From playing HIM’s first show with a Satanist, to having Tony Iommi check them out at Download Festival, to having Bam Margera organise their first show in the States, Ville Valo has had a hell of a ride. With his VV solo project primed to bring him back to the UK, the Finnish Love Metal God tells his story through the shows that made him… HIM’s first-ever show opening for “the Finnish Nick Cave” “Our bass player’s [Mige] big brother had a local venue, well more of a big bar, and we had the opportunity to steal ourselves a support slot for the Finnish Nick Cave, a guy called Kauko Röyhkä. At that time he was dabbling in the occult and Satanism, which was a big deal, because it was when all the churches were burning in Norway. They made this coo...