Leb die Sekunde Interview (with Translation)

Translation:

1st question: Isn’t it funny to know that posters of you are on the walls of girls bedrooms, and that they even kiss them?
Katrin 14

T: Dear Katrin
[Georg laughs]
T: [Laughs too] Well erm, we think it’s cool; never we could have imagined that we could be on a poster in a magazine and we think its good that people like you, for example, hang them on the wall, we think that’s great. And when you kiss them we feel honoured.
B: Tom also kisses his own posters; he puts all of them up on the wall…
T: Mine? Yes, well, only mine. But there are so much of them (I don’t get the last part, sorry)

2nd question: Can you imagine still making music together at sixty, like the Rolling Stones?
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Ge: With them? Well… I’m not very sure.
B: At sixty?
T: At sixty? When we are sixty or after sixty years?

When you are sixty

T: When we’re sixty.
Ge: That isn’t such a big difference in your case [laughs]
T: I think all of us will be making music for a long time. Maybe we are a completely unsuccessful band when we’re sixty and we’re still making music together. Or – all of us alone will definitely keep making music. Of course you can never know or we will stay together forever, but I can definitely imagine, personally.
B: So do I. Of course you can’t be sure that you’ll stay together forever; there can always happen something that causes a split-up, but I’m sure we’ll keep making music for a long time.

3rd question: What do you do in your free time, except making music?
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Ge: Well, pony riding (He’s kidding)
Gu: You let the ponies ride you.
T: [Laughs] Georg lets ponies ride him… Erm, well, we mainly use or free time for music; we use every spare time we can find for the music, like practising together and –
B: I think that, when we do other things, it isn’t so different from the things other people of our age do. We meet friend, go somewhere, everything very ordinary; very boring actually.

4th question: Don’t you miss your old life?
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[Bill and tom quarrelling about the microphone]
T: Well, our life hasn’t changed that much, except for the fact that we’re known now and can play our music fro many people. And further we’re just at home, hang around with friends, as Bill said, we go to parties. Well, we can go to better parties now.
Ge: Well, sometimes there are very bad parties.
T: There are also awful parties.
B: But further it hasn’t changed very drastically, and I don’t want to go back, because I want to stick to this. You can see the things we did when we just started, and when we would want to go back to that I think we would want to just stop doing all of this. But I don’t think this will come soon, I believe we all will keep doing this for a very long time.

5th question: Will you do an even bigger tour next year?
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B: Well, we’re really satisfied with how the tour is now, it’s really doing well; the tickets were sold very quickly.
T: That’s supi (super, but a stupid way to say it)
B: That’s supi
[All laugh]
The halls were really big – we even played once or twice in –
T: No, she means if we’re going to play more concerts.
B: No, she means if the halls are going to get bigger.

More appointments (= performances/concerts/festivals)

B: Oh, more appointments. Well, we definitely go on with the tour; we won’t only tour next year, but also perform at festivals and so on, so it won’t be only concerts, but it will certainly be much more than what we did this year

6th question: When someone would offer you a million Euros provided that you wouldn’t perform anymore, what would you do?
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T: I think we would all play live nevertheless, because when you exist as a band for a long time you can make even more money.
B: No, but… when we wouldn’t get on a stage even again, we would have to miss that feeling, that’s just…
B: I wouldn’t know what to do else.
Gu: This is our life.
Ge: Maybe pony riding
Gu: Or let ponies ride us.

7th question: Do you chat? (On the Internet)
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Ge: Erm, yes…
T: Well, we are – yes? Do we chat?
Ge: Yes, then we hide us under the pseudonym “Gaylover” in the erotic-chatbox [Laughs]
Gu: I chat in club 81 (?)
T: [Laughs] Well, no erm, I am not – and I think we all aren’t Internet freaks. But I think that is really cool, my best friend for example – well, our best friend (to Bill) – is really and Internet freak. I think it’s cool when people know all about it, but I don’t. But we all have a computer, because we often have to read our e-mails.
Gu: In my case it’s a laptop, Tom.
T: But I think none of us really goes to chat boxes.

