Best voted letters to Brian Molko
Dear Brian/Stefan,
I'm a lifelong fan, I love you guys and your music speaks to my soul. The New Album is yet another work of art.
I've seen you guys live many times and was so excited at seeing you again but Brian I can't get tickets and I'm f'kin devastated! Why only 1 Scottish date in a tiny venue that no band of your calibre should be slumming in! Come to Aberdeen, we've got the new TECA Centre! I saw you here at the music hall for your Black Market Music tour and it was awesome!
I'm not above emotional blackmail........ my mum passed in November, my dad the year before, so I REALLY need to see you guys! Pleeeeeeeeeease add more Scottish dates?
I love you guys!
Julz x
I don't know if you will actually see this, and I kinda doubt it. But in the off chance that you do....I just want to say how much I love your band & the music you write. Your voice is incredible & honestly to me, it's like an angel. Your voice has gotten me through so much, through my IV drug addiction to meth & heroin..through 2 different prison bids..all the way through to my sobriety, today. Every single one of your songs means something to me, because I feel like I can relate to it ALL. I would give anything to know that you read this. Anyway, just know that the impact you have made on my life, is irrevocable and I love you guys!!
Hi my name is Ryan glad to see your back I’m from the uk just wanna say your new single beautiful James had me in tears I think James to me is my addiction to drink which I’m battling at the moment I don’t want to wake it up as I make stupid mistakes and the lies start just everything about the song reminds me of how thinks can go totally wrong in myself with the battlefield with myself on life thank you so much for the single please reply ry
My husband Paul Evans is a lifelong fan. He works at the local hospital and in January 2021 contracted COVID-19. Although he was very ill, he did not require ventilation, so I , his wife Ruth, who is a nurse , nursed him at home for 12. days , he was only able to leave our very small spare room to use the toilet. It was a LONG, DARK 12 days in there for him, with scorching fevers, whole body aches , and sheer exhaustion. I would personally of gone stare crazy in there for so long, but he was strong, and played all him placebo songs . His best friend Pete bought him Brian’s Book , to get him through the dark days , and it really did . He was particularly happy when the book mentioned a gig you did in the Wedgewood Rooms in Portsmouth, my husband always tells the story of how he and his best friend waited for hours at the back doors waiting for a glimpse of Brian. My husband Paul was meant to ask for his autograph but got all tongue tied and awestruck , that’s the words didn’t come out !. He has made a long but good recovery now , and still remains in awe of Placebo , and in particular Mr Brian Molko . Thankyou Brian for helping my husband get through probably the toughest time of his life. We owe you xxxxxx
Do you remember when you wrote English Summer Rain ?
i was listening to it when i was 20 to 23 years old. Today i am 40 years old...i have two kids...listening to your other songs...i must say.... i do not want to hold my breath and start again...i think having kids might be the best way to go towards the bitter end...just thinking that you try to shape their environment to make sure they have something to live on...maybe it is selfish ...or nature...i do not know...i do not want them to remember me...i want them to live...and find answers if they can...When you are born, your aim is to help whoever is born after you...isn't it nature? contributing to your next in keen? life isn't it ?
dear brian
behold a french yin yang
and i would die without fear
in her honor
or in her heart
if that were her single need
submission to my own skull crushed in shards
would be her sadness murdered
the darkness conceals her identity
gold and light and divine
the blood is her suffering
as deep as the expanse
to the realm of lucifer
swagger berates the cruel as it tempts
It is a dirty word that contaminates her in my mouth
filth unclean
not the heights of her true nature or spiritual plane
the b to the e to the a to the u to the t to the i to the f to the u to the l
i love her
i live in sacrifice to her innocence
i need her
i wait for her forever in pain and silence
love elizabeth
the following is an excerpt from chapter 1 of the Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
Always without desire we must be found,
If its deep mystery we would sound;
But if desire always within us be,
Its outer fringe is all that we shall see.
Under these two aspects, it is really the same; but as development takes place, it receives the different names.
Together we call them the Mystery.
Where the Mystery is the deepest is the gate of all that is subtle and wonderful.
from chapter 8
The highest goodness resembles water
Hallo Brian,
I'm 35 and I'm a fan of your band.
Above all thank you very much for the feelings and the emotional presents you give us with your music.
I'm an English teacher in Italy and I have been using your songs with my students to learn English and to let English be closer to their everyday lives. They're getting crazy with your songs and words and at the moment "Too many people" gave me the possibility to open a discussion on the use people do or can do about social networks. We'll be working on that for a mounth or two... that's what English Language and music are... communication on every level! Thanks again and waiting for you in November in Bologna!
