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thepit · 3 years ago

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[start transcript: title: Life Of Brian. helium-voiced placebo front man brian molko tell us what floats his boat. credits: text : Victoria Segal. photography, Conard Blane Hair & make-up, Sarah Gregory @ Mandy Coakley attitude, April issue

article: [Quote] call yourself a photographer? get a fucking move on.[Unquote] it's early afternoon, it's an airy North London studio, and that metallic voice, scything across the mellow background music and pine floorboards? Well it's pop star. Brian Molko, to be exact, singer with chart warriors Placebo and thrilling new addition to the noble ranks of the pansexual pin-up. The band's single Nancy Boy, a voracious rampage through the night, is at number four today and it's time for fame, time for vindication, and time to start messing with as many people's heads and hearts as possible. [quote] Fuck, are you ready yet? Shall I go and make a cup of tea or something? Hey, you like it when I'm abusive, don't you? Don't you? [Unquote] The photographer smiles -magnanimously, considering - steps down and calls it a day. Brian, a glam-tyrant in a shiny black suit, stalks forward, opens a perfectly lipsticked mouth and sighs.

[quote] Oh, can I be nice again now? I'm tired of being nasty[unquote]. (nasty is written with 3 As) As Brian Molko knows all too well, things are not always what they seem. As befits and ex-drama student, he's perfectly happy hamming up some arrogant attitude on command, but in person he's as sweet as pie and sharp as nails, nice, and in the best way, nasty. (written with 3 As). The scenes before the pictures are equally hilarious - there's clothes strewn everywhere, the air thick with foundation and Brian's fretting about his hair. [quote] Well, what do you want to do with it, Brian?[Unquote] asks a patiently obliging entourage. He shakes the black bob melodramatically and tuts wryly - [quote] i suppose washing it might have helped.[Unquote]. This is, after all the man who describes his beauty routine this prosaically,

[Quote] I wake up with yesterday's make-up on. Take a bath, scrape my face until it bleeds, then just cover everything with make-up. If i can be bothered i'll do my nails. These days, with the excesses of rock'n'roll lifestyle, it necessitates even more foundation.[unquote] No, he's not Queen Bitch, but he might be, and he's not vain, but he might be, and he's not a girl, but huh, he might be, and he's not gay -is he?- but, you know [ellipsis]. As her says about the band - [quote] the fragility of our states of mind is evident in the music and who we are as people[unquote]

From the singer's film-star beauty -a three-way crush between Marilyn, Courtney and Louise Brooks - to the twisted, addictive art-punk of their music, Placebo are at odds with a pop world currently dominated by anoraks and beer. the opportunity of subversion is ripe, Never mind the fact that the lyrics to Nancy Boy actually got on to the notoriously draconian Top Of The Pops untouched - Brian is particularly proud of singing, 'what a beautiful ass, on air - Placebo have a singer who is all set to send parents and The Daily Mail a-quiver with prurient outrage. Raised in Luxembourg, with a banker father and born-again Christian mother, this is a prospect he seems to relish.

[Quote] I'd like to be more of a bad influence than a role model. I'm getting lots of boys to wear eyeliner again, which is good. But am I not meant to talk about my experiences with drugs or things that are essentially dangerous? Brian Harvey is a star - he's gone so far up in my estimation. I don't think he did it on purpose to be a star - he was just a bit stupid, but a star by default. I think that if there are a lot of boys out there that have me on their wall instead of Eric Cantona or Liam Gallaher, then we're really getting somewhere. Maybe they won't all grow up to be shitheads. I'd like to take a big fucking drill to Liam's head. The thing that irritates me the most about Oasis is there's no insecurity involved, it's just [quote] we are the greatest[unquote], constantly. to me that's the sign of an even greater insecurity [Unquote]

Who were your first posters, your first star crushes, then? [quote] The very first one would be the girl out of Buck Rogers, then Pricscilla Presley in Dallas. I was really into Kim Deal - she was a tomboy. I remember seeing The Pixies and she had such a high squeaky voice and this appealing tomboy-ish quality[Unquote].

