July 5, 2008some interview with jyrkiThe 69 Eyes knows more about American Rock history than you.
Racket Jonathan: Why do you play such fast music? RJ: Do you think it’s funny to be playing a metal show at the Happiest Place on Earth? RJ: Rock music should be the music your parents warn you about, eh? RJ: I hear you’re big into science. RJ: Huh. Now I feel dumb, so, isn’t it fucking cold in Finland? RJ: The cold sucks. RJ: Speaking of ultimate Rock N Roll, what’s the biggest drug binge you’ve ever seen? RJ: Is Jack and Coke your favorite drink? RJ: Why sing in English? RJ: What other languages do you speak? RJ: Is the hyper-activity the reason you’re not pursuing a career in chemistry? RJ: Do you think that the metal subculture has taken to wearing all black because the gay culture has taken over the rest of the color spectrum? RJ: Well, I think it’s rude. It used to be a purple triangle represented the homosexual population, well, at least here in California, but now it’s been expanded into rainbows, it’s greedy. RJ: Do you ever give each other the brain during tour? RJ: Who would that be? RJ: Hmm, what’s your best cure for a hangover? By Jonathan Yost
Posted on 07/05/2008 1:51 PM Comments (1)
March 3, 2008The 69 Eyes - Fast Facts 2008
Jyrki69 - 2008 Update: Eye Color: Blue & more Jyrki69 Fast Facts!! DOB: Oct.15th, 1968 Helsinki, Finland Fave Food: sushi / traditional Finnish Christmas food made by my mother
Bazie 2008 Update: Eye Color: Gray & more Bazie Fast Facts!! DOB: 22nd of February Fave Food: Mexican
Timo-Timo 2008 Update: Eye Color: Blue & more Timo Fast Facts! Date of Birth: 10th April Favorite Cereal: I don't use..
Archzie 69 - 2008 Update: Eye Color: Grey & more Archzie Fast Facts! Height: 184 cm = almost 6 feet Fave Food: Italian
Jussi69 2008 Update: Eye Color: Blue & more Jussi Fast Facts! DOB: July 11th Fave Color: Black (surprised?)
Posted on 03/03/2008 9:52 AM Comments (12)
January 23, 2008RIP Heath Ledgerheath ledger was found dead in an nyc apartment it seems to be a drug related death... he was such an amazing actor, it's a shame he had to die this young really... may he rest in peace!
Posted on 01/23/2008 12:02 AM Comments (13)
January 16, 2008RIP Brad Renfroso, I just found out that one of my favorite actors died yesterday =( Brad Renfro was only 25 years old, the reason to his death is unknown for now but probably something drug related. I just loved most of his movies and he was such a great actor,it's a shame he had to go this young... may he rest in peace
Posted on 01/16/2008 6:20 AM Comments (2)
January 12, 2008Best Of 2007The Best of 2007
The 69 Eyes Maryslim Stone Sour
THE BEST ALBUM OF 2007 "Angels" The 69 Eyes "Venus Doom" HIM "Conviction" Aiden
THE BEST VIDEO OF 2007 "Never Say Die" The 69 Eyes "Made Of Scars" Stone Sour "Moment" Aiden
THE BEST SONG OF 2007 "Silent Waters" Amorphis "Sleepwalking Past Hope" HIM "Frankenhooker" The 69 Eyes
THE BEST TV-SERIES OF 2007 LOST HEX Family Guy
THE BEST BOOK YOU'VE READ IN 2007 The Black Magician Trilogy The Inheritance Series How The Grinch Stole Christmas
THE BEST NEW THING IN YOUR LIFE IN my new friends =D
Posted on 01/12/2008 11:49 AM Comments (4)
September 6, 2007a poem by me
abandon all hope seek to destroy the world is shallow drag your heart a chain of pain buried useless words breaths unworthy pandimonium calms bring clearity to shattered dreams everything is nothing today leave me lonely in an ocean of misery
Posted on 09/06/2007 9:01 AM Comments (8)
June 21, 2007Jyrki About Jyrki XDAnna (Magazine) 17/2007 (26.4.2007) At this age - Jyrki Linnankivi 38
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June 2, 2007Interview with wiL(Aiden), Ian(Lostprophets) and Adam(Taking Back Sunday)Take three frontmen whose bands are on tour together. Record a pre-gig conversation in a pub. And what do you get? Something just like this...
