Here's a new article about Poets' gig at St. Petersburg. It's in Finnish. I'm trying to tackle the Radio Nova radio interview this weekend, so this will have to wait unless someone else wants to do it. (I don't exactly love the google translate ones, but... well that's just my opinion.)
Metro magazine - Huge fame: Poets Of The Fall had a security team escort in Russia

Oh, it's really short. I'll do it right now.

Metrolive. Metro magazine. Saturday March 24th 2012.
Original article: Tiia Öhman.
Article Photograph: Poets Of The Fall.

A huge fame – Poets of the Fall had a security team escort in Russia!

The band released their new album on Wednesday and started their spring tour.

Poets of the Fall started their spring tour on Friday at St. Petersburg, Russia and travelled there by train. The crowd of fans that are waiting at the station to welcome the band are familiar to them from previous concert trips to the Eastern neighbor, but this time the organizers played it safe: the band was escorted from the train to cars by a security team.

-Once again everything felt a little bigger because all these arrangements, the band’s keyboardist Markus “Captain” Kaarlonen comments.
-We could have handled it on our own, Russian fans have always been wonderfully nice but it felt good that security issues are taken seriously.

This time the venue was a sold out Glav Club.
-We signed autographs for about an hour after the show and after that we got to take a shower, our arms full with gifts from fans.

Poets of the Fall continues the tour today at Moscow and in Ukraine on Sunday.
Finnish tour dates can be found at the band’s website, www.poetsofthefall.com

I found this interview while surffing these forums. It may have been already posted but I found it really worth reading and it is relatively new. It has depth other interviews doesn't have.

http://www.musicalypse.net/interviews/poetsofthefall.php

@DSoL I always use the google translate when I find something new (to get a hint what it is about and to not make a mistake of posting something old) but I always hope for "the real" translation after that. Google can't beat human translations So, thank you

Radio Nova Wednesday March 21st 2012

Host 1: Nnn… nnn… It’s 8 minutes past 8 o’clock and today is the when Poets Of The Fall’s Temple of Thought is released. And from that album the song Cradled in Love has been playing on our station a lot. Today we’ll also play some other song but first… Marko from Poets Of The Fall. Good morning and welcome.
Marko: Good morning.
Host 1: Was this a little… didn’t go quite smoothly, this whole thing.
Laughter.
Marko: We’re all still all sleepy in the morning. Just wait a moment, I’ll just have the whole thermos bottle of black coffee and then we can chat.

Host 2: Marko, you were… We were just counting, it must have been early February when you visited last and that’s when Cradled in Love was released and started playing on the radio. Now it’s the end of March and now the whole album full of music has come out and will be in shops today. So what has been going on in between? Ari [the other host] noticed that you’ve lost weight [Marko laughs], so it must have been a tough time this last one and half months.
Host 1: Terrible stress.
Marko: Yeah, terrible stress over creating the album. It always happens at the end of the process, yeah. For us the last minute panic is a lovely red whip which flogs us so that pretty much every one of us forgets to even eat at that point. For me to keep check on what I eat has been a personal choice. But yes, a lot of things happen after the first single comes out. Did we even… we even recorded some vocals and guitars in a frantic pace while wondering if we’ll even finish the album on time.

Host 2: What is the deadline? If you know the album has to come out on March 21st…
Marko: So on February 29th it’s out of our hands.
Host 2: This is exactly what I meant. After that your part of the work is over.
Marko: So that there’s time for…
Host 2: You can’t add anything to it anymore. Like, excuse me, I’d like to…
Marko: Yes, it’s… exactly. On February 29th it went to print so by that time you have to have the booklet done and videos and merchandise and the finishing touches, the mixes and all… Captain has done a crazy night and day production work boost at the end so that he can check every single thing. We’ve gone through the songs and commented on them and fixed them up and commented and fixed them up.

Host 2: And after that you went to a vacation.
Marko: I went to the airport, slammed my credit card on the counter and told them to send me somewhere please.
Host 2: And they sent you to Paris.
Marko: They sent me to Paris.
Host 1: Where can you get cards like that?
Marko: From the bank, good man!
Laughter.
Host 1: But you need to have some credit to get one…
Marko: Oh yes, there’s that… I put it on the credit card, we’ll see who ends up paying it.
Laughter.
Host 2: Now let’s see if…
Marko: The artist pays. [It’s a famous punch line from an old Finnish comedy show Kummeli.]

