But Finland is small and the world is big, Jonne states. So now is the time to aim for a serious international success, in which the guitarist Sir Christus was fired earlier this year.
- It was a difficult decision; he had been with us for seven years. But he was heading towards doom and even took heroin. When we went to China he was so high that he got lost at the airport and was gone for eleven hours! We told him to tighten up, but sorry… it’s like ice hockey; you must function as a team. And the responsibility grows with the sales – it’s not like in the 70s and 80s, if you fail, there’s always some other band ready to take your place. Of course, everybody in the band has their problems; Larry’s doing drugs and we drink a lot. But we’re keeping it under control and I have been dreaming of this since I founded NEGATIVE as 14-year-old. I don’t want us to be known as the band which was ‘so close to get success’.
- It was a difficult decision; he had been with us for seven years. But he was heading towards doom and even took heroin. When we went to China he was so high that he got lost at the airport and was gone for eleven hours! We told him to tighten up, but sorry… it’s like ice hockey; you must function as a team. And the responsibility grows with the sales – it’s not like in the 70s and 80s, if you fail, there’s always some other band ready to take your place. Of course, everybody in the band has their problems; Larry’s doing drugs and we drink a lot. But we’re keeping it under control and I have been dreaming of this since I founded NEGATIVE as 14-year-old. I don’t want us to be known as the band which was ‘so close to get success’.