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Ari Hursti: It’s 8:38. That was a weird click-smack kind of sound.
Minna Kuukka: Yes, yes. We’re here sitting in the studio, the three of us, and there’s an empty chair in the middle.
Minna laughs.
Ari: Kuukka, Hursti, Laitinen and… and.. and…
Aku Laitinen: But not for long. We’re going to have a guest from Poets Of The Fall.
Ari: Yeah, Marko. But not…
Minna: So, Marko is in the house, that’s not the problem. But we have a couple of different doors from where you can come in and apparently Kristofer is at one door and Marko is at the other and they’re trying to find each other. And perhaps someone is already in the elevator. Yeah, but…

Aku: We could have some awkward conversation here, like we have to come up with anything.
Minna: We could.
Ari: Or then we could be all silent.
Minna: We have a message here for the specialty man Laitinen here…
Ari: Ah, no?
Minna: Besides the fact that Laitinen is soooo cute…
Aku: Oh! Hit and sunk, thank you!
Minna: … then referring to…
Aku: Just leave it at that.
Ari: He’s feeling good now.
Laughter.

Minna: Referring to what you previously said, before the 8 o’clock news, when you gave advice in case of a mishap on the road. You said if the car engine stops, just leave it running so you won’t get cold. And we got to bully you about it a little. So the message goes that if the specialty man Laitinen can leave his car running after the engine stops, is he related to Chuck Norris.

Ari: Was this a question or…
Aku: I really can’t reveal this. Cos I’d have to kill anyone who heard, after telling. But yes, I’m very closely related to Chuck Norris. And let’s just say that the only reason different animal species exist in this world is because Chuck and I are letting them live.
Laughter.
Aku: Nah, I’m not related. It’s great that a myth like this is circling around. Just kick more power into it if it indeed exists.

Minna: Do you have the same kind of rug as Chuck has?
Aku: No, that’s what I’m missing. I’m missing that fine round house kick and the rug. By the way, did you know that hiding behind his beard, Chuck has a third fist?
Laughter.
Aku: I don’t have a beard, I can’t keep it in hiding.

Ari: But now, in the studio!
Minna: For once I’m going to have to say: Thank God our guest is here!
Ari: Yes!
Minna: Cos our stories started going to the kind of state, that…
Aku: Dispare.
Ari: You saved our live transmission, welcome!
Minna: Yes.
Marko: Oh, thank you, thank you.
Minna: Marko, good morning!
Marko: Good morning.
Ari: Let’s shake hands.
Marko: I’ll shake hands, even from this far away. There you go. Good morning to each class and caste, for everyone out there in the freezing weather and I hope you were able to tune in just in time. Getting here on time was such a close call for me. But I’m here on the exact right minute.

Minna: Did you arrive by car?
Marko: I had a really brilliant… I’m sure that taxi driver was from some Aladdin’s lamp.
Laughter.
Marko: I said I have to be there at 8:30 exactly, because the live transmission starts at 8:40 and he was like it’s going to be alright, I have a little trick, we can turn from the hot dog kiosk to the opposite traffic lane and by 8:30 we can be in Timbuktu if you want.
Ari: Like my aunt lives around the corner, let’s stop by there.

Minna: Well, let’s get to the point then. A song named Cradled in Love has been playing in our frequency as well for about a week now.
Marko: Yeap.
Minna: And it’s the first single from Poets Of The Fall’s upcoming album. So when is the whole album coming out?
Marko: The album is coming out in March. And from what I’ve gathered, if everything goes well and the tight schedule we have keeps, if we can make it in time from the hot dog kiosk, the blast should happen on the 21st.
Minna: Well then. Great, great.

Ari: Can you shed some light on the album, if you can? What kind of material is there going to be, in general?
Marko: Eh, well, there’s going to be familiar Poets, some more experimental Poets and the same kinds of fun songs as Cradled in Love and also some faster paced music that will make you go out of breath.
Ari: Mmmh. Good.
Marko: The album is called Temple of Thought.
Minna: That’s… Temple of Thought: A fine name, and a fine song too. I almost sank into nirvana listening to it [Cradled in Love] on my way home in the car. I almost had to take a look around where I was when the song ended.
Marko laughs.

Minna: And I checked out some fan reactions from your website, and someone had written like “Oh, how nice that it was somehow different, but still there was some familiar Poets Of The Fall in it”.
Marko: Yeah, yeah.
Minna: So if that has been the plan, then it’s worked out well.
Marko: Yes, yes it looks like it came together just perfectly. There was a lot of nervousness about how it’s going to be received.

Minna: Anyway, your website and your discussion forum is a quick and easy way to do an arm chair trip around the world.
Marko laughs.
Minna: Because there are different sections for different countries. Sections. Sections.
Ari: What was it?
Marko: What? Sex… what?
Minna: Like, this is the place for Germans, for fans who speak German and that is… I mean, there were so many different countries and people there.
Marko: Yeah.
Minna: It’s quite dizzying. Just think about it.

Ari: This Cradled in Love, then. A lot of other musicians and music business people and rockers have said that it’s been a while since a world class ballad such as this one has emerged.
Marko: Whoa, whoa.
Aku: Yeah, I’ve bumped into the same comments quite often.
Ari: What does it take, in your opinion?
Marko: What does it take?

Ari: Have you just worked without thinking about it that much, or… is it about some grandiose sound or where does it come from?
Marko: It’s really difficult to say. But I guess it’s about having three guys work on a song, and then everyone pours in their own thing and their feelings. One does something that inspires the other and that inspires back and it turns into a spool of energy and in the end a blast like this comes out. It takes a lot of pain of the soul and tearing to create something like this. So for once all of the banging your head against a wall has led to something great.
Ari: Professional victory.
Marko: Yes.

Minna: Has this happened in between of everything else? Like you’ve been touring and working on the new album.
Marko: Yes, that’s how it works for us usually, somehow.
Minna: And do I understand correctly, that your tour will continue in March?
Marko: Yes, it continues from March onwards, but of course with the new album. Because it’s kind of a… There were Signs of Life, Carnival of Rust and now Temple of Thought, the album to finish the trilogy. Hopefully there will be something special with that.
Minna: Because you’ve been touring under Alchemy title now…
Marko: We started with Alchemy, yes, and we’ll see what will come to succeed Revolution Roulette and Twilight Theater, if anything. Something will come, hopefully.