Host 2: The artist always ends up with the bill, yeah… We checked out your website and since you originally got started from the world of video games, back in the day.
Marko: Yes, in a way, our first single was…that we got…
Host 2: A real breakthrough.
Marko: Yes, yes.
Host 2: In Max Payne game.
Marko: Two.
Host 2: Yeah. So, even now in the new American Nightmare, Alan Wake adventure, some of your music is in there and one song is on your album as well. Have you come to the conclusion that the game industry is a good way to…
Marko: It’s a very good way…
Host 2: To get your music out there.
Marko: …to distribute your music. And since we’re in the happy position to get that thing working so well right from the start, it has worked well again and again, the collaboration with the people who create these games. It’s a lot of fun. There’s the creating the game, thinking laughing about the story and tweaking it and it’s not only about “here’s some song”. We let them know when we’re working on the new album and they ask us to send them songs and they hear some kind of a half-finished version and they decide it fits and they take it and it’s ok with us. They just pick something and take it. But in some situations, like the new Alan Wake, they’ve been composed to fit the game and the story and how they work together. The lyrics are written to fit the story of the game and…

Host 1: Wow.
Marko: You find…
Host 1: I was just thinking about which way it goes.
Marko: Yeah.
Host 1: Interesting.
Marko: Yes, it goes both ways.
Host 1: You have music elsewhere too, in other games.
Marko: Yes, soundtrack music and rock and Poets Of The Fall music.
Host 1: Yeah.
Marko: But also like… it’s cool to be able to make music as a cameo or for other artists and people don’t know who wrote it. You just create music.
Host 2: So are you players yourselves? Do you play video games?
Marko: Yes, we play them.
Host 2: Since you’re so close to games.
Marko: I think I’m the last guy in the bunch to have discovered it, but once the graphics became so evolved that they’re cool also I, as an über-visual and demanding swine, was able to play and spend my time… and by God when I get started I can spend 2 months at it from morning ‘till night.
Host 1: It easily goes to that.
Marko: Yes, it becomes 24/7.
Host 1: Which games?
Marko: Anything with swords and magic.
Laughter.
Host 1: Swords and magic.
Host 2: Swords and magic.
Marko: All kinds of Oblivion and Fable and…
Host 1: Bombs of smoke.
Marko: There has to be wizards.

Host 2: Every time you’ve visited before, we’ve gotten into talking about your popularity outside of Finland. And with your really fine website, there are all kinds of stories in Finnish, English and German. I made this observation when I visited and read some things and in the Finnish version the description of the beginning of the band was very short in the Finnish version and the English version for example is so much longer with details about you putting everything at stake and moving into your parents’ basement.
Marko: I really did.
Laughter.
Marko: And that’s where I played video games 24/7.
Host 2: But you’ve presented it as this “American Dream” type of a story… is there a reason that in Finnish…
Marko: I can’t tell it? In my mother tongue it comes too close, can’t tell it in Finnish.
Laughter.
Host 1: This is how it came and that is how it went.
Host 2: Or somehow… I was thinking if there’s something…
Marko: The profoundly Finnish way…
Host 2: …like this is how things are done in Finland. It’s nothing special, every band starts from a garage.
Marko: No, the real reason I think there’s more text in English is because we first write them up in English. Out main language… when you think that you have fans from a hundred different countries, English is the first language on our website. Everything is first produced in English and then translated into Finnish and German.
Host 1: Yeah.
Marko: And well…
Host 2: The basement is left out from the translation.
Marko: Yeah, the translation…
Host 1: It’s so difficult.
Marko: We have a really brilliant person who translates them into German. None of us really know German well enough to do it, so we don’t have to take care of it. And when we have to translate it into Finnish, we just get lazy.
Laughter.
Host 2: Such an excruciating explanation…
Marko: Isn’t it?
Host 2: I was already deep in the Finnish mentality and soul scape…
Host 1: All the gaming takes up your time.
Marko: And Finns are very good at English and they read it from the English site anyway, so…
Host 2: I would urge you to do anyway, because it’s much more interesting as a story.

