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🎸 On 25 July 2007, 15 years ago, the 𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒋𝒆𝒌𝒕 𝑹𝒆𝒗𝒐𝒍𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑻𝒐𝒖𝒓 began and Placebo was one of the major bands on the festival, which was originally 𝒍𝒂𝒖𝒏𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚 𝑳𝒊𝒏𝒌𝒊𝒏 𝑷𝒂𝒓𝒌.

🎸 The tour started in 2002 in the United States and continued in Toronto in 2007 and in some European countries in 2008. The aim of the tour was to bring together artists and fans from different styles and genres.

🎸 𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒋𝒆𝒌𝒕 𝑹𝒆𝒗𝒐𝒍𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 gathered artists such as Cypress Hill, Mudvayne, Xzibit, Korn, Snoop Dogg, The Used, My Chemical Romance, Taking Back Sunday, HIM, Placebo, Mindless Self Indulgence, et Chris Cornell.

🎸 𝑪𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝑩𝒆𝒏𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒕𝒐𝒏 was very keen for Placebo and Muse to participate in the festival as he stated in Revolver Magazine: "𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑀𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑜𝑝 𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑦 𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑡, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑀𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑𝑛'𝑡 𝑑𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑖𝑡𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠. 𝐵𝑢𝑡 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑎𝑣𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒."

Photo credit: Gary Miller

He also shared a funny memory about Placebo 😄 💝

🗨️ "The guys from Placebo are some of the nicest people. They had this thing, like I came out one day off the bus, and in front of the buses, there was like this little tent and on the front of it had been spray painted "𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜 𝐺𝑎𝑧𝑒𝑏𝑜". And they had made their own like little outdoor oasis with truck stop goodies, it was the funniest thing, like a little gnome and a little astroturf and a white picket fence that's about this tall around it, it was so funny. They'd be out there barbecuing and riding their bikes."
✔️ 𝙲𝚑𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚎𝚗𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚝𝚘𝚗 𝚒𝚗 𝙰𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚊 (𝟸00𝟽)

🎸 In 2007, 𝑳𝒊𝒏𝒌𝒊𝒏 𝑷𝒂𝒓𝒌 decided to make the tour carbon neutral by donating one dollar from every ticket sold to the forests of America through their Music for Relief Foundation. They also used biodiesel fuel on a majority of their buses, reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 350 tonnes. Information stands were set up to encourage fans to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. It's really no wonder that Placebo was seduced and accepted Chester's offer to take part in the festival. 𝑴𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑹𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒇 is a non profit charitable organization founded by Linkin Park which helps aid victims of world catastrophes and combat global warming.

🎸 The festival lasted for 29 concerts and ended on September 3, 2007. Placebo had to adapt their setlist as you will discover in the following quotes. Brian admitted in an interview that the "𝑚𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑐 𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑠𝑒𝑡 𝑑𝑖𝑑𝑛'𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘" because the audience "𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑟𝑜𝑐𝑘". Not easy to deal with an audience that is not usually yours ! 🙂

Photo credit: Gary Miller

◾ 𝑯𝒐𝒘’𝒔 [𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒋𝒆𝒌𝒕 𝑹𝒆𝒗𝒐𝒍𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏] 𝒈𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒐 𝒇𝒂𝒓 ?

🎤 Done halfway, already. It’s kinda flying by. It’s been good. It took us a while to kind of adjust to the crowd, to get the right set list together and kind of fit into the whole way for us to get through to the audience in the best possible way. We tend to be the outsiders, you know, we can’t feel quite comfortable being that. When we started we definitely felt a bit like that. We don’t scream as much as the other bands. We kind of work around that, and I think by the second week we got a good set. We’re getting more reaction from the crowd than the beginning. We play for half an hour in the middle of the day, and it’s usually baking hot with the sunshine. You gotta get people’s attention. A lot of them have never heard of us before.
✔️ 𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚏𝚊𝚗 𝙾𝚕𝚜𝚍𝚊𝚕 - 𝙰𝚗𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚑𝚢 𝙼𝚞𝚜𝚒𝚌 - 𝟸00𝟽

✨🌠✨🌠


◾ 𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒅𝒊𝒅 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒔𝒊𝒙 𝒎𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒔 𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓’𝒔 𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒋𝒆𝒌𝒕 𝑹𝒆𝒗𝒐𝒍𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 ?
🎤 We’re here because Linkin Park invited us. Chester [Bennington] and Mike [Shinoda] are fans of the band.


◾ 𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒃𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒚𝒏𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒄 𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒔 ?
🎤 It’s a really good vibe backstage. Linkin Park are very approachable – not only are they approachable but they approach you. There are no big egos floating around – it’s great… I was kind of expecting there to be a lot of people running around backstage with bottles of Jack Daniels and ruby sluts hanging off their arms… But it’s been really cool. It hasn’t been that rock-and-roll cliché. Which I’m really happy about, because I’m not a particularly big fan – not a fan at all – of that rock-and-roll cliché.
[...]

