JYRKI WITCH :
VOCALIST - TWO WITCHES

U- Tell us what the band is currently up to, live dates etc.

JYRKI- Touring a lot (like always), re-released the debut album (Agony of the Undead Vampire, pt.2) again with bonuses and the new lay-out, composing new songs for the next albums, and the side-projects takes a lot of time too.

U- Any plans for a live home video or DVD in the near future?

JYRKI- No, because home videos are normally so boring to watch, especially live videos. But we'll release all of the promotional clips in a CD-Rom format next year.

U- You use a lot of fetish imagery (CD covers & lyrics), is this a big interest in your life, or do you just use it because its the "in-thing" in goth circles?

JYRKI- Hhhmmm, a strange question, thinking of the truth, I've been using that imagery from late 80's when no-one else did the same. We took that from The Cramps (a great band, but has nothing to do with goth) and those days people thought we are crazy and perv. Then a little by little other bands started to use the same imagery. So, is it our fault that so many bands are using the same nowadays. When we started, all the bands just used those funny hats.

U- What other known (and unknown) bands have you played in?

JYRKI- La Vampire Nue, GodLike, Double Dare plays Bauhaus, SinMasters, Fixed Frame and some others.

U- When people ask you what type of music do you play, what do you tell them?

JYRKI- It's pure and shameless goth with a big touch of sex and irony, but done in Two Witches' way.

U- You have a side project called "SinMasters", tell us about it, and why did you feel the need to do it?

JYRKI- SinMasters is my "main" side project. A groundbreaking gothicrock "supergroup" including current members and ex-members of Ancient Rites, Beltane, Danse Macabre, DeiSix, Lacrimosa, Love Like Blood, Majesty, Neuroactive, Sepulcrum Mentis, Shade Factory and Two Witches. And the format of the music is Fetish-industrial-gothic-metal-crossover. At the moment we are composing and recording material for the debut album. Our first mcd "Seducer" came out a few months ago and went straight to No.1 in Finnish industrial-gothic-chart. We will be ready for touring immediately after the first album.

Seducer-mcd studioline-up:
Jyrki Witch (Two Witches, La Vampire Nue, GodLike, Double Dare)
Jan "Örkki" Yrlund (Ancient Rites, ex-Lacrimosa, ex-Two Witches, ex-Prestige)
Toby (ex-Two Witches, ex-Love Like Blood, La Vampire Nue)
Timv (Shade Factory, Two Witches, ex-Neuroactive, DeiSix, GodLike)

And the rest of the members for the debut album:
Nauku (ex-Two Witches)
Martin Kasprzak (Sepulcrum Mentis, La Vampire Nue, Two Witches)
Lord Gravehill (Majesty, La Vampire Nue, Shade Factory)
Karina Eames (Beltane)

U- Any plans to ever tour over seas… say in… Canada?

JYRKI- We are touring all over all the time. For example this year we played about 50 concerts (in Finland, Germany, Holland, UK, Sweden,…), but I do not know anyone from your area, so it'll be impossible to organize a tour from here to there. It would be great touring in America and Canada, and we hope the dreams come true someday. Maybe you would like to organize a tour for us? We are ready to come whenever you are ready with the flights, concerts, transportation, sleeping-places, etc.

U- Do you think the constant line up changes over the years has hurt the band?

JYRKI- Yes, of course, but that is life. We are not teenagers anymore, and because we have never gotten any money out of this, but just loosing from our own pocket all the time, sometimes people find different interests to their life. My life is Two Witches and that's the reason why the band still exists.

U- Any chance of getting a domestic deal for Canada, so we don't have to pay $30.00 for each CD on import?

JYRKI- You have to ask that from your local record companies, maybe some of those will be interested enough to sign us or re-release our back catalogue for Canadian markets. I really can't help with that subject, because I'm not releasing our records anymore. And I do not know any Canadian labels, sorry. But maybe you would like to help with that and call the local companies.

U- What's your opinion of the Goth music scene in North America compared to Europe?

JYRKI- I do not know. I have never been in North America.

U- If you were offered the job of singing for the "The Back Street Boys" for one million US $, but you could never sing (or do anything else) again in any other band, would you take it?

JYRKI- Hard to say, because that is so far away from reality. But to be honest, it would be nice to see money once in a lifetime.

U- What songs do you like playing live, which are the hardest?

JYRKI- I like to play all of our songs on stage, because that's the original idea of this band, touring a lot. It depends on the audience, in some places these and these songs are more well known and that's why those are easier to play, and in another place it might be opposite.

