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Remember Screamworks: Love in Theory and Practice? Remember Shatter me with hope? Remember:
She'll be the witness to the repose of Evelyn
Push the needle in
To the of canticles of ecstasy
Turn to page 43
And you'll know how I feel...
Ville, with this "Turn to page 43", meant the Life Magazine, page 43
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It's a photo of Evelyn McHale. She committed suicide by jumping off the Empire State Building. The photo was taken only a few minutes after she landed on top of a car roof. The woman in the photo killed herself after meeting with her fiancé and then wrote in her suicide note that she wouldn't be a good wife for anybody.
Want to know more about this story and see the proof we found? Continue to read here on Tsu: http://bit.ly/1eHZxyu
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Ville in his old flat in Helsinki downtown, with some of his bass and guitars.
Ville Valo is not just a singer, drummer, bass player... He's of course an amazing guitar player, and with the Tears on Tour and after with his Rambo Rimbaud gig we had a glimpse of his skills with the guitar.
Don't forget also the Baudelaire In Braille album, a masterpiece for every HIM fan. A bonus disc that has all thirteen tracks from the album but in acoustic form, made by Ville with his guitar.
But what are Ville's most important guitars?
Let's go back to the basics. Ville's guitar brand is without any doubt Gibson so most of Ville's favorite guitars are obviously Gibson. Let's see some of them.
Gibson Acoustic L-200 Emmylou Harris Acoustic - Electric Guitar
Legendary singer-songwriter Emmylou Harris’s love of Gibson Jumbo acoustics is well documented. From her duets with country-rock pioneer Gram Parsons and his 1960s J-200—which she still owns—to her custom-painted pink J-200 which she used exclusively on her 1985 album The Ballad Of Sally Rose, Harris’ career has been distinguished by her close association with Gibson. That friendship endures today with the L-200 Emmylou Harris acoustic guitar, a model that captures the big sound and classy look of Gibson’s SJ-200, but in a smaller package designed to meet the performance and travel demands of any artist. First introduced in 2002, the L-200—the inspiration for Gibson’s CJ-165 line—features a body design that is smaller and thinner than the SJ-200, but braced to produce the powerfully balanced, natural sound so closely associated with it.
Gibson J-200
Gibson entered into production of this model in 1937 as its top-of-the-line flat top guitar, initially called the Super Jumbo, changing the name in 1939 to the Super Jumbo 200. It replaced the Gibson Advanced Jumbo. It was made at the Gibson Factory in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The SJ-200 was named for its super large 16 7/8" flat top body, with a double-braced red spruce top and rosewood back and sides, and sunburst finish. In 1947 the materials used for the guitar changed to maple back and sides. Gibson changed the name to the J-200 in 1955. Due to the weak post-depression economy and wartime austerity, demand for this high end guitar was very limited and production quantities were small. Early models made from rosewood are highly prized by collectors.
After these Gibsons, let's see a new entry... This guitar surfaced during the rehearsals of the last HIM album, Tears on Tape and then Ville used it for all his TOT live shows, for the song The Funeral Of Hearts. A new and curious choice by Valo. If you recall, Johnny Depp used this same type (and colour too, I guess) in the movie Chocolat.
National Resonator
Generally speaking, metal-bodied types, particularly with a "Biscuit" cone have a more Bluesy tone, while for Bluegrass and Country music the wooden-bodied, Spider-cone style is preferred.
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New seiska with Ville and Sandra on cover! #villevalo #HIM #sandramittica #HIM #finland #finnish they have officially broken up. the translations from article is: "Ville Valo has been alone in his Munkkiniemi tower home for a while. He was dating Parisian Beautiful model Sandra Mittica. Ville had drifted apart from Sandra and the couple has had many problems according to sources of seiska. There was many fights and trouble in the relationship for a long time. nobody knows where Sandra is living right now. some say she is back in paris. they use to live together and seem like a happy couple. it's over now we were told"
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Planimetry
History:
The tower is a neogothic grain silo from the 1840s, later renovated and converted to a loft apartment.
