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Rockline Radio 02.22.2010
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Bob Coburn: Hi I’m Bob Cobourn in Los Angeles and tonight, from Sydney, Australia, we welcome HIM. To speak with HIM, call the toll free hotline at 1800-344-ROCK, our number is toll from anywhere in the U.S. and Canada. And now, let’s welcome our guests! HIM has released their 7th studio album of all new songs, it’s called Screamworks: Love in Theory and in Practice, volumes 1-13; hereafter known as Screamworks.

Ville Valo: It’s a long title, sorry about that.

BC: It certainly is, yes. Tonight and actually, this afternoon, where the gentlemen are in Sydney, Australia, we’d like to welcome back the vocalist for the band, Ville. Welcome back to Rockline, good to have you with us.

VV: Hello there, good to be back.

BC: And the guitarist for the band, Mige. Welcome to you as well

Mige Amour: Thank you very much.

BC: Nice to have you both back. Congratulations on the album, absolutely outstanding – you must be very proud of this.

VV: We’re blushing here. We actually spent a lot of time on it; we are proud with what we’ve done, we’re hoping, obviously, that people get it too; that remains to be seen.

BC: Well, we will play many songs from the album tonight, all the lines are on hold. I’ll give you guys a clue, if you want to speak with the guys tonight, whenever someone hangs up, try to call then, because that will clear the line – otherwise it’s busied out already for the guys. I think it’s your finest album yet, we were talking that right before the program began. It surpasses Dark Light and probably Venus Doom for me, those had been my favorites, but Screamworks has been absolutely outstanding. When you were recording this album, did you have the feeling that it was going well – that you were onto something good?

MA: Yea, sure did, yea. I think that there was great confidence in the air, so to say to quote Churchill. I don’t know if I’m actually quoting anybody, but it felt really comfortable – at least for me. How about you?

VV: Yes, we felt great – but now I’m second guessing. Now it’s the time –

MA: You can’t top Churchill, can you?

VV: No, not really –

MA: Try Caeser.

VV: The dice has been thrown.

MA: The dice has been thrown, and it’s rolling in the air.

VV: It is, it is. The baby’s out – it’s just one of those saddening moments in a way, we’ve spent what, 2 and a half years working on the album and now it’s out. I’m second guessing – I always am, just thinking if it’s good enough and whether it’s – I don’t know, I need people to validate my existence.

BC: Is it hard to walk away and say “it’s finished” or do you have the inclination to keep adding things here and there?

MA: No, that’s one of the lessons in life that you have to learn – that you have to let go of things. And I’ve been learning that lesson to a great extent in the last 35 years so – it’s becoming a routine.

BC: I still haven’t learned the lesson, haha.

MC: You have to let go of healthy bladder and stuff. Can’t be worse than that can it?

BC: Well, lyrically for the album, for you, Ville, there must have been a lot of letting go. This is about prior relationships for the most part right, I guess every song, I guess?

VV: Well, they’re always about relationships, I guess. Well they’re not necessarily about – I consider them rather to be multi-layered in a way that there’s current stuff, there’s old stuff and there’s stuff hopefully happening in the future too so it’s not as simple as it is for me – it would feel weird for me to spend a year just singing about one girl somewhere in the past I met one day.

BC: There’s plenty of more days to come – more girls, yea.

MA: Many harbors to visit.

VV: Yea, indeed.

BC: So I understand you have a few shows remaining in Australia, then you’re off to Europe and for those us in North America, the U.S. tour begins at the end of March, I believe, is that correct?

MA: Yea, that’s the plan.

BC: That’s the plan, and it’s a 28 city tour. Well, let’s get a song on the air then we’ll let you speak with the band tonight. The band is HIM, the brand new album is Screamworks, and the first single off the album is, Heartkiller, on Rockline.

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BC: Welcome Back to Rockline, I’m Bob Coburn, we’re with HIM and now your calls. We will go middle America, right off the bat here, and speak with Brandon from Wichita, Kansas. Welcome to Rockline, Brandon.

