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Suosikki 2/2010
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Wednesday: ñêàí
Anastasia: Wednesday ïèøåò: Ville Valo lehdessä: Lopetan vaikka huomenna, jos on rahaa Keskiviikko 27.1.2010 klo 12.00 Îáñóæäåíèå ïåðåíåñåíî â Ôèíñêàÿ ïðåññà 13 (ïðîäîëæåíèå)
Wednesday: On His [Infernal] Majesty’s Secret Service An interview with Ville The most successful finnish band, HIM, has a colourful history that includes hard work, heavy alcohol use, conflicts between band members and a few fart machines. When HIM broke through in Europe, the continent lacked a real rock star like Jim Morrison or Iggy Pop. That was a place for this young man from Helsinki, Ville Hermanni Valo, to fulfill. No to secretions - nowadays HIM is considered to be a classy band. It’s frontman Ville is a civilized man, the promo pictures for the band are taken by professionals and the albums are clean cut. It hasn’t always been like that though, at least not among the band members. Especially during the first years of HIM poop humour was the thing for the guys. While touring they have had, for example, urinated in weird places, put their penises in each other’s foods and played with fart machines. - Fart machines we had several. One of them was remote-controlled and we put it on a park bench and went to wait behind a tree for someone to sit on it. Also, one time we inserted one of the machines inside a doll and took it to a bar to fart. I think both of these gags happened in Switzerland. Those were the golden times of the fart machines. Nowadays the tours are endlessly long and exhausting so there hasn’t been time for poop humour. - Those kinds of gags are for us to entertain ourselves. Probably not the smartest thing to do but what can you expect from guys who are packed inside a tour bus together for quite a long time. You don’t feel like reading Kafka there. And, what a better way to get to know the new cities than to cause scandals there. To the gigs, whatever the consequences Very quickly HIM became one of the most followed bands in Europe. Putting himself out there and taking risks has never been a problem for Ville. After a successful Germany tour in the year 2000, the band decided to go do gigs in England, even though the local record company didn’t think it was a good idea. - They asked us right a way: “What are you doing here?” They said they wouldn’t work with us and that we were not welcome. We went to play anyway. Around ten people came to watch our shows and it caused the band huge financial losses. All the money previously earned was lost but we didn’t care. On the contrary, it was a good thing to do and it brought us down to earth. The symbolic value of some actions is much bigger than compensation in money. On the whole, it was cool to get to play in London. During the last years V has worked harder than ever before, but the man himself says that it has been joyous. - Sometimes it can be tiring though. It’s good that I don’t have to kiss other people’s asses. I play the gigs with the same feeling as I did when I was younger, now I just have more songs to remember. Alcohol use Sometimes Ville would party days after a gig, which lead to some dangerous situations. - I have driven a quadbike in the wild traffic of Philadelphia early in the morning just to get some cigarettes. I didn’t have a driver license nor a helmet and I was speeding. It was the stupidest thing to do because I had a passenger with me. After that, I haven’t driven any vehicles. When the partying was the most excessive, it started to affect V’s personal charisma. He forgot lyrics when singing and gave interviews with a scruffy look. In the end, the release of Venus Doom was delayed for two months so that V could get into rehab. That was a good decision. - If that hadn’t happened I would have had to make the classic decision of taking a few beers less per day. I still don’t necessarily plan to stay sober till’ the end of my life, but for now it has been a good idea. I have had more energy to put on the new album. Former members V has had to kick out people from the band in their early years. First their drummer Pätkä and after that keyboardist Juska. Kicking members out wasn’t easy. - It always feels like shit. First you become good friends with someone and then you just realize that the playing doesn’t work out. Usually the problems start when someone isn’t hardworking enough. The band can’t rehearse if a player isn’t there to play. Pätkä never really got to know he was kicked out. The band just started to play with another drummer and he got to know that in a roundabout way. - It was really childish what we did to Pätkä. We should’ve talked more about whether things were working out or not. We were wussies and unfair to Pätkä. I’m not happy and he is not happy with the way the kicking out happened. Nowadays Pätkä and Ville might chat a little if they bump into each other, but it’s not like old times. Things went better with Juska though. - Juska didn’t have the time and patience needed. If you are not comfortable touring you start to stress out. I haven’t seen Juska for a long time but our ways parted in good terms. I have nothing to whine about because the decisions have been right for the band. When Gas joined the band, HIM’s success started. Thank you, Gas. Where does it all start from? - It all starts from an acoustic guitar and a few melodies. The songs come first. You can’t tell when, where or why the songs are born. You can organize gigs, book busses, order flights but you can’t control the songs. One song can result in producing an album, mixing the album and us sitting here making this interview. Did you know that - HIM stands for His Infernal Majesty. Ozzy Osbourne is quoted as saying that the name is brilliant. - The album Deep Shadows and Brilliant Highlights was mentally the hardest recording for the band members. They thought the album was confused and not a coherent whole. http://community.livejournal.com/valo_daily/3971230.html#cutid1
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