The Lordi band has had many twists and turns. For author Maria Jyrkas, the key question in the book is: “what is the reward for not giving up?”
Otherwise, the book focuses on the music and the band and the events and people that are essentially related to them.
– We spent over a hundred hours talking to Mr Lord and almost another hundred with the other voices in the book, says Maria Jyrkäs, who wrote the two-year project.
In the first-person, diary-like Lordiary, for example, all but two of the current and former band members have a voice. One of them refused and the other is dead.
– There are, for example, record company directors, managers and Mr. Lord’s childhood friends. There has been a desire to include a wide range of perspectives.
The lawyer has a role to play in the band’s history
– He brings the legal context and expertise of how serious the situations have been that Lordi as a band has gone through, says Jyrkäs.
For this reason, according to Jyrkäs, Lordiary is not only a biography or a history of the band, but at the same time it is an in-depth look at how the international music business works.
– It’s also a look at what can happen when there’s a lot going on at the same time, the doors are open to the world and we get into a situation where there’s no choice but to act in a certain way.
Jyrkäs sees the key question of the book as what is it like to follow your own vision at a high cost and what is the reward for not giving up?
However, Mr. Lordi does not regard the work as a textbook for bands dreaming of the international music business, even though it involves a lot of learning the hard way.
– The contracts should be read by a lawyer and you should at least try to follow where you are being taken, says Mr. Lordi.
The book tells the story of what really happened
The book does not embellish things and, for example, the conflicts that prevailed in the band at any given time are brought up from several perspectives. The beak man himself is also not spared from the judgments of others.
– I wanted that if someone says I’m a complete dick, it will be written there.
The creator and only original member of Hirviölauma is lounging in his home in Rovaniemi with a fresh work, satisfied.
– It feels good to me that this is an honest book and really tells how things are and what has happened.
There are colorful stages in the band’s history to share with others. Those Finns who are only familiar with the band as Finland’s only Eurovision winner, might ask Mr. Lord \”is this still playing?\”
In fact, the band has played sold-out big international festival gigs and acquired a stable support base in different parts of the world. The fact that translation versions of the now published Lordiary have already been requested also shows the interest.
– Yes, we deeply hope that it will at least be published in English. Hopefully also in German, Jyrkäs says.
However, translation processes take their own time if only because of the competition for the sale of translation rights. In addition, you need to find a translator who understands the world of the book. There would be potential readers.
The fact that books in Finnish have been ordered from abroad, for lack of a better one, shows the interest of international fans.
– It’s a Lordi collector’s item and you can at least see the photo attachments. In addition, you can try to read it with Google Translator, Jyrkäs laughs.
Lord has always had a loyal fan base in Finland as well, which will be remembered on the autumn European tour. It culminates in domestic concerts in Tampere, Turku and Helsinki in December.
The base pert inside the latex is not of interest
It is pointless to look for revelations about private life in a recent book. It was a conscious decision to leave personal matters as a side plot, although those that influenced Mr. Lord’s creative ability made it into the book.
Performance from behind masks has been an integral part of the vision stemming from horror films from the beginning. The idea is that only the character playing in the band is famous, not the basic pert inside the latex.
It is something that Mr. Lordi has not agreed to budge on over the years – even at the invitation of the President of the Republic, as many remember from the aftermath of the Eurovision victory and the book also tells.
Although strict adherence to privacy has been criticized, it has also been admired.
From time to time, in stories about the band, the civil names of the band members are published, but it always makes the nose man sigh.
Quote from the book:
MANA, Lord’s drummer since 2012
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