Munkkiniemi (Swedish: Munksnäs, in slang Munkka) is a neighbourhood in Helsinki. Subdivisions within the district are Vanha Munkkiniemi, Kuusisaari, Lehtisaari, Munkkivuori, Niemenmäki and Talinranta.
This tower was used for surveillance and messaging by the military during the Crimean war. Today, it is situated in a residential area and itself used as housing. Designer Timo Sarpaneva lived here during the 1970ies.
The land in Munkkiniemi was from the 17th century a part of Munksnäs manor.
The tower (granary) has been designed by a German architect C L Engel who also designed the Munkkiniemi manor and what is more important: the whole empire center of Helsinki.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Ludvig_Engel
In the 1910s grandiose plans were made to expand all of western Helsinki with tens of thousands of new inhabitants, the so-called Munksnäs-Haga plan by Eliel Saarinen. The construction of the new areas started slowly and it wasn't until the 1930s that a more extensive construction phase began in Munkkiniemi. From 1920 to 1946 Munkkiniemi was part of Huopalahti municipality. Huopalahti including Munkkiniemi was incorporated with Helsinki in 1946.
The place HIM’s singer calls home is a 19th Century watchtower once used by the Finnish military to keep a look out for invading ships. A cellar, ground-, first- and second-floor are topped by an attic and linked by winding, spiral staircases. From the sounds of it, Valo has chosen to decorate it in a style best described as eccentric. He talks of the taxidermy collection that litters the place, the art on the walls, the curious collections of bits and bobs he picks up and hides in scattered cubby holes.
“I’ve got a few stuffed animals, thousands of books and CDs and a lot of instruments,” he says. “There’s nothing of great value for anyone else, but lots of things with great sentimental value for me. I’m one of those people that can’t throw things away. It can be anything too: I’ve got some nails from an old 18th Century painting I found, for example. I always hide things in places where I think I’ll find them, then completely forget all about them. There are a lot of nooks filled with hidden things.”
He lives there alone and somehow the idea of him padding around his attic, composing songs until the early hours and sleeping where he collapses further endorses the image of a Romantic poet in his creaking Gothic castle.
“It’s not spooky; it’s got a good vibe. It’s messy. In fact, it’s a bit like our music, it’s full of contrasts,” he says. “It’s got some art, some fucked up things I’ve found, some antiques. It’s mix and match. I’ve always lived in places where I can look around and feel inspired. At home I can look up and, in one glance, see a stuffed bear, the artwork for Venus Doom, a grand piano with a stuffed deer on it, and a ‘70s Danish porno called New Cunts. I had to have that porno, I loved the name so much. It’s so wrong it’s fabulous. I keep it propped up on a children’s organ next to an altar for St Francis Xavier.”
Munkkiniemi is one of the more affluent areas of Helsinki. Characterized by the relatively high proportion of Swedish speakers, around twelve percent, and a socioeconomic structure heavy on upper management and professionals, the district is appreciated as a particularly safe and well-serviced part of the city. This is reflected in the high prices of housing.
Despite its name, Munkkiniemi /Munksnäs (Monk Cape), there has never been a monastery there. Munkkiniemi is one of many monk-related place names on the south coast of Finland, like Munkkisaari, Munkkala and Munkinmäki. Munksnäs was first mentioned in 1540 in the form Munxneby and has later been spelled Muncknäs and Muncksnääs. In the year 1351 the king Magnus IV of Sweden let Padise monastery, close to Tallinn, take over the parishes of Porvoo, Sipoo and Helsinge. The Danish monastery came through this arrangement also in possession of Munksnäs that was a village within Helsinge parish. Munksnäs was probably a trading place for the lucrative fishing, and the catches were shipped as far as to Tallinn and Stockholm. The monastery lost its right to the area in the beginning of the 15th century but was allowed to keep a share of its yield. After Gustavus Vasa’s reformation all the lands of the church were ceded to the crown.
