Interview at Roskilde Festival
/july 2006/

VJ: All right…I`m here with HIM – Ville…Mige…
VV: Telly ho!
VJ: Yes, indeed…Let`s talk about…Roskilde in general, you`ve performed here once, you were here once, let`s talk about that, in 96?
VV: In 96, he (points at Mige) took me under his wing, when I was ah…
VJ: Literally under his wing…
M: Yeah…
VV: Well…if he would have wings…yeah-yeah, you know, just…I was in drunken stupor and I promised to my friend that I`ll come over if I find a ticket and we found a ticket and …you know…on the first time I open my eyes since Helsinki was …on the fairy and somebody’s lost his wallet….so I found the wallet, I found the guy who it belonged to …because I was broke at that time, and he gave me …. 120 Danish cronas…
VJ: Right!
VV: …and..with that I bought me cigarettes and…I think…a liter of wine …and with that I survived for about 4 days, and I had like…terrible …fever happening and stuff like that..it was absolutely fantastic, we had…they had Cardigans, Type O`Negative, Life Vagony…
M: Slayer…
VV: Slayer, Siper Soul, Sex Pistols, Neil Young, Ministry, Erica Badu…
VJ: What a line up!
VV: It was fantastic that year! Because…myself, I made a promise to myself that I`m not gonna be visiting any festivals as a tourist, so…you know…it was like…I need, we need to get a band together to be able to go there…
VJ: Oh, right!
VV: And ah…that`s basically what happened, that was the only…the exception that made the rule…
VJ: Well, we`ve got great line up this year, I mean we`ve got…yeah, we`ve got Two playing now.
VV: Two…
VJ: ..we`ve got Kaney West coming up, Euro playing after George Clinton, Parliament Funkadelic.
VV: Yessss!
VJ; It`s gonna be like downside 38 guys on stage and then we gonna have you…
VV: Yeah, when you`re talking about George Clinton I`d love to say – I`m hoping this gonna be crackin`…(laughs)
VJ: I can only see you coming ***** with that one…(everybody laughs)
M: No, it`s a…just a way to describe it, you know…it doesn`t have to be related to the…ah, the other crack.
VJ: Yeah…
VV: Oh yeah, there are several different cracks…
M: yeah…
VJ: I`m not sure, our question…nobody made a connection…
VV:….Ah…it was so good about bootie-crack…
VJ: Oh, exactly!
VV: Makes it moving, man…(laughs)
VJ: That`s definitely George (everybody speaks at the same time)
VV: (addressing to Mige) …*** the bootie-crack!
M: Oh, bootie-crack!
VJ: (trying to say something, but the guys don`t pay attention to him)…
M: OMG, I`m losing it…
VV: Yeah….and I`m called Crackula nowadays…(everybody giggles)
M: Count Crackula!
VJ: Cunt Crackula??
VV: (terrified) Cunt! No cunt! It`s COUNT!...But that`s even better, you`re a nasty one…right, better one! Cunt and…
VJ: yeah, exactly…
VV: …cutting again…. Right!
VJ: OK, let`s talk about…what can we expect from your live show tonight?
VV: Aaaaaahhhhh, mmmmmmmm, well, you know…we`re playing so late that I`m hoping that we`re not gonna be falling asleep on stage…I think that would beee..next time around we gonna ask…
M: (gives a monstrous sneeze, but nobody pays attention to it)
VV: …for a couple of beds…so, whenever Linde plays some guitar solo I could take on it…before playing this late, but…ehmmmm…
VJ: And you`ve literally coming back from the US, so…
VV: Well…quite, you know.
M: Yeah…
VV: …kinda.
VJ: Kinda!
M: 3 weeks ago or something.
VV: Yeah!
VJ: But it takes a while to come back.
VV: (laughs) I came back.
M: I came back…
VV: (points at Mige) He never came back…
M: Yeah, I maybe until…
VV: He is still there…but, ah…he left his brain on the pillow…back in…Minnesota…but…ehmmm…no, that`s gonna be same on, same on…we`ve got some chandeliers – we thought it was a good…
VJ: Definitely…
VV: ...act…and, and…yeah!...and…what else? We`re just playin` everything of every album we`ve done, well…you know, we improvise a lot! …during the set…hopefully that doesn`t sound as boring as Black Rose when they played here like couple of years back like, you know…I don`t mean that within 75 minutes we`re playin` 4 songs and just…jammin.
VJ: Exactly!
