- Hi Mark, what's up?

- Hey, I'm just fine, the fever from last week is gone and I can do gigs again. It's cool to look out the window and see that it's raining. (LOL wtf?)

- You gained a lot with your 1st album. What kind of hopes and expectations you have concerning the 'second round'?

- Let's hope this thing develops the right way... It would be cool to get to stretch out abroad a little more this time.

- Your new album sounds a tad heavier than Sol and there's some more live on it. (aha?) How do the making processes differ from each other?

- Actually the making was quite alike, just that we had a tighter schedule. Also that was a 'hey guys, let's try this' -thing. But it turned out well. We were trying to get out those heavier and more alive sounds. Finding that sound is actually an endless road, what you're looking for changes all the time and you can only hope that you'll find the right sound fitting to the current mood.

- What is your personal favorite on CoR?

- It's impossible to say, that depends so much on the day. Sometimes you feel Delicious, sometimes you need Roses.

- Let's get back to last year. Was success at any point about to knock you off your feet?

- Well, no. Actually those were other things knocking me off my feet, mostly lack of sleep.

- You became quickly a band of big stages. Was that transition from your training location to those anyhow "smooth"?

- Well, it was quite smooth, yes. All of the guys in our band are experienced players, but that was some sort of humor when we left our training locations straight to the main stage of Provinssirock. We have given ourselves time to adjust to all of those changes and expectations set upon us, though. In many situations we'd notice that we're getting compared to world-renowned bands that have been playing together for the last ten years, whereas we had had ten gigs together. Thinking of that you could say that we did it more than well!

- You did do an awful lot of gigs last year. How was it to live the life of a touring band? Was anything a surprise for you...?

- Well, all of us had been touring a lot before, too, but not on the same scale, except maybe of course Jaska and Jani, who have played in every single town in this country! You had to handle a lot of new things straight away, so it was mostly a race with tiredness. Now I know that at least for me it was about not being used to it. I'm more aware of what I can do and what I can't and what I certainly don't have to have the energy for.

- Poets Of The Fall appeared from almost nowhere. What kind of response did you get in the music industry and other musicians? Jealousy?

- They noticed us pretty fast, and mostly the feedback was only positive. Feels like people realise that it's only cool that you gain success with what you do yourself and that it also gives others chances to pursue their talent. Naturally we encountered some futile 'rock police', (LOL @ translation) but that's something you won't avoid, no matter who you are.

- Poets Of The Fall has a lot of foreign fan sites and you have your records published in several countries. What are the tactics regarding these countries?

- Well, let's not reveal the plans until the battle is won...

- Final call: What's been the nicest and least nice experience for you in the world of music industry?

- I'm not a superlative person, so I wouldn't mention just a single case. Of course well done gigs or the immediate effect our music has on a listener. The worst thing would be people who think they know. I'm not really a fan of the besserwisser -attitude. Thank god it's not that often that you meet these people.