⭐ 𝟏𝟎𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐀𝐑𝐘 of 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐's "𝐁𝟑 𝐄𝐏" ⭐

🎉 Today we celebrate the ⭐ 𝟏𝟎𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐀𝐑𝐘 of 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐's "𝐁𝟑 𝐄𝐏" ⭐, which was released three days later than originally announced, on October 15, 2012.

The "𝑩𝟑 𝑬𝑷", was produced by 𝑨𝒅𝒂𝒎 𝑵𝒐𝒃𝒍𝒆, 𝑫𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒅 𝑩𝒐𝒕𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒍𝒍 and 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐; consists of five tracks, two new songs ("𝑩𝟑", "𝑰.𝑲.𝑾.𝒀.𝑳"), two unreleased songs that were recorded in the sessions of the previous album "𝑩𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝑭𝒐𝒓 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒖𝒏" ("𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑬𝒙𝒕𝒓𝒂", "𝑻𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝑰𝒔 𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒚") and finally, "𝑰 𝑲𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝑾𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝑻𝒐 𝑺𝒕𝒐𝒑", the cover of the 90s band 𝑴𝒊𝒏𝒙𝒖𝒔.

Photo cedits: Band - Kevin Westenberg, CD & vinyl covers - Helena Berg // Edit by Rira

💫 𝐁𝟑 🎼
https://bit.ly/3D0gzFV

💫 𝐈 𝐊𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐖𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐓𝐨 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐩 🎼
https://bit.ly/3s3yCV7

💫 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐚 🎼
https://bit.ly/3gc1FU4

💫 𝐈.𝐊.𝐖.𝐘.𝐋 🎼
https://bit.ly/3D0gzFV

💫 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐈𝐬 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐲 🎼
https://bit.ly/3S1XDL5


On May 31, 2012, the band announced on their website that after taking a well-deserved break, they had returned to the studio to record new music.


📍𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅 𝟎𝟓.𝟑𝟏.𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟐
📜“[...] 𝘞𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘢 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘬 𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘪𝘯 15 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘯𝘫𝘰𝘺𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘧𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴, 𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘫𝘶𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘧𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘴𝘰 𝘸𝘦'𝘳𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘰 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘯 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭. 𝘈 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘦 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸!!!

𝘞𝘦'𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘈𝘥𝘢𝘮 𝘕𝘰𝘣𝘭𝘦 (𝘥𝘌𝘜𝘚, 𝘙𝘦𝘥 𝘏𝘰𝘵 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪 𝘗𝘦𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴) 𝘰𝘯 𝘢 𝘣𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘩 𝘰𝘧 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘸𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘚𝘶𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘳."

Photo cedits: Charlotte Boquet

And so it was, the following month 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 premiered "𝑰 𝑲𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝑾𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝑻𝒐 𝑺𝒕𝒐𝒑" a cover version of the band 𝑴𝒊𝒏𝒙𝒖𝒔, in four of the five concerts of the mini tour "𝑨 𝑹𝑶𝑪𝑲 𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔", which are to date the only times the band has played this song live.


🎸 𝐈 𝐊𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐖𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐓𝐨 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐩 - 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐇𝐚𝐦𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐠 𝟎𝟐.𝟎𝟕.𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟐 🎶
https://bit.ly/3zIYVFl


Then, on July 28, 2012 at the 𝑳𝒐𝒘 𝑪𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝑭𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒍 in 𝑩𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒅𝒐𝒓𝒎, 𝑺𝒑𝒂𝒊𝒏, almost at the end of the show, 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐 paused to premiere their brand new song, which he introduced speaking in 𝑺𝒑𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒉, saying more or less like this:


✨🎤 "𝑭𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒔, 𝒈𝒊𝒓𝒍𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒔… 𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒂 𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒆, 𝒂 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕… 𝑭𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅𝒘𝒊𝒅𝒆, 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈, 𝒇**𝒌 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒉!! 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒔 𝑩𝟑" 🎶✨


🎸 𝐁𝟑 - 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐭 𝐋𝐨𝐰 𝐂𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟐 🎶
https://bit.ly/3EEXAlr


💫⭐ 𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐌𝐎𝐋𝐊𝐎 𝐎𝐍 𝐁𝟑 𝐄𝐏 ⭐💫
🎙️"We reconvened in the summer of 2012 ostensibly to record a new single as we had just signed a new record deal. That single morphed into the five-track B3 EP which we released in the autumn to placate the more militant factions of our fanbase."
▪️𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝚋𝚔.𝚊𝚜𝚒𝚊-𝚌𝚒𝚝𝚢.𝚌𝚘𝚖, 𝟸𝟶𝟷𝟹.

🎙️"[...] At the time we got in the studio to record one and only single, just one song. Then we thought fans would like to hear more, that's where the idea of the EP came from. While we were in the studio recording "B3", the idea of working on a full album insidiously came in our minds. Spontaneously, we were already writing Loud Like Love."
▪️𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝙼𝚢 𝚁𝚘𝚌𝚔, 𝙹𝚞𝚕𝚢 𝟸𝟶𝟷𝟹.

Photo cedits: Getty Images

💫⭐ 𝐁𝟑 𝐄𝐏 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐊 ⭐💫
The cover photo of both the CD and the limited edition clear vinyl is very special, as the boy kissing the glass and behind those clouds of steam is none other than 𝑪𝒐𝒅𝒚 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐. The photographs were taken by his mother, the photographer 𝑯𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒂 𝑩𝒆𝒓𝒈. On the other hand, the internal images of the sky were taken by 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐 and the design was done by 𝑨𝒏𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒏𝒚 𝑪𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒌. Along with the release of the "𝑩𝟑 𝑬𝑷", 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 launched the "#𝑩𝟑𝑲𝒊𝒔𝒔 𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏" 💋 where fans had to recreate the cover to win a framed test print of the "𝑩𝟑 𝑬𝑷" cover picture signed by 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏, 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 and 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒗𝒆 𝑭𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕. The winner was chosen by the band members themselves.


⭐ 𝐂𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐅𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐬 ⭐
✨ On the occasion of 𝑹𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒅 𝑺𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝑫𝒂𝒚 on April 20, 2013, a limited edition of the "𝑩𝟑 𝑬𝑷" was released on 10-inch clear vinyl.

✨ The "𝑩𝟑"official video was released on October 17, 2012 and was directed by 𝑬𝒓𝒊𝒄 𝑬𝒑𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒊𝒏.

✨ About the title track, 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 and 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 stated that:
🎙️" 'B' means "Brian", and 3... well, it’s just a number."
▪️𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚏𝚊𝚗 𝙾𝚕𝚜𝚍𝚊𝚕, 𝚃𝚒𝚖𝚎 𝙾𝚞𝚝, 𝚂𝚎𝚙𝚝𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛 𝟸𝟶𝟷𝟹.

🎙️ "I am dissatisfied with who I am.That's why the song, 'B3' is about the freedom to pursue what is essential. But identifying that is difficult because you change. I'm different than when the band was founded. And now I'm bored when I look in the mirror and put on the make-up."
▪️𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘,𝙺𝚞𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚛, 𝟸𝟶𝟷𝟸.


🎸 𝐁𝟑 - 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐭 𝐒𝐳𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟐 🎶
https://bit.ly/3ewLsYX

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💥𝐁𝟑 𝐓𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐀𝐑𝐘💥

Exactly ten years ago today, on July 28th, 2012, Placebo went on a short 𝐁𝟑 𝐓𝐎𝐔𝐑, almost three months before their same-titled EP would be released in October 2012.
All in all, 18 concerts, including the festival shows, were planned for the tour. The first one took place on July 28th at 𝑳𝒐𝒘 𝑪𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝑭𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒍 in 𝑺𝒑𝒂𝒊𝒏.

Photo credit: Charlotte Boquet

𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 - 𝐁𝟑, 𝐋𝐨𝐰 𝐂𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟐, 𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐝𝐨𝐫𝐦, 𝐒𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐧
🎬 https://bit.ly/3QAsvCW 🎵

Not everything went smoothly during this tour (as at 𝑭𝒓𝒆𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒚 𝑭𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒍 in Austria on August 16th when the show was stopped after the first song). However, Placebo managed to play several brilliant concerts which would be always remembered by the fans as true highlights of the band’s live history.

𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 – 𝐒𝐳𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟐, 𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰, 𝐎́𝐛𝐮𝐝𝐚 𝐈𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝, 𝐇𝐮𝐧𝐠𝐚𝐫𝐲, 𝐀𝐮𝐠𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝟖𝐭𝐡, 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟐
🎬 https://bit.ly/3Abs5xh 🎵

“Next, we race back to the main stage in order to catch Placebo who are armed with new material in the form of ‘B3’ alongside the now “classic” body of work that they’ve perfected. Their energy is infectious, and it’s good to see them headlining such a credible festival bill (they’ve done it before, here too). Tonight at Sziget, it is very easy to see just how Placebo have been able to graduate from snotty androgynous punks to an internationally recognised and celebrated rock legends. This is signified in the set as well; the band leave out tracks like ‘Nancy Boy’ in favour of the (arguably) more mature (and polished) ‘Infra-Red’ to close things off. Again, it’s just obvious that this band have grown up and developed, and in our opinion that’s no bad thing.”
(𝑆𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑠𝑝ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒, 𝐿𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑅𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤, 𝐴𝑢𝑔𝑢𝑠𝑡 2012)

Photo credit: Cotorep

By the way, on that day Placebo shared the festival scene with the Belgian band 𝐝𝐄𝐔𝐒 whom 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 called one of his favourite bands and also his personal friends.
A great performance of 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝑩𝟑, shared in the video below, was recorded at this very festival. I hope you enjoy it!

𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 – 𝐓𝐚𝐮𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟐, 𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰, 𝐆𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐲, 𝐀𝐮𝐠𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝟏𝟎𝐭𝐡, 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟐
🎬 https://bit.ly/3Oh3OtG 🎵

“They were THE headliner on Friday. Only a few shows this year in Germany, and one of them at Taubertal. Huge expectations have met the fullest satisfaction. Brian Molko, singer and guitarist and frontman of the band, was fashionably polite during the 90-minute set. In good understandable German he addressed the ladies with “Remember Me” - before Special Needs from the Sleeping With Ghosts album. We will definitely not forget Placebo. The lightshow with five screens above the stage was amazing and perfectly contributed alternative rock by Placebo. As previous albums of the Brits were represented, as so the new album sounded very good.
The release of Battle For The Sun was a great return after a three-year hiatus. The version of Kate Bush’s Running Up That Hill was just fantastic as one of four encores.”
(𝑀𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑐 𝑂𝑛 𝑁𝑒𝑡, 2012)

𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 - 𝐂𝐨𝐤𝐞 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥, 𝐊𝐫𝐚𝐤𝐨𝐰, 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝, 𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰, 𝐀𝐮𝐠𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝟏𝟐𝐭𝐡, 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟐
🎬 https://bit.ly/3tSbeLN 🎵

Photo credit: Cozycot

“Although it may be difficult to find a link between the Californian rapper (Snoop Dogg) and Placebo, festivals are there to make communication possible just because the fans of both artists have fun in front of the stage together. And Placebo fans had a lot to write home about. An hour and a half of music by the band in absolutely peak form. Brian Molko has lost nothing of his magnetic charisma and kept a perfect feel of the stage. Steve Forrest, the percussionist who joined the band four years ago, clearly managed to find ground under his feet and now feels entirely confident in the company of Placebo founders. The concert opened with Kitty Litter from the still popular Battle for the Sun, the album most extensively represented during the show, but they also had surprises in store, such as, for example, I Know from their debut album or Meds, originally performed with Alison Mosshart. The second part of the concert started with Running Up That Hill from the repertoire of Kate Bush. Interestingly, just an hour earlier, the song played an important role during the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games. Alongside this cover and pieces like Infra-Red and Post Blue, the encores featured the band's only new piece – B3.”
(𝐵𝑖𝑢𝑟𝑜 𝐹𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑒, 𝐴𝑢𝑔𝑢𝑠𝑡 2012)

The final show of the B3 tour was played on September 22nd in 𝑴𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒌, 𝑩𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒓𝒖𝒔.
𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 – 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐬, 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐤, 𝐁𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐮𝐬, 𝐒𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟐𝐧𝐝, 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟐
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🎸 𝐌𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐬-𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐳: '𝐀 𝐑𝐎𝐂𝐊 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬' 🎸

🎉 𝟏𝟎 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒂𝒈𝒐 𝒕𝒐𝒅𝒂𝒚, it began in 𝑷𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒔 ⭐𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐌𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐬-𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐳: '𝐀 𝐑𝐎𝐂𝐊 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬' 🎸⭐, a mini-tour of only 𝒇𝒊𝒗𝒆 concerts through different 𝑬𝒖𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒏 cities that 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 made in collaboration with a famous 𝑮𝒆𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒏 luxury car brand to launch the new 𝑨-𝑪𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒔. After some time away from the stage, the band announced this tour on their official website as follows:

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✨ 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅 𝟎𝟓.𝟑𝟏.𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟐

📢 "𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘢 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘸𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘢𝘯 𝘶𝘱𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘣𝘰 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘺, 𝘴𝘰 𝘸𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘶𝘱 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵'𝘴 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘴.

𝘞𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘢 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘬 𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘪𝘯 15 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘯𝘫𝘰𝘺𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘧𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴, 𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘫𝘶𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘧𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘴𝘰 𝘸𝘦'𝘳𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘰 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘯 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭. 𝘈 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘦 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸!!!

𝘞𝘦'𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘈𝘥𝘢𝘮 𝘕𝘰𝘣𝘭𝘦 (𝘥𝘌𝘜𝘚, 𝘙𝘦𝘥 𝘏𝘰𝘵 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪 𝘗𝘦𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴) 𝘰𝘯 𝘢 𝘣𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘩 𝘰𝘧 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘸𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘚𝘶𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘳. 𝘞𝘦'𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨. 𝘞𝘦'𝘳𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘢 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘰 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘳 𝘯𝘦𝘹𝘵 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳.

𝘞𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘢 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘵 𝘚𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦, 𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘯 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘦𝘯𝘫𝘰𝘺𝘦𝘥 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘮 𝘶𝘱 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘸𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘓𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘱𝘰𝘰𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘌𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘨𝘩. 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘬𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘸𝘴 (𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘥𝘪𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘓𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘱𝘰𝘰𝘭)! 𝘐𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘧𝘶𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘦'𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘨𝘪𝘨𝘴 𝘸𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘺𝘰𝘶.

𝘞𝘦'𝘷𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘶𝘱 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘮 𝘢𝘵 𝘔𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘴-𝘉𝘦𝘯𝘻 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘯 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘴 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥𝘸𝘪𝘥𝘦. 𝘔𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘔𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘋 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘦 𝘉𝘰𝘺𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘓𝘈 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘙𝘢𝘧 𝘚𝘪𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘴 (𝘧𝘢𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘦𝘳 𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘶𝘱 𝘋𝘪𝘰𝘳) 𝘪𝘯 𝘉𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘪𝘯 𝘰𝘯 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘈𝘷𝘢𝘯𝘵-𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘦 𝘋𝘪𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴.

𝘞𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘔𝘉'𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯, 𝘧𝘢𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤, 𝘴𝘰 𝘸𝘦'𝘷𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢 𝘳𝘶𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘸𝘴 (𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘸𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘒) 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘩 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘈 𝘊𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴 𝘤𝘢𝘳 𝘪𝘯 𝘷𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘴 𝘌𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘹𝘵 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘩.

𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘢 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 5 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘸𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘴, 𝘙𝘰𝘮𝘦, 𝘡𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘩, 𝘏𝘢𝘮𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘨, 𝘔𝘢𝘥𝘳𝘪𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘍𝘙𝘌𝘌 𝘵𝘰 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘣𝘰 𝘧𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘷𝘪𝘢 𝘢𝘯 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯.