Minna: You have upcoming gigs in March, there’s St. Petersburg and Moscow in Russia and there’s Ukraine.
Marko: Ukraine, yes. And I think some Estonia and Latvia, Lithuania… and what else? Where are we? Finland.
Minna: So what is the fan base like over there? And are the gig situations much different from our Tavastia, for example?
Marko: It depends on the place and the energy you can whip up but our gigs abroad are starting to get quite big already. Like one venue can hold several thousands of people.
Minna: Excactly.
Marko: Interesting choice of words, by the way.
Laughter.
Marko: Yeah. But it can be anything from 3000 to 5000 people in Russia and Ukraine for example. And some other countries have places pretty much like Tavastia and India has really huge arenas. It’s incomprehensible. But it’s really great.

Minna: Do they treat you like… uuuh, mega world stars? Do you have limousine rides from one place to another and…
Marko: Yeah.
Minna: And insane penthouse suites at the hotels and…
Marko: We usually stay at rather reasonable, nice hotels. Now and then we’ve had suites where you just walk from room to room and wonder how you’re going to find use for all this space.
Ari: You need to take a snack with you when you go from room to room.
Marko: Like I’m going to put my Pepsodent [toothpaste brand] over there and I’ll take my spare underwear to that room and I’ll put my gig wear to this 70-square-meter entrance hall. We’ve had that, but usually it’s just a decent basic kind of room.

Ari: When you get a suite like that… Does it ever cross your mind that you ought to behave accordingly, as an artist? Like, when I’m given a situation like that, I’m going to take it.
Marko: It does cross your mind. But if I take advantage of it is another story. We do have parties sometimes. But usually it goes to… if we hang out after the concert it’s just crazy laughing until the morning.
Minna: Is it just your core crew, or do you invite some local people?
Marko: It’s usually that. And maybe some people from the organizers. But a lot of times during the tour… People, I’m going to tell the truth now. So during a day we may have only about two hours for ourselves.
Hosts: Mmmh.

Marko: And we usually spend that time sleeping.
Minna: This is the kind of stuff one would never want to hear. One would like to think that it’s all like… someone’s feeding you grapes while you lie on a divan at the suite or something until you’re taken to…
Marko: I can tell you more about that when we go off air. I can tell you all the stories involving grapes.
Minna: Yesss!
Ari: So it’s not all about the kind of life Mötley Crue used to live?
Marko: No… I think if it was still the 80’s, then it might be a little more like that, but it’s not like that these days. All things evolve in some respect, things change and it’s pretty much all work and so.

Ari: How disciplined is the profession of a musician, during the tour? Is it a free rock ‘n’ roll life or does it go with a purely professional attitude?
Marko: You have to go with a professional attitude, there are a lot of things from promotion to concerts and you have to do it well and stay sharp. And at the same time you get really tired, you’re flying around and you’re awake at the weirdest hours and you meet a lot of people. You have to have a certain kind of work ethic there. But sometimes it’s like… like we’re professionals of waiting around. It feels like we’re always in a hurry to wait around.
Minna: Military service vibe!

Marko: It’s pretty much like in the army, yes. You learn to be very patient. But if you know how to let loose and take it easy, you do get some time for yourself in a way. But quite often it’s just going from one city to the next and you don’t really get to see anything of those cities. It’s a really good day if we’re arriving at Hamburg, for example, in the morning and you have a chance to go walking around the town until noon from when you wake up around 9-10 am feeling confused. And you get to walk around for a couple of hours. And then we have the sound check and after that, interviews. And we meet up with some fans and then it’s time to eat something and then you wonder what to do with the rest of the day. And then we start preparing for the gig and at some point you get to take a nap or something. And at night we have a crazy cuckoo party. And the next morning you’re all confused, like “oh, we’re in Berlin”. And the same thing continues.
Ari: And it sounds like it’s work.

Minna: But Marko has the same kind of speaking voice as his singing voice is.
Marko: Mmm.
Minna: And I could just close my eyes and slowly tilt to the side.
Laughter.
Ari: And fall over with a knock on the floor.
Marko [in a relaxation tape kind of deep voice]: If you at home have a moment to spare, please do close your eyes now and if you haven’t closed them yet or if you have, do close them again. And we’ll lull ourselves into the mood of the next song.

Radio spoof.
Cradled in Love.
Commercials.
Radio spoof.

Ari: It’s 5 to 9 am, the news coming up at 9 am and after that Sari and Minna O. in the studio.
Minna: Yes, we just heard the fine Cradled of Love by Poets Of The Fall. And it’s from the new upcoming album that’s coming out in March. Temple of Thought is the name of the album. Thanks a lot Marko for visiting us.
Marko: Thanks, it was a lot of fun and everyone have a fun day with some coffee and cinnamon rolls.
Minna: We gave him some coffee and cinnamon rolls just now, and a moment of breath before a photo shoot for promo pictures. It’ll be good to go to that setting with some crumbs at the side of your mouth.
Marko: That’s how life smiles at you.
Minna: Good! We’ll continue tomorrow. Bye!

- Originally aired on The Voice, 12/01/24 with a little interview before-hand:

Transcription available thanks to Dark Side of Light (thank you!):

Radio spoof: Voice First Reaction. Let us know your opinion.
Interviewer: This afternoon on First Reaction we have Poets Of The Fall, Cradled In Love. I’m holding the single in my hand and I have Marko at the other end of the line. Hello.
Marko: Hey.
Interviewer: How’s it going?
Marko: Pretty good. I’m in the middle of adjusting all kinds of things but it’s going pretty good, it’s been a lovely day today, the weather’s fine.

Interviewer: New Poets on the radio in just a moment and it’s surely something that many people have looked forward to for quite a while now.
Marko: We’ve looked forward to it too, after working on it so religiously. That’s the first blast there and I have to say it feels really good.

Interviewer: So tell me, why has it taken you so long to make some new music.
Marko: Well… I think we had a time where we wanted to think about what, how and who with and stuff like that. Sometimes you just have to live a little in between, so you get new themes as a musician and new ideas, inspirations and we’ve gotten those during this time and a lot of things have happened in everyone’s personal lives, so there’s been something to write about.
Interviewer: So what’s going on in Marko’s life? I’ll throw a profound question at you.
Marko: What’s going on in Marko’s life… new winds, I hope. Let’s put it like that.

