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This Transcript Was Done By: heluvsmemore @ valo_daily In May 2007

 

This is from Rock 1 Radio Show with Daniel P. Carter. It is faaaaaaaar from perfect, but after going through the interview several times and a severe case of writer's cramp...it is pretty close. As you know when Ville interviews he pauses and stumbles alot, so it was a little hard to catch every little thing, but I hope this is close enough for those who could not get the feed to work. =0)


FYI: If you did not listen to the interview because you were not able to find it in the two hour feed, here's how you find it. Press 15 min fwd one time...the 5 min fwd two times. The interview is just after the song ends. If you fwd any further it goes too far, but this way you get pretty close.

*Key*
(Inaudible) - Two or less words I could not understand.

(Inaudible Sentence) – No more that one sentence.

There are also a couple of places that I could not un derstand a few sentences, they both spoke very quickly a few times, but I noted those and summarized as best as I could.


TRANSCRIPT:

DANIEL: HIM headline Friday night, Give It A Name (GIAN). I caught up with him in his hotel. Had a couple of beers, he liked to smoke, we had a chat. Th is is kinda what we came up wi th.

(Breaks into in terview)

DANIEL: This is Da niel P. Carter from the Rock 1 Radio Show, here with Ville from HIM, who's headlining GIAN tonight. How's it going?

VILLE: Oh, I'm tired. I did things I shouldn't have. Things I never ever...kids do n't try those things back at home. I did all the wrong things...um...I got only like four ho urs of sleep.

D: So then, you are prepared for tonight?

V: I am beat.

(They both laugh.)

D: You looking forward to it?

V: Of course, I am. Yeah, never been to that particular ve nue.

D: Ah, ok.

V: So, it's exciting, also you know there's Ju liet and The Licks. I haven't se en Juliet in a long time.

D: So , you are a single man, at the mo ment? Is that right?

V: Uh, ki nd of.

D: OK, A large part of yo ur audience is female and they are obviously very vocal...

V: (interrupts) I got really bad eye sight, so I actually don't know...see that much.

D: Right, ju st a very large blur of things, a b urred mass...

V: Blurred GOTHIC mass. Uh, infected violence here, as they say with Carcass. (Ville's classic laugh)

D: You are here, quite a bit, aren't you?

V: I wa s suppose to be living here.

D: Yeah?

V: I was supposed to move here, but the all of the sudden love happened.

D: Yeah.

V: So, I couldn't do that. I would have been inspiring, but let's just say to fall in love with someone, it's a lot more in spiring.

D: Yeah.

V: So, I gu ess, I will stay where my heart is .

D: Yeah.

D: I read recently you are good friends with Lee from Cathedral.

V: Yeah, they are amazing!

D: Do you have a saying about writing, you know, out of interest. Do you ever collaborate with other people?

V: Collaborate? That's for rappers, but...

D: You know wh at I mean!

V: We do tend to ...uh..., for example, with Lee, I love his lyrics. We always talk ab out (inaudible) and poets and st uff like that. It's kinda cool es pecially when, ya know, like twelve pints of lager...

D: Ye ah.

V: ...and you are trying to act (inaudible), and trying to be so eloquent, it's...it's ri diculous. It's fun.

D: You lo oking forward to, what's the ot her show? Outside Birmingham.

V: Birmingham and Black Sabbath. That's the only reason I exist.

D: Yeah.

V: Ye ah, to be the messenger for Black Sabbath.

D: You're a huge fan of Black Sabbath.

V: Uh, Yes! (Stumbles a little) I can't put it in to words. Ozzy is great. I met him once. He taught me a few tr icks.

D: So, you said, about Juliet and The Licks, earlier...it's quite a varied bi ll.

V: And Kill Hannah, from Ch icago, we toured with them, back in The States. They are playing as we ll. They are beautiful. The gu itar player...(stumbles). Unfortunately, I'm not gay! (Both laugh) They are really, really good friends of ours.

D: The thing is, y ur band is...the bill is more al ong the lines of punk and ha rdcore and those kinds of scenes, a a rule, for most of this over three days, but lots of those bands constantly sight you guys as in fluences and just love you.

V: W ll, of course. We're good at what we do. (Inaudible sentence.) I sarted playing when I was seven an d now I'm 30. I'm really happy ab out it, ya know? As a musician, so many (inaudible) they just need th eir egos rubbed. And that's a kinda good reason as well.

