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Ayda is on Loose Women today so I am hoping to see Robbie on The Graham Norton show fairly soon promoting the movie :)
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Placebo on bringing David Bowie and Robbie Williams together in their “honest and vulnerable” new film

Brian Molko and Stefan Olsdal explained how famous fans, highs and lows, and moments that were "embarrassing and maybe a bit humiliating" paint a bold new picture of the band in 'This Search For Meaning'

 

Placebo have discussed how their all-star, warts-and-all new documentary movie paints a bold new picture of the band, driven by “the desire to break the form and to do something new”.

 

Frontman Brian Molko and bassist–guitarist Stefan Olsdal of Placebo took to the stage at the premiere of their new documentary film Placebo: This Search For Meaning on Thursday night (October 3) to discuss the themes of the film – including addiction, mental health, gender politics and the film’s rare and unseen footage following the band’s relationship with David Bowie.

 

The film – directed by BAFTA winner Oscar Sansom and set for cinematic screenings throughout October – features revealing in-depth interviews with the band alongside CCTV-style contributions from celebrity fans including Benedict Cumberbatch, Robbie Williams, Yungblud, Garbage‘s Shirley Manson and IDLES’ Joe Talbot, alongside live performances of tracks from the band’s 2022 album ‘Never Let Me Go’. As well as touching on the band’s history, it delves deeper into the core meaning, purpose, philosophy and impact of Placebo over the band’s 30-year lifespan.

 

“Our reaction was like, ‘OK, but we really can’t make just another bog-standard documentary’,” Molko said in discussion with 6 Music’s Matt Everitt following the premiere screening at Leicester Square’s Vue cinema.

 

“’What are you going to do, Oscar? How are you going to subvert the form itself? How are you going to stop everybody from being bored? We can’t just have a series of talking heads here’. I think it’s a testament to [sansom’s] imagination and your desire to break the form and to do something new.”

 

Sansom added: “I’m not interested in making a predictable narrative structure. I wanted to make something more exciting. You said ‘is this gonna be a piece of art that we’re making? Because I’m not interested in making a feature length promo’. And immediately we were on the same page.”

 

The film includes candid archive ’90s footage of the band at their onstage best and offstage worst, some of which was so raw that both members of the band took breaks from the screening.

 

“[sansom] pushed us to be daring and to be quite naked, and to put things in the film which were embarrassing and maybe a bit humiliating,” Molko said. “But [he] gave us the courage to tell the most honest story that we could. It took a bit of courage, because there were some moments in the film which are extremely uncomfortable, and we could have sanitized it, but I think [he] really wanted to show us as human beings and we needed to discover ourselves through watching all of this.

 

“It also gave us a bigger understanding of who we are and a better understanding of the past 30 years. You need to get a bit of distance to it. When you’re in it, you don’t know what’s going on.”

 

Olsdal agreed: “The honesty and the vulnerability, I think that’s almost pathological in what we do. So for us to do something like this and not open up, I don’t think that would have been a possibility somehow.”

 

The film also includes the band and their celebrity contributors discussing key themes brought up by the band and their music, such as the free expression of gender and sexuality, the pitfalls of addiction that plague the touring musician and the modern approach to mental health.

 

“Socially, what’s happened with the way that we discuss mental health today is really, really different to how it was in the mid-90s when we started,” Molko said. “It just wasn’t a conversation at all. In the early 2000s it was just, ‘Get your shit together, get on stage’. What we do can make your mental health very, very fragile.

 

“I’m happy that more artists are making decisions based on protecting their own health whereas before, from the birth of rock’n’roll until maybe 2010 or something it was just live fast and if you die, you die – ‘Good, we’ll sell more records!’”

 

Key to the film is the plentiful footage of the band’s interactions with David Bowie, who championed the band in the late-90s, toured with them, and appeared on their 1999 single ‘Without You I’m Nothing’.

