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You decided to make a solo career. Was this a hard decision? Was it hard to leave the band?
I've dreamed of it for a long time and now there came a gap, this was the only sensible gap to do this, here I go.
We've made a full album of songs in the studio
and it'll hit the stores next month, we've thrown 3 gigs and they were sold out.
What kind of songs are there on the album? Which style?
It's an album that leans on traditions, I've found an insanely good band around me in this and it's...
I get to make the musical perversions and dreams that I've gained during this trip true freely,
I don't know, this is a natural continuum for the fact that I've made songs in Finnish to other artists
and now I perform my own songs myself. It's cool.
Does the release of the album make you feel nervous?
Well, I haven't even thought about the whole thing. I've been nervous about the gigs.
On Wednesday, we threw a gig in Snellman Hall in Kokkola
and two gigs in Tampere-talo yesterday and the day before yesterday.
Nobody told me anything about the gig in Kokkola in advance
and then we were there and the organizer let us know that the place is packed,
then my palms started sweating and I was like ''Oh hell, this is happening for real now!"
Sometimes you have to really...like...
shake yourself and think about if it's really happening, apparently it is.Here I go.
And no, I don't think about the album. We've managed to record...
great songs and great music, that's what matters the most.
Hopefully people will buy the album, so we'll get to play more gigs and get some gas for the tourbus.
The first gigs have been sold out. Were you surprised by the popularity?
Yeah, I was but it feels cool to see all kinds of people. It's cool.
The Vain elämää show was quite a sensation last autumn.
Can its effect still be seen? Do you still notice that it has affected a lot?
Yeah, it has for sure. It has brought a brand new leading wind to the...
I got to sing in Finnish in that show and it was a fine start for this upcoming solo album.
People probably found my doing and music and understood that there's more than only Negative.
It encouraged me to go more bravely towards the solo thing that has smoldered for three years already
The songs of this album have been born during the last three years gradually and in peace.
The upcoming album tastes like life. What you asked about it...
Will people hear the songs familiar from the Vain elämää show in your gigs?
Of course. Why not, last night, too... See, the most challenging part in this is the fact that
we play songs that people have never heard, they are confused like snowmen.
And then, it's a very challenging situation to go to and it brings some extra shivering to the thing.
But on the other hand it's good, as people don't notice if we sing or play a bit wrong.
Well, are you planning to release several solo albums or will this possibly be the only one?
I don't like to plan my life that much anymore,
I try to live in this moment and enjoy it, breathing in and out is the greatest thing right now.
I don't make 5-years-covering plans to myself anymore,
I probably used to but now I've understood the evanescence of all this and that I should aim to be more in this moment
and not to only gaze to the future all the time. That's what it's all about.
That's what it's all about.
What are you expecting from the upcoming gig summer?
I guess there'll be some hot days in our tourbus. We've been booked more than 50 gigs
there are more coming all the time. It will be a nice extended field trip.