There is a short interview with Marko in the latest HimosNews

Serinde, how do you even find these things? I'm not bad with Google, but my skills are nowhere near as good as yours. Thanks for the link

Now could you please go and find out where to get Riga tickets?

Thank you

How do I do this? Well, I'm obsessed, but I think you know that by now And last year I did some heavy researching on Poets, trying to catch up with things when I haven't been their fan yet. I've seen the end of the net and I think I've developed some skills during that. You wouldn't want to see my google search history

Riga tickets - I'll see what I can do

Thanks a lot serinde.Keep up with the nice work

Himos News 2012

A new album from Poets of the Fall during the spring

Poets Of The Fall, the band that’s going to throw a gig at Himos in April, is releasing their new album at the end of the spring. The band’s fifth full length album Temple of Thought is keeping the band members busy.
-The album is still lacking the last refining things. We’re still recording vocals and before the release there will be a lot of promotion work and tour planning going on, says Poets’ vocalist Marko Saaresto.
The album is going to be old familiar Poets but they have sprinkled in some more experimental style. Thematically Temple of Thought will end the Signs of Life and Carnival of Rust trilogy. An atmospheric ballad, Cradled in Love, was released in January as the first single of the album.
-We’ve gotten such wonderful feedback about that song. We were quite nervous to release a slow song as the first single, so this kind of reception feels really good, Marko chuckles.

International tour ahead

At the end of last year Poets had a gig in India. The gig left the headlining band with warm memories but the trip didn’t go without trouble.
-At the customs office they practically refused to let us into the country because all the paperwork wasn’t exactly as it should have been. The negotiations with the officials went on for quite a few hours to make it to the gig. We’ll be going to India again, as soon as we can get the contracts to the point of everything being clear. We have a huge amount of very excited fans over there and touring there is very rewarding, Saaresto says.
Before the tour in Finland, which is due to start at the end of March, Poets of the Fall will visit Russia and Ukraine.
-Touring in Russia and Ukraine has always gone very well, which is why it’s so great to go back there and see people.

Game music too

When it comes to their other projects, Saaresto mentions Alan Wake 2-game, for which Poets of the Fall has written new music. Previously Poets of the Fall has written music for games such as Alan Wake and Max Payne 2.
-We do all kinds of things that inspire us and fit our schedules. The future will show what other things catch our fancy. It would be nice to get more tours to Central Europe and the other side of Atlantic, Saaresto plans.
Poets of the Fall will make a comeback to Himos Arena in early April.
-We’ve had some memorable moments at Himos. On one of our gigs it started to rain sleet and hale even though it was Midsummer and up until then the weather had been hot and sunny. The amazement and good humored chaos in the shirtless audience, caused by the sleet rain, has strongly stuck to the mind.

I think, I just saw God!! Hahaha!

Seriously, lately, the first thing I think when I wake up in the morning is that when they come here again, I'm so going. I have also made a little group of fans to go with me!!

Thanks!! That hope lives!!

I don't wanna seem like an annoying fan, who whines about gigs, but I'm just so happy.

I'd almost forget to post it here, crazy day.

Ylex it seems like various artists ask each other some questions. Marko shows at about 0:20 but just for a minute so it's a really short one. But still

But they've misspelled his last name...

Thank you serinde!
Ylex Pop News

YleX Pop News

Eeka Mäkynen: Hey, Marko from Poets Of The Fall. If you were back in that situation again, that you want to release your own album, you have to move in with your mom and dad again, if you’d have to do all those things all over again… Would you?

Marko laughs.

Marko: If it was exactly the same situation as it was then, I’d probably do it the same way again. On the other hand, with the perspective I have now having already done it, I might do something else instead. I don’t know what. I’ve already experienced it so I could tweak it a little. But perhaps I’d go with gut feeling.
Hello Miika. I came to think of this question, I thought you might be the right person to answer this. Whose voice do you hear in your head when you compliment yourself?

Miika Huttunen laughs.

Miika: What an excellent question. I actually compliment myself very very rarely, so I don’t really hear anyone’s voice. I’m such a boring person that all I can come up with is “my own”, on those rare moments, perhaps once every two years.

Thanks to Beldrion for finding this

YleX Pop News
February 17th 2012

Poets of the Fall wants to be as well-known as Santa Claus

Caption: Once again YleX Afternoon got to congratulate a Finnish Rhythm Barometer-winner.

Poets of the Fall song Cradled in Love which was played on Valentine’s Day made Yle X Rhythm Barometer-people see everything through pink lenses.

Cradled in Love hogged an overpowering 89% of all thumbs up. The toughest competition was with another new Finnish band Atlético Kumpula. This time the foreign competitors Jason Mraz and Maverick Sabre had no business to the number one spot.

