💥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
🎬 https://bit.ly/3HPQ5Yw 🎵

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🎶”𝗦𝗔𝗗 𝗪𝗛𝗜𝗧𝗘 𝗥𝗘𝗚𝗚𝗔𝗘”🎶

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

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


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


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


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

Photo credit: Matej Grgić

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


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


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


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


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

Photo credit: Matej Grgić

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


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


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


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


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

Photo credit: Matej Grgić

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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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

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🟪 𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐘 𝐁𝐈𝐑𝐓𝐇𝐃𝐀𝐘 𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐊𝐘 🟪

💔“…𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒔. 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏…”💔

🟪One of the most heartbreaking moments on the album, 𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐘 𝐁𝐈𝐑𝐓𝐇𝐃𝐀𝐘 𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐊𝐘 has already become – surprisingly or not – an obvious festival hit.
Alongside three other singles from 𝐍𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐋𝐞𝐭 𝐌𝐞 𝐆𝐨, it’s been included into the setlists of almost all concerts so far. Although, I suppose, it sounded a bit differently in the atmosphere of the very first intimate shows and in front of the huge crowds at the festival stages.

Above, I’m sharing a video from 𝐓𝐖 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 in 𝐖𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐫, 𝐁𝐞𝐥𝐠𝐢𝐮𝐦 where Placebo played last Saturday, on June 25th (watch it to the very end💥

🟪When explaining where the lyrics, full of genuine grief and despair, come from, 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 mostly goes two directions. He speaks of someone who lost their loved ones to murder, particularly, to police brutality keeping in mind events which led to the Black Lives Matter movement. Another, more personal meaning, is connected to David Bowie’s passing which left Brian enormously devastated back in the day and definitely still influences him.
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𝑪𝒂𝒏 𝑰 𝒂𝒔𝒌 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝑯𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒚 𝑩𝒊𝒓𝒕𝒉𝒅𝒂𝒚 𝑰𝒏 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒌𝒚 𝒊𝒔 𝒅𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐?
📢𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: I don’t write songs dedicated to other people, but if I did, this song would be dedicated to someone who had their true love killed. It was inspired by the murders of black people by the police in the United States, something we were already aware of several years before the death of George Floyd.
Then the song became more abstract for me, based more upon my current relationship with David Bowie: his spirit, his influence on me as a person and his constant guidance.
(𝑅𝑢𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑀𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑧𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑛.362, 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ 2022)
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𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬: […] 𝑰'𝒎 𝒈𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚 𝑯𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒚 𝑩𝒊𝒓𝒕𝒉𝒅𝒂𝒚 𝑰𝒏 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒌𝒚 𝒏𝒐𝒘. 𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒃𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎! 𝑾𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎?
📢𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: Well, I think from two places: first David Bowie's passing which obviously had a major major impact on me. It was at that point that I actually began to reflect on how much I had been influenced as a human being by David. There's a lot about David which taught me to be a better human. To me Happy Birthday In The Sky...I have to kind of in order to get inside a song I kind of I create a narrative that's, that's my own, and I create characters, and what I did in this one is that I tried to put myself in the shoes of somebody who lost a loved one to police brutality. So it was a mixture of Bowie's passing and what was happening in the news.
(𝐵𝐵𝐶 6 𝑀𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑐 𝑅𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑜, 𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤 𝑏𝑦 𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑖𝑠 𝐻𝑎𝑤𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑠, 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ 15𝑡ℎ, 2022)
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David Bowie’s death on January 10, 2016, two days after his 69th birthday and the release of final studio album Blackstar, certainly left its mark on the members of Placebo. The aching Happy Birthday In The Sky, while not exclusively about that particular loss, pays tribute to those whose birthdays we continue to mark even after they have passed, as 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 does with his late hero. “It communicates that kind of heartbreak,” he explains. “That sense of loss. That sense of desperation. It’s as if a part of your body and soul has been ripped from you unfairly. And you pine – and you pine.”
(𝐾𝑒𝑟𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑔, 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ 23, 2022)
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🟪However, let me delicately guess that there might be much more personal background to the lyrics, especially remembering the self-explanatory line from Chemtrails, “My friends and relatives are gone / And I need a little time”.
We will never know whose passing was (also) breakiing Brian’s heart when he wrote Happy Birthday In The Sky, who he remembers of every time while performing the song on stage… And there’s no need to search for those answers🙏
It’s just an absolutely natural human thing… Too many of us can think of those to whom we wish a happy birthday in the sky every single year… and will probably do that to the end of our lives…💔
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𝑯𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒚 𝑩𝒊𝒓𝒕𝒉𝒅𝒂𝒚 𝑰𝒏 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒌𝒚 is a beautiful celebration of the ghosts that accompany us. “It’s a line I use for people who have passed away. I wish them a happy birthday in heaven. 𝑴𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒏 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝒅𝒆𝒆𝒑𝒍𝒚 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒆 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒏𝒐 𝒅𝒐𝒖𝒃𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒅. And if we had managed to convey some of that sense of tragedy, the more the better, it means 𝒘𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆.”
(𝑉𝑖𝑛𝑦𝑙𝑒 𝑒𝑡 𝐴𝑢𝑑𝑖𝑜, #12 𝑀𝑎𝑦-𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑒 2022)
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🟪Previously, 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 often admitted that it was extremely exhausting for him to communicate such difficult emotions to the audience. In the recent interviews, it was exactly 𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐘 𝐁𝐈𝐑𝐓𝐇𝐃𝐀𝐘 𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐊𝐘 that made him start honestly talking about it again. Being immensely attached to the song himself, he needs to bring the wholeness of powerful feeling to the listeners.