Sitting quietly in a West London pub are three men who, in the matter of hours, will be standing onstage in front of a baying, screaming and packed-to-capacity Wembley Arena. Lostprophets' Ian Watkins is looking calm, eating a Sunday roast with admirable aptite and doodling on a piece of paper. Nearby is Taking Back Sunday frontman Adam Lazzara, a burger infront of him, shades on, hood up, looking out of the window. wiL Francis, Aiden's singer, has hardly looked at the plate of food he's ordered. Instead he smokes constantly, eyes darting around the room. The three of them - and their bands - have been on tour with each other for a few days on Lostprophets' arena jaunt around Britain and, while there's camaraderie between them all, they don't know each other quite well enough to be spending this Sunday lunchtime bantering about the previous night's gigs just yet. Instead they chat cautiously, the odd joke here, a little comment there, before they move over to a deep, plush sofa and chair across the other side of the pub where, relaxing now, they talk easily about life on the road and Lostprophets' kinky tourmate welcoming techniques... Has the tour been going well? Adam: Really well. I didn't know that this many people came to shows here in the UK or that you had such hug arena gigs... Well, I knew they did for bands like the Rolling Stones but... Ian: ...but not for a shitty band like us, is that what you're saying? (laughs) Adam: No! I meant that I didn't think it was possible for bands of our genre to pull off shows as big as you guys do. This has been massive - it's insane. I walked off stage in Birmingham and thought, what the fuck is going on here! Ian: Well, it's just as surprising for us, trust me. On this record, we've done two theatre tours, so we thought we'd do a small arena run at the end. wiL: A small arena run! I love that. Is going out onstage in an arena different to going onstage somewhere smaller? wiL: Nah. It's crazy to look out at an arena, though. I never expected to play in front of that many people. It's weird, though - it seems that the bigger the venue, the less people you notice. I can't see very far past the kids in the front row. Everything else looks like a backdrop. Ian: Well, it actually is a backdrop. We're using a lot of CGI to make it look like there's a big crowd. Everything you're looking at is a projection. Have you had to change your acts? wiL: Not really, but I can't get away with going into the crowd as much as normal. The kids seem even more insane in arenas. In Glasgow they took my shoe and my shirt! They just ripped them off. Adam: Playing in arenas is very different from mind-set. It's hard to get your head around it. When you play an arena, people's perceptions of you automatically change. Suddenly there's a degree of celebrity involved. You seem a bigger band just because you're playing such a big stage. Ian: Also, if someone's coming to an arena show, then they're paying a bit more for a ticket, more for travel and also for accommodation sometimes. It makes it a big night out so the bands have to deliver something. Coming from the background we're from, you have an instinct not to play up to that. You tend to think, I'm not larger than life, I shouldn't do this. But if you go onstage and don't bother, then it just comes across as though you're ripping people off. They've paid to see a show. If they wanted to see a stripped-down punk rock show, then they'd go around the corner to a little venue. You've also got to make sure that you don't look like a big rock star cock up there too, though. Have you three toured together before? Ian: We all played together before at Give It A Name and we also played with Taking Back Sunday before in Seattle. wiL: I was actually at that show. I paid to go watch it. Ian: It was us, Fall Out Boy and My Chemical Romance. MCR were opening that night. Oh, the irony! Adam: I remember that because the bus MCR were on was the same bus that we had just been using. We were a little more rowdy back then and they had had to refit the bus after we left it. Mikey Way kept finding weird things of ours on there, too. Ian: You were on tour with Fall Out Boy, weren't you? Adam: If we were, then I've blocked it out of my memory for my own sanity. What do you get up tp after shows? Adam: I've been going to watch the Lostprophets show after we finish playing. It's fucking awesome; they've got dancing clowns and all sorts of things. Ian: What dancing clowns? Adam: I meant you! Ian: Thanks a lot. Adam: Not really - I was trying to make your show sound so awesome that, when people read this, they'll be really annoyed if they missed it. Ian: Good idea - tell them about the dwarves. wiL: And the unicorn that flies out onstage! I'll often wtach the show from out front by the sound desk. Or I walk around and see what's happening. Sometimes I get recognised - mostly in a good way, sometimes people tell me I suck and they spit on me. But most people in the venue have no idea who we are. Hopefully people are enjoying being introduced to us. Ian: It's nice to be able to introduce bands to people. Although everyone knows who Taking Back Sunday are, of course. Adam: They don't, man. The first couple of songs are rough because most of the crowd look at us angrily, like, they're not Lostprophets. Does that mean that when you're a support band, you feel you have to prove yourselves? wiL: I feel like we've got to go out and prove ourselves, for sure. Every show is like a fucking battle. Ian: Our fans are pretty open.minded, though. Adam: They are, actually. I've noticed that fans over here are much more broad.minded than fans in America. The crowds canbe really mean back home, so it's really refreshing to see the Lostprophets' fans, who all just seem really stoaked to be at the show. That's the way it should be. The only reason some people seem to go to shows in the US is in order to give the band shit. That's always fun. wiL: How do you deal with that? Adam: Well, Fred Mascherino licked a heckler on the last tour. He hopped down from the stage and just licked the guy's face! That's pretty out of character for Fred. I've never seen him lick a dude before! Ian: But he looks like he'd have liked it. I bet hell do it more from now on. (laughs) Are you all getting on offstage? Ian: It's weird, people always ask us whether we've got any choice in the bands we take out with us. It's always been our choise. It's our show, so why would we take out bands that we're not friends with or who we don't like? Adam: So does that mean we're friends? Aww. Ian: What I was going to say was this tour is the exception! we're experimenting this time around by taking out two bands we hate to see what it's like. Have you ever really toured with bands you hate? Ian: The only guy who has ever been a dick was the singer from Taproot and where the fuck are they now? He was a complete douchebag. We were supporting them so I went up to say thanks to him and he just went, whatever. He was way too fucking cool to talk to anyone else. Everyone else has been great - Metallica were super-cool and if anyone's earned the right to be a dick, they have. Adam: Have you seen 'Some Kind Of Monster'? Those guys are bitches. I was amazed by Lars Ulrich. There's no way could I deal with him. The whole band just seemed like an ego party. I'm glad they're nice in the flesh though. Ian: Oh, I'm sure they're dicks to each other but they're very cool to other bands. They always treated us very well. That sort of thing teaches you how to be with other bands. If you're lucky enough to be taking other bands out, then you should try to be as cool as you can. Some bands we've supported have told us we can only play at half volume and that we're not allowed to eat with them. I dont' want to be in a band like that. Adam: Actually, Lostprophets are very nice. After our first show, the whole band came into our dressing room with massage oils and started giving us a rub down. My back has never been so loose. It's quite a service. Ian: It can go further too, if the need is there. I don't want to excite oyu but a happy ending isn't off the cards. Will the three of you ever tour again? Ian: I'd like to. We'll have to bug Taking Back Sunday to take us out in America. We'll be like, remember that huge tour we took you on in the UK? Do the same for us in America. Adam: I don't think we're touring after the summer. Ian: Oh, how convenient. Fuck it, we'll go out with Aiden then. wiL: Shit, we've never even done a headline tour! Can we have you as a support band if we do? We might sell some more tickets then...