01: Hi there, great to speak with you all, I’m a huge fan!

VV and MA: Hey! What’s going on?

01: Hi there, I’m doing great. Okay, I had a question for you, I wanted to know what kind of musical styles really influenced this new CD?

VV: Hmm…

MA: That’s a tough one. There’s always been a big variety of things happening. Many things you listen – are not so obvious.

VV: Basically, I spent a lot of my time listening to Jamaican dance hall reggae, but you can’t hear that –

MA: You can’t really hear it but somehow it’s influencing – I’m pretty sure.

VV: Rhythmically, bass-wise or whatever, but this album, I guess it’s more over to the idols back in the 80’s – like all the Van Halen stuff and A-HA, all the poppy 80’s stuff and then late 80’s like Guns and Roses and Depeche Mode and all that stuff coming together. We grew up listening to that sort of music so I guess that was sort of – and since Matt Squire produced – he’s the same age as us, he grew up listening to similar sort of music so we had a trip down memory lane while working on this one and so, it is pretty retro, occasionally.

BC: Right, you don’t hear it directly, but you mention those bands and I can sense certain elements of those bands in the new album, Screamworks, but nothing leaps out and says this sounds exactly like Guns n Roses- that does not happen. Brandon, good call, thanks for starting us off tonight. We’ll go to Tampa, Florida, Leah is waiting for her chance to chat with you. Hi, Leah!

02: Hi.

VV: Hello.

02: I have one question for you guys. I want to know what is your personal favorite song off the new album?

VV: Mige, what’s your fav?

MA: Um, tough call. Like you know, recently I’ve been growing very fond of Katherine Wheel. It has somehow entered my consciousness in a new level.

VV: <snorts>

MA: I didn’t understand a couple of the things that happened in the studio back then – I’m a bit slow, you know. You can say I’m border-case retarded, so you know, it takes time for me absorb some ideas and some choices we make in the studio – I discovered them, let’s say, 3 weeks ago. I really really – I felt really good. That song feels really good to me, I don’t know exactly why but … what about you, Chap?

VV: Oh, you must make a really good husband. Um, Katherine Wheel probably. Because that’s one of the songs that we – was one of the first songs that we’ve started working on for the album and it’s one of those really simple, playing around, campfire type of diddies. You just sit down and play them on the acoustic guitar but then again it’s so hard to get the dynamics right and the flow of the song right and make it really – make it work so people would want to shake their bums in clubs to it and all that stuff, and I think we’ve succeeded in that, really really well – having the melancholy vibe of what HIM is – what we’ve done in the past and then still having been – I call it uplifting melancholy, you know, it’s kind of wistful and a bit sad, but it’s still, hopefully, still makes you smile, dance, and all that.

BC: Wistful, that’s a nice word choice there. I want to play the first track off the new album, for me this kind of set the stage for everything else to come. It’s called In Venere Veritas, and there’s been information floating around the internet, and of course, don’t believe everything you see on the internet, but it’s being translated to “In Sex There is Love,” is that anywhere near close?

VV: Um, that’s – no, not really.

MA: Yea, but I like that version as well. “In Sex There is Love.”

VV: Veritas is truth, The classic saying is “In Vino Veritas,” in wine there is the truth. I started messing about, “In Venus” but then I was talking to some doctorate of Latin phraseology and we started figuring out what is the best word to use there to say “In Love there is the Truth,” but not meaning spiritual love – but not just meaning cardinal side of love either, but like, the love people share as opposed to you know, someone who wants to share it with God, and so, Venere came up, and the funny thing about that for me is that venereal disease comes from that word, so the diseases of love come from that same word as in that comes from the word Venus – in Greek mythology it would be, Aphrodite.

BC: Mmhmm, Goddess of Love.

VV: Indeed, indeed. But, in love there is the truth, that’s what it means to me and love in essence it does have both more spiritual aspects than more cardinal, animalistic aspect to it as well, so I think it’s a 50/50 combo.

