Here we have my version of Mark's interview on the Lista show yesterday:
Interviewer: The boytrio from Helsinki, Poets of the Fall, published their second album the very same day as Jane. (The girls are from that band). The album’s name is Carnival of Rust, I speak a great English. Welcome Poets of the Fall’s Marko Saaresto!
Hello, sit down.
Marko, congratulations for the Emmas. The best newcomer of the year and the best debut album of the year, your Signs of Life. Your career began from Max Payne 2 game’s tune. Can you tell us what’s the game we’ll hear the Poets next?
Marko: Well not yet, we can’t tell you that. But we’ll see if there’s some, they’re always nice projects.
Interviewer: Come on, tell us, don’t hold it to yourself.
Marko: “Don’t hold it to yourself”, even I don’t know it yet.
Interviewer: Ok. Well this new album, Carnival of Rust has been recorded in Captain’s livingroom as well as the first one. Don't you good people know that you shouldn’t take your job at home?
Marko: Well at the other hand, it’s fun to be able to wake up from the sofa after you’ve passed out after the last session and continue what you were doing and not having to go anywhere. Think about it, rains or shines you’ll have fun at the studio together.
Interviewer: No, I don’t understand that you do your work so intensively, it’s admirable. You have used this so-called “home-advantage” very efficiently, we have a photo from inside the CD cover here. It looks interesting. You’re using the lamp as a microphone. It’s quite original.
Marko: That’s true. Very well noticed.
Interviewer: What other things did you record and sang into, have you played the vacuum cleaner and used the fridge as an amplifier?
Marko: Well we have tried soap and a mouse too.
Interviewer: Tell me technically how using a lamp as a microphone...
Marko: That was a situation where we were recording the song Delicious, that is in the CD and it was playing in the background and I took a guitar and started jamming and some friendly person took the picture. I was just grooving. I really dig how you can see Jack Nicholson’s “The Shining” face in the background.
Interviewer: You can’t see it there though.
Marko: Yes, that’s a shame.
Interviewer: You have also composed songs by singing in Captain’s answering machine. Very original.
Marko: Yes, that was when I was coming out from the place where we practice and I had nothing I could record it in so I thought that was a good idea and I called Captain’s answering machine and asked him to write it down and I hummed it in the street. We’ll see if it turns out to be something.
(The interviewer talks to the other guy and the girls for a while)
Interviewer: Didn’t the neighbours mind you recording in Captain’s livingroom? Usually if you play an electric guitar in a apartment house or in a terraced house…
Marko: I think all Captain’s neighbours knew all the songs of the CD after the album came out. Thanks to them for standing it. Even though during the making of the record the livingroom moved, which is probably good considering the neighbours.
Interviewer: Let’s continue this in a while, next revealing if your new album, Carnival of Rust, made it, with your debut, to the top 40. If this has happened, guess where it would be.
Marko: No, I won’t guess anything.
Interviewer: Come on, don’t be a wuss.
Marko: Starting from where? You mean the whole scale?
Interviewer: Top 40, the whole scale.
Marko: Hmmm… 16.
Interviewer: 16 is the guess?
Marko: Yes.
Interviewer: Ok. Let’s see what it really is. Next the official album list with popnews.
Straight to the 1st place goes Poets of the Fall’s second album, Carnival of Rust.
Interviewer: Congratulations, Marko Saaresto, for the first place of the list.
Marko: Thank you.
Interviewer: And congratulations, Jane, for the 23rd place. What makes Poets of the Fall’s 1st place special, is that you still have your first album, Signs of Life, in the top 40. Just how many albums are you going to put in the top 40?
Marko: I guess we’ll have a hurry making the third album now.
Interviewer: Yes, for the Christmas sales. You’ll make it to the Guinness records.
Marko: Yea.
Interviewer: How do you feel now, I was looking at your expression, you were quite exited.
Marko: Yes, I’m a bit overwhelmed. It’s great. I was quite overwhelmed a year ago too when Signs of Life came out and we went to the first place and now it’s the same situation. There are these “doubles”, two Emma-prizes, two first places. I won’t start philosophising about it. It just feels great.
Interviewer: And congratulations for that. (He talks to the girls again). And Marko Saaresto, about you, your hobbies are tai chi and yoga and you have the education of a sports masseur. And you also are learning acupuncture and Chinese medicine. Where does this interest for human body comes from?
Marko: Well I think the human body is a combination of body and mind. And everything that is connected with healing body/mind and improving the quality of life has always been inspiring to me. And our music is an example of it, at least this is what I want to bring into our music.
Interviewer: Thank you Marko Saaresto. We can end to these world-embracing and healing sentences the interviews.
Once again,
congratulations, Poets, for the first place! 
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