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Interview: Nightwish, 2007-09-28
By Rockslave
Hartwall Arena, Helsinki, October 21st 2005: After an inspiring concert in front of a sold-out venue the band bows to its home audience. Everyone takes each other’s hands, including keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen and vocalist Tarja Turunen. For minutes the fans continue to applaud even after the band has long since left the stage. More than only a few girls in the first row shed tears. On the big video-screen is written ‘Once I had a dream – this is it’. And that was just it, because a few minutes later Tarja held the letter of dismissal in hands, signed by all band members, which abruptly sealed her time with Nightwish. The news hit like a bomb and kept the scene busy for weeks to come. Roughly two years later Nightwish are complete and back again. The successor’s name is Anette Olzon, former vocalist of Alyson Avenue, and prevailed against about 2000 applicants. As an additional means of promotion besides the newly released first single “Amaranth” (“Eva” had been the first track of Dark Passion Play to be released but as a download-single only) Anette and Tuomas went on tour and stopped over in Bern today, where they patiently signed autographs and had their picture taken with the numerously deployed fans for more than two hours in front of the “City-Disc” in the train station passage. Afterwards interviews were scheduled and Metal Factory got the last slot with Anette. Despite being visibly and understandably tired the new Nightwish-frontwoman granted me an interview of nearly half an hour showing herself to be very sympathetic and confident.
(AO= Anette Olzon)
MF: When you look back a few months (back to spring), what’s the main difference between Anette Blyckert and Anette Olzon?
AO: Oh… well… there’s not that much of a difference, you know. But it’s obvious when I work, just like everyone else does, because… it’s a job after all (laughs) – even if it’s one I love very much, there’s a professional person standing behind it who gives interviews, who is in the public eye and perhaps doesn’t show as much of a crazy attitude as in private life. I don’t think I’m that much different as a person… I still do the same things and I sincerely hope I’m going to be able to continue doing so. Walking down the street, shopping, things that are fun.
MF: Why the different (last) name, then?
AO: Actually… first of all Blyckert can be said and pronounced in a wrong way… like [insert possible wrong pronounciation]* or [same here]* or something like that. It’s my name as a married woman and Olzon is my maiden name, which is easier to pronounce too. Apart from that it’s been about protecting my family from the very beginning… I have a family at home which does not necessarily want to be in the spotlight. People know both names and there haven’t been any problems with it. I feel both, Blyckert and Olzon… (laughs heartily)…
MF:… it’s the same person!
AO: Yes, that she is.
MF: How did you feel when the long awaited ‘OK’ came in May, when you definitley were a part of the band?
AO: I needed quite some time to really understand and realise this since for me, as one of the first candidates, it was a process of one and a half years. I was really down… even after I was in. I thought… what if you do something wrong or they change their mind? It was a strange feeling, so I was only assured once the work in the studio began. When I saw how relieved Tuomas was when everything worked how it should. It was liberating for me, too… now I can relax because I know that the guys really like my voice and that they put their trust in me. I needed some time to understand they were being serious and not just ‘bla bla’, chaffering. Liberating… yes.
MF: What do you think about the incident with Tarja? Did you talk to Tuomas about her… at the most sign a contract?
AO: No… no! Well… actually I don’t have anything besides the contract with the record label which I received a few weeks ago. I never asked for a contract, I trust the guys. ‘Cause I think that’s the only way… trust is very important. We didn’t talk about Tarja… I think they (her bandmates – MF) were deeply saddened by what has happened. They didn’t want it to happen but there was no other way. It’s history now and everyone just wants to look forward. That’s why we don’t talk about it anymore.
MF: How did you approach the new songs, which were completely recorded before you did your vocals? Is this a way of working which you like or are you used to something different?
AO: No, it’s a way of working I’m used to. It’s quite common with today’s bands. Many are laid-out as projects… Alyson (Avenue – MF), my last one… was a band at the beginning, but over the years it turned into a project. You went there and arranged the album, everyone came to the studio… the guitarist and so on. You didn’t rehearse anymore. I never had problems with this anyway and actually it’s better for me in a way because I want to sing exactly the way I feel at the very moment. I don’t want to think too much about it, so… when I sing, it’s not that important to me that it’s technically perfect but that I sing with emotion and can deliver the message.
MF: Did Tuomas tell you how to sing the songs? Did you bring in your own suggestions?
AO: Of course there were melody lines to follow, but he never said ‘Sing this like that!’. It was like… when we started with a song I just sang it once and Tuomas and two additional producers then said something like ‘Try to sing this in a sadder way’, that’s what it was like. But not ‘Sing it like this or that’… and sometimes I asked if I perhaps should sing it more like this or differently. There was a lot of team work and freedom at the same time. Actually there’s been complete freedom with everything I did since I got to know Tuomas and the guys.
MF: That’s good… nice to hear!
AO: That it is!
MF: Let’s talk about the new album… and now I just have to say ‘“Dark Passion Play” is fuckin’ awesome’!
AO: Thanks… thank you very much! I agree! – (roars with laughter)
MF: What’s your favourite song and do you know why Tuomas chose “The Poet and the Pendulum” to be the opener?
AO: Actually I like a lot of them and every time I listen to them I discover something new. I’ve listened to the album about one thousand times and I’m really… (Anette makes a sound like ‘It’s enough’) – But now that I’m sitting here I can still say ‘wow’… I like “Meadows of Heaven” a lot. I like gospel, I’ve sung gospel for several years and I love the atmosphere, it’s such a hopeful song. Then, concerning “Eva” I have to say that I cried a lot while singing, a very emotional song and then there’s “Sahara” where I have to sing cool stuff. And “Poet”… - I know why the guys chose this one… usually the longest song is at the end. But from the very beginning they felt that “Meadows of Heaven” would be perfect as the last track. So there wasn’t much of a choice and that’s why it (“The Poet…” – MF) is being played first. It’s something completely different for once, unusual and it leaves the listener like ‘What? 14 minutes?’ (laughs loudly) – It’s something new… they (we) wanted to walk new shores and that we did.
MF: The style of the music is still bombastic and melodic at the same time and partly very heavy. Is it a way to express the anger of the past?
AO: I can just say what Tuomas would tell you… of course! What happened in 2005 obviously left its traces in the songs. I know that, back then, for Tuomas it wasn’t really anger but more of a personal bitterness because he, as the bandleader, couldn’t hold the band together. I think there was deep sadness and disappointment for which he punishes himself in “The Poet…” because he kills himself! I really think it influenced his songwriting since he was in such a sad mood… so, yes!
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