Brazilian reporter Mayra Dias Gomes has posted the following interview in her blog:

“About a month ago, shortly after returning from Vegas, I published on my column a summary of my latest conversation with H.I.M. front man Ville Valo.  You can easily find a scan of that online, as many of the H.I.M. fan sites posted it and translated it, but I cannot post the actual text which is owned my newspaper, Folha de São Paulo. Since I am fully aware of how passionate H.I.M. fans are, I promised to post the transcript of our conversation, which happened about thirty minutes before Ville went onstage.. .”  click here to read the full transcript

Source: Mayra on Facebook

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Brasilian writer Mayra Dias Gomes met up with Ville Valo in Vegas to interview the singer. Part of their conversation has been published in Folha de São Paulo in her column “On the Road”. Mayra has kindly shared the interview on her blog. For those of you who don’t read Portuguese, here is a translation of  Mayra’s article:

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Translation by sineresi @ livejournal

 RICH HEARTBREAKER

HIM’s latest album Venus Doom didn’t sell nearly as much as Dark Light, which earned a gold record in the US. With the new album Screamworks: Love in Theory and Practice, Ville Valo puts on a poppier gear. Will the change of style help the sales figures shoot up again?

Question: Musically Screamworks is the most cheerful HIM ever, but the lyrics are once again filled with despair. How did that happen?

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13 Calling Cards for Valentines Day

Translation by silverblue6 @ Valo Daily

After their expansive album “Venus Doom” released 2 years ago HIM now turn to a completely different path with “Screamworks ….” The new 13 songs are short and precise but packed with ideas. The songs are very catchy over long passages but have enough twists and turns to make sure not to show the whole picture at once when you listen to them for the first time.

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LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL

(in Iltaleti Magazine – Dec.31,09)

Since Ville Valo quit drinking, the only interest he has left is music.

HIM frontman Ville Valo, 33, is a changed man. The nights and days spent with dozens of pints of beer seem far away. Sobriety has also shrunk his circle of friends. Only true friends have remained.

- Let’s say that I’ve deleted 190 phone numbers out of 200 from my cell phone, Valo admits.

He regards coolly Jackass star Bam Margera’s concern that Valo has become a total hermit.

It is true though that Ville is not seen in bars anymore. He’s not afraid of falling off the wagon; the reason is that you’re not allowed to smoke freely in bars anymore.

- I have to fool around in my own fantasy worlds, and I can do that just fine in Munkkiniemi, Ville grins.

Ville Valo hasn’t always been in such a good shape as now. Playing with alcohol got out of hand a few years ago, and the rock star, who confesses to being a workaholic, didn’t have time to take a vacation in ten years. The decision to go to rehab at Promises in Malibu in the spring of 2007 changed the direction of Ville’s life.

- It was a kind of a breather. No cell phone, the sun was shining a bit, and I was locked up so that I couldn’t do anything naughty. It was a pretty pleasant prison and a very expensive one, he laughs….

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In the latest issue of Rockoon Magazine comes an interview with Ville Valo where he speaks about the new album. The interview has been translated …

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This video, which seems to be fairly recent, was posted today at this website. There has also been an audio posted here. Both are in Finnish, but Sineresi from livejournal has translated both… Click below to view translation.

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Radio Nova (a finnish radio station) has uploaded to their website a 3 parte interview with HIM. If you understand Finnish, you can listen to it on the following links: Part 1 – Part2 – Part 3.

If you don’t understand a word, then you’ve missed out on a whole lot! Luckily there are some great friends in the HIM community, and one of them has done us an outstanding favour. Yes, she translated the whole interview and allowed me to post it in the HIM Library! A special thankyou to Sineresi for doing this!  …

Translation Parte I  -  Translation Parte II - Translation Parte III

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Brasilian writer and correspondant for Spin Earth, Mayra Dias Gomes, posted today in her fotolog a message about her interview with Ville Valo. It is in Portuguese but for those of you who don’t understand, I have translated the article (as well as I can)…

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There’s a very large interview with Ville Valo  in the January issue of Rumba Magazine. It’s certainly worth buying! And for those of you who don’t understand #%#&%#/ about suomi, there’s a solution to this tiny obstacle… login or register to have member access.

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