Appreciation post for my favourite band, Placebo 🖤 Placebo is my favourite band since 2017. I heard them live for the first time in Florence when I was waiting for Aerosmith. It was love at first sight. Every time I hear Brian Molko’s voice I feel him going through my soul. My first tattoo is dedicated to them. In an interview Brian was asked about being a band who helps people expressing themselves and being free to be the way they are. Brian said: “I would describe this as a side effect. We never set out to do that - that wasn’t our modus operandi, like ‘let’s form a band and change people’s lives’. No, it was more like ‘let’s form a band and change OUR lives’. When we met we realised we had that feeling of being an outsider in common and we didn’t expected that there were hundreds of thousands of people who have grown up feeling like outsiders as we had. I still find very humbling that a song that we came up with can have such an emotional effect on people.” Music for outsiders made by outsiders: that’s what he meant, and that’s why I feel so attached to them. My feelings are validated and I feel that someone really understands me. I found great friends during concerts and I share this passion with them. Last month we brought a LGBT+ flag 🏳️🌈 and we wrote a sentence Brian said last year in a live in Italy: “We stand next to you because we are you”. I think it’s the sentence that represents what they mean to us 🖤 The last 3 pictures were taken in Pordenone last month. A photographer took a picture of me and my friends at the barricade and I really love it because my tattoo for them is clearly visible 🥹