{"id":13604,"date":"2020-10-11T05:00:32","date_gmt":"2020-10-11T05:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=13604"},"modified":"2020-10-09T17:24:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T17:24:00","slug":"placebo-celebrate-20th-anniversary-of-black-market-music-with-new-video-series-black-market-music-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=13604","title":{"rendered":"Placebo celebrate 20th anniversary of &#8216;Black Market Music&#8217; with new video-series \u201cBlack Market Music Stories\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/mail-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13605 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/mail-5-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/mail-5-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/mail-5-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/mail-5-768x767.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/mail-5-65x65.jpg 65w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/mail-5.jpg 777w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>2020 rings in the 20th anniversary of Placebo\u2019s beloved third album Black Market Music. To celebrate, the band has completed filming of a four-part video-series &#8211; \u201cBlack Market Music Stories\u201d &#8211; which sees bassist Stef visit treasured locations and walk viewers through the writing, recording, touring, and personal stories, that would shape the conception of the album. Featuring new and archive footage, it includes interviews with the people who were key to bringing the album into the world &#8211; producers, singers and other collaborators, managers and more offer their memories of the time. Episode 1 is available to watch now below. Subscribe to the series in full\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/prescriptionpr.cmail20.com\/t\/j-l-aakjc-jtzijduii-t\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The band comments:\u00a0<em>\u201cWith our chests out, riding high on the success of our second album, we entered the studio to record Black Market Music. We were full of bravado and confidence and proceeded to create our most visceral, dark and poppy collection of songs to date.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a humble nod to its 20th birthday.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5QML71sBu1E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Black Market Music came together as the band saw their notoriety swelling exponentially in the wake of breakout successes with their self-titled debut, and the follow-up Without You I\u2019m Nothing. Reaching #6 in the Official UK Album Charts and spawning the singles &#8220;Taste in Men&#8221;, &#8220;Slave to the Wage&#8221;, &#8220;Special K&#8221; and &#8220;Black-Eyed&#8221;, it is a record that by the band\u2019s own admission was created during the height of their \u201cparty phase\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Black Market Music was also released into a new world, one in which mainstream chart interest was moving away from late-era grunge and instead setting its gaze on rap-rock and nu-metal, genres that the album resultingly put in its cross-hairs as it rallied against the macho &#8211; and sometimes misogynistic and homophobic &#8211; image of the scene. The introduction of hip-hop MC Justin Warfield to \u201cSpite &amp; Malice\u201d was done in-part to show that the style needn\u2019t be constantly draped in aggression.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yaIbFC-yiwY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"yiv8781831296layout yiv8781831296one-col yiv8781831296fixed-width yiv8781831296stack\">\n<div class=\"yiv8781831296layout__inner\">\n<div class=\"yiv8781831296column\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Placebo:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/prescriptionpr.cmail20.com\/t\/j-l-aakjc-jtzijduii-u\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0|<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/prescriptionpr.cmail20.com\/t\/j-l-aakjc-jtzijduii-c\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>|\u00a0<\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/prescriptionpr.cmail20.com\/t\/j-l-aakjc-jtzijduii-q\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>|<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/prescriptionpr.cmail20.com\/t\/j-l-aakjc-jtzijduii-a\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Spotify<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>|<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/prescriptionpr.cmail20.com\/t\/j-l-aakjc-jtzijduii-f\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">YouTube<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2020 rings in the 20th anniversary of Placebo\u2019s beloved third album Black Market Music. To celebrate, the band has completed filming of a four-part video-series &#8211; \u201cBlack Market Music Stories\u201d &#8211; which sees bassist Stef visit treasured locations and walk viewers through the writing, recording, touring, and personal stories, that would shape the conception of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13606,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[250,306],"class_list":["post-13604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-placebo","tag-prescription-pr","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13607,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13604\/revisions\/13607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}