🌛◾ℙ𝕃𝔸ℂ𝔼𝔹𝕆 𝕃𝕌𝕃𝕃𝔸𝔹𝕀𝔼𝕊 𝕡𝕒𝕣𝕥 𝕍𝕀𝕀.◾🌜

🔹“𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲'𝘀 𝗮 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗿𝘂𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗹𝗯𝘂𝗺 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁'𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝗮𝗱𝗱𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗿𝘂𝗴𝘀. 𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗲. 𝗣𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗼𝘁𝗵. 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗲 𝗿𝘂𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸. 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗮 𝗼𝗳 𝗮𝗱𝗱𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝘁 𝗯𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲, 𝗲𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀, 𝘀𝘂𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘂𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀.“🔹
(𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘 𝚘𝚗 𝙱𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚔 𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚔𝚎𝚝 𝙼𝚞𝚜𝚒𝚌, 𝙼𝚎𝚕𝚘𝚍𝚢 𝙼𝚊𝚔𝚎𝚛, 𝙾𝚌𝚝𝚘𝚋𝚎𝚛 𝟸0𝚝𝚑 𝟸000)

Hello friends,
it's another Wednesday and once again an evening spent with beloved Placebo lullabies.

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🌛◾ℙ𝕃𝔸ℂ𝔼𝔹𝕆 𝕃𝕌𝕃𝕃𝔸𝔹𝕀𝔼𝕊 𝕡𝕒𝕣𝕥 𝕍𝕀𝕀.◾🌜
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In just a few days we will celebrate ✨𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟐𝟐𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐁𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐊 𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐊𝐄𝐓 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐂✨, Placebo's third and absolutely iconic album.
The following lullabies are from that album and have something else in common:

𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐭 𝐚 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰:

🎵🎬 https://bit.ly/3SVX2LJ

The acoustic show for FNAC in Ancienne Belgique, known as 🔴ℂ𝔸𝔹𝔸ℝ𝔼𝕋 𝕆𝔽 𝔻𝔼𝕊𝕀ℝ𝔼🔴, held in 𝐁𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐞 𝟐, 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟏 was surprising in that several songs from the new album underwent an interesting change.
𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘬𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘧𝘢𝘷𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘴, 𝘸𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘸𝘰 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘧𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘴𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘦𝘴.
Let's go to the first one:


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🎵🌛"𝐒𝐏𝐄𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐋 𝐊"🌜🎵

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𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨
🎵 https://bit.ly/3e2KDal

Photo credit: Screenshot from Special K video

A song that was played right at the beginning of this very intimate gig.

The original almost punk version in a fast rhythm has a completely different effect on our minds than this beauty, which you can hear in the link below.
Just remember the recent post by Olga, which beautifully describes that during this song it is simply impossible to do anything else at the concert but to be loud and show the connection with the band with your whole body and that is why "𝐒𝐏𝐄𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐋 𝐊" is part of the setlist again, so that we all leave our mobile phones in our pockets.
I absolutely agree with her observation. However, the complete opposite is the slow version of this gem.

If you let yourself be affected by the lyrics you already know by heart in a slow version, maybe, like me, you will feel that its wildness and electrifying charge is gone, leaving only a wounded soul that maybe wants to give up on everything.

📌💬 ”𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘴𝘶𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘶𝘱 𝘰𝘯 𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤 𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘥𝘢𝘺𝘴: 𝘝𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘦'𝘴 𝘋𝘢𝘺, 𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘮𝘢𝘴 𝘋𝘢𝘺, 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘠𝘦𝘢𝘳'𝘴 𝘌𝘷𝘦. 𝘈𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘥. 𝘐𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘣𝘦 𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘢 𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘬 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘥 𝘪𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘦. 𝘌𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘣𝘪𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘥𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘦, 𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘱 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘮𝘺 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘥, 𝘴𝘰 𝘐 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮. 𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘷𝘪𝘣𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨. 𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘢 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯. 𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘥𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺'𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦, 𝘰𝘳 𝘪𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺, 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘬 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦.”
(𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝚅𝚒𝚛𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚒𝚊 𝙼𝚎𝚐𝚊, 𝙼𝚊𝚢 𝟸00𝟷)

That is why I find Brian's reference in these verses very interesting:

🔹„𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗼𝗿 𝗯𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹
𝗢𝗿 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗺𝘆 𝘀𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗵 𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗹?“🔹

The 🔹𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐇 𝐒𝐄𝐀𝐋🔹 is an old film by 𝗦𝘄𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗱𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗜𝗻𝗴𝗺𝗮𝗿 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗺𝗮𝗻. It tells the fiction of a knight returning from a crusade across a plague-stricken landscape. On this journey, the knight meets Death, with whom he plays a chess game for his life.
If you haven't seen the film, I recommend it.

