Placebo

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I so wish I had been though
but I've been to many concerts

B.J:

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I so wish I had been though
but I've been to many concerts

Me niether...I will miss 2 concerts(placebo of course) in one week!

beatrik:

B.J:

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I so wish I had been though
but I've been to many concerts

Me niether...I will miss 2 concerts(placebo of course) in one week!

aww man that sucks

B.J:

beatrik:

B.J:

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I so wish I had been though
but I've been to many concerts

Me niether...I will miss 2 concerts(placebo of course) in one week!

aww man that sucks

I know...but i have the Soulmates Never Die cd and a bunch of live stuff!Placebo rocks live!

beatrik:

B.J:

beatrik:

B.J:

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I so wish I had been though
but I've been to many concerts

Me niether...I will miss 2 concerts(placebo of course) in one week!

aww man that sucks

I know...but i have the Soulmates Never Die cd and a bunch of live stuff!Placebo rocks live!

cool
little miss I'm in Billie Joes bed just pmed me saying I think I'm funny
...
well I am

B.J:

beatrik:

B.J:

beatrik:

B.J:

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I so wish I had been though
but I've been to many concerts

Me niether...I will miss 2 concerts(placebo of course) in one week!

aww man that sucks

I know...but i have the Soulmates Never Die cd and a bunch of live stuff!Placebo rocks live!

cool
little miss I'm in Billie Joes bed just pmed me saying I think I'm funny
...
well I am

Nevermind...she was spamming..I dont want to get banned...
Who is your fav member?

was i bollakz spamming!!!

beatrik:

B.J:

beatrik:

B.J:

beatrik:

B.J:

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I so wish I had been though
but I've been to many concerts

Me niether...I will miss 2 concerts(placebo of course) in one week!

aww man that sucks

I know...but i have the Soulmates Never Die cd and a bunch of live stuff!Placebo rocks live!

cool
little miss I'm in Billie Joes bed just pmed me saying I think I'm funny
...
well I am

Nevermind...she was spamming..I dont want to get banned...
Who is your fav member?

Jeeze I couldnt decide
I love Stefan and Brian and Steve all so much
but I dunno I'd have to say Brain because his lyrics move me

B.J:

beatrik:

B.J:

beatrik:

B.J:

beatrik:

B.J:

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I so wish I had been though
but I've been to many concerts

Me niether...I will miss 2 concerts(placebo of course) in one week!

aww man that sucks

I know...but i have the Soulmates Never Die cd and a bunch of live stuff!Placebo rocks live!

cool
little miss I'm in Billie Joes bed just pmed me saying I think I'm funny
...
well I am

Nevermind...she was spamming..I dont want to get banned...
Who is your fav member?

Jeeze I couldnt decide
I love Stefan and Brian and Steve all so much
but I dunno I'd have to say Brain because his lyrics move me

Same here. They are a team! I love them all!

beatrik:

B.J:

beatrik:

B.J:

beatrik:

B.J:

beatrik:

B.J:

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I so wish I had been though
but I've been to many concerts

Me niether...I will miss 2 concerts(placebo of course) in one week!

aww man that sucks

I know...but i have the Soulmates Never Die cd and a bunch of live stuff!Placebo rocks live!

cool
little miss I'm in Billie Joes bed just pmed me saying I think I'm funny
...
well I am

Nevermind...she was spamming..I dont want to get banned...
Who is your fav member?

Jeeze I couldnt decide
I love Stefan and Brian and Steve all so much
but I dunno I'd have to say Brain because his lyrics move me

Same here. They are a team! I love them all!

its the same with all bands they're a team

I have loads of quotes from them. You?

no I dont... >_<
but I constantly listen to them and watch old shows with them on it, like graham norton and all xD

Steve Hewitt

"There's this thing going around in the British press about how I'm American...It's like, what are you talking about?? I'm from Manchester!"

"We're definately up for world domination."