D: Do you wanna chose a track from one of th e other bands from the bill?

V: Yeah, play anything off a Kill Hannah.

D: OK, cool. This is Kill Hannah.

*****Song Plays*****

D: This is Daniel P. Ca rter from the Rock 1 Radio Show. I' m here with Ville from HIM and th at was Kill Hannah, one of your pi cks.

V: Right.

D: The new re cord (inaudible) Venus Do om?

V: Venus Doom.

D: Is th at confirmed, is it still gonna be Venus Doom?

V: I think it's go nna be called Venus Doom. Uh, it 's recorded, but not mixed. So, ba sically, after I finish these gi gs, I'm flying off to Los Angeles, where our producer (inaudible) and he has his favorite s udio, we're gonna go there. Flying i on Monday.

D: And where did you record that?

V: Back in Fi nland, 'cause like our keyboard pl ayer...he just had his first op portunity to be a dad just a few mo nths ago and we that it's pr obably better for everybody if we r cord back at home so they can spend time with their girls and fa milies and everything....um...

D: Yeah.

V: We recorded the pr evious one, ya know, back in L.A. a d it was good, but I was away from m mom and my dad for five months an d that's a long time, at least for me.

D: Do you get homesick mu ch when you are touring?

V: No , I get sick. The be er...something...

D: Yeah, fl ying...busses...

V: I hate fl ying! I hate flying still, which is funny.

D: So let's talk a bit m re about Venus Doom. You said it's a bit rawer and little heavier that th e past stuff. Is it similar, sort o themes you write about, 'cause yo u know (inaudible) it covers like s x and death.

V: Well, I am a ro mantic bastard...

D: Ye ah.

V: I'm (inaudible) , but I can't help it. And this will be my ge nius. There's been some rough st uff happening. Once of my really go od friends killed himself, ya kn ow, back in 2005. I have been ta lkin' 'bout that, yeah. Not a lot o pretty stuff. most depressing al bum we have ever done.

D: OK .

V: So far. It's cathartic (s p?), plastic. Parts of it sound li ke Metallica. Parts of it sound li ke COC during the Deliverance Er a. Sabbath, all the bands I love. < r />
(During this part there is a chunk I could not understand a fe w sentences, but he was still co mparing sound to other ba nds.)

D: Yeah, Have you found th at you have gone back to a lot of o der stuff...

V: No, I would not s y that I am, we're not re -inventing the wheel.

D: Ri ght.

V: What we are trying to do is show the kids I'm proud to be a fan. It's what I do with the music a well. I have all of the in fluences. (Inaudible) of all ti me. That's my main goal, been su cceeding well in it. Guess I am ab le to pay my rent.

(Another am azing Ville laugh.)

D: Well yo u mentioned Metallica earlier, yo u're gonna be doing some shows wi th them?

V: Yeah, we're doing a few. Uh, playing a couple in Sc andinavia, then there is one I ca n't talk about yet, but it's go nna be very creative.

D: When is it? (Short pause, seems to be ta lking to someone other than Ville.) Uh, OK.

(Another chunk I c uld not understand, but it seemed to be Daniel asking if Ville was lo oking forward to meeting someone. A d with context clues, it seems th at he was asking about Metallica me mbers, but that is not certain, so I could very well be wr ong.)

V: No, I ha ven’t.

D: Are you excited abou t meeting them?

V: Um, no.< br />
D: No?

V: (Sounds like, thou gh this does not make sense.) If t hey are fellas, they are fell as…

D: Yeah.

V: I grew up wit h Master of Puppets and the Black Album’s HUGE! That’s the first time I smoked pot.

D: Do you want t o pick one of your own tracks?

V: Buried Alive By Love, I love….it ’s a good one. I know it’s not new, but it’s a good rockin’ track.

D: Yeah.

V: From Love Metal, the first track.

D: OK, well thank you for this, thank you for your time.

V: Thank you…um…very m ch. I am still pissed off that yo u drank all my beer.

(Both laugh loudly)

D : And the track’s called Buried Alive By Love.

(Ville l aughs)

*****Buried Alive By Love Plays*****< r />
Daniel states that the interview was a good one and talks a littl e more about it, but nothing in d epth. He goes on to talk about Bert ’s (The Used) farting habits which little entertaining, but after 5 pa ges, handwritten (front and back) I could not write anymore..LoL Please forgive me. =0)