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“𝑨𝒕 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒔𝒕? 𝑾𝒉𝒐 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒔.”
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📢𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: Happy Birthday In The Sky for me, is one of the more heartbreaking moments on the album. Happy Birthday In The Sky is a phrase that I've been using, you know, for quite some time. When I say, happy birthday to people who aren't with us anymore, you know, like David Bowie, for example, and it communicates the kind of heartbreak that we're really, really good at communicating, I think, you know, that that sense of loss, that sense of desperation. It's as if a part of your body and your soul has been ripped from you unfairly. And you pine and you pine and you wait.
I have a certain amount of drama training, you know, from Goldsmiths College, which is sort of the method, you know, so that it tells you to act from the inside out. So you start with really, really personal things and you externalise them. That’s how I manage to kind of communicate this emotion. I think truthfully and honestly to an audience, by somewhat inhabiting that feeling by putting myself in that position when it's performed and feeling the heartbreak. Concerts that come across as mechanical are ones where I find myself unable to do that, to inhabit the emotion within the song. I do that a lot during performance and put I put myself in the shoes of the narrator emotionally, which can be really draining and I think a lot of people don't understand why I wouldn't want to go to an after show party or I wouldn't want to go to a discotheque after the show when all I want is some food and to collapse, because I've basically given everything I can emotionally and there's nothing left. I'm just an empty shell. You kind of inhabit these difficult emotions 12, 13, 15, 20 times a night.
What I am thinking is that this is kind of so visceral and so intense emotionally that it's really going to communicate something very powerful to the listener. And that's basically all I'm interested in. At what cost? Who cares. As long as the song really, really moves people, then whatever sacrifices you have to make in order to get there are fine with me or that you will continue to make in the future. It's not such a bad thing to inhabit these emotions, you're very, very much alive and in the moment while you're doing them.
(𝑀𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑎𝑐𝑠 𝑂𝑛𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑒, 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ 25𝑡ℎ, 2022)
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♦️🔸 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗖𝗘𝗕𝗢 𝗔𝗧 𝗣𝗔𝗟𝗘𝗢 𝗙𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗩𝗔𝗟 𝗡𝗬𝗢𝗡 + 𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗩𝗜𝗘𝗪 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗙𝗔𝗡 (𝟮𝟬𝟬𝟲) 🔸♦️

🔸 𝑷𝒂𝒍𝒆́𝒐 𝑭𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒍 𝑵𝒚𝒐𝒏 is the largest open-air festival in Switzerland and one of the major music events in Europe. Both a springboard for young talents and a stage for headliners, Paléo has gradually opened up to all musical styles, as well as to the circus and street arts.

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🔸 The very first edition took place in 1976 with 1800 spectators in the old town hall of Nyon. The following year, in 1977, the Festival moved to the open air and was held in Colovray. Since 1990, the Paléo has taken up residence on the emblematic site of l'Asse, north of Nyon.


🔸 From the 1800 spectators at the beginning to some 230000 in recent years, the Paléo has had many unforgettable moments, starting with the concerts. Miles Davis in 1990 or Bob Dylan as a surprise guest in 1995 on the new Dôme stage. Since then, the most incredible artists have played on the plaine of l'Asse, such as Placebo, Muse, Patti Smith, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Iron Maiden, Elton John, Pink, Sting, Joan Baez, Björk or The Cure. And if the weather has sometimes been a nuisance, it has also offered some anthology moments, like Neil Young performing in torrential rain, in 2013 as in 1993 ! Against all odds, Paléo continues to write its history of musical passion, year after year.


🔸 For the 2006 edition where 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 was present on July 22,, the festival director himself used a wine-lover's metaphor when he described this edition as a "great vintage".


🔸 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 performed at this festival for almost every album they released (1997, 2001, 2006, 2009 and 2014). For the moment, the 2022 programme does not announce 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐. Perhaps in 2023 ?


🔸 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 gave an interview to the local newspaper 𝘓𝘦 𝘕𝘰𝘶𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦. Smooth and confident 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 speaking about the recording of 𝙈𝙚𝙙𝙨.

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🎸 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝑺𝑻𝑬𝑭𝑨𝑵

𝙋𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙚𝙗𝙤 𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙞𝙣𝙣𝙖𝙘𝙡𝙚

𝐴𝑡 𝑃𝑎𝑙𝑒́𝑜, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑠. 𝐴 𝑚𝑒𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑆𝑡𝑒𝑓𝑎𝑛 𝑂𝑙𝑠𝑑𝑎𝑙 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑏𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑜 𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑀𝑜𝑙𝑘𝑜 𝑡𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑔𝑒

𝑇𝑤𝑜 ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜'𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑟𝑡 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑃𝑎𝑙𝑒́𝑜 𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑆𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑑𝑎𝑦 22𝑛𝑑 𝐽𝑢𝑙𝑦, 𝑎𝑛 𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑐 𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑦 𝑟𝑢𝑛𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝐴𝑠𝑠𝑒. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑢𝑑𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒, 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑒𝑑 𝑎 𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑟-𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝐹𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑠 𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑧𝑒𝑟, 𝑤𝑎𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔. 𝐵𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑢𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝑡𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑤𝑎𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔: 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐸𝑛𝑔𝑙𝑖𝑠ℎ 𝑏𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑎𝑑𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚. 𝑅𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑥𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔, 𝑏𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑠𝑡-𝑔𝑢𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡 𝑆𝑡𝑒𝑓𝑎𝑛 𝑂𝑙𝑠𝑑𝑎𝑙 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑒𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑑 𝑢𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑎𝑛𝑑'𝑠 𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑟𝑜𝑜𝑚 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑏𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑙𝑖𝑝𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑦 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑎.


𝗜𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝘅𝗰𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗴𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲 ?
💬 Yes, completely. We've had a very positive path in our career. We're getting to headline more and more festivals. Our music always touches people, which we really appreciate. We started out touring England in a crappy little bus. It's great to be here ten years later, having recorded better and better albums, being proud of what we've done and still having something to say. It's something we don't take lightly.


𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗮𝗹𝗯𝘂𝗺 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝘀 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗯𝗲 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘆 𝗼𝗻 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲...
💬 The album was recorded much more live than the previous ones. So it's much easier to play on stage. The previous album, Sleeping With Ghosts, was done on computers. We spent more time in front of screens than actually playing. This can lead to a tendency to overthink what you're doing. Meds is a kind of reaction to that. Our producer, Dimitri Tikovoi, has a lot to do with it. He encouraged us to play instinctively. We felt that the songs were strong enough to stand up without technological tricks. It's a return to the basic Placebo instrumentals that we had on the first few albums. Going into the studio with songs not quite finished, you don't necessarily know what their identity will be at the end of the process. They didn't need to be overproduced in the end. The album was recorded fairly quickly, in four months.


𝗗𝗶𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗹𝗯𝘂𝗺 𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘆 ?
💬 Working on this record, with Dimitri as well, we felt like a tight team. We had more fun than ever. If there were any disagreements, we discussed them without anyone feeling attacked. The working atmosphere was much better than on the previous albums.

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𝗬𝗲𝘁 𝗶𝘁'𝘀 𝗮 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗱𝗮𝗿𝗸 𝗮𝗹𝗯𝘂𝗺. 𝗔𝗹𝗹 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗯𝗼 𝗮𝗹𝗯𝘂𝗺𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝗿𝗸. 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘄𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗮 𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗽𝘆, 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗹𝗯𝘂𝗺 ?
💬 I think the dark side comes from the fact that it's very positive for us to have music as an outlet. A lot of people have problems, some go to a shrink, others drown in alcohol or drugs. Music has allowed us to be able to manage our lives. We can analyze, express our dark sides. We did make a happier song, I Do, which is on the singles compilation. It's not something that puts us off... Life is full of so many different emotions... We just want to write music that we like and be honest with ourselves. If we have an emotional connection with our music, people will feel it. If we fake it, they will feel it too.


𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘀𝘂𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗯𝗼𝘁𝗵 𝗽𝗼𝗽𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗱. 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗹 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗶𝘁 ?
💬 We don't think about it too much. We've always done things our own way, without anyone interfering with our artistic vision. It seems to work and that's good. I don't know how long it will last... The music is so personal... In the studio we really withdraw from the world. We don't listen to music, we don't think about pleasing anyone but ourselves. We are very critical and we want to do better with every album. The day we have nothing more to say, we will stop... We are ambitious, we want to be the biggest rock band in the world and we work very hard for that...


𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗟𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝟭𝟵𝟵𝟰, 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘄 ?
💬 Brian and I always needed to show off, that's for sure (laughs). We weren't 20 when we started writing. We imagined ourselves as rockstars, with a lot of naivety... But when you reach a certain level, you realize that you can go even higher. You're never satisfied. We haven't written our best song yet... There are always desires that push us to continue. That's why we're still here...

✔️ 𝙸𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚟𝚒𝚎𝚠 𝚋𝚢 𝙹𝚎𝚊𝚗-𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚌̧𝚘𝚒𝚜 𝙰𝚕𝚋𝚎𝚍𝚊 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚗𝚎𝚠𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚙𝚎𝚛 𝙻𝚎 𝙽𝚘𝚞𝚟𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚎 𝚙𝚞𝚋𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚑𝚎𝚍 𝚘𝚗 𝙰𝚞𝚐𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝟺𝚝𝚑, 𝟸00𝟼

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🎸 𝐒𝐄𝐓𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐓
🎵Infra-red
🎵Meds
🎵Because I Want You
🎵Drag
🎵Space Monkey
🎵Black-Eyed
🎵Post Blue
🎵Song to Say Goodbye
🎵Follow the Cops Back Home
🎵Every You Every Me
🎵Special Needs
🎵One of a Kind
🎵Special K
🎵36 Degrees
🎵The Bitter End
🎵Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)
🎵Nancy Boy
🎵Twenty Years

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🔸 Strange as it may seem, there is no full video of the concert ! But fortunately, 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 shared the performance of 𝙎𝙥𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝙈𝙤𝙣𝙠𝙚𝙮 at the band's 20th anniversary. So let's enjoy this incredible interpretation 💕

🎥 𝑺𝑷𝑨𝑪𝑬 𝑴𝑶𝑵𝑲𝑬𝒀
https://bit.ly/3wCAx6p ✨

Post by Laetitia

🔴CONCERT REVIEW BY A FAN🔴

Dear friends and Placebo lovers,

for all those who have not yet had the pleasure of attending one of Placebo's concerts on this new 2022 tour, we share with you the concert review our soulmate Gaëlle Fuchs kindly sent to us.
It's about the last Placebo concert on May 27th at Bearded Theory's Spring Gathering festival, Derbyshire, UK.
Enjoy it!

Your Placebo Anyway Team

Photo credits: Gaëlle Fuchs – Edit by Emanuela

“This gig felt like the first normal Placebo gig after the small ones and the stadium openings.

They seemed in a very good mood, Brian making jokes along the way and Stef playing with the different sides of the crowd to make them scream louder.

They also kept making us clap and sign of a good gig: "It's in the special way we fuck" very loud during Post Blue.

The setlist was a mix of the past 2 setlists with, very sadly, One Of A Kind missing...

Photo credit: @troglodykes

I had a lot of fun dancing and singing and loved it, also to note, the return of the beanie! It was pretty cold when they played.

To say "Hi" to the audience Brian used the classic "Look at all the people here tonight" which was fun.

He introduced Kitty Litter by making a joke about it being one of his favourite thing to eat and suddenly out of nowhere between 2 songs said "I can smell weed".

They also paid tribute to Fletch from Depeche Mode, saying they woke up with very sad sudden news this week and that Fletch was a close friend who was a very genuine and kind person. They dedicated "Went Missing" to him.

I tried to be quick at taking 3 pictures during Hugz (probably took me 10 seconds max) but the girl next to me kept filming/taking pictures.

So at some point Brian pointed at her and asked her if she could stop because it was putting him off. Which made me laugh, so I got a "I saw you too" from Brian as punishmentoops.

