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In occasione del Pier Pressure Festival, Julia Ehrling e David Funseth, dello Street Team ufficiale svedese, hanno avuto l'opportunità di intervistare Linde e Migè.



Interview with Mige and Linde 20/6 2010.

Do you have any favorite song to play live?
L: Well, I enjoy playing “Like saint valentine”
M: I’ve kinda grown fond of Disarm me. I do awesome backing vocals there as well so.

Ville writes for HIM and you, Linde have Daniel Lioneye but we are wondering if you, Mige, write any music?
M: Yeah I started writing actually, it's kinda like Mortiis.I can't really describe it but when we were recording Screamworks in America we were listening to Daniel Lioneye while having a barbecue and it became an inspiration almost on a religious level. So we try to recapture some of those emotions too.
L: And he also writes some lyrics for Daniel Lioneye.
M: Oh yeah, I’d rather call it poetry.
Are you going to do a tour with Daniel Lioneye?
L: Yeah. I don’t know when yet and I don’t want to talk too much about it but there’s going to be a tour.

Do you have any special rituals that you go through before a gig?
L: Yeah, I pee in a small cup.
M: Yeah it’s disgusting you know.
L: It’s for real, I have too pee right before we go on stage.
And what about you mige?
M: Hehe, it’s kind of contagious you know. But I really despise that habit. I think its fucking grouse you know, He relieves himself and leaves the cups hanging around, but then sometimes I even borrow his cup.
So you still ge nervous before a gig ?
M: I guess so. There is no other way of explaining that kind of retardry.

What’s your plan for the fall?
M: Uhm, I think we are going to take it pretty easy, you know. We haven’t made any plans but plans will be made for us.

What about Helldone?
M: Well, it’s kind of predictable to do it so maybe this year we’ll do the unpredictable. But you never know. It’s a nice tradition.

Do you have a special tour memory?
L: No, nothing comes to mind.
M: Well it was really an inspiration when you had that imaginary friend a long time ago.
L: Oh yeah I can’t remember anything of that.
M: It’s actually the topic of one Daniel Lioneye song. You know, he was having a discussion with his imaginary friend who was a German. He was denying something; he kept saying “Ich Nicht” over and over again. It was scary.
Do you know German?
L: No, It really was scary.
M: He really didn’t want to be involved in whatever that imaginary friend was taking about.

What is your favorit HIM song ?
L: Hmm, I’m going to say “Borellus”.
M: I was really blown away by “Gone with the Sin” when I heard it the first time.

What do think all Swedish people so know how to say in Finnish?
M: I’ve always been a fan of the word “kuttu”.
What does it mean?
M: It’s the area between you genitals and your rectal area. You know that funny like scrumpy area people never mention.

Linde, how long are you planning on getting your dreadlocks?
L: I don’t know, I think I’m going to save them until my grave or something. You know it’s kind of a drag to live with them but I still can’t imagine cutting them off.

Has Ville been annoying since he quit smoking?
M: No more than usual I think.
L: Well, maybe in Australia.
It’s going good?
M: Yeah actually nobody in the band smokes anymore.

Is it different to tour in America then Europe?
L: It is yeah, mainly because of the distances.

Are you going to dress up and do a Halloween gig?
M: I think I’ll try to have my own personal Halloween in the countryside. I have some garden tools as well, I don’t need a chainsaw to make a good Halloween. We did a Halloween gig a couple of years ago. It was pretty epic.

What do you think of Sweden? Did you fly in today?
L: Yes so we haven’t had time to check out Gothenburg, but I like Sweden though. M: I’ve driven down the E4 a few times. That’s pretty epic. You want to kill yourself at Jonkoping. It’s the middle of the E4 and that’s the place where you get really suicidal.

Now we have a couple of fast “This or that” questions.
Karhu och Koff?
L: Koff
M: I’ll say Karhu because the logo resembles our first keyboard player Antto Melasniemi when he gets mad. You could almost drink him.

Festival or Club gig?
M, L: Club gig.

Stockholm or Gothenburg?
M, L: Stockholm

Sweden or Norway?
L: I’ve only been to Norway ones so i have to go with Sweden.
M: Since Mortiis is from Norway I can’t say Sweden.

Live or Studio?
L: Studio.
M. I’m going to say both.
Sean or Pasi?
M: Oh, it’s a sexual question?
It’s up to you
L: I’ll say Pasi.
M: Uhm it really depends on that sexual- thing. If I could scientifically study him it would be Sean. If it’s sexual I’ll say Pasi.

By: Julia Ehrling and David Funseth

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