Happy about the victory, Poets of the Fall wants to conquer the world.
-A complete world conquest is what we’re aiming for. That Poets of the Fall and Santa Claus are just as well known is what we’re going after, the singer Marko Saaresto blusters to YleX.

Today's interview with Marko at Voice

Thank you serinde

I even didn't know that there was an interview. You really are amazing in finding the good stuff

Thanks for that Serinde!
Is it weird that I watched the whole thing even tho the only part I understood was when he named album titles? I enjoyed it anyway, somehow...

Thank you serinde!

Very good interview, and funny Hopefully we'll see how's the 7th album going to be...

I even watched it 3 times. But still my Finnish is too bad to understand very much.

A question to all you Finns around here. Does he talk something about clear water and a perch (I understood something with "ahven")?

... and please don't laugh to much about me if I'm mistaken.

@Porthos13, yes he does! He tells he was standing in clear water with a scythe and saw a school of big perches swimming by.

//And he wasn't fishing but 'killing' reeds

What a pity that I don't understand Finnish language. I wish I could...

btw - I wonder if it's possible to make a little summery of the interview or give a translation yet?

Surely not only me would be very happy.

To all those hoping for a quick translation: Our dear DSoL is currently in the hospital and has asked me to tell you all that she can't translate at the moment. So she would much appreciate if someone else could take over the translations for a while.

Don't worry, she is doing much better already and shall hopefully be back here soon.

redbossfan thank you for information. Didn't know at all. Please bring her my best wishes and love.

I'll be patient

@redbossfan, that's too bad, I hope she gets better soon!

I could try to translate that interview or make some kind of summary - if there's no-one who knows English better. I'm just afraid that you don't understand much more than now if I try.

^^ I'll be happy if you wanna give it a try. Your English sounds fine with me and I might be able to help you if you're missing the right words. I'm just virtually unable to understand spoken Finnish (with written Finnish I am a little bit better).

Well, I try. This may take a little time. It'd be great if you could transcribe the text before posting it here

Foreboding, this would be great. Please feel encouraged. Making translations are a very good opportunity to improve yourself - I know what I'm speaking about, 'cos of this, I'm able to follow all the posts you're all doing here, even with my online dict - still learning.

*hugsies*

I'll do the best I can. If there's a sentence or a few you don't know how to translate, you can write them down in Finnish and I'll give it my best shot. Just PM me.

Thank you!

@The Foreboding

This would be really great. You don't have to translate it word by word. It would be helpful to know what they were talking about, because perches in clear water don't make so much sense in the context of the CiL video
Oh and "killing" reeds Hey this sounds like a dream. At least I sometimes have such weird dreams

@redbossfan

thank you for your help too

To those who sent well-wishes to DSoL: I passed them on and she says thank you.

@everyone, you're welcome I love to have something good to share here.

@Tobyanca it's not weird that you watched it without understanding, I do the same thing, seeing Marko smile makes me smile too (and I especially needed it yesterday).

@The Foreboding I will be really very grateful for translation, as I said I don't mind listening to him even without understanding but I'd be nice to know cause it seems it's a funny interview, they laugh a lot

And here I say, I will learn that language, even if it's the last thing I do.

@redbossfan thank you, good to know DSoL is better, I was really worried after seeing a couple of tweets.

Thanks @redbossfan! So glad she is better!

Thanks everyone for working to make it possible for us to get translations! Means a lot!

Hey, you're absolutely right - thanks!

And nice to hear that so many people are waiting for a translation. It's done, I just sent it to redbossfan for transcription. Hopefully it makes sense, we'll see

I sent it back to you with a few questions, but generally it does make sense. well done.

I always knew DSoL did one heck of a job with these translations, now I know just how much work it is. *phew*

Here is the translation of the voice interview. The Foreboding and I gave it our best shot. she did most of the translating, I just tried polishing the English a bit. The comments are from both of us, so you will never know who did what

It's by no means perfect, but I hope it makes some sense at least.
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Marko: ”What do we talk about?”
Kristian: ”Well, take a guess! You are going to release a new album?”
Marko: “We are going to release a new album.”
Marko: “Just that is the thing, like, well… By the way, it’s worthwhile to record all this drivel that I’m talking here because this is much more ingenious stuff than what I come up with when you ask a question. I totally freeze up and go, like, ‘noo, I have nothing to say!’”