𝘍𝘰𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘸𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘵𝘴, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘴-𝘉𝘦𝘯𝘻 𝘸𝘦𝘣𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘸, 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘢𝘥𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘬𝘴.

𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯, 𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘧𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘷𝘦 𝘹
✨🚗✨🚗✨🚗✨🚗✨

Placebo live at Le Bataclan, Paris,June 22nd 2006. Photo credit: Mauro Melis

As you just read, to attend these shows you only had to register on the new car model's website and be very lucky 🍀, as ticket winners were selected at random. Each concert was limited to an audience of around 800 people. The mini-tour started on June 22, 2012 in 𝑷𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒔 and ended on July 5, 2012 in 𝑴𝒂𝒅𝒓𝒊𝒅.


⭐ 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐌𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐬-𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐳: '𝐀 𝐑𝐎𝐂𝐊 - 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬' 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐨𝐬:
🎬 https://bit.ly/3b1IxoX 🚗

🎬 https://bit.ly/39o2Xs8 🚗

⚡ Enjoy watching some videos of these shows! I ordered them according to the setlist they used to play during this tour. 🎶


🎸 𝑲𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒚 𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓 - 𝑳𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑨 𝑹𝑶𝑪𝑲 𝑴𝒂𝒅𝒓𝒊𝒅
https://bit.ly/3mXO4jo

🎸 𝑺𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒌 𝑰𝒏 𝑻𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒖𝒆𝒔 - 𝑳𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑨 𝑹𝑶𝑪𝑲 𝑷𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒔
https://bit.ly/3tHtl6X

🎸 𝑩𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝑬𝒚𝒆𝒅 - 𝑳𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑨 𝑹𝑶𝑪𝑲 𝑴𝒂𝒅𝒓𝒊𝒅
https://bit.ly/39u3Waf

🎸 𝑴𝒆𝒅𝒔 - 𝑳𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑨 𝑹𝑶𝑪𝑲 𝑷𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒔
https://bit.ly/3mVyvZj

🎸 𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝑰'𝒎 𝑵𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 - 𝑳𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑨 𝑹𝑶𝑪𝑲 𝑷𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒔
https://bit.ly/3b0FcXj

🎸 𝑻𝒆𝒆𝒏𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝑨𝒏𝒈𝒔𝒕 - 𝑳𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑨 𝑹𝑶𝑪𝑲 𝑯𝒂𝒎𝒃𝒖𝒓𝒈
https://bit.ly/3MZAneh

🎸 𝑺𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝑲 - 𝑳𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑨 𝑹𝑶𝑪𝑲 𝑷𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒔
https://bit.ly/3OkK73P

🎶🔹 𝐄𝐧𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐞🔹 🎶
🎸 𝑵𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒚 𝑩𝒐𝒚 - 𝑳𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑨 𝑹𝑶𝑪𝑲 𝑷𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒔
https://bit.ly/3N0672L

🎸 𝑷𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝑩𝒍𝒖𝒆 - 𝑳𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑨 𝑹𝑶𝑪𝑲 𝑯𝒂𝒎𝒃𝒖𝒓𝒈
https://bit.ly/3NW7nFs

🎸 𝑻𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒆 𝑰𝒏 𝑴𝒆𝒏 - 𝑳𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑨 𝑹𝑶𝑪𝑲 𝑷𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒔
https://bit.ly/3zJmxtB

🎸 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 𝑳𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒁𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒉 (𝑮𝒊𝒈 𝑺𝒏𝒊𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒕𝒔)
https://bit.ly/3b6WPF9

Photo credot: usgang.ch

🌟 𝐂𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐅𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐬 🌟

🔸At the first concert of this tour in 𝑷𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒔, 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 played "𝑰𝒏 𝑨 𝑭𝒖𝒏𝒌", the 𝒃𝒐𝒏𝒖𝒔 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒌 from "𝑩𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝑭𝒐𝒓 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒖𝒏 - 𝑱𝒂𝒑𝒂𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒆 𝑬𝒅𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏" (2009). It is the only time the band has performed this song live.

🎸 𝑰𝒏 𝑨 𝑭𝒖𝒏𝒌 - 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 𝑳𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝑷𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒔 𝟐𝟐.𝟎𝟔.𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟐
https://bit.ly/3N14BNL

🔸Another song they played only on the first four concerts of this tour was.

""𝑰 𝑲𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝑾𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝑻𝒐 𝑺𝒕𝒐𝒑", an original song by the band 𝑴𝒊𝒏𝒙𝒖𝒔, which they later recorded and released on the "𝑩𝟑 𝑬𝑷" (2012).

🎸 𝑰 𝑲𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝑾𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝑻𝒐 𝑺𝒕𝒐𝒑 - 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 𝑳𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝑯𝒂𝒎𝒃𝒖𝒓𝒈 𝟎𝟐.𝟎𝟕.𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟐
https://bit.ly/3zIYVFl

🔸The band also released a series of short films of each show directed and edited by their friend 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒊𝒆 𝑻𝒂𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒕-𝑨𝒅𝒂𝒎𝒔, who had previously worked with them making the documentaries "𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑼𝒑 𝑭𝒐𝒓 𝑨𝒊𝒓" (2010) and "𝑨 𝑵𝒆𝒘 𝑻𝒐𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒐𝒘" (2011), and later he made the film "𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐: 𝑨𝑳𝑻. 𝑹𝒖𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒂" (2014).

🎥 𝑷𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒔 𝟐𝟐.𝟎𝟔.𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟐
https://bit.ly/3zJXYwq

🎥 𝑹𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝟐𝟓.𝟎𝟔.𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟐
https://bit.ly/3QmNAk9

🎥 𝒁𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝟐𝟖.𝟎𝟔.𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟐
https://bit.ly/3zAoSqC

🎥 𝑯𝒂𝒎𝒃𝒖𝒓𝒈 𝟎𝟐.𝟎𝟕.𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟐
https://bit.ly/3zFQiex

🎥 𝑴𝒂𝒅𝒓𝒊𝒅 𝟎𝟓.𝟎𝟕.𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟐
https://bit.ly/3zGwBDx

Tour poster

📍A year later, Brian talked in an interview about his experiences on this tour.

💠𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐌𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐬 (𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐥𝐚𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐌𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐀-𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬).
🎤𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: (evasive) "I don't have a driver's license."

💠𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧. 𝐒𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐧'𝐭 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐚 𝐌𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐀?
🎤𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 : "No, but I would have accepted it. Every now and then, sit in my Mercedes A in the garage: I think it's fine (laughs). No, that event for Mercedes ... is not something we will do ever again. A big disappointment. From the moment advertising agencies come into play, you can say goodbye to your artistic butt. I'm not going to hang other people's dirty clothes, but I met the abdomen there. ”

💠𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐮𝐥.
🎤𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: “If people were still buying records instead of copying them, artists like us wouldn't have to do things like this. And I'm a father, I have a seven-year-old son, so you think differently. But as stated, we will never do it again. "
▪️𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝙷𝚄𝙼𝙾, 𝟸𝟶𝟷𝟹.


Some things are enough to do once and 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏's reasons for not doing such collaborations again are very reasonable and respectable. In my opinion, if people enjoyed the shows then it wasn't all that bad, don't you think? 

Photo credits pic 1: Mercedes-Benz 'A ROCK', 07.05.2012 / Screenshot from short film / Charlotte Bocquet Photography / Usgang.ch/ rocknconcert // Edit by Rita

Post by Rita

🎤🔴 𝕀ℕ𝕋𝔼ℝ𝕍𝕀𝔼𝕎 𝕎𝕀𝕋ℍ 𝔹ℝ𝕀𝔸ℕ 𝔸𝕋 ℝ𝕆ℂ𝕂 𝔼ℕ 𝕊𝔼𝕀ℕ𝔼 (𝟚𝟘𝟙𝟚) 🔴🎤

🔸 For this rock event, the 𝑹𝒐𝒄𝒌 𝑬𝒏 𝑺𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒇𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒍, which takes place at the gates of Paris, Placebo was headlining with Greenday, Sigur Ros, Noel Gallagher, the Black Keys and other bands on August 24, 2012.

