝑤 𝑚𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑑𝑜 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑟𝑒ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑎 𝑏𝑖𝑔 𝑡𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑠𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑎𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠?
"With this tour we did quite a lot of rehearsing, we managed to rehearse for a month which was a rare luxury. With the Suede thing I didn’t get any rehearsal at all, they just sent me a cassette and had a listen on the way the airport and scribbled a few notes down when I got there!! But with Placebo we had a months rehearsal which involved a lot of programming as it was all new equipment we were using. Learning the songs was the easy part!" .../.../


𝐷𝑜 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑘 𝑎 𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑏𝑖𝑡 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑔𝑜 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑚𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑎𝑛𝑑?
"This tour is slightly different for me (the Placebo tour), because I’m using laptops on stage which is a first for me, so I’m completely in the digital domain now. I’m using a system called ‘Guitar Rig’ for the guitars, so every sound is programmed before hand, then saved and you can tweak and save at each show if you need to. So I go from the guitar, to a sound card, to the laptop and then out into a Marshall power amp and speaker. I wanted there to be some form of a valve and speaker in there somewhere! The reason we’ve done this is because both Brian and Stef have very classic rock setups; Brian plays through a Fender twin, Stef through a Marshall. So we thought it would give the sound a different texture. You have to get used to the new technology quite quickly, although I did have to put in the hours when everyone else was in the pub, I was sitting down shouting at computers!! Its still an education to me but we’re a year into this tour and its still working fine so touch wood it’ll work tonight!!!"
(𝙾𝚗𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎𝚐𝚞𝚒𝚝𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚘𝚗𝚜.𝚌𝚘.𝚞𝚔)

Placebo at 100 Rock Festival (Bangkok, Thailand). Photo credit unknown

And at the end of my post, enjoy videos from the MEDS tour where you can see Alex in live show:


🔸🎶 Placebo - Post Blue [M6 Private Concert 2006]
https://bit.ly/3wOZlXc

🔸🎶 Placebo "Every you every me" live at Oxegen Festival 2006
https://bit.ly/3qLSWLo

🔸🎶 Placebo "Taste in Men" live Hurricane festival 2007
https://bit.ly/3osaz04

🔸🎶 Placebo - One Of A Kind [Rock Am Ring 2006]
https://bit.ly/2YUdo1e

🔸🎶 Placebo "Meds" live at Vieilles Charrues 2006
https://bit.ly/3Fl8YzT

Photo credit pic 1: bottom photo taken from Alex Lee's official website, rest unknown, edit by Marti
Post by Marti

🔸⭐OF MEDS AND MEN: AN INTERVIEW WITH BRIAN MOLKO⭐🔸

🔸⭐🔸„𝑰 𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒔𝒎𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍 𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔." 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐🔸⭐🔸

Dear friends, today I have Brian's interview from Toronto, Canada 2007 for you, which is full of very interesting information.
You will learn what Placebo song has become more popular among American fans and why.
And also - why the United States ordered the censorship of the MEDS album.
To make your joy of the evening complete, I share the video of the song mentioned in the article below with you.
🔸𝑬𝒏𝒋𝒐𝒚 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒎𝒂𝒛𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈 "𝑹𝒖𝒏𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑼𝒑 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑯𝒊𝒍𝒍", 𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒖𝒙 𝑱𝒂𝒛𝒛 𝑭𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒍 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟕, 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒘𝒂𝒚𝒔 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒉 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆💗.🔸

Photo credit: Virgile Biechy

📌 Of Meds and Men: An Interview with Placebo's Brian Molko
Written By: Graham Silnicki

🔸Before the fall of 2006, most North Americans with a passing interest in music knew Placebo as that androgynous band with a couple hit singles from the late '90s ("Pure Morning" and "Every You Every Me," both from 1998's Without You I'm Nothing). They've had something of a cult following here, but most of their popularity has been concentrated in other parts of the world, particularly Europe. But then, as has happened to so many bands, The O.C. brought them into the mainstream spotlight; their cover of Kate Bush's "𝐑𝐮𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐔𝐩 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐇𝐢𝐥𝐥" appeared twice in the show's fourth season premiere.
Though the song was originally released in 2003 on a bonus disc with the album Sleeping With Ghosts, the band started including it in their set while touring the UK in early 2006 and eventually released it as a single in October.


