{"id":644,"date":"2009-04-28T13:24:55","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T12:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tempelores.com\/?p=644"},"modified":"2019-11-13T20:36:30","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T18:36:30","slug":"the-hives-22-03-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tempelores.com\/?p=644","title":{"rendered":"The Hives – 22-03-2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

Interview with: Nicholaus Arson and Chris Dangerous
\nBy: Nina Mende<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n

So here we were at Nosturi meeting Nicholaus Arson (guitar) and Chris Dangerous (Drums) of The Hives to do an interview with them.
\nAlthough they have had many interviews already, the rest of the guys had left to the hotel to rest already and it was getting close to show time, the two guys were surprisingly talkative and up for a nice chat.
\n
\nThis is the outcome of countless “ehrm”s and “you know”s later:
\nPS: They really did begin and not finish phrases all the time. it’s not me being unable to type<\/p>\n

Me (after some beginning chit chat):Can we start? <\/strong><\/p>\n

Nicholaus: “Yeah sure. Fire at Will!”<\/p>\n

Me: Ok. We will!! (laughing) So yeah how are you guys, all fit and stuff? Cause you just had a world tour, right? <\/strong><\/p>\n

Nicholaus: “Well, ehrm, yeah more or less. I think we came home at the end of September last year and then we had some time off until maybe right before Christmas and then we did an Australian tour. Three weeks or something and then we and then after that we stayed at home for well… it\u2019s probably two months now, I think it\u2019s almost two months”<\/em><\/p>\n

Chris: “Yeah, we\u2019re pretty well rested now actually. Yeah, we\u2019re at the very last of the tour for the Black and White album now.” <\/em>
\nNicholaus: “Yeah. It\u2019s like the \u2026ehrm \u2026. we\u2019re gonna do, you know, this Finnish of show and then the Swedish. A brief tour in Sweden and then a week in Japan and then that has to be it for this album. The closing! You know, well, our gear is done and the smell too bad Got to move into something new. We\u2019re getting tired of what we have and we have to\u00a0get something new going”<\/em><\/p>\n

Me:Why are you going to Japan? <\/strong>
\nNicholaus: “Well cause we haven\u2019t been in Japan on this world tour “<\/em><\/p>\n

Me:Okay <\/strong>
\nNicholaus: “We haven\u2019t, I think.”<\/em>
\nChris: “I mean we always try to play every country in the world but we haven\u2019t really done that. But we played a lot of them. “<\/em>
\nNicholaus: “We never really succeeded” <\/em>
\nChris: “We\u2019re working on it.”<\/em>
\nNicholaus: “Yeah.”<\/em>
\nChris: “But now it\u2019s just time for Japan I mean we just did Australia which is also kind of far away. It\u2019s not a place you go to right after releasing a record.
\nBut, \u2026 And Japan is not one of those places either. But So we need to go there and say hello.” <\/em>
\nNicholaus: “yeah, and say Connichi wa\u2026. Genki. That\u2019s also hello, I think. But it\u2019s down further south. Yeah and then we say LocknLoll “<\/em>
\nChris: “Yeah. And then we go to rock the town.”<\/em>
\nNicholaus: “Yeah.”<\/em>
\nChris: “And then we go sing some Karaoke. A little bit. That\u2019s ok. And that\u2019s it.”<\/em>
\nMe: “Sounds like Fun, yeah. “<\/strong>
\nNicholaus: “It\u2019s not bad at all”<\/em><\/p>\n

Me: So what\u2019s with the black and white dress? Is that only because of the \u201cBlack and White\u201d album?<\/strong>
\nNicholaus: “The black and white?”
\nMe: Yeah the suits\u2026 <\/strong>
\nNicholaus: “Well it\u2019s always black and white. This is just a different version. We\u2019re showing how talented we are now. Mostly, yeah mostly talented, really. We can wear different type of clothes. Even though they\u2019re all different combinations of black and white.”<\/p>\n

Me: Why black and white though? <\/strong>
\nNicholaus: “It looks better than with red and pink.”
\nChris: “I think we\u2019re just in black and white. Ehrm\u2026 without even trying anything else. The\u2026 It looks really good and it\u2019s very helpful if you\u2019re color blind. And you are not really having any problems matching it up.”<\/p>\n

Me: I heard that you guys switch the label, right?<\/strong>
\nNicholaus: “From Universal to something else.”
\nMe: Yeah, why? How did that happen? Are you getting a new one? <\/strong>
\nNicholaus: “We might. We don\u2019t have a record deal at the moment. So we don\u2019t really know. We haven\u2019t even recorded a new record yet. But well, we\u2019ll see. But obviously we are gonna record a new record but we don\u2019t know where we gonna end up.”<\/p>\n