Photo credit: Benoit Bouchez

However, the reference to the seventh seal may also refer to the biblical apocalypse described by St. John in his Revelation. It is a prophetic vision of the end of the present world, the Last Judgement, and the coming of the New Jerusalem.
Interesting, isn't it?


𝗜 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 "𝐒𝐏𝐄𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐋 𝐊" 𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝘀𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗮𝗰𝗼𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻.
✨”𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨'𝘴 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘢𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘴 𝘢 𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘮 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘧𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘭𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵'𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘥...”(𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝚊𝚝 𝙲𝚊𝚋𝚊𝚛𝚎𝚝 𝚘𝚏 𝙳𝚎𝚜𝚒𝚛𝚎, 𝙹𝚞𝚗𝚎 𝟸𝚗𝚍 𝟸00𝟷)

🎵🎬 https://bit.ly/3CzFIXH

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Right at the end of this concert, the guys played the second gem of the evening:

Photo credit: Jamie Beeden

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🎵🌛"𝐒𝐋𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐀𝐆𝐄"🌜🎵

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𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨
🎵🎬 https://bit.ly/3UWKjKC


Many posts have been written by us about this song.
In the fast version, it's a really great song that will get us all singing and dancing en masse.
However, the slow acoustic version takes me to a whole other dimension.

✨𝙄𝙩'𝙨 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙋𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙚𝙗𝙤'𝙨 𝙢𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙗𝙚𝙖𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙛𝙪𝙡 𝙡𝙪𝙡𝙡𝙖𝙗𝙞𝙚𝙨.✨

The slow version of "𝐒𝐋𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐀𝐆𝐄" gives Brian's message in the lyrics a completely different energy.

For me, it is a highly spiritual song, expressing even more loving support to keep breaking down our boundaries and constantly overcome our limits...

When I hear Brian's honey voice singing
🔹𝘙𝘶𝘯 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘰𝘮
𝘙𝘶𝘯 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘸𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘰𝘮 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘢𝘷𝘦
𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘴, 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥𝘣𝘺𝘦 ...",🔹

...it's like I'm floating in a universe that shows me an infinite number of ways to spend every other minute of my life.

It gets me into a deeper meditation where I feel that my desires for self-realization can handle obstacles with more ease than when my waking ego, full of fears and worries about what others will say, steps in.
And as David Bowie says "...𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘥𝘢𝘺𝘴...𝘐 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘵 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘵𝘦 𝘐 𝘥𝘪𝘥𝘯'𝘵 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘵".

Photo credit: Robin

📌💬 𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐅𝐀𝐍 𝐨𝐧 𝐒𝐥𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐚𝐠𝐞:
"It’s about following your dreams and not getting stuck in the nine to five machinery. It’s about promoting individuality."
(𝙷𝚒𝚙 𝙾𝚗𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎, 𝙵𝚎𝚋𝚛𝚞𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝟷𝚜𝚝, 𝟸00𝟷)

📌💬 𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐨𝐧 𝐒𝐥𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐚𝐠𝐞:
“It's a song about chasing your dreams. …/.../ It's basically saying, promoting individuality and saying that you don't have to follow society's rules in order to become a personal success. It often involves a bit of risk taking and courage. But we're certainly living proof of the fact that these decisions that we made when we were very young, we're living proof embodied that the road less traveled can be incredibly fruitful, if you stay true to yourself, if you have the desire to be an individual, if you have the desire and the courage to chase your dreams. …/.../ And if you're prepared to make sacrifices and take risks, if you're lucky, if your karma is good, then these things will payoff in the end. Which I think it's a positive message really.“
(𝚅𝚘𝚡 𝙾𝚗𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎, 𝟸00𝟷)

Dear friends,
the song 𝐒𝐥𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐚𝐠𝐞 was performed in a slow version at another very special concert.
This brilliant piece was part of the setlist at 𝐌𝐓𝐕 𝐔𝐧𝐩𝐥𝐮𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟓.
Here you can compare the two live shows separated by 14 years.

