Czech Interview with Lauri

You can find a Czech interview with with Lauri below, it’s in English though. Source: http://pastebin.com/yZpz0vMQ

Interviewer: How are you today?
Lauri: I’m fine, thanks for asking!

Interviewer: How would you describe your new album?

Lauri: We have a good feeling from the new album. The recording took place during the summer and the fall. We had a clear idea how the CD should look like. We collaborated with our friends and had a lot of fun!

Interviewer: Your first single is called “I’m A Mess”. Could you tell me what is it about?

Lauri: It was actualyl the last song wrote before going to the studio. We made it pretty quickly and spontaneously. We thought that this could be our first single from the new album. Nobody is actually perfect, that’s what this song is about.

Interviewer: Which song from the new album is your most favourite? What is the story behind it?

Lauri: I think that it could be the song “Sky”. It’s a ballad that has a deep personal meaning for me. I wrote it approximately five years ago. I can’t wait to play it live!

Interviewer: Are you excited about the upcoming European tour?

Lauri: Yes, we can’t wait to show our fans the new album and our older songs during those two weeks. It’s starting in a month, specifically on the 7th of May. The tour preparations are about to be finished. We believe that we’ll have a lot of fun. We’re also planning a few performances on a few festivals. After that, the world tour is awaiting us!

Interviewer: Do you have any time to go sight-seeing during the tour? What cities are your favourite?

Lauri: Of course, we’re always excited to do so! I’d mention Milano, London or Paris for example. Actually, we’re playing in this little club in Paris. But before that, I want to go and visit a few landmarks and have a enjoy a good coffee.

Interviewer: What “warm-up bands” are you going to have?

Lauri: We have a few names in our minds, but it’s still in progress, so I can’t tell anything more detailed. Just watch our official website!

Interviewer: What are your future plans?

Lauri: We intend to make more music, have a tour around the whole world, and meet some fans! We’re also looking forward to summer and festivals, because we have a very long winter in Finland, unfortunately.

Interviewer: Are you planning a duet or a collaboration with any Finnish bands?

Lauri: There are a lot of great bands from Finland, such as HIM or Apocalyptica, with whom we’ve cooperated before. But we’re planning no such thing at the moment, although it would be awesome if something like that happened!

Interviewer: What The Rasmus song is your most favourite to play live?

Lauri: That would be Immortal, since I experience an intense flow of energy between the fans and us.

Interviewer: What inspires you to write songs? Do you finish the melody first, or is it the text?

Lauri: I usually come up with a melody first. Everyday I get lots of ideas for new songs, so I always note everything on a dictaphone or on my computer. I actually have something like a “library of melodies”. But, occasionaly, it happens that I think of a text first; I made the song “Somewhere” fifteen minutes after watching a movie of the same name by Sofia Coppola.

Interviewer: What was the job you wanted to do as a little kid?

Lauri: I wanted to be a chef and have my own restaurant. I was six years old, I think. I liked to prepare all sorts of yummy things for my family. I also had my own menu, from which you could pick anything.

Interviewer: What is the craziest thing you’ve done?

Lauri: I could think of a lot of things, but the craziest was probably deep-diving in Vladivostok where the water was only 6°C! It was a great experience. I also went deep-diving to Caribbean.

Interviewer: And what romantic thing did you do for somebody?

Lauri: I made the dinner, for example.

Interviewer: What is your favourite country that you like to travel to?

Lauri: Naturally, Finland is my most favourite country in the whole world. But I love travelling and getting to know different cultures. I loved being in Singapore where I had been with the guitarist, Pauli. I like to travel to Mexico or South America. Oh, I can’t forget to mention Norway. I admire the beauty of the nature there.

Interviewer: What comes to your mind first when somebody mentions Czech Republic?

Lauri: I remember my first visit to Prague when I was fifteen. My sister had lived here for a while, so I went to visit her. I liked all of those historical buildings. And I was also pleased to be treated so nicely by everybody!

Interviewer: And when are you planning to visit the Czech Republic?