"He's [Brian] always got pissed and when's he's pissed he's a fucking asshole sometimes. When he gets pissed it's just 'me' and 'my band'. And I'm like, 'I will fucking kill you!'"

"I'm retired darling. I've retired from the silver screen, and I'll stick to music. Making movies is fucking boring - too much hanging around. Music's more immediate, so it works for me." -Steve Hewitt on whether he'll act again

"You wanna go up onstage and create some kind of distance between you and the audience, so the audience can look up on something which is different, and feels kind of... removed. I don't think we were ever into the idea of walking on stage in t-shirts and jeans, like we just walked off the streets, and picked up a guitar..."

"You lose your head, don't you? If you're shagging every day? Too much of any good thing, and you end up in a bad way."

"No. I did actually suck a cock once, when I was about 13. I took it out and went, 'I don't know about that.'"
-Steve Hewitt on if he ever considered becoming gay

"Yeah, because the system is inherently fucked, so you have to keep fucking it, You can't get complacent."

"I'd rather be (in Australia) than America any day. It's just more laid back and everyone's cool, smiling, chilling, while in America they're smiling at you with a gun to your head."

"So many bands in rock history have failed because they've come off tour and the next album is already being promoted. We couldn't have got away with repeating ourselves."

"We're definitely up for world domination."

"There's this thing going around in the British press about how I'm American...It's like, what are you talking about?? I'm from Manchester!"

awesome

Stefan Olsdal
2004.08.28. 12:02


"If you thought we were huggable, then we'll kick your ass."

"Nail polish is our fashion downfall. We all love it- I'm wearing a nice shade of black on my toes right now. This is a special Placebo nail varnish. It's a promotional tool from the record company but we use it too. I'm pretty lazy- I should really shop around fot the right colour for me. But it's hard to get the right shade if you're a six-foot Swedish bloke."

"It [my book of Oscar Wilde's plays] doesn't get read nearly as much as the Abba book"

"I love collecting toys, the more absurd and silly the better...they're wasted on children I think."

"Placebo are showmen! Like Abba!"

"When we find a proper middle eight."-Stefan Olsdal on when Kitsch Object will be released

"The strangest present I've got from a fan was something that looked like a sex toy from Japan. It plays different techno beats when pressed to your ear. "

"Well you'll just have to wait and see now. Its going to be with me it depends on how much I want to play it up, how much I want to piss Limp Bizket off. "-Stefan Olsdal on wearing his red dress to the Big Day Out festival

"We're the Boyzone of indie rock"

"He was into his smack and his decadent lifestyle. I remember seeing Depeche Mode on the 'Songs Of Faith And Devotion' tour and that was when he was at his worst, And his best. Standing there in his crucifix pose, it just amazed me."-Stefan Olsdal on Dave Gahan

"The Jerry Springer Show to catch humans at their best, The Best Disco Album In The World Ever, because dancing is a universal must, and my wisdom teeth. I just had them out, and they're huge." -Stefan Olsdal on what he'd bury in a 1999 time capsule

those are so cool

Brian Molko

"I just enjoy fucking with people's heads. For the first half of our gigs, there's normally some guy convinced I'm a girl, and a pretty cute one at that. As the gig continues, it begins to dawn on him that I'm a bloke, and suddenly he has to ask himself some serious questions. Ha ha!" BRIAN, VOX-JULY 1996

"I always wanted to be a pop star. When I was much younger, taking a shit on the toilet, I used to imagine I was being interviewed. My parents thought I was a bit strange talking to myself as I was shitting." BRIAN, KERRANG!-JAN.18 1997

BRIAN ON BEING MISTAKEN FOR A PROSTITUTE:"I was trying to take my trousers down and screaming, ‘Do you want to see my dick?’. The poor guy was reduced to tears." KERRANG!-JAN.18 1997

BRIAN ON THE MOST EMBARRASSING RECORD IN HIS COLLECTION:"I get given loads of rubbish. So, I have two Alanis Morissette records which I hide when anyone with taste calls around." KERRANG!-FEB.1 1997