For the first time that night, they played, for the French audience, B3 from the brand new EP that is about to be released "in September" as Brian says in the following interview. But B3EP was released a tiny month later, on 15 October 2012.

A rather light and relaxed interview, where Brian seems a bit nervous but also very happy to be there. I find some of the interviewer's questions a bit inappropriate, but that doesn't spoil the mood.

🔸 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑏𝑟𝑜𝑎𝑑𝑐𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑛 𝐹𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑚 ‘𝐸𝑠𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑒 𝐸𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑒’ ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝐸𝑚𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑢𝑒𝑙 𝐾ℎ𝑒́𝑟𝑎𝑑.
𝑬𝒏𝒋𝒐𝒚 𝑺𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔 !🌹

Photo credit:  Kevin Westenberg, Rock en Seine Poster, Edit by Laetitia

📻 𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝗹𝗸𝗼 !
📢 Good evening !


📻 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗸 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗺𝘂𝗰𝗵 𝘁𝗼 𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 '𝗘𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗹𝗲' 𝗶𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗹𝗼𝗱𝗴𝗲 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗯𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗴𝗶𝗴. 𝗜𝘁'𝘀 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗯𝗼'𝘀 𝗯𝗶𝗴 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸, 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗮 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗮𝗹𝗯𝘂𝗺 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗲𝘅𝗰𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗮𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂. 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲'𝘀 𝗮 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝘆𝗼𝘂'𝗿𝗲 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲, 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝘅𝗰𝗹𝘂𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗴, 𝐵𝟯.
📢 Yeah, 'B trois' (𝘪𝘯 𝘍𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘩) or 'B three' (𝘪𝘯 𝘌𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘩).


📻 𝗜𝘁'𝘀 𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗮𝘆 𝗶𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗵.
📢 𝐵3 (𝘪𝘯 𝘍𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘩). Why not !


📻 𝐵𝟯, 𝗜 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗶𝘁.
📢 (𝘓𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘴) It's our new single which will be part of an EP that will be released in September. We went into the studio to record a single and we thought it had been a long time since we had released songs for the fans, so we decided to release a five track EP, including four original 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜 tracks. We got on so well with our new producer, 𝐴𝑑𝑎𝑚 𝑁𝑜𝑏𝑙𝑒, who produced the last DEUS album, that we thought: "Come on. We really have the feeling we already started working on our new album". We think that we do already have three or four tracks recorded for it and we'll get back in the studio in October to finish the 7th album. We hope it'll be released next spring. Tonight, we're going to play our new single for the first time in France.


📻 𝗬𝗲𝘀, 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁'𝘀 𝗻𝗲𝘄. 𝗟𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝘄𝗲 𝗺𝗲𝘁, 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻, 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗮𝗹𝗯𝘂𝗺 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲, 𝐵𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝐹𝑜𝑟 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑢𝑛, 𝗶𝘁'𝘀 𝗮 𝗹𝘂𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗱, 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗮 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗺. 𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘀𝗮𝗶𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵 𝗮𝗹𝗯𝘂𝗺 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗼𝗻𝗲. 𝗗𝗼 𝘄𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗮 𝗱𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗹𝗯𝘂𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 ?
📢 Not necessarily dark but... 𝐵𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝐹𝑜𝑟 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑢𝑛 was a very rock'n'roll album, a bit magnificent, wide-screen. It's important for us not to do the same thing on every album. The way we recorded it changed. We used to have a very classical approach for 𝐵𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝐹𝑜𝑟 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑢𝑛. Now, we're working with a producer who is younger than we are, who grew up with computers.

Photo credit: Thomas Sanmon

📻 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗻…
📢 Yeah, yeah. It's very interesting because the older producers that we've worked with had to adapt to computers but our producer, 𝐴𝑑𝑎𝑚 𝑁𝑜𝑏𝑙𝑒, is 30 years old. He grew up with them. So now we use our iPhones, iPads and things like that. It's a completely different process. So it's kind of a renewal through technology.


📻 I𝗜𝘁'𝘀 𝗷𝗼𝘆𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗻 ?
📢 Yeah, there's a lot of joy on the album, yeah.


📻 𝗛𝗼𝘄𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻, 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗾𝘂𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝗿𝗸 𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲 ? 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘀𝗮𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗸𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂.
📢 Of course I always loved music that makes me cry. But why not ? There's some kind of beauty in it. I love music that makes me cry but also that makes me feel happy to get that particular feeling. For example, one of my favorite songs is 𝑁𝑒 𝑀𝑒 𝑄𝑢𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑒 𝑃𝑎𝑠 by 𝐽𝑎𝑐𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑠 𝐵𝑟𝑒𝑙.


📻 𝗜𝘀 𝗶𝘁 𝗺𝗲𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗱𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂 ?
📢 I guess so, yeah, because I carry it within me.


📻 𝗬𝗼𝘂'𝗿𝗲 𝗮 𝗯𝗶𝗴 𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗰, 𝗮 𝗯𝗶𝗴 𝗺𝗲𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝗺𝗮𝗻. 𝗜𝘀 𝗶𝘁 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗲𝘅𝗵𝗶𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗺 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲, 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂'𝗿𝗲 𝗳𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 ?
📢 Absolutely, it is a background that's necessary for me because I'm not an exhibitionist in my everyday life. But I feel I need it. Fortunately I found a context to show myself off (𝘓𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘴). The time I spend on stage simply fulfills my desire. Then, I can come back home and be serene and quiet.

Photo credit: Damien Rigondeaud  

📻 𝗔𝘀 𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂'𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲, 𝘆𝗼𝘂'𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗯𝗹𝘂𝗿 ?
📢 What do you mean by blur ?


📻 𝗧𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘁𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 ? 𝗕𝗲𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗱𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗴𝗼, 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝘁'𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝟯 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀.
📢 I think it's very important, you have to welcome the uncertainty with arms wide open.


📻 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗯𝗼 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝗻𝘀 '𝐼 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒' 𝗶𝗻 𝗟𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 ?
📢 That's correct, yeah.


📻 𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 ?
📢 It may sound a little bit selfish but I think that as long as we please ourselves in the first place, it'll be easier to please others. That's the most important. So you must keep pleasing yourself.


📻 𝗜𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟬𝟵, 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝗹𝗸𝗼, 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘀𝗮𝗶𝗱 '𝗪𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘆 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘄𝗲'𝗿𝗲 𝘀𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿'. 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲'𝘀 𝗮 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗳𝗮𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗯𝗼 𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁'𝘀 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗱𝗿𝘂𝗴𝘀. 𝗜𝘁'𝘀 𝑆𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝐾. 𝗜𝘁 𝘀𝗲𝗲𝗺𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗱𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗺𝘂𝗰𝗵. 𝗛𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝗱𝗿𝘂𝗴𝗴𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗿 𝗱𝗿𝘂𝗻𝗸𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 ?
📢 (𝘓𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘴) Well...There were times when we all fell on our asses with it but it was like a kind of gasoline that gave the band fire. It was a physical necessity to change our lives. It's impossible to live the rock'n'roll lifestyle of a young 25 year-old when you're in your 40s. So there are things you need to change in your life.


📻 𝗜𝘁'𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗼𝗱𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗻'𝘁 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗶𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝘆𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 ?
📢 Exactly !

Photo credit: Abaca

📻 𝗢𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘄𝗶𝘀𝗲, 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗸𝗲𝗽𝘁 𝘂𝗽 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗲𝘅𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀 ?
📢 I don't know.. Not necessarily..


📻 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘀𝗲𝗲𝗺 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝘄𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 !
📢 Really ?


📻 𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗵 ! 𝗘𝗮𝗰𝗵 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗜 𝘀𝗲𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂, 𝗜 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗹 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝘄𝗶𝘀𝗲.
📢 It makes me happy then (𝘓𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘴). I really am !