*A clip from the Cradled in Love music video*
Text:
- Poets of the Fall will release their fifth album called Temple of Thought on 21 March.
- Along with the first single release, a plea against illegal downloading of the single appeared on the band’s Facebook page

Marko: “When the song (Cradled in Love) came out, about two minutes after it was played on the radio for the first time, it turned up on Youtube.”
*laughing*
Marko: “Oh well… It’s kind of like fighting against a windmill, but that’s how it goes at the moment. Of course you can try to educate people... like, by fair means, but I don’t know, I haven’t paid so much attention to it. And I don’t know if we have posted on Facebook or something but maybe some fan has been kind and posted there like ‘hey, rather buy the song for about 90 cents, the boys have been making it for many months’. Actually we’ve worked on it for quite a long time, making it took probably about three months.”

*Another clip*
Text:
- The video of CiL was filmed in Estonia

Marko: "I was there one day and then the song started to work because there wasn’t anyone else around and I had a guitar with me and stuff so I was able to write. (translator's note: I guess he is answering to a question we cannot hear)
Then I took a scythe and hung out in the water up to here (indicating the water being up to his chest) and cut reeds down.”
*laughing*
Marko: “It was very comforting, and when I was sitting there in evening, looking at the bay full of reeds. There was a current going there so the reed started swimming away slowly. So then I wrote a song about it because I got goosebumps , like, ‘I’ve murdered all of those and now they just go there’.
And then I wrote one more song which isn’t on the album but it hopefully will appear on the next album.”
Kristian: “And the name is ‘Now the rustle in the bed of reeds is over!’ "
*laughing*
Marko: “Yeah, rustle’s over!”
*laughing*

*One more clip*
Text:
- Temple of Thought is the last album of the trilogy

Marko: “There is Signs of Life that tells about the birth and the life, also. And then comes Carnival of Rust that tells about that… what it is in Finnish… disillusionment, about that when illusions are shook off and so on”
Kristian: “Let go of your beliefs/thoughts” (translator's note: he says "Luulot pois" - I would directly translate this as "Beliefs away!")
Marko: “Let go of your beliefs, intention and so on and after that comes... what forms the Temple of Thought, what a person is made of. And if you think what the person reall… if you’re thinking like on physical level, what we are – flesh and blood – so actually we are that temple of thought. Kind of.” (translator's not: this part was really hard to translate. he probably says something entirely different )
Kristian: “Really thoughtful to be pop music.”
Marko: “Three hours later I think it’s like ‘and now when you’re thinking about it… Then you notice that the thought is so strong… It’s a kind of is the energy that goes through you and is combined to all this cosmic ray that is around us… Doh!”
Kristian: “Marko, now this starts to sound like you’ve had way too much time.”
*laughing*

*And a clip again*
Text:
- Every album from Poets of the Fall has risen to number one

Kristian: “Now that you’ve finished the trilogy… Have you thought about next albums or what you’re going to write now?”
Marko: “Yeah, that happens. It happens already when… Ceative work is a total mess – and it’s good that it’s like that because otherwise you hit limits and walls so it’s nice when it feels like that you can just go on, like in that case. Or when you come up with ideas. And yes, we have songs for upcoming albums – then we just think if they fit in with an album or if not and then they are shelved. But yes, there are some ingredients for the next album. Now we’re just waiting until we can get to work with them.”
Kristian: “While cutting down the reeds.”
Marko: “Yeah, while cutting down the reeds. It’s worth trying. By the way, when I was in the water, which was very clear, it was funny to watch this school of huge perches swimming by. Good that they weren’t any bigger and scarier fishes… Like a school of sharks… Why did I just say that?”
*laughing*
Kristian: “It seems to be a moment that has left you with an indelible impression on you.”

*Clips, clips, clips*
Text:
- Poets of the Fall’s Finlands tour begins March 31st
- Before that the band will play in Russia/Ukraine for three evenings

Marko: “I can’t compare different countries with what one appreciates the most. People in different cultures deal differently with the situation. I’m myself a typical Finnish listener. I go to a gig and just listen to the music. It have to be a damn good gig so that I take off my bobble, let my hair loose and start to jam there. I was at Tori Amos’ gig and feels like I cried during the whole gig. It was just so great gig. And then I was at Metallica’s gig in US and raved there so much I could not move my head for few days.”
Kristian: “Neck a little stuck”
Marko: “Yeah! And when I was in Finland at some gig, I was just sitting in a chair and thought ‘cool, this song is wicked!’. I don’t know why that is so… Except that when I was in US, the audience ran around like so and that sweeps you up.”
Kristian: “That is totally feebleminded fuss there!”
Marko: “Yeah it is! And I’m like a tough guy, too (translater's note: not sure about this, he said “skrode jannu” or something like that, I don’t even know what the word “skrode” is actually supposed to mean in Finnish )…”
Kristian: “Go to hell there!”
Marko: “Yeah… It’s like bumping into a roller. Mad fuss.”