Posted on 06/02/2007 2:43 PM Comments (6)
April 19, 2007guess whatie?yay...I've been on buzznet for exactly one year today! =) I was driving earlier and on the display in the car I saw the date 19th of april....I instantly knew there was something about this date...but what was it...with my memory it took half an hour to figure out XD I just want to say thankies to all the wonderful persons I've gotten to know during this year...you sure are amazing =) and I also like to thank you all for introducing me to a whole lot of new bands...I dunno what I'd do without you or them =D loads of huggies for you all =D xxx
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April 3, 2007a poem by me
our yesterday is dark as the grave with misery as the only company, and today is filled with sorrow tearing our hearts apart, but who are we to say what the future brings
deep shadows dwell in our hearts taking a hold of our souls, we're awaiting the day when light will rise again like a new born star
now sleep, baby sleep and tomorrow will come sooner than you know together we are strong and our lifes lay before us
Posted on 04/03/2007 1:43 PM Comments (9)
March 15, 2007Ville Valo Interview Close-Up MagazineCredit: to the swedish girl who decided to translate this very looooooong article O.o wowie to you! "I have never had sex with Ville Valo but he is very dear to me!" That is something any HIM fan girl or guy could have said. In Helsinki with the new years-festival Helldone, the declaration of love to Ville Valo is endless and comes in all the shapes.
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March 1, 2007Short Interview With Jyrki5/26/05 via email from Helsinki, Finland
jo: For those of us new to The 69 Eyes, can you tell me how the group was formed? How the band name was chosen and what it means? J69: We've had an idea of a band with our guitarist Bazie for a while (we shared the same enthusiasm for glammy street rock like Hanoi Rocks, SMACK, Guns'n'Roses, Lords Of the New Church etc.) and after seeing The THROBS supporting Nina Hagen at The Ritz in New York City in July 1988, I knew the time had come. We met each other at the Helsinki rock bars and shows and lucky for us the guy who looked really cool like Johnny Thunders played guitar (Timo-Timo), the scary biker played bass (Archzie) etc. We just jammed in the cellar and had some beers before going to hunt for girls and a good time - eventually started to have gigs and got a record deal right after our second show - the first 69 Eyes single (which came out in 1990) was actually our first ever demo! Our influences were glam rock and horror&cult movies - we used to play covers from the bands like Dead Boys, The Cramps, Alice Cooper, Iggy & The Stooges, KISS etc. The name I got from a friend of mine who was supposed to have a band in NYC called 69 Eyes and it looked fuckin' cool in her letter - she didn't use it, so here we go! The 69 Eyes = SEX, BLOOD & ROCK'N'ROLL 4EVER! J69: The missing link between Hanoi Rocks and HIM. Gothic Glam Rock from Helsinki. J69: "Angel On My Shoulder": I need my angel but I know I might hurt her, so better for her just to fly away… "Jimmy": A song for a teen queen who bursts into tears when seeing first time James Dean in "Giant" and simultaneously steals my heart as well... Jyrki (vox): Elvis jo: Tell me about why you wear the color pink. J69: I'm into dark shocking pink at the moment, it's not pure pink like Jayne Mansfield or Marilyn Monroe would wear, it's more PUNK ROCK and GLAM! Maybe it'll be Poison shocking green soon to confuse little girls/Goths more, hahaha...all together I think the color world from KISS' "Tears Are Falling" video are coming back next! Jyrki69 Fast Facts!!
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Interview With Jyrki693/24/06 On top of the Bel Age Hotel in West Hollywood
Jyrki: Well anyways, now we come to the present day and yesterday and two days ago. So now we are playing it here and I am reading the manuscript and all of a sudden I realize all the lyrics of the song which are written by me thinking probably something else but now they start to really matter. They match exactly with the manuscript and the story of the movie and the song they decided in Philly already and the film company which is going to make the movie decided that the song “Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams” is going to be the last song when the titles come up. Like in the sense if you remember “Pet Cemetery” in the end there is like The Ramones "Pet Cemetery". So, that is like the coolest news I have got for you guys down there in a chilly willy land or wherever you are… MT: Chilly willy land… Jyrki: And still the coolest thing for me is like we’ve created and personally I have written something which turns out to be like futuristic foretelling of something like the lyrics and every line now means something seriously totally different and how is this possible? I mean I didn’t know my crystal ball was like this effective. So, wow. We are going to record “Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams” again, that’s the thing. We are going to do it with better sounds and things like this for the movie and I can’t remember right now the name of the company which put this out but it’s the same company that released “Last of Samurai” you know, nice things. So see you in Hollywood pretty soon (waves to video camera and smiles). So that is one of the coolest things, but I mean there is other really cool news coming as well. And according to a rumor (clears throat) our dearly beloved drummer will be in Jackass 2. MT: Yes, he told me already. Jyrki: Yea. MT: I told him not to let anyone near him with a stapler or…I don’t think he realizes the stuff they do in the movie. Jyrki: Yea. Sally: Have you seen the movie? Jyrki: The first one. Fortunately, they… MT: I told him not to sign any release forms. Jyrki: So that is like really exciting. That is one of the things. There might be some other songs from the upcoming album on that movie, but that’s the main one. Sally: Are you going to get into acting? Jyrki: Oh well I hope that Carson Daly show will rise me immediately among the Hollywood movie stars. Like twinkle twinkle little C-movie star somewhere…(laughs) Of course. First I do, first I think I start with westerns… MT: Westerns? Jyrki: And later on I hope that my movie career would be along with the Elvis career. MT: We should make “Last Licks” a movie. Jyrki: Yea. Well another greatest of great news and highlights of my entire life was yesterday playing at the Carson Daly show. Not just because of the chance