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CA = CelticAngel (Kelly)
VV = Ville Valo (obviously)

CA: Ok everybody this is the time you’ve been waiting for, so everyone in the chat room calm down.  Ville thank you very much for doing

this for us tonight.

VV: Very great pleasure.  Bright bright morning from Helsinki.  Yeah.  Thanks for having me.

CA:  Oh you are welcome any time of course.

VV: Oh fantastic. Sounds like a proper relationship.  I gotta move over in the bed now. *laughs*

CA: *laughs* Oh don’t tell me your talking to us from your bed again.  You were doing that at Heartagram Day too.

VV: Oh ok well you know, I have a, you know, my short term memory is kind of F’d.  My fascination towards canabis when I was younger. so

I guess that I um I’m repeating exactly the same things that I have before and you’ve got to forgive me it’s 4am and I’ve been watching

Twin Peaks for about six hours I’m kinda all bobbed up.

CA: That’s okay we’ll forgive you

VV: Ah thank you.  Excuses excuse, it’s excellent you know.  Blame everything on Twin Peaks and David Lynch

CA:  I’m going to get right in to what everyone is dying to know.  They are desperate for news on the new album

VV:  Sure

CA:  So I guess let’s start off with - can you tell us when and where you’re going to record it?

VV:  Oh it’s going to happen in LA hopefully in the beginning, in august we’re gonna be in the studios I was thinking of flying in

before and hanging out for a couple of days and hooking up with Matt, the fella that’s going to produce the album.  Matt Squire’s his

name.  And um you know it’s just uh, I, met him a few months ago and we had a blast you know he’s the same age as me has the same

reference points. He loves Depeche Mode, he loves Bad Brains. He’s originally from DC and you know he just appreciates a lot of the same

stuff that I do and he has that youthful energy we need after being touring for several years.  We’re a lot older than we should be we’

re old and worn out so it’s useful to have somebody to kick our butts.

CA: So I was looking him to just see some other stuff he’s done, he’s worked with umTaking Back Sunday and The Used…

VV:  Yeah he’s done a lot of poppy stuff you know I’ve had the opportunity of hearing a bit of the new Used stuff and that sounds

incredible and it’s a great great album you should definitely get it when it comes out. Should be out sometime during in June or July. 

It’s a really, you know it sounds massive and some of the stuff he’s been working on has been fairly, what should I call it, emoish

which isn’t necessarily my cup of tea but uh he’s big on melodies and I’m big on melodies and he’s big on melancholy and obviously I am

to so uh we just had a blast. I met him for the first time and we talked about U2 and Depeche Mode for three hours.  We didn’t talk

about HIM or the possibility of working together at all. It’s actually a great way of geting to know somebdy and talking about Brian Eno

and how he came up with all the crazy sounds for With or Without You and stuff like that

CA:  Excellent

VV:  Yeah good fun

CA:  Can you tell us a little bit about what the new album is going to sound like?  You said before a bit punkish.  We still doing that?


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