🔸"𝑰𝒕 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒂 𝒅𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒍 𝒉𝒊𝒕 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅𝒘𝒊𝒅𝒆," says Placebo's frontman, Brian Molko. "There was The O.C. effect, coupled with the fact that when we were last touring, when we started touring this record, Meds, so many people came up to ask and asked where they could get a hold of the song."


🔸Placebo is currently in their second year of touring behind Meds, the band's most recent studio album. They're in Toronto for a concert at the Kool Haus, and I'm sitting with Molko in a small, oddly decorated club somewhere off the complex's main room. /.../


🔸Molko's looks are much more restrained than the svelte, feminine image that made him something of a poster boy for modern glam almost a decade ago. He's wearing a navy blue button-up shirt with small white polka dots, tight blue jeans, and Converse sneakers (he'll change into dressier black shoes for tonight's show).
His dark hair is cut short and boyish, and at 34, a coat of makeup isn't entirely hiding the touch of age in his face. He chain-smokes Camel Lights and talks softly with a refined British accent. When his band-mates – bassist Stefan Olsdal and drummer Steve Hewitt – walk by, heading to another interview, he turns to look at them, drawing on his cigarette, and says, "𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒈𝒐 𝒎𝒚 𝒉𝒖𝒔𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒔."


🔸While Meds (their fifth studio effort) came out in most of the world in March 2006, it wasn't released in North America until January 2007.
Molko says that he doesn't mind the delay, since "𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒅𝒐𝒆𝒔𝒏'𝒕 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒔𝒎𝒐𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒍 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒔𝒊𝒙 𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒉𝒔 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒚𝒘𝒂𝒚."
But he wasn't happy with all aspects of the album's re-release. Listeners on this side of the Atlantic were treated to a couple bonus tracks ("Running Up That Hill," plus original track "UNEEDMEMORETHANINEEDU"), but the song "𝐈𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐋𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠" was left off the North American version. Though the situation confused many fans, it was actually Molko who forced the band's management and their U.S. label, Virgin Records, to remove the track.

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🔸"𝑰 𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒖𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒍𝒆𝒆𝒑 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒔 '𝒄𝒐𝒄𝒌' 𝒂𝒏𝒅 '𝒅𝒊𝒍𝒅𝒐,''' he explains, suggesting that the conservative ownership of major retailers like Wal-Mart made the label want to censor the material.
"𝑽𝒊𝒓𝒈𝒊𝒏 𝒑𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒖𝒑 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎, 𝒕𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒊𝒕 𝒐𝒇𝒇 𝑨𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒍𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒌𝒔, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅, '𝒀𝒐𝒖'𝒗𝒆 𝒈𝒐𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒍𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎𝒔.' 𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒕'𝒔 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆, '𝑭𝒊𝒏𝒆, 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒇𝒖𝒄𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒍 𝒊𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝒂 𝒑𝒊𝒆𝒄𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒇𝒐𝒊𝒍, 𝒊𝒕 𝒅𝒐𝒆𝒔𝒏'𝒕 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒅𝒐 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒇𝒖𝒄𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒍.' 𝑺𝒐 𝒊𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒊𝒄𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒓𝒆-𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒕 𝒐𝒓 𝒃𝒍𝒆𝒆𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒕 𝒐𝒖𝒕, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑰 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈."


🔸The rest of Meds, however, survived the re-release. The album isn't much of a departure for the band in terms of material (sex, drugs, etc.) and sound (synthy, menacing, occasionally brash). Meds also keeps with the band's seeming penchant for collaborations (between the stage and the studio, they've teamed up with the likes of David Bowie and Robert Smith in the past); both Alison Mosshart of The Kills and Michael Stipe of R.E.M. have guest spots on the record.


🔸Molko says that the title track was "𝒄𝒓𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒗𝒐𝒊𝒄𝒆 – 𝒂 𝒈𝒊𝒓𝒍." He knew Mosshart through her bandmate, Jamie Hince, with whom he'd been a friend since the two attended university together in the early '90s.
"𝑺𝒐 𝒘𝒆 𝒂𝒔𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝑨𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒐𝒏. 𝑺𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒊𝒏, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒉𝒆'𝒔 𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒃𝒍𝒚 𝒔𝒉𝒚, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒗𝒐𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒌 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕," he recalls.


🔸While the decision to include Mosshart was partly whim, Stipe's guest spot was integral. Molko says that "𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐧 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐞," the song on which Stipe appears, was written as a duet and wouldn't have gone on the record if the right guest weren't found. The band's known Stipe since 1998, when they appeared in Velvet Goldmine, a film he produced. But the idea to feature him on the track didn't come until a chance run-in at a Paris hotel.