Interviewer: How is it with… when you think about the musical aspect, has Poets Of The Fall changed during the hiatus?
Marko: Well…
Interviewer: Or can you even call it a hiatus?
Marko: I hope we’ve at least evolved. I don’t think there’s been any hiatus, we just had a phase where we wanted to release our first compilation of the songs we had and at the same time think a little, if we were going to start doing techno or heavy metal. We settled for staying on the similar track as we have been so far. I think it’s somehow, when you live and experience and grow and even learn a little about writing music and stuff. It always makes a small facelift to the music. But you can hear it from behind all that, that it’s clearly the same guys writing this music too. The music is new, but there has to be something familiar in there so that it roots into the things we’ve done before. We have a thought that the next album is in a way a fulfillment to our 2 first albums. So this is the third part of a trilogy. And after that we get to do something else new again.
Interviewer: Wow, that was a whole new concept, a fulfillment of the previous albums.
Marko: Hmm.
Interviewer: It was beautifully said.
Marko: Thank you.

Interviewer: But techno… It’s not there in this first single anyway.
Marko laughs.
Interviewer: But are there going to be any “let loose” songs on the new album. The kinds that make you think “oh, this kind of stuff from Poets Of The Fall…”?
Marko: Heheh. Yes there will be.
Marko laughs.
Marko: Yes.

Interviewer: Tell more.
Marko: Tell more. You’ll hear it eventually. You’ll see and you’ll hear. Of course everyone will interpret in their own way but I claim, looking at the list of songs on our wall, the lyrics and the song titles, there are some things where we’ve gotten a little more experimental. It’s actually pretty fun for us as well, to tread new paths for a change.

Interviewer: Cradled In Love is playing next, tell us about the song before we play it.
Marko: Well, it’s a story based on very personal experiences about love and its many dimensions. And even when you get struck down sometimes, it’s still good to take a look around and see all the good things around you, find support in them and to find that they actually carry you on rather well.

Interviewer: Thank you for this.
Marko: Alright. Thank you.

Hello fans!

The playlist URL for the Poets of the Fall performing at the Great Indian Oktoberfest in Bangalore, India on Nov-13-2011. :)

These videos are both from a normal Canon digicam as well as a couple of iPhone video recordings, quality isn’t great, but what-the-hey, real fans will enjoy it anyway! :)

Apologies for the delay in uploading as well as the camera shakes and what-not, but we obviously were quite high, illusions and dreams. ;) :P

The song order is like how it was at the concert. Couple of songs not recorded.

Cheers all PotF fans! \m/

Playlist:

1. Dreaming Wide Awake
2. The Ultimate Fling
3. No End, No Beginning
4. Can You Hear Me (Missing)
5. Stay
6. Sleep
7. Locking Up The Sun
8. Desire (Unplugged)
9. You’re Still Here (Unplugged)
10. Sorry Go ‘Round (Unplugged)
11. War
12. Diamonds For Tears
13. Illusion & Dream
14. Late Goodbye
15. Carnival Of Rust
16. Lift

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1. Dreaming Wide Awake
2. The Ultimate Fling
3. No End, No Beginning
4. Can You Hear Me
5. Stay
6. Sleep
7. Locking Up The Sun
8. Desire (Unplugged)
9. You’re Still Here (Unplugged)
10. Sorry Go ‘Round (Unplugged)
11. War
12. Roses
13. Given And Denied
14. Diamonds For Tears
15. Illusion & Dream
16. Late Goodbye
17. Carnival Of Rust

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Thanks again to the popular Cat!

Thanks for another great contribution goes to Alev from the official PotF forums! :)

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Thrilled to see Captain in an interview?

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Translated into English text by Dark Side of Light. Thank you!
[Everything in brackets like these are translator’s comments or clarifications.]

At the studio

Female host: Hey, if you feel like you want to give us feedback or some kind of requests you can do it at our website pretty neatly. Www.voice.fi and click on a host’s picture. For example Ville Toivonen, if you want him to go to different places where stuff is happening, and he will go even if he’s not asked or wanted. For example music video shoots. You can give him feedback, like I like this and this band so much, could you go and get an interview.

Male host: That’s a brilliant idea because Ville does so many interviews that we always need new ideas on what bands to choose for either interviews or music video shoots. Today we have one of these in line, we just invited ourselves. Poets Of The Fall was making their new music video and Ville Toivonen decided to be there with his camera.

Female host: You’re not wanted here. Don’t come here.

Male host: But Ville went and the end result can be seen here. First we’re going to see how this video came to be and after that we’re going to show you the brand new Poets Of The Fall music video.

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At the video shoot location

Interviewer: We’re at the shoot for a music video for Poets Of The Fall. Hey Marko.

Marko: Hey Ville.

Interviewer: Locking Up The Sun is the name of your video and this is the second video for the Carnival of Rust album.

Marko: Yes, we started to make plans in July and now it’s… what is it? End of September. October first today, actually.

Interviewer: Mmmmh.

Marko: Yeah. So, it’s taken quite a bit to plan, but we finally get to shoot some stuff and as you can see our set is full of all kinds of things. There are so many of these suits. This one has some shite on it already. Look at this dude.

Interviewer laughs.

Marko: Like right at the beginning we had this incident…we were shooting, my hands are all black, we were shooting an orange that I stab like this with a nail and then this black blood oozes out of it. So, the whole thing exploded. All over our set. Those few guys over there clearly died, hahah.

Interviewer: You mean? … yeah.

Marko: No… I mean, I don’t know. But these suits, we’ve only borrowed these.

Interviewer: I see. You intend to take these back then?

Marko: Well no, we can’t do that anymore.

Marko laughs.

Interviewer: Right.

Marko: We’re going to have to buy them. But it’s ok, I’ll have a suit. For the future gigs to come, I’ll be wearing these suits. Always wearing the same outfit.

Interviewer: Right. But to be honest, it looks very confusing around here, all these guys with cones and oranges with black stuff coming out of them…

Marko: Yeah, this is what it turned out like…

Interviewer: What’s the idea behind the video?

Marko: To a psychedelic direction. What Locking Up The Sun song and the video are about is internal conflict. And in this video it’s clearly seen as everything we do… I mean, the idea is that you cause your own pain yourself. But you can also save yourself from it. Now we lost the lights.