◾ 𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒋𝒆𝒌𝒕 𝑹𝒆𝒗𝒐𝒍𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒄𝒓𝒐𝒔𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑼𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔, 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑾𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝑪𝒐𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒖𝒑. 𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒖𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒖𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒅𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒂𝒕 𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒉 𝒈𝒊𝒈 ?
🎤 Well, we started this tour with a lot of bravado because we’d spent 18 months touring the world, preaching to the choir. We walked out on stage in Seattle dressed in our French designer clothing, like we would in Europe, played our melancholic songs and then went down like a complete lead balloon. We had to really rethink it. It took us about four gigs to find the right set [of songs]. I think we realized that at 5 p.m. in the afternoon Linkin Park and My Chemical Romance fans didn’t want to be wooed with melancholia; they wanted to be slapped across the face with noisy guitars. So we’re doing a very kind of punk rock show featuring songs we haven’t played in years, such as “Pure Morning” and “Nancy Boy.”

◾ 𝑹𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 ? 𝑰 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒗𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒅 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒖𝒍𝒂𝒓 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏.
🎤 We don’t play them anymore. They were exhumed. But, it adds to the challenge: How do you play with sincerity a song that you have made a choice to never play again? And because you’re in a particular situation, you have to be flexible and not be precious.
✔️ 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘 - 𝚂𝚌𝚎𝚗𝚎&𝙷𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚍 - 𝟸00𝟽

Photo credit: Gary Miller

📍 𝙎𝙀𝙏𝙇𝙄𝙎𝙏
🎵Pure Morning
🎵Because I Want You
🎵Meds
🎵Every You Every Me
🎵Nancy Boy
🎵Special K
🎵Taste In Men
🎵The Bitter End


🌟 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗯𝗼 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗸𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗻 (𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗗𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗶𝘁) 𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝘂𝗴𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝟮𝟮, 𝟮𝟬𝟬𝟳
🎬 https://bit.ly/3yNYPtX 🎬

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BRIAN MOLKO INTERVIEW – CHICAGO MUSIC GUIDE 2007

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

Picture taken during the Project Revolution tour, credit unknown

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

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

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

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

𝗬𝗘𝗔𝗛, 𝗠𝗘 𝗧𝗢𝗢.
📢 “Oh you too? Great.“

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

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

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

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

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

Picture taken during the Project Revolution tour, credit unknown

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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JPhoto taken during the Project Revolution tour, credit unknown

Shortly after the “Meds” tour had ended, Placebo were part of Project Revolution. It was a travelling music festival in the USA that brought artists of various genres together.

Brian, Stefan and Steve Hewitt weren't in a healthy state of mind after a long time of excessive drug abuse during the production of “Meds” and the following one and a half years of touring with the album.”It was a tough time, but that Project Revolution tour was the death knell for what we call Placebo Mk. II,” Brian stated in an interview with Altpresscom in June 2009 (Placebo Mk. II means Placebo with Steve Hewitt as drummer).
The Project Revolution tour was quite short, it started on 25th of July 2007 and included only 29 performances. The last show took place on September 3rd 2007 in Greenwood Village in Colorado.

Photo taken during the Project Revolution tour, credit unknown

📌 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗢𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗝𝗘𝗖𝗧 𝗥𝗘𝗩𝗢𝗟𝗨𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗧𝗢𝗨𝗥 📌
📢 "Well, we started this tour with a lot of bravado because we’d spent 18 months touring the world, preaching to the choir. We walked out on stage in Seattle dressed in our French designer clothing, like we would in Europe, played our melancholic songs and then went down like a complete lead balloon. We had to really rethink it. It took us about four gigs to find the right set [of songs]. I think we realized that at 5 p.m. in the afternoon Linkin Park and My Chemical Romance fans didn’t want to be wooed with melancholia; they wanted to be slapped across the face with noisy guitars. So we’re doing a very kind of punk rock show featuring songs we haven’t played in years, such as “Pure Morning” and “Nancy Boy.”
(Yale Daily News, September 9th 2007)

📌 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗝𝗘𝗖𝗧 𝗥𝗘𝗩𝗢𝗟𝗨𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 📌
It was an annual music festival hosted by the alternative rock band Linkin Park. It brought artists of various genres of music together. Linkin Park started the festival in 2002 with one stage. Two years later they announced a second one, the Revolution Stage, where smaller bands and artists performed.
For 2007, the year Placebo were part of Project Revolution, Linkin Park decided to make the tour ostensibly "green" by donating $1 of every ticket to American Forests. They also used biodiesel on a majority of their buses, and eliminated an estimated 350 tons of carbon emissions that way.
Gerard Way, lead singer of My Chemical Romance was married backstage after the final show of the 2007 tour.

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