🔸"𝑰𝒕 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒂 𝒅𝒖𝒆𝒕 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒂𝒅𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒚," Molko says of Stipe's inclusion, "𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒊𝒕 𝒐𝒄𝒄𝒖𝒓𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒖𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒂𝒅𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒚 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒆𝒅, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒔𝒖𝒏𝒈 𝒃𝒚 𝒕𝒘𝒐 𝒎𝒆𝒏? 𝑰𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆, 𝒍𝒆𝒕 𝒎𝒆 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘, 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝑰 𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒏'𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒏𝒆. 𝑷𝒍𝒖𝒔, 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒆 𝒕𝒘𝒐 𝒎𝒆𝒏 𝒃𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒎𝒚𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑴𝒊𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒆𝒍, 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒊𝒔…𝒂𝒉𝒉…𝒘𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒈𝒆, 𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒊𝒔, 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒃𝒐𝒕𝒉 𝒂𝒎𝒃𝒊𝒈𝒖𝒐𝒖𝒔, 𝑰 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒔 𝒊𝒕 𝒂 𝒍𝒐𝒕 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒉𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒂 𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒏."


🔸Though provocative material like the duet with Stipe features heavily on Meds, it doesn't necessarily reflect a life that Molko continues to lead. In 2005, he had a son, Cody, with his partner, Helena Berg.
"𝑰𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒚𝒍𝒆, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒊𝒕 𝒅𝒐𝒆𝒔𝒏'𝒕 𝒏𝒆𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒍𝒚 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕," he says, admitting that he hasn't written much since the birth and doesn't know whether or not fatherhood will factor in his songwriting. "𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝑰'𝒎 𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒆 [𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒌𝒆𝒓] 𝒔𝒖𝒃𝒋𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒔 𝒔𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒚 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆, 𝒂𝒔 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒐𝒍𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒆 𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒆 𝑰 𝒕𝒐𝒐𝒌, 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘. 𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝒊𝒕'𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝑨𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒔 𝑴𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒆, 𝒓𝒊𝒑-𝒂-𝒑𝒂𝒈𝒆-𝒐𝒖𝒕-𝒐𝒇-𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓-𝒅𝒊𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒔. 𝑰 𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒔𝒎𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍 𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔." /.../
("𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑃𝑂𝑃 𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑧𝑖𝑛𝑒", 𝑇𝑜𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑜 2007)

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PLACEBO INTERVIEW – BRAVO 2007

Dear soulmates,
What about another translation of an older Russian 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ? This one was published in 𝑩𝒓𝒂𝒗𝒐 magazine in April 2007.
Until that time, Placebo already played in Russia several times and got their devoted fanbase but probably, were still a bit less known as, for instance, in France. The article is written in kind of introductory style using – intentionally, of course – the hottest and most provocative topics to draw attention of the new fans.
I hope it’s going to be a nice read for you.
Big thanks to Anastasiya Loginova for the magazine scans!

Photo credit: Frazer Harrison

💢𝐋𝐎𝐍𝐄𝐋𝐘 𝐀𝐓 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐓💢
“I'm so happy we still exist! The fact that we managed to survive while many of our peers just disappeared, sounds hopeful,” says 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐, frontman of one of the most resonant and beautiful British bands.

"𝑴𝒊𝒓𝒓𝒐𝒓, 𝒎𝒊𝒓𝒓𝒐𝒓, 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒍𝒍, 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒈𝒖𝒚 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒃𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔? 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝑰 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒔𝒆𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒎𝒊𝒓𝒓𝒐𝒓?"

🔺 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑎 𝑤𝑎𝑙𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑙
They are insane. No, really! They confess to things that most people would be surely silent about. They don’t hesitate to publicly declare that they don’t adhere to a traditional sexual orientation (Brian Molko is bisexual, bassist Stefan Olsdal is interested in boys). They openly say that some of their songs are inspired by a crazy lifestyle - for example, Special K from the Black Market Music album is dedicated to ketamine. Brian Molko admitted that "heroin is the only drug in the world that I haven’t tried yet." Hair stands on end! But Placebo can be excused for all of that and even more. Because in music, they are gods!