of doing such a TV thing, but I found out which I sort of knew but I made it sure that if you remember the Elvis '68 Comeback TV Special where he was all dressed up in black leather and doing the thing in the boxing circle. That was filmed in Burbank and it was the next studio from the one… MT: Really? Jyrki: Yea, yea. I saw some old timer who has been working there ages and he said “yes, yes boy he was down there.” MT: Yes boy. Jyrki: It was really really cool. Actually “yes, son.” MT: It’s funny because a couple of people said that… Jyrki: That was like, that was like cool. MT: That their mom’s said you sounded like Elvis. Jyrki: Oh, that’s cool. MT: So...where is this tattoo? (about jyrki’s ”hidden tattoo” he claims to have) Jyrki: Pardon? MT: Where is this tattoo that you are lying about? Jyrki: Oh that is something that people should find out when they get close… MT: Oh, you are lying! Jyrki: closer, enough… MT: WHAT? Jyrki: If somebody gets, you know, close enough to me then they will probably find out.(smirks) MT: You’re a brat. You don’t have any you’re full of shit. I don’t believe you. Jyrki: Next. (He says in a deep voice and laughs) MT: Ok, what is the biggest misconception about you? Jyrki: Misconception? That I’m gay. Jyrki: Well you know. There are like jealous guys. MT: Jealous guys? Ok. Jyrki: Like they can’t have me of course. MT: Ok. What do you want to be remembered for? Jyrki: Ah…(long pause) Honesty. MT: Honesty? Jyrki: Yea. MT: If you were given one do over in life would you use it? Jyrki: Like rewind? Tape over? MT: Yea. Jyrki: Well “Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams” but I am already doing it again. Yea, that’s it. MT: Alright. Jyrki: Yea, that’s pretty cool. MT: How do you define success? Jyrki: Well this is absolutely success at least in my scale. You know what I mean? When you are happy when you wake up in the morning and when you are brushing your teeth and you feel like life is like what you wanted it to be and everybody should have success by their own. MT: What is more frightening to you. To be alone or to be in love? Jyrki: Ah, yea. MT: That question is from a fan actually. Jyrki: Yea. I think I am doomed to be alone. I’m like the…just like a…it’s hard to find somebody…because I’m like pretty unique…maybe even for some difficult person, but you know it’s like…I’m, you know…I think it goes in my family or something. I’m just like a…born alone… MT: Everyone is born alone. Jyrki: But seriously…hopefully the future will prove that I am wrong. MT: Have you taken vocal lessons? Jyrki: Yea, yea, sure. Yes it is really necessary to maintain…at least to get some sort of sound from your throat with these long tours and really unhealthy conditions like a…especially winter and I am asthmatic and have allergy to pollen so you know it’s like… your pretty much on the tour by yourself, in a way all alone with your body, how it functions and you have to a find the balance and be really strong self discipline and that is something that you learn over the years and I haven’t learned enough and then vocal lessons…you have to know how to open up your voice and to chill out after the shows. That is why for instance I can’t party right after the show. I have to chill out the body and the throat for a couple of hours then everybody is sleeping and I am like where is everybody? It’s only 5 o’clock let’s party. It’s really an interesting challenge. Doing this sort of tour. The longest we have is five shows in a row and then one day off. Naturally your vocals, if you hurt yourself, recover in one day. But I see it like a challenge and it’s interesting how you handle it. It’s like I think I managed pretty well. MT: Yea, you did. Jyrki: I mean I recovered. MT: I am trying to think when I talked to you and you didn’t have a voice. In Chicago I think… Jyrki: Yea, well that’s exactly… MT: I thought “Oh, no”… Jyrki: You were talking to me right after the show. I should stay by myself somewhere… MT: Right. Why did you study chemistry? What was the interest with chemistry? Jyrki: Oh, I wanted to be like…I wanted to study art. Well or be an artist, but my wise mother said that it’s better to try out something else first because you can do that as well. So I actually tried to get to study to be a dentist, but I fucked up with some things with the exams so… MT: I can see him being a dentist. Imagine lying in the chair and he walks in? Jyrki: Maybe I should do it (laughs), but then I just drifted into studying chemistry, but I mean it’s also like if I meet some person that doesn’t know that I’m in this music thing at all. I would rather tell this other thing, like I am a master of science and things like this. If you can do so many things in your life...I just don’t want to limit myself to this one thing… MT: That’s great. Jyrki: Because I mean, still I can be the last call guest at Carson Daly and still on the other hand be a white collar guy. MT: How about five facts about you? Jyrki: Five facts…(looks into the sky) Ummm… MT: Damn her… Jyrki: I like to sleep with woolen, sheep woolen socks on… MT: Damn that’s funny. I had the air conditioning on last night… Jyrki: I’m chilly willy. I have to if I have a chance because I get cold pretty easy. I might get a cold pretty easy. Sally: When your feet are warm the rest of your body is warm. Jyrki: Yea. MT: God I was hot as hell last night. Ok, that was one fact. Jyrki: Ummm…(pause) Ummm hold on. Ummm. The latest cool horror movie I saw was “Saw”… MT: You liked that? Jyrki: Yea, it was great. MT: I didn’t see it, but Acey did and didn’t like it… Jyrki: I loved it. It’s really cool. I can’t wait to see the sequel. MT: The Sequel…Saw 2! Jyrki: And the second one before that was “Devils Rejects”. It’s really cool. Um, other facts. I never been to Hawaii, but I would love to go. Hint hint. (laughs and smiles) MT: Hint, hint. Jyrki: Um…(pause) I’m big fan of 50’s rock and roll. I have huge knowledge of 50’s rock and roll and the early days of rock and roll and I love that period of music. Let’s say from like 54’ “That’s Alright Mama” by Elvis to 62’ before The Beatles was really cool. Even the Teeny Bop years. I think The Beatles destroyed, pretty much… MT: Really? Jyrki: Yea. A lot of things. Sally: Do you have the albums? The vinyl? Jyrki: No, no. I am not a collector guy. I live through the music. I have them but I don’t collect anything…but I mean 50’s rock and roll is really close to my heart. That was like fact number four I guess? Wasn’t it? Sally: Yes. Jyrki: Sort of. MT: Let me think. Sort of. Jyrki: Um…(long pause) what kind of facts people want to know? Funny? MT: I don’t know. Sally: Did you ever see “The Passion”? Jyrki: Of Christ? Sally: Yea. Jyrki: Yea sure. It’s a cool movie… MT: It disturbed me that movie. Jyrki: We used when “Devils” album came out we used a couple of songs from the score as our intro before we come on the stage. Sally: That was a good movie. Jyrki: Yea, well I mean. Um…I respect all the religions. And I am a spiritual guy. I am Golden God over the Hollywood. MT: Alright. What do you hope to accomplish with Unicef? Jyrki: Well first of all I think it is amazing that I have a chance to be part of such a thing and on the other hand that I’ve become such a person that really can turn someone’s head or open up someone’s eyes. Well I don’t analyze so much what I am doing. I don’t have time. I just go forward then I get feedback from people by emails. (Smiles) I mean still, you know I’m thrilled to see and I am really honored and I am taking it extremely seriously. MT: I think it is great. Do you play any instruments? Jyrki: My mother bought me piano as an 8th year birthday present. And a…I started to play it all over again and again with teachers and so on, but that was like…and I looked out the window and all my friends were playing football or you know just sports outside and I was just…had to study piano lessons. I didn’t really learn to play really well. I can play a couple of crisp songs and then of course I started to play guitar and I started to take guitar lessons a couple of years ago again. I know a few things but I wouldn’t say that I play…I play girls. (laughs) MT: Yea, we know. (laugh) Do you have any siblings? I am just curious.
Jyrki: What is siblings? MT: Brothers, sisters… Jyrki: Well I mean I have a step bro which is sometimes helping out…people might see him out when we are touring. MT: I asked Jussi this one. Somebody sent this one in. If all the music in the world were to be destroyed and you could only save two songs, one by The Eyes and one by another artist which ones would you leave? Jyrki: The Doors “Light My Fire” and The Eyes…(pause) “The Hills Have Eyes” MT: I don’t even know that song. Is it old? I have all the songs I just haven’t listened to the older stuff yet. Jyrki: Yea, it refers to this old movie that was just done again… MT: Yea, I know. It just came out didn’t it? Jyrki: Yea, I mean and the reason why those two songs might you know inspire other people to create other music. By being so cool or by being so bad…(laughs & smiles) you can decide. MT: Are you surprised by the reception you received in the US? Jyrki: Yea, it is overwhelming. It is amazing that we only have one album out, a couple of months, but still all the people come to see the shows, they sing along, they know the older songs… MT: I know… Jyrki: They cry, they laugh… MT: It’s great! Jyrki: I mean I said this to somebody already it seems like finally coming…this is like how we expected it to be 17 years ago when we started a band. We were an imaginary American rock and roll band. We were so much inspired by New York City rock and roll and things like that in the beginning and we were like hey, we start a band and soon we play you know places like New York City CBGB’s and so on and it took fuckin’ long and we still haven’t played at CBGB’s but I mean we are playing at the Whisky today so… MT: Yea… Jyrki: So I don’t mind. So it’s like…exactly what we thought and the coolest thing…I am writing songs from my vision and knowledge of America and worldwide pop culture and so on and I sort of knew that some of the things just starting from the really simple like “Lost Boys” people got it easier here. MT: Yea… Jyrki: But I mean, I am a fan boy of this culture, the pop culture here so I know it by heart so well so I include somethings that probably some people haven’t got that might be easily understood here. For instance like “Lost Boys”…everybody if you mention the movie, everybody immediately says it’s a classic. Well first of all in Europe they probably don’t know the movie or in some countries our record company people EMI said it’s trash and people don’t get the idea of the song, you know, so it didn’t pretty much happen so…but here it’s like hey it’s a classic! Wow, you did a video. MT: It is… Jyrki: Hip hip hooray and somewhere else people are big question marks so I’m happy. MT: Do you consider yourself to be a romantic person? Jyrki: (long pause) I mean everybody is… MT: No. I’m not! Sally: Not everybody. MT: I’m not AT ALL! Jyrki: (grins) So you are straight action and bye? (waves and starts laughing)… Sally: Are you romantic like flowers, do you wine and dine? Jyrki: I’m dying to have one… MT: You’re what? Jyrki: I’m dying to have one. I am dying to provide that to somebody. Sally: You are… Jyrki: It’s like…whoever will get upset with the next few facts, I’m sorry, but I mean if now a days if I go to borrow a DVD I most likely want to borrow smooth, romantic comedies or dramas…like well, “Wedding Crashers” that was romantic. MT: Did you like that? Jyrki: I loved it. MT: How about "40 Year Old Virgin"? Jyrki: Yea, but I didn’t understand…I was thinking why you said it was so hilarious. I was like oh this is like well in the end I think I like the way they handled the subject because I don’t know. It wasn’t crazy laughter, there was actually hidden some funny things there, but… MT: But it depends… Jyrki: Yea, but I mean it’s not like totally laughing for the whole subject. It had its moments though. I mean obviously… MT: I didn’t like “Wedding Crashers”… Jyrki: Pardon? MT: I didn’t like it. Jyrki: You didn’t like it? I think it was cool. But it’s like a movie for boys. MT: For boys… Jyrki: Is there a movie called “All About Love”? MT: “All About Love”? I don’t know… Jyrki: Well anyways at least there are more romantic movies around. I am more into borrowing them from the DVD store. MT: Have you seen “Return to Me”? Jyrki: No… MT: Oh, that is great. You will love that one. Jyrki: Well you can send me some list of new ones I have to check out. I can go to borrow. MT: You will love it. Jyrki: So I mean that is not a straight answer but I might have a chance…
Posted on 03/01/2007 10:06 AM Comments (0)
February 8, 2007New Years Article with wiL FranciswiL Francis, Aiden His biggest regret? Taking his top off. Q: How was 2006 for you? A: It was the most incredible year of my life. I've been to England five times and toured with some of my favorite bands on the Bullet tour, the HIM tour and the Warped tour. We played all these famous fuckin' English festivals, Give It A Name, Downland and Reading and Leeds. We did our first headlining tour, which was fucking amazing.