Interviewer: Yeah, we did. What now?

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Interviewer: The shoot is starting any moment now but we have a bit of time left. Can you tell more…

Marko: Yeah, I’ll tell more about the idea for the video. We thought about it a lot over a cup of coffee with Stobe and we had about nine or ten ideas until we realized that this song is all about a conflict of how people cause their own misfortunes but they also hold the key to their own happiness. So we have a boxing ring over there and we go in to battle ourselves. And all the people in our audience and so, it turns out that it’s just us. And all the evil that we do… I had a button open. Oh no. The lower button should be open and I had the top one. Terrible dress code mishap.

Interviewer: The viewers will be outraged.

Marko: Yeah, yeah.

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Interviewer: So this is the second video for the second album… and most bands do only one per album. You must view videos as something important. Like you want to do them and make them look good.

Marko: We’re a little crazy that way… There’s a thought behind it, but it’s true, we wouldn’t have to do it but we want to. And if we go abroad with these videos, we want to have a couple of different things to offer. Carnival of Rust is a little slower department and this one is faster, more schizo, more industrial, rougher department. So we can give these images of our band, because in Europe, in Germany it’s often maybe the first impression the bigger audiences get from us.

Interviewer: Umm.

Marko: And in Carnival we have a heavy make up on… yes we have these cone guys here, but on the ring where we play we’re ourselves. And it gives a picture of what the band looks like and so.

Interviewer: Yeah. You’re really getting some great material done here, but these must cost you a fortune.

Marko: Yeah, they pretty much do. It costs more than one can comprehend.

Stobe takes Marko down by the neck.

Marko: Now the director came and…

Marko climbs up.

Marko: Director is going to take some lollipop now. [Marko shows his fist to Stobe.]

Stobe: We’re shooting in just a moment.

Marko: Yeah.

Interviewer: Yeah.

Crew: [Some of it I can’t understand.] Second chorus, bridge and final chorus.

Interviewer: This is the third video you’re doing for Poets. Is this going to be the calling card for abroad?

Tuomas “Stobe” Harju, the director: Well, I hope the other two are calling cards just as this one is. It’s not about that, the main point in this video is to introduce each member of the band a little better than in the previous ones. In the previous ones the guys were either very styled or then the emphasis was on the singer. So now the purpose is to show them actually playing, and a glimpse of what Poets Of The Fall gig is like. This was a very difficult process, I can’t remember if this was the 7th treatment that I went through with Marko. We kept throwing ideas at each other and it went always so that either one of us wasn’t entirely happy with it. The previous idea was mine and it was about having a big space and a big things for the video because of what the song is like. And, umm, then finally both of us were happy with the 7th version. Before that we had stuff like The Little Match Girl and so. And it would have been cool to do that but it didn’t sit with the theme of the song.

Interviewer: Yeah.

Director: We pretty much have it all together now, what we were looking for.

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Marko: This is our symbolic sun which bleeds black blood. Wuuuu-wuuuu. Locking Up The Sun. It’s like this sun is crucified or something like it and it bleeds black blood. I’m quite well covered with this goo, but with this day of shooting half way done and we’ll be shooting all the way to late night and those guys are building up the boxing ring which is our stage that we play on. But when it’s done, something a lot more fun is going to happen with this black stuff. But you’ll see what it is in the video.

Interviewer: So is this oil or what is it?

Marko: This is wallpaper adhesive and oil and foodstuff dye. This is a new licorice flavoured orange yummy.

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Interviewer: Your latest album, it came out on September in Sweden.

Marko: Yeap. In the middle of the month. [Finnish: Puolessavälissä]

Interviewer: In Poland too? [Finnish: Puolassa kanssa?] What?

Marko: No, on mid-September.

Interviewer: Oh, I heard “In Poland too”.

Laughter.

Interviewer: Would have been extraordinary.

Laughter.

Interviewer: Sweden and Poland, the first countries to conquer.

Marko: Poland especially. Such an important music country. With all respect to everyone in Poland. But still.

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Jani [in Swedish]: Tetris… tetris… tetris in Sweden. [Referring to packing things up in order that fits.]

Marko [in Swedish]: Here we have a commercial. Look. Water.

[The bottle says “Vittel”, Marko covers a part of it and it comes very close of being a Finnish profanity word for women‘s private parts.]

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Interviewer: So what happened in Sweden?

Marko: Well, Sweden was a lot of great fun, the reception we got was really good. On our first gig we had almost 2000 people come to see us and it was quite wild. All kinds of stuff happened. We had the boxing ring there for example and people started climbing on it. Once there was like 500 people on it, it started giving signs of falling apart. When were playing Carnival of Rust the cops came in to fend people off from it, like you can’t be there. It almost fell apart on top of the rest of the audience there. All kinds of things like this happened. Olli was left behind to a gas station when the tour bus went on. We forgot him and started driving on.

Marko laughs.

Marko: Where’s Olli? All of a sudden he was not there. Stuff like this. But it was a really great trip and the Swedes took us in, like when we went to do the gig they were screaming “Finland, Finland”. It gave a really good vibe. Of course I have some favourite festivals where I’d like to go and perform at. Like Hultsfred in Sweden and Roskilde in Denmark. I was at Roskilde a week ago by the way.

Interviewer: A week ago?

Marko: Yeah. I went to test it just for fun. But the funny thing was that our album had been selected the album of the weekend by Metro magazine.

Interviewer: Ahha.

Marko: Yeah. Our album hasn’t even been released there yet. Like so…

Interviewer: Did you notice it while you were there?

Marko: Yeah, yeah, I saw it while I was sitting in the train. Some guy was reading the magazine and I kept discreetly glancing and then “What?!”. Then it was like.. [Marko gestures that the magazine was handed to him] “Oh, album of the weekend in here. Whoa!”

Interviewer: Cool!

Marko: Yeah, like… just came to my mind from your question. Rambling on about totally different topics for half an hour and playing with this… Would you like some of this? [Marko probably refers to the black goo or the nails.]

Interviewer: No way! Anyway, the day will continue on and Del Monte [a fruit label] man has to finish up the video.

Marko: Yeah, I have to. I’m going to have to change my clothes and wash my hands a little so I can…

Interviewer: Play?

Marko: Play and move around the stage.

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Part 1

Male host: Two pieces of Poets of the Fall: guitarist Olli and singer Marko, good morning.