BC: “Let’s fall apart together, now” HIM from the new album, Screamworks. I’m Bob Coburn and we’re with Ville and Mige and your calls. We head next to Lincoln, Nebraska to speak with Chris. Hi, Chris!

03: Hi.

VV and MA: Hey

03: Awesome album, you guys. Love you guys.

VV: Thank you.

MA: Thanks.

03: I was wondering what your album cover, what influenced it and how it came about?

BC: Speak to that please.

VV: The weird album cover. Umm, I had this sculpture of a nun saint at home that’s sitting beside by bed for the past couple of years and I just took a couple of pictures when we flew over to LA to start working on the album and since I had free time on my hands – a little spare time, I started photoshopping a couple of pictures. I love optical illusions which ended up with me adding a couple of eyes and lips onto the whole lady and then, I’m a big fan of Andy Warhol stuff and a big fan early 80’s new wavey, punk rock, the UK kind of Siouxsie and the Banshees visuals, so it was kind of a combination of all those things.

MA: Yea, don’t forget the Mercyful Fate song, Nuns Have No Fun, that’s my interpretation.

BC: <laughs>

MA: I am entitled for my own opinion.

BC: Yes, you certainly are.

MA: That is a driving force on the cover for me. Nuns have no fun unless they have an extra pair of eyes. Then they start smiling.

BC: Legitimately four eyes you can call them.

VV: Exactly, the Holy Four Eyes.

MA: Yea, true Four Eyes.

BC: Those of us who works on the show were talking about cover before the show, and someone mentioned Andy Warhol, so they’re gonna get a gold star, it does have that vibe to it. Sometime in Japan, any human deformity is considered not cool – did you have to change the cover for Japan or did they accept this?

MA: No, they should accept this. That’s not really healthy thinking, you know, but if it comes down to that – I don’t know.

VV: Then at the end of the day, the art of illusion – optical illusion is very much Japanese oriented. The biggest artists in that are from there. Shigeo Fukuda, all those people – they’re the ones who do shadow art and stuff like that so it’s highly inspired by Japanese artists so I don’t know – we can add more eyes if they want to, but we can’t take them off –

MA: No more than 16.

BC: That’s right, there has to be boundaries for everything – 16 is the limit. Chris, thank you for your call; we’ll speak with Kayla who’s in Tampa as well our previous caller, Hi Kayla!

04: Hi, I’m calling to see what’s going on after the North American tour?

MA: Um, apple tree pruning, but that’s only for 3 days.

VV: Oh okay. I think we’re going to be done –

MA: We’re going to be done in early May or something and then we have a few festivals to do.

VV: Yea I think it’s all depending on how the album’s going to be received. We’re trying to play as many European festivals as possible and do a European tour later on in the year in the Autumn time. In my head I’m calling this tour from Valentine’s till around Halloween, so hopefully we’ll get the main bog of this tour done by Halloween – that’s the idea.

BC: That’s good news, but you don’t know which European festivals yet, whether it’s Donington Download or any of those?

VV: Actually, we’re doing it like… now.

MA: Not like, exactly confirmed but –

BC: Oh, it’s getting confirmed as we speak. We’re going to take a time out and we’ll be back with more of your calls in just a moment. The line that Kayla was on just cleared. This next song that takes us to time out number two is titled, Like Saint Valentine.

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BC: Welcome back to Rockline, I’m Bob Coburn with HIM and your calls. Rockline Highlight <clip on Ozzy Osbourne and Sobriety> He’s six and a half years sober, so good for him. Let’s go back to the phones with so many calls for HIM tonight, we will continue, they’re in Sydney, Australia, I’m sitting here in Burbank, California, beautiful downtown Burbank and we’ll talk to DJ who’s located in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Hi, DJ.

05: Hey! How’s it going?

VV: Hey hey hey, how are you?

05: Hey! What I’m wanting to know is how do you feel your material is being received by an older audience as opposed to a younger audience?

VV: Where do you draw the line? What’s young and what’s old?

MA: 21 in the United States, 18 in Europe.