Host 1: We’ve been talking about dangerous childhood this morning and about how children are over-protected these days. How about your childhood? Did you do anything stupid?
Marko: Every day.
Host 1: Mmm.
Marko: Mmm.
Host 2: You’ve been allowed to fall from the tree and carve with a knife and…
Marko: Oh yes, I could do a Lethal 3 and tell what this scar came from and that scar… There are plenty of them to be had. I’ve jumped off cliffs after climbing them up, you know, like “Shall we jump? Yes, let’s jump!”.
Laughter.
Marko: You know. And we did like… we had an Indian [Original Americans] war going on with real spears, we threw sharpened spears at each other. I once got a really good shot to my eye. My best friend threw the spear straight at my eye. I can still see very well.
Laughter.
Host 2: But you wouldn’t have a memory like this without…
Marko: A cherished memory.
Host 1: Hello to you too. But luckily you still have your both eyes intact.
Laughter.

Host 2: We’re going to listen to some Temple of Thought now… So what do you say to Kamikaze Love?
Marko: Alright, let’s listen.
Host 2: Because apparently it’s going to be a single in Germany.
Marko: Yes, it is.
Host 2: Who decides these things?
Host 1: Kamikaze… which track is it? Number 4?
Marko: Number 4.

Host 2: Yes. Who decides in which order and in which country the singles are coming out?
Marko: It’s like… We make suggestions and then we have people in different countries that we collaborate with and they have a good sense of their own territory, the tastes in music and so on and we decide together.
Host 1: Mmm.
Host 2: But when it comes to Finland, you haven’t yet decided on the second single, the one that will follow Cradled in Love.
Marko: I don’t think we have it decided for sure. We’ll see.
Host 1: This could be a good hint.
Marko: This could be.
Host 2: The album is in the shops, Temple of Thought by Poets Of The Fall. Thank you Marko for visiting.
Marko: Thank you.

Radio spoof.
Kamikaze Love.

Thanks for the translation as always, DSoL. Magnificent reading

WOW! Such a HUGE amount of work, here, indeed! So many interviews, so many translations! Thanks you so much, my POTF Angels! DSoL for first, and every single one of you, who concurs to enrich this topic! What you all do is simply priceless!

The small interview/report from St. Petersburg's channel: http://www.tv100.ru/video/view/gruppa-poets-of-the-fall-v-peterburge-69415/

Briefly:

The reporter told about the band's start (Max Payne/Late Goodbye); about the success of the Finnish rock. He said that he has never heard about POTF before and now he is ashamed because of it. Said that there are a lot of POTF's Fan clubs in 82 countries!!!
And he mentioned that the hall was full.

Marko told about the meaning of the word "FALL" (from "Autumn" to "Fall into sin"); he said that "Late goodbye" is a high level and therefore their other songs should be "NOT WORSE". He also said that sometimes they need some ANGER to put into songs, because it gives a necessary incitement (they "turn on ANGER").

I uploaded "The Radio Aalto Interview Part 1" on my you tube channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxcEM_CgbfE&context=C4c86df3ADvjVQa1PpcFMDJ22tsnC5BUnDMZ7zawlysayfl4QL3L0=

and here is Part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuQpTHdFxsw&context=C494bab7ADvjVQa1PpcFMDJ22tsnC5BU1u2UkEP0AO3ikXBZi5mj8=

I put the link to the translations of DSoL there too.

Sorry the quality isn't so good but I think it's watchable

Thanks everyone for the translations and uploads!

From the Russian MUSical TV-channel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1BETOyBagrk

The voice-over says that Poets of the Fall is the CULT group from Finland which wrote "Late Goodbye"; that POTF's fans have been waiting for the band for 5 hours in the frost (to meet them).

0.29 - Marko: Every time we come to Russia our fans meet us, talk to us, take photos... OMG, I've dropped something... I'll take it away...

The voice-over: Marko Saaresto is 41, but he looks much younger because he leads a healthy lifestyle, relaxes in the nature and enjoys traveling.

1.15 - "CoR" is the best Finnish video of all times.

Further - FANS:
1.48 - a guy shows his tattoo (MOTH!);
1.53 - a guy says he goes to EVERY POTF's concert(!);
2.01 - a guy says he bought a ticket in December;
2.03 - a girl says that POTF is something between HIM and Nickelback (LOL...).

2.07 - The question: They say that Finnish guys are HOT, is it true? (In Russia we call Finnish men "HOT")
Marko: I am hot, it's really true ))) It's cool, nice to hear it. Gosh, I'm even sweating!