🔺 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑀𝑜𝑙𝑘𝑜 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑏𝑜𝑟𝑛 𝑖𝑛 𝐵𝑒𝑙𝑔𝑖𝑢𝑚 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑
Bursts of electronic sound, pulsating bass, bouncy guitar sound: Placebo's style cannot be copied. All over the world, they are perceived not as an English but European band: an extra point for them since the arrogant British people have already set everyone on edge. Placebo's music can be sad, harsh, explosive - but it’s never boring or non-melodic. That was admitted by such titans of rock as The Cure and David Bowie, who willingly record duets with Brian and his band. The directors and film producers agree with that too: the song Every You Every Me became a real gem of the soundtrack of the movie Cruel Intentions, and Pure Morning is featured in the cult teen film The Chumscrubber. Recently, an ‘unholy trinity’ has been honored to get their Kate Bush cover Running Up That Hill included into the fourth season of the famous American series The O.C. And their single Infra-Red from the Meds album released in March [2006] reached the top positions in the world charts. Brian promises to release the next album in two or three years. He even came up with the title already but of course isn’t going to say anything to anyone.

🔺 𝐵𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑠 𝑔𝑢𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑟, 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑦 𝑠𝑎𝑥𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑏𝑎𝑛𝑗𝑜. 𝐻𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝐷𝐽
They are so different but still, they are together [𝑎𝑠 𝑤𝑒 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤, 𝑆𝑡𝑒𝑣𝑒 𝑙𝑒𝑓𝑡 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜 𝑠𝑜𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟, 𝑖𝑛 𝑂𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑏𝑒𝑟 2007]. When not making music with his bandmates, Brian spends time with his son Cody, plays saxophone and loves to give out witty phrases. “Opinion is like an ass, everyone has it." he grins. Drummer Steve Hewitt is recording a collaborative album with the […] Lamb's Jon Thorne. "Finally, after so many years, I’m working with Steve from Placebo!" - Thorne rejoices, and he knows a thing or two about good musicians
.
🔺 𝐵𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑠𝑡 𝑆𝑡𝑒𝑓𝑎𝑛 𝑂𝑙𝑠𝑑𝑎𝑙 𝑖𝑠 ℎ𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑐𝑖𝑟𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑠
Stefan Olsdal dreams of playing with ABBA and Sonic Youth: “It would be cool if we did a concert together and ABBA were the headliners,” he laughs. Also, all Placebo members joined the Global Cool charity, an anti-global warming organization. “If we’re able to do something positive, we do so,” says Olsdal. At the end of May, Placebo are coming to play in Moscow. This is the best thing they can do for their Russian fans.

Photo credit: Virgile Biechy

💢 𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐌𝐎𝐋𝐊𝐎 𝐎𝐍 ...💢
... 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞: "I love the fact that there are people who think I'm damn handsome and others who think I’m ugly."

... 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐢𝐠 𝐦𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡: “My big mouth tends to get me into troubles but there’s no other way for me. I’m small, and most people are bigger than me. If someone punched me I'd tell my drummer to beat them."

... 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬: "Because of the fact that they raised me strictly as a boy, now I absolutely don’t want to wear men's clothes."

… 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐱: “Actually it's very private. I was 14, she was French and my very first girlfriend. We were both virgins. It happened in my room. I later tried to convince my mother that my nose was bleeding, but she said: "Your lie is pretty strange dear!"

… 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫: “Every day there’s a hangover. And every time you look at yourself in the mirror you think: "I don't want to go out to people now!" And it’s the same every day. Groundhog Day. After about 50 days like this, I don't want anything at all."

… 𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞: “I was a devastated, lonely, and afraid of people teen. I felt extremely alienated and unhappy."
(𝐵𝑟𝑎𝑣𝑜 #15, 𝐴𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑙 11𝑡ℎ, 2007)

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BRIAN MOLKO INTERVIEW – CHICAGO MUSIC GUIDE 2007

In 2007 Placebo joined Project Revolution in the USA. This was an annual festival presented by Linkin Park that toured through the country. In the following ♦️𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖♦️ Brian talks about how travelling with Project Revolution felt and how he liked the different bands and beeing backstage with them. Enjoy reading!