<VV, MA, BC all laugh>

MA: Sorry, I had to be a little smarty pants.

BC: That was funny though.

MA: It was relatively funny.

BC: In terms of what, DJ, we didn’t hear you there?

05: Say, from 25 and up.

VV: That’s kinda… you know… it’s a random question in the sense that, I just actually discussed about the fact that we grew up listening to a lot of the 80’s stuff and that influenced a lot of the Screamworks album, so it’s kind of funny that there’s actually a lot of younger people who, not being around when Appetite For Destruction, came out or Dirt by Alice in Chains, or Nirvana’s Nevermind – actually that is legal to biblically know somebody who was born after Nevermind came out – that’s mind boggling.

MA: Indeed.

BC: That is a very interesting perspective.

VV: Well you know, it’s just one perspective and uh… it would actually be nice to hear from some maybe, younger people – if they’re hearing these sounds for the first time, if you know what I’m saying?

MA and BC: Yea, mmhmm.

VV: Cause you know, for me, let’s say Soundgarden, it was an interesting introduction to the realm of Black Sabbath in a way. When Badmotorfinger and when Alice in Chains, Dirt, came out that was my introduction to the 70s hard-rock stuff.

MA: Yeah.

VV: There’s always bands like that.

MA: Yeah, true.

BC: That makes perfect sense to me. I hear that Soundgarden’s re-grouping; that they’re getting back together so –

VV: We’ll have to see about that.

BC: DJ, thanks for checking in tonight, our next caller is in Norwalk, Connecticut, whose name is Monserratt, welcome to Rockline.

06: Hello guys.

VV and MA: Hello, hello.

06: Before I ask my question, really quick, I just want to say congratulations on the new album because I think it’s amazing and um, I never want to skip one single song every time I listen to it, I think it’s just perfect so, I just want to thank you for making such great music.

VV: Thanks.

MA: Thanks so much, thank you.

06: So anyway, I know that for you, Ville, that you write the lyrics and it’s mostly about how things are going on in your life but when it comes to the music, do you guys work together when it comes to writing the guitar tracks or the drum tracks, which by the way are really great in this album so how do you guys do that for each song?

VV: Um… Mige, should you give like, an overhaul of what happens? What actually happens, how does it go? I’ve never actually heard you say – what goes on?

MA: When you write lyrics you mean?

VV: No, not when I write a song. When we start working on a song, what is the vibe?

MA: It’s a tricky question because I – it’s been so long since I’ve written any songs. I think I was like, 14 and it didn’t turn out so nice. I would imagine that it – that you would just strum things with the guitar.

VV: But what happens after that, though?

MA: When you hear something that pleases you then you start beating that form –

VV: Yea yea yea, I get that but I’m not asking that. I’m asking what happens after that because I haven’t seen it from – you know, I’ve only seen it from my subjective point of view, understand?

MA: Oooh.

VV: When I got a basic idea, what happens then when I bring it to you guys? What happens?

MA: Then we start going through it.

VV: Okay.

MA: Playing it in a variety of ways, well, it’s a magical moment.

BC: That is where the magic happens.

MA: it is, when you discover something that you know, when a song settles down; When you find that actual, sweet way to play –

VV: Sweet?

MA: The Sweet spot – the G spot of the song. And that’s a pretty good feeling I have to say, if you ask me, you know, I’m not sure if I’m answering the right question here but … it doesn’t really matter.

BC: There is a bonus edition of the album available that has all the songs performed acoustically. Is that how you write the songs – is that how you begin?

VV: Yea, well a lot of the stuff – I always wanted to be like, I’m a big fan of Neil Young and- I still want to be like Neil Young but uh, I understood that that’s not physically possible so I’m just pretending to be a folky fella, so I sit down with the acoustic guitar, strum a couple of things and take it to the rest of the guys and start working on it. And since a lot of people have been asking about how songs are being born in this particular band, I thought that it’s a cool way of doing kind of a deconstructive art version of the album after we spent months and months working on the Screamworks, it was nice to go back home and destroy it in an acoustic fashion.