To be honest, if he had taken Hugz of the setlist (which I really don't like) I probably would not have taken any pics.

Conclusion: better setlist Brian, thanks. Anyway my personal highlights were to have Sad White Reggae back on the setlist and the incredible energy they had and my down points where to have Hugz, Too Many Friends and Try Better Next Time in the set.”
(By Gaëlle Fuchs)

Photo credit: Carol Turner

SETLIST:
Forever Chemicals
Beautiful James
Kitty Litter
Scene Of The Crime
Hugz
Happy Birthday In The Sky
Bionic
Surrounded By Spies
Sad White Reggae
Try Better Next Time
Too Many Friends
Went Missing
For What It's Worth
Slave To The Wage
Special K
Bitter End
Infra Red

Encore:
Post Blue
Running Up That Hill


SOULMATES, during the "Never let me go" tour (May-December 2022) you can find photo albums of each concert on our Facebook page.
Check them out!
👉 https://www.facebook.com/PlaceboAnyway 

🔸𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗖𝗘𝗕𝗢'𝗦 𝗙𝗜𝗥𝗦𝗧 𝗕𝗜𝗚 𝗧𝗢𝗨𝗥🔸

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

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

Photo credit: Mr. Snappy

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


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

Posr by Silke

⭐️PLACEBO SONG: EVIL DILDO⭐️

🔸"𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐦, 𝐈'𝐝 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞: 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐮𝐩 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫. 𝐖𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐠." 🔸 (𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚏𝚊𝚗 𝙾𝚕𝚜𝚍𝚊𝚕 𝟷𝟿𝟿𝟽)


Dear soulmates,
Placebo's new album is out. We are happy to publish all new interviews, all reviews.
Today, however, I had a great need to go back in time and remember Placebo's beginning.
I found a beautiful Stefan's interview from 1997, which is worth sharing just because of the last two sentences.

Screenshot from the video

🔸💬 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧 𝐎𝐥𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐫𝐝 "𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐁𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠"
/.../ "I started playing drums about ten years ago in the school orchestra. I decided that I wanted to be up front in a band, so I got on to bass and played that for a while at the same time as learning piano. The first bass I bought was a Fender Precision, because Iron Maiden's Steve Harris," he gulps, visibly startled at his own confession,"played one; maybe I shouldn't admit to that...."


𝐎𝐨𝐡, 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐬𝐚𝐲?
"Since then, I've tried to emulate a particular sound or hero. I've always thought more about the creative side. I had two or three bass lessons, but I don't really believe in being taught how to play; I think it's better to teach yourself. I played guitar for about four years when I was in a band in Sweden. Then I came to London and guitar. With the guitar I tried to get as technically good as I could, so I could play as second nature and express myself better."


𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐧, 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧 𝐫𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐧 𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐞.
"I bumped into Brian (Molko, guitar?vocals) after a five year gap. He did a gig in a pub in south London, and when I saw him play I just said "let's play together", and that was that. I fell in love with his voice and his guitar playing because it was really different. We started playing together but we kept on switching instruments. I could never be satisfied with one instrument."


𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞, 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐰𝐚𝐩𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐦 𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐨 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐬.
"The band started off as just the two of us recording on a four-track, switching instruments, using toy pianos, toy guitars, but most of those songs ended up as B-sides."

Screenshot from the video

𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐒𝐡𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐳𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐠, 𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧'𝐬 𝐣𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐝. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐩𝐨𝐩 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐝.
"Brian created most of our songs to start with, sitting at home, writing and singing. Now sound checks and rehearsals are where our creating is mostly done. Sometimes you can sit at home, get an idea and bring it to the band, but mostly it's a complete band effort. "One Big Evil Dildo", the band's live encore track, came out of a sound check in East Germany. That was the first time we had ever played that together, and we performed it, recorded it and kept it that way."


𝐃𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐝
𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐧𝐨 𝐰𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞 - 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐞𝐛𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐲 - 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝐄.
"We did a couple of dates with David bowie last year, and his 50th annervesary bash in Madison Square Garden in January; they were amazing gigs." Meantime, 2 + years of continuous touring with Ash, Bush, and fellow Swedes Whale, will soon draw to a close to allow some studio time for the band.


"We're going to be touring until the end of August and then we're trying to get a break from it. I'm just going to concentrate on the studio.
Without the music, it's nothing."


𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐲 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐝 𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞, 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧'𝐬 𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟-𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐦𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐦.
"My favourite song is `I.Q'," he comments. "I just think it's the most dynamic and beautiful - musically and melodically. It has a toy piano in there - and it's my best playing as well. The thing with a three-piece is it forces you to get into your instrument a lot more. It's a very triangular thing, and Brian's guitar playing and my bass playing tend to work hand in hand. I'm not a big fan of the big, fat E-string. I find that it can be a bit boring. There's much more you can do with the bass; there are some really nice tonal qualities to it. I'm approaching bass now to take it somewhere new; I'm playing it more like a guitar in someways."
/.../
𝐍𝐨- 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐚𝐟𝐞 𝐚𝐬 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧.
"Brian's been on every front cover in this country. I think it's great. I'm surprised at the way things have been going. I thought we were going to be a band for bands. The success of "Nancy Boy" was really unexpected."

Screenshot from the video

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐝. 𝐈𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐚 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐧?
"Ideally, I always want Placebo to be more about the music, but you can't help what people want to hear and want to know. Brian looks a certain way and if we're portraying stuff in more than one way then thats fine." just under one year after their first gig, Placebo secured a deal with Hut records, followed shortly by the birth of their own record label Elevator Music.


"Our own record label allows us, basically, to get the ultimate deal. For us it is best to have our own label, as we plan to release different side products in the future. What you see is only part of Placebo. Long term, I'd like to see longevity, because this is what we live and breathe: what we get up in the morning for. We want to write that perfect song."
(𝙱𝚊𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚜𝚝, 𝚂𝚎𝚙'𝟿𝟽)

So - what do you think? Have the guys written the perfect song yet? Something like U2 "With or Without You"?
Is there such a song on the new album?
Anyway, today we can end with pure Placebo energy, which is real hardcore.
I'm talking about the song 𝐄𝐯𝐢𝐥 𝐃𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐨 from WYIN album and its live performance from the ´ß.