Picture taken during the Project Revolution tour, credit unknown

𝗛𝗢𝗪 𝗛𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗕𝗘𝗘𝗡 𝗘𝗡𝗝𝗢𝗬𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗧𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗦𝗢 𝗙𝗔𝗥?
📢 “Look, we've been on the road for 18 months (lighting a Marlboro Lite). We've got two shows left of our world tour. So, We're eager to go home and take six months off.“

𝗗𝗢 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗚𝗨𝗬𝗦 𝗗𝗢 𝗔 𝗟𝗢𝗧 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗦𝗘 𝗢𝗨𝗧𝗗𝗢𝗢𝗥 𝗩𝗘𝗡𝗨𝗘 𝗦𝗧𝗬𝗟𝗘 𝗧𝗢𝗨𝗥𝗦?
📢 “We do a lot of festivals in Europe. This was our first, you know, this style of tour in the U.S. Coachella was our first [U.S. outdoor festival].“

𝗛𝗢𝗪 𝗗𝗢 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗟𝗜𝗞𝗘 𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗩𝗘𝗟𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗜𝗡𝗩𝗢𝗟𝗩𝗘𝗗 𝗜𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗦𝗘 𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗗 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗢𝗨𝗥𝗦?
📢 “I like arriving. (laughs) We have an 18 hour drive to Denver tonight, for example.“

𝗗𝗢 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗚𝗘𝗧 𝗔 𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗘, 𝗪𝗛𝗘𝗡 𝗬𝗢𝗨'𝗥𝗘 𝗢𝗙𝗙 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗚𝗘, 𝗧𝗢 𝗪𝗔𝗟𝗞 𝗔𝗥𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗗 𝗜𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗖𝗥𝗢𝗪𝗗𝗦 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗦𝗘𝗘 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗛𝗘𝗔𝗥 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥 𝗕𝗔𝗡𝗗𝗦?
📢 “Yeah, um, bits and pieces. Mindless Self Indulgence [MIS] just started and I was hoping to go see them.“

𝗬𝗘𝗔𝗛, 𝗠𝗘 𝗧𝗢𝗢.
📢 “Oh you too? Great.“

𝗦𝗢 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗬 𝗛𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝗕𝗘𝗘𝗡 𝗔 𝗛𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗟𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗬𝗢𝗨. 𝗔𝗡𝗬𝗢𝗡𝗘 𝗘𝗟𝗦𝗘 𝗬𝗢𝗨'𝗩𝗘 𝗘𝗡𝗝𝗢𝗬𝗘𝗗 𝗪𝗔𝗧𝗖𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗢𝗥 𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗛𝗔𝗡𝗚𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗕𝗔𝗖𝗞𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗚𝗘 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛?
📢 “Yeah, you know there's been a real sense of camaraderie back stage with this whole thing. You know, bands just cruising and mingling. It's been really good.“

𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗘'𝗦 𝗔 𝗟𝗢𝗧 𝗢𝗙 𝗗𝗜𝗙𝗙𝗘𝗥𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗠𝗨𝗦𝗜𝗖 𝗢𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗦 𝗧𝗢𝗨𝗥, 𝗦𝗢𝗠𝗘 𝗣𝗢𝗦𝗧 𝗛𝗔𝗥𝗗𝗖𝗢𝗥𝗘, 𝗘𝗠𝗢, 𝗥𝗢𝗖𝗞, 𝗘𝗟𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗥𝗢𝗡𝗜𝗖, 𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗡 𝗦𝗢𝗠𝗘 𝗛𝗜𝗣 𝗛𝗢𝗣 𝗝𝗨𝗠𝗣𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗔𝗥𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗘. 𝗛𝗢𝗪 𝗗𝗢 𝗬𝗣𝗜 𝗙𝗘𝗘𝗟 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗖𝗘𝗕𝗢 𝗙𝗜𝗧𝗦 𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗢 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗠𝗜𝗫 𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗘?
📢 “I'm not sure really. I know when we first started the tour the set was completely differentAnd we were quite, had a lot of bravado and you know, thought we could just waltz on in our French designer shirts and kind of play our particular brand of European melancholia, and we realized pretty damn quickly that Linkin Park and My Chem. fans, at 5 o'clock in the after noon, don't wish to be wooed. They want to be slapped across the face. So we had to change things around and find a bunch of songs that did exactly that. So we are show casing the more sort of punk side of our repertoire.“

𝗦𝗢 𝗛𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗕𝗘𝗘𝗡 𝗔𝗕𝗟𝗘 𝗧𝗢 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗬 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗡𝗘𝗪𝗘𝗥 𝗠𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗟 𝗢𝗥 𝗛𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗛𝗔𝗗 𝗧𝗢 𝗚𝗢 𝗕𝗔𝗖𝗞 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗦𝗢𝗠𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗟𝗜𝗘𝗥 𝗦𝗧𝗨𝗙𝗙?
📢 “We've had to go back and play 'Pure Morning' and 'Nancy Boy'. We haven't even rehearsed it or played it in three years. And then there's 'Pure Morning' which was like our biggest hit about ten years ago in the U.S. Then there's stuff from the new album, 'Taste in Men' which we kind of feel is our most Linkin Park-esque song. 'Every Me' which is well known in the U.S., it was on the Cruel Intentions thing. 'Running Up That Hill' which was a big hit digitally thanks to The O.C., went down like a lead balloon. So, it went down pretty damn quickly and as a single here. So we're not even playing the single here. That's fine. We're here to raise awareness about the band and not market a particular single. This is the end of the world tour for us. It's become about exposure in the U.S. Fair enough.“