BC: Break it down again. Let’s play another new song from Screamworks, I love that the key of each song is listed and the beats per minute – and this has the fastest beats per minute of any of the songs on the album, this is Ode to Solitude.

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BC: Ode to Solitude at a hundred and seventy – and I can’t quite read either 5 or 6 beats per minute for ya there on Rockline. I just love that’s on there.

MA: It comes in handy.

BC: Yes, it certainly does. We’re with HIM and of course, your calls, and we head to Little Rock, Arkansas to speak with Donna. Welcome to Rockline!

07: Hello, Ville and Mige.

VV and MA: Hello.

07: Hello. This question is for Ville. The topic of this question is the cause of much speculation amongst your fans and uh, we all know it must be huge, larger than the average man’s, so, could you please tell us what is your IQ?

VV: IQ

MA: IQ?

VV: Uh, I’ve never believed that a person’s intellect can be measured in mathematical ways. So, uh, as a rock & roller, I’d have to say 666 but that’s a boring answer too. Nah, I don’t believe because I’ve met people with really – you know, for men, with really high IQ’s and are still not very well functioning individuals in society with very little sense of humor, and very little creativity – I’m not saying that all of those people are like that but I’m still staying that – you know, I’m just trying to figure out a way to skip the question, that’s all.

MA: Um, yea. It’s a strange way to measure intellect. Because my IQ is smaller than my shoe number, so I’m really bad at those measure things.

BC: Plus, I don’t think you can measure common sense and that really comes into the equation and I have to say for our caller, Donna, I really thought you were trying to go somewhere else with that question.

MA: Yea with the large … yea.

BC: Yes, indeed.

MA: Yes, how did you manage to get so large, Mige?

BC: We’re heading North Carolina-bound to Morganton and we will speak to Vladimir. Welcome to Rockline, Vladimir.

08: Hello. How are you guys?

ALL: Hello.

08: I’m from Russia, originally.

MA: Oh cool.

08: I love your music.

VV: Thank you.

08: I think it’s really unique and creative.

VV: Spasiba

08: Pazhalusta. My question is for you is, what song off Dark Light was hardest to write? Thank you much.

VV: Hmmm.

MA: It’s been a while.

VV: It’s been a while; it’s been a couple of years since we worked on that one. Um, I think that there’s always little bits and moments in every song that makes it hard to write – there isn’t one single song that would be harder than the rest. I think that’s the whole conception of an album that makes it tough to get the couple of songs going than figuring out the whole sound of the album. It’s always painful but in a very pleasurable way so – can you even remember that far? I can’t.

MA: I’m afraid I can’t either. Was there a difficult child in that family?

VV: No, not really.

MA: Not that I remember.

VV: All the children became very difficult when they grew up –

MA: They all had very bad skin.

<All laugh>

BC: Some of them did very good at radio though, including this one on Rockline. [Rip Out the Wings of a Butterfly plays] For your soul, that is HIM on Rockline. I am Bob Coburn, we’re with Ville and Mige, and your calls. Dying Song takes us to the next time out and we’ll have more of your calls coming up.

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BC: Welcome back, HIM is our guest on Rockline tonight, blowing our phones out. We’re back live with HIM – with Ville and Mige and your calls. Up next is Noah from Dallas, Texas. Hi, Noah.

09: Hi. It’s nice to phone-meet you.

VV and MA: Hey! Nice to meet you.

09: I saw your Dallas concert in 2007 at the Palladium, I think you caught me stretching.

MA: Ooooh, did you now?

09: Yea, I really needed that stretch and my apologies for that, I waited till your back was turned.

MA: <laughs> You are forgiven.

09: At that time, I really needed that stretch.

BC: You have been forgiven; what would you like to ask the gentlemen tonight?

09: I would like to know if Ville was able to get the place by the lake that he had mentioned in an earlier video that I saw – it’s always nice to know when a band first starts out, wants something, and you find out if they got what they wanted or not.

