{"id":787,"date":"2013-03-23T00:34:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-23T00:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/picturedesk.co.uk\/news\/?p=787"},"modified":"2013-03-23T18:18:48","modified_gmt":"2013-03-23T18:18:48","slug":"him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.picturedesk.co.uk\/news\/2013\/03\/him\/","title":{"rendered":"HIM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Just got back from the most brilliant week in Finland shooting Ville and HIM. \u00c2\u00a0It was cold but the reception was warm in Helsinki. \u00c2\u00a0Ville was such a fantastic host. \u00c2\u00a0The week started with a shoot in the studio doing 2 front covers and a series of band portraits and group shots for Metal Hammer. \u00c2\u00a0The second cover is for the Official Fan pack release of \u00c2\u00a0the new album &#8216;Tears on Tape&#8217;. \u00c2\u00a0Ville and all the members of HIM were so patient all day as we tried various set-ups and poses. \u00c2\u00a0Ville was brilliant as always and made my day much easier than it could have been.\u00c2\u00a0The next day we did some location shots around Helsinki, visited various local haunts of the band, standing on the frozen sea and ended the day playing pool and finally getting a cold beer. \u00c2\u00a0I also had exclusive access to the bands rehearsal studio and listened to a few tracks off the new album played live (it all sounded very Black Sabbath). \u00c2\u00a0On the final day the band were filming the promo video for the first single off the album &#8216;into the night&#8217;. \u00c2\u00a0I was surprised how commercial it sounded considering how heavy the previous days rehearsal was. \u00c2\u00a0I shot a load of stills as the band played along to the playback ( I really love the new single). \u00c2\u00a0Thank christ my camera can see in the dark because the shoot was lit by one torch (not kidding!). \u00c2\u00a0The exclusive access myself and Hammer Ed Alex Milas got promises to make an amazing insight into the band. \u00c2\u00a0I think both magazines will be brilliant value for money. \u00c2\u00a0Especially as most bands these days go in for the junket approach to press. \u00c2\u00a0This was a week hanging out and shooting what we needed at our pace with no restrictions and totally exclusive.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-794\" alt=\"hammer ville 13\" src=\"http:\/\/picturedesk.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/hammer-ville-13-466x660.jpg\" width=\"466\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.picturedesk.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/hammer-ville-13-466x660.jpg 466w, http:\/\/www.picturedesk.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/hammer-ville-13-212x300.jpg 212w, http:\/\/www.picturedesk.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/hammer-ville-13.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-788\" alt=\"VILLE VALO and HIM in HELSINKI 27-30 FEB 13\" src=\"http:\/\/picturedesk.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/VILLE-HIM-McMURTRIE-4163-2fb-him-439x660.jpg\" width=\"439\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.picturedesk.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/VILLE-HIM-McMURTRIE-4163-2fb-him-439x660.jpg 439w, http:\/\/www.picturedesk.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/VILLE-HIM-McMURTRIE-4163-2fb-him-199x300.jpg 199w, http:\/\/www.picturedesk.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/VILLE-HIM-McMURTRIE-4163-2fb-him.jpg 1574w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 439px) 100vw, 439px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-789\" alt=\"ville cover 13\" src=\"http:\/\/picturedesk.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/ville-cover-13-412x660.gif\" width=\"412\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.picturedesk.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/ville-cover-13-412x660.gif 412w, http:\/\/www.picturedesk.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/ville-cover-13-187x300.gif 187w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 412px) 100vw, 412px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Just got back from the most brilliant week in Finland shooting Ville and HIM. \u00c2\u00a0It was cold but the reception was warm in Helsinki. \u00c2\u00a0Ville was such a fantastic host. \u00c2\u00a0The week started with a shoot in the studio &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.picturedesk.co.uk\/news\/2013\/03\/him\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.picturedesk.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.picturedesk.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.picturedesk.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.picturedesk.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.picturedesk.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.picturedesk.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":800,"href":"http:\/\/www.picturedesk.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions\/800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.picturedesk.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.picturedesk.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.picturedesk.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}