It's no coincidence they're all female [ellipsis]. [quote] i'm so tired of being around men all the time. I'm going to start a band called Skirt with three girls and I'lll play guitar and sing backing vocals in drag. I went window shopping when i was in New York, saw a lot of amazing dresses.[Unquote]

it's much easier for men to be sartorially outrageous than women, isn't it? All they need is an eye-lashing of mascara and everyone's agog. [Quote] there's a really strong thing inside of me that really, really wishes I was a girl. I really do. I think that if i had the personality I had now and was a girl I would be even more powerful. I could have been the ultimate rock chick.[unquote] Still could, Brian.

While he's a blessedly frank and articulate interview, he's still smarting at one of the music weeklies tagging him, [quote] a young heterosexual[unquote], and the other printing a scurrilous story about him - which it might not be politic to repeat here, but you can guess - in the gossip columns. [quote] Of course it's not true, He snorts, Maybe my reputation just precedes me. You know, Brian - Superslag.[unquote]

So where exactly do you stand on all that then, you young heterosexual, you? (young heterosexual is written in quotes.) Right [ellipsis] OK [ellipsis] OK, let's put it this way - I like girls who look like boys and boys who looks like girls. When I see photos of Kate Moss, i Kind of [ellipsis] crumble, and when i see photos of Richey Manic it has the same effect on me. I was disappointed to be called that, but that's because the journalist in questing knows i recently split up with my girlfriend and is just assuming.[Unquote].

Just assuming? How about accusations that affecting bisexuality is merely a sly ploy for, well, pulling birds? He throws his hand up in horrified mock-surrender. [quote] "Well, you just see right through me." the sarcasm abates. "Are you wondering if it works? Well, it does, but I wouldn't be placing myself in that position if it wasn't true. It's a serious thing to say about yourself if it's not. That' a little of what Nancy Boy is about - how people superficially imagine it to be fashionable without feeling any real desire within"[Unquote]

How old were you when you realised you were attracted to boys and girls? [quote] Attracted or attractive [Unquote] Cor. There aren't many people who could get away with that question, who would even assume that there was a possibility you could mean the latter. The subtext is that people ask him all the time what it's like to be universally desirable. Which of course, they probably do. Fair enough [ellipsis] [quote] Attracted - around the age of sixteen. It just hit me like a ton of bricks. Attractive - when the band started happening really, seeing the looks on peoples' faces. [unquote]

Strange how it suddenly became even harder to make eye contact. [quote] A kid who was interviewing me for some fanzine admitted to me that when he first saw me he thought I was a girl and he really fancied me, but he didn't anymore because he knew I was a bloke. I told him that was bullshit and he was suppressing his desires. I told him to his face, '[quote] actually. you do fancy me and you do want to sleep with me.[unquote] That's something i quite like to blow apart because all that represents is repression.[Unquote] So, to end - if you had a fairy godmother, what would you wish for? [quote] turn me into a girl. If i was a girl I'd still swing both ways anyways.[unquote]

From the [quote] Jee-zus![unquote] reaction of the bunch of blokes you sailed past on the way here, wrapped in a velvet coat and nuclear charisma, you must get a lot of hassle for looking the way you look already. [quote] I'll give you an example. Last time I went for a drink in Camden, I went to use the gents' and there were these two guys in the corner who started whistling at me and shouting, quote,it's the other one love,unquote. I said, quote, I think you guys need glasses, unquote, went it, took my piss, and when i came out they were pissed off, they were really pissed off. Saying, quote, Come over here cunt, I want a word with you,unquote. I believe in saying things when I feel them, so I said, quote, I'm not your fucking pet so don't whistle at me,unquote. I had to get my bag and leave because they were getting aggressive. It was because they made a mistake, they thought i was a girl and I told them to fuck off. That's fairly representative of the reaction you get out of the blokes in that situation.[Unquote]. He suddenly gives a wicked smile. [quote] they probably thought I was cute, too.[Unquote]

Placebo's new single Bruise Pristine is released on 12 May. End Transcript]

Brian Molko in Attitude Magazine, April 1997

Please do not repost; this scan was generously sent to me from a personal collection.