"Certain journalists can be very lazy, and as soon as one motherfucker said goth then everybody else said goth. As you can see I'm wearing silver nail polish, not black nail polish, I stopped wearing black nail varnish because of that. Bastards! They have such control over me the fuckers! I don't hear anything goth in our music, I don't see any similarities between us and The Mission or fucking Sisters of Mercy, or God forbid, Fields Of The fucking Nephilim." BRAIN, VOX-FEB. 1997

"I’m tired of being around men all the time. I’m going to start a band called Skirt with three girls and I’ll play the guitar and sing backing vocals in drag. I went window shopping when I was in New York, saw a lot of amazing dresses." BRIAN, ATTITUDE-APRIL 1997

"If I was a girl I’d still swing both ways anyway." BRIAN, ATTITUDE-APRIL 1997

BRIAN ON 'NANCY BOY':"It's obscene. A song this rude should not be number four in the charts." SELECT-APRIL 1997

"What's missing is the music. I'd like to rant on and on about the music, the mechanics of it. It's what I think about 90 per cent of the day. I don't think about getting high all the time. I guess I do think about sex a lot, though..." BRIAN, SELECT-APRIL 1997

"I don't believe in the categorisation of desire, why we have to choose these tags for ourselves. I'd say that sexuality is very fluid and I think it changes from month to month. The way that I feel certainly does. If I were to put any kind of tag on it I'd just say that I was Sexual." BRIAN, SELECT-APRIL 1997

"Stef is officially the sexiest member of Placebo" BRIAN, NME-MAY 17 1997

"I just have to rearrange my penis. These are girls' trousers and they show off my manhood a bit too much." BRIAN, NME-MAY 17 1997

"D'ya know, we used to drink a half bottle of whisky each before going onstage? Those days are far gone. Early on, we couldn't have cared less if we played wrong notes or sounded a mess, becasue we'd just be like, 'Yeah, punk rock!' But after a while you want to come across a little better. The music has now become the most important thing, whereas before everything else but the music seemed important. The buzz now is not the aftershow shenanigans, it's playing out music to the best of our ability. It's a seldom felt, heart-warming, wholesome buzz. It's called growing up." BRIAN, GUITAR MAGAZINE-OCT. 1998

"If you go and look at the tablature for Placebo songs on the internet all of them are so completely wrong. Maybe Stefan should put the correct ones out: but maybe not, cos I think it’s good to have some secrets. But it made me laugh looking at these tabs - they must have been trying their asses off to see what we were doing but they’re all very wrong. Shame, huh?" BRIAN, GUITAR MAGAZINE-OCT. 1998

"We were in danger or breaking up a few years ago, but we sorted that out, and now we’re stronger than ever. I don’t want to lose my boys!" BRIAN, GUITAR MAGAZINE-OCT. 1998

"A cock in a frock still seems to upset people. The vitriolic reaction we get in the British press is probably misplaced homophobia. ." BRIAN, THE GAURDIAN-OCT.9 1998

"When you have a hangover for two weeks, nonstop, it starts to affect your job. No, it starts to affect the pleasure that you get from doing your job well. So now that has become, more and more, our drug- doing what we set out to do in the first place, which is to write beautiful music and communicate real emotion, and to play strong and exciting gigs. That is now our drug." BRIAN, RAY GUN-DEC. 1998

"If you find yourself saying 'You know, if I met myself last night, I would've thought I was an asshole,' that's one hell of a severe warning sign that you've gone too far with the madness." BRIAN, RAY GUN-DEC. 1998

"It's almost bordering on cliche but Hewitt and Olsdal are my best friends in the world...They are like my two husbands. I've never felt more at home anywhere. I love them more than I have loved any other men on this planet in my life. They are both very beautiful people, as fucked up as I am -- true. Acts of God aside, this is why this band will be here for quite some time."-Brian Molko on the band

"You need to be told to shut up, that your full of shit. After seven years of living in a bubble you wind up spiritually, physically and emotionally spent. We were conscious of the fact that to write anything decent again we had to reacquaint ourselves with everyday human contact - take the tube, go to the supermarket. It was as if the choice to take a break was already made for us."