The voice-over says that guys are going to Kiev.

Thanks a lot tiger! It's great to see they made it on TV in Russia, and it was fun to hear from Russian fans.

I haven't had a chance to read any of the recent interviews, but thanks everyone for the links, uploads and translation. I might just end up rading and watching all of this after the tour.

Was there any gig footage on Russian TV? I remember someone witha professional camera was at least filming before the gig.

I was very glad to translate this myself!


Here I can see a professional shooting.

@ Tiger

thank you so much for the translation and the link to this official "thingy"

Did someone post this one already:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOb_ZhQjom8&feature=endscreen&NR=1

just found it - sorry if its already here somewhere.

@Unity

I think this has been posted already and we have here somewhere a translation. But the video wasn't on you tube it was on some other page.
Thank you .... and don't worry I really lost track of all the new Poets stuff too. I guess I have to watch all during the year

I've already posted it higher - link to the original site, but this youtube-link can exist, too.

aaah - thank you. I missed it.

The report from the Ukrainian musical TV: http://m1.tv/music/P0150S01E062.html

The girl's chatter is not important to translate, I'll write the main:
Poets of the Fall already played in Ukraine (in Lviv), and they liked it SO MUCH because the public was wonderful, so they decided to come to Ukraine again. Marko says that the Kiev's gig is wonderful as well and they will come to Ukraine every year.

This is the article (with photos!) on Ukrainian, and this is its GOOGLE-translation. Not very literary, but I think the sense is clear (I don't know Ukrainian and English that much).

Thank you so much tiger for finding these things. As much as people like to know what POTF is saying in their Finnish interviews, I'm very very curious as to what they're saying in the interviews they get to do on their foreign country tours.
Your efforts are much appreciated.

THANK YOU! I do what I can!

The Ukrainian article:

In Kiev Poets of the fall were back for an encore 3 times and said "Thank you!"

Poets of the fall were working with such a zeal, that the hall got ROCKED from the first minutes.


In March, the 25th, the Finnish 9-year-old band Poets of the fall visited Kiev for the first time. People were let in one hour before the concert; the gig began with the 15min delay (what's new to the Kiev's public). In the smoke screen "Poets of the autumn" went out one by one, met by storm of applause.

The musicians greeted the crowd: the guitarist Olli, his colleague Jaska, the bassist Jani, the drummer Jari, the keyboardist Markus and the band's leader, inimitable Marko Saaresto, all in the good mood and ready to meet their fans.

In a black cylinder, a tight-fitting vest and a black boa around his neck - Marko is a dainty elegancy, like a personage from the film about the Doctor Parnassus. And here the crowd is bursting, hearing "Kamikaze Love" from the new album.

Marko doesn't want to stand still, he just "flies" on stage, flirting with the fans, he rules human emotions like a conductor: here it must be louder, there it must be quieter - the musician manages the hall with gestures, and the crowd gives him their love so passionately, that it becomes HOT.

The band's members feel free on stage and gladly contact with the public. Evidently each of these gallant Finns enjoys the music, the show, everything around. Jaska together with Olli and Jani constantly change places - the hall is raving.

Saaresto pulls out feathers from his boa and gives them to the fans, the public blows soap bubbles, and in all this interaction MUSIC becomes the main and the most important religion for all, who have come to the concert. Marko speaks to the fans, you can even hear the Ukrainian "Djakuju" ("Thank you" on Ukrainian)!

It gets hotter and hotter, the new songs are taken with a great success, the old ones are sung along: "War", "Locking Up the Sun", "The Lie Eternal", the public sings along together with Poets the words "little things, little things" from the song "Stay"; after that Finns go away from the scene and then come back under the screams.

There appear two acoustic guitars and one electric guitar on the scene, and now Marko is without his boa and cylinder. Having performed two songs, the band goes away, but the public returns them again. The concert is near the finish, "Dreaming Wide Awake" and "Carnival of Rust" are played, the crowd sings with Poets of the Fall in unison. The musicians are contentedly playing and showing the gesture of gratitude.

The last composition - "Lift" - is played wholeheartedly, Saaresto kisses the fan's poster with a inscription on Finnish - "Me rakastamme sinua!" ("We love you!"). Pouring out their thanks, the band still leaves the scene, not having disappointed the public.