📻 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁'𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗳𝗮𝘃𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝘁𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆 ?
📢 Oh I don't know. Tonight, we're going to play one of my favorite songs from the last album which is 𝑆𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑘 𝑖𝑛 𝑇𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑢𝑒𝑠. I really love this one. '𝑊𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑏𝑢𝑖𝑙𝑑 𝑎 𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑡𝑜𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑜𝑤 𝑡𝑜𝑑𝑎𝑦'. "𝑂𝑛 𝑝𝑒𝑢𝑡 𝑐𝑟𝑒́𝑒𝑟 𝑢𝑛 𝑛𝑜𝑢𝑣𝑒𝑎𝑢 𝑑𝑒𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑎𝑢𝑗𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑑'ℎ𝑢𝑖" (𝘪𝘯 𝘍𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘩).


📻 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗳𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗮𝗹𝗯𝘂𝗺. 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗳𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝗷𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝗹𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘀. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗵-𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝐵𝑢𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑟 𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑒𝑛, 𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑡𝑒̀𝑔𝑒-𝑀𝑜𝑖, 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗚𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗯𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗴 𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗹... 𝗗𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗵 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀 ?
📢 No musical project in French at the moment. Actually, it's been a long time since I last spoke French (𝘓𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘴). Even talking to you is a bit hard !


📻 𝗜𝘁'𝘀 𝗼𝗸𝗮𝘆, 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗻'𝘁 𝗹𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻 !
📢 Okay. I was a bit nervous. (𝘓𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘴)


📻 𝗬𝗼𝘂'𝗿𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄𝘀 ?
📢 Way more than before going on stage, yeah. Because I have a big mouth so I usually say some bullshit that I regret. (𝘓𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘴)


📻 𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝗕𝗮𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗹𝘂𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 ? 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗼 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗔𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗶𝗿𝗲, 𝗥𝗶𝗺𝗯𝗮𝘂𝗱. 𝗗𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 ? 𝗜𝘀 𝗶𝘁 𝗴𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗮𝘆 𝘀𝗼 ?
📢 I think it's a compliment if it is. I think there are just as many people who think the exact opposite. It's just a point of view and I'm too close to music to see it that way.

Photo credit: Abaca 

📻 𝗗𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄, 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘁𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗲𝘁𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗨𝟮, 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗶𝗴𝗴𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗸 𝗯𝗮𝗻𝗱. 𝗦𝗼 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗻𝗼𝘄, 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻 ?
📢 We're still trying (𝘓𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘴). There's those guys from Coldplay who took it over a bit.


📻 𝗜𝘁 𝗯𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮 𝗯𝗶𝘁 ?
📢 Well, yeah but that's okay, they're nice.


📻 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗸 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘀𝗼 𝗺𝘂𝗰𝗵 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝗹𝗸𝗼. 𝗥𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗯𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗮𝘁 𝗥𝗼𝗰𝗸 𝗘𝗻 𝗦𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗲. 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗸𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗹𝗼𝘆𝗮𝗹𝘁𝘆, 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁'𝘀 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗶𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘆𝗼𝘂.
📢 You're welcome, thanks for yours.


📻 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗸 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻. 𝗦𝗲𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘀𝗼𝗼𝗻.


🔴 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒊𝒆𝒘 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆
  https://bit.ly/37LMJYM 🔴


🔸 According to the newspaper 𝑳𝒆 𝑭𝒊𝒈𝒂𝒓𝒐, “𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜'𝑠 𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑐 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑒𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑒𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑟𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑙𝑜𝑦𝑎𝑙 𝐹𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑐ℎ 𝑓𝑎𝑛𝑠. 𝐴𝑠 𝑎 𝑔𝑖𝑓𝑡, 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜 𝑜𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑛 𝑢𝑛𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑎𝑙𝑏𝑢𝑚 𝑑𝑢𝑒 𝑖𝑛 2013. 𝑆𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛 𝐹𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑐ℎ 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑖𝑐𝑟𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑜𝑛𝑒, 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑀𝑜𝑙𝑘𝑜 𝑑𝑖𝑑 𝑛𝑜𝑡 ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑑 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑒 ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑡𝑜𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐹𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑐ℎ 𝑝𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑐.”


🔸 I think it's time we realized that by watching the live show, don't you think ?

🔴 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒂𝒕 𝑹𝒐𝒄𝒌 𝑬𝒏 𝑺𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒆 (2012)  
https://bit.ly/37LLB7w 🔴

Translation by Laetitia
Post by Laetitia

💢🔸𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎: 𝐁𝟑 𝐄𝐏🔸💢

𝐇𝐢 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬,
since we have a lot of new fans on our page and I think that some people know Placebo only thanks to the new album, I would like to introduce them to a little treasure from 2012 that is not talked about much.
Today's post I want to dedicate an album that will celebrate its tenth anniversary in October.

Photo credit: Thomas Mainardi

💢🔸𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎: 𝐁𝟑 𝐄𝐏🔸💢
🎶 https://bit.ly/3yKJ48X

This album is one of my favorites. It contains only 5 tracks, but each is like a small diamond. So let's talk about them today.

B3 cover

⭐𝟏* 𝐁𝟑
According to this opening track, this album got its name. And what does this acronym mean?
🔸💬 "𝑩' 𝒎𝒆𝒂𝒏𝒔 "𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏", 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝟑... 𝒘𝒆𝒍𝒍, 𝒊𝒕'𝒔 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒂 𝒏𝒖𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓."
(𝑆𝑡𝑒𝑓𝑎𝑛 𝑂𝑙𝑠𝑑𝑎𝑙, 𝑇𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑂𝑢𝑡, 𝑆𝑒𝑝 2013)


"𝐼 𝑎𝑚 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑠𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑠𝑓𝑖𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝐼 𝑎𝑚. 𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑡'𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑔, '𝐵3' 𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑜𝑚 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑢𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑙. 𝐵𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑡 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒. 𝐼'𝑚 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑑. 𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝐼'𝑚 𝑏𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝐼 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑖𝑟𝑟𝑜𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑢𝑡 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒-𝑢𝑝."
(𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑀𝑜𝑙𝑘𝑜, 𝐾𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑟, 2012)
🔸⭐🔸
Brian's words may sound a bit melancholy, but the recording of this single eventually caused the creative energy of the band and not only the entire B3 EP, but also the release of the seventh studio album Loud Like Love the following year.


🔸💬 "𝐼 𝑎𝑚 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑠𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑠𝑓𝑖𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝐼 𝑎𝑚. 𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑡'𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑔, '𝐵3' 𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑜𝑚 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑢𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑙. 𝐵𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑡 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒. 𝐼'𝑚 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑎𝑛𝑑 "[...] 𝐴𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑤𝑒 𝑔𝑜𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑖𝑜 𝑡𝑜 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑑 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑙𝑒, 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑔. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑤𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑓𝑎𝑛𝑠 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒, 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡'𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑎 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐸𝑃 𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚. 𝑊ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑤𝑒 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑖𝑜 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 "𝐵3", 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑎 𝑜𝑓 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑛 𝑎 𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑙 𝑎𝑙𝑏𝑢𝑚 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑙𝑦 𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑠. 𝑆𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑙𝑦, 𝑤𝑒 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑦 𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐿𝑜𝑢𝑑 𝐿𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝐿𝑜𝑣𝑒."
(𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑀𝑜𝑙𝑘𝑜, 𝑀𝑦 𝑅𝑜𝑐𝑘, 𝐽𝑢𝑙𝑦 2013)

"B3" was played live 156 times, for the first time on July 28, 2012 at the 𝑳𝒐𝒘 𝑪𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝑭𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒍 (Spain), Brian introduced the song saying in very good Spanish, something that in English would be like:
"𝑭𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒔, 𝒈𝒊𝒓𝒍𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒔… 𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒂 𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒆, 𝒂 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕… 𝑭𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅𝒘𝒊𝒅𝒆, 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈, 𝒇**𝒌 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒉!!" (Thank you Rita😊)
The last time they played it was at 𝑰𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒂𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒓𝒐𝒄𝒌 𝑭𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒍 2015 (Finland) on July 18, 2015. During 2012 𝐁𝟑 𝐓𝐨𝐮𝐫 they used to play this song in the encores and throughout the 𝐋𝐨𝐮𝐝 𝐋𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐓𝐨𝐮𝐫 it was the song they played to open their concerts.