On March 27, 1629, king Gustavus Adolphus gave large areas of land west of Helsinki (Munkkiniemi, Tali, Lauttasaari and Hindersnäs (Meilahti)) to rittmeister Gert Skytte. Skytte was of Baltic noble descent and changed his name from German von Schütz to Swedish Skytte when he was raised to Swedish nobility. What Skytte achieved on Munksnäs manor is unclear. The town of Helsinki wanted to incorporate Munksnäs in 1650, but the widow of Skytte, Kristina Freijtag, refused and Helsinki only got Pikku Huopalahti, Tali, Lauttasaari and Hindersnäs. Hindersnäs was reunited with the lands of Munksnäs in 1686, until Helsinki bought the land in 1871.[1]
Charles XI initiated the "reductions" in which much of the Nobility's lands were transferred to the Crown. Munksnäs was ceded to the crown in 1683 and the king kept the ownership until the mid 18th century. Munksnäs manor became a manor whose owner rented the land from the king. During 1712-1722 during the Greater Wrath Munksnäs manor was uninhabited.[1]
The Mattheiszen family, of Dutch origin, took over Munksnäs manor in 1744 and they bought it in 1759. From this time exists the first mentioning of the manor house that stood on the same place as today’s manor house. It consisted of six rooms of which two were called halls. The manor also had a brick factory, a sawmill and a flourmill. The brick factory was located at Tiilinmäki (Brick Hill) and the flourmill in the rapids of Mätäjoki in Pitäjänmäki. In 1815 the middle part of the manor house got its present look. During this time the manor had one hind and five to seven maids, but the bulk of the work was done by crofters.[1]
In 1837 the Ramsay family bought Munksnäs manor. The glory days of the manor occurred during the Ramsays time and many prominent visitors visited the manor and feasts were held. General Major Anders Edvard Ramsay was a high-ranked military officer in the Russian army and became noble in 1856. He hired the architect Carl Ludvig Engel to rebuild the manor house to look like Haga Palace in Stockholm. The house had two wings and a balustrade on the roof added. The reconstruction work was finished in 1839. In the 1830s an English park was planted around the manor house and the farm buildings were removed away from the sea side. The bridge over to Meilahti was built in the 1840s.[1]
Kalastajatorppa (Fisherman’s cottage) park in 1915
Despite the high demand for summer house properties outside Helsinki in the end of the 19th century the Ramsays didn’t sell land. The only exception was Kuusisaari island that was sold in 1873. George Ramsays only son Edvard Ramsay was sickly and couldn’t take care of the manor. He therefore sold the manor’s land, 517 hectares, to the company M.G. Stenius for 1 500 000 marks in 1910. The family kept the manor house and the 9.5-hectare-park and called the property Villa Munksnäs. The homesteads Skyttas and Rosas in Konala, covering 100 hectares, were also kept by the Ramsays. In the end the family sold all the land bit by bit. At the time of the purchase the city of Helsinki was criticized for not having bought the area. The city claimed that it was unaware of the selling, but the city council’s chairman Alfred Norrmén knew about the plans but thought the price was too high. The M.G. Stenius company did quickly begin to plan the newly bought area and the planning task was given to Eliel Saarinen in 1912.
Photos
Living room
These two pictures are made by Christopher Shy @ http://studioronin.com/, even here
Metal Hammer Interview back in 2010 about Ville's home
From outside
Video of the house
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In 15 years the girl from Right Here in My Arms changed, Ninja Sarasalo... Changed a lot!
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Hello Sophie! Andrea here, from Italy 
Well, it's a real shame that heartagram.com is just a simple static page now... Seems the band and management lost the interest in mantaining a community, which is very important for the band and fanbase! We'll see if they'll make another website in the future! -
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.Ciao a tutti! Sono Jessica, vengo da Roma e ho 21 anni.. Che dire, seguo assiduamente gli HIM da quando mi e' capitato di sentirli per la prima volta a 13 anni, e sono diventati sempre piu' una dipendenza. Nella vita sono una disadattata con la testa perennemente tra le nuvole che studia architettura al terzo anno e vive di libri e musica. Detto cio' credo di avervi annoiato abbastanza, percio' buona serata a tutti e a presto 😊
Ciao Jessica, benvenuta sul Forum. Io sono Andrea, anche io ascolto gli HIM da un bel po', penso proprio nei giorni in cui uscì Dark Light, però in quell'anno, nel 2005, decisi di iniziare con cose più vecchie come "Sigillum Diaboli"! Poi, ho ascoltato piano piano tutti gli altri! Grande band, ancora tutt'oggi!