VV: But, eh…but, ehm…no-no, it`s gonna be fun, we just need to see how …you know, we playing late so its hard to see, hard to say now… how the…people are.
VJ: Exactly, of course…
VV: At that particular time…of night!
VJ: What would you describe as best…(someone interrupts the talk, and the famous “stare” moment`s happening)
(After a pause) VJ: All right! Yeah!....Let`s do some…some tattoo talk for a minute in English...
VV: Tattoos!
VJ: … yes!
VV: Oh my Goood!
M: OK!
VJ: You mentioned, I mean, your signature tattoo right here and…you started it…when?
VV: You should get like…a tattoo of TATU…that`d be fun…
VJ: (confused)…Tatu…yeah, sort of like…we have like…
VV: (interrupts) No-no, they just the 2 ladies…you know…when we`re talking about tattoos, why don`t have TATU?
VJ: TATU, actually…
VV: Yeah!
VJ: Oh, that`s…that`s an interview from hell – you, guys, and the girls from TATU!
VV: No, no,no, but… (even in biggest confusion, addresses to Mige desperately) tattoos of TATU!
M: I don`t get it.
VV: (sings) I will never gonna get it!
M: No, I`ll never gonna get it…
VV: No, that`s a wrong song, actually…Whatever…(sings something again)
VJ: This Russian duo...pop duo…
VV: (to Mige) TATU!
M: Oh!! Ha-ha!
VV: (in a witch’s voice) I say – tattoos of TATU!
M: OMG! Now I got it…
VV: Now you got it…finally…
M: Oh, TATU…
VV: Oh yeah, you know, just I`ve always been a big fan of like…Motley Crue and…you know, the 80-s stuff I grew up…you know, I idolized Tommy Lee…we still do to assert it, not his necessarily intelligence but…but..his body! (laughs) …and his pick-up of girlfriends! (everybody laughs)…so..so eh….I wanted to have a sleeve done and…I met this fellow and I was hanging out with him a lot and…I didn`t know for a couple of weeks that he was actually a tattoo artist, so…tattoo artist!
VJ: TATU artist…
M: TATU artist!
VV : Aha-aha-aha…(giggles)
VJ : And it took a while, right… ?
VV: It….take…it was done maybe, within for 8 months…that we`ve were on tour..all the time and eh….whenever I got back home, I bought like a big bag of …NON-alcoholic beverages and … went to the studio and had a blast, you know…we just listening to the good music like AC/DC and, and eh…doing that…you know, it was good fun, but it hurt like hell…
VJ: Ah, bet ya!
VV: Here! (points at his armpit) You`ve got that baby skin there and that hurts…
VJ: Oh, that`s the worst part…
VV: That`s the worst part, I`d say…everybody`s been saying that`s the worst and then – here (points at his ribs)…I don`t have anything here, so…
VJ: On the ribs…exactly.
VV: Yeah…
VJ: What about you, Mige? What`s you…what`s your…favorite one?
M: Ahhh…yeah, it feels weird, too, that`s we kinda…
VV: What?
M: …talked about it already…but…
VV: You`ve told me about it for so many times, but you keep on forgetting everything…
M: Yeah..that`s my…horoscope there…(showing his left forearm)
VV: (titters) Yes, like the…that`s like a… Yay…
M: Yeah, a friend of mine drew it…and there is face of a dog…everybody thinks it`s a wolf, but it`s a dog…(everybody laughs) What can I say?
VJ: Well, it was supposed to be a dog…and it became….
M: No…I meant actually to have a little bit color on my skin, `coz I think that`s lot cooler, you know…and I have like an aquarium going on there…
VV: Oh yeah, yeah…
M: Kinda fishies and I like this very …kind of a… 80-s…California style…
VJ: Did you ****…?
M: yeah…Or maybe I`ll do them around my crotch…it`s pretty fishy down there...
VV: (giggles)
VJ: (shocked)…And…well…
M: Oh, that was lame…
VJ: What …what can I say?
VV: That was lame, but made me laugh…
VJ: That was funny! (everybody laughs)
M: Cool!
VV: Suppose that lame….
M: (laughs) couldn`t be worse…
VV: Lame fish…
VJ: All right, I think that`s like a perfect ending for a beautiful interview…
M: It was beautiful moment….
VJ: Thank you, guys!
VV: Fishy business, indeed!
VJ: Fishy business at Roskilde!
VV: Catch you later!
VJ: Thank you…