Placebo's DC Concert - Jan 1999
Woo-HOO!
I'd be standing a little below - but right in front of - beautiful Brian Molko all night long!
Talk about lucky. A group of six or seven girls looking to be about high-school age, with their faces and their long streaming hair decorated with glitter, had been standing in front of me in line outside. When we were all let in, they had rushed up to the right edge of the stage and had planted themselves there in utter determination: they never moved for what seemed like hours.
Now the group of girls glanced over disappointedly at the short microphone and then flicked their eyes back to glance up - way up - at the much taller microphone in front of them. Now they knew it: they'd be standing in front of the Swedish giant, Stefan Olsdal...good-looking, stylish, and all that...but he wouldn't be paying them any mind: he likes boys, not girls!
The pushing and near-shoving around me increased as everyone scrambled to get near the front of the short microphone. As the jostling continued, we all craned our heads forward to stare at the darkened entrance to the left side of the stage.
Shouts and screams erupted from the audience as three shadowy figures finally strode out from the hazy darkness of the back stage. Brian, Stefan, and Steve quickly set up their instruments and launched into their first song, "Scared of Girls." The audience moved in time to the music as much as they could in the packed club.
Brian looked quite sexy, as usual. Of course, all three of the band members did; Brian with his eyeliner and pretty face just happens to attract the most attention. "Isn't he beautiful," one young girl sighed as she pointed to Brian's picture in a band poster I was carrying.
Though plainly dressed (unlike the sensation he caused with his feathered hat, makeup, and fancy clothes in the new glam-rock movie "Velvet Goldmine"), Brian still wore his usual dark blue eyeliner. He certainly still exuded sex appeal, feathers or no. For one thing, the makeup he wears accentuates his dark, expressive eyes well-framed by his chin-length black hair.
the audience responded enthusiastically to Placebo's newest songs, such as "You Don't Care About Us," "Without You I'm Nothing," "My Sweet Prince," "Every You Every Me," "The Crawl," and "Pure Morning" (of course). These songs are all included on Placebo's newest CD, "Without You I'm Nothing."
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