In alto a destra trovi anche il Twitter e il Facebook, nel caso volessi seguire HIMI anche sui social! -
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Ciao Giulia, benvenuta sul forum. Io sono Andrea, e seguo gli HIM da diversi anni ormai! Placebo e Muse, ottime band
A me piace di tutto, gli HIM sono ovviamente la mia band preferita, ma non disprezzo il Rap come quello di Eminem, Kanye West, Dr Dre. Ultimamente mi piace molto Lorde e Sia. La mia band italiana preferita sono i Bluvertigo, e ovviamente Morgan!
Buona permanenza, spero che il forum ti aiuterà per accrescere la tua passione per questa band, a dir poco unica! -
Interview with Ville for Rumba 15/2001 HIM – MUSIC FOR THE BULIMICS OF ROMANCE - Interviews From 2001.
Third time’s the charm. HIM’s first album made Ville Valo Finland’s only rock god with street cred. HIM’s second album turned him into a superstar in Central Europe. Now, as their third album is coming out, heaven is waiting but so is the gutter. Will the new, softer HIM sound launch Ville Valo into intergalactic orbit or drop him back on the ground?
The first time I interviewed Ville Valo: October 1997, an ersatz Irish pub, the article was for a free newspaper distributed downtown. Greatest Lovesongs Vol. 666 was about to be released, the breakthrough was yet to happen. Ville paused the tape recorder several times to talk about Depeche Mode, Sisters of Mercy, Kiss; he was like a little boy who had just been promised a summer job at his uncle’s candy store. “The album sounds damn good, by the way,” I told him at the urinal. “Yeah yeah, you never say that to anyone else,” Ville replied sarcastically.
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The second time I interviewed Ville Valo: December 1999, a trendy but uninviting new bar on Uudenmaankatu, the article was commissioned by a monthly trend magazine. The recording of Razorblade Romance had just been finished, the record company was starting to turn the screeching big wheels to release it with the maximum amount of noise. Ville was exhausted and hung over, he had too many months of gigs, promo and recording behind him; still the big push was only about to start. “Buy it out of pity if nothing else,” he asked the readers. I had heard beforehand five of the album’s songs, including Join Me, which had been chosen as the single for reasons that were beyond me. “You won’t conquer Europe with this song,” I disappointedly said to a coworker.
The third time I interview Ville Valo: August 2001, a hotel bar with an artificial jet set atmosphere, the article is commissioned by a pop magazine. Ville is wearing a circus director’s top hat and a silk costume that brings to mind a bohemian ivory sculptor’s dressing gown. The circus comparison is fitting because a circus is what HIM has turned into: Razorblade Romance has sold over 800,000 copies and now everyone involved has to do everything they can so that it won’t be the peak of HIM’s career but instead the base camp where the band can prepare for the steepest climb. Ville himself is eager, full of energy.
- If the record company phones me in the morning and tells me that I should go to Poland to talk about the album, I’ll go,” he enthuses. He believes in the Deep Shadows and Brilliant Highlights album coming out at the end of August.
It’s a pity, though, that I don’t think the album does justice to Ville Valo’s talent and ability to write songs.
