Download 2010 Band-On-Band Preview: We Are The Fallen On HIM

Carly Smithson has apparently "never seen a band with so many bras onstage" as when Ville Valo and co play...

Posted Monday, 7 June 2010 in

HIM Continuing our Download 2010 preview is Carly Smithson from We Are The Fallen, who reckons you simply have to go and see the mighty HIM at this weekend's festival. And who are we to argue with her?

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Carly, take it away:

“They always put on a really good show, and they’re really down-to-earth guys. At time of writing I’m on tour with them, and watching Linde [Lindström, guitar] onstage he’s technically perfect. The fans respond to that, because they’re real music lovers and very intelligent and dedicated. In general they’re just a great band.

Their fans freak out for ‘Wings Of A Butterfly’, so that will have to make the Download setlist.

Ville does seem to have a lot of lady followers – I’ve never met a band with so many bras onstage by the end of their set!”

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