Remember last year's "Lost Tapes" gift from the band? Amazing gig, don't you think?


Interesting fact - the song Evil Dildo was played live 38 times.
First played November 4, 1996 at Le 400, Bordeaux, France, most recently played July 13, 1999 at Rockwave Festival.


🔸💬 "𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑡'𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑠𝑒𝑡, 𝑖𝑡'𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑚𝑝𝑠 𝑏𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔," 𝑀𝑜𝑙𝑘𝑜 𝑠𝑎𝑦𝑠. "𝐼𝑡'𝑠 𝑐𝑟𝑎𝑧𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑣𝑖𝑜𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑡. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑣𝑜𝑖𝑐𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑡 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑛 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑚𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑝ℎ𝑜𝑛𝑒. 𝐼𝑡'𝑠 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑒 𝑢𝑝 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑎𝑑𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑎𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑚𝑒. 𝐼 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑏𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑒 ?@*-𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑡 𝑜𝑛 𝑎 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑑."
(𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝙿𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚎𝚋𝚘 - 𝙽𝚊𝚔𝚎𝚍 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚞𝚗𝚊𝚜𝚑𝚊𝚖𝚎𝚍, 𝙹𝚞𝚗𝚎 𝟸000)


📌 The story behind the song is that Brian forgot to take his name out of the phonebook after the first Placebo album was realeased and there was a message on his answer machine with a sort of Steven Hawking voice.
It's a quiet creepy song.

Screenshot from the video

🎶 "𝐻𝑒𝑦 𝑚𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑓*𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑟, 𝐼'𝑚 𝑎𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑦𝑜𝑢. 𝐼 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒
𝐼 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑓*𝑐𝑘 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑢𝑝 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑢𝑡𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐼 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑠𝑛𝑒𝑎𝑘 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑟𝑜𝑜𝑚 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑢𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑐𝑘 𝑜𝑓𝑓
𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑓𝑓 𝑖𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑚𝑦 𝑚𝑜𝑢𝑡ℎ 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑤 𝑖𝑡 𝑢𝑝 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑚𝑦 𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑠"


🎶 𝐄𝐯𝐢𝐥 𝐃𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐨 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨:
https://bit.ly/38dOmdX


It's interesting, however, that the similar lyrics as from Brian's answering machine are used in a song by Irish musician 𝐀𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐱 𝐓𝐰𝐢𝐧 - 𝐅𝐮𝐧𝐧𝐲 𝐋𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐧 from the Come To Daddy, which was released in 1997.
🔸💬 You can read everything about this unexplained secret here:
https://bit.ly/3Okdmon
Definitely worth it.


Anyway, Brian handled the threats on his answering machine brilliantly. Using this nightmare in this song with such a crazy title is a great idea.
Dear friends, enjoy the evening with this memory.

Post by Marti

💦 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎 𝐀𝐓 𝐋𝐄𝐒 𝐄𝐔𝐑𝐎𝐂𝐊𝐄𝐄𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐒 (𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟗) 💦

🔹 Dear Soulmates, today let's focus on 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 𝒂𝒕 𝒍𝒆𝒔 𝑬𝒖𝒓𝒐𝒄𝒌𝒆́𝒆̀𝒏𝒏𝒆𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝑩𝒆𝒍𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒕 𝒐𝒏 𝑱𝒖𝒍𝒚 9, 1999.

🔹 The 1999 Eurockéennes session was Placebo's second appearance at this highly regarded festival in France. Their first appearance was in 1997. In 1999, the band was not yet a headliner. This was achieved in 2004 with the worldwide success of 𝑆𝑙𝑒𝑝𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑊𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝐺ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑡𝑠.

🔹 Brian, Stefan and Steve gave an interview to France 3. Unfortunately, this is an excerpt from that interview where Brian explains what it is like to perform in a festival.

Photo credits:  Screenshots from the concert, Festival poster, edit by Laetitia

🔷 𝑰𝑵𝑻𝑬𝑹𝑽𝑰𝑬𝑾 🔷

𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 : Festivals, they're like a big picnic. But they're also like walking a tightrope in the way that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. But you also spend a lot of time in a field beforehand. there's a certain amount of less pressure in one way but then there's more pressure as well because there's more people and you don't have a soundcheck, etc. So it's not that you don't take it as seriously, that if something goes wrong, that it's not the end of the world, that you're on a bill with x amount of people and that things will probably go wrong for them too. So you just smile about it. It's a bit more fun.
✔️ 𝙴𝚞𝚛𝚘𝚌𝚔𝚎́𝚎𝚗𝚗𝚎𝚜 𝚍𝚎 𝙱𝚎𝚕𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚝, 𝚏𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚟𝚊𝚕 𝚍'𝚞𝚗𝚎 𝚛𝚎́𝚐𝚒𝚘𝚗 - 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝟹


𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒘𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒊𝒆𝒘 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒊𝒅𝒅𝒍𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑳𝒂𝒅𝒚 𝑶𝒇 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑭𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒔
🎥 https://bit.ly/3tOBje3 ⭐