Love 6 – Death 0
Deep Shadows and Brilliant Highlights has everything we have grown accustomed to expecting of a HIM album. Robust choruses, dramatic lyrics, a shockingly beautiful ballad (Close to the Flame), a bunch of potential hit singles. It is another chocolate box wrapped in deep purple silk paper for the bulimics of romance. “Love is insane and so are we”, goes the chorus of opening track Salt in Our Wounds, and the atmosphere stays pretty much the same the whole way through. However, going after an 80s heavy pop sound HIM seems to have lost too much of its edge, but songs like Heartache Every Moment, In Joy and Sorrow and Don’t Close Your Heart still show that Ville keeps on getting better as a pop composer. If HIM’s music has always been a tug of war between Bauhaus and Bon Jovi, on the new album the poodle rockers from New Jersey are getting a clear victory over the black capes from Northampton. I guess I’m in the minority when I say that I don’t think this is necessary a good thing.
I hear Brian Eno has “if something worked last time, don’t do it again” framed on the wall of his studio. You don’t have to listen to Deep Shadows much to know that it wasn’t recorded in Eno’s studio.
- We don’t have that... Eno has always been a pretty strange figure, in his own way one of my idols. Actually there’s a lot of Eno on the album, all kinds of electronic stuff happening in the background. Actually when we started making the album, I was afraid it was going to be too different from the previous ones. But when I listened to the finished album, I was enjoying the fact that the core of the music, the structure of the songs and the general sound are the same on every album. I don’t believe in a mandatory need for renewing yourself.
Deep Shadows and Brilliant Highlights is produced by Finland’s Brian Eno, T.T. Oksala, who ten years ago was considered the star producer of this country for about fifteen minutes. C’mon Ville! T.T. Oksala. Your last album has sold over 800,000 copies. With sales figures like that, couldn’t you have gotten someone other than Zero Nine’s go-to producer?
- But Oksala is such a trendy choice, Ville laughs.
- He’s a real trendsetter. Actually what happened was that a year ago in August we started making demos with Oksala. The result was so good that we ended up using big portions of them on the actual album. So before we even started thinking about who would produce the album, we effectively already had a producer. A few songs (Pretending, Please Don’t Let It Go) were given elsewhere as an experiment because we had a hunch that they could have been done better.
These two songs have been produced by Kevin Shirley, who has worked with for example Aerosmith and The Black Crowes. So it wasn’t about you not being able to afford a star producer to do the whole album?
- Oh fuck, we have enough money to burn it if we want to. It’s just that we were happy with the other songs right away, we didn’t want anyone else tampering with them.
Deep Shadows is new softer HIM also thematically: gone are the incense-scented gothic romance of the previous albums, the guitars as heavy as a landslide and the playful satanic symbolism. And there isn’t even much death. Have you grown out of this scene or is it a matter of commercial pragmatism – a breakthrough to the American market might be hindered if radio stations refused to play for example Join Me out of fear that some unhappy kid in Texas would be inspired to end his life with daddy’s gun.
- Thank god we are in a position where no marketing people are coming to talk to us about the songs. There was so much gothic symbolism on the last record, resurrections and wallowing in sin. And I don’t want all the albums to be exactly the same. On the previous albums, death meant the end of something. In fact, Please Don’t Let It Go tells the same story as Join Me, just from a different perspective – in Join Me the narrator is fucked up and he wants to end everything, on Please Don’t Let It Go his friend is trying to talk him out of it. The themes are actually the same, but their presentation is different.
According to an old cliché, there are only two interesting themes in art: love and death. But what will happen if you take death out of the equation? How do you maintain your edge and your distance to hair metal?
- The edge comes from being direct. Greatest Lovesongs was about being on acid, telling stories, an escape from reality. On Razorblade Romance, on the other hand, we took the black-lip thing as far as it went but not too seriously. Now I have been listening to a lot of Neil Young and I’ve noticed that directness can be strong and heavy too. We didn’t put heavy guitars there to kill the mood just to get a few metal heads to headbang.
It’s just that Neil Young surely wouldn’t use the word “darling” as much as you do.
- Yeah, it might not fit his style.
An Album for Girls
Which does success bring more of: artistic freedom or pressure to compromise?
- Everything is about compromises, they are what life is made of. There are five of us in the band and nobody ever gets everything he wants. Since we were lucky with Join Me, it gives us freedom, the record company has faith in our ability to write good songs. But there’s always some outsider trying to boss us around, some failed musician.
You mean some record company people?
