Translation for Kuumaa interview for mtv3 on 20.4.2024
Original interview can be currently found here
Interviewer: Kuumaa-band's Johannes, Jonttu and Aarni are still here present. Soon we'll take audience questions, but before that, Aarni, I've understood that you have largely designed this visual side of the band Kuumaa.
Aarni: Yes
Interviewer: So this overalls that is now is this by your design?
Aarni: It is designed by me
Interviewer: Okay, where does inspiration start and why this look?
Aarni: Well, with the overalls, we wanted to avoid last year 120 outfit crisis, so the overalls were an answer to that.
Interviewer: So to a show when you just pull on the same overalls and it's easy to wash and change.
Aarni: Always the same overalls. Yes.
Interviewer: How many shows do you perform in the same overalls?
Aarni: It is two to three before it needs to be washed.
Interviewer: Okay. After that it walks to you.
*collective chuckling*
Interviewer: Understood. And a tough tour summer now too. I looked at your tour calendar- What was there? Parctically, on June 7th starts your summer tour and all the way to the end of August. You don't have any free weekends, there are of course weekdays there. 35 shows or something like that I must have counted. But you're experts at this. Last summer you did this same set.
Johannes: Well last summer we kind of told our booking agent that now go all out as much as you can, and we'll try if we can do it. And we can. So happily we're doing a new summer now.
Interviewer: We just went over that those cord conversations have been had, so what were you, Jonttu, planning on pulling next, somewhere around Mikkeli?
Jonttu: Maybe I'll have to pull some conversation cards or something along.
Interviewer: Conversation cards?
Jonttu: Yeah.
Interviewer: True. Hey, we've gotten a lot of audience questions. Finally we'll get some good questions to this interview. These have come in through our social media and I'll ask from you. Let's take the first one. Mikko has asked a question. This is probably one you've never answered before. From where did you get the name Kuumaa?
Johannes: The name Kuumaa comes from the midst of hundreds of name options and I fancied simply the tight form and this double meaning, the temperature and then these planets.
Interviewer: This double meaning has only gotten revealed to quite many here only a little later. What do you think of that?
Johannes: To us it's funny because it has been for longer quite obvious, that there- there all the way in the logo there is this kind of reading direction.
Interviewer: Yeah. And if I'm completely honest, then I've missed it. Yeah yeah. It took me really long to realize too the wordplay. But yeah. So that is the history, that there were a lot of options but that was the one that took. Do you want to say anything that was there in the... top 3? Almost ended up...
Johannes: Kärmes was one.
Jonttu: Yeah
Johannes: Maybe not so good.
Interviewer: Kärmes?
Johannes: Yes.
Jonttu: Yes. But we were really excited about it.
Johannes: Yeah. And now apparently there was on Spotify some artist called Kärmes, so-
Jonttu: We wish them...
Aarni: Good luck to Kärmes.
*collective laughter*
Interviewer: Well then, Ansku is asking, first of all with the reagrds that 'You're the best', that has there been any fights? So, Jonttu, has there been any fights?
Jonttu: Well- Just- What we talked about our conversation culture, so we try to open everything so, like, at an early enough stage—is early a word? Yes— that no conversation developes into a fight, or that no held back things rupture in a way that necessitates a fight. So maybe our latest fight was when I in Brussels ordered myself a hamburger and it surprised you in some way that you attacked.
*Johannes bursts into laughter*
Jonttu: That dude is out here eating some hamburger. That was our latest fight.
Interviewer: This story- This story we need. So what had happened?
Johannes: I don't even remember that, because, I assume, it wasn't a long-tempered case. But, like we just- so, we were up north for over two weeks on tour, and I was very proud of it that there were a couple times there was a situation where it almost boils over and we somehow, very maturely deconstructed it right away. Like 'Hey, I got a little bit upset because you looked at me like this *mimics facial expression* at the same time as I was looking at you like this *mimics a very different expression*'. Like those are like tiny nuances that we're deconstructing like as they come.
Interviewer: And Jonttu is careful with those hamburgers in the future.
Jonttu: Yes, exactly. What then is the right time to eat a hamburger? I don't know yet, but it surely- but it surely will get revealed here sometime.
Johannes: Maybe you didn't ask for premission for it or something.
Jonttu: Yeah. *Looks up an away from johannes* I'm so sorry.
Interviewer: Well then. Here comes the next question. Anita I think is this nametag. Do you want to sometime make collaboration songs with some other artist?
Johannes: Does Anita mean like feature?
Interviewer: I think yes, that could your song have in it, like, Gettomasa or, what- whoever.
Jonttu: Or Kärmes
Johannes: Or Kärmes!
Interviewer: Or Kärmes!
Johannes: Well- Like, that idea has, like, nothing wrong with it. Quite the opposite, it's like that collaborating is quite an inspiring thought. But we're asked a lot like 'When will you do a song with this and this and this and this?' And we've always answered that, well when from a sincere basis a song is made, that serves the, like, thing of each artist. That like the idea that we make a song and the grab artist X, like, for 8 bars for it, just so we could have a feature song, that hasn't felt inspiring. And on the flip side visiting on others' songs if the idea there is just to get two artists under the same title.
Interviewer: Yeah. Well then next weekend you have the ice hall show.
*Johannes blows a deep breath*
Interviewer: Sari here asks if you can reveal something about it already. Of course you've already done big shows and in the fall you have arena shows ahead and everything, but like the ice hall is the ice hall.
Johannes: Well, I can reveal that the preparations for no Kuumaa show has been anticipated* this much.
*Anticipated could be read as anxious, nervous or exciting depending on connotation. Here it is most likely a mix of the three, like 'made me as nervous/excited.'
Johannes: Our entire new album is getting perfomed there, like- which means that a horrible amount of new material in it's debut performance at once. It's- It has a first and a second act, that we can reveal. And an outfit change is coming up. What more? Let's reveal something.
Jonttu: Well, kind of, we're performing an unreleased song as well.
Johannes: That's true, yeah.
Interviewer: Kind of unreleased?
Jonttu: Kind of.
Interviewer: Alright. Okay one more question, Aino-Maria 5yo sent us on our facebook page that are there any all-ages shows coming up?
Johannes: Yes. Actually during the fall we're doing only 7 shows. They're like arenas. They're all all-ages. So Aino-Maria, you're welcome to come to all of them
Interviewer: They're also asking here if it'd be possible to get Johannes' autograph, so could we after the show arrange this and send it to Aino-Maria?
Johannes: Absolutely! Of course.
Interviewer: I think we might manage to get the rest of the guys' autographs as well. Big thank you that you could make it here! Do you have Karonkka up aheade?
Jonttu: Apparently.
Interviewer: But you don't know what's going on?
Johannes: No.
Interviewer: Well, neither do I. But it was nice to have you here. All good things to you, good luck to the ice hall.
*Collective thank you's*
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