Me:Okay. <\/strong>
\nChris: “If you did something and played in a band and were in our situation you could say that we work in between chairs. (laughs), but that\u2019s not really true. But yeah nothing is written and it\u2019s been talked. But nothing on the matter.”
\nNicholaus: “The contract we have expired and then we have other options, you know. We\u2019ve had bids from Universal. But we haven\u2019t said yes and yeah\u2026.. We have not said anything yet.\u2026 We need more money I think \u2013 basically. (everybody is laughing) Possibly we don\u2019t need more money but we\u2019d like to have more money or we\u2019d like to have you know there\u2026 there\u2026 there is all kinds of\u2026 all kinds of parameter or whatever you like to call it. That there is supposed to go into a record deal, you know.”
\nChris: “We\u2019re trying to get a Space shuttle. But they are gonna be more expensive.”
\nNicholaus: “Yeah. And I don\u2019t want to pay a tour support for us touring in our space shuttle.”
\nChris: “It\u2019s like a \u2026 apparently you can go around the world if you have the budget in a space shuttle. It\u2019s 200 000 Euros. It only takes you forty minutes. I mean we need to land in between to play shows. So wouldn\u2019t work.”
\nNicholaus: “So the talks are basically stranded.”
\n(everybody laughing)<\/p>\n

Me: I see. So, there is a new album in the planning? <\/strong>
\nChris: “Yep absolutely.”
\nNicholaus: “And sort of in the making”
\nMe: Already? <\/strong>
\nNicholaus: “Yeah we recorded a bunch of stuff actually.”<\/p>\n

Me: How is it gonna be then? <\/strong>
\nNicholaus: “Don\u2019t know yet cause we don\u2019t know what\u2019s gonna be on the album in the end. If we\u2019re able to record better songs, those songs would most likely end up on the record.”
\nChris: “But we\u2019re\u2026”
\nNicholaus: “I\u2019ll be back in a second.” (says and leaves)
\nChris: “But we\u2019re having discussions all the time about what direction like that one but nothing is written in stone anything we\u2019re just fooling around. With everything\u2026 you know.
\nI think it\u2019s exciting, pretty much. So we don\u2019t really know yet what\u2019s gonna happen, we don\u2019t know where gonna record it. We don\u2019t who\u2019s going to produce it. Or anything. Just planning, thinking.”<\/p>\n

Me:Is the sound gonna change? Is it gonna be something new? <\/strong>
\nChris: “Yeah I mean it\u2019s still\u2026 you can pretty much put us anywhere and give us an instrument and no matter where we are and who is producing it we\u2019re still gonna sound like The Hives. So therefore it\u2019s not gonna change in that way But I mean we think that\u2019s there been a lot of changing in the past between every record. But people might still think that you know we sound like The Hives. And that\u2019s cause\u2026 It\u2019s pretty much the only way we know how to play. But to us, I mean it\u2019s a huge difference to us if we use a different microphone or whatever, your know, different room or\u2026 But you\u2019ll still be able to hear it\u2019s The Hives.”<\/p>\n

Me:Are there any festivals planned yet? <\/strong>
\nChris: “Yeah, I mean, I don\u2019t think\u2026. I don\u2019t know how much I\u2019m able to tell you. But there\u2019s\u2026 there\u2019s\u2026 we\u2019re gonna play some festivals. It\u2019s not gonna be as many as it usually is cause we\u2019re gonna try to have some time off in the summer which we haven\u2019t had in ten years.
\nSo we\u2019re gonna\u2026 we\u2019re gonna take it a bit easier and just play a\u2026 I don\u2019t know how many, we\u2019re gonna take it easy.”<\/p>\n

Me: But not like last year, you played at almost every festival?<\/strong>
\nChris: “Not at all, absolutely not, we\u2019re gonna,\u2026 we\u2019re pretty much gonna do the ones that we\u2026 that are fun doing for us.”<\/p>\n

Me: What would be your favorite? <\/strong>
\nChris: “Oh, My Favourite festival to play? Oh I\u2026 I loved to play a festival that was called \u201cQuart festival\u201d and which used to be in Kristiansand in southwest of Norway. I loved to play there, we played there twice. The festival doesn\u2019t exist anymore. But we played there twice and it\u2019s\u2026 you know \u2026 before you go on stage, you can take a swim in the fjord, stuff like that. So I would like to play that festival again but it\u2019s just no longer up and run. So\u2026I don\u2019t know which one I would like to play other that\u2026 Oh the one in Drums\u00f6 is great as well. We love Norway; we think Norway is a beautiful place therefore we love to play there. So we see what happens.”<\/p>\n

Me: But why don\u2019t you tour there after the week in Sweden? <\/strong>
\nChris: “No, no I think there was talked about a gig in Oslo but for some reason it didn\u2019t happen.”
\nNicholaus (who sneaked back in): “I think we are playing \u2026 we are playing two festivals in Norway this summer. I think.”
\nChris: “Yeah. And I\u2019ve just said I\u2019m not sure how much I can tell them about that.”
\nNicholaus (interrupting): “Yeah, it could be true, huh?”
\nChris: “Therefore I said that I would like to play in Norway (laughter)”
\nNicholaus: “But you got a good point though. If you wanna go Norway why don\u2019t you just go? Thanks.”<\/p>\n

