- What’s the story behind Lovex? Did you have any other names for the band?
Vivian: The story behind the Lovex name is quite simple. It came from our first songs. Right in the beginning most of our songs were about lost love and Lovex is those two words, ex and love. The biggest reason for the name is that it’s really annoying and sticks in your head. Some people love it and some hate it, which in our opinion is a good thing. The world’s best and crappiest name for a band.
- Bands get very different levels of recording contracts. What’s the story behind yours?
Vivian: We just pooled all of our money and made a great demo and it landed in the right peoples hands and that was about it. It was rare though for a band to get a contract from their first demo, but when we’d finished it we had a huge amount of confidence that it was hot and that it would be strange if something didn’t budge. The reason that our first demo was so good and we got a contract from it, is that we had all played in many other bands before. All the guys have been playing at peast10 years and our keyboard player, Christian, has played in various academys for over 15 years.
- How would you describe your music to someone who hasn’t heard it yet?
Vivian: Varied symphonic rock; or Rock symphonies...or ultimate 80’s love rock. It’s really hard trying to categorise it, because some of the songs are pure orchestral film soundtrack style and others are hard rock/metal tracks. Big sounds and beautiful melodys. Super Rock.
- When is your debut album out? What sort of material will we hear on it. Is it very varied?
Vivian: We’re hoping to have the album on the streets for the beginning of 2006. The record will be a compilation of hardrock,mood metal and film/symphony music. Machine music and some things with a whiff of the 80’s. The final choice of songs for the album hasn’t yet been finalised. All the time there are new options but the main idea is to put together a diverse mix, but of course that big sound full of rock made with real feeling and cool melodies is the main theme.
- How is your music conceived? Do you have any specific methods?
Vivian: Usually what happens is that someone has got a song roughly ready and we listen through it and then the group works out what everyone should be playing. Then we get down to putting it together. Theo plays a leading role but of course the others give their opinions too. Sometimes we’re just jamming and a song comes through.
- What about the lyrics? Where do they come from?
Vivian: for me what happens is that I’ve had some sort of idea where I’ve got the feeling for the piece and then just scribbled it down with the flow, then looked to see how it can be put into a usable form.
Theon: Things happen to us all but perhaps more to me. On Sunday mornings I just put down my feelings about them on paper
. – Are the lyrics based more on real life or your imaginations?
Vivian: Some of it’s true and written from the heart but yeah, some of it’s the product pure imagination.
Theon: It’s just not possible to use only our own experiences to write the lyrics. What happens is that you use what’s happened to you as a base and embellish it a bit.
- What’s your message to your listeners?
Theon: Your not alone…It all comes down on us all.
- Now you’ve had time to digest your gigs. Have you found any theme or other memorable happening, or happenings…?
Theon: We just had to break something, so a bunch of us smashed up a barstool in the Kaivohuone restaurants back room for about half an hour. It broke.
Vivian: Yeah, and in that frame of mind it really was fun…
- What’s the best show you’ve seen another band put on? And why?
Theon: Darkness really took my soul. A perfect entertainment!
Vivian: Metallica 18.11.1996...Their first big icehall gig and oh boy! It was a great show.
- What bands are your all-time favourite bands?
Theon: Queen. So many other good bands at some time or other wig out and produce some real bullshit, so that’s gotta be my answer.
Vivian: Guns’n Roses. For the same reasons...all of their songs are terrific..
-And have you found any interesting new bands lately?
Theon: Just recently I’ve been listening to some heavier stuff. Kill switch Engage and Soilwork really kick ass!
Vivian: The first new band to come to my mind is Crashdiet. It’s a great orchestra. There aren’t really any more that I could honestly give a 10 to.
- Which Finnish bands are most to your taste?
Theon: Disco Ensemble, Paskalataus. In Finland, (mainly Tampere) there’s some really good ”underground music. It pays to go the gigs!
Vivian: Hei...that Paskalataus is hot: Other good home-grown bands are HIM, The Rasmus, Uniklubi, Maija Vilkkumaa, Disco Ensemble and yeah, Sentenced was good until they broke up. Oh, and Entwined new album is good stuff. ,
- How often do you visit your own web site forum?
24/7. Or at least once a day, or nearly every day.
- What is Lovexe's objective?
To become the worlds biggest rock band! And to find me a beautiful wife. (Theon).