Marko: Very good morning.

Olli: Morning, morning.

Male host: The new happy fathers to a new compilation album, Alchemy came out on Wednesday.

Marko: Our little one.

Olli: Yeah, one more.

Female host: Yes.

Marko: Should I hold this like this [hold's the mike like a baby].

Male host: We have to get a monitor for you from somewhere.

Marko: So that I can put my leg on it? I’ll just lift my hoof on the table.

Male host: In just a moment we’re going to watch and listen Can You Hear Me, one of… or the other one of the compilation’s new tracks. The video is premiering in our show this morning. Why a compilation album now? 2003-20…

Female host: 2011.

Male host: 2011.

Marko: It seemed like a good idea and they are two classical years, aren’t they? 3 – 11. Everyone does that, don’t they? … Come on now and say that they do!

Laughter.

Female host: Yes, yes.

Olli: Yeah, yeah.

Marko: I need support and strengthening to my theory.

Olli: And that was the start of everything.

Marko: That was the start of everything, 3 – 11. It’s almost like seven eleven… nothing like it at all.

Male host: An expanded seven eleven.

Marko: Yes.

Olli: So, we’ve made a few songs so far and we thought… what was it. Space financial…

Marko: Space financial statement idea.

Olli: Well, yeah, that we’ll take a look back on our hits and then move on.

Marko: We also thought a lot about the amount of albums we’ve done so far, and still there are quite a lot of people who like to listen to the songs they’ve heard before and already know, but they haven’t bought all our albums. So maybe it would be a good idea to put something together for them, a recap of our output so far and throw in some new music so that our HC-fans can get something new and exciting and fun out of it. Then it holds all our music videos so far and we’ve included some rather obscure ‘production stills’ where we… which we didn’t even dare publish before this, but… now they’re in there. Help.

Male host: Have you noticed at all something about the compilation? That it’s missing the DVD song list.

Marko: Really?

Male host: Yes.

Marko: Well… good of you to notice.

Olli: Woooa.

Laughter.

Female host: But is it our of principle…

Marko: No, but well… it would be a little too obvious to have it there because it’s all our music videos, so there’s no actual need for the song list there.

Olli: And you will see when you put the disc into the player anyway.

Male host: Yeah.

Olli: Wheeh.

Marko: Now I started sweating so much! Have to start stripping…

Laughter.

Male host: But really, was it like, when the whole package came out from the print, like “yeah, looks so fine.. But where are the…”

Olli: No, it wasn’t, no.

Male host: So it was a conscious choice?

Marko: Yes, the whole thing is designed through and through. But the one thing I did notice was that the sticker was crooked! At least in some of them, I don’t know if it’s in that one… but it may go a bit off somehow.

Female host: No, it’s very neatly here in this version.

Marko: Brilliant.

Male host: But it does have a small bump in the middle, an air pocket.

Olli: Oooh.

Marko: Air pocket? Oh Lordy…

Olli: There’s your challenge for the day, to try to get it out.

Male host: Without tearing the sticker.

Marko: Yes, yes.

Female host: Rub the air out of each one going out into the stores…

Marko: Yeah, they all go through our hands and we rub the stickers into place.

Male host: Ten thousand pieces is the amount for a gold album, quite a lot of rubbing for you, I’d say this is going to sell gold.

Marko: Let us hope so.

Olli: Yes.

Male host: Just like all your previous albums. New music coming up, Can You Hear Me is the opening track on this compilation and it’s been turned into a music video. And there are a lot of people in it posing for the camera.

Female host: A ballerina, and…

Male host: All kinds of people.

Olli: A boxer.

Marko: All kinds of people, different professions, different skin colours, different ages and all kinds of things yes. We found people that… actually it was in a very short notice which was really great. We asked people to join in and explained that we have this idea to show different people under the same sky and with this thought behind it that you should make most of your life and feel good about it instead of feeling bad. In the end, compassion is what gives the best solutions in this world and…

Female host: Where did you find these people?

Marko: We found some of them from our circle of friends, right off the street and even from some modelling agencies that we asked from… And we asked a lot if our friends know friends who… and many people were like “yeah sure, we’ll come and help you out”. And it was great to see all these people there, everyone was on time and functioned consistently as if they were professionals. So it was cool all in all.

Female host: There was an appendix accident during the shoot. What is this story?

Marko: Someone’s appendix popped. Yes, during filming we had an appendix accident, it was rather painful and ended up to surgery and we were a bit nervous about how to get the video done in time. On the other hand, that guy is such a tough guerrilla that he basically dragged himself on all fours to finish shooting.

Female host: So it was your director who this happened to?

Marko: Yeah, yeah. I have to lift my hat several times for his performance. And not just that, the whole thing was so brilliantly coordinated by our director-producer. It was just.. Tsk. All thanks to them.

Olli: Outstanding.

Male host: The band is seen wearing rock gear and Marko changes his outfit a couple of times over. Clockwork Orange influence?

Marko: Actually it’s a spin off from Carnival or Rust Zolter character who sings in the booth. I think it’s a brilliant character but I just never have the patience with the white face make up. I did it once since, in Elämä Lapselle concert [Charity concert for sick children] but then I thought that maybe the character can change a little, just like people evolve, so maybe it can live. I took the same bowler hat and the trickling make up. It’s actually funny when you dress up like that, your own bearing changes completely. When I look at the video, I don’t think it’s me in there. And when I wear the clothes, I feel like I’m some other character. Actually it’s quite fun, you go into this some kind of a different… can you say role? You get more out of yourself than in your normal clothes.

Female host: And at some point you switch into white. It gave me a kind of a… boy band feeling.

Marko: So did I!

Laughter.

Marko: Poets goes Backstreet Boys.

Olli: Yea, yea, yea.

Marko: But in the end… I was quite sceptical about it, as well as the other character. I was afraid they would look too peculiar and strange. But when I saw the result, they look pretty neat. I was like “wow, it was worth doing and throwing myself into it”.

Olli: Even I saw this kind of yin and yang thing, this balancing going on which I liked.

Laughter.

Part 2

Male host: Guitarist Olli and singer Marko as guests here at Wake Up Show, good morning.

Olli: Morning, morning.

Marko: What, do I have to wake up?

Female host: Yes, yes, we’re now in transmission.

Olli: Already?