Q: What was the highlight of your headlining tour? A: The highlight of it was playing the London Astoria, and having everybody there to see us. The crowd was probably one of the most rowdy fucking crowds - I can't even describe it.
Q: You're a big HIM fan, what was it like meeting Ville Valo when you toured with them? A: I'ts always nerve-wracking when you first meet someone that you really admire or look up to. You build them up in your head until they're much larger than life. You know, he's just a guy. He's just a real down to earth, super cool guy who's humble about his band and is a great singer. Once you get to know him you just become real good friends.
Q: Did he teach you anything? A: Absolutely, I learned more from that tour than I have from any other tour. I learned so much about singing, song structure and how to write songs. It was just us and HIM, so we would play the same show, then we'd load up our gear and throw it in the trailer, then we'd get to watch them every night, so it was great.
Q: What's most surprised you this year? A: The biggest surprise would have to be winning the Kerrang! Award because we were up against some pretty good bands.
Q: What were you thinking when you went down the red carpet into the Kerrang! Awards? A: I was scared and anxious. I was walking down the aisle with fucking Slayer right behind me, meanwhile Placebo were doign an interview, it was fucking crazy. When they said we'd won I just thought, 'I can't fucking believe we beat Panic! At The Disco', because they're so much bigger than us, they've sold so many more records, and their shows are so much bigger. I just couldn't believe that we beat that band.
Q: What was your most embarrassing moment this year? A: Some of the pictures Kerrang! have printed of me! Haha! I've never seen more embarrassing pictures in my life! You guys did a photoshoot where I have an arrow in my chest. I had no shirt on and the bootleggers over there got hold of that picture and started making these life-size posters of it! They'd sell them to the kids and they'd come to the shows and they'd have me sign them, and it's the most embarrassing picture of me I've ever seen in my whole life.
Q: What do you remember about the Kerrang! Tour? A: It was so much fun. We got to share a bus with our friends in Still Remains, and Hawthorne Heights were on the tour, who we already knew. And we got to open up for Bullet For My Valentine, who are some of our best friends now, and they're probably one of the best bands we know. So it was great, we got to play in front of tons of kids every night. It was real laid-back, we just had a great time.
Q: Have you met any crazy fans this year? A: Our fans are a little crazy, but I love our fans, I love them.
Q: What are your hopes for 2007? A: I want to try and put out the best record that I possibly can. I'll be back to London to work on it. I've been taking inspiration from lots of letters I get from fans about their situation at home or how the music has helped them through some tough times, so there's some stuff about that. There are definitely going to be a couple of love songs on the record. I've never really written love songs before. It's going to be a bit different.
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Posted on 02/08/2007 7:28 AM Comments (4)
January 31, 2007article on HIM's next album from kerrangHard Candy Ville Valo wants to make the "heaviest pop album" ever.
HIM frontman Ville Valohas revealed that fans of the band should expect some "super-heavy" new material. Valo went to Lapland last October to start working on soem ideas for the follow-up to 2005's 'Dark Light', but confess that he got a little carried away enjoying his first vacation in 10 years... "I came up with some ideas but it wasn't very beneficial for my liver, let's put it in that way." he laughs. "I was drinking with these guys who have herds of reindeer...It was good fun but I met the strangest people in the mountains and we got drunk!" Back home in Finland, work has resumed and Valo is feeling a lot more productive now that he is reunited with his bandmates. "I'm writing lyrics for the songs," Valo says. "We've got about nine songs nearly ready. We're going to record a demo this month to see how things are sounding, so that will be fun. It's going to be a riffarama and super-heavy compared to what we've done before!" "We've been influenced by bands like Black Sabbath and Cathedral." he adds. "It's goign to be really doomy and heavy. Our aim is to make the heaviest pop album ever! We hope to be finished by June and we're going to record in Finland. We haven't recorded there for a while and I know we'll be touring for a long time when the album is out, so it'll be nice to hang out at home and recharge our batteries." HIM headline one day of the three-day Give It A Name festival, taking place on April 27-29.