𝗛𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗛𝗔𝗗 𝗔 𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗘 𝗧𝗢 𝗦𝗘𝗘 𝗝𝗨𝗟𝗜𝗘𝗡 𝗞? 𝗜 𝗞𝗡𝗢𝗪 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗬'𝗥𝗘 𝗔 𝗕𝗜𝗧 𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗘 𝗘𝗟𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗥𝗢𝗡𝗜𝗖.
📢 “Yeah. In fact today, you know, Brian, the singer was asked to be best man in his brother's wedding. So Chester from Linkin Park is doing the whole Julien K set. Yeah, he's been doing like the last song [of the set] and that's been good for us 'cause it pulls more people in.“

𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗜𝗡 𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗗, 𝗗𝗢 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗙𝗘𝗘𝗟 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗚𝗨𝗬𝗦 𝗛𝗘𝗩𝗘 𝗕𝗘𝗘𝗡 𝗚𝗘𝗧𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗔 𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗧𝗧𝗬 𝗚𝗢𝗢𝗗 𝗥𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗣𝗢𝗡𝗦𝗘 𝗙𝗥𝗢𝗠 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗖𝗥𝗢𝗪𝗗𝗦?
📢 “It's been pretty good considering, you know.“

Picture taken during the Project Revolution tour, credit unknown

𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗜𝗡 𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗗, 𝗗𝗢 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗙𝗘𝗘𝗟 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗚𝗨𝗬𝗦 𝗛𝗘𝗩𝗘 𝗕𝗘𝗘𝗡 𝗚𝗘𝗧𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗔 𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗧𝗧𝗬 𝗚𝗢𝗢𝗗 𝗥𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗣𝗢𝗡𝗦𝗘 𝗙𝗥𝗢𝗠 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗖𝗥𝗢𝗪𝗗𝗦?
𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗜𝗡 𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗗, 𝗗𝗢 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗙𝗘𝗘𝗟 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗚𝗨𝗬𝗦 𝗛𝗘𝗩𝗘 𝗕𝗘𝗘𝗡 𝗚𝗘𝗧𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗔 𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗧𝗧𝗬 𝗚𝗢𝗢𝗗 𝗥𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗣𝗢𝗡𝗦𝗘 𝗙𝗥𝗢𝗠 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗖𝗥𝗢𝗪𝗗𝗦?
📢 “Absolutely, yeah. When we turned the set around there was a really big difference. It took about three or four gigs to find the right songs.“

𝗬𝗘𝗔𝗛, 𝗜𝗧'𝗦 𝗔 𝗕𝗜𝗧 𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗘 '𝗛𝗔𝗥𝗗-𝗖𝗢𝗥𝗘' 𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗘. 𝗜𝗧 𝗗𝗢𝗘𝗦𝗡'𝗧 𝗦𝗘𝗘𝗠 𝗟𝗜𝗞𝗘 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗘𝗨𝗥𝗢𝗣𝗘𝗔𝗡 𝗙𝗔𝗡𝗦 𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗤𝗨𝗜𝗧𝗘 𝗔𝗦 𝗔𝗚𝗚𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗦𝗜𝗩𝗘.
📢 “You know what, I think you have to be flexible. If you're not flexible then, you know, people will just shut off after a while. It's good for a band as old as us and as successful as us, in different parts of the world, to still be faced with the challenge of being flexible and being faced with the challenge of playing songs that we wouldn't normally chose to play, because we feel we've moved on. So it's certainly challenging, is the best way to describe this whole experience for us.“

