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Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.

Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion.

Hopefully it will be possible to get all our other albums in American shops one day so if people are interested they can hear it but I'm hoping that people are going to be interested in what we are going to do, not just what we've done.


I don't eat meat on tour, because it is too heavy. I wouldn't be able to move my hips on stage if I'd eat those heavy foods.

I have never acted in one and I'm not at all interested to do so either.

I haven't travelled that much before so this is the first time I get to see the big cities of Europe. I've never even been to US.

I heard the debut of Black Sabbath as a teenager and decided to become a singer.

I like to listen to mellow stuff on the road like Travis, as we are constantly surrounded by rock music on tour and so its nice listening to mellow stuff. Obviously back at home I listen to a lot more rock music.

I love Johnny Cash but I don't love country music that much.

I think if we keep on doing good music and people like us and they buy the magazine because we are in the magazine then they cant basically hate us hopefully.

I was drunk for the second time in my life on junior high and that was a bad one!

I'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds.


I'm a huge fan of James Dean, that got me started. Nowadays I smoke four packs in a day.

I'm living my dream right now. I get to make music, perform and travel.

I've always been a huge reggae fan.

I've got asthma. When I was 17 I forgot to take my medication and was taken to a hospital for almost two weeks. After that I've taken better care of my illness.

It's cool when young people get into Jet and all that stuff but it's a shame when they can't admit all their influences.


It's like that with what sort of ideas people outside of the band have of HIM. They all see it through a different lens as well which is beautiful. Hopefully, it makes it an endless topic of conversation.

It's the same with visual arts, you have some really cool, wonderful striking images that make you think and then again you have wonderful striking images that just take you away from the existing world for a second. And I like the latter a bit more.


Los Angeles and New York are the big centers of the music industry worldwide so of course it can be hard for newcomers who don't know what to expect from the music business.

Music for me is an emotional thing and it really does make me happy. It's not a tool for me to get fame or see my face in the papers or anything like that. It's about the fact that I really do enjoy it.

Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.

No matter how hard you work on stuff back in your bedroom to get it perfect, you're never going to do it correctly.

So basically, I think music at its best can be everything. It can be totally stupid and very intellectual and emotional at the same time. I don't think all those things shut each other out.

Some genres I'm not a huge fan of but there are always exceptions that break the rules. There are always a few people doing it in a way weird enough to grab my attention.

Talking about covers, whether visually or sonically, if a particular combination of notes struck a chord in your heart in a way that you want to be a part of it by covering that song, then there's nothing wrong with it.

That music and the lyrical aspects of Razorblade Romance is so personal to me that, now with me being grown up a bit and meeting new people and doing new things, it makes me look at the same things I was writing about back in the day through a different colored lens.
The guys in Kiss use some make up too so at first it was exiting. I've almost stopped using make-up nowadays.

There's always reasons to make mistakes. Because then you do new mistakes next time. So they're beautiful mistakes.

This can sound kinky but I only relax at work. Either on a gig or rehearsing with the band. I get total peace of mind on gigs.

Unfortunately we just toured the East and West coasts so we didn't run into any rednecks.


We have never been a druggy band, we have always been dating, we have always had our girlfriends at home, and we have been 95% faithful, we've made mistakes, but have suffered for our sins.

We haven't properly toured America, Canada, Australia or Japan, so there's lots of places still to go to, we are in no hurry.

We started playing music from an early age and so we wasn't really aware of that side of it, the weird thing is the more successful you get the more free booze and drugs you get, they should be given to the bands who don't have the money.

We're in a wonderful situation that there are loads of American record companies that like what we do. And that's a lovely thing.

We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.

Well, for us, it's always better not to have too many expectations and to just go with the flow because then it's always a big plus no matter what happens.

Women are always beautiful.

Yeah I'm still writing. I've got about 14 tracks now. But we've been on tour so we haven't had time to get back to a rehearsal place.

Interview: HIM's Ville Valo in Amsterdam, August 5th 2005

‘So… Do you want to talk about something then?’ Ville asks. Later when I playback the tape I blush when I hear myself say: ‘Well, I could just sit here and stare at you…’

HIM’s singer Ville Valo was in Amsterdam last week to talk about the band’s new album. Dark Light will be released in the Netherlands on September 23rd, the day after their sold out show in Paradiso. Due to a series of coincidences, I was offered the opportunity to interview him. A chance I grabbed with both hands. I asked my best friend to come along so I had someone to take over if I lost the plot. And because she is a HIM fan, like me. Funny coincidence: this website was founded after visiting a HIM show with a friend, I would never have dreamed that my first interview for it would be with the same band!