✨𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗖𝗘𝗕𝗢 𝗦𝗹𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗧𝗼 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗮𝗴𝗲, 𝗠𝗧𝗩 𝗨𝗻𝗽𝗹𝘂𝗴𝗴𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟱✨
🎵🎬 https://bit.ly/3M7uug2

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⭐"𝐒𝐋𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐀𝐆𝐄" (𝐈 𝐂𝐚𝐧'𝐭 𝐁𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐀 𝐑𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐱)"⭐🔸

Hi soulmates, today I have a post for all Placebo discography collectors.

𝑰𝒕 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒃𝒆 𝒂 𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒙 𝒐𝒇 "𝑺𝒍𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝑻𝒐 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑾𝒂𝒈𝒆" 𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 𝒃𝒚 𝑺𝑰𝑳𝑽𝑬𝑹𝑪𝑯𝑨𝑰𝑹 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓 𝑫𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒆𝒍 𝑱𝒐𝒉𝒏𝒔, which was subsequently released on the single "Special K" in 2001.

🔸🎶Do you know this remix?
https://bit.ly/3vgfO8h

Screenshot from Slave to the wage video.

So how did it actually happen ??
In 1999, the Placebo tour with the WYIN album included a spring stop in Australia. And on that occasion, the guys received a suggestion that they could be support for the Australian rock band Silverchair in August.


🔸💢𝐒𝐈𝐋𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐈𝐑 𝐈𝐍𝐅𝐎:💢🔸
Silverchair is one of Australia's most famous alternative bands.
All three of its members were born in 1979. So they were much younger than our Placebo guys. But imagine that:
„Singer/guitarist Daniel Johns, bassist Chris Joannou, and drummer Ben Gillies were all 12 when they started their band, originally named Innocent Criminals, and were 15 when they wrote “Tomorrow,” the anthemic song that kickstarted their career. While many legendary bands formed as adolescent school chums, from U2 to Radiohead, Silverchair got a record deal and stormed the charts while they were still kids, a rarity for a rock band that wrote and played their own songs.“
(𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘏𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘛𝘰: 𝘚𝘪𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘪𝘳, 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘚𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥, 𝘖𝘤𝘵.2021)

Silverchair. Photo credit:  Mick Hutson / Redferns, Getty Images

The boys changed the band's name to "Silverchair" in 1994.
Their sound, of course, copied the grunge musical style, thanks to which the record companies were looking for bands with a similar sound to Nirvana or Pearl Jam. And Silverchair's initial work was reminiscent of exactly these bands.
Here it is necessary to realize that the youngsters from Silverchair completed their high school studies during the first two tours.
Their fame rose sharply. This stress was then gradually attributed to the singer Daniel Johns, who began to suffer from depression, eating disorders and subsequently severe reactive arthritis.
These health problems prevented him from touring in support of their fourth album, Diorama, which was released in 2001.
According to Rolling Stone magazine in its four and a half star review, the album was “one of the boldest musical statements ever made by an Australian rock band”.


I dare say that the culmination of their rock career was a performance at Rock in Rio in 2001, where they played for 250,000 people!
The next fifth album also had very good reviews, and again, like all previous albums, ranked number one in the Australian charts. However, apart from a few always sold-out concerts in different parts of the world, no other tour took place. In 2011, Silverchair announced the introduction of their band into "indefinite hibernation".
Daniel Johns continues to work on his music projects.


But let's go back to the remix.
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐢𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐫 𝐰𝐞𝐛𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬:
🔸⭐„ "𝐈 𝐂𝐚𝐧'𝐭 𝐁𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐑𝐨𝐜𝐤" 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐑𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐱⭐🔸
Daniel Johns' "accidental" side project with Paul Mac has already yielded a five song EP of original material called "I Can't Believe It's Not Rock". We can now exclusively reveal that the duo has just completed another studio collaboration, remixing "Slave To The Wage" by UK band, Placebo.
It is not the first time that Daniel Johns and Placebo have crossed paths. silverchair has shared stages with the UK outfit at numerous European festivals and in August 1999 they brought them out to Australia as special guests on their Neon Ballroom tour.
Daniel and Paul created the remix in their home studios - the same locations used for the I Can't Believe It's Not Rock EP. While the original version of the track was very upbeat, the Johns/Mac version twists the tune into a dark, gothic hymn. It's called "Slave To The Wage (I Can't Believe It's A Remix)" and it will appear as a bonus track on a new Placebo CD single which is to be released in Australia in January.
…/.../ However, this is the first time that Daniel Johns has ever been involved in remixing another artist's music. While he doesn't plan to make a habit of such work he reportedly enjoyed this unusual challenge.“
(𝐶ℎ𝑎𝑖𝑟𝑝𝑎𝑔𝑒, 𝐷𝑒𝑐. 2000)

Screenshot from Slave to the wage video.

