We play songs from the first two albums that have been released in Japan and the fans there are really hot. We've practised our Japanese set here in London. Those fans who saw us at Foot were about nineteen to twenty-five. People know us quite well in London nowadays. There was a warm-up band called Iron Flowers (NOTE: we have a strong feeling that the band was infact Rene Berg's band Idle Flowers) and the feeling was awsome from the beginning. Six hundred can fit in but I think it wasn't that full. That's enough for them so why give more? We played at Club Foot. Michael: "We've been in London for a week now but we have played only one gig. They went to Belgium for a lunch and didn't reach London until it was time for a night-cap."Ģ0 Jan: London (Club Foot). Others stayed behind and got lost or something. That place where we played was all right. But we were having fun and that was the main thing. Some liked us and some looked like they were in the wrong place. Same kinda reactions like we had in Finland when we started the band. Everything was bit stiff 'cause we didn't know what the crowd expected and they didn't know us at all. Michael: "The first gig of this world tour was in Amsterdam. Band did the best what they could do but still something was missing between them and the audience. Gig started with Carl Orff's Carmina Burana opening tape and continued with Oriental Beat which was suddenly changed into Lost In The City. This was the first gig outside Finland, Sweden or UK and first gig under tour title which was unofficially named as a joke as: Fuck All To Do On A Saturday Night World Tour. Why hurry? Our reputation grows all the time."ġ5 or 16 Jan: Amsterdam (Club Paradiso). We do things like Siouxie And The Banshees and we wait 'til we get the best deal on the table. Andy: "Some English record companies have contacted us and offered a deal but we haven't signed anything yet. We're a combination of punk, fifties rock, seventies glam and Shangri-Las."Ī very lucrative record deal was also hanging in the air. On stage we're a punk band but in the albums we're a rock'n'roll band. This new album will be more rocking, more melodic and more multi-nuanced." Michael agreed with him: " After this album (Oriental Beat) there will be something new, something funkier."Īndy was distressed about being categorized: "Why the hell everybody thinks we are a heavy metal band? That's the last thing what we really are. Andy: "Our previous records were more or less one-take shots. Musically band tried to expand their views after Oriental Beat. It wasn't about looting or snatching, it was just being too optimistic." He invested some of the Mike's money to Cherry Bombz but it never paid back. He owes me fuckin' enormously but I guess I'll never see that dough." Seppo Vesterinen concluded his statement: "Richard sold old Hanoi catalogues and the money were divided between the band members. Michael instead was a wee bit more bitter about Richard: "He looted my bread. Basically it looked like that Richard did the things he was hired to do but if he had an opportunity to snatch dough he did so." He formed a perfect team with Seppo because Seppo was more stable, balanced person. Many times he had five or six good ideas at the same time. He was qualified bloke and he had many bright ideas. That of course comes with the character of the job you are doing. In England, Richard Bishop was constantly working hard for the band and therefore Nasty commented after Hanoi years: "Richard was always mocked about his greediness but you can't find a tough business man who wouldn't be. British music agency called Agency at Madison Street in London was in charge for Hanoi Rocks in Europe (excluding Scandinavia) while ICM looked after USA markets. Three years of hard work started finally to gather some financial profit: concert fees in Finland and Japan were around tens of thousands of Euro's. Michael Monroe started to wrote (sometimes rather confused) columns to Suosikki-magazine. Boys thought that the only reason why they boycotted them was the issue of Oriental Beat album's front cover. In UK every major music magazine wrote positive things about the band except NME. During this year Hanoi conquered British and Japanese markets and USA was about to be conquered soon. The future of the band looked rosy and everything pointed towards global stardom. 1983 was very busy and exciting year to Hanoi Rocks.
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