U- Some goth bands totally live the life style, and others, just put it on as an act for the stage. So, who (out of the bands you know) are the real deal, and who are total fakes?

JYRKI- What is that so-called-goth-life-style anyway?

U- Dose everyone get a say in the writing, or is it all you?

JYRKI- It depends on a song.

U- Who gets the most chicks in the band?

JYRKI- Earlier it was Iris, but she retired from the rock business a year ago. Nowadays it is Liina, our current keyboardist.

U- What's the most "Rock n Roll" thing you (or the band) has ever done? (like trashing hotel rooms, sex with transsexual Nuns, that type of thing)

JYRKI- Once we said "Shut up" to our bus driver. And then we had a good laugh… Is that "rock'n'roll" enough? What is this "r'n'r"- thing anyway?

U- What are your musical influences? Those from when you started, and those that inspire you today.

JYRKI- The life itself is our biggest influence.

U- What CDs do you play when you are on your own, and no one is around to hear? Any embarrassing secrets you want to tell? What type of music do you like outside of goth?

JYRKI- Hhhmmm, only really stupid people listen to just one kind of music. And as a musician, you should listen to a lot of different types of music all the time. And only those who are not sure about themselves are embarrassed about the thoughts of the other people. Yes, I'm listening to a lot of music, not just goth. There's about 15 000 (honestly) records in my collection, so it'll take hours to mention all of those.

U- What's the most embarrassing thing to ever happen to you on tour?

JYRKI- A few years ago we were touring with Midnight Configuration (from UK) here in our home country, Finland. I organized the tour (like always) and I was just worrying if everything is all right with MC. Then I made the worst screw-up and I didn't remember to make the "idiot-check" and therefore I forgot Nauku and Toby at the venue in the middle of the night (and it was freezing in Finland then), heading towards the resting place far away with the brits and the rest of TW.

U- What's the proudest moment you have had as a member of this band?

JYRKI- The day when we got the idea of this band.

U- What's your favourite beer/drink? And give us your best "drunk goth guy" story.

JYRKI- Koff III is my favourite beer, but there's a lot of other labels I like nearly as much. Are drunken stories ever so funny afterwards?
U- Yes :)

U- In a drinking contest, who in the band would be the first to pass out? Who would be the last man (or woman) standing?

JYRKI- I'll be the last man standing, no doubt about it.

U- What, in your opinion, is the attraction of the goth culture?

JYRKI- Because gothic girls are so sexy.

U- Why are you so interested in vampires? Do you want to live forever?

JYRKI- When I was very young and saw a vampire film for the first time, I fell in love immediately. Those creatures are so attractive, so beautiful and mystic that I wanted to know more about it. For me, they aren't to be feared, and nowadays I'm much deeper inside the whole thing. I'm nowadays more shifted to the mystical aspects; life without end, the power of seduction and all those sexual fetishism (the colour red, bloody kisses, blood itself, bites...). And of course I want to live forever!!

U- Does the band get along well in the studio, our do you fight amongst yourselves over every note?

JYRKI- It depends on the line-up, but yes normally we get along very well in the studio. Our budgets have always been so limited, that we've done all of our records in a few days and everyone inside the band knows the situation, and we've done the fights before or after the studio dates.

U- Two Witches "Top 5" gigs and why?

JYRKI- Our "Top 6" might be; Leoncavallo 1990 (Milano, Italy), Die Grube 1992 (Siedlinghausen, Germany), Werk II 1993 (Leipzig, Germany), Sound Factory 1997 (Sao Paulo, Brazil), Yo-Talo 1997 (Tampere, Finland) and Centro Culture Rojas 1997 (Buenos Aires, Argentina). All of those because of different reasons, but mostly because of good audiences!!

U- Your favourite cities and why?

JYRKI- Berlin, London, Sao Paulo and Buenos Aires...for everything!!

U- What's your favourite movie, and actor of all time?

JYRKI- There are too many to mention them all.

U- As a band or musician, have you ever been pressured by a label to do something you didn't want to do? (song choices, lyrics etc.) Did you cave in, or tell them to "cram it"?

JYRKI- No, that's why we try to use the same labels with everything. The owners of the labels we've been working have always been my friends.

U- Every group of friends has someone who always gets picked on and teased, so who is it in Two Witches? And what do you all do to him/her, or if its you, what do they do to you?

JYRKI- Everyone of us teases everyone inside our crew.

JYRKI- Take care, Jyrki Witch.

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