- 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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Playlist:

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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• View the Playlist on YouTube

Thanks again to the popular Cat!

Thrilled to see Captain in an interview?

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You can also download the video on poetcountyjail.com!

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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Translations (#1, #2) available thanks to Dark Side of Light (thank you!):

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: One of our international success stories, Poets of the Fall. Tow of their members are our guests this morning. Olli and Marko, good morning.

Olli: Morning.

Marko: Morning.

Host: Why was this such a good moment to put all your hits together into one package? There are a couple of new songs in here too, but for all your fans this is a lot of delicacies put together.

Marko: Let’s say that this has been in our thoughts for a while now. That at some point, once we have enough material it would be nice to put them all together and it would in a way be a sign for that moment and then you can move on with new stuff to do. We all thought that now would be the time for it, it was just a feeling.

Host: A space financial statement.

Marko: Exactly, a space financial statement, now we do this and after that we look into the future and decide what to do next.

Host: How does the space financial statement look like then, thinking back on your career?

Olli: Well…

Marko: It looks very good, but when you think back on the albums we’ve done and they’ve all been rather different in our opinion and each one has taken us forward and we thought this would be a good moment and an easy project and we could have a breather.

Olli: Didn’t quite go like that.

Marko: No, it didn’t go like we thought. We really worked hard on this album as well. Even though there’s only two new songs in it and the rest of them were done a long time ago, it still was a huge amount of work. And right now we’re working on a music video to the song we heard a clip of just now. And it’s coming out at the end of the week. And all other projects on top of all that, then… it has been a lot of work. I don’t know, maybe it’s all about going in cycles and repeating these things and trying to discover those small, or sometimes bigger things that change what we do and keeps up our own interest.

Host: If I’ve understood correctly, you’re also very involved in this video project and you want to be aware of everything that’s going on around the band.

Marko: Yes, that’s true, we’ve got our fingers in everything that happens, for good or for bad. Sometimes it would be easier to let go a little and share more of the responsibility and decision making. But when you’re such a control freak that you are, every single thing seems so important that you have to be involved.

Olli: Right, and right from when we first started we had this do-it-yourself mentality and you haven’t really been able to change from it along the way. We’ve thought about it sometimes but it’s never really taken flight so that we actually would have done it. It’s important to be involved and have a say in everything that concerns you. That’s just how it works for us.

Host: Our viewers have sent some questions and one of them has to do with Alan Wake game which has some of your music in it. Here Petri wants to know how big of a role does the game have in your success and has it been a deal of a million?

Olli: Hehe, it certainly wasn’t that. It’s more of a marketing aspect when you get a chance like this.

Host: Even though millions of people play the game and the game has been a success.

Olli: It’s not quite that straightforward, there are many other things playing a part in this particular case, such as friendships and so… And we’ve always had good… I mean, the collaboration with Remedy Entertainment has always been very fruitful. That’s why I wouldn’t really say it’s been a deal of a million. But when you think about what it has given to us in return, you could say it’s a significant event in our case.

Host: Because through the game you’ve received a lot of audience that otherwise would never have…

Marko: Oh, yes, through that we’ve gotten… and especially in the beginning when we were completely unknown, the effect seemed enormous and things started happening literally overnight. Our e-mail overflowed when we got so much feedback from all over the world and it only took a few weeks to count that we had e-mails of all kinds from eighty plus countries. The first two months after Late Goodbye was released in Max Payne was practically all about replying to people’s e-mails. At that point I thought if it would be possible to become a full on musician. From there we founded our own record label and I realized I have to quit my day job because there’s just too much work and it would be a shame to leave this kind of a chance unused. Olli and Captain joined in after a while.

Host: Our time is ending soon, but I have to ask one more question. The biggest musical news in Finland is that Lauri Tähkä and Elonkerjuu quit in bad terms, the notification was sent to the band by e-mail and this isn’t the first time to happen either. We have examples like Nightwish and a few musicians have left HIM in all different ways. So how volatile is the band dynamics then?

Marko: It’s very volatile. You really have to cherish the whole thing. First find the right people and then cherish what you’ve got so that everything keeps together. Sometimes it’s a dance on a tightrope and sometimes it’s laid back because all your band mates are great. But these situations can happen and it’s a rather classic situation and it’s said that artists are impulsive people. Maybe in some other field of business things are easier and the rules are clearer but in this business it can be a balancing act.

Host: It’s like a passionate marriage.

Marko: It’s a little like a passionate marriage.

Host: Thank you guys.

Marko: Thanks.

Olli: Thank you.

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