Last bus to Finland [Argentina]

The creators of the hit ‘In the Shadows’ came to Argentina for the second time in this year to present in the Personal Fest, dance some Tangos and reload energies for the next album
Any of them reaches the 30 years old, but Lauri Ylönen, Pauli Rantasalmi, Aki Hakala and Eero Heinonen come having a huge success in their native Finland and the rest of the world since more than 10 years. They knew in the secondary school, and since that moment they never stoped until they could get the actual consecration. With a very high level of popularity in South America, these four scandinavian guys, who have aren’t cold people at all, have a lot of fan clubs in this region, that wait for their visit with admiration and desperation. This has happened in March, this year, when The Rasmus came to present’Hide From the Sun’, their last album, in the Pepsi Music Stadium. And the same happened in this second return, in which they became part of the Personal Fest. Days before this second presentation in Buenos Aires, the blogs and the forums dadicated to the finnish band, where full of topics about if the tickets weren’t allow to people under 18. Fortunately, the event was allow to all the ages and everyone could go. As well that The Rasmus came to make their show, they manage to meet their fans and to dadicate time to the interviewers.

What has changed in these 10 years that you have togheter?
Eero Heinonen: First of all, we left the school, because when we started we had 15 years old. I remember that in that moment we listened so much punk, Nirvana and the Red Hot Chilli Peppers. The music that we made was quite different too: we had a kind of “funk” side, it was more like rap music. That has changed too.

Is there something that you would like to change about your music?
Lauri Ylönen: We didn’t get a definite recipe yet. Each album is different and we keep on searching for different things. Every two years we make a new album. Meanwhile those two years things go changing and our music modifies.

Did you already think how the succesor of Hide from the sun will be?
Lauri: We are finishing the world tour, that we have been doing, in Argentina.
This year, that we travelled to places that we hadn’t been to before, we come back to our country with many new experiencies and also much work. We will incorporate new things just in the new album, things that has moved us spiritually during all this period.
Eero: Each crazy night, each experience, each thing that happened to us will reflect in the album.

Did you live some of those crazy nights in Argentina?
Eero: Yes! One of those crazy nights was in “The Old Store”, where we danced tango with old ladies and we lived a very funny situation.

Did some of them ask you, your phone number?
Aki: Luckily, not. Because while we were dancing we didn’t have time to talk. (*laughs*)

Is it true that in that moment you had to change your discographic company because the one that you had pretended that you just sang in Finnish?
Lauri: Yes, the matter is that 10 years ago everything was so different, because nobody sang in English in Finland. It’s a very little country, you know, so everybody sang in the native language.
But we thought that it could work and we kept singing in English.

With the success that you have in countries of Spanish language, have you thought of recording something in Spanish?
Lauri: Not for now. But even that we don’t sing in Spanish, I think that The Rasmus has something from Tango. It can be the temperament of that kind of music, but especially at the end of our works. It could be said that we have the spirit of the tango.

Local Credits
Bonsur, ex-Santos Inocentes and the Argentinian conecction with the Finnish guys.
When The Rasmus played at the Pepsi Music Stadium, on March 29th of this year, they had Bonsur as support band, band that the ex-Santos Inocentes Axel Báez and Andrés Dussel share with Pablo Diez and Julián Semprini. Bonsur liked to the 4 finnish guys, who shared a party after the show. In the Personal Fest, both groups shared they stage again, but in the ‘Club Ciudad de Buenos Aires’.

Did you make contact with some Argentinian bands in one of these visits?
Eero: We didn’t have the chance that somebody could introduced us many Argentinian bands, but we’d like to know a bit more. In our first visit we met Bonsur, and they are a fantastic band for us. I remember that they gave us t-shirts of Maradona.
Lauri: We’ve also been with them on the after-show. It’s great that this time they presented on the same date so we could see them again.

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