 

“It just shows you what a fantastic person David Bowie was,” Molko said of the footage, “because he always spoke to you on your level. It wasn’t like you’re dealing with somebody on a gilded balcony in an ivory tower. You’re dealing with somebody who really, really was very interested in you and was extremely genuine.”

 

The band claimed to be surprised at the calibre of celebrity fans who agreed to appear in the film, which also included Self Esteem and contemporary artist Stuart Semple. “There are surprises for me,” Molko said. “Getting Benedict Cumberbatch to be in it was a real coup. That was somebody that we discovered through mutual friends was a big fan. So it’s great to be surprised that way.

 

“One of my favourite moments is when David Bowie asked the question, ‘What is it that motivates a musician to do this extremely asocial thing?’ He asked the question, and Robbie [Williams] answers the question. That is a good example of how we’re trying to do something which plays with the form.”

 

The band also confirmed they were planning on making another album, after a break following three years of recording and touring for ‘Never Let Me Go’. “We need to get some distance from ourselves and from Placebo in order to come back to it with enthusiasm and joy and purpose,” Molko said. “There has to be a reason to continue. ‘Never Let Me Go’ feels like a creative resurgence for us, it feels like a new wave. So I’d like to buy a surfboard.”

 

Placebo: This Search For Meaning is screening worldwide throughout October. Visit here for more information.

 

https://www.nme.com/news/music/placebo-this...s-watch-3799816

Edited by Sydney11

Nearly half a million likes to that post on Insta. Spoken straight from the heart.

 

I remember his saying years ago that One Direction were like his "little brothers".

 

Maybe in the future Rob could be some kind of a mental health ambassador - he speaks so eloquently on the subject and could raise the profile of mental health charities and be a means for changes in attitudes.

Robbie Williams Says Of Liam Payne Tragedy: “I Am The Problem If I Do Nothing. We Are The Problem If We Don’t”; Applauds Chappell Roan For Pushing Back On Pressures Of FameR

 

Robbie Williams told Deadline on Saturday that Liam Payne’s tragic death had hit him hard: “We’re processing a world-wide shock. I’m sat in depression, and I’m sat in sadness. A huge part of that is Liam-shaped.”

 

Williams called for action around the way society handles fame and celebrity, saying, “Nothing seems to change and if isn’t me, then who?… I am the problem if I do nothing. We are the problem if we don’t.”

Like Payne when he joined One Direction, Williams was aged just 16 when he shot to fame with the band Take That in 1990. Then in 2010, Williams mentored Payne and his One Direction bandmates on The X-Factor.

 

Williams was speaking to Deadline in an interview about upcoming film Better Man, a biopic co-written and directed by Michael Gracey, depicting the pressures of Williams’ early fame and his painful downward spiral with addiction.

 

Williams also heralded singer-songwriter Chappell Roan who has criticized the way celebrity artists are exposed. Williams said she had pushed back “brilliantly” and “I’m here for that. I used to say the same thing in the ’90s, but I would get derided for it. Like, ‘How dare you be anything other than grateful, you ungrateful pond life.’ But this is not a fame problem, this is a human problem. This is a social problem, this is a social media problem. This isn’t just us celebrities, this is us humans.”

 

On Friday, Williams had posted a tribute to Payne on his Instagram account, writing, “How to make sense of the Liam Payne tragedy? Obviously, my first feelings towards his passing were like everyone else. Shock, sadness and confusion. And to be honest as I write these words that’s where I still am.

 

“I met the boys on The X Factor and ‘mentored’ them. I use the word mentored in inverted brackets cos I hardly did anything to be honest. I just hung out with them. They were all cheeky and lovely. I enjoyed the light hearted p—takery and thought about all the times I was that cheeky p—takers with the popstars that had gone before me when I was in Take That. Our paths have crossed ever since that day and I’m fond of them all. Liam’s trials and tribulations were very similar to mine, so it made sense to reach out and offer what I could. So I did.”

 

https://deadline.com/2024/10/robbie-william...ive-1236120920/

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