MA: Well, I never got a place at the lake, but I got a really nice application on the iPhone. That’s pretty cool.

<All laugh>

MA: $1.79. You know, there’s always way to slither around if you don’t get what you want, another opportunity always presents itself. Sorry, I jumped into your question.

VV: Yeah, and what a great way of doing so, talking about apps. Maybe you can a “place by the lake” app for like 2 bucks or something.

MA: Yea, maybe.

VV: No, no. I haven’t had the opportunity – well, what would I do with a place near a lake? I can’t swim – I don’t like lakes that much, I don’t know what I was – I must’ve been insane …

MA: Temporary insanity, so that’s your plea? <laughs>

VV: Yes, that’s my plea, temporary insanity, maybe 2 months community work, is that okay with you, Noah?

MA: Will that do?

<All laugh>

BC: We’ll get you a bright orange vest and prop a rearview mirror on you. Thanks for calling. We’re going to welcome John now who’s from Allentown, Pennsylvania. Hi.

10: Hyvää iltaa Ville un Mige!

VV: Hei hei hei hei!

10: Sorry that was my poor attempt at Finnish, sorry about that.

MA: It was awesome. It was much better than mine.

10: I’m getting married this December and I convinced my fiancé to go with me to Helsinki, and the main reason I’m going is to see you guys at your New Years Eve show. Will you be playing it this year?

MA: Hmm, well we’ve been doing that for … how many years?

VV: 11.

MA: 11 or 13, depending on what warp you’re in. It’s been a tradition so, you never know.

VV: But you still didn’t say if we’re going to do it or not.

MA: Because I don’t know what warp I’m in. But I like it, it’s a really nice tradition.

VV: To the lovely couple, if they’re speculating on flying over, you know, over there to Scandinavia and hang out – well, we have to say something. Will we be able to supply the soundtrack to their romance?

BC: For their honeymoon, yes?

VV: Mige?

MA: I would like it! But, I wouldn’t book tickets.

<all laugh>

MA: I’m not going to take responsibility for – you know, I’m not going to pay for your ticket if we don’t do it or something. You’re trying to drive me into a corner here, I’m dangerous when I’m cornered!

<All laugh>

BC: John, you might want to reconsider that marriage while you’re at it too.

MA: Yea, yea yea! While you’re at it – you know, I can’t recommend that either.

BC: That’s the perfect set up for Love, The Hardest Way. . . . That was just outstanding, another great song off of Screamworks, the brand new album by HIM, the entire title of the album is Screamworks: Love in Theory and Practice Chapters 1-13, and you get all 13 chapters when you buy the CD. I should mention the band’s website too, heartagram.com if you want to go check that out. Tanya in Deming, New Mexico is waiting her turn and now you’re on the air with us. Hi, Tanya.

11: Hey!

VV: Hey!

11: I love you guys and you’re really awesome. I can’t wait to see you in Vegas this year, I’m going to see you.

VV: Oh, nice, it’s going to be a blast.

11: Oh yea. I was just wondering what we can expect to see on your set-list for this tour.

VV: Do you have any ideas or wishes?

MA: Yea.

VV: We’re actually having a hard time because this is our 7th album already and it seems that different kinds of people like different kinds of stuff that we’ve done, and obviously we want to entertain people as opposed to be all egocentric musicians playing what we want to play. So please, let us know as well. I think what we’re trying to do is to just create a good rocking fast-pace combo of everything we’ve done in the past – you know, bit and bobs of every album, that’s the plan but it’s easier said than done.

MA: Yea, but the good thing in Vegas is there’s these oxygen bars, so if you run out of juice you can always go there and refuel – get your mojo going.

BC: Yea, get tanked up again.

MA: Tanked up real good.

BC: Absolutely. Tanya, do you have a favorite song off the new album or song from the past that would absolutely just want to hear?

11: My favorite song to hear would be Heartache Every Moment because I just love that song, I think it’s great.

BC: Well there you go. I think everyone has their own favorite.