𝗪𝗘𝗟𝗟, 𝗜𝗧'𝗦 𝗚𝗢𝗢𝗗 𝗧𝗢 𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗟𝗟 𝗣𝗨𝗦𝗛 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗕𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗗𝗔𝗥𝗜𝗘𝗦 𝗔 𝗕𝗜𝗧 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗦𝗘𝗘 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗖𝗔𝗡 𝗗𝗢.
📢 “Absolutely because when you've been in a band for ten years and when you achieve success and notoriety around the globe, you know, it's very easy to get sort of complacent. And this kind of situation pulls you out of your bravado and your complacency. You have to walk the line in a way. So for us, we've had to kind of simplify everything and make it as punk rock as possible. It's kind of refreshing as well.“

𝗢𝗛, 𝗬𝗘𝗔𝗛. 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗚𝗨𝗬𝗦 𝗛𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝗕𝗘𝗘𝗡 𝗔𝗥𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗗 𝗟𝗢𝗡𝗚𝗘𝗥 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗡 𝗠𝗢𝗦𝗧 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗦𝗘 𝗕𝗔𝗡𝗗𝗦, 𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗥 𝗧𝗘𝗡 𝗬𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗦 𝗡𝗢𝗪, 𝗗𝗢 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗙𝗜𝗡𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗛𝗔𝗦 𝗔𝗡 𝗜𝗠𝗣𝗔𝗖𝗧 𝗢𝗡 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗔𝗦 𝗙𝗔𝗥 𝗔𝗦 𝗧𝗢𝗨𝗥𝗜𝗡𝗚?
📢 “There are certain aspects of it that you can't get as easily excited about. There are certain aspects that, since you've been faced with them so often, they become instantly more frustrating. But I think the magic of it is discovering new things the whole time through so, I think this has been a really, really, good way to end an 18 month world tour. It makes you reevaluate a great deal of things.“

𝗦𝗢 𝗢𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗪𝗛𝗢𝗟𝗘, 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗪𝗢𝗨𝗟𝗗 𝗦𝗔𝗬 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗜𝗧'𝗦 𝗕𝗘𝗘𝗡 𝗔 𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗧𝗧𝗬 𝗚𝗢𝗢𝗗 𝗧𝗜𝗠𝗘 𝗢𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗥𝗢𝗔𝗗, 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗬𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗛𝗔𝗡𝗚𝗜𝗚𝗡 𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗦𝗘 𝗗𝗜𝗙𝗙𝗘𝗥𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗕𝗔𝗡𝗗𝗦?
📢 Yeah, yeah, it's been fun.“

𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗬 [𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗕𝗔𝗡𝗗𝗦] 𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗗 𝗢𝗙 𝗔 𝗗𝗜𝗙𝗙𝗘𝗥𝗧𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗖𝗥𝗢𝗪𝗗.
📢 “Yeah and they're all good people and Linkin Park are very approachable and they even approach you. There's been no big egos or anything like that floating around. It's been like a summer camp kind of vibe, really. We have our little 'chill out' area set up outside [Placebo Gazebo] and it's become very important for us as well. It's been like our little hang out back stage where the bands and crews can come hang out. It's been a really good come together environment for people.“

𝗪𝗘𝗟𝗟, 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗡𝗞 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡. 𝗜 𝗞𝗡𝗢𝗪 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗪𝗔𝗡𝗡𝗔 𝗚𝗢 𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗘 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗦𝗘𝗘 𝗠𝗜𝗦.
📢 “Yeah, and so do you. Let's catch that show.“
(Chicago Music Guide, September 2007)

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STEFAN OLSDAL INTERVIEW: THE SEX AND THE DRUGS AND THE COMPLICATIONS

"𝑪𝒂𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆’𝒔 𝑮𝑨𝒀 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅?”

Dear soulmates, today I bring you an amazing interview provided by 𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐅𝐀𝐍 𝐎𝐋𝐒𝐃𝐀𝐋 for the MTV blog "You R Here" at the time Placebo toured with the Projekt Revolution US tour in 2007.
In this abridged version of Stefan's confession, you will learn, for example, whether his homosexuality affects his music, what the fateful week of his life was, and what Stefan thinks of love, monogamy, and infidelity.
Enjoy it, my dears, and then come to share your impressions.

Photo credit:M_A_G PHOTO ARCHIVES, Fenix Underground, Seattle 2007.Edit by Marti

𝐆𝐢𝐫𝐥𝐬 𝐆𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐏𝐮𝐧𝐤: 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎 — 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐱 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐫𝐮𝐠𝐬 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬
Love, Death, Drugs, Rock, Sex, Suicide, God and ABBA. Yes, we asked about and covered all the essentials! Not only did Placebo bassist Stefan Olsdal genuinely answer everything we dared throw his way, but he surprised us with some of the most personal information we’ve ever received, especially from a band of Placebo’s caliber!
In our 25-minute interview, the enchanting Olsdal openly spoke (with that gorgeous UK accent!) about what it means to truly hit rock bottom and suffer for your art, the MOST addictive drug he’s ever experienced and how Queens of the Stone Age gave him an inferiority complex. From a subway stop in London to present day, Olsdal allowed us, and now you, a unique look into the med-hazed journey of Placebo.

