that's just bollocks though. Costello did the cover on a radio show saying basically that it's cheap-ass pop song but at least Jon is honest about it so that's ok. Jon just took it out of context, as he always does. Elvis Costello never really covered Bad Medicine.

Iceman - if someone is part of Company A, but then starts company B (even while he is still part of company A, and even if there are people from company C and D within this new company B) - well, in very simplistic terms, that's a spin-off. Now my perception of Hietala was that he was the leader of the Northern Kings (maybe because he's the singer on Wanted). Even if that was wrong, it still makes no difference. Northern Kings are a spin-off of Nightwish (or Sonata Arctica or whoever else is there). That statement is still accurate.