interview with Vetten Äpärät

What´s the name of your band? Vetten Äpärät

How was the band formed? Anton and Sami started jamming formed the band during high school back in 2007. The other members were found from the Helsinki metal music scene after that. 

Can you tell about your band? Folk metal. Based on the strong roots of our finnish folk predecessors.

Who does what in the band? Sami Ferm - Vocals / Flutes /ComposingAleksi Kulmala - Lead Guitar Leo Lemmetty - Rhythm Guitar / Backing vocals Jarmo Luopa - Bass / Backing vocals Irene Penttonen - Keyboard Anton Nisonen - Drums

What was the ambitions of the band when you started? To rock the fuck out. 

Where was your first gig? At Gloria, Helsinki 2009

Where was the latest gig? At Bakkanaalit festival/farm party, Tammela this summer.

Who writes your songs?/Who writes the music who writes lyrics? Mostly Sami.

Who has the best sense of humor in the band? Leo. Quality of humor not included.

What are your songs about? Sami's relationship problems :'(  and the cold darkness of nordic life and its beautiful rugged nature.

Have you made any albums?/If yes what are they? A few demos and we just released our debut single "Sydäntalven Viha" 

Do you have any clips on YouTube? All you need is here: www.youtube.com/user/VettenAparat

How old are you? We're all in our early twenties.

Best/worst gig you've played?

Best: Nosturi, Helsinki. The Emergenza festival band contest. Got to the Finland's semi-finals. Shit was so cash, huge audience, great vibe, good afterparty. 

Worst: We never play a bad gig. 

What places will you be playing in in the near future? At Club PRKL, Helsinki 31.7 and somewhere else in Finland this fall...

Where have you played from then till now? http://www.vettenaparat.com/live

Witch band is the best you´ve seen? Turisas way back in 2007 at Gloria. One of the best folk metal shows ever. An epic party with everything from accordion battles to violin solos. An incredible vibe in the audience, everyone was your friend. Most of our members were at that gig before we even knew each other. 

Is it always the same songs live? We try to have versatility in our set list. If we're playing at a party we like to spice it up with a few epic covers.

Have you had any bigger tours from start to now? In the fall of 2012 we had a mini-tour around the clubs in southern Finland. It was humorously called Piekana Piekana Tön Tön Tön - tour 2012. Every night ended in a booze-fest. 

How big crowds do you usually play for? ~50-200

What are the plans for the rest of the year? Heavy online promotion and gigs.

How do you get psyched up for a gig? A few beers and just chatting with people around the venue. Nothing that special. Gotta make sure not to be too drunk when we hit the stage.

What are your goals with your music? To take finnish folk metal further. Also to get booze and chairs.

When did you decide to go all in for the music? Almost right when started as we realised that playing music is the best hobby and an epic way of life.

What's the first step when making a new song? You can't start writing a new song just like that or else the song ends up stale or boring, soulless. One needs an emotion of some sort to make good material. When you get the first spark, it lights up the fire and the rest just comes naturally. The greater the emotion the stronger the song, it doesn't matter whether positive or negative. 

How do you feel about the downloading of music instead of buying albums? At this digital age we have a high interest in online streaming of music. Bands can utilize their own preferred channels to broadcast their work. We feel that drives people away from piracy and if the songs are good enough the online sales will follow.

What would be your dreams for the band? Getting a record deal and just progressing as a band, touring, the usual.

Besides your own music, what genres and bands do you listen to? Although our occupation is to play folk metal, that's only a small portion of the music we're into. We actually like to listen to a lot of electronic music for example. 

What would be your greatest fears for the future? For this way of life to come to its end or becoming so stale and full of routine that it would feel like dead end job.

When you are on stage, what do you fear most then? For the alien life to take over the planet but that usually never happens. Unless they would make good dubstep remixes of our songs, that would be legit.

Have you been part of any other projects?

Plenty:

Chaotech

Halo of Dreams

Marginal Types

CGMA

Cock9

Suhteettomuusteoria

What do you work with outside of the band and the music? Basic ghetto shit. Hustling and trying to stay alive.

How important are your fans? Well, they become extremely handful when it's too hot on the stage.

What's the funniest/most memorable thing a fan has done for you? One of our fans actually decided to take matters into his own hands and introduce us to some members of Ensiferum in a very drunk condition a few years ago. The moment was extremely awkward for all of us. Petri, their vocalist was not very pleased by that :D

How often do you rehearse? Once every week.

Do you have any webpages?

www.vettenaparat.com

www.facebook.com/vettenaparat

Any pearls of wisdom for all other bands out there? When picking a drummer, make sure he learns your songs instead of just trying to jam Pantera :D

What is best/worst with playing the clubs? Good vibes but a bad payday.

What is your favorite crappy instrument? Sami's flutes, when he tried to bend some notes and them for kung-fu panda fighting

Do you have anything to add? A shout-out to black metal and other forms of humor music.  

Kommentarer:

1 SPLINKY - FOTO | CHEER | VARDAG:

coolt :D

2 VERONICA - modeblogg:

Gud så häftig bild :) Ha en underbart fin kväll, ha det bäst! Kram!

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