Photo credit: Tom Abeloos

⭐𝟐* "𝐈 𝐊𝐍𝐎𝐖 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐖𝐀𝐍𝐓 𝐓𝐎 𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐏"
Most of us heard this raw punk song for the first time. Surprisingly, however, this is a cover version of a British indie band from the 90's - 🔸𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐗𝐔𝐒.
The band released only one album - Pabulum in 1995 and then disbanded. We can only speculate as to why this song stuck in Brian's memory for so long that he decided to revive it after 17 years.
What is certain is that the band Minxus once played live with the band 🔸𝐀𝐂 𝐀𝐂𝐎𝐔𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐒, whose frontman 𝐏𝐚𝐮𝐥 𝐂𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐨𝐧 is Brian's close friend. Therefore, this could lead to a friendly and creative connection of all three bands.


This song was even played 4 times live - during the B3 Tour in 2012.
𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐇𝐚𝐦𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐠:
🎶 https://bit.ly/3L8kqBs

𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐱𝐮𝐬:
🎶 https://bit.ly/3L8zW0a

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⭐𝟑* "𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐄𝐗𝐓𝐑𝐀"
For me, one of Brian's most beautiful songs, which unfortunately never sounded live. This song has an absolutely exceptional lyrics full of very intimate questions about life at this time ...


🔸„𝐼𝑓 𝐼 𝑎𝑚 𝑎𝑛 𝑒𝑥𝑡𝑟𝑎 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑙𝑚 𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑦 𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒
𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑟
𝐼𝑓 𝐼 𝑎𝑚 𝑎𝑛 𝑒𝑥𝑡𝑟𝑎 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑙𝑚 𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑦 𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒
𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒 𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑎'𝑠
𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑚𝑒 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑡𝑜 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒...“


„𝐼 𝑡𝑟𝑦 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑛𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡
𝑁𝑜𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑢𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑓𝑢𝑠𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡
𝐵𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒'𝑠 𝑎 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑚𝑦 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑑
𝑆𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛 𝑑𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑐𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑦 𝑖𝑡'𝑠 𝑑𝑒𝑎𝑡ℎ
𝐿𝑒𝑡'𝑠 𝑓𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑑𝑎𝑦𝑠
𝐿𝑒𝑡'𝑠 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑙𝑒𝑡'𝑠 𝑑𝑒𝑣𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑒
𝑊𝑒 𝑘𝑒𝑒𝑝 𝑜𝑛 𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑
𝐼𝑛 𝑎 𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑢𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑤𝑒 𝑑𝑜𝑛'𝑡 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑“🔸


𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐥𝐲𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞:
🎶 https://bit.ly/3suDrYu

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⭐𝟒* "𝐈. 𝐊. 𝐖. 𝐘. 𝐋." 𝐨𝐫 "𝐈 𝐊𝐍𝐎𝐖 𝐖𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐋𝐈𝐕𝐄"
Absolutely exceptional song that makes me shiver. A song about the hypocrisy of the powerful who rule this world full of violence and wars. How accurate for today, right?

🔸„...𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑒𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑦 𝑓𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡
𝐼 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒
𝑊𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑟𝑝ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑒
𝐼 𝑑𝑜𝑛'𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑘 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑟 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑒
𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑑𝑜 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑠𝑘 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑝𝑟𝑎𝑦?
𝐻𝑜𝑤 𝑑𝑜 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑠𝑙𝑒𝑒𝑝 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑦𝑜𝑢'𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑜 𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒?...“🔸


We know that Brian has always criticized the callous power and hypocrisy of leading politicians:
🔸💬 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝑹𝒖𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒆:
…/***/𝑇𝑜𝑛𝑦 𝐵𝑙𝑎𝑖𝑟. 𝐻𝑒’𝑠 𝑠𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑎 𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 — 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒’𝑠 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒. 𝐼𝑡’𝑑 𝑏𝑒 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑒𝑒 ℎ𝑖𝑚 𝑠𝑤𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑎 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒”.
[𝐹𝐻𝑀, 𝑂𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑏𝑒𝑟, 2000]


/.../"𝑁𝑜𝑡𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐵𝑢𝑠ℎ ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝑜 𝑓𝑎𝑟 𝑑𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑦 ℎ𝑖𝑚𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓 𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑤𝑎𝑟. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 ℎ𝑖𝑠 "𝑠𝑢𝑐𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑠". 𝐹𝑜𝑟 ℎ𝑖𝑚, 𝑤𝑎𝑟 𝑖𝑠, 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝑤𝑎𝑦, 𝑎 𝑏𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑝𝑜𝑝𝑢𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑦. 𝐷𝑖𝑠𝑔𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔!"
(𝑃𝐿𝐴𝐶𝐸𝐵𝑂 - 𝐴 (𝑁𝑂𝑁) 𝑆𝐸𝐶𝑈𝑅𝐼𝑇𝑌 𝑍𝑂𝑁𝐸, 𝐵𝑒𝑟𝑙𝑖𝑛, 𝑀𝑎𝑦 2003)


/.../𝐵𝑢𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑢𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜? 𝑀𝑜𝑙𝑘𝑜 𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑎𝑛𝑑’𝑠 𝑎𝑠 𝑦𝑒𝑡 𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑒𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡ℎ 𝑎𝑙𝑏𝑢𝑚, 𝑎 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑗𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑛𝑜 𝑑𝑜𝑢𝑏𝑡 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑓𝑜𝑐𝑢𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 2018.
“𝐼'𝑑 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑥𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑟𝑒𝑓𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑖𝑛, 𝑓𝑟𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑣𝑖𝑜𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑒'𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑤𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑎 𝑑𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑦 𝑏𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑠” ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑦𝑠. “𝐼'𝑑 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑖𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑎 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝐼'𝑣𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝐿𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑜𝑛 𝑓𝑜𝑟 27 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐼 ℎ𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑙𝑦 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑐𝑙𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑤𝑒’𝑟𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛 𝑡𝑜𝑑𝑎𝑦, 𝑏𝑜𝑡ℎ 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑈𝐾 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑈𝑆. 𝑊𝑒’𝑟𝑒 𝑔𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑠 𝑟𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑠; 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑜𝑛𝑒’𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑒𝑑𝑔𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎 𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑓𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑟𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑤𝑖𝑝𝑒 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑡."
(𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑀𝑜𝑙𝑘𝑜 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝐼𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑚𝑎𝑔., 𝑂𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑏𝑒𝑟 2017)

Photo credit: Tom Abeloos

Anyway, the song "𝐈. 𝐊. 𝐖. 𝐋.". is also unique in its graduating musical energy, noisy guitars sign the Placebo style more than many of their other songs. Finally, we can hear Stefan's great-sounding vocals here, which we don't enjoy much in other songs.


𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐚 𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐟𝐛 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬:
🔸"𝐼𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑡, 𝑤𝑎𝑡𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑣𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑜𝑠. 𝐼.𝐾.𝑊.𝑌.𝐿. 𝑖𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝐵3 𝐸𝑃."🔸
🎶 https://bit.ly/3PfHMbs

Photo credit: Tom Abeloos

And now the last piece of this perfect collection:
⭐𝟓* "𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄 𝐈𝐒 𝐌𝐎𝐍𝐄𝐘"
A seven-minute track that was also never played live, although many fans would enjoy it.
Unfortunately, no further information can be found about this song, which could be a perfect lullaby. But a brutally honest text kills all romance.

🔸„...𝑊𝑎𝑟
𝑊𝑎𝑟 𝑖𝑠 𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑦, 𝑏𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑑
𝐶𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑓𝑒𝑎𝑟
𝐾𝑒𝑒𝑝𝑠 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑐𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑑𝑜𝑜𝑟
𝐵𝑢𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑟
𝐼𝑠 𝑠𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑎 𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑟
𝑊𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝐽𝑒𝑠𝑢𝑠, 𝐽𝑒𝑠𝑢𝑠
𝐽𝑒𝑠𝑢𝑠 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑛 𝑏𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒...“🔸


𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐠 "𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐈𝐬 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐲" 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐲𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞, 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐭:
🎶 https://bit.ly/39SNErb

Photo credit: Gwen

I hope I didn't put you in a state of despair, because that was definitely not my goal.
My post today was about what we love most about Placebo - sincerity, seeing a world without pink glasses, painful topics that need to be discussed and not closed behind the door and thought that nothing is happening.
Because then we are surprised when a war rages "suddenly" in a neighboring country ... and its consequences affect us all ...