Posted on 01/31/2007 8:02 AM Comments (14)
January 27, 2007a poem by me
immortality has faded and what's left is you and I alone in a world full of people we try yo survive our pain the love is buried deep in our hearts and is waiting for it's resurrection we bleed to get redemption for all the hurt we feel desperate to find our eden we seek in vain
Posted on 01/27/2007 1:58 PM Comments (11)
January 18, 20072 poems by me
the sun has lowered itself into it's grave and left us dying until it's resurrection for in this world there's no room for the brave we have no safety net nor any other protection in misery we're doomed to live our lifes trying to overcome all of our inner strives we stand here holding a knife as the one opportunity to put an end to this life
I'll die alone just as I was born and to live alone in a world of sorrows because who wants to love the unlovable the only feeling I've ever felt is loneliness and it equals to emptiness and now please tell me why do I still feel why do I still bleed
Posted on 01/18/2007 2:12 PM Comments (9)
January 12, 2007New Years Article with Gerard WayKerrang issue 1139 Gerard Way, My Chemical Romance Not a bad year for the man in black. Q: How has 2006 been for you? A: 2006 is going to be one of those years that really stick out for my entire life because it was the year that we made 'The Black Parade' and it was so much fun to make that record. We were also nervous that, while we went away to make this record, maybe people might forget about us. It's just a natural thing I think everybody goes through but I was extremely nervous going into Give It A Name because they had a really great bill that day and I was thinking, 'I don't know, are they going to stick around or are we just kinda old news now?'. But playing that show was probably one of the emotional turning points for me because it was a confirmation from the fans. They said, 'No, we've really missed you guys, you guys need to come back as soon as possible'. It was great, it gave me a lot of confidence to carry on for the record.
Q: Have you noticed a change in your audience since 'The Black Parade' came out? A: A lot of our audience now seems to be comprised of people in thier mid-20's to late-30's, which is something we haven't experienced since [first album] 'I Brought You My Bullets You Brought Me Your Love'. I think when you're a little bit over-exposed older people think, 'I don't wanna go see that'. I think a lot of people feel like they've lost ownership over time. But then if a band grows up, makes a very mature record and really comes into their own, I think a lot of those same people come back and say, 'This is a great record, it's not what I expected'.
Q: You're pretty recognisable at the moment - is it difficult to walk around without hassle? A: What funny is I resigned from any sense of fashion or scene. I really just butchered my look. And the funny thing is in doing that it made me 20 times more recognisable. But it's also different from last time. When the band got newly famous, we were a novelty at that point. The longer you're around, the more people start to accept you. And you'll meet 30-somethings, 40-somethings going, 'I love your band, I really appreciate what you guys do'. And then, on a professional level, you start meeting some of your heroes and idols, and that's great.
Q:Which of your idols have you meet this year? A: I met [Smashing Pumpkin] Billy Corgan, he was so amazing. I also got to meet [comic book artist] Grant Morrison. We played in Glasgow and we went to lunch with him and his wife and they're so fucking amazing. He's one of my biggest influences, lyrically, and he's a comic writer. It was like meeting another one of your kind, that's the way he out it to me. He was really happy to have connected with me, so I think we're going to be friends for a long time.
Q: Do you think you might work with him? A: I would love to draw something that he wrote one day, I think that would be amazing.
Q: How do you feel about your scrap with 'The Daily Mail'? A: I read that paper a few times since then, and it's very tabloidish. They talk a lot about heroin, I've noticed. I kind of find that disturbing. There's a large sense of ignorance throughout that newspaper, but I think I'd say the same about a lot of other newspapers. I'm going to stop picking on them; it's just getting too easy. I'ts like picking on religion at this point, it's too easy, and I don't want to be that dude. The ironic thing about 'The Daily Mail' and [getting bottled at] Reading is that they both involved people who wanted to silence the band but what happened was the direct opposite. It actually made us explode in the UK to a much bigger level than before, it gave us such a voice.That's what happens when people try to shut you up, you just get a lot louder.
Q: What are your plans for Christmas? A: Good question! My only plans would be with my parents. I spent last Christmas in Japan so I think I'll spend this Christmas with them. But I went to see them for Thanksgiving so maybe I'll take a trip somewhere at Christmas. I don't know what to do! I haven't had a good Christmas with my friends in a long time so maybe I'll do that. I haven't put on a sweater and helped my friend pick out a tree in a long time, so I'm going to get together with my best friend and just watch stupid movies.
Q: What will you get the rest of the band for Christmas? A: Some rest! This is going to sound real corny but I think we've all given each other the best gift we could, which is our own talents. We've given them to each other and handed them over. We've given each other our lives really. Being in a band you pledge your life. So we're not big on gift giving to each other because of that reason. It's almost an unsaid thing. We're such a family that it's like, 'What do you need?'. 'I don't need anything, I just need you to be my friend'.
Q: Will you make any New Year's resolutions? A: I'm going to attempt, for the first time in my young life, to quit smoking. People will see me without a cigarette and they'll go, 'Holy shit, this guy might live a little longer'. I think I kind of have to do it. It's that kinda longevity of life that I need, and the big difference in air intake will probably make a big difference in the shows. I'm not the kind of performer that can stand there behind the mic, so I automatically have less air than a normal singer, and then on top of that the smoking doesn't help.
Q: What are your hopes for next year? A: I hope 'The Black Parade' grips the world, and gets itself inside the public consciousness and that the live show can be what people envision in thier heads. I just want them to see a great show. We were talking about this the other day, and I was saying, 'The five of us are a great live band but there comes a point where that can only go so far'. You've got to give people a show. And the show is just as important as the songs sometimes because you can make a statement with those shows, you can say a lot. So I think now it's kind of put up or shut up for the band. We did it with the record, let's do it for the show.