Lauri: I hope anytime soon! We received a lot of invites to all sorts of summer festivals in different countries. It’s for the organizers to decide. We continue with another tour in fall, so this option is more probable.

Lauri – Heavy @ Radio Aalto concert + interview

Video interview with Lauri [Metropoli]

Here is a video interview with Lauri made by Metropoli, video that is connected to the paper version interview published/translated here. Thanks for the notification to Oana/PMMP&TheRasmus Forum.

Interview with Lauri made by the-rasmus.ru

the-rasmus.ru Fan Site posted an interview with Lauri that they have made recently. Unfortunately the whole interview is in Russian, but Google Translate makes a pretty good English translation and you can check out what he said using it.

Thanks for the-rasmus.ru for posting and and Oana/PMMP&TheRasmus Forum for the notification.

Lauri @ Plan Jäägaala

Thanks to Sharazan for recording Lauri’s performance from Plan Jäägaala, you can watch it below.

And thanks to Oana/PMMP&TheRasmus Forum for recording the short interview with Lauri before his performance where he has been asked if being a father have changed anything in him for caring to children in other countries as well, and he told that he doesn’t know but it’s for sure that his son changed him in a lot of ways.

Lithuanian interview with Pauli

Pauli @ Juvenalia, Lublin Poland

Here is an interview with Pauli from a Lithuanian magazine. Translation was made by rasme, from the International The Rasmus Forum.

J- A few years ago, in an interview with our local TV channel ‘Tango TV, you said that you do not know much about Lithuania. Except for the fact that there are good basketball players and the guy flying under the bridge. Maybe expanded knowledge?

P- Ha, not really expanded, but we are going to find out more! Really!

J- Have you tasted Lithuanian national food Cepelinai?

P- Oiii, we are going to try it. We live in a very good time: we have the Internet, “Wikipedia”, so I had to read about the dish (giggle).

J- How long you’re going to be in Lithuania?

P- We plan to stay in Lithuania for two days. Have no idea what we will do there. Maybe we will meet nice people with whom we’ll have a good time? Maybe they will show us something interesting …

J- Have you seen, what are the differences between Lithuanian and Finnish?

P- I do not know, maybe we are similiar? Lithuanians also like alcohol, haha.

J- Famous people, before giving the interview, warns that in certain subjects will not speak. For example, on a personal life. You haven’t done so. You do not have any taboos?

P- i don’t have any! You can ask anything you want.

J- But how many have seen the interview with “The Rasmus” You look the most shy and quietest of the group …

P- You know, the Finnish mentality. We do not have the habit of talking much, or so-so to speak, is about simple or silly things. To answer the questions briefly and clearly. This is normal behavior in Finnish, but maybe it looks odd for the others.

J- Members of the group together ever since adolescence.Never had fight for some silly thing?

P- Yes, the bars almost every day! Usually it is anger on the trifle – something someone did not like and so on. But never allowed anger to grow into the fights. After all, we should keep together.

J- You started from skate funk music. What is it?

P- Oh, and since then tried many different musical styles. Meanwhile, skate funk was something like “Red Hot Chili Peppers music (laughs).

J- This year, plan to release album?

P- Yes. It will be very interesting. At least for us as it seems. We are full of enthusiasm, and it’s good! It is difficult to describe in words what this album will be. You’ll have to listen to themselves.

J- What would be your dream concert? Or maybe he already has?

P- Mm, I wonder … (Long-think.) Maybe it was our last tour? Then we had grandiose concert. Well remember the concert in Mexico City, where nearly 10,000 people. Great feeling when so many people coming in a distant country, and come in to listen to you

J- And perhaps reveal how the show will be in Lithuania?

P- Obviously, it’s mystery. I can say that you will hear songs from each album. It will be very different and unexpected show. All the members of The Rasmus can’t wait to come to Lithuania to see how there will be going. I hope that your summer this year, such as beautiful and hot, like ours, as we are going to have fun. See you in the festival!