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Soundwave Podcast 118ª Emissão Underg Internacional
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Soundwave Podcast 118ª Emissão Underg Internacional
Kyyria - Jesus Döner
One of the best finnish bands that have ever existed. And yes, this is fucking pre-HIM Gas Lipstick there. Later the singer Ville Tuomi changed to the band Suburban Tribe, where pre-HIM Emerson Burton used to play. This is what we call finnish music mafia.
Today: 12th July
1997
H.I.M.
LIVE SHOW: Ilosaarirock, Joensuu, Finland
Gas Lipstick's band Kyyria also play the Festival
2007
Ilta-Sanomat 12.7.2007
HIM’s manager Seppo Vesterinen admits: the warm up thing of Metallica was a joke HIM’s manager Seppo Vesterinen tells that HIM’s ending as the warm up band for Metallica has started from a joke. "It was just a flap. We suggest that HIM would perform in Finland at Olympia Stadion. The Metallica crew answered that they could do even 4 more gigs." Ville Valo’s band has now performed twice with Metallica, in London and in Oslo. The legendary Wembley Stadium gig saw them on receiving end of booing crowd. Vesterinen admits that the public wasn’t that excited about the Finnish band. "We expected worst. In England it is the tradition, that they “throw stones” on the band down from the stage, when the music doesn’t please.
Ville valo commented on the Wembley gig right after the performance. "All went right for the band, but some little technical problems disturbed the whole thing;" Ville Valo explains his feelings from Wembley a couple of minutes after HIM’s performance. The organizer announced in the spring that 65’000 tickets had been sold. HIM didn’t have this number of people watching them. "40’000 people came to watch us perform. The rest were wherever they were. Maybe they didn’t arrive yet or maybe they were buying beers. But in all 40 minutes of the gig I didn’t get the time to count the exact number of the present people", laughs Valo.
He admitted that Wembley wouldn’t be on its knees in front of HIM. "The reception was pretty good. At least no bottles were thrown at our heads. And yeah, during performing and after it someone even applauds. Hopefully not because we were finally finishing our part", jokes Valo.
The warm up band has the reason to be humble. "We are thankful that we got the chance to be the warm up band for Metallica. The warm up band shouldn’t be expecting too much -the main thing is that we came to see Metallica performing", says the HIM front man.
Vesterinen remains that HIM is not so heavy-heavy that Metallica represents. -These are Metallica gigs and the band’s fans are of course are very fanatic. Favorite band is for English people as important as football. The band Cult has also tasted HIM’s fate when they were the warm up band for Metallica in 1993. Then, even in Finland tomatos were thrown.
Did Metallica themselves wish to have HIM as their warm up band? The managers of the band did have different warm up band suggestions. The band itself had the last word. We say that HIM paid Metallica to get as their warm up band. The main band pays the warm up band. Sometimes in 80’s it was general that little bands pay to get with the bigger bands but yeah Metallica pays HIM. HIM have never been a warm up band for such a big band before.
Why a strategy change? "The boys did the album and hadn't arranged any gigs this time. At the end of July HIM will go to on a US tour where gig places would be 20’000-40’000. HIM had with Metallica a tour at big venues. HIM had laundries from Norway too Ville Valo and HIM didn’t have any better reception in Norway than in England. The Norwegian newspaper DagBladet considered HIM to be a good choice for being the warm up band for Metallica just because after the Finnish band’s performing the star-band of the night can look and sound nothing but good. Metallica did make a wise decision to let HIM get the stage. The Finnish quintet have made lose collectively even the last wish of life with apathetic and uncharismatic dark rock, says the newspaper.
Before HIM, the Norwegian metal band Turbonegro was on stage. According the newspapers, the bands performed a boring festive feeling set. After deplorable performances nothing can go wrong.