Male host: Now that you’ve done your space financial statement and put your career into one disc…

Marko: Five more minutes.

Laughter.

Male host: It’s time to think back on the history of Poets of the Fall and so… What are the kind of things you’ve experienced and reminiscence about and laugh at in the tour bus, anything from over the years, like “remember that time in India… hehehe, we left that cow into the bus”

Laughter.

Olli: Well, the best sessions start from watching old photographs.

Marko: Oh yea, that’s absolutely true.

Olli: And through the pictures you remember the stories. But there are a few legendary ones for sure.

Marko: The kind of photographs that will never ever be published.

Olli: Even from India.

Marko: Ever.

Laughter.

Male host: What kinds of photographs?

Marko: They will never be published.

Olli: No, we’ll eventually become so desperate that we will publish them too.

Laughter.

Olli: Well…

Male host: Tell us a little bit, what is it about the India pictures then?

Olli: Nothing really, well…

Marko: Not necessarily in the India photos but in photographs in general, there are all kinds of things from over the years.

Olli: Exactly, exactly. There are a lot of stories…

Marko: Shadow pantomime for instance…

Laughter.

Olli: Yeah… oh yeah!

Male host: My imagination started running…

Laughter.

Male host: Marko went completely red.

Female host: He did!

Marko: It’s just hot in here.

Male host: Granted, it’s a little warm in here. Now, if not before.

Laughter.

Olli: I was on a dock, I had just taken a swim. And it happened to be a nice bright summer afternoon and a bright sun shining. I was drying myself and Captain was taking pictures from the other side of the dock, trying to get a good shot. And I was like “phew, I’m glad I have the towel here” and really like… (Olli lifts up his hands in the video).

Male host: The light hits from the back and everything’s in plain sight…. Oh, what brilliant photos…

Laughter.

Olli: Yeah, directly like “is that…?”  “yes, it is!” Even that kinds of pictures can be found, so… very unintentional though, no one gets purposefully bullied.

Female host: Olli, are you too quiet of a man on tour because, if I understand right, you were left behind in a bus once.

Olli: Yes, I got locked into the bus once…

Marko: You can’t really say he’s quiet.

Olli: No, I’m not necessarily all that quiet, but at that particular instance we were on our way to Turku for a gig and I was due on stage in a few minutes and I woke up in a bus that was locked up from the outside with a proper steel lock and I kept banging on it for a while before I realized I can’t get it open. Luckily I had my mobile phone with me, I called the guys to let me out right away so that I won’t miss the gig. And in the end I didn’t miss it. But there was a moment of dread there.

Female host: In this band you have to be loud not to be left behind.

Marko: Yeah, because we’ve also left Olli behind when we left with the bus once… We had a gig in Sweden, Göteborg I think. And we headed towards Stockholm or something. After some gas station stop we noticed like “where’s Olli?”. After that we’ve paid more attention on checking that everyone is in the bus.

Female host: Are there really so many of you there that you can’t see on first glance if everyone’s there?

Marko: We have all kinds of little nooks and mazes in the bus where you can have some own peace if you want, or you can withdraw into your own bunk or backstage department. You have to shout for everyone to be sure they’re in.

Olli: Yeah, at first glance you see two or three of us in plain sight who happen to be just about there.

Marko: Yeah, some of us sit in the front sometimes with our laptops or looking out the window or so. And the rest are somewhere else.

Female host: How does the story continue? Did you turn back to fetch Olli? Or?

Olli: We can’t really reveal that information…

Female host: Right…

Olli: So far I’ve always made it on stage on time. But once I forgot to turn on the amplifier. Actually it was for the encore. I forgot to… this can be found in You Tube by the way… I forgot to turn on the amplifier and I came on stage all cocky, like I’m going to start this song and then…

Laughter.

Male host: Isn’t it a More floor amplifier?

Olli: Yes, yes.

Male host: You were all ready to start playing and banging your head and…

Olli: And for a while you were baffled with why isn’t there any sound. And I had to take a quick spurt to the amplifier. Click, ah, the sound is on. Things happen, things happen.

Male host: Marko, during the song you were telling about the funny rituals you had at home when you were four years old… at the dinner table.

Marko: Oh, right, or actually on the living room coffee table. I was reminded of it because of this appendix hassle. My dad used to sell surgical instruments to hospitals and so of course he had to get familiar with how they work himself. And sometimes it meant having to watch recordings of different operations to see how they work.

Male host: So this kind of a childhood.

Marko: This kind of a childhood, yes. Many times it so happened that once our family was kind of used to watching then it was completely natural, like watching a cooking show or whatever. Because it’s nothing more really than a person cut open for a bypass operation or whatever. So we could even have snacks during the watching, or some food, cream crackers or sandwiches maybe while watching the surgical operations.

Female host: Yikes. And you were quite young?

Marko: I was about four or five years old. But then I turned out to be a musician.

Laughter.

Olli: Natural…

Marko: Natural, just like the 2003-2011 continuum.

Female host: You have no problems cleaning a fish then… or anything similar.

Marko: No, it’s not a problem, but I don’t like the smell of fish at all. I don’t eat fish because of that. I should probably go to some (funny sound) therapy to be able to eat it because it’s healthy. But I hate that lingering smell, it’s just…

Olli: But you don’t mind people being opened up and eating…

Marko: Well, I don’t eat people… Thanks a lot!

Olli: Just crossed my mind… No fish or people for you.

Marko: No, I don’t have a problem with that. I’ve watched through one surgical operation that I went through, via a mirror. It was a small superficial surgery.

Male host: How did it feel?

Marko: It didn’t really feel like anything…

Male host: Like eating a cream cracker?

Marko: Yeah, it was like eating a cream cracker.

Olli: Just without the cream crackers.

Female host: Did the doctor think you’re weird for asking them to have mirrors installed so you can see…

Marko: No, not at all. They see all kinds of things, so he probably just thought it would ease my nervousness to see what’s being done. So it was just interesting. And doctors themselves are interested in such things, that’s why they become doctors.

Female host: That’s true.

Male host: Haven’t you taken a look inside your own body as well, after being opened up with a knife?

Olli: Yes, but it was an accident. I didn’t mean to look.

Marko: Oeeew!

Olli: I have a very weak stomach anyway… I happened to glance while I was being opened up and when I saw my own…

Male host: And you happened to wake up from your anaesthesia? Oh… waah!

