During the Pier Pressure Festival (20, June, 2010), the official Swedish St. Team had an opportunity to interview Linde and Mige.
Included are some questions submitted by fans. Thanks goes to Julia Ehrling and David Funseth for the interview that follows:
Do you have any favorite song to play live?
Linde: Well, I enjoy playing “Like saint valentine”
Mige: I’ve kinda grown fond of Disarm me. I do awesome backing vocals there as well so.
Ville writes for HIM and you, Linde have Daniel Lioneye but we are wondering if you, Mige, write any music?
Mige: Yeah I started writing actually, it's kinda like Mortiis.I can't really describe it but when we were recording Screamworks in America we were listening to Daniel Lioneye while having a barbecue and it became an inspiration almost on a religious level. So we try to recapture some of those emotions too.
Linde: And he also writes some lyrics for Daniel Lioneye.
Mige: Oh yeah, I’d rather call it poetry.
Are you going to do a tour with Daniel Lioneye?
Linde: Yeah. I don’t know when yet and I don’t want to talk too much about it but there’s going to be a tour.
Do you have any special rituals that you go through before a gig?
Linde: Yeah, I pee in a small cup.
Mige: Yeah it’s disgusting you know.
Linde: It’s for real, I have too pee right before we go on stage.
And what about you Mige?
Mige: Hehe, it’s kind of contagious you know. But I really despise that habit. I think its fucking grouse you know, He relieves himself and leaves the cups hanging around, but then sometimes I even borrow his cup.
So you still get nervous before a gig ?
Mige: I guess so. There is no other way of explaining that kind of retardary.
What’s your plan for the fall?
Mige: Uhm, I think we are going to take it pretty easy, you know. We haven’t made any plans but plans will be made for us.
What about HellDone?
Mige: Well, it’s kind of predictable to do it so maybe this year we’ll do the unpredictable. But you never know. It’s a nice tradition.
Do you have a special tour memory?
Linde: No, nothing comes to mind.
Mige: Well it was really an inspiration when you had that imaginary friend a long time ago.
Linde: Oh yeah I can’t remember anything of that.
Mige: It’s actually the topic of one Daniel Lioneye song. You know, he was having a discussion with his imaginary friend who was a German. He was denying something; he kept saying “Ich Nicht” over and over again. It was scary.
Do you know German?
Linde: No, It really was scary.
Mige: He really didn’t want to be involved in whatever that imaginary friend was taking about.
What is your favorite HIM song ?
Linde: Hmm, I’m going to say “Borellus”.
Mige: I was really blown away by “Gone with the Sin” when I heard it the first time.
What do think all Swedish people know how to say in Finnish?
Mige: I’ve always been a fan of the word “kuttu”.
What does it mean?
Mige: It’s the area between you genitals and your rectal area. You know that funny like scrumpy area people never mention.
Linde, how long are you planning on getting your dreadlocks?
Linde: I don’t know, I think I’m going to save them until my grave or something. You know it’s kind of a drag to live with them but I still can’t imagine cutting them off.
Has Ville been annoying since he quit smoking?
Mige: No more than usual I think.
Linde: Well, maybe in Australia.
It’s going good?
Mige: Yeah actually nobody in the band smokes anymore.
Is it different to tour in America then Europe?
Linde: It is yeah, mainly because of the distances.
Are you going to dress up and do a Halloween gig?
Mige: I think I’ll try to have my own personal Halloween in the countryside. I have some garden tools as well, I don’t need a chain-saw to make a good Halloween. We did a Halloween gig a couple of years ago. It was pretty epic.
What do you think of Sweden? Did you fly in today?
Linde: Yes so we haven’t had time to check out Gothenburg, but I like Sweden though.
Mige: I’ve driven down the E4 a few times. That’s pretty epic. You want to kill yourself at Jonkoping. It’s the middle of the E4 and that’s the place where you get really suicidal.
Now we have a couple of fast “This or that” questions.
Karhu och Koff?
Linde: Koff
Mige: I’ll say Karhu because the logo resembles our first keyboard player Antto Melasniemi when he gets mad. You could almost drink him.
Festival or Club gig?
Mige, Linde: Club gig.
Stockholm or Gothenburg?
Mige, Linde: Stockholm
Sweden or Norway?
Linde: I’ve only been to Norway ones so i have to go with Sweden.
Mige: Since Mortiis is from Norway I can’t say Sweden.
Live or Studio?
Linde: Studio.
Mige. I’m going to say both.
Sean or Pasi?
Mige: Oh, it’s a sexual question?
It’s up to you
Linde: I’ll say Pasi.
Mige: Uhm it really depends on that sexual- thing. If I could scientifically study him it would be Sean. If it’s sexual I’ll say Pasi.