HOTEL PERSONA ANSWER FAN QUESTIONS
Music doesn’t leave the one who works with it. Even in rest moments, there is an area in the brain devote to combine sounds. It is in those moments when Stefan Olsdal, after a hard work year launching ‘Meds’ and an international tour, he keeps his creative activity apart from his work with Placebo.
STEFAN ANSWERS FAN QUESTIONS
2007 comes with a big schedule for Placebo. Meds tour goes on around the American continent, then back to Europe and also the side projects of some of the Placebo boys keep their fans interested and enthusiastic.
We have taken the opportunity of Stefan being in Madrid, in their break from the tour and using his break to go on with his side project Hotel Persona, Bionic-club have had the chance to pass him the questions about Placebo from their fans.
Plans for this new year; taste in music, literature and films; curiosities about Placebo and many other things that Stefan has let us know in this interview made by and for Placebo fans.
Transcript from audio: EVIL GROUPIE
STEVE HONG KONG
I = interviewer
S = Steve
I: Steve Hewitt, welcome to Hong Kong, thanks for coming. It is your first time in Hong Kong, isn’t it?
S: Yes
I: You say that you had passed through the airport, but that was it…
S: I got drunk at the airport once, and then flew off back to England (laughs). But this is much more permanent, I think.
HANGING WITH BRIAN MOLKO
What’s a glamour-puss like you doing in a caff like this?
Brian: Everybody needs a friendly, local greasy spoon where they know what you eat, where you can come to when you’re hungover
for a nice grease intake. They’re for when you’re just waking up after a very long night and you just need chips.
PLACEBO IN MEXICO
We’re having a right fucking blast!” Brian Molko is grinning, shielded from the Mexican sunshine by a pair of bug-eyed shades.
SEVEN DEADLY SINS
PLACEBO
Outspoken in the press, dolled-up onstage and once one of the most notorious party
animals on the scene, Brian Molko isn’t shy of breaking a few roles. Who better
then, to quiz about the Seven Deadly Sins?