Larry Love - Guitarist

Name: Lauri Juhani Markkula

Stage name: Larry Love

Born: 19. February 1983 in Tampere/ Finland

Signs of the zodiac: Aquarius

Eye colour: green

High: 180 cm

Tattoos: one NGT-circle-logo on his right shoulder, one tribal above his left upper arm and one at his fingers of the left hand

Piercings: one at his bellybutton

Parents: ???

Siblings: ???

Favourites of own songs: "Last hero", "Embracing past"

Other facts:

-Larry joined the band in 2001 and played as rhythm-guitarist at Negative until January 2008, when Sir Christus left the band. Since then he god the part of the lead-guitarist.

- Before Larry joined Negative he had played the guitar in many other bands like Snake Experience and he even had been the singer on the band Shannon. Another band was S.N.A.F.U..

- Larry shows his love to Negative at his tattoo which he wears on his right shoulder and which shows the NGT-circle-logo.

- Music has a big meaning to Larry. He says it´s one of the basic elements in life and it is also emancipation.

- To Larry important values in life are honesty, bravery and diversity.

- Larry likes to listen to the music of Aerosmith, Guns´n´Roses, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Alice Cooper und The Doors.

- Besides Jonne Larry was involved in writting the texts. "After all" is written by him. As well as that he also wrote lots of the music for the songs together with Jonne.

- Larry´s favourite colours are black and purple.

- Larry´s says he´s got many favourite gig venues but Pakkahuone was especially cool.

- To Larry the most memorable Negative gig was Vammala.

- To Larry the best gig by other artists has been Aerosmith, Nine Lives Tour in Helsinki.

- Larry´s favourite food is Hot wings and homemade Tortillas and his favourite drinks are Lapin Kulta, El Tiempo and cold beer with a slice of lemon.

- Like the most Finnish guys Larry likes to drink alcohol very much. Besides he´s a heavy smoker and you almost can´t see him on stage without a cigarette. He means smoking as one of his bad habits himself.

- Only a short time ago Larry just had lived together with bandmate Sir Christus. 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 ;-).

- Larry says, he loves the way women´s minds work.

- Larry´s motto is: "Believe in your dreams. Don´t stop believing in life."

- Idols of Larry are Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Slash and Joe Perry and his favourite movies are "Interview with a vampire", "Elvis" and "Walk the line".

- It seems that Larry´s idol Slash, the ex-guitarist of Guns´n´Roses, has also influenced him at his style. If you look at Larry standing on stage with his guitar and the locks on his head, you could think that it´s Slash himself standing there in front of you shaking his locks.

- Larry says Steven Tyler and Anthony Kiedis are persons he respects and George W. Bush is one person he doesn´t resepct.

- As a song Larry would like to be written by himeself, he stated "Dream on" (Aerosmith).

- Because Larry said he thinks it would be unfair if he answered only a part of his fanmails, which wouldn´t be possible in another way if he looks at the large number of mails, he explained that he reads his mails but he wouldn´t answer them because of this reason.

- In an interview Larry was asked in which roles of a fairy story he would put his bandmates. He said that Jonne would be the princess who would be saved by from the tower by Christus. Antti would be the "Badguy" and his henchman would be Jay. Larry sees himself as a rich guy living in a castle (later he decided again that he would be Jonne´s brother). And snack would be the chef.

- Also Larry says that he still would have to find out who he really is, but he would be happy about the fact that he can do what he loves.

- The best thing at the moment (02.07.2007): Music, sex, love, friends.