Community Profile

Welcome to Near-Sex Experience, a Private Line community. This is the place for fanfic, photos, art, interviews, videos and all other things to do with the Finnish band Private Line. The community is friends-only, so join!

*important note*
even though this place is used a lot for fanfiction and it may 'overshadow' other things, it is greatly encouraged to post videos, interviews, photos and whatever else you desire that has to do with Private Line. Just remember to credit and link back to the source. :)

PRIVATE LINE - "PIRATES FROM HELLCITY - FINLAND"
- Formed | 1996
- Current line-up | 2002
- Sammy | Vox/Guitar
- Jack | Guitar/Vox
- Illy | Guitar/Vox/Synths
- Spit | BassVox
- Eliaz | Drums/Vox


STARTING THE BAND
When teachers at a comprehensive school in a small town in central Finland tried to make 11-year-old Sammy study in maths and geography instead of his overwhelming interest in acts like W.A.S.P, Motley Crue and Hanoi Rocks they intentionally left out the fact that another kid named Eliaz - on another class next door had exactly similar interests.

Private Line was originally formed in the mid-90s by Sammy, guitar-player Jari and some of their school mates. Eliaz the kid in the block. erm.. at school some years earlier - joined the band shortly after meeting Sammy at a house party. They soon came to notice it was not only music they shared in common but found themselves interested in the overall wisdom of Rocknroll Decadence as well. Private Line won a band competition and used the prize money to record and release their first EP in 1998. The material on Smooth Motions combined hard-rock influences and fierce rhythms. The band started touring and went through some line up-changes. The new line-up including Sammy, Eliaz, Jari, Spit and Illy recorded a 5-song promo-CD which got quite nice response, especially from outside of Finland. Despite of the good reception of the Promo-CD, the year 2001 was uncertain time for the band Jari left the band and joined Finnish metal kings Timo Rautiainen ja Trio Niskalaukaus and Sammy moved to Helsinki Rock City and was soon after followed by the rest of the band. In the beginning of 2002 Sammy bumped into Jack (ex- Palmcut) while exploring the nightlife of Helsinki and they decided to join their forces and breathe new life into Private Line.

The band started intense rehearsing period and went on to record new kick-ass material. In December 2002 Private Line released a new Mini-CD Six Songs Of Hellcity Trendkill (released by Bad Habits/ Krklund Records). The Mini-CD got rave reviews from the Finnish rock media and also many international print- and webzines were enthusiastic about these Finnish newcomers. The band did a 40-show tour in Finland and created a fanatic fanbase. Private Lines loud as f**k mix of 80..s sleaze and early 90..s alternative punk was now starting to make bigger and bigger waves. The lead singer Sammy..s vocals, stage presence and showmanship was more than often compared to the likes of Vince Neil (Motley Crue) and Sebastian Bach (Skid Row).

2004 HITTING THE CHARTS
The title of the full-length debut album "21st Century Pirates" (released by Bad Habits Records / Playground Music) tells a whole lot about the band, their music and their attitude. They have practiced piracy by borrowing and stealing the most essential elements from their childhood heroes and turned it into their own 21st century modern sound. After touring Finlands rock..n roll harbors for two straight years they went straight to number 3 on the finnish Top 20 single-chart with "Forever And a Day" in February 2004. The single also included an original soundtrack "Sleep Tight" of the movie Levottomat 3. Second single and the video song (filmed by Thomas Hencz) "1-800-Out-Nowhere" came out in Finland on the 30th June 2004 and hit the single chart at number 4. The video stayed the full 10 weeks in the MTVs Up North video chart. The great success continued with the 3rd single "Already Dead" making it too to the top 5 single-chart.

2005
After the 21st Century Pirates was released in Finland (Bad Habits Records), Japan (JVC Victor), Italy (Edel Italy), Russia (Playground) and Ukraine Private Line tour took the band to Italy, Spain, England, Sweden and Russia.

The band also got the great honour to play with the bands like Motley Crue, Alice Cooper and D-A-D.

February 2006 Private Line singed a new licensing deal inked between Playground Music Scandinavia and 456 Enterprises & Entertainment in the USA for PRIVATE LINE's debut album 21th Century Pirates and the new upcoming album for North & South America. 21st Century Pirates will be released in the U.S.A near future.