VV: What are we going to do with that one?

MA: We can play that, no problem.

VV: Oh cool!

MA: We don’t play anything from the Deep Shadows album anymore. It is a kind of shame, it’s an underestimated album, I think. It was really complex, hard to approach.

BC: Take it under advisement. Take it for when you’re in Las Vegas.

MA: It is taken.

BC: Scared to Death, this is the new song we’re going to play now from the new album, Screamworks by HIM. . . . Ville and Mige are our guests on Rockline, HIM, the brand new album is Screamworks and we just listened to Scared to Death, we have to take a brief time out then we’ll come back with more of your calls in a moment.

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BC: It’s Rockline, and we’re back with HIM, I’m Bob Coburn and we’re taking your calls. We’ll take a Canadian call now from Masa-King, Manitoba and we welcome Kaley, did I come even close to the pronunciation there, Kaley?

12: Uh, it’s Masa-king Manitoba.

BC: Okay, cool! Welcome to the show.

12: Thank you. I just wanted to tell you guys hi and everything –

VV: Hey, hey.

12: … and I absolutely love the new album like, it is so amazing.

VV: Ooh, thank you.

MA: Thank you. Thank you.

12: Oh, you are very welcome. I have 2 questions for you guys, I was wondering what is the sweetest or kindest thing a fan has ever done and also, are you guys excited about coming back to Canada?

MA: I think the easy one is the coming back to Canada.

VV: Yea, we’re going to be there in a couple of weeks.

MA: Yea, a couple of weeks, like, late March…

VV: When does the tour start?

MA: I think it starts in late March, and in April we’re coming to – I can’t remember the exact dates, but we’re playing Montreal…

VV: We’re playing tons of gigs.

MA: Tons of gigs, like Vancouver, but maybe since it’s such a big country we’re not near Manitoba, I think.

VV: Oh…
BC: She can go to Heartagram.com and it should be posted.

VV: Oh yea, yea, I think that might be the easiest way, you know. I’m not really good with dates.

MA: Yea, it’s numbers you know.

BC: The sweetest thing a fan has done, is that a question you can answer?

VV: Um, somebody from – I can’t remember her name, but she made me a quilt and that was really sweet because I’ve been sleeping on that quilt ever since, I love quilts.

MA: That is sweet.

BC: That is cool!

VV: It’s really – we’ve been uh, there’s been a couple of – it’s lovely when people do stuff with their hands.

BC: Mmhmm.

VV: I’m not trying to sound dirty at all.

BC: No, no, we’re not taking it that way.

VV: I didn’t. Haha.

BC: Quilts can be handed down, it can be multi-generational, you know.

VV: Not after I’ve been sleeping in them.

<all laugh>

BC: I was waiting for something. <laughs>

MA: oh yea... to be said. <laughs>

BC: Don’t get serious on them, Bob.

MA: Street cred, you know you have to maintain it.

BC: Absolutely. Alright, let’s move on, shall we? We’re going to do another song from Sque – uh Screamworks from HIM, and this is Disarm Me (with your loneliness) on Rockline . . . Ville and Mige from HIM joining us on Rockline. That’s a great scream by the way, that’s a really great screams and I love the counter-balance with the soft melody, it sounds really good.

VV: Yea, we were trying to get that Aerosmith meeting up with Mazzy Star kind of vibe.

BC: Oh, there you go. I would have had never thought of that and I can understand it now. We have a call from Montreal, the person’s name is Edayne, is that correct?

13: Yes, it’s Edayne, thank you. First of all, I’d just really like to congratulate you on Screamworks, Ville, it’s absolutely beautiful –

VV: Oooh, thank you.

13: You dismantle me with your art, it’s gorgeous. So, thank you.

VV: Thank you, thank you.

13: I guess I’d just like to ask, Screamworks to me is a very emotional masterpiece, how do you follow up on an album like that?

VV: Um, we don’t. We call it a swan song, and we hope it does well and we’ll have the opportunity of calling it quits and me getting a place near the lake and just weeping myself to sleep, reading Steinbeck.