"I think we'll do it. We're damn tenacious. We just won't let them not love us. They really have no choice." -Brian Molko on breaking america

"If we have cut down, it's been through necessity. We're not 21 anymore. In the past we've probably been guilty of putting lifestyle before music, but we've grown up a little bit. Delivering 100 percent to our fans is now more important."

"There's a difference between 'glamour' and 'glam rock'. Glam rock, to me, is a bunch of straight, hairy, football-liking lager lads dressed up in mother's castoffs. And glamour is a certain sophistication, a certain other-worldliness, a certain unattainableness, which I think we certainly calculate. We believe that a band should be slightly larger than life-you should be transported to an alternate reality. I'm giving you some really good answers here, I'm very proud of myself."

"I've still got a bit of a baby face, so I'll be alright." -Brian Molko on getting older

"If we have cut down, it's been through necessity. We're not 21 anymore. In the past we've probably been guilty of putting lifestyle before music, but we've grown up a little bit. Delivering 100 percent to our fans is now more important."

"The first I heard Sonic Youth was a very, very important thing for me. It was my 16th birthday and I was very stoned and I'd never really heard anything like it before in my life. That was the year that I started to play guitar so that had a very, very big effect on me. After I moved to London I heard PJ Harvey for the first time and the emotional intensity and depth of the album, Dry, also had a very, very big effect on me. I guess when I went into the idea of a band I kind of wanted to marry the kind of dissonant, atonal beauty of Sonic Youths experimentalisation with the kind of pained confessional and highly emotional quality that PJ Harvey's music has."

"Eminem for starters. Then Fred Durst, from Limp Bizkit. Let's throw Britney in there. Then Marilyn Manson - just because he's sick enough to enjoy it. And the last one? 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." -Brian Molko on who he'd played Russian roulette with

"We're only now learning how to say 'No'."-Brian Molko on excess

"After five years of being on tour you learn what you can do to keep yourself out of trouble, hence the Ping-Pong."-Brian Molko on tour diversions

"I'm twice as much man as you'll ever be and more woman than you'll ever get."

"My father wanted me to grow up and be a businessman like him. My mother wanted me to grow up and go to heaven like her."

"People want me to be fucked-up and strung out, taking it to Kurt Cobain levels... That drug entered my life and left my life a long time ago. We did everything in our first couple of years and got it out of our systems so now we can concentrate on the important stuff." -Brian Molko on heroin

"I don't have the constitution that I imagined I had, on either a physical or a spiritual level. I just can't go any further, any more. And a lot of my pleasure-seeking was fueled more by self-disgust than anything else. A lot of it was an attempt to block out the pain, block out the loneliness and the fact I didn't like myself very much. And because you're on that treadmill, you become too self-destructive. A lot of bands go in to that, but they don't come out the other side. But we have. We've been staring down the edge of the cliff or awhile and now we're thinking, 'Nah. It's too far down'."

"They can rub me up the wrong way for hours on end, but they won't find anything. Then when I'm on my way out, I'll tell them, 'Next time you want to stick your finger up a boy's ass, just give me a call.'" -Brian Molko on airport security

"Disturbed." -Brian Molko on his feelings about ex-Judas Priest singer Rob Halford allegedly fancying him.

"Phil Collins makes up want to commit suicide."

"Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool."

"I check out the Placebo chat rooms and have a bit of fun trying to find out what everybody thinks. It hasn't backfired yet!"

"I'm really bad with jokes. I would have to say Limp Bizkit."-Brian Molko on his joke of the year

"I was a bit of a dick."-Brian Molko on his former persona

"Paris has a gay mayor. That really impressed me. I think the big change is that the stereotypes are breaking down. It's cool that I'm included on your cover (Attitude magazine, 2002) alongside someone like J.T. Leroy, because gay culture can sometimes still not be welcoming to people who don't conform to the stereotype. I don't hang out at Love Muscle, you know what I'm saying...?"-Brian Molko on the most important thing that's happened in gay culture in the past few years

"I don't want to be the one who carries the whole band, the responsibility's too big."

