Jay Slammer - Drummer

Name: Janne Heimonen

Stage name: Jay Slammer

Born: 13. August 1983 in Tampere/ Finland

Signs of the zodiac: Leo

Eye colour: green

High: 194 cm

Tattoos: one dragon-tattoo on his right shoulder , one tribal on his left forearm and one chinese sign (means: drum) at his back between shoulders

Piercings: none

Parents: ???

Siblings: one sister

Favourites of own songs: "Suffer", "One last shot"

Other facts:

- Jay plays the drums on Negative. While the beginning-time of the band he certainly played bass on Negative.

- Besides Jonne Jay is the founder of the band Negative and so he´s one of the first members in the year 1997.

- Before he founded the band Negative together with Jonne he had played in a basketball-team.

- To Jay an important value in life is justice.

- Like many of his bandmates Jay´s a smoker.

- Jay´s favourite colour is red.

- Jay´s favourite gig venue is Pakkahuone in Tampere.

- To Jay the most memorable Negative gigs have been the ones of the Germany Tour 2006.

- His favourite food is fish and Pasta bolognese and his favourite drinks are Tequila Slammer (of which he got his nickname Mr. Slammer ^^) and Gintonic.

- Jay´s favourite bands are Nirvana and Muse.

- Jay´s idols are the drummer Dave Grohl (who already played in many bands like Nirvana for example and now is the singer and guitarist of the Foo Fighters) and Taylor Hawkins and his favourite movies are "It" and "Ring".

- Jay says his parents are persons he respects and George Bush is one person he doesn´t resepct.

- Jay counts cycling to one of his biggest hobbies. Like the most Finnish guys Jay seems very quiet and balanced. To the question who would be the one who takes care for the other bandmembers, all of his bandmates agreed with the opinion that it would be Jay.

- Jay changed his style extremely while his membership at Negative. In earlier times he wore blonde dreadlocks which reached to his shoulders. Those had to leave for a brown short-cut in the meantime. More Jay likes to wear muskel-shirts. Nowadays he prefers to perfomr with nacked trunk on stage ^^.

- The best thing at the moment (02.07.2007): Going on tour again.