Kerrang's Spain translation
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This is the translation of the article of the interview on Kerrang Spanish version.
Well, this is the article written on the St Valentine's show in London that appeared on the Kerrang's Spanish version and posted some days ago. There was an interview with Ville Valo but that translation will come soon. Hope you like this by now.
The most romantic man of rock, the depressed, weak, arrogant, voice, the beauty and delicacy, elegance and education. He is Ville Valo who above all the criticism continues to present an attractive force that few get when climbing on a stage. In a special day for some, such as Valentine's, the Finnish HIM decided to give a secret gig in a small room as a gift of love for their fans in the English capital. A gift of love that many fans received with sighs from the early afternoon, and many squeals when after nine, the pale singer went on the stage with a timid and slow attitude, as if he gets still surprised that the room is full and that the women and some men scream when seeing him. The sex symbol profile has changed much in rock since the 80s. Passing through the carded hair and machismo as symbols, getting the form of the damned and tormented hero in the 90s, until the games with the gothic mysticism in this past decade. Anyway, it’s a must to highlight HIM as one of the great bands of the last ten years and Ville Valo, beyond mere aesthetics, as a singer who although doesn’t have very privileged technique, he does shines with a Jim Morrison school hitch (attraction) that few have managed to recover so easily. The most jealous tag them always as "music made for girls", but the fact is that the band has succeeded in carving out a personal sound, unique, with dark atmospheres and where in each job, on each album, we find a new adventure very different from former one, but all involved with the label HIM.
The tour of the band had as its starting point this show reserved for the privileged ones and just announced, due to they will return in a longer tour for the month of March when they will be fairly and squarely involved in the presentation of their new album Screamworks: Love in Theory and Practice. With a simple set design, all based on a black background and many games of purple and red lights, the show of the band evolved over fourteen songs. They started very strong with "Like St. Valentine," a song from their new album that was very relevant to further emphasize the special date chosen for the show. They showed a very cohesive sound with new songs, some of them like this "Like St. Valentine" that have penetrated widely among their fans with its catchy chorus and a lot of anger in the voice of Ville, who was in a very high level throughout the concert. Everyone knows that HIM have bad nights on stage sometimes, very bad ones. And from these pages, whenever we have witnessed it, we have criticized it. But the Garage show was a very encouraging start for a musician who has abandoned all his bad habits, including alcohol consumption, which drained a lot his vocal ability. So, now we have a more relaxed and peaceful Valo who in the second song stopped the show when a girl in the front rows fainted for a few seconds and asked her: "Are you okay?" His partners, the bassist and the drummer kept setting the pace of the song. Valo follows with his watchful eye the security staff movements to see how they take her out. He turns and tells the band that she had fallen. He is a gentleman. It was with the second song "Right here in my Arms" that the fervor of the audience reached higher altitudes. A classic included on the album Razorblade Romance 99, with which they burst and caught the attention of fans. The skinny singer took the opportunity to take off his jacket and said timidly hello again . I must say that the set list was not saturated with new repertoire, from which they included four songs already familiar to stronger fans who were those that filled the room. The great classics yet remain “ Join me in the Death” and the closure they did with “The funeral of Hearts” and the new songs will hardly rid them of their honor. They parted in style a little over an hour after. Live harshly criticized, we reiterate that the cessation of self-defeating life can return to us HIM with a higher level on stage, at least that is what we saw in this particular beginning of a new world tour.