Posted on 01/12/2007 9:55 AM Comments (4)
New Years Article with Ville ValoKerrang issue 1139 Ville Valo, HIM This year he has spent over £6,000 on fags. Q: 2006: A very good year? A: for the band, it's been a great year. Perfect, infact! We're the first Finnish band ever to get a gold record in America, which is a great thing. Away from the band, there's been quite a lot of personal shit. Friends getting ill, friends dying, quite alot of tragedy, really. It will be very cathartic to be able to deal with it all musically on the new album, it'll be nice to get rid of some of the shitty things that happen sometimes in the music.
Q: How's the new record coming? A: Pretty good, we've got a few songs all written, we're just rehearsing and writing a lot at the moment, we haven't started recording yet. We're on schedule, though. It's sounding good so far, it sounds like My Bloody Valentine meets Black Sabbath. Basically we're just making the heaviest pop album ever made. Our last album was very slick, so we're trying to go a bir more edgy this time, alot heavier.
Q: What's been good this year? A: Hmm... I'm trying to think, I was drunk for quite alot of it so a lot of memories are a bit sketchy. Turning 30 was cool, I had a huge party that ened up lasting for about five days! I threw a party at one of the rock clubs here in Helsinki, and we had a blast. There were about 600 people there, and a lot of old school Finnish bands playing live, it was a great night. There were so many good friends around that I just couldn't stop partying, I just kept going.
Q: Have you made any good friends this year? A: Aiden, from seattle. We went on tour with them and we all became very close friends, which is always good when it happens In fact, wiL [Francis, Aiden vocalist] is now my official hairdresser; he's the only person in this world who is allowed to cut my hair. He's very handy with a pair of scissors. It's not hairdressing, it's art (laughs)
Q: How many fags do you reckon you've smoked this year? A: 365 times sixty. Three packs of 20 a day. How many is that?
Q: 21, 900... A: That's how many you need to smoke to give your voice an edge. A guitar player has an effects pedal that he uses to make his guitar sound like he wants, for me my effects pedal is a packet of Marlboro Red. I went from sounding like a choirboy to sounding really husky and deep like [Screaming Trees and sometime QOTSA vocalist] Mark Lanegan.
Q: You moved into a big tower in Finland this year, settling in well? A: It's still a mess! I've been away a lot so I haven't had time to sort all my stuff out in the house, but it's very, very cool. It's a big old round watch tower with five floors, and there is nobody living nearby, so I can listen to King Diamond as loud as I like and nobody can complain. I don't feel like a dark lord or anything when I walk around it, though. Normally I just feel like a c**t.
Q: What's the most bizarre fan experience you've had this year? A: The really fanatical fans are all a little bit weird, but there's been nothing spectacularly strange that happened this year, certainly nothing bad. Although someone gave me thier dead grandmother's earrings, that was crackers. But I wore them with pride. We get given odd little gifts from fans, lots of books, paintings, all sorts. The coolest gift I got this year from a fan was dirt from the grave of [classic horror and fantasy author] HP Lovecraft, which now sits on the bookshelf. That's pretty sexy.
Q: What's the story behind you cancelling your US tour? A: Well, basically, we planned to take some time off over the summer to write new stuff so that we could record the new album early next year [2007], but that never happened, so we would have been doing our third US tour in a year playing exactly the same material. And also Burton [keyboards] just had his first baby around when the tour was supposed to start, and his duties as a father would have meant he couldn't come on the tour. We eouldn't have got someone else to fill in, because it just wouldn't be the same band.
Q: Do you feel bad for the american fans? A: Not really, in the sense that a lot of the people who would have been at the shows are the people who have seen us before. I think that it would be very boring for them, and for us, if we just went there and did exactly the same thing as we did before, same songs, same show. It would be like bad sex, and who wants that?
Q: What about Lostprophets, who were meant to be touring with you? A: I feel like a complete fucking bastard that we've disappointed them. I'm a big fan of them, I think their music is great, and I think theyre a great bunch of guys, so I feel bad for cancelling like that on them, and also because I don't get to go on tour with such a good band and a nice bunch of guys. That's one of the main things that pissed me off the most about this whole thing, but at the end of the day we have to think of ourselves first, which meant making the new record, and Burton being there with his family. What can I say? I'm really sorry.
Q: What are your plans for New Year? A: Same as every year, playing a show in Helsinki. It's our traditional party, this year it's three days, and we've got some great bands there, like Anathema, Cathedral, Amorphis. It's going to be heavy! We always do a New Year show, and it's always a lot of fun. We come on at the stroke of midnight, and just party, and then everyone gets completely wasted. More so than usual. We try and get the New Year off to the best start we can, with rock and roll, and booze (laughs)
Q: What do you want for christmas? new pair of socks? A: I'll be corny and say peace on earth. I don't really want anything. I have all the things I want. So I'd like just for me, and my family and frineds to be happy, and for there to be peace in the world, even if it's just for one day.
Posted on 01/12/2007 6:46 AM Comments (7)
January 9, 2007a poem by meit's a dead end and I keep getting pushed forward it's a dead end and I'm not able to turn around it's a dead end and it keeps geting darker it's a dead end and I'm scared it's a dead end and soon my life will be over it's a dead end and I can feel the water it's a dead end and I take my final breath
Posted on 01/09/2007 3:42 PM Comments (9)
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Alright, imagine this garbage: you’re walking around at Downtown Disney, a mall-like business district between the California Adventure park and Disneyland itself, and in the midst of the pastels and twins in matching outfits, this 6’4” man in black leather pants and a Billy Idol shirt, complete with an aging leather jacket is walking amongst the crowd, his black hair sticking above the crowd by nearly half a foot. He walks up to me and switches his Disneyland souvenir bag from his right hand to his left and introduces himself as Jyrki, the lead singe of The 69 Eyes. It just continues to be interesting from there.
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