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fidjiefidjie · 1 year ago

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paharvey99 · 4 years ago

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No Waitrose October 7: Days 30-31

Day 30

Friday – and the penultimate day of No Waitrose October. Also my nephew’s birthday, so when the four year-old I live with got up she was bundled in front of my phone to record a happy birthday video message. She’s done so many of these that she’s become an accomplished singer of Happy Birthday; I sent it to the family WhatsApp and my younger sister complimented her dramatic pauses and use of vibrato.

I’d bought my nephew some Minecraft Lego (Minecraft is one of those things where I’m not too sure what it is but we’re past the point where I feel comfortable asking. This is not a plea for anyone to tell me what Minecraft is, by the way), and I also wanted to get him something stupid and annoying, because he’s eight, so I got him a voice changer shaped like a mini red megaphone.

A couple of weeks back when I was buying all this on the internet I had thought it would be amusing to get him a retail-size box of chocolate bars, like 24 Bountys or something. He very nearly got 20 white chocolate Lion bars, but then I realised that maybe he didn’t even like white chocolate Lion bars, so I bought him a big Cadbury’s selection box type thing. I still maintain that a box of 20 white chocolate Lion bars is a fantastic present, I’m going to definitely buy one for someone for Christmas.

After the happy birthday message I did the nursery run and came home and did a load of work, had last night’s Sichuan pork dumpling filling noodles for lunch, more work, nursery run, and a nip into M&S Food on the way home.

You’ve probably noticed this month that I have been going to M&S Food quite a lot, and from the outside it might look like I’ve just replaced Waitrose with M&S Food and carried on as usual. However, this isn’t quite right. I will regularly do a big main shop in Waitrose, whereas I can’t bring myself to do that in M&S Food, which remains solely for “bits”. I bought some milk and something for tea, which turned out to be some trout in watercress sauce that was down from six quid to 90 pence. I knew the person I live with would tell me off later for giving her a ready meal for tea, but with a saving of more than a fiver I couldn’t leave it there.

By the time we got home my nephew had received his birthday message and presents and there was even a video of him using the voice changer thingy, which did seem to be as stupid and annoying as I’d hoped. This reminds me – the voice changer present was vaguely inspired by the book Angelica Sprocket’s Pockets by Quentin Blake. The title character has a range of unlikely items in her pockets, like trees and elephants and a kitchen sink and so forth. Spoiler alert: that’s the entire plot of the book. One of the things she has in her pockets is a selection of motor horns that go PAR-HURR and BEEEP BEEP, and I realised that a motor horn that goes PAR-HURR and BEEEP BEEP would be a fantastic thing to receive as a present. However, I chickened out of buying one for my nephew and scaled it down to the mini-megaphone voice changer. Maybe when he’s older.

I roasted some potatoes, courgettes, onions and a yellow pepper in chicken stock to go with the trout, I used a lot of stock and the vegetables ended up a soft, tasty mess, I was very pleased with them. As predicted, the person I live with expressed disapproval of the trout, saying that while it tasted nice she’d rather not eat a bought sauce. I know what she means; it may have been a cheap and tasty option, but I need to protect my brand better.

Just as we were going to bed I went to post a link to a previous blog on Twitter and noticed that the government had leaked news about a new national lockdown to the papers. I flicked through a few tweets and everyone was furious with the government for doing this, and I ended up furious as well. Then I wished I hadn’t looked at Twitter, as I was having a nice evening and all of a sudden I was furious.

