PLACEBO "Interview" of fans live on italian radio 2009

1) why we have to buy your album?

Brian: you don't have to, even though we like that,
but if you don't, perhaps we should find another job...
the afford to continue us to make music: this is the main
reason to buy our albums

2) is "battle for the sun" your best album?

Brian: you should really tell us...
but it is nice to think of doing even better

3) what work did you do before becoming a full-time musician?

Brian: zero!
Steve: about 40 different jobs - I did the veterinarian,
attendant in hotels, delivered pizzas, worked in an assembly line,
renovated homes, and have washed dogs and the list goes on much more...

4) which tales did you heard before going to bed when you were children?

Radioman: indeed, I believe that they have never heard a fairy tale

Steve: my father told me scary stories
Brian: something like: "Do not worry about monsters
hiding in the closet, they do not exist

5) have you ever received an indecent proposal?

Brian: yes many...

6) have you ever made love before a concert?

Brian: yes!

Radioman: during?

Brian: yes sure...haha!

7) which word you say most often?

Brian: many times I say fuck, shit...

8) how you see yourself in 40 years?

Brian: bald and fat!
Steve: I hope not bald, but perhaps fat...
Brian: fat certainly!

9) how to spend your time when you retire?

Brian: have been somewhere in the sun...
making babies with my model wife...

10) what do you earn per month?

Brian: yeah right!
Steve laughs...!


11) what is the thing that you cannot be without?

Brian: air
Steve: water

12) what do you ask for the catering of the tour?

Brian: soy milk...
Steve : cigarettes...
Brian: cigarettes are not in the catering...
Steve: yes they are, more or less...
Brian: or lactose, because they are lactose intolerant,
you know....;-)
Steve: so instead, I want food without pepper...

13) do you steal soap in hotels, like everyone else?

Steve: sure, they do it all!

14) have you been ill for things that you invest with irony?

Brian: yes!
Steve: no ... maybe once...

15) have you ever been rejected by someone?

Brian and Steve: yessss!!!
Steve: many more times than I would like to acknowledge!

16) often, to the festivals rock/metal, there and who between the public there "gays". How do you answer?

Brian: there are two ways that you can respond:
a) kiss my bank account!
b) this "fags" are sleeping with women so beautiful that you can only dream off...
Steve: there you go...

17) do you believe in aliens?

Steve: but surely!
Brian: I don't know ...
but it would be so arrogant to think that they didn't exist...

Brian is thanking everyone for watching and listening...