 

Killing Loneliness vs. Wings of a Butterfly

‘Actually we’re here to talk about the new album,’ Annika rescues me while I recompose myself. I stumble when I feel his eyes resting on my red hot cheeks. I must look awful, but he keeps a straight face. ‘Ok, cool! Have you heard it?’ Ville says. ‘No? Well, it’s finished and we’re very happy with it. It’s kind of a combination between Love Metal and Razorblade Romance. I would play it to you, but I didn’t bring it.’

Imre: Ah, it’s pink!
Ville: No, it’s gonna be blue! Dark and blue, Razorblade was bright and pink. I meant music wise. It’s got a similar kind of vibe to the single, Rip Out the Wings of a Butterfly. It’s very direct. We’ll probably call it Wings Of.. on the radio. We thought we’d shortened it up, because it’s such a long title. Like Join Me in Death which we’ve shortened to Join Me.

Imre: I heard that Killing Loneliness would be the first single. Why did it change to Butterfly?
Ville: It changed because Killing Loneliness sounds very similar to one of the singles from Love Metal; The Sacrament. They’re both ballads and we felt that an up-tempo rock track would be better as a first single. It’s more representative of the new album. It was difficult picking the singles this time, because it’s the first time that an album will be released in a lot of countries simultaneously, so it has to fit the different markets.

Imre: How do you select the tracks that are going to be singles?
Ville: Well that’s usually with the label and friends. We’ve been working with the material for a long time already and there’s always a couple of songs that pop up that appear to be more suitable for radio. They’re a bit shorter and more straight to the point, without too much weirdo shit happening.

 

Nervousness, Gone With the Sin, Daniel Lioneye and Halloween

I heard HIM play two other tracks of the new album when I was at the Rock Am Ring festival in Germany in June; Killing Loneliness and Vampire Heart. The last one was great, but something happened during the other track and Ville seemed to be very pissed off about that. I was wondering what went wrong.

Ville: I was pissed off, yeah! Unfortunately our bass broke down and it screwed up the song. I cut it off before the end, it didn’t sound right.

Imre: Those festivals in Germany (Rock Im Park on June 4th, Rock Am Ring on the 5th) were the first gigs you played after spending a few months in America recording the album, weren’t they?
Ville: Yeah, we were very nervous. Well, we’re always nervous, but you know not playing and than all of a sudden playing at a big festival… Of course it’s weird, especially when we’re playing new stuff. We hadn’t really rehearsed it, so that made it more nerve wrecking. We just flew in and after that we had to fly back to New York, so we had a tremendous jetlag.

Imre: How do you pick the songs you play on a tour or a festival?
Ville: We’re kind of… Not lazy, but we have a couple of favourites, though they’re not singles, but most of the time we play stuff that are singles, because especially at festivals that’s the stuff most people know. It’s simple. When we’re playing club gigs we don’t want to play too long, we do like an hour and fifteen or an hour and twenty minutes. What we try to do now, or what we’ve been doing is not playing a lot of our ballads and more being rock directed. It’s nice. There’s still people complaining that we’re not doing the ballads, like Gone with the Sin, but you know you can’t do it all. It’s just the mood of the band.

Imre: Gone with the Sin is a classic.
Ville: It’s a really really nice track, but it is pretty hard to get it going. It’s a simple production, but it’s hard to get it to sound right. We’re still lacking like two more guitar players.

Imre: Well, you can play…
Ville: Nah, not well enough.

Imre: What instruments do you play?
Ville: A bit of bass, a bit of guitar, a bit of drum.

Imre: Yeah, we saw you drumming on stage with Daniel Lioneye [side project, fronted by HIM’s guitarist Linde]. Do you get questions about that project now that Bam [Margera, from MTV’s Jackass] is using The King of Rock ‘n’ Roll as an opening track for his show?
Ville: Well, it’s Linde’s song, so… We’re getting a little money out of it and we got asked by CKY, the band of Bam’s brother, to go on tour with them, but we’re not gonna do it. It’s Linde’s project, but he never wants to talk about it. It was basically something we did when getting drunk and enjoying the moment, having a good time really. Doing something different than HIM for a bit, but you know it was enough that we played like two gigs. Three actually.