It made me think, actually, that the government must be really pleased with the whole Twitter situation. Because really, they do abhorrent stuff, everyone on Twitter gets furious and then literally nothing happens. Boris Johnson is not quaking in his boots because a 90s comedian has got 33,000 retweets, no matter how incisive the skewering. He doesn’t even know it’s happened. Dominic Cummings is not rushing about going “Twitter is furious, what can we DO?”. He’s perfectly happy that he’s upset a bunch of lefties and they’re sitting about frothing in their own anger and doing absolutely nothing meaningful about it. No one is rustling up an angry mob with pitchforks and flaming torches, no one’s even writing to their MP. You want to change stuff, you’ve got to get up and do stuff; it’s the only way. Not me though, I’m too busy.

After that I calmed down and went to bed.

Didn’t go to Waitrose.

Day 31

As ever, Halloween marks the final day of No Waitrose October. I’m fairly sure I complain about Halloween every year, so I won’t bore you with it again, just know that I still don’t like anything about it.

The four year-old I live with and I got up and had breakfast while the other person I live with stayed in bed. After a while I took the person I live with through a cup of tea and complained about the new lockdown. The person I live with hadn’t checked Twitter last night and didn’t know about it, so I then felt a bit bad for waking her up with miserable news.

The weather was miserable too, not much hope of going out for a walk or anything, so we stayed in and pottered about all morning doing weird bits of tidying and video calls with family and stuff.

We made the unicorn Angel Delight that we bought in the week. I had to whip up three different bowls of gloop and assemble them accordingly, it was quite time-consuming. They did look amazing though, the kind of dessert that you see on fairytale tables laden with goodies. I put a picture of them on Instagram and we put them in the fridge for later.

For lunch I made fishcakes, peas and oven chips and somehow managed to mess up the oven chips. I don’t know what I did wrong, they all stuck to the tray for some reason. Still ate them, obviously. Then we had the unicorn Angel Delight for afters. I don’t know if Angel Delight has changed, or I have changed, or both, but it was pretty terrible. Just the kind of food that isn’t worth eating. None of us ate much of it, hopefully we’ll never have to bother with it again.

After lunch there was a break in the weather and the four year-old I live with was persuaded out of the house on the promise of going to Slimetown. Thankfully this was quickly forgotten and so we just went down to the sea, where the light was amazing but it was a bit windy, so we headed back inland. On the way back we went past City Books, Hove’s liveliest independent bookshop apparently. It reminded me that I wanted to buy Nigella Lawson’s new book, and then I realised that with the lockdown coming I wanted to buy it at an independent bookshop rather than online, support local businesses and all that. I had a look in and thankfully it wasn’t particularly lively inside, or we wouldn’t have gone in. I bought the new Nigella and I also bought a book for the four year-old I live with as a pre-lockdown treat, something called Shark in the Park.

Back at home I started reading the new Nigella, and it appears to be exactly what I want from Nigella right now; a text-heavy cookbook with loads of recipes and ideas. You may have noticed that I’ve been banging on about Nigella a lot this month, well that’s because I think she’s brilliant. People tend to think of her slightly daft tv persona, flouncing about in her big London townhouse eating cheesecake in her dressing gown at midnight or whatever, but when you read her books you realise that’s all for show. She’s actually someone who’s properly obsessed with making and eating delicious food, which is where her interests align with mine. And she’s not precious about it; there is a recipe in her new book - not even a recipe really – for roast chicken served on crisps. Literally, you roast a chicken, cut it up into pieces and serve it on top of a large bowl of crisps. The chicken juices soak into some of the crisps, the ones round the edge stay, well, crisp. I think I actually punched the air when I read this recipe, because really, you know that that is going to be absolutely sodding delicious. Roast chicken and crisps are among my top five foodstuffs of all time, so why on earth had I never thought to combine them before? That’s the genius of Nigella. She’s like Eric Cantona or someone, seeing passes that no one else on the pitch can see. You’d probably need a green salad with it, mind.

