NEWS Archive:
April 2004

30.04.04

HIM at Gasometer + "Kick Off - Festival"
Do you want to see some pic`s of the gig at Gasometer in Wien on 19.03.04 then just click
here. Also you can see some pictures of the Kick Off Festival where HIM played on 20.06.03.


Kerrang...
this weeks Kerrang! has a free dvd with BABL live in hamburg also a 3 page article on the NY & philli gigs.

Exclusive Audio Interview with Ville Valo of HIM
If you are interested in how Ville feels in the US during shooting “Solitary Man” you have to listen to this
interview.

US-Reviews...
Read
3 reviews from the US Tour.

27.04.04

Jägermeister Charity
At the Berlin concert Ville signed three Jägermeister bottles and you can climb them on May, 19th on ebay. This is a charity, called Stars and Charity and the proceeds of the auction will be donated to the Nordoff-Robbins Donation for music therapy, that is supported constituently by Jägermeister.
“As a musician I`m confinced that music has healing abilities and so I’m glad that we can support this great work with the charity auction”, Ville explaines in Berlin.
Everybody over 18 can take part on this
auction. The start price for the limited bottles is 1 Euro, the auction will be online ten days. Jägermeister wishes good luck to everyone who takes part.

26.04.04

VIDEO "AND LOVE SAID NO”
The video "And Love Said No", of course directed by Bam Margera, will be shooted in castle again, this time it's gonna be Fonthill in Pennsylvania. No girls this time, just green video with fog and dead trees. To see the castle click
here, here and here... taken from Heartaclub.

Video New York
Click
here to enjoy HIM live in New York.

Win Metal Hammer Awards Tickets!
The second annual Metal Hammer awards take place in London on 7th June and there are a limited number of tickets available to your favourite webheads!
HIM are headlining the night with more bands. So make your opinion count, and you never know, you could be lucky enough to win a pair of tickets so you can come along and join in the fun! Point your rodent at:
www.metalhammer.co.uk/awards/ to vote

25.04.04

Win 'Golden Gods' Tickets on the Solitary Man microsite!
It's finally here! Solitary Man is out NEXT WEEK in three sexy formats in the UK! Plus, YOU could win a chance to see HIM perform live at the Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards in London.
HIMonline.tv has 800 tickets to give away - plus some sensational 'money can't buy' bonus prizes! Beautiful! Check also the Solitary Man pop up.

Official Tour Drink
In colaboration with Jägermeister Ville created the very own Tour drink for the Love Metal Tour 2004 and here is what you need for it:
2 cl Jägermeister
2 cl Coffee-liquor
1 cl Lemon and Orange juice
mix the ingredients on the rocks, give it into a glas, enjoy it, get love metal into your cd player and rock!

20.04.04

HIM on Popworld
Apologies all of you who set your videos and sat through all manner of boy band stuff waiting for the HIM piece on Popworld last Sunday. At the last minute the HIM stuff was moved to NEXT weeks Popworld on Sunday 25th April.

Metal Hammer Award Tickets to win
The second annual Metal Hammer awards take place in London on 7th June and we have a limited number of tickets available to our favourite webheads! Finnish rockers HIM are headlining the night with more bands to be confirmed in the coming weeks. So make your opinion count, and you never know, you could be lucky enough to win a pair of tickets so you can come along and join in the fun! Point your rodent
here to vote.

Signing session in Cambridge...
You can see from
TheSacrament a photo of that event here.

Kiss about HIM...
or Gene about his love to HIM. Just make your
click and read a little statement from Gene Simmons.

19.04.04

Solitary Man straight to No 1
Yeah that rocks!!! Solitary Man hit straight the number 1 on MTV upNorth this week.

Get confused with the US thing?
Ok sweeties we bring a bit light into that matter. Due to the surprisingly high demand the guys will stay longer in America as previously plans. They will play additional gigs in LA and NY. It was difficult to get tickets for the opening show in NY even at ebay the prices rised to the tenfold of the regular price.

BRAVO Interview
Click
here to read an interview Ville gave (German) a little while ago and here to view the Star Report.

MTV 3 about HIM in the US
Make a short
click here to find out what MTV 3 reports about HIM in the US. The report however is partly in finnish but if you’re not able to understand everything you can view the pic`s at least.

17.04.04

Relating US Tour...
Good news for u in the US. There are still some tickets available to some shows of the US Tour. Please check our
Tourdates.

HIM @ Ministry of Rock Festival
HIM will play on Sunday, 27th June at the Swiss Festival Ministry of Rock in Frauenfeld. The special on this festival is that you can get yourself a VIP Backstagepass for the 3 days for 200 Euros or 300 CH Franken. But be fast if you want one of this special passes as they are limited to 300.
Other artists besides HIM are P!INK, Oomph!, Motörhead, Söhne Mannheims and many more. For more information please check the
tourschedule.

The Tourschedule is updatet now. So please don’t forget about it.

Setlist of NY
On 15.04.04 HIM played their 1st US Show in New York and it was as follows:

Right Here In My Arms
Wicked Game
Your Sweet 666
Sacrament
It's All Tears
Resurrection
Buried Alive By Love
Bury Me Deep Inside
Poison Girl
Solitary Man
Heartache Every Moment
Soul On Fire
Join Me

Info from Kaista

Signing Session in USA
On Monday, 19th April HIM will do a signing session in Newbury Comics Store in Cambridge, MA. So keep your pens ready sweethearts.For more details look in
autographsession!

Exclusive Interview with Burton and Migé
Burton and Migè gave a exclusive interview for our dear friends from Razorblade Fanclub from Greece and we have the pleasure to publish this on our site as well. A very special thanks to Razorblade FC!
Read it!

