Illegal downloading is affecting music industry a lot these days. However, there are bands that even encourage this as long as they get more listeners. What do you think about it?


Marko: In our case, we put out single songs sometimes, or single releases. For example right after Signs of Life album we’ve put out online one song called “Maybe Tomorrow Is A Better Day” which was a free gift to everyone. So when it comes to marketing, I have this one single and I am putting out and everyone can just go on our website or our youtube channel, whatever, and check out the video or listen to the song, that’s fine. But we also like to sell the other songs; because that’s the way we make our living. And if nobody buys that, what it comes down to is that we can’t make a living, thus we can’t make any more music. Even if we could scrape by, what it means is that nobody in any other country, like the club owners wouldn’t know how successful you are, because the records don’t sell. They won’t ask you to come and play. There will be no money to go away from Finland, to play in any other countries. A lot of fans ask us to come over there and there, from all over the world. It’s not fun to always tell them that it pretty much boils down to the fact that nobody there has bought the album, everybody has downloaded it illegally. We really like it that you like the music and that you would like us to come and play. But no one there, who is a decision-maker, nobody knows about us, because nobody there buys the album. And thus we don’t have the venue to come and play and we don’t have the money to come. So yeah, it works against us and it’s a sad thing. If you think about Spotify or other places like that, even our own website, we have samples and whole songs, but not everything is on the internet, because we also need to sell. I think it’s ok to listen to the stuff that we’ve put out there ourselves, but when it comes to the rest, it would be nice if you bought it from some place