"I think that most people expect us to be lying in the gutter with needles hanging out of our arms, quoting Oscar Wilde to the stars. But that hasn't happened in years."

"The only people who know what I'm like are Steve and Stef - they have to live with me 10 months of the year. Your persona is just something people feed off."

"This band gets me off more that any drug."

"I just enjoy fucking with people's heads. For the first half of our gigs, there's normally some guy convinced I'm a girl, and a pretty cute one at that. As the gig continues, it begins to dawn on him that I'm a bloke, and suddenly he has to ask himself some serious questions. Ha ha!"

"I had quite a religious upbringing. I gave my life over to Christ at 11. I took it back when I was about 14."

"There's something just...just...twisted about Placebo."

"My sexuality is very fluid but it's very real. I have had confusing and contradicting emotions since I have awakened sexually, and it's something that I have come to terns with and that I have manage to live with in a very positive way. I have never been a homophobic person and one of the reasons I stopped going to church, because my mother used to take me to church a lot, was because of the church's attitude to homosexuality."

"My heroes aren't really decadent, they're quite masculine. Bruce Lee was beautiful. I probably fancied him and didn't even realize it."

"There's one on my wrist where I put my arm through a window trying to open it; the glass missed Mr Vein by a millimetre. It healed in the shape of a Nike Swoosh. They can't buy advertising like that." -Brian Molko on scars

"I'm continually surprised by the amount of people I wind up. For many guys, I'm the faggot their girlfriend fancies."

"I have more hair than him - contrary to popular belief! I like bits and pieces of what they did, but I never heard 'Mellon Collie...' all the way through. The age of double albums is over with MTV-attention spans. He made some beautiful singles. I found his voice a little bit irritating and I'm sure a lot of people find my voice irritating. It's probably a love or hate thing." -Brian Molko on Billy Corgan

"It's such a weird place, America. We came straight in from playing in front of 2,000 Parisians, with crowd-surfing and total mayhem, to playing in front of 40 people in Aerosmith's club in Boston. I mean, not only can a band be pretty big in the UK and Europe and come here and be totally unknown but they can be huge on the east coast of America and be nothing on the west coast. Or huge on both coasts but mean fuck all in Oklahoma, Kansas or Iowa. It's just such a huge country. Breaking it could take forever."

"This is the man who wants to be black - every soundcheck, the drumbeat to 'sexy motherfucker' is there.....Steve plays with his body. He doesn't think about it, it just flows out. From his big black cock."-Brian Molko on Steve

"I think Robert had a very big problem with me being the personality that I am. I guess being more flamboyant than him, receiving more of the attention than him, being more of a focus in the band than he was. I just became increasingly tired of being the focus of Robert's rages against the world. I did a lot to gain his trust, but it was never enough."-Brian Molko on robert

"It's about child abuse, but not necessarily sexual abuse. It could be physical or mental. When I sang the lyric it was just completely off the top of my head, and we never changed it. It just kind of stayed there because it captured a real atmosphere -- very sinister and creepy. It came to be about a young person very desperate to get out of a family environment situation for whatever reasons. It's a song that people can interpret in a hundred different ways."-Brian Molko on the song 'something rotten'

"My Marshall sounds so hot, you could fry an egg on it!"-Brian Molko on his amp

"It was quite special, actually. I was 14, she was French, and my first girlfriend. It happened in my room and we lost our virginities together. I convinced my mother that I'd had a nosebleed on the duvet but she said, 'You must have been lying in a strange position.'"-Brian Molko on loosing his virginity

thoise are so cool

B.J:

thoise are so cool

My favorite is:"If Placebo would be a drug, it would be pure heroine:dangerous, mysterious and totally addictive."