Me: And during world tour were there any special happenings or anything most worth to remember? <\/strong>
\nNicholaus: “ehm yeah. It\u2019s like the intense touring, it was like one and a half year of touring. So it\u2019s not like nothing is happening every day.”
\nChris: “It\u2019s a weird place to be at if you don\u2019t want action. So to speak. I remember one thing, when Vigilante fainted before he was supposed to go on stage in somewhere in America. Where was it?”
\nNicholaus: “It\u2019s the north of Los Angeles, It\u2019s ehrm\u2026 I can\u2019t remember.”
\nChris: “Anyway, Pelle had to play the guitar cause Vigilante went with the ambulance to the hospital that was pretty memorable. That was kind of awful cause we didn\u2019t know what happened to him.”
\nNicholaus: “Some kind of heart failure, or something.”
\nChris: “But there has been good stuff too. But that is the first one that comes to mind.”
\nNicholaus: “He is the source of many happenings while touring.(laughter) He has lots of\u2026 lots of tricks up his sleeve. He has one where he can crawl into his own underwear. You wouldn\u2019t believe he can because he\u2019s so big.”
\nChris: “Yeah, and it usually happens late at night in the tour bus. I guess he loosens up during the show.”<\/p>\n

Me: Where there any favorite places you played at? <\/strong>
\nChris: “Oh yeah tons, ehrm yeah, oh yeah, we played eh, we toured south America which we haven\u2019t done before. We played Chile, Argentina and Brazil.”
\nNicholaus: “We came back to Mexico as well because it\u2019s always been good for us.”
\nChris: “Yeah.”
\nNicholaus: “And a lot of good American shows as well. As well as coming back and you know doing great shows in you know UK and Germany and France is great now.”
\nChris: “Yeah that\u2019s true.”
\nNicholaus: “A lot of places are great now.”
\nChris: “They\u2019re \u2026 They\u2019re \u2026 They are starting to match up. With The Hives greatness, they\u2019re catching up. It\u2019s always fun to go back to Australia to, cause you know, I said it\u2019s a pretty good place to be. But now the show\u2019s been great.”
\nNicholaus: “We did a great tour of America with Eagles of Death Metal. Well we toured you know pretty much All the southwest of\u2026 eh\u2026 you know\u2026 southwest in USA like you\u2019re going from Texas and then over to you know Los Angeles and\u2026 or towards California, playing some shows in California and eh you know only eating tacos and good Mexican food as well as playing with a great band.”
\nChris: “Yeah and eh\u2026 and eh pretty much all of\u2026 all of the guys in that band are up at Vigilante\u2019s level when it comes to having a good time. So it was fun tour.”<\/p>\n

Me: How do you like Finland? Do you like playing here? <\/strong>
\nNicholaus: “It\u2019s been great, as usually. I mean Finland is something to we can relate to. That\u2019s people are often very drunk. And that\u2019s\u2026 that\u2019s the same with you know the whole of the northern part of Europe are pretty much the same. I can go to Sweden, Norway and you know Finland. And Germany as well is\u2026 is like that. People are very drunk and it\u2019s a \u2026 usually makes up for a pretty good show as the\u2026 there\u2019s a lot of sweat and heat and eh you know, drunk breath and it\u2019s a \u2026 it makes up for good shows.”
\nChris: “I\u2019m actually Finnish.”<\/p>\n

Me: Ahhhh. Cool. <\/strong>
\nChris: “well, ok. I\u2019m not. I was born in Sweden, but my parents are Finnish. Therefore it\u2019s like a second home.”
\nNicholaus: “What\u2019s Chris Dangerous in Finnish? Kimmo Jumala?”
\n(everybody laughing)
\nChris: “Probably”<\/p>\n

Me:So you don\u2019t speak Finnish?<\/strong>
\nChris: “I do actually. But I don\u2019t know what dangerous is.<\/p>\n

What if something is dangerous you need to take it varovasti
\nBut what\u2026 what\u2019s dangerous? ”<\/p>\n

Me: vaara?
\n<\/strong>Chris: “Ah there we go, yeah.”
\nNicholaus: “Ville Valo.”
\nMe: No, that\u2019s light. William Light <\/strong>
\nNicholaus: “Vaara is dangerous\u2026Exact. Is Ville light\u2026 Yeah. So you will be Will Dangerous.”
\n(everybody happy now.)<\/p>\n

Me: thank you very much<\/strong>
\nNicholaus: “thank you”
\nChris: “Thank you”<\/p>\n

It was a nice interview with The Hives. Many thanks for taking the time for us.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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