On January 13, Ville Valo kicked off his long-awaited headline tour as a solo performer under the banner VV – and as he promised to Kerrang! last year when talking about these shows, the musician split things exactly 50/50 between his new album Neon Noir, and HIM favourites. Switching between VV and HIM classics at Tavastia in his hometown of Helsinki, Ville kicked things off with his “teary mascara marathon between Robert Smith and Ozzy, with a dash of hope” single Echolocate Your Love, before going into HIM’s The Funeral Of Hearts. And in fact, that’s exactly how he continued the gig, alternating between VV and stuff from his previous band – and he really did bring out the big-hitters when it came to the latter, from Buried Alive By Love to Wings Of A Butterfly to Wh...