🔷 𝑨 𝑭𝑨𝑵'𝑺 𝑹𝑬𝑽𝑰𝑬𝑾 🔷

From the intro with Scared on Girls, the tone is set: no frills, just brilliant songs executed with no hesitation. The faster tempo is the only thing that differentiates these live versions from their studio counterparts, but it makes a big difference. The first six tracks follow one another without a break, the time to hit a few larsens as an introduction, Allergic, or to listen to the constant "Briaaann-neuh !" of the swooning girls after each track. The climax of this first third of the concert is reached with the classic double effect 'Kill Kool' from Placebo (the album), 36 degrees / Bionic, killer songs that have not aged at all. After a groovy break with a well-chosen B-side, Drowing by Numbers, and the poignant Without You I'm Nothing, the concert starts again, Placebo picking from the most efficient songs of their repertoire Every You Every Me, Slackerbitch. Not yet inflicting his pseudo-demagogic speeches on his audience, Brian Molko is relatively sober, with a magnificent: "I gave myself a microphone shot and now I'm bleeding for you." After a less obvious track, Lady of the Flowers, as a breather, Placebo ends in the most beautiful way with a very well served Nancy Boy by Stefan Olsdal's bass and my favourite track, Pure Morning, a nice summary of each band member's know-how. Finally, it ends with an apocalyptic live version of Evil Dildo, the hidden instrumental track from Without You I'm Nothing. These nine deafening minutes prove that Placebo's desire to play was furious in their early days. And so much the better if the audience in Belfort could finish their concert on this concentrated rock, it will have been the final touch to an almost ideal setlist.

Five years after their debut, Placebo is still not jaded, and you can feel the rage in the chorus of "You Don't Care About Us" as well as the true sincerity in the interpretation of "Teenage Angst". A band that was able to crystallize teenage feelings so well was bound to disappear quickly or to lose its passionate urgency over time.
✔️ 𝚋𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚕𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝𝚜.𝚌𝚊𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚋𝚕𝚘𝚐.𝚌𝚘𝚖

Photo credit: Brian Rasic

🔷 𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑭𝑬𝑺𝑻𝑰𝑽𝑨𝑳 🔷

Since 1989, the festival has brought together nearly 2 813 000 festival-goers from all walks of life, of all ages and of all nationalities in almost 2000 concerts ! Located on the Malsaucy peninsula, a few kilometers from Belfort in a protected natural area, festival-goers not only enjoy a wide variety of concerts, but also benefit from an exceptional natural setting: hills and water. The campsite accommodates 15,000 tents over 4 days. A combination of nature and music that promises great memories for the audience !

🔷 𝑺𝑬𝑻𝑳𝑰𝑺𝑻 🔷

🎵Scared of Girls
🎵Brick Shithouse
🎵Allergic (to Thoughts of Mother Earth)
🎵You Don't Care About Us
🎵Bionic
🎵36 Degrees
🎵Drowning by Numbers
🎵Without You I'm Nothing
🎵Every You Every Me
🎵Teenage Angst
🎵Slackerbitch
🎵Lady of the Flowers
🎵Nancy Boy
🎵Pure Morning
🎵Evil Dildo

Photo credit: Screenshor

𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒊𝒕'𝒔 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒘𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆
🎥 https://bit.ly/3pCJatU 🎸 ✨

Pist by Laetitia

🔻 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗖𝗘𝗕𝗢 𝗔𝗧 𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗚𝗟𝗔𝗗𝗘 𝗙𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗩𝗔𝗟 (𝗔𝗨𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗜𝗔, 𝟮𝟬𝟬𝟭) 🔻

♦️ On July 6, 2001, Placebo hit the stage in 𝑨𝒖𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒂 𝒂𝒕 𝑭𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒈𝒍𝒂𝒅𝒆 𝒇𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒍.

♦️ Before the concert, Brian gave a quite funny interview to Austrian music radio station 𝑭𝑴4. I've transcribed it for you.


♦️ 𝗦𝗘𝗧𝗟𝗜𝗦𝗧 ♦️

🎶 Bionic
🎶 Passive Aggressive
🎶 Leni
🎶 Little Mo
🎶 Every You Every Me
🎶 Without You I'm Nothing
🎶 Slave to the Wage
🎶 Special K
🎶 My Sweet Prince
🎶 Commercial for Levi
🎶 Peeping Tom
🎶 Black-Eyed
🎶 Pure Morning

Photo credit: Ullstein Bild

♦️ 𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗩𝗜𝗘𝗪 ♦️

📻 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆'𝒔 𝒂 𝒕𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆, 𝒂 𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒏𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆. 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒘𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒇 𝒊𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒅𝒐 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒚𝒐𝒖, 𝒊𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖'𝒓𝒆 𝒆𝒙𝒆𝒓𝒄𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒃𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒈𝒐 𝒐𝒏 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒈𝒆 ?
🎸 It's our ping pong table yeah. While we were making Black Market Music, there was a ping pong room next door to the studio and we got obsessed with ping pong. So we decided to buy our own and take it on tour with us. But there's not much space here and we don't really get the chance to do it at festivals, you know. When we play our own gigs, we set it up every day and have a few games you know beforehand just to keep you from getting tired and keep you from getting bored.

📻 𝑰 𝒔𝒂𝒘 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒊𝒏 𝑽𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒏𝒂 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒔𝒆𝒕 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒘, 𝒔𝒐 𝒊𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒕𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒆. 𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒐 𝒊 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒘𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒊𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒐 𝒈𝒐 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒍 𝒄𝒊𝒓𝒄𝒍𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒏𝒊𝒄𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒇𝒇 ?
🎸 Well you just have to learn and realize and be okay with the fact that festivals by nature are completely chaotic and that nobody really gets a chance to test anything beforehand. So everything by nature is going to be more sloppy. So in a way that places a little less pressure upon you so you learn to let things go a little bit more you know.

📻 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒕'𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒂𝒔𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒐 𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒕 𝒊 𝒎𝒆𝒂𝒏 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒈𝒐 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒕'𝒔 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒂 𝒏𝒊𝒄𝒆 𝒔𝒎𝒐𝒐𝒕𝒉 𝒆𝒙𝒆𝒓𝒄𝒊𝒔𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒎𝒂𝒚𝒃𝒆 𝒈𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕'𝒔 𝒔𝒆𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒊𝒕'𝒔 𝒎𝒂𝒚𝒃𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒔 ?
🎸 Yeah, i mean it's far less precise you know. The nature of the context is much different because the audience isn't necessarily 100 yours you know. So there's an extra challenge in that to keep people's attention but also you know the whole situation is different. So you have to have a different attitude, it's a completely different context.

