| Ilta Sanomat 15.10.2002 Ville Valo: I tried suicide translated by Maiju. Click here for the pics! HIM�s frontman Ville Valo confess that he paid big price for success. HIM's music maker�s and worshipped front man Ville Valo's pressure is sometimes huge. -Pressure comes out in different ways: Sometimes I'm giving dismissals the whole band, sometimes I'm getting completely drunk and sometimes I'm hitting my fist to the wall, Confess singer. Couple years ago in Germany-tour Ville tried to jump hotel room's balcony in 13th floor. -That was one of these crises. Months touring pressure is getting harder. In few seconds I�d been on the ground, but friends rip me off from the railing. I was completely drunk and didn't think anymore than "I will jump out of everything" . In that moment it seemed to be good solution, remembers Ville. - Time to time this business can be so annoying that interest to everything disappears. It can be also seen in a way, that always when someone tries to jump from balcony, it�s asking for help. I have good friends and they came to help me, so that�s it. There is stormy in HIM from time to time. -Incredible fights come completely stupid reasons, when we are sitting in smelling tour bus with the same group couple of months. There seems to be crisis also with every record. And it has always to do something with me. I have bad nerves. Perhaps there is more pressure coming to me than the rest� Front man gives dismissals easily to his band mates when situations are getting worse, but Ville can also put things back to right. -I have learnt to say sorry and we all have learnt to talk to each other. You get far away with talking. Ville sees also good sides of strict situations. -You remember again, why you have started the whole thing. In that way crisis are welcome, even therapeutic, even though also very uncomfortable. Last year�s tour they had really problems with each other. -I felt that I was doing too much work and the rest didn�t respect that. Probably I was wrong, but we talked and make everything right. We realised that we want to continue together, because we are having nice time. But of course we have still time to fight a lot more :P He (Ville) has always spoken in public really open mouth about things in their real names. So it�s no surprise that Juho Juntunen�s book �Synnin Viem�� has told to have really clear talking (things are told with their real names) and not blablaing about some things, which aren�t even true. -We don�t have anything to hide or anything to lose. We tell things the way they happened. �Our thing� has always been to be what we are. We have never tried to live fantasy figures life. There are many stories in this book, which haven�t been ever told. You find out for that how hard young band can have in record-company, when million people are tearing you everywhere. There are still problems coming up, few months ago it came out that HIM have to change their name in the USA. USA is already band called HIM. -Religious band, which think we are worshipping Satan. So that�s why we registered HIM name in Europe so they can�t make gigs here (in Europe) with HIM name. They can give up or keep on making things hard, which is really silly in my opinion. Cause both bands are playing totally different music. Ville seems to be completely bored for this name fight. His thoughts of American name holder aren�t special. -Napoleon complex: small penis & glasses, Ville says. -I�m Finnish, not American. I don�t want big court thing cause of 3 letters. Let�s see what happens, but HER is actually pretty funny possibility for a name. At this moment HIM are making their 4th album (comes out in Spring), which will get a name �LOVE METAL� -We made this whole music genre (Love metal) so now we have to make also album for this genre. It�s going to be the hardest album of our career, even though the music will be still melodic & melancholic. At this time they didn�t go to make record outside Finland. -It would be stupid for example to go to Los Angels and pay everything 4 times bigger price. We are trying to keep costs at least bit ok. It�s not easy to record but preferably we spend couple of months with the same money in Finnish record studio than one week in some foreign studio. After record comes out HIM will be back to road. First they will do some festivals in summer and in fall they will go to clubs. Band aren�t playing always even with big prices. -Last summer we got an offer to play one gig for 100 000 Euros, but we said no cause that place didn�t seem nice. He�s now rich man. That is not easy to realise. Sometimes it�s hard even himself. - I don�t want to make music for money. When there is money in accounts, even my own head can get messy, but especially the others heads get messy for what�s the motive of making music. It�s love against to music and not money! |