Photos



P. S. I hope my English is acceptable )))

*hugs tiger* Thanks for translating! Your English is very very good, don't worry about it at all.

Marko on helsinginuutiset.

March 28th 2012 Helsinkinews

The new album from Poets Of The Fall was born out of free stream of consciousness

Photo caption: The English language rock of Poets Of The Fall is attractive also abroad. –When our South American gig last year was cancelled, people from Brazil came to see us in Finland instead, the vocalist Marko Saaresto tells.

Marko Saaresto, the vocalist of Poets Of The Fall is excited. The band’s brand new album Temple of Thought is playing on his CD player for the first time.
-I just stopped by at the studio and the album was handed to me. I had to listen to it in my car already.
-I haven’t heard these songs since the mixing was finished a month ago, except for Cradled in Love which has been playing on the radio. It’s pretty healthy, especially when you’ve worked on this for over a year.

Temple of Thought isn’t only the fifth full length studio album for the band, it’s also the ending of a trilogy to two previous album Signs of Life and Carnival of Rust. Why did they wait this long to complete the trilogy?
-We had to start another trilogy in between the first one, Saaresto laughs.
-I’ve been crazy about trilogies since I was a kid, Star Wars and the like.

The name of the album points to a pondering direction. Saaresto tells that it has a specific theme and a lot of thinking behind it.
-Temple of Thought is an allegory for a human being. It’s about how things look, seen from different perspectives.

As a lyricist Saaresto attempted to find a new angle to producing text.
-When you write music, your own songs easily become the most important thing in the universe and you think they’re something important and noble. Now I tried a method of just doing without thinking so much.
-I wrote stream of consciousness and then asked myself why I was doing it. Then I realized that I don’t have to justify it. Afterwards some song might not sound so great but if it suits its purpose, it’s enough.

Shameless talk, but Saaresto is a man who has seen a lot in life. According to the 41-year-old soloist it was only positive that he rose to fame much older than your average rocker.
-I’ve been able to handle things better. Had I been a 20-something, I would have taken many things much more personally. Age doesn’t hinder you, except you get tired a little more easily, Saaresto smiles.

Exhaustion was experienced for instance in India, where its hot and dusty climate is an optimal consert venue for the band.
-India is one of the few places where albums don’t sell at all but you get 15 000 people to your concert.
-The first time we had a concert there, we brought back so many stories. We drove on people there. Well, not us, our local drivers did.

Did the idea for a human being's internal Temple of Thought come from India?
-No, the only thing that came from there was a very upset stomach, Saaresto laughs.

The Moscow article with great PHOTOS:


Poets of the Fall in Moscow: Temple Of Thought.


On Saturday, the 24th of March, Moscow was visited by Finns - Poets of the Fall. Moscow reacted with delight: it has been waiting for them. Lovers of the romantic music with a heavy accent got the qualitative, checked program at Arena Moscow Club. The guys confidently and clearly played their HITS, and confidently and clearly as well performed the new songs from their new album - "Temple Of Thought". As for the crowd - it was burst in a flash. The concert started practically in time, that was surprising for the Moscow public, which is used to pre-concert delays.

Listeners had the luck: the guys exerted themselves to the utmost. The fantastic plasticity of Marko on the scene, his original gait, sensuality, blowing air kisses, which made the fans scream, - it was seen that the guys were enjoying the action. The major part of the POTF's public consisted of young people, mainly young girls, i.e. the band's audience is youth.
The sound was of high quality, the singing - like on the record, it created the stadium-show effect, you wouldn't find a fault.

Some songs could make move everyone, some ones could do for the romantic evening. The cool Finnish guys were playing an encore quite long. And in spite of a big jam people were happy and ready to rock.

Thanks to both of you DSoL and tiger!!

TWO questions to Marko from http://o2tv.ru/новость/концерт-«poets-fall»-в-«arena-moscow»

- Have you seen anything interesting in Moscow already?
- We hurry 'cause we're very busy and try to have a rest at least for a minute, so we haven't seen anything.

- Did you ever create songs in a sauna?
- Yes, the result of the sitting in sauna are "Roses" and "3 AM".

tiger, you're wonderful.
Really original questions the reporters had... never would have thought to ask them about the relationship between songs and sauna, hahahah