- Sometimes they are called that.
How close an eye do people keep on you, by the way? When you were recording this album, did people from the international record company come to the studio to see whether there are still golden eggs left in the goose?
- Demos were sent to Germany in the beginning, but that’s all. Actually people are now really disappointed in Germany because this one turned out to be such a poppy album. I saw an e-mail where some little hitler rants that since the album doesn’t have heavy guitars we lose expected sales of 250,000 copies. You can only laugh at stuff like that. There are people who say that you have to remix the whole thing because otherwise it won’t play on some radio station called Fritz. Like we care.
Well why doesn’t Deep Shadows have any heavy guitars?
- I don’t know, I’m surprised as well. It just didn’t happen. Maybe we have gotten softer in our old age. We tried different options but it just didn’t feel natural. We didn’t put heavy guitars on it just for the sake of having heavy guitars there, we wanted to make something more fashionable and rounder, something softer. This is an album for girls.
One of the definite highlights of the album is the closing track Love You Like I Do, which is interestingly multi-faceted in its obsessiveness. It’s up to the listener to decide whether it’s a love song or a psychopath’s ode to his chosen victim.
- It really is quite a psychotic song. We managed to create a psychedelic sonic world, like Elvis on shrooms. I was really drunk when I sang it. We were in Hollola and wanted to get it recorded as quickly as possible to make it to the Lahti nightlife.
Despite the high record sales, Join Me is still HIM’s only really big hit outside of Finland; Pretending, the first single from the new album, opened at number ten on the German singles chart but dropped out of it the following week. What is the band’s relationship with the song nowadays: has it become a burden?
- Join Me is a funny song in the sense that nobody in the band has ever been very excited about it. I think there are several much better songs on Razorblade Romance. But Join Me is still a great thing, there are so many fun things associated with it. For example, the Greek Toyota wanted to use it in a TV commercial, apparently they don’t have too many employees who speak English. It would have been fun to see how they advertise Toyota as a safe family car with “join me in death” playing in the background. Unfortunately it didn’t happen. But Black Sabbath doesn’t complain either that they have had to play Paranoid for the last 25 years.
Iggy Pop as a God-like Creature
Soon it will have been five years since HIM’s debut album was released – back then Ville hadn’t even turned twenty yet. Still, he hasn’t changed a bit: still the same medium length curly hair, the same eye make-up, the same sly smile. Now that his face has been plastered on the cover of hundreds of magazines and Valo’s persona has been analyzed in a thousand interviews, it might soon be time for a renewal. Or does Ville feel any need for such a thing? Will there come a day when you get a crew cut and dye it blond, put on shorts and start bellowing sport metal?
- Twenty-five is fast approaching, I don’t know whether that would be a bad moment. I do plan on growing my hair really long so I’ll be able to headbang in my old age. I don’t have any reason to re-invent myself. It’s nice to be boring and predictable.
Which kind of stars are cooler: the Bowie-like chameleons who deconstruct themselves once in an Olympiad or the hard workers who stay consistent from the beginning to the end?
- I don’t know for example Bowie well enough to say how calculated the things he has done have been. Calculation in itself is always a bad thing. Some people are natural chameleons, they dress in white on Monday, in black on Tuesday, dye their hair and spend time with different kinds of people. I don’t believe in any mathematical way of planning a career, in thinking at 24 about what I should be like when I’m 35.
- In a way all of my heroes have always been cartoon characters: Kiss, Black Sabbath and so on. Lately I’ve really gotten into Iggy who has become like a god-like creature for us. I’m fascinated by his childlikeness and consistency: he has done what he wants since the very beginning, how he wants to do it and he’s always had fun doing it. He has never thought that hey, I’m forty-five, now I have to start making easier stuff. Besides Naughty Little Doggie is a damn good record.
- Last summer at a festival I was standing in line for a portaloo and the lines crossed somehow so that there were two of us getting in the same one at the same time. The other guy was Twiggy Ramirez of Marilyn Manson with all his make-up and hair, and he said in the small and nice voice of a little boy that after you, sir. That kind of stuff is so cool – as if an angel had landed on earth.