BROKEN PROMISED LAND & EVEL KNIEVEL FACTOR - 2006
Private Line released their first single "BROKEN PROMISED LAND w/UNIFORM" May 31st 2006 from their forthcoming album "EVEL KNIEVEL FACTOR". New single hit straight to the Finnish single charts number 5 at the first week, number 4 second and third week and stayed in the top20 full 10 weeks!

Second Private Line album "EVEL KNIEVEL FACTOR" was released November 2006 in Finland and December 2006 in Japan. Album was also released in Russia, Italy, Brazil, Chile, Argentina and Sweden.

2007-2008
2nd single "Sound Advice" from the album was released January 2007 and it hit the Finnish charts number 2. Video of the song stayed 10 weeks number 1 at the finnish music channel VoiceTV. Sound Advice was also in the Finnish box-office hit movie "V2-Jäätynyt Enkeli" and soundtrack.

After the album release band have been staying on the road playing numerous gigs and writing new material. Third Private Line album will be released in the year 2009.
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This is a mainly a slash community. This means pretty boys who like other pretty boys (and to do naughty things with them). If you can't handle that, don't join. Make sure you're not underage - I will not be held responsible if you get caught in reading/viewing adult content. You have been warned.

RULES AND GUIDELINES


Posting:


1. Please friendslock your posts and place the content under a cut to make it easier on everybody's friends list.

2. Please tag all posts! I tag posts if I see them untagged, but make my life easier and do it yourself. Tagging rules/guidelines are below.

3. Title your posts with sense! "OMGSHFSHGHDSG" just doesn't quite do it.

4. Please keep posts on-topic. This is a Private Line (slash) community so posts should involve at least one member of the band. NB! Het is allowed. You won't be flamed if your posts are not slashy in the maincontent.

5. Pimping other communities: Only as long as they have to do with Finnish-something. Though, this might not be the place to pimp your Finnish Folk Music From 1800... Pimping RPG communities is allowed, but it'd be a good idea to state which characters you're looking for.


Posting fiction:


1. Het fics allowed, but no Mary Sues! If you don't know what a Mary Sue is, check this post (also for other terms).

2. Please provide your fic with a header (above the cut) like this:
Title:
Author:
Disclaimer: (Do NOT leave this out)
Pairing:
Rating: (for guidelines on rating, see this post)
Summary: (doesn't have to be long, a few words can do)
Warnings: (if needed)

3. It's important to put warnings to stuff people might be offended by. Not everybody likes non-con, bloodplay, death and even fluff(!!) I'm not too fond of fluff.. *hides*


Posting manips and other artwork:


1. Post warnings if any art or manip is not worksafe!

2. Please post details of the pairing before the cut! You could do with a header similar to the one for fiction.


Posting photos and videos:


1. Post warnings for picspams, believe it or not, some people still have dial-up.

2. If it's not worksafe, post a warning!


Interacting with other members:


1. Play nice - no flaming! Homophobia, drama, bitchery and nastiness will not be tolerated; after three warnings you will be banned.

2. Constructive criticism is positively encouraged. Don't get upset if someone picks you up on a grammatical/spelling mistakes, plot holes etc. This is constructive criticism and is not meant to be rude. Also don't be scared to offer concrit. If there are problems, it is down to me to decide what's concrit and what's not.

Tagging:

Fiction tags: "fic: character X/character Y". I'm not fussed about who's on which side of the slash, but for the sake of the tags keep it alphabetical. This means tags should be like "fic: christus/jack" and not "fic: japa/kristian" - This is to avoid chaos. NB! This does not apply to how you apply your pairing in the fic-header.

Manip tags/other artwork: Same principle. Please do it alphabetically after this model: "manip: character X/character Y", "banner: character X/character Y" and so on.

Photos: If you have a whole collection of concert photos, use the "concert photos" tag and put the concert's place and date in the title. For other photos, e.g. random pix of Sammy or Illu, use the tag "pic: sammy". if there are more than one persons in the photo, use multiple tags to keep things simple.

Videos: This is easy. All you do is put "video: songname". :D

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If there's problems or anything, you can contact me (cause LJ is so cool that you can send Private Messages) at nerak_rose or nerakrose (fic journal).

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