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Question: You Tuomas have purchased a new hat, or is that like the previous one found in the attic? Like you told us you found the one you had in the promo pics.

Tuomas: I think I've had a fixation to hats in recent years; I like hats: You can't believe how difficult it is to find a top hat in a place as big as London. Especially a big enough for me, because I've got an enourmously large head. Years ago my student's cap had to be ordered from Denmark or someplace because they couldn't find big enough in Finland. The current one I use is like this now.

Q: You have had quite a busy summer again but I understood that you did have time to visit in Kitee at your cottage or at home. What will you do when you go relaxing at home?

T: My house is still in a phase, so it usually becomes a work vacation. I still need to find some furnishing, finish some details and seed more grass for example. All this relaxing common stuff.

Q: Have you had any chance to get rid of music and leave the piano alone for a while?

T: Actually I don't have any need for that: When I'm at home I have the stereo on all the time and I'm listening to music and playing the piano. I gather ideas for the new CD so I really don't have any need to get rid of music. But the need to get out of the hamster wheel for a while is real. It's very important for me to have time to visit home sometimes, like the three days last week: I had my batteries charged.

Q: About the cottage life. Your newest single The Islander must be the most played cottage song in Finland this summer. Always when I hear it I get an image of myself sitting on a cottage terrace waiting for the sauna to heat up and the grill sizzling beside me and myself grabbing a cold beer. Do you have any similar song like when you are at home you'd like to listen to repeatedly?

T: Not really. Well, maybe from the childhood summers at the cottage I remember that it was Popeda (an old hardrock band singing in Finnish, very popular since the late 70's until these days) always playing there. And every time I hear Popeda I get this summer-at-the-cottage-with-barbecued-sausages -feeling.

Q: What is the best cottage song of Popeda?

T: Let's see, maybe "Oodi makkaralle" ("Ode to the Sausage") -laughs

Q: When we think about the icons in Finnish rock music we'd recall Tuomas Holopainen, Ville Valo and Children of Bodom which right now enjoy the biggest popularity. If the gentlemen Laiho and Valo would put up a band together, what kind of material would turn up from it?

T: Hmmm... certain artistic visions might collide there producing some sparks in good and bad but maybe the result would be... gloomy and pompous Scandinavian country [music] (said with *very* serious face)

Q: Like you yourself are aware of, Nightwish enjoys great popularity. I did see you performing in Germany a few weeks ago and you said those were the biggest audiences you have ever played to. You really cannot go watching gigs when you perform on the stage. But can you tell me when did you last time got a feeling when watching a band playing live that... you were so assured that heck, if we could... if I could be able to do it like that? When was the last time you got that kind of feeling?

T: Definitely a couple of weeks ago when I was watching on my home theater Pink Floyd's Pulse live-DVD. It was ... If we could reach something like it some day I don't know what'd happen after it. It must be maybe the finest live DVD ever made.

Q: What is in it which gives the impact?

T: Not really the music... they have several awesome songs, but the whole setup, lights arsenal, lasers and everything there has been made to the top, in very innovative way, it really appeals to me.

Q: In what subject you'd wish to make a world record?

T: Hmmm... most likely in collecting Disney memorabilia.

Q: How much you have it at the moment?

T: One full room at home has been devoted to it. It's filled from the floor to the ceiling with all kinds of stuff. But there is still plenty of space in my house for more.

Q: What is the holiest of the holy in your collection, the one item you'd save first from a fire if you had to choose.

T: Probably it is the dedicated and signed copy of the book by Don Rosa: The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck

Q: How many of these exist?

T: Must be thousands, it's not so rare but for me it is the most important.

Q: A personal question from my point of view, it's not about a Nightwish song. You made the song "While Your Lips Are Still Red" to the movie Lieksa! It's such an incredibly beautiful and fine song, it gives me chills, it is very important song for me and relates to what happened in my life. It is so tender that I cannot listen to it any more, I mean it is a good song because it makes me cry every time. Have you ever had such a feeling with any song, so that the song is too good which makes you scared of your feelings when listenign to it?