It’s not easy to become a cartoon character. You need distance from the audience, and you can’t buy that anywhere but in the US.
- I feel like the gap between America and Europe has gotten wider. I’m not into the whole rap thing or “bouncy metal” which is the biggest thing in America right now. This whole “I’m gonna break your fucking face”, the whole Limp Bizkit department, it’s just not very constructive. What fucking point is there to listen to that kind of stuff. Can you imagine if someone sang stuff like that in Finnish. That would probably sell exactly one copy. I consider Limp Bizkit basically the American equivalent of Petri Nygård, nothing else. Although I think stars should behave however they want to, they shouldn’t be expected to give out rules for living. I couldn’t teach anyone anything. I don’t have more to say than an average mom or dad: don’t you kids stick your fingers in the electric socket. Or on the other hand… that’s okay for me too, go ahead and do it if you feel like it.
Hanoi Rocks, Andy Disses
HIM’s international breakthrough has brought forth the most typical of Finnish national characteristics, envy. Before their revival gig at Ruisrock, Andy McCoy claimed in his usual modest way that Hanoi Rocks is still the only Finnish band that has a “solid international fan base” outside of Finland.
- As far as I know, Hanoi didn’t play anywhere except in Stockholm, England, America and a couple of gigs in Germany. So it’s fucking great that they have a solid international fan base. Every time I see Andy, he tells me that “you need to learn to write better songs”. Which is funny considering that their only real hit wasn’t written by them. But I don’t want to be nasty, Andy and Mike are really lovely people.
I guess Hanoi’s legacy isn’t that much if you go through their material in a cold and analytic way one song at a time. There aren’t many classics.
- But does it matter? It was still a great band. And actually I disagree, they had a lot of good songs. Oh yeah, they did play gigs in India too back in the day, I’m jealous of that. Andy told me that “we played a four-hour gig, there was almost a fucking chaos”. So maybe they really do have a solid international fan base. If someone puts us down, it doesn’t affect how I think about them.
Still Ville denies that Hanoi was a special inspiration, a proof that it is possible to get on stages bigger than Tavastia, even when you come from Finland.
- At first we dreamed of how cool it would be to get to play a gig. Then we thought how great it would be to release an album. And the same thing with getting to play abroad. We have taken it one step at a time, done a lot of work.
Wait a minute, wait a minute. That sounds suspiciously humble coming from a man who back in his first interviews claimed that he was born a rock star.
- Have I said that?
Yes.
- Where?
Well, I don’t have a magazine clipping with me…
- It must have been someone else, Ville says and smiles slyly. – Or maybe I’ve just become old.
Or maybe Ville has just realized a fundamental truth: bragging and boasting is charming only when you haven’t achieved anything yet. Even though it’s only when you are on a pedestal that you can look down your nose at the world, in the long run it’s not a wise thing to do.
- In the future I’m only interested in making good records. There’s something great on each one of our albums but I don’t think our true potential has yet crystallized on any of them. Maybe it doesn’t have to: the journey is always more interesting than the destination. Actually I’m looking forward to when things start going to hell for us. It’s only then that we’ll see what this is really about; it’s only then that we’ll find out what we’re made of. We have been treated much too gently. The truth is we’re just ordinary wankers.
Ville Valo, Student of Anthropology
The hour we have for the interview is coming to an end. It’s a pity because there’s still so much to ask – but even an hour in Ville’s company is a big concession by the artist and the record company. Outside of Finland journalists have to make do with fifteen minutes. There’s time for only a few more questions. What have you lost through success?
- Insecurity, Ville answers after thinking about it for a moment. – Up to a certain point it’s a good thing, but not totally. Maybe I also take some things too much for granted, like that beer is free and things are taken care of. Maybe I can’t appreciate it enough.
Ville lights another cigarette and asks the record company rep for another beer. And a Red Bull, he adds. He really needs one: he has twelve hours of interviews behind him and a few more to go. But Ville doesn’t complain, this is what he has always wished for.