I showed the roast chicken and crisps photo to the person I live with and she expressed some reservations. Not sure I’ll get away with roast chicken and crisps any time soon.

After more reading and pottering and bed-changing and tidying it turned out to be bedtime. I’d had the song Memory from the musical Cats in my head all day, so I put the Barbra Streisand version on for the four year-old I live with on my phone. She didn’t take to it, so I put a related video on, which turned out to be Taylor Swift singing Macavity the Mystery Cat from the ill-fated film adaptation from last year. We have a storybook version of Macavity the Mystery Cat that we read a lot, so the four year-old I live with knows it really well and was very excited to see a video of it.

It hardly needs saying, as everyone said it at the time, but that version of Cats from last year really is very strange indeed, isn’t it? We watched a few videos from it, and it hardly seems credible that anyone thought it was ok to release into the public domain. Somehow it had a magical effect on the four year-old I live with, who fell asleep to Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer or something.

For tea I had made sausage, pumpkin and brussel sprout pasta, all baked in a creamy cheesy sauce, a proper ribsticker of a meal. The pumpkin was a nod to Halloween, even though I hate it (Halloween, not pumpkin).

After tea we watched a film on Netflix called The Trial of the Chicago 7, which we quite enjoyed, a solid 7/10.

Then we got angry about the government. This new lockdown doesn’t seem like it’s going to be that big a deal for us, we weren’t going to pubs and restaurants anyway. I would like to know if the man coming to fix the hole in the ceiling next Thursday is still allowed to come, and whether the surveyor can still go round to do a report on the house we’re buying, but we’ll just have to wait and see I suppose. Then we went to bed. Another year over.

Didn’t go to Waitrose.

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blackdogpanopticon · 4 years ago

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Oh football!

So, I realise for people who aren’t into football this will clearly be quite bookish. However, I have recently been reading “The Promised Land” by Anthony Clavane. Its basically about the history of Leeds United post World War 2 and also semi-autobiographical in respect of his life as a Jewish Leeds United fan and the city as a whole. It’s brilliant. I’ve just got to the part where the Premier League starts (1992/1993) and Leeds sell Cantona to Man United for £1.3 million; a transfer described by Clavane as “the worst transfer decision in the history of football.

This got me thinking; there is loads about football history (specifically English) that I don’t know about (obviously) purely because I either wasn’t born, I was too young to be aware of the information or that its been consigned to the annals of time because it’s considered generally too boring or not relevant to recall by fans and media outlets alike. Therefore, when I was looking for something to do last night I noticed MOTD Top 10 FA Cup moments was on BBC1; in lieu of any real football due to the COVID. Oh how I miss football...

Anyway, I thought I would give this a go because I hoped it might fill in some of my gaps in knowledge and at the very least entertain me. Oh how wrong I was. I’m being over dramatic. The goals and clips were all fabulous clearly; however between the 50 year period they seemed to cover and Alan Shearer’s dull commentary (sorry Alan, you’re a Magpie Legend/Martyr but you are extremely dull) the programme just lacked any cohesion, sense of narrative or general bite or Va Va Voom (”Thiery, woah oh!”).

Yes Ian Wrights commentary on his own career is always extremely interesting because of the character that he is and the adversity that he had to overcome; but Gary Linekar? I am sorry but it is time that smug bastard got off TV and gave some one else a go. And I am sorry, but there was literally no discussion of the on going COVID preparations for the Prem’s mooted behind closed doors return. How about discussing and commenting on this rather than relying on the fact that the presenters are using Zoom, to create any semblance of relevance to anything at the moment?

That got me thinking. With, the Bundesliga (an un-competitive league at the best of times) behind closed doors looking like a series of bad training games gone wrong, and the Championship and Prem not coming back for at least another month (?); I still need to fill my football fix. Enter the above video. I have watched Premier League Season reviews before; and they are un-ashamedly great! I think I am going to try and watch every season up till the current one when I have nothing to!