8th question: Do you think it’s hard now to find your “real love” and to know if something is meant serious?
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Ge: This is a Bill-question.
B: Well erm, I think it’s certainly harder than it used to be, because of course you can’t be sure if the girl would have spoken to you in normal life. It depends on what you want. When you say: “Right, now we want to find a permanent girlfriend, our great Love” or something, then you could really succeed. But it can happen of course, especially in our situation, that we maybe… well, take a bit advantage of it and then it could happen that the girl really didn’t meant it and just liked us because we were in the newspaper or something.
T: But otherwise, Georg and me are really looking for our great love –
Ge: We’re searching every day.
T: And who searches finds. [Laughs]

9th question: Do you already have plans for a new album, or are you even working on it already?
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T: Well, you don’t really just take a seat and write songs, we never plan that. I don’t think we would get somewhere if we did that, I think those things just arise when we’re travelling. We’re very much alone every day (not sure), and then ideas for songs arise and the ideas for texts of Bill –
B: You always let yourself be inspired I think. When we would have to write songs for the second album, and we would just go to the studio then I wouldn’t know anything to write quickly anyway. That has to come with the time, and because we’re travelling so much and can experience so much we also get the opportunity to get ideas from all that. So we always have to write on. We shouldn’t think that now the first album is done we can wait till a couple of weeks before the second has to come and then start writing; it should be a process that’s always going on.
T: But we already have some material for the second album.

10th question: Do you read your fan mail?
Lena 13

B: We really try to read as many as possible, but that’s really hard; we’re at home very rarely. Many fans are disappointed very quickly, when –
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T: Contact with fans is important to us, I really try to keep in touch with fans, also in different ways.
Ge: In his hotel-room.
T: Yes, well, we also keep it in hotel-rooms… That’s also a good variant. [Laughs]

11th question: Do you think it’s funny to see yourself in magazines or on television?
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Ge: Well, I never get to see myself on TV.
T: We’re always somewhere else.
Ge: Exactly. And radio I really think is strange.
T: Yes, but I think that’s always like that; when you record something with your sell phone it’s always funny and different to hear your own voice, but –
B: When I record my singing in the studio it always seems okay while recording.

B: Shall we tell the hotel-story? It’s a bit painful story.
Ge: No, it’s a good story.
B: Well, I’m not going to tell it.
Ge: Okay. Gustav was in his hotel-room, and he looks out of the window and sees – exactly at the opposite of our room.
T: At the same floor.
[All laugh]
No, well, we saw – Gustav had discovered them and made us notice it –
Gu: You, Tom! That was you! You were the one getting on the balcony to get a better look!
B: Yes, it was!
T: Well, okay… It started pretty innocent. There was a man standing in front of the washbasin.
Ge: Beautiful sight, really
T/B/Gu: No!
T: Well, he was standing in front of the washbasin and he was even still wearing his underwear.
Ge: His cotton underwear.
T: Yes, his cotton underwear.
B: First we thought he was washing himself, because he was standing directly in front of the washbasin.
T: Yes, but then I notice the legs around him and then I thought; oh, that’s what happening, now it’s getting started. And after the washbasin they lay down and after that they even did it standing up.
Ge: They really tried everything.
T: Yes, they really tried every position.
B: The cool thing was, at first they were standing in the middle of the room, and the bed was standing almost against the window. And we were thinking; oh great, when they get into the bed now, so we can see it really good from behind and everything…
So we were standing there thinking, “please get onto the bed!” And then they got onto it and really did every position; they haven’t omitted a single one. I think is took almost two hours.
Ge: We were almost frozen to dead on that damned balcony…
B: We were standing on that damned pavement and of course we were almost frozen, but we couldn’t look away from that picture.
T: But they caught us! Why did they caught us, I can’t remember…
Gu: Because I phoned him.
T: Oh, yes exactly! Gustav was the first one that dared to phone him. We figured out the room-number and then just phoned, but the guy didn’t let him be disturbed and just continued with what he was doing. And we thought, “He isn’t disturbed, maybe it’s the wrong number”, but then he got out of bed and picked up the phone, but Gustav of course had hanged up out of fear. And the guy was totally [Tom looks around]; we really confused him; it went down immediately (Just look at his hand). Then he hangs up the phone immediately, looks out of the window and sees everybody standing against the window like this. And his lights were on, and he immediately started to scream and turned the lights of and closed the curtains. he was totally freaked out.
B: The next morning we’re going to have breakfast and think “Ey, when we would see them again now…” We come in; they’re sitting directly at the first table and we had to sit next to them because the seats were already arranged. That was extremely painful; they’ve recognised us of course…
Ge: We considered sliding a ten-euro billet underneath the door, so they would continue, but…
T: Well, that morning we were totally embarrassed and it was definitely really painful.
Ge: I think it was more painful for them.
T: Yes, it was more painful for them then it was us. For us it was really funny.
[All laugh]