BC: With your quilt.

MA: He’s temporary insane, again. I’m closing the books with him in Sydney, Australia. Help me. Help me!

BC: I would imagine all your focus would be on this album and you have no idea what would be coming next.

VV: I think it happens organically. It happens with all the touring and it happens with seeing how people react to the new music and you grow up, meet new people, you see new films, you read new books; everything influences what you do and you always feel kind of funny after touring and after an album. It feels like there’s nothing you can come up with, but all of a sudden, there’s that one first melody and off we go again.

BC: I would think it would be scary to walk into a studio with nothing to begin with and you’re kind like, “oh where do I begin?”

VV: It would be the true Aerosmith fashion.

BC: <Laughs>

VV: That’s how it was done back in the 80s, wasn’t it?

MA: And Santa’s little helpers around to guide you through it.

VV: A medicinal cabinet full of classics will follow.

BC: They had no idea what was going on around them.

<all laugh>

MA: Less staged in a way. It comes at the high-cost, kind of.

BC: Yes, it certainly does. Let’s head towards Milwaukee, Wisconsin and speak with Justin. Hi, Justin.

14: Hi guy.

MA: Hello, hello.

VV: Hey, what’s going on?

14: Alright, I just want to say first that, Ville, your voice is beautiful, and my 6 month old daughter loves to hear it.

VV: Which parts? The screams or…

14: The calming parts, I would assume. The question I have is, are there any songs that you would never play live, and why?

VV: Umm… never play live and why.

MA: Hmm…

VV: Obviously HIM songs

<all laugh>

MA: Yea yea yea, I don’t think I can do –

VV: We would speculate that we would not do Maneater.

MA: Yes, why not?

VV: Um, several times we’ve said we’re never going to play this or that song and after maybe a few months, or a few years, we might take it into a set. It’s funny, and old song can all of a sudden be, kind of change its appearance and vibe in music so, never say never.

BC: What songs have you chosen to play live from the new album so far?

VV: We’ve rehearsed nearly everything, I guess.

MA: Yea, I think we’ve got 7 or 8 that we are ready to play, but so far we’ve played about 6 of them.

VV: Something like that, yea. Well you know, the tour is just beginning so we’ll see how – we’ve got many, what like, 35 songs we’re ready to play whenever, but that would take about 4 hours and without the oxygen tank from Vegas, we can’t pull it off, so we have to play 17 tracks every night.

MA: But then again the virginal birth thing, I’m obsessed with that…

BC: Well, as long as you guys can do a version of Abacab by Genesis for me, I’ll be happy, just toss that in.

<all laugh>

VV: No problem.

MA: But I can’t dance and I can’t do the funny walks, there’s so many options.
BC: That’s funny. Let’s do another new one from Screamworks. I love the title of this song and the sentiment as well, Shatter Me With Hope . . . what an outstanding album, Shatter Me With Hope is the name of that selection, we’re with HIM. We’re about done, come back with us on the other side, will ya?

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BC: Welcome back, what a phenomenal night, thanks for listening everybody and for calling in and to our affiliate radio stations, I want to thank Cheryl Valentine, Gene Noel, everyone at Reprise, also Jim Morland, and Bianca Figgeroa, Zig-Zag Lane in Sydney, and hopefully they’ve taken great care of you gentlemen tonight, you certainly deserve it.

MA: They sure have.

VV: Yes.

BC: Congratulations on the album, it’s absolutely outstanding as I have said at the beginning of the show, I think it’s your best album yet, I think that it’s new territory for you – I think you’ve punctured a veil, so to speak – you’ve moved into a new arena.

VV: We punctured something, that’s for sure.

BC: Punctured something, sure. Phsssttt – the sound of air being let go.

<all laugh>

MA: it stinks.

VV and BC: <laughs>

BC: I hope you had as much fun as I did, guys. Thanks for coming in.

VV: Thanks for having us.

BC: I think we’ll be ending on that. We’ll be seeing you.

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