Laughter.

Olli: No, I had a local anaesthesia… but it was horrifying to see yourself opened. Quite an experience in its own way. But then, it has its own “how exciting” feeling.

Marko: I hit myself over there, I have an inch long scar, I knifed myself a few years ago. It started bleeding a lot and it was rather deep and I just examined it, how deep it is and I patched it up myself before driving to emergency. It needed a couple of stitches but… It was another incident which was rather fascinating.

Female host: What did you patch yourself up with? Glue?

Marko: Well, roadie tape.

Female host: What else! Musician.

Olli: That’s something you have in your cupboard, always.

Male host: Poets of the Fall tonight in Tavastia, although the gig is sold out already. And Alchemy compilation is in the stores now.

Marko: It’s in the stores and also available in our website digistore. www.poetsofthefall.com and click on digistore.

Male host: Thank you for the visit, I have to ask one more thing. Marko, you borrowed some paper and a pen. What did you sketch?

Marko: I’m always drawing these round heads, my old teacher called them nose guys but just some guys with round heads.

Female host: Is it a sign of nervousness or what?

Marko: I don’t really know, but it does calm me down, my hands are… I always do these when I’m on the phone too. My hands just start drawing, it’s cool.

Female host: Wow.

Male host: Thank you for visiting. It’s time for our news.

Olli: Thank you.

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Host: That’s a good piece of advice for all uninvited guests: Jääkää Kotiin [Stay At Home in English] by Stella. But we have an invited guest over so we didn’t want him to stay at home. He is the front man of Poets of the Fall, welcome Marko.

Marko: Thank you.

Host: Poets of the Fall long awaited hit collection Alchemy Vol. 1 is published, I mean was published yesterday. Happened to be my name day.

Marko: Aaa. Congratulations.

Host: To honour the occasion. And tomorrow you’re having a sold out gig at Tavastia and after that you’ll be heading to Europe. There’s going to be Ukraine and Russia and a few other places too. Looking good all around.

Marko: Yes, thank you.

Host: We were thinking, now that you’re here to talk about this new compilation, that we’re going to give you a compilation interview.

Marko: Ok.

Host: Because musicians always get to do compilations and it’s not possible for us even though we do a lot of valuable work, we have a lot of great questions which are usually asked only once. We have the right, the great public has asked for these.

Other host: Yes, you get all the fans and the adoration just for publishing your songs all over again, so we’re going to try and see how the same tactics work for us.

Marko: The same tactics, it’s fine.

Host: The first question, that someone has asked Miss Finland [translator's remark: 2011] Pia Pakarinen quite some time ago…

Other host: Must be more than one week even.

Host: Yes…

Laughter.

Host: And here we go: Marko… I changed Pia into Marko here… Marko, why don’t you give us your honest fact sheet. Your name, characteristics, hobbies and something philosophic.

Marko: Hey. My name is Marko and I’m a singer. I like all kinds of… ahh…

Marko laughs.

Marko: This is more difficult than you’d think, it takes practice. I think kittens and puppies are wonderful, and I wish for – like every beauty pageant winner – the world peace. And something philosophic… eeeh, sleep well.

Host: Oi.

Other host: Carpe Diem would have been a good one.

Marko: Yeah, it would have been a really good one.

Host: Very good answer, very good, for the first question. The next question was asked from contemporary dancer, Vesa Saarinen. When have you last failed to understand some contemporary dance performed by a colleague?

Marko laughs.

Marko: This may even be a daily event, my colleagues do such moves that I can’t keep up.

Host: So you don’t dance?

Marko: No, I dance superb, but they are even better. But if you want to evolve and do anything that will be remembered, you had better keep company that is better than yourself.

Host: Marko from Poets of the Fall here in the studio and we’re in the middle of a compilation interview. Questions from previous interviews. Marko, who is the best dancer in Poets of the Fall?

Marko: Without a doubt it’s Olli. He’s even better than Michael Jackson in his days.

Host: Oh!

Marko: So yes, you can see the bum getting a move on when Olli starts dancing.

Host: This question has been asked from the heavyweight champion boxer, Robert Helenius. How much excitement or fear is there involved when getting into the ring?

Marko laughs.

Marko: You don’t even notice it, it just happens. And after a while you’re sweating in the backstage and you wonder what just happened.

Host: So you don’t get nervous about going on stage?

Marko: No, not at all. There used to be… and even now a couple of weeks in advance before the first gig of a tour there may be some feelings like “damn, I feel tired and I don’t want to do anything” and so… but then it blows over and you don’t really feel out of the ordinary. And if for some reason you do develop a terrible stage fright, it disappears between backstage and the stage.

Host: How much of the gig do you remember afterwards? Like what you did on the stage, how you moved and if you took contact with someone in the audience. Of course everyone from the front row, but…

Marko: Yes, of course. Mostly it’s a blur, a vague mist and a sea of people and you don’t remember if you spoke something or gave any signals to anybody. Especially if it’s a very good gig.

Host: How many times have you fallen out of speaking terms with someone because of your opinions?

Marko: If I’m completely honest about this, then… probably not one. So far. But it could be that I’ve forgotten about such unhappy things.

Host: It’s not something you talk about anymore.

Marko laughs.

Marko: It’s not something you talk about anymore. The conversation is done for good.

Host: what are the things you’re very opinionated about?

Marko: Amm, shall we say the kinds of things that… I’m very strongly of the opinion that everyone has worth as a human being no matter who you are. And if someone doesn’t agree I usually try to give as qualified argumentation as I’m capable of doing… according to my capabilities of the day.

Host: This question was once asked of a rock journalist Nalle Österman who is very opinionated when it comes to criticizing different bands and artists.

Other host: Let’s move on to something lighter. I have to read this straight from the paper. Have you had time to ride downhill in a pulk? Do you prefer a pulk or a sleigh?

Marko: Let’s just say that if there’s snow involved, I’m not going to do anything.

Host: No?

Marko: No.

Host: You don’t downhill ski?

Marko: No, I used to but the last time I had skis under my feet must have been about 20 years ago because I had to. I rode a pulk about a ten yeas ago last. But not downhill if I can recall. My friends did and I was cheering on the side, drinking hot chocolate. That has been my closest brush with winter sports.

Host: So you don’t like any kind of winter activities whatsoever?