Imre: You’ve said that you might make a tradition out of playing on Halloween.
Ville: Yeah, that would be a nice thing. We’re actually on tour in the US with Halloween this year. It’s not a big thing in Scandinavia, they don’t celebrate it. Not like they do in the US. It’s gonna be good!

Imre: I flew to London last year for the Halloween show.
Ville: Yeah? Good stuff! How was it?

Imre: I loved all the people wearing costumes and you guys with the makeup and fake wounds! And the change in the setlist was good too, opening with Soul On Fire instead of Buried Alive By Love, made a nice change.
Ville: Yeah, we threw it around a bit for the occasion.

 

Instrumental music

With HIM making our favourite kind of music –lots of guitars, singer with a sexy voice, great lyrics- we were wondering which bands Ville listens to himself at the moment. He needed a few seconds to think about that. ‘There’s a German band called Bohren und der Club of Gore. It’s doom jazz. It’s very weird. They’ve got a bass and an electric piano, it’s like a jazzconcept. It’s instrumental and sounds a bit like film noir kind of stuff, but slowed down and no vocals. It’s very like.. very doomy and gloomy, you know. That’s a very good band, there’s an album called Black Earth. If you put it on and like do whatever, like doing the dishes or reading or whatever it makes you feel totally like being stoned. It kind of just slows you down.’

Imre: I always find it hard to listen to instrumental music, like Apocalyptica. They’re great live, but I wouldn’t buy an album.
Ville: Yes, they’re very good live, very entertaining. I don’t like instrumental music that much, but I listen to dub and reggae. It’s based on rhythm and I like hypnotic music. It’s like an addiction. I don’t listen to trance or jungle, it’s way too fast for me. I could only listen to it if I’d do speed, but I don’t like speed. Or E.

Imre: So you don’t listen to it.
Ville: Exactly.

 

Ville and the internet

When it fell silent for a few seconds, I looked up at Annika who had said very little so far. Was she lost for words, or just thinking I was doing a good job and had nothing to add? Before I could ask her, Ville started to speak again.

Ville: Bands should really stop downloading music and buy the albums instead. It might sound like a good idea because it’s cheap and easy, but they’re killing their own industry. The record companies won’t sign new bands if they don’t sell albums, there’s no money for that. They’d rather stick with the bands that sell than invest in new ones.

Imre: Do you ever go online and check out the messageboards?
Ville: Not a lot, not a lot. I don’t have a connection back at my home. I’m using the internet mainly to stay in touch with the American people who are working on the album. Of course I do surf a bit when that happens, but I never go looking for sites about the band.

Annika: Do you have any idea how much fuss your change of hair created on the forums and messageboards?
Ville: No…

Imre: Everyone was going: “oh no, not the hair!!”
Ville: -Laughs- Wow… cause it ‘s all about the hair..! That’s cool. Tell them I looked like Gerard Way.

Imre: Do you know My Chemical Romance?
Ville: Well, I can’t call them my friends, but I have met them. We’re talking about maybe touring together sometime. They have some nice work and they’ve got a similar sort of vibe as we have, you know, on an emotional level, but the music is different so we’d fit very well together. They’ve got that punk edge and we’re more rock ‘n’ roll. It’d be great. It’s good to different things.

 

Future plans

Sadly, after a little over twenty minutes our time was up and we had to ask the last question. It seemed like we had just started talking to him, on the other hand it felt like we had been there for hours.

Imre: What have you got planned for the near future?
Ville: We’re going to Japan next week to do promotion for the album and play at a festival. Then we come back and do a short tour in Europe. The single will be out in the middle of September [16th in the Netherlands] and then the album two weeks later. And then do loads of stuff and we’re gonna be away from home for three and a half months because we’re touring in the US.

Even though it was a very non-journalist thing to do, we decided to buy Ville something because we admire him. He has given us so much by making music, we wanted to return the favour, but not overdo it. ‘What’s this? A book? Should I unwrap it? …. Ooh! That’s lovely! I was actually pissed off the other day because all of mine are full. I really needed one of these! Thank you so much!’ We bought him a notebook.

Imre: We’ll be at the gig in Amsterdam, so we’ll give you a wave. Thank you so much for the interview.
Ville: No no, thank you!