Post by Marti

🎇 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎'𝐬 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐀𝐑 🎇

🔸Dear Soulmates, today I'd like to talk about an interesting item Placebo sold on their official store in december 2011, their wonderful 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐫 2012.

It contains 13 𝑝𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑠 of the band, taken by different photographers and 𝐴𝑙𝑒𝑥 𝑊𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑛, the band's manager.🔸

Photo credits at the end of the text

⭐📷Among the photographers is 𝑱𝒐𝒔𝒆𝒑𝒉 𝑳𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒆𝒔, who was involved in the artwork for 𝐿𝑜𝑢𝑑 𝐿𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝐿𝑜𝑣𝑒 with these great photos of the band at 𝑉𝑎𝑠𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑧 𝑅𝑜𝑐𝑘𝑠 𝑁𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑃𝑎𝑟𝑘 in the Los Angeles desert. He was also with Placebo when they performed at 𝐴𝑛𝑔𝑜𝑟 𝑊𝑎𝑡 in 2008. And these are some photos that we can see in the calendar. 💕


⭐📷We also find a picture of the lovely 𝑺𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒆𝒕 𝑷𝒂𝒈𝒆 who always manages to bring out the emotional side of Placebo through her soulful and beautiful pictures. 💖


⭐📷𝑺𝒂𝒎𝒊 𝑵𝒐𝒊𝒓𝒊 is a well-known fashion photographer. During the 𝑆𝑒𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑡 𝑆𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑇𝑜𝑘𝑦𝑜 𝑖𝑛 2010, where Placebo played an acoustic session, Sam Noiri was there and took this great photo of Brian smiling. Great gift eh! . 💝

⭐🎬The film director 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒊𝒆 𝑻𝒂𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒕-𝑨𝒅𝒂𝒎𝒔 is the author of the live photographs of the band in this calendar. There had to be live photos ! It should be remembered that Charlie Targett-Adams followed Placebo during concerts in 2009 and filmed them. And that's good! Because we can enjoy his incredible talent ! 💞


⭐🌟In the 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜, there is one very important person... 𝑨𝒍𝒆𝒙 𝑾𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒏. She is the director of Riverman Management, along with 𝐷𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑑 𝑀𝑐𝐿𝑒𝑎𝑛. She often follows the band on tour. She must have hundreds and hundreds of pictures of the band ! On the calendar, we can thank her for this superb photo of Brian and Stefan sitting on steps in Cambodia. 💚

Photo credit: Joseph Llanes

✨Photography is an art and all the people I have mentioned above know their stuff !

Here are the links to appreciate their great work✨

📍 𝘚𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘦𝘵 𝘗𝘢𝘨𝘦 https://www.scarletpage.com/

📍 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘪𝘦 𝘛𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘵-𝘈𝘥𝘢𝘮𝘴 http://www.charlietargett-adams.com/

📍 𝘚𝘢𝘮𝘪 𝘕𝘰𝘪𝘳𝘪 http://www.saminoiri.com/

📍 𝘑𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘱𝘩 𝘓𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘦𝘴 https://www.josephllanes.com/


🔸What I like about this calendar is the eclectic choice of pictures that brings together the fun, the musical universe and the committed side of Placebo. I think it sums up the 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜 perfectly.


🎵As many pictures are from the concert in Angkor Wat, let's enjoy ourselves with one of my favorite song from this live: 𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸-𝗘𝘆𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝘁 𝗔𝗻𝗴𝗸𝗼𝗿 𝗪𝗮𝘁 🎥https://bit.ly/39UoSnd🎵

𝑃ℎ𝑜𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑠:
- Joseph Llanes (6 pictures on the left + picture of the calendar taken from his IG)
- Charlie Target-Adams (4 pictures on the rignt)
- Scarlet Page (in the middle left, bottom page)
- Sami Noiri (in the middle, right bottom page)
- Alex Weston (in the middle, on top)

Post by Laetitia

⭐️💫𝑨𝑵𝑵𝑰𝑽𝑬𝑹𝑺𝑨𝑹𝒀: 𝐁𝟑 𝐄𝐏💫⭐️

Nine years ago, on October 15th, 2012, Placebo’s 𝐁𝟑 𝐄𝐏 was released through the record label Vertigo. It reached no. 65 in the UK album charts.

⭐️𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐊𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐓⭐️
B3
I Know You Want To Stop (Minxus cover)
The Extra
I.K.W.Y.L.
Time Is Money

Photo credit: Brian Molko – Gwen; EP artwork / edit by Olga

𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 – 𝐁𝟑, 𝐅𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐄𝐏
➡️ https://bit.ly/2XBzPoL

𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 – 𝐁𝟑, 𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨
➡️ https://bit.ly/3hzeyFu

In an 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖 with 𝑩𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒃𝒐𝒂𝒓𝒅 done in November 2011, Stefan talked about Placebo’s plans of recording some new music in 2012.

📢"That was one of the longest tours we ever did, supporting that album [Battle For the Sun]," Olsdal tells Billboard.com. "It lasted the better part of two years. We're still recovering from that, really." Nevertheless, Olsdal says he and singer-guitarist Brian Molko are "continually writing" and should be ready when the trio -- which also includes drummer Steve Forrest -- decides to hit the studio in 2012.

"I'm in touch with Brian," Olsdal says. "He'll bring in a track or parts of a track, or I do, or we just kind of jam something up in the studio. The shape and sound of the next album will be decided when we get back together. I suppose once we came off the road it was kind of hard to plug in a distorted guitar again, because we'd done that every night for the best part of two years. When we came back home it was nice to hear nice, clean, acoustic sounds, so maybe we'll still feel that way when we start to (record)."
(𝐵𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑏𝑜𝑎𝑟𝑑, 𝑁𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 22𝑛𝑑, 2011)

Photo credit: Mercedes-Benz 'A ROCK' 

📍On November 23rd, 2011, the band announced via their Facebook page and official website that they would return to the studio in 2012 to record their seventh studio album. In August 2012, Brian Molko revealed on Italy's Rai Radio 2 that a new single entitled "B3" would be released in September.
Instead, a bit later, the band announced that they would release not only a single but a five-track EP titled B3 on October 12th. In fact, EP was released on October 15th, three days later than predicted.

📢𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: "We reconvened in the summer of 2012 ostensibly to record a new single as we had just signed a new record deal. That single morphed into the five-track B3 EP which we released in the autumn to placate the more militant factions of our fanbase."
(𝐵𝐾 𝐴𝑠𝑖𝑎-𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑦, 2013)

📍Cover design and sleeve photography for the EP was done by 𝑯𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒂 𝑩𝒆𝒓𝒈, Brian's ex-girlfriend and mother of his son Cody. She actually used their son’s photos for the EP artwork.
Anthony Crook was also responsible on the sleeve design. Fiona Brice did string arrangements on The extra. Besides Placebo members, David Bottrill and Adam Noble worked on production; mixing was done by Alan Moulder and Neil Comber, mastering by Tim Young.
📍The songs of the EP were recorded at both RAK Studios in London and Metalworks Studios in Toronto, Canada (while Placebo have been working on their previous album Battle for the sun).

📍For the 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟑, which was on April 20th, Placebo prepared a limited edition of 3000 copies of B3 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒍𝒖𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒚𝒍 to be released throughout Europe.
Brian beautifully talked about this exclusive item in his interview on XFM radio.

𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐨 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰, 𝐗𝐅𝐌, 𝟏𝟗.𝟎𝟒.𝟏𝟑, 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐃𝐚𝐲
➡️ https://bit.ly/3k99vNM

Photo credit: Kevin Westenberg

Everyone who ordered a translucent vinyl received a printed 𝒎𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒂𝒈𝒆:
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20th April 2013
Dear PLACEBO fan,
Firstly, thank you for purchasing B310INCHEP clear vinyl, specially created to celebrate Record Store Day 2013.
This is one of only a strictly limited edition which will never be remanufactured.
Vinyl has always played an important part of the way we, as individuals and as a band, listen to and engage with music.
As keen vinyl collectors we wanted this release to highlight Record Store Day and what it has achieved over the short time the idea was conceived in 2007.
This is the one day that all the independently owned record stores come together with artists to celebrate the art of music.
Thank you for being a part of it and supporting your local record store.
For more information visit RecordStoreDay.com.
Peace and love
PLACEBO
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⭐️To make the anniversary celebration complete, I’d like to share a great live performance of the EP’s lead track. Let’s watch 𝐁𝟑 played for the first time in Poland – as Brian presented the song - at Coke Live Music Festival in Krakow on August 12th, 2012.

𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 - 𝐁𝟑, 𝐂𝐨𝐤𝐞 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟐
➡️ https://bit.ly/3ApPyYs

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♦️𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝟑 𝐓𝐎𝐔𝐑♦️

Photo credit: CoToRep (2012, live at Bataclan)

In 2012, three months before the release of their EP “B3”, Placebo did a short tour consisting of 18 concerts. It started nine years ago today on July 28th at Low Cost festival in Spain and ended on September 22nd in Minsk, Belarus. The most played song during the “B3” tour was “Kitty Litter”, it was the only one that was performed at every show.

🎬 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗖𝗘𝗕𝗢 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝘁 𝗦𝗭𝗜𝗚𝗘𝗧 𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟮 – 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘄
🎵 https://bit.ly/3k756If 🎵

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🔶🔸𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎 𝐀𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐀𝐓𝐀𝐂𝐋𝐀𝐍: 𝐁𝐈𝐓𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐖𝐄𝐄𝐓 𝐌𝐄𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐒🔸🔶

The first time Placebo played at the 𝑩𝒂𝒕𝒂𝒄𝒍𝒂𝒏, a well-known concert venue in Paris, on November 30th, 1998. They also did a great interview on that day which I’m going to share in my next post. Today, I want to tell you a little bit about this historical place and share some performances from Placebo 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐂𝐄𝐑𝐓 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟐.
But the story has got its sad page, too… Brian couldn’t stay indifferent to the tragedy that happened in Paris in 2015😔

Photo credit: Julien Perez

📍Let’s start with some nice memories though. 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐨𝐧 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐞 𝟐𝟐𝐧𝐝, 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟐 was part of a five-piece series of 𝑨-𝑹𝒐𝒄𝒌 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔 organized by Mercedes-Benz.
Here’s an excerpt from the concert 🔶𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖🔶.
“There is indeed Brian with more assertive voice, more frank new arrangements, clear and refined, ‘colourful” strings and brass which come to warm up the choruses that remain well in mind, such as Ashtray Heart […] A few touches from the oldest albums enliven this set with a beautiful nostalgic luster. Public support is at its peak when they play Black Eyed, Taste In Men and Special K from the third record (Black Market Music), Bitter End from the fourth (Sleeping With Ghosts) and Nancy Boy from the first (Placebo). From the second opus, Without You I'm Nothing, we gladly find Every You Every Me and, above all, the eponymous song from the album, which we still remember as a duet with David Bowie! Conversely, there are very few titles from Meds, which we expected a little.
The performance is therefore up to our expectations, even if we regret that Brian does not speak more between songs as he used to. We can bet that the commercial aspect of this private concert has something to do with it, that he will not lose contact with his audience thereafter and will continue to tell us about his favorite subject: Love, Love, and more Love! As for Stefan Olsdal, he still has a thunderous sex appeal and his frenzied waves make more than one in the room pale. The neat lights also contribute, creating the sulphurous atmosphere with which the band were once haloed.”
(𝑆𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑉𝑖𝑜𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒, 2012)

𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 - 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐬, 𝐁𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐧, 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐬, 𝟐𝟐.𝟎𝟔.𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟐
➡ https://bit.ly/2YPIfIy
𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 - 𝐈𝐧 𝐚 𝐅𝐮𝐧𝐤, 𝐁𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐧, 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐬, 𝟐𝟐.𝟎𝟔.𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟐
➡ https://bit.ly/3cQsWYm
𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 - 𝐍𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐲 𝐁𝐨𝐲, 𝐁𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐧, 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐬, 𝟐𝟐.𝟎𝟔.𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟐
➡ https://bit.ly/3joVMQX
𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 - 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐈'𝐦 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐁𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐧, 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐬, 𝟐𝟐.𝟎𝟔.𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟐
➡ https://bit.ly/36SnLmV

Photo credit: Mauro Melis

🔶𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐔𝐄 𝐇𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐘🔶
𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒂𝒕𝒂𝒄𝒍𝒂𝒏 is a theatre located at 50 Boulevard Voltaire in Paris. Designed in 1864 by the architect Charles Duval, its name refers to Ba-ta-clan, an operetta by Jacques Offenbach.
The Bataclan originated as a large café-concert in the Chinoiserie style (the building had a typical pagoda roof back in the days), with the café and theatre on the ground floor and a large dance hall at first-floor level.
Since the early 1970s, the Bataclan has been a venue for rock music. Generally, it’s known for a very eclectic programme of events, including rock and pop concerts, spectacles, comedy, discos and café-théâtre.
For 40 years, until 2015, the Bataclan had Jewish owners, and the theatre was a target for anti-Zionist activists, since the venue often held pro-Israel events.

On 13 November 2015, as part of a series of ISIL terrorist attacks across Paris, three gunmen conducted a mass shooting at the Bataclan. It happened while an American rock band Eagles of Death Metal were in the middle of their performance.
As a result of the attacks, 90 people were killed and over 200 were wounded. The band members of Eagles of Death Metal and most of the road crew escaped unharmed, but their merchandise manager was among the fatalities.
After the tragedy, the theatre was closed and reopened one year later with an exclusive Sting concert where a thousand members of the victims' families were invited.
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📍And now, I'm going to continue with this exceptionally serious topic…
📢In the 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒊𝒆𝒘 𝒐𝒏 𝑳𝒆 𝑷𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒆𝒏 𝑻𝑽 - which I shared in my previous post - 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 told that he spent a sleepless night on a phone worrying about his friends in Paris and trying to find out if they were alive…

Photo credit: Gwen

On November 13th, 2016, Brian shared a memorable 𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐀𝐆𝐄 on 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭. It was one year after the tragedy…
📢“...THINKING OF MY FRIEND THOMAS TODAY, WHO DIED IN THE PARIS ATTACKS ONE YEAR AGO. SENDING LOVE AND HOPE TO THE SURVIVORS AND THE FAMILIES OF THE VICTIMS. IT IS ONLY THROUGH LOVE, COMPASSION, SELFLESSNESS, UNITY AND ACTION THAT WE CAN FIGHT THE FORCES OF FEAR, TERROR, PREJUDICE AND ANAESTHETISATION AND THEIR ATTEMPTS TO ROB US OF OUR TRUE HUMANITY. BROTHERS AND SISTERS, PLEASE DO NOT SURRENDER TO THE MYTH OF THE INDIVIDUAL WHOSE PURPOSE IS TO RENDER US DISCONNECTED, PACIFIED AND UNABLE TO ENGAGE. WE ARE ONE PEOPLE, ONE SPECIES. IT IS ONLY TOGETHER THAT WE CAN MAKE OUR PLANET A BETTER PLACE TO LIVE. PEACE. #bataclan”
Original post: ➡ https://bit.ly/39I6nDf

💬Finishing my post with these BIG words I don’t want to make you sad, dear soulmates, but the other way round, send you a kind reminder of how much really depends on every one of us, on our deep beliefs in the power of love and tolerance – and our everyday actions according to these beliefs.
Take care

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