- Everything that comes with this job is nice in a way. Even the interviews are unique situations, I get to meet different kinds of people. Doing them I learn about different cultures and types of people, it’s anthropology under the cloak of PR work.
Do you ever get the feeling that this is too good to be true? At night when you go to bed, do you ever fear that you’re going to wake up the next morning a clerk in a sex shop in Kallio; that all this has been just a dream?
- If that happens, it’s been the best dream I’ve ever had. A detailed, brilliant nightmare that would make for a damn good book. Or not yet, but in ten years. A biography must have life in it, it has to cover an enormous stretch of time, or otherwise it’s just going to be confusing blather. That’s a good reason to keep on doing this. It’s our duty towards the writers of our future biographies.
Original article by Samuli Knuuti
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Gas official farewell message here. 
HIM's camp came on Tuesday evening unexpected news, the band's drummer Mika "Gas Lipstick" Karppinen decided to leave the band. This is the first time in 16 years, when a successful worldwide helsinkiläisyhtyeen lines open out.
"This is really a personal thing, because we know just since school and we played 16 years together," the band's frontman, vocalist Ville Valo commented on the atmosphere within the band. "Kind of like one limb would be torn off, and now have to learn to walk again or to shake hands."
Karppinen said in its letter to leave the band of their own accord, as the "heart was no longer there." He wants to continue to time new projects and song writing.
Ville Valo manages to sound sincere when he declares to have been the difference in Karppinen decision. The band heard about it about a week ago, and the information came as a surprise to the other.
"The jaws were pretty wide open when it was heard. It was just around the corner," he says. "I have to say that it is a bold move to go to try something new. It was not fakkiutuneen human decision."
"Somewhat surprisingly, this did not result in any ketutusta or flaidista. Not his decision can not but respect, whether caused midlife crisis or whatever."
In this year plans Karppinen leaving has no direct impact, as the band was in any case about to break. One and a half year-long world tour last concert of the new year at Tavastia, Helsinki, and the future gigs have not been agreed.
"We had a plan, that will be held Snadi respite and go for the rehearsals and nostalgic. Now I have to think about new, that what's next," Valo says. "Initial Shock probably take time, but I think that the band will return again in 2016, when the stars are in the right position."
On Tuesday, the release published HIM grinned Karppinen replace the drum machine, and reset the light now, "a five-penny a joke." In fact, HIMillä is in front of a search for a new drummer, but an open search and koesoittorumbaan band is not going to leave.
"Our band has always gone to all my friends via. And those guys are now a little bit, when all the bridges are burned," Valo laughs. "At first, I thought the band suggests that, for me personally I could bang on the drums. Liksa but would rise."
"And you have to remember that no gas is the band's first drummer. We have had four drummers, so even in relation to our reminds Spinal Tapia," The light parody of the film refers to the familiar rock band, the problem is exploding drummers.
In the end, more serious light and admits that finding a new drummer will not be easy. According to him, the long history divides the band has become such a normal family, that no one can directly jump to the old boots.
"This is better to think in peace."
"In any case, this will mean the band something new. The new drummer comes with a new breath of force," he says, and turns over the difference between the positive side.
"Skilled in skilless drummer would fit into this category - a bit like Bill Ward of Black Sabbath. The drummer must have an identity, which can be recognized as soon as it starts to play."
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Edited by Baudelaire In Braille - 28/1/2015, 21:28 -
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HIM have just released a number of special-edition bundles for both new and die-hard fans via The End Records. The band’s debut EP and first four albums have been remastered on vinyl, CD and digital formats.
We spoke with HIM vocalist Ville Valo about the reissues, and the rock frontman told us all about what fans can expect. Valo talks about his fondness of the remastered sound, how HIM lost certain master recordings in a fire, the feeling of new fans discovering HIM’s music through reissues rather than the original CDs and much more.
Watch Ville Valo’s testimony on the HIM reissues above and stay tuned for a special life and career retrospective we shot with Ville coming soon. To grab your own HIM reissues, click here. -
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