📻 𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒙𝒕 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 ?
🎸 It's something that's quite fun really you know because you get to hang out with other bands, you get to see people that you haven't seen in a while. Four years ago, we were playing here with Therapy you know, and we're playing here again you know it's kind of funny. So it's more like you know the season of sitting in the grass you know and kind of and just hanging out more and then it's like: "oh right, okay" it's time it's time to go play now.

Placebo at Forestglade 2001. Photo credit unknown

📻 𝑾𝒉𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒘𝒆'𝒗𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒔𝒔 𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 ? 𝑻𝒐𝒅𝒂𝒚 ?
🎸 No, not today. I didn't walk out into the fields today, no. Well I guess it must have been in Greece just before we came here yeah.

📻 𝑾𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝑰 𝒔𝒂𝒘 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒓𝒕 𝒊 𝒇𝒆𝒍𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒅.
🎸 Because we worked very very hard on being concentrated and being focused and being very tight. I think people pay good money to come see you you know, and ticket prices keep going up and up you know, so it's like you really have to give them value for money, you really have to deliver you know, otherwise they can walk away feeling ripped off you know. But whatever you do, there's always people who walk away feeling ripped off or you just go on your site the next day and like people just complain and complain and complain you know. Every now and again, you have one or two many drinks before you go on stage and you're a little bit sloppy and then you go on the web the next day, and they go: "Man, he was drunk, man if i saw him i would have kicked his ass man but still they're my favorite bands.". It's like: "Wait a minute". People can be so demanding sometimes you know, we're just human beings.

📻 𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒘𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖'𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂 𝒍𝒐𝒕, 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖'𝒓𝒆 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒂 𝒍𝒐𝒕, 𝒅𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒆𝒏𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒔𝒑𝒂𝒄𝒆, 𝒆𝒏𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒎 𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒐 𝒅𝒐 𝒂𝒏𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒓 𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒕 ?
🎸 Yeah, luckily we don't really suffer from writer's block so when we have the opportunity, we try and write as much as possible on tour. Because if you don't, then you stop being creative for a really long period of time and then you start to feel like a performing monkey, it's important to keep your creative juices flowing and we try and do that. So we've always kind of continually written you know which is a good thing.

📻 𝑺𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒇𝒇 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒏𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒍 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒌-𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆, 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒅𝒊𝒇𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒖𝒍𝒕 ?
🎸 It takes a long time you know to come down off touring you know. It's like if you have two weeks holiday, it just doesn't work you know because it takes you a week or two to come down anyway you know. I think Michael Stipe once told me that after the new adventures in High Five Tour that it took him about four months to come down, you know. So you have a tendency to run around like a chicken with your head cut off or you just hit massive post-tour depression and you just don't know what to do, and you want to throw yourself under a bus you know. Because you feel so useless, because your life isn't organized you know, and you have nothing planned for you the next day you know. You want to call up your tour manager and go like: "Where am I supposed to be ? You know tell me what to do today !". Yeah, it's a weird feeling.


𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞.
🎶 https://bit.ly/3pkNBsP 🎶

🌟 It was kindly shared by 𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑒 𝐾𝑟𝑖𝑠, who shared this amazing gig with me so that you can all enjoy it ! 🌟
💗 𝑻𝑯𝑨𝑵𝑲 𝒀𝑶𝑼 𝑪𝑯𝑹𝑰𝑺 !! 😄 💋

✒️ Transcript by Laetitia
Post by Laetitia

🔸𝗠𝗬 𝗦𝗪𝗘𝗘𝗧 𝗣𝗥𝗜𝗡𝗖𝗘🔸

📌"𝐼𝑡'𝑠 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑏𝑢𝑚'𝑠 𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑛 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑎𝑛 𝑒𝑥-𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟'𝑠 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑝𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑒. 𝑊ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑤𝑒 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 "𝑀𝑦 𝑆𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑡 𝑃𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒", 𝑎 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑐𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑦 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑑: 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑘 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔."📌
(𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝚃𝚎̂𝚝𝚞 𝚗°𝟹𝟹 : 𝙰𝚙𝚛𝚒𝚕 𝟷𝟿𝟿𝟿)

Screenshot: Rock Werchter Festival 2001

Maybe it's the winter season in which I am always accompanied by melancholy ...
Placebo is my faithful guide ... their songs are exactly what I'm looking for and need as my drug.


That is why I dedicate today's post to all those who love "𝐌𝐘 𝐒𝐖𝐄𝐄𝐓 𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐂𝐄"
- one of the most beautiful, painful and at the same time the most interesting ballads I know. I will always be fascinated by the combination of human pain describing lost love with hunger for drugs and escape from reality.
What happened in Brian and Stefan's life that they expressed it with a song so perfectly desperate?
We have many quotes in which they both described it, but the statements were a little different: was it the man or the woman who was the direct cause of this suffering?
In a Polish interview, I finally discovered an explanation that you can read today.


𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗖𝗘𝗕𝗢 (𝗡𝗢𝗡)𝗦𝗘𝗖𝗨𝗥𝗜𝗧𝗬 𝗭𝗢𝗡𝗘, 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗻, 𝗠𝗮𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟬𝟯🔸
🔸💬The most memorable fragment of your first concert in Poland was the performance of My Sweet Prince. Although the words in the chorus "my sweet prince, you are the one" are also characteristic of one of the most famous works in the history of literature, something else probably inspired you to use them in the text...
BM: "Right. But Hamlet has nothing to do with it. These are words someone had smeared with lipstick on the wall of my house before doing something very stupid. They made a deep impression on me. My Sweet Prince is another song that wrote itself. It all happened at a time when someone very close to us was experiencing a personal tragedy. It was about our friend and my ex-girlfriend who had come close to death. It was very sad and hard to swallow."
(Placebo (NON)SECURITY ZONE, Berlin, May 2003)

A very sad experience ... it certainly touches deeply everyone who has had a similar experience in their lives ... I really like the excerpt from the interviews that Rita shared here on the page. That passage expresses Brian's painful emotions very sensitively:

🔸💬 .../.../Some of your lyrics are, as I've read in your press release, autobiographical reactions to your personal struggles, yours specifically, and well, I've a question for, well, for an answer I need for myself really. If you're uncomfortable with the question, I wouldn't write anything you asked me not to, but - I would like you to at least tell me, off the record sort to speak, about Sweet Prince. (Did I just say 'off the record'? )
BM. "Okay."

