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What's interesting about Mr. Forrest is that although his time on the planet is significantly less then anybody else's in the band, it seems that he has a vibe for where you want to take things. Was there some sort of intuition, or was it just like "Dude, let's do this"?
You talked about the fact that he hadn't had a lot of experience being in a band, and that was something that you wanted.

Molko: We didn't want another guy in the band who had been in seven bands and was just as cynical as we were. That was what was so attractive about Steve: We could live a little vicariously through his childlike wonder at everything happening to him for the first time.
I've experienced things with him I haven't experienced in 15 years. I've been next to him the first time he's heard himself on the radio; I've been next to him the first time he's seen himself on TV. These are amazing things, and these are things which I've forgotten about.
That absolute rush of adrenaline, that feeling of, "My God, I'm finally getting somewhere with my life." It's wonderful to experience it once more. It was about finding the kind of person you want to travel the world with for two years, for 10 years, for 20 years.



Is this the kind of person whose heart is in the right place, who has his motivations right, who's doing this for the right reasons?

Molko: I really believe that that's the case with young Forrest. Sometimes it's like being in a band with your little brother.

So, what does he do to annoy you?

Molko: He's just so goddamn positive. He's Californian. I just turn around to him sometimes and say, "Would you please go away and do something negative, because your positivity is really driving me crazy here.
Would you please be sad for a minute?" [Laughs.] He's just so happy to be playing drums in a band that he admires, and with people whom he respects.
It's wonderful to share that experience with him. And it's given us a new lease on life.

source: www.altpress.com











Some notes:

By the summer of 2008 Brian and Stefan had amassed eighteen new songs, the most fresh material they’d ever taken into the studio.
They’d also amassed a new young drummer, 22-year-old Californian Steve Forrest, whom they’d first spotted playing with one of their US support bands Evaline in 2006.
"He captured our attention", Stefan explains.
"Standing side of stage, we thought ‘this guy’s got something’."
"It wasn’t until over a year later when news got out that Placebo was a man down", Brian continues, "that lots of drummers started getting in touch, one of which was Steve Forrest.
One of the criteria was that we wanted to find somebody who hadn’t been successful before, who hadn’t been in another band that had sold a lot of records or had a big live following.
We were looking for somebody whose enthusiasm could rub off on us, who would experience all of these things that we’d already experienced for the first time and for their excitement to raise us up out of our jadedness and make us into kids again."











But as you mention, it is art and it is exposed to criticism. With “Battle for the Sun” you have had many comments in different directions, have you read them?

Steve:

“I never read them. There is a practical saying in English: ‘If you do not read the bad reviews, neither read the good ones’.
I think there will always be critical points of view in both directions
and it is better not to take them seriously neither the positive nor the negative ones.”





These boys are good friends that decided to get together and do what they love best - make music!

The songs sound like warm summer afternoons, chilling out with friends, watching the sun go down, warm breezes and butterflies, humid sticky nightimes and a lot of other stuff like that.

Matt Davis, formerly of the band Farewell Madison, is part of another music project named Florence é Florentino [On December 14th, 2009 they decided to drop the "Florence" in the band name to not cause any confusion with another great band out there called Florence and the Machine. So the guys will be going by just É FLORENTINO] and has informed that they were playing a special show.
Steve Forrest was also part of the special reuniting as he was visiting his hometown Turlock.
This was the last time E Florentino played as the full-fledged band in AT LEAST a year.

Check out Steve in the band É Florentino - singing and playing guitar.

This is from the show at the Grizzly Rock-Cafe in Turlock, California on 1/14/09











Before joining Placebo, Steve Forrest was drummer for the punk-rock-band Evaline. He announced his intention to leave Evaline in January 2007, but remained with the band throughout their 2007 United States tour.

During that tour, Evaline opened for Placebo, and Steve Forrest came to be acquainted with them.
In 2008 he took the vacant seat of Steve Hewitt...

source: www.brian-molko.com






Emo-rock act Evaline began in the summer of 2001 in Turlock, CA. Initially called Holiday, the band released its first EP, To Whomever May Still Be Concerned, in fall 2003.
Changing its name to Evaline the next year, the quintet was comprised of Richard-Jonathan Perry (vocals/keys), Christian Lewis (guitar), Steven Forrest (drums), Dominic DiCiano (guitar) and Steven Pederson (bass/synth). Their music soon fell on the ears of the Used's Quinn Allman; the band would later trek up to Salt Lake City to record its next effort with him in the production seat.
The resulting EP, Postpartum Modesty - A Portrait of Skin, was a lush display of rock dramatics and issued in July 2006 on Maverick. Summer was spent on the entire Warped Tour.

source: www.winamp.com





Monday, Januar 22, 2007



It seems as though my time here has come to an end. The train stops here for me boys and girls but don't be sad, for i will return one day not long from now. i want to thank each and everyone of you who has supported us from the begining.
please continue to show your love and passion for evaline for they are something beautiful that can not be exaplained with just words. feel the passion and never let it leave you.
i have had many wonderful experiences playing and meeting as many of you i a could. i hope to one day see your faces again.
ill miss all of you, but mostly ill miss those of you reading this whom i have shared the past 5 years of my life with. we had some good times, and i will always cherish them.
i can only hope that maybe, one day our paths will cross again. until then, i bid you a very weary, fairwell.

-love always, steven forrest (drummersteve)

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