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Steve Hewitt: full name: Steven James Hewitt band function: drummer birthdate: 22 March 1971 nationality: Great Britian (he is Mancunian) equipment: Sonor, Cymbal Sabian, Yamaha musical influences: Smashing Pumpkins, Bee Gees, James Brown, Prince, Nick Cave
facts: - steve started playing the drums at 11 - steve is left-handed - joined placebo again by replacing robert schulzberg (drummer on the first album) - thinks that robert was a good drummer but he lacked in rythm - he has a daughter named emily born in 1995 - congratulations! - grew up with tim burgees - did an apprenticeship as a joiner, but gave up after eight month of cleaning toilets - worked for williams formula 1 time and later (due to his former girlfriend's pregnancy) as a truck driver - former bands: k-klass, breed, boo radleys - only had a few days to learn placebo's songs by heart when he joined them again (they were about to tour)
Brian Molko: full name: Brian Molko band function: singer, guitar player birthdate: 10 December 1972 nationality: USA/Great Britian (but in fact is not really proud to be an American citizen) equipment: Fender, Gibson, Gretsch musical influences: Pixies, Sonic Youth, PJ Harvey, Nick Drake
facts: - brian names his guitars! his favourite is called "my bitch" (nice imagination when somebody makes love to his/her guitar), another ones "snowwhite", "arntie" (or something like that), "godess", "tatoo". - he had a pink guitar (a gay one) called "bertie", but poor bertie died in an accident with stef! - most of his guitars are older than him. he plays prototypes like a "fender jaguar", a "gretsch" etc - brian is a father of a son named cody born in 2005 - congratulations! - has a very beautiful girlfriend named helena berg. she is the person responsible for artwork and photography for the singles of sleeping with ghosts, and I think she did an excellent job - youngest of two sons. his family moved from belgium to the libanon, liberia and finally settled down in luxembourg due to the banker career of father molko. - he was sent to the international school of luxembourg (www.islux.lu), but didn't like it at all. nowadays he loves his teacher standing in the audience at his shows. - moved to london when he was 17 to study drama at goldsmith college (acting was his first love) - hates george walker bush for his crimes against humanity
Stefan Olsdal: full name: Stefan Alexander Bo Olsdal band function: bass player birthdate: 31 March 1974 nationality: Sweden eqipment: Fender, Gibson musical influences: ABBA, Depeche Mode
facts: - was originally a drummer but then discovered bass playing - wanted to become a hairstylist, but - has a yellow bass (I think it's called banana or something like that) - stef is gay and never hid his sexual preferences - attended the same school as brian - used to play basketball - developped an own style of bass playing by not to copy from his idols Kostenlose Homepage von 123imweb.de |
