Sir Christus - Guitarist (not at Negative anymore)

Name: Jukka Kristian Mikkonen

Stage name: Sir Christus

Born: 10. April 1978 (until February 2008 he let the whole Fanbase believe, that he is born on 16. May and there were different dates of the year everywhere, like also 1979, but at the Finnish magazine "Rytmi" he finally told the truth) in Tampere/ Finland

Signs of the zodiac: Aries

Eye colour: green

High: ???

Tattoos: on head of a wolf on his left breast

Piercings: one labret and one madonna-piercing

Parents: father Tapani "Arwo" Mikkonen, mother Sirpa Mikkonen

Siblings: one almost three years younger brother, Matthau Mikkonen

Favourites of Negative songs: "Better without you", "Last hero", "Neverending parade" (he says it would be like the Titanic ^^), "My My/Hey Hey"

Other facts:

- Christus played as lead-guitarist at Negative since the year 2002.

- Before he joined Negative, he had played bass on the band Bloodpit on which his brother Matthau was the lead-singer. Though in a current interview Christus explained that he only intended to play in this band until they would have found another bass-player. So he took up the offer of Jonne to get in Negative. Jonne told about the first meeting with Christus, that he discovered him together with Larry after he had played a gig with his band at this time Bloodpit, when he was leaning at the bar surrounded by girls. At this moment Jonne knew that he needed this guy for his band.

- Christus´ love for music must have been caused of the fact that his talent appurent has been laid into his cradle and that he got in contact with music very early within his family. His father Arwo was a member of the Finnish band Popeda and is one of his biggest idols. Regrettably Christus has lost his father very early because he had died in 1986 while a soundcheck with his band "Popeda".

- Christus plays the guitar since he has been 5 years old.

- Besides his brother Matthau, Jack from Private Line, a Finnish band as well, is one of the most important persons for him. He says Jack´s a kind of his soulmate.

- Christus once lived together with bandmate Larry. Certainly Larry told at an interview that this would have functioned no longer because they would "do to much shit" together. So it seems the two guys aren´t called as "Double-Trouble" for nothing ;-).

- At the Ruisrock-Festival 2003 Christus plunged when he was trying to do stagediving and injured himself seriously (he broke one vertebra at his neck). At an interview he said that since then "Last hero" is one of his favourite songs and that he does no longer believe in god since this accident happened but only in himself because he has survived this fall.

- Like the most Finnish people Christus likes to drink alcohol. His favourite drink is Absinth. He said once: "I only drink when I work!". As well he said women and vodka would be the most important things of the world.

- He´s a heavy smoker, that´s why he thinks it´s terrible that it´s not allowed to smoke on plane while long journeys.

- He really honoured his reputation as a rockstar when he persuaded Jonne, while they were at a hotel-room, to throw the TV through the window, because anyway only trash has been broadcasted. However his try to throw a little mini-bar afterwards failed because of the problems with his back he´s got cause his fall at the Rusirock 2003.

- Christus lighted also a wall-hanging at a hotel-room like he said and then the table was burning too. He only said that after their first recordings they always had played tricks and afterwards they always put the fault at the crew.

- The strangest place on which Christus ever has woken up has been a sandbox, like he said.

- Christus´ motto for life is "Carpe diem", what means "make use of every day". He says that he wants to enjoy every day to the full and that he don´t want to think about what might be tomorrow.

- He once said that god would be the only one to who he would apologize. If this intention still applies, after his fall and this narrations with reference to faith, maybe questionable.

- Christus´ favourite animal is a wolf from which he also wears the head as a tattoo on his left breast. He says that wolves would be exactly like he is and that they only would do what they want to.

- His musical idols are Jimmi Hendrix, Zakk Wylde and Andy Mc Coy from Hanoi Rocks.

- Christus doesn´t like horror-movies and psycho-thrillers like "The ring" or "Hannibal". He ranks movies like "The mask", "Monty Python" and animated cartoons like "Aladin" to his favourite ones.

- His favourite actors are Arnold Schwarzenegger, Patrick Swayze and Sari Siikander.

- To his favourite albums rank "Appetite for destruction" from Guns´n´Roses, "Live" from Johnny Winter and "Alive" from Kiss.

- He shocks again and again with his extravagant and loud styles. Not last of all beause he constantly changes it. Also he wears all possible combinations of clothes and he´s very creative. So he sometimes wears a string over his trousers for example.

- On 15. January 2008 Negative promulgated that Christus will leave the band. Like Jonne said this has been decided together, with Christus as well, and everybody, who has been involved would think that it has been the right decision.

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The time after Negative:

- Already a short time after Christus had left Negative there was a sign of life from him again. And it came straight from stage. In February 2008 he formed the band Black Jesus together with singer Madbone Macceus (Sister Shotgun), guitarist Raffe aka El Raffaelo (The Bitterlicks), bassist Gärffi (The Voodoo Night) and drummer Eero (Heijaste) for two little Club-gigs. With this band he wanted to keep on playing more gigs now and an album should be planned too. Here you can visit the official myspace-profile of Black Jesus:
-> Black Jesus!

- And also after the first gigs with Black Jesus the fans didn´t have to miss Christus on the stage for a long time. His brother Matthau started his first Solo-tour as Matthau Mikojan at the end of February 2008. And like it has been announced he had, besides two other musicians, also his brother Christus at his side as guitarist and backgroundvocalist. Matthau said that this band should be at his side especially for this tour. But he didn´t want to debar anything for the future at this time.

- But on April 17th in 2008 already there was announced at Matthau´s official Homepage that Christus is no longer a member of his band. Reasons or anything about future-plans weren´t mentioned. So we just have to wait what the future will bring ;-).

- At the end of summer 2008 there was announced Christus belongs also to another band-project now, besides Black Jesus: SnoWhite! With Christus other members of the band are singer Julius Maximus (Ex-The Bitterlicks), guitarist Raffe aka Rafaello (The Bitterlicks, Black Jesus), drummer Dino Kullberg (Ex-The Bitterlicks) and bassist Purtsi (Kohu 63 and many other bands). Here you can visit the official myspace-profile of SnoWhite:
-> SnoWhite!
Meanwhile also with this band Christus played some gigs.

- On January 29th in 2009 there was a mesage at the status of Black Jesus´ official myspace profile, which let assume that the band did come apart finally. Besides this the notice of Christus being at SnoWhite.

- On January 3rd 2010 Christus personally announced from now on he also wouldn't be a member of SnoWhite anymore. But he remarked the fans again would hear from him very soon and he also would publish his new band then.

- In March 2010 a new profile has been opened on myspace for the new band of Christus: The Salvation. It consists of Anzi Destruction (Ex-Stereo Junks!) for vocals, Sir Christus on guitar, Jack Smack (Private Line) on guitar, Sohei Murakami (Ex-Stereo Junks!) on bass and Mr.Kunt (V For Violence, Ex-Stereo Junks!) on drums and is managed through Hype Productions, as well as, Negative.
Here you can find the official myspace-profile of The Salvation:
-> The Salvation!