“Can you hear when listening to Placebo that there’s GAY people in the band?” Olsdal, wearing a white shirt, tight black pants and black sunglasses, rhetorically and sarcastically asked us when the topic of being a homosexual and a rock-star came into play. /.../

“There were times where our lifestyles, yes, were, or could have done with a bit of toning down,” Olsdal explained. “Our lifestyles and our sexualities and our images have been written about a lot.” /.../

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“Both me and Brian [Molko, lead vocals/guitar] have experienced homophobic attacks, both physical and verbal,” Olsdal said. “And I guess being in a band is kind of a license to do and look and sound like whatever you want to be because you have absolute freedom in EVERYTHING. We used that and embraced that quite a lot, especially in the early days - the way that we dressed. A lot of people mistaked Brian for a girl for example…”

We are interrupted by the sound of a bicycle bell and Olsdal turned his head and laughed while saying, “Speak of the devil!” in the direction of Molko waving to Olsdal. Olsdal turned back to us and joked, “HAH! His little gay wave on his little gay bike!”

We all laughed and then Olsdal continued, quickly taking the topic of homosexuality far from a joking matter.

“The three of us felt like outsiders when we were kids, for different reasons,” he said. “I guess for me it was because I was gay. But it gave me more time to sit and think more and become more tolerant and understanding and it gave me more time to listen to music. But does [being gay] mean I’m going to go out and make gay disco records? Not really, you know? It’s like when Billy Cogan shaved his head - did that affect his way of performing or writing music?”

Olsdal then cocked his head to the right as if trying to remember something and then said, “Uhh… does being gay affect my music?” unearthing our original question over 5 minutes later. “I guess my record collection is bit more “gay” than others, you know? I’m a huge ABBA fan, but that’s mostly because I’m Swedish. But I mean, everyone loves ABBA!”

His favorite ABBA song is “The Winner Takes It All.” As the story goes, after keyboardist Benny Andersson and vocalist Anni-Frid Lyngstad divorced in 1981, Andersson wrote that song for Lyngstad to sing.

“She’s basically singing, “I was left, I was dumped, and YOU, the winner takes it all!” Olsdal exclaimed, still dumbfounded by the story decades later. “That’s pretty hardcore. THAT is suffering for art!” /.../

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After leaving Luxembourg at the age of 16, Olsdal went back and lived in Sweden for a couple of years before making his home in London (where he presently resides) in 1993.
Although both students at the same school (the American International School of Luxembourg) together, Olsdal explained that they had never had a friendship and the story of Placebo’s beginning was both unexpected and somewhat cosmically intervened.

“It was one of those days where you just think that the hand of fate had something to do with the whole thing because it was just too much,” he recounted. “That week that I met Brian, I also met my partner. In one week my whole life kind of changed!” /.../

So after everything is said and done, what is Olsdal’s drug of choice?
“There have been a lot of songs written about it: LOVE,” he answered. “You know that feeling you have for someone else. Whatever happens inside you chemically when you feel that sort of affection or affinity to someone. I think that’s an amazing feeling. And if you’re sober while feeling it, that makes it even more intense and satisfying.”

“It’s like Nature Boy,” Olsdal said about the greatest lesson he’s learned from love. “What’s the lyric?…“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn, is just to love and be loved in return.” I guess I found out the value of [love] when I didn’t have it. And the person I was with actually took me back after I dumped him. And THEN I realized that I loved him.”

The love Olsdal repeatedly mentions throughout the interview comes from a 13-year relationship with his current partner. And although in an obvious monogamist partnership, Olsdal has his own definition of what that entails.

“We are not made to be monogamists really,” he said matter-of-factly. “It doesn’t matter how good a sex life you have with your partner. After about 7 years, you know that person inside and out – every inch of their body. And of course other flesh is going to be attractive. I believe that SEX IS A DRUG. You get your fix and you’re done. It doesn’t have anything to do with love whatsoever. To be unfaithful does not mean that you don’t love your partner.”

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