Marko: No, I start to hibernate when the temperature sinks below zero [Celsius]. I can’t get anything out of myself, I just keep watching CSI New York on a repeat.

Laughter.

Host: Is this a chance to organize a “Rockers on Skis” event?

Laughter.

Other host: Oh yes, everyone to the Finlandia Ski Event [translator's info: it's a yearly 50-kilometer long ski event for everyone who wants to take part] next year.

Host: From who did we ask this before?

Other host: From Jenni Vartiainen. I don’t remember what her answer was, but she used to be a figure skater so one would think she likes winter activities.

Host: I’d rather see her on a pulk than a sleigh. What do you say Marko? Pulk or sleigh?

Marko: There’s a certain kind of playfulness to it, I’m going to go for the pulk as well. On an ice track too, so it would be a high speed.

Host: She could take all her Emma Awards as an extra weight so the speed would increase even more.

Laughter.

Marko: To increase the speed, yes.

Host: Did she get seven Emmas?

Marko: It would make a more spectacular crash with all the Emma Awards flying around.

Laughter.

Host: It would make a good shell bomb. I think we’re going to have to build a ski jump just for this event. On to the next question.

Other host: In God’s name, tell us what chase is?

Marko laughs.

Marko: I haven’t got a clue. The first thing that comes to mind is that Hercule Poirot actor… errr…

Host: David Suchet.

Marko: Suchet or whatever Chutchet he is… It must be some kind of an attaché briefcase.

Host: Not bad, not bad at all.

Other host: This was during the Dancing With The Stars because they were always speaking about chases, if they were done correctly or not. This was asked from Antti Tuisku and we tried to figure out what it actually is.

Marko: If you had asked me what plié is, I could have even shown you.

Host: O-hey! It’s still not too late! Get on with it.

Other host: What IS a plié?

Host: Marko is going to show us what a plié is.

Marko: Plié, plié. All the girls who have gone to fairytale ballet will say that I didn’t do it right but put your feet into this Chaplin position, like this. And lift your hands up like this. And bend your knees a little like this. And then you can move your hand like this.

Host: Aaa. Look at us, Black Swan, here we come.

Laughter.

Host: This is the boldest move that I dare to make after having a stomach flu.

Laughter.

Marko: Yes, it is the kind of movement where I had to look into the mirror myself and think if I’m a man or…

Laughter.

Host: Let’s have some more of these questions. Heels on. But what kind of high heels? [translator's info: Heels On is a Finnish TV talk show hosted by two women and it includes a word play. In Finland the words Korkojen Kera can mean shoes with high heels or "payback with interest" as in taking revenge.]

Marko: Heels On or… meh, what was the question again?

Host: But what kind of high heels?

Marko: Platform shoes.

Host: What are platform shoes?

Marko: The kind that have fat bottoms. For me personally it’s everything from Teddy and the Tigers to Marilyn Manson.

Host: Spice Girls too. They had those, didn’t they?

Marko: Yes, I suppose they did.

Host: You can buy the likes from Morticia [translator's info: a gothic fashion shop in Helsinki], even all the way up your thighs.

Marko: Oh.

Host: Just noticed once when I walked by this gothic store.

Other host: Yeah, right, walking by…

Host: I wasn’t in there to buy corset or anything.

Other host: But!

Host: We once asked this from Jenni Pääskysaari [translator's remark: one of the hosts of Heels On].

Other host: From Jenni, yes. What did she answer? Didn’t she say stiletto heels?

Host: Stiletto heels if I remember right. Yeah.

Marko: I used to have a stiletto once too.

Host: Did you?

Marko: Yes. When I was a kid.

Host: Was it a stiletto comb, because I remember those were hot once.

Marko: Yes, I bought those combs for my nephews at one point, I didn’t want to get them the real deal… But when I was a kid, I had to have one. And there was this cool tough guy at our school who sold it to me at the smoking circle for 50 Finnish marks [translator's remark: would be about 8 Euros now].

Host: 50 marks?

Marko: And I just kept clicking the blade in and out in a frenzy for the rest of the day.

Host: He probably got it from some cheap store for 10 marks.

Marko: Actually he had bought it as a souvenir from a holiday in Greece.

Host: They were almost always brought from abroad, right? You would go in the plane and be worried if the metal detector is going to go off.

Other host: But the security back then wasn’t what it is now.

Marko: It sure wasn’t.

Host: I remember I wanted a stiletto because in Beverly Hills Cop the guy always took a stiletto into his hand and performed a break and enter with it. Did you have some “young rebel” kind of a phase or why was the stiletto blade so fascinating for you?

Marko: No, you see, everything ninja was very cool, so it went with that. I had probably seen it in some kung fu movie and I’ve always loved to watch a lot of those movies. I think it came from there. Some crappy 70′s Hong Kong movie where all special effects sounds are rather terrible bams and whams. I plagiarised it to myself from there.

Host: Marko from Poets of the Fall is here in our compilation interview. We’re asking him questions from previous interviews with other people because their Alchemy Vol. 1 was published yesterday, it’s a compilation album. Last question Marko. Which of your songs has given you the biggest amount of feedback?

Marko: Bmm, bmm, bmm, good question. Probably the ones in the beginning of our career because they’ve existed so long and people have had more time to talk about them. Late Goodbye, Lift… Illusion And Dream.

Host: This one was asked from Miitta-täti [a Finnish comedy character with her own guest show] because her songs are rather hard core… Tomorrow you have the sold out gig in Tavastia and Poets of the Fall will be on the road again and won’t be seen in Finland for a while. Or will we see you, and when?

Marko: Of course we’ll be seen in Finland, once the open air festival season kicks in we will be here as far as I know and we get to play live for our Finnish fans across the country as well.

Host: Thank you Marko for visiting us and now we’re going to listen some Poets of the Fall, one of my favourites actually… and it’s a great song to end your jog or run with, when your energy is out and you can’t take another step I usually play this one from my iPod and…

Marko laughs.

Marko: Brilliant, makes you run another mile.

Radio station plays War.

Host: Tomorrow performing for a sold out Tavastia, Poets of the Fall. This song is War and can be found in a console game named Alan Wake. It’s worth a listen, a compilation album Alchemy Vol. 1 from Poets of the Fall came out yesterday. Thank you for all the messages, Marko got a lot of feedback during this interview and we will give them all to him. Now it’s time for some news, reported by Jan Fredrikson.