I tried to start from the first season of the Premier League 1992/1993, where Man United win the league for the first time under Fergie from the afore mentioned Leeds United; who the year before won the last season of the Old Division 1 proper in 1991/1992 with the infamous French man (his last season for the club and ironically the last time Leeds conquered the English Football Pyramid). Alas, there was no review available on YouTube (?). So I had to start here at 1993/1994.

Whilst the review is in 3 parts and its not the most exhilarating season (the commentary provided throughout does its best to reduce any excitement anyway), it’s worth a watch for some of the highlights I have detailed below! And bringing me back to my earlier point, there are loads of interesting snippets and forgotten pieces of trivia that have been lost to the football fan trivia annuls of time (or at least that a late 80′s lad such as myself won’t necessarily know anyway!). So without further a do, here are some of the more interesting highlights (and low lights!) i picked out incase you are too busy getting pissed on the semi-locked down bank holiday (!):

Part 1

The review begins with a blatant double footed tackle that would have easily been deemed a red in the modern game!

Roy Keane signing for Man United.

Old shots of Old Trafford looking tiny!

Glen Hoddle (a Chelsea Legend and eventual bigoted hate monger) becoming player manager of Spurs!

Aston Villa with an Opera Singer in the dressing as they are presumably getting ready for a match?! (Who knows?!).

Advertising boards with “Street Fighter” and “Sega” on them!

John Fasanu brazenly assaulting the Spurs captain Gary Mabbutt (breaking his face) and the English FA running an “anti-elbow” campaign!

Peter Reid being sacked as Man City Player/Manager (in his first managerial role!) after 6 days (!) and Man City fans rioting in front of Maine Road and the Rozzers turning up on horse back to control said riot! Oh English football!

The emergence of 2 icons in football; Andy Cole (who goes on to have a 41 goal season; 34 in the Prem) and Ian Wright on his way to becoming an Arsenal legend.

Part 2

Tony Adams heading it into his own net! Never gets old!

A young Alan Shearer being interviewed after a Blackburn game and still managing to bore the pants off you.

The death of Sir Matt Busby during January of 1994; the man credited for putting Man United on the map.

Various Matt Le Tissier and Ryan Giggs pingers!

Souness resigning from Liverpool with the Reds 5th in the table and 23 points off first; oh how times have changed these days!

Oldham, Sheff United and Swindon in the Premier League! Spoiler alert - it doesn’t last long.

Blackburn Rovers playing in their AC Milan-esque away kit! Classic.

Paul Ince showing his class at Man United before he goes on to betray the club.

Part 3

Peter Beardsley scoring for his beloved Newcastle. I am sorry but any time any one mentions him these days I just instantly think of Bob Mortimer’s imagined impressions of him every week on Athletico Mince. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqwLFGMHiy4

Mark Hughes scoring for Man U and being recorded in the music studio singing a Man United song I have been unable to find (?!).

Cantona being sent off twice and banned for 5 games and being criticised by Alan Hansen in the MOTD studio in his very 90′s suit.

Vinnie Jones and the crazy gang beating Man U (eventual winners) and Blackburn (2nd place and next seasons winners).

Steve Bruce leading out Man United (to defeat!) in the top of table clash vs Blackburn.

An Eric Cantona homage and montage to the tune of “Isn’t she lovely” by Stevie Wonder!! Yes this actually happens!! Big WTF from me there.

The last season of standing and terraces on the Kop at Anfield.

22 teams in the Prem.

Man U lifting the trophy and saying goodbye to Bryan Robson after 13 years.

So there you have it, if you are missing football and want to fill in some of your gaps in knowledge of the English Game/obtain a load of useless facts; season reviews are my recommendations! For now anyway!

#premier league #football #1993/1994 #covid19

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