🔸⭐𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐚 𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐝𝐞:⭐🔸
„Amidst a wall of recorded music, Placebo took the stage and delivered a full length set that would end up going as long if not longer than silverchair's own set. If you are a fan of Placebo, you would have liked the set, it's as simple as that. They came across as more of a hard rocking band than the massively aired singles would have you believe. The mix didn't quite allow the expression in the vocals to shine through, but it was a competent set, and they were playing to more than the odd person that was at the concert specifically to see them."
🔸⭐🔸
However, according to Brian, no special friendship developed between the two bands:
💢🎬𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 𝐀𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐚 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟏💢
https://bit.ly/3LU1JDm


⭐If you would like to feel the atmosphere of the Silverchair music experience in Rock In Rio, then here is one of the biggest hits:
💢🎶𝐒𝐢𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐫 „𝐈 𝐌𝐢𝐬𝐬 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞“💢
https://bit.ly/3JQJOeD

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𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎 & 𝐅𝐈𝐋𝐌𝐒: 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨𝐬

In this part of my series, let’s take a closer look at the movies which had an impact on creating of some Placebo videos.

Photo credit: screenshots of the videos, film posters / edit by Olga

𝐅𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐓𝐄𝐄𝐍 𝐇𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐒 is a film that was an inspiration for the 𝐏𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 video.
𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐 told, “It was inspired by the Grace Kelly film ‘Fourteen Hours’ from the 50's about a guy who stands on the ledge of a building in New York for 14 hours. The police, his parents and his wife come and try to talk him down. You never really know why he’s there. It’s a very good film, check it out. We based the story on that.”
(“𝑂𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔” 𝐷𝑉𝐷, 2004)
𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬 is a 1951 American noir drama directed by Henry Hathaway, which tells the story of a New York City police officer trying to stop a despondent man from jumping to his death from the 15th floor of a hotel.
It was the screen debut of Grace Kelly and Jeffrey Hunter, who appeared in small roles. The screenplay was based on an article in The New Yorker describing the 1938 real story of John William Warde suicide.
Noteworthy, the Pure Morning video has got an opposite ending. “And it also has a very important meaning that I don’t die in the end. It shows some hope, I think,” 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 said. (𝑆𝑈𝐵, 1999)

Screenshot from Pure morning video

𝐃𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐄𝐍
Telling about 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐃𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐔𝐬 video in the Once more with feeling DVD Brian said that "there’s a ‘Delicatessen’ feel to this."
𝐃𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐧 is a 1991 French surrealist black comedy directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro.
The film is centered on a post-apocalyptic society where food is in short supply and grain is used as currency. It’s set in a dilapidated apartment building with a delicatessen, a butcher's shop, on the ground floor. It’s run by the landlord, Clapet, who posts job opportunities in the Hard Times paper as means to lure victims to the building, whom he murders and butchers as a cheap source of meat to sell to his tenants. Butcher's daughter and a former clown Louison, who applies for the job, fall in love. Aware of her father's motives, Julie tries to rescue Louison by contacting the "troglodytes", a group of vegetarian rebel sub-group of society who live entirely underground.

𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐓 𝐘𝐄𝐀𝐑 𝐀𝐓 𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐁𝐀𝐃 / 𝐋'𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐞́𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐞̀𝐫𝐞 𝐚̀ 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐛𝐚𝐝 is a movie behind a story of the 𝐓𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐌𝐞𝐧 video.
“…I took inspiration from a film I love, L'Année dernière à Marienbad ('Last Year at Marienbad'),” 𝑩𝒂𝒓𝒃𝒂𝒓𝒂 𝑴𝒄𝑫𝒐𝒏𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉, director of the video, explained, “Not only was the film's enigmatic narrative structure helpful to look at when creating an ambiguous love affair, but the sort of cyclical quality of the track mirrored this kind of repetitive film device. The video had layers of questionable events - did any of it actually happen and if so, with which one. This kind of fragmented reality was a direct nod to that film but something that I thought fit with the band's image of ambiguity at that time.” (𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜 𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑗𝑒𝑐𝑡, 2017)
𝐋'𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐞́𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐞̀𝐫𝐞 𝐚̀ 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐛𝐚𝐝 (𝐋𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐚𝐭 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐛𝐚𝐝) is a 1961 French-Italian film directed by Alain Resnais.
Set in luxury baroque hotel, it’s a tale of a woman and a man who may have met the year before at Marienbad and may have contemplated or started an affair. There is a second man who may be the woman's husband. The characters are unnamed. Through ambiguous flashbacks and disorienting shifts of time and location, the film explores the relationships between the three characters.
The film is famous for its enigmatic narrative structure, in which time and space are fluid. No certain conclusion is offered: what is happening to the characters, what they are remembering, and what they are imagining.
The same dreamlike nature was perfectly recreated in Placebo video.

Screenshot from Taste in men video

𝐆𝐀𝐓𝐓𝐀𝐂𝐀 is a film that was an inspiration for the 𝐒𝐥𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐚𝐠𝐞 video.
According to 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏, “aesthetically it was by a film ‘Gattaca’ starring Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman. It was the film where they met and first fell in love.”
“Cold, beautifully stylish near future, not sci-fi,” described the atmosphere of the video its director 𝑯𝒐𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝑮𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒏𝒉𝒂𝒍𝒈𝒉, “Is it sci-fi, is it whatever? Is it a love story? … If it's not the case, let's build like 'Gattaca', people, they are almost automats in the office – machine or computers but there is one girl who suddenly decides… And ok, that creates a knock-on catalyst effect. So, it started to shred everything, shred, shred, shred… It was colourful, simple and powerful.” (𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜 𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑗𝑒𝑐𝑡, 2016)
𝐆𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐚 is a 1997 American science fiction film written and directed by Andrew Niccol. The film presents a biopunk vision of a future society driven by eugenics where potential children are conceived through genetic selection to ensure they possess the best hereditary traits of their parents. Characters in Gattaca continually battle both with society and with themselves to find their place in the world and who they are destined to be according to their genes.
The film's title is based on the letters G, A, T, and C, which stand for guanine, adenine, thymine, and cytosine, the four nucleobases of DNA.

𝐅𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐂 𝐕𝐎𝐘𝐀𝐆𝐄 is a film that influenced the making of 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐊 video.
“This is one of my favorites videos.” 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 told. “It’s based on a 60’s movie ‘Fantastic Voyage’. Raquel Welch and a few other people get shrunk and injected into the president’s body and try to save his life. In this video I play Raquel Welch. Unfortunately, the budget didn’t stretch to fake breasts.”
𝑯𝒐𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝑮𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒏𝒉𝒂𝒍𝒈𝒉 who directed the video for Placebo explained his idea, “It was based on a movie, obviously 'Fantastic voyage'. And I always thought that Stefan looked like an android. I remember a guy from 'Fantastic voyage' turned out to be an android and he was trying to kill everybody. And I thought: 'This is twisted. Let try a mini movie which is all about inside something'.” (𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜 𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑗𝑒𝑐𝑡, 2016)
𝐅𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐕𝐨𝐲𝐚𝐠𝐞 is a 1966 American science-fiction film directed by Richard Fleischer. The film is about a submarine crew who are shrunk to microscopic size and venture into the body of an injured scientist to repair damage to his brain. Almost as soon as they enter the bloodstream, a lot of problems arise on their way.

Screenshot from Special K video

𝐂𝐑𝐔𝐄𝐋 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒: clips from this film are used in one of the versions of 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐌𝐞 video besides the live footage of Placebo from London's Brixton Academy.

𝐄𝐍𝐆𝐄𝐋 & 𝐉𝐎𝐄: the scenes from the movie are included in the 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤-𝐄𝐲𝐞𝐝 video. It was directed by the same director as the film, Vanessa Joop. The video was filmed at the Hurricane Festival in Germany with two actors, Jana Pallaske and Robert Stadlober, starring in Engel & Joe.

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