Imre & Annika

HIM have announced the cancellation of their fall tour. The band will not be playing scheduled U.S. shows in favor of entering the recording studio (see canceled dates below).

HIM hope fans will not be let down, but rather will look forward to seeing them back on the road with new songs to share. The band have been steadily writing material for their forthcoming album and are eager to start preliminary rehearsal of very early tracks. HIM have not been able to test any new material due to their busy touring and promotion schedule. This fall will be the first opportunity for the band members to talk and work out new HIM material for a 2007 release!

Singer Ville Valo explains the band's decision: "Our dearest fellowship of the Heartagram, you haven't seen the last of us yet. We just want to keep it fresh for you and stump you with new material. I didn't feel that I could do that without rehearsing some of this stuff that's stuck in my heart. We're happy to have new fans come aboard the ship, but I feel we've got to keep it exciting and new. We've started writing and I can't wait for you guys to hear what we're working on."

The band have spent the last year touring non-stop behind Dark Light. Most recently completing a successful spring U.S. headlining tour with stops at Jimmy Kimmel Live and Last Call With Carson Daly along the way.

To ticket holders: please contact or visit the point of purchase for information on ticket refunds.

Cancelled HIM tour dates:

WED 10/18 Lowell, MA Tsongas Arena
THU 10/19 NY, NY Hammerstein Ballroom
FRI 10/20 NY, NY Hammerstein Ballroom
SAT 10/21 Camden, NJ Tweeter Center at the Waterfront
MON 10/23 Rochester, NY ESL Sportcenter
TUE 10/24 Toronto, ONT Ricoh Coliseum
WED 10/25 Chicago, IL Aragon Ballroom
THU 10/26 Des Moines, IA Val Air Ballroom
SUN 10/29 San Jose, CA Event Center at San Jose University
MON 10/30 San Diego, CA SDSU
TUE 10/31 Universal City, CA Gibson Amphitheatre

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B.L.O.O.D.

Late 1980’s,  it was two drummers, another plays in rehearsals and the other in their gig.

The band plays one gig in their school and the other guys was older than Ville.

They plays instrumental version of  “ Run to the Hills “ by Iron Maiden.

 

ELOVEENA BOYS

Late 1980’s, Ville plays bass and the band plays titles of U2 and Dire Straits and that was the first band that played the song written by Ville. The band plays 5-6 gigs.

 

AURORA

Late 1980’s, Ville on drums and Linde on guitars. First band that plays only their own music. Ville and Linde met in the school when Linde came to same school with Ville and they started to play together Charlie Parker. This band was very offensive and in the one gig their singer was drunk and he fell against equipment of lights and the whole stuff falls down and breaks the drums. It took a big time to fix the drums that Ville could play with them.

Aurora was rehearsed about a half of year when they started to plan to make a classtrip.

They planned to organize hippieparties in their school for saving the money for their trip. Parties had to be on the next week when the principal of their school lost his nerves and screamed that “you can’t make your parties, you’ll only smoke your joints there !”

Parties were cancelled and after that pupils went very angry for that principal. The revenge for that principal was the song called “ Martti Ilvonen tunkee kyrpää suoleen” (free translation: “ Martii Ilvonen put his  dick down to asshole ).

The band plays that song in the autumn concert of their school and all of the other teachers were almost killed in the laughter. The crowd in concert went insane and started to throw seats around the area. After that Ville and his friends were not welcome to play in the concerts in the school of Oulunkylä.

They made another way to save the money for their trip, they sold donuts and stuff like that. They finally arrived to Amsterdam by driving bus through Sweden, Denmark and Germany. They planned to play music in local schools. In Holland they played 3-4 gigs and the trip takes about 10 days. That was first time when Ville was outside of Finland because of music.

 

 TERAPIA

Early 1990’s

 

KEMOTERAPIA

Early 1990’s

 

WINHA

1990’s

 

DONITS-OSMO

Experience (1992/93)

This bands plays several gigs and there is couple of collections where their demo’s were released. They also played as a supporter of Mudhoney at club called Lepakko in Helsinki. Lepakko was demolished in early 2000 and was legendary place for finnish bands and there was also the first local radio station in action, R.I.P.

 

UNGA KASKELOTTAR

Early 1990’s

Duo with Ville & Mige

 

NATAS

1990’s