🔸💬 (This next part, when I heard it on the tape, I thought, my god, I must seem so weird. Because for a second I just sit there. And then, I said it.) Well see, uh, I'm a recovering addict and -
BM. "Are you really?" (Not sarcastic)

Screenshot: Rock Werchter Festival 2001

🔸💬 Unfortunately. Yeah, and considering that, I've experienced a few things, you know. Anyway, I researched the web trying to find something to confirm whether in that song you are literally referring to heroin addiction. But I couldn't find anything about it. So, is it - metaphorical?
BM. "Not at all, it’s very literal. It was a very dark period of my life. I mean, and yeah, the song is essentially about a choice, about a breakdown between two romances. One with a person, and one with the ... with a substance."

🔸💬 Well, to some that lyrical expression is obvious, but do you care though if others can get it? Or is it just for your expression, your catharsis? Especially that song. And, uh--
BM. "Well, it's being comprehensive, artistically, that is very very important to me. But that song, well both romances, were tragedies for me, and both well, almost led to death really."

🔸💬 Well, in that situation, you just can't have both.
BM. "Personally I’ve -- yeah, they both spur on the other and each person just keeps feeding it, and you don’t want the other person to stop really. And you can’t --"

🔸💬 You can't have a relationship with that person while you're doing fucking dope. (It occurs to me...) Wow, are you interviewing me? (smilling)
BM. "It’s alright, really. But yeah, the only way to really get out of the substance abuse, if you want to at that time -- is to break the relationship --- and it is, it was, a very painful experience. You know, that song is the, well, the one that is kind of closest to the bone, and I’ve never really been that naked before, lyrically. It’s very difficult to talk about. And, I always have to watch what I say. That’s why I asked if I could write--- Oh yes, well everything I’ve said so far is okay. Good. Well, thankfully I did, uh, for my own protection I knew that I had to get out before it became a problem. I’ve a great deal of responsibility first and foremost to Steve and Stefan. And well, Steve has a daughter and these things, as we spoke about, these things have a domino effect with the three of us, y’know, it goes a long way, the synchronicity. I had to stop for me...too, and to protect the band. It’s very important for me not to f*ck up. I’ve always been, see, in a way, a lot of my life has been about things like that, like breaking down taboos for myself. And uh, a lot of my experience growing up has been based on doing -- on transgression and doing what is forbidden, and that is, y’know, it’s almost like the last taboo."

🔸💬 That's a big one. Especially for people with that psycho, creepydumbtype of tendency toward self destruction it's usually the mother load.
BM. "Yes, and I’ve had problems, hang ups with depression, a lot of emotional problems in the past and it’s taken me a long time to get to that point where I don’t need a crutch."

🔸💬 And Placebo?
"It’s my life now. The band is too precious to f*ck up. And I’d never been responsible before for anyone’s attempted suicide and well, that was very difficult for me to deal with. That song, I just, well, it sort of vomited itself forward, it had to be written. It happened while we were demo-ing the second album and that song wrote itself about a week after the fact. Basically it really really affected us in a very big way, all of us." .../.../
𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒:
https://bit.ly/3FHwczZ

Screenshot: Rock Werchter Festival 2001

What do you say to this emotional dialogue, dear friends?
Drugs and love ... both are often very addictive and it is a very limiting factor for life ...
What fascinates me, however, is Brian's mention of connecting love with drugs.
Because I studied drug addiction a bit while I was in high school, it was interesting to me to find references to heroin in this song.
Brian's verses testify not only to his experience with this addiction, but especially to his incredible talent for putting this pain into texts. This song is another masterpiece in a series ..


𝑭𝒐𝒓 𝒂 𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝑰 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒐𝒊𝒏 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆:
🔸 „Me and the dragon can chase all the pain away...“

“Chasing the Dragon” is a term used when heroin is inhaled through smoking the vapours usually by heating it up on foil and using a tube to breathe them in, also smokable through a "bulb" which is a glass cylinder with a bulbed end to put the drugs in and be heated over a flame.

🔸 „Me and my valuable friend...“
The price of one dose of heroin for the use described above can be found on the Internet, and it is not a small amount of money, it's measured in hundreds of dollars.

🔸 „Can fix all the pain away...“
"Fix" is another nickname for heroin.

🔸 In fairy tales, the prince always lands on the "White Horse", which is another nickname for heroin.
Although it is not directly mentioned in the song, many heroin addicts who felt addressed by this song formed this imaginary connection with the song.
Because heroin is at that moment for all these lost people the "Prince on the White Horse" who comes to save them from the hardships of everyday life.
🔸⭐🔸

Dear soulmates, with this post, I definitely didn't want to get anyone depressed. The difficult situations in life need to be seen from the other side: anyone who gets out of addiction to anything becomes a stronger and better person and can pass on their experiences.
Look at Brian and Stefan ... their lives speak for themselves.💗
𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒃𝒆 𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒖𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒇𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒐 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 "𝒄𝒊𝒓𝒄𝒍𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒔".

But to illustrate the atmosphere of this evening, I can't miss the song. I always cry for this video I share with you:

📹 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 “𝑴𝒚 𝑺𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒕 𝑷𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒆” 𝑳𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑯𝒖𝒓𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒏𝒆 𝒇𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒍 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟏
🎵 https://bit.ly/3nEMQKA 🎵 

Post by Marti