T: Thank you for that! For the luck we're not going to play it tonight, the DJ might choke again (laughs) We do play it once and then, actually it is one of my own favourites among our own songs currently, but tonight we'll skip it. There are a few song which will cause me a similar reaction; the original Walking In The Air which still makes my hair stand up, makes me feel bad in a good way.

Q: The tree questions we will ask from every guest in our program:
When did you fell in love for the last time and what happened then? It doesn't need to be a human [object].

T: It was about two or three years ago and it ended poorly.

Q: Is there a situation or experience in your life you'd like to repeat?

T: I'd like to watch The Village -movie for the first time in my life again. I have seen it like 20-30 times and the first time was so mindblowing and life shattering experience which I'd like to have again.

Q: It's nice that we agree with this, I love the move too. I would also like to watch it for the first time again, because a repeat isn't the same when you already know the plot. The movie has been criticized a lot, I can't understand why.

T: I think it was badly promoted, like Shyamalan has made a horror movie, but it has nothing to do with horror. I see it as the most beautiful love story in the history of moving pictures and there is an incredibly beautiful meaning in the idea of the movie. It is maybe the all time favourite movie for me.

Q: Is there any song for you you'd be ashamed of admitting you like it?

T: Not really, I can quite well tell in public that I like "Oodi makkaralle" without feeling ashamed. Any music has something good in it, there is no need to be ashamed of your taste.

Q: Do you comapare your iPods on tourbus and try to find out who has found the worst songs from somhwere in the web?

T: I don't have an iPod, so it's kind of difficult to compare. But for example, our drummer has quite an interesting taste in music. He's got all kinds of stuff. But we don't compare, everyone have their own.

Q: Reminds me about wierd tastes of music. This isn't quite relevant to Nightwish but some bands, mostly hard rock bands have these "funny" intros like one taken from a chldren's TV series or alike, this wouldn't fit to your music because it is so atmospheric, so enourmous that a children's show theme wouldn't work as an intro. But has it ever occurred to you that you'd put a joke song for an intro in your show?

T. No, never. Like you said already, it doesn't fit on our show. Even if we do this work with a suitable amount of tongue-in-a-cheek, and laugh to ourselves, it is about too serious things within the songs and within the Nightwish ideology to go joking like that.
I think it's really cool that our verbal moments between Anette and Marco are so humorous at their best. Close to earth. On purpose, that is, we intentionally try to break down the somewhat mystic felings which may raise from some of our more cryptic lyrics. Just to remind everyone that it's just a rock and roll band and ordinary people after all.

Q: I do agree about Marco's talks. They are awesome. Do you have any favourite or legendary excerpts of his talks from along the road.

T: There are so many. He never prepares anything, it just pours out naturally. Same with Anette, she sometimes delivers quite precious pearls and makes me laugh for good. A couple of times Marco has browsed himself in talking about politics on the US tours, the I have reminded him afterwards that better keep politcs out of it. We're not going to take that road any further.

Q: Has Anette's Finnish vocabulary enlargened lately? I have seen the band with Anette for several times and we heard this "kiva - kivempi - kives" joke and some other brilliances, but are there any new ingredients for legendary anecdotes?

T: Just today we taught her a sentence: "Turku on Suomen Tampere." But I'm not sure wether we'll hear that in public here tonight.
( = "Turku is the Tampere of Finland" - Ed. note: Turku and Tampere cities are supposed to be like cat and dog and Nw were just going to perform at Ruisrock in Turku where comaparing the city to Tampere might turn the crowd's feelings quite volatile)

Q: I hope we will hear that (laughs). Tell me yet to finalize this interview, if you culd take one of the bands performing here today to an after party, which one would you choose?

T: Let's see... of that triplet: Amorphis, Sonata Arctica and Ensiferum... I'd take Sonata Arctica.

Q: Will that party happen tonight?

T: We'll see.