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We are back

Hi Darlings and Sweethearties we`re back from the German tour. Soon you`ll be able our review about this rocky time and of course we made some pic`s for you as well during the shows. So plz be patient, meanwhile you can check the newz.
Love yours, HIMforfans - Team

Upcoming festivals
The following festivals have been confirmed up to now:

22.05.04 Turbonegro Jugendfestival
29.05.04 Pinkpop Festival
02.06.04 Download / Glasgow
04.06.04 Heineken Green Festival
06.06.04 Download / Donnington
12.06.04 Flippout Festival
18.06.04 Hulstfred Festival
19.06.04 Provinssirock Festival

More are to follow!!!

DJ Ville :-)
On 26.03.04 you could have a short impression what Ville is like as DJ.

Future plans
According to Ville and Seppo HIM will go to the studio in autumn, the 1st HIM DVD is consernd to come out next christmas. This rocky stuff will include every HIM video clip, the Tavastia Gig 2003 and a lot more.
Valo has already written some new material.

US Tour details
HIM left Europe on Sunday, 11st to rock America, they will be back on 10th, May.
On their tour trough the US HIM will play only songs from Razorblade Romans as it is the only record released so far but please dear HIMies be patient as the other records will follow soon.
Venue change in Pittsburg
The venue for the Pittsburg show was changed for Wednesday, 21st, Pittburg, The Rock Club at Station Square. Tickets: $15 (day off show) $15 (advance).
The whole US Tour is sold out! Keep checkin our news for more details on the USA Tour.

Solitary Man UK release
Solitary Man will blow up the ears from the uk fans on 26.04.04.

More UK news...
(taken from
HIMonline.tv)

Metal Hammer voting , U.S. tour dates, plus a competition!
Good morrow to you, darling HIMsters!
And did you scoff as much chocolate (ice cream in my case) over Easter as I, PX, your HIMonline web admin? I bet you verily did too! Hope you all had a cool Easter....

Some news for your delectation….

Vote for HIM in Metal Hammer Awards..
Not only are HIM headlining the live set at The Metal Hammer ‘Golden Gods’ Awards this year – they are also up for Best Video for Funeral of Hearts and Best International Act. So let’s act quickly! To vote you can text your vote or go to
http://www.metalhammer.co.uk when the online voting goes live (imminently I am told..)

Check the May issue of Metal Hammer for full text voting details on page 10 –11. Whilst you’re at it also checkout the HIM fans on ‘Fanspeaks’ on page 16, the rather cool live review of February’s Birmingham Academy gig on page 122 , and letter from a HIM fan (off the Discuss HIM forum I believe?!) on the letters page , page 28. In short, Hammer rocks…

Calling all HIM fans in the Hull area..
Hull's very own Kerrang! Radio is here from March 24th on 87.7FM, please show us your support.
Kerrang 87.7 is playing 'Solitary Man' and is one of the only stations in the country to be playing the might HIM in the daytime. Which is rather good, yes?
Kerrang 87.7 went on-air at 8am on Wednesday 24th March and will broadcast for 28 days. The station does need your support, so they can campaign to try and become a permanent radio station in the city. Plus they can play HIM all the darn time too! Cool.
If you like what you hear and you want Kerrang! in your city permanently, you can email your support to studio@kerrang.com, phone 01482 593166 or text 07720 966 966 with keyword "kerrang" at the beginning. If you do YOUR NAME WILL BE ENTERED INTO A DRAW AND YOU COULD WIN A DIGITAL RADIO!!!

HIM all over UK TV!
DO NOT FORGET/SET YOUR VCRS! :- the HIM Scuzz weekend is still running from 16th - 18th April, Also the band are going to be on Popworld on Channel 4 on Sunday 18th April. As for the video to Solitary Man on The Box, well what can I say?! Good work HIMsters! Your HIMonline web admin has been sitting here at her hallowed HIM desk and have seen the video play loadsa times!

Keep up this great work - you guys are doing a sterling job!
To select the video on The Box: number to dial to select it is
09056 525 111, and the video selection no. is 218.
Don't forget you're supposed to ask some geezer called Bill Payer before calling, whomever he may be…

Download Festival
As you know: HIM are headlining the second ‘Snickers’ stage at the festival! Click here for full line up and details:
http://www.downloadfestival.co.uk/home/index.asp

‘Solitary Man’ : April 26th . Competition!
I wont repeat myself too much from the last email but SERIOUSLY (!), - the 3 formats - Vol 1, 2 and 3 are all so amazing you really do need to possess them all. I Can’t wait for you to get them because I know you will love them completely. Whats more we will point you to the retailers who can let you have ALL THREE for about a fiver . That’s all – A fiver. Unbelievable!

So maaaaaa...any interviews
Click click click and view here the...

...interview Ville did 4 Sputnik

...video files HIMonline.tv made while the Scala show and the signing (maybe you`ll  find yourself on it) and to view some pic`s of that special event.

...the interview for GIGA. To do so you will need an account at GIGA.

...different interviews for BAYERN 3 (each interview is in English so everybody can understand them quite well.

HIM at Metal Hammer awards
HIM will headline the Metal Hammer awards night on Monday June, 7th. It takes place in London at ocean in Hackney.

HIM in the media
In the Mix mag (issue 04/04) you can find a poster of Ville
Read a report about the German tour (issiue 17)

Dortmund pics on him-music.de
Click to
him-music.de to see some pictures, taken at Dortmund gig.

 

US Merch
To prepair yourself for the upcoming US shows HIM will play you can get some merch from
here.