19.08.05 RTL Punkt 6 + 9 Interview (with Translation)

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interviewer: ... they’re here now in our studio, Tokio Hotel. good morning!

all: good morning!

interviewer: you’re from Magdeburg and actually on school holidays. you got up early this morning. was that hard?

all: oh yeah.

interviewer: but you weren’t really able to enjoy your holidays anyway. you worked a lot, shot a video, had gigs... we’re gonna take a quick look at the video for the audience.



presenter: straight “through the monsoon” to the single charts. Tokio Hotel have achieved what pretty much every newcomer band dreams about. their debut single went from 0 to number 2 in the Bravo user charts this week. Tokio Hotel, that’s singer and songwriter Bill, 15, his twin brother Tom on guitar, drummer Gustav, 16, and bassist Georg, 17. despite their young age, the four boys have already gathered a lot of experience playing live. they’ve been performing in clubs as a band since 2001 and now they wanna hit the big stages. and maybe their biggest dream will come true, to perform in Tokyo one day.



interviewer: “Durch den Monsun” is a really catchy song, congratulations!

all: thanks!

interviewer: Tokio Hotel, where does that name come from? what does it mean?

Bill: well, we’re all “city people” and we wanted to find a name that symbolises what we’re going through. and we thought, we need a big, impulsive city, so Tokyo seemed to be just the right thing.

interviewer: you’ve never been there, have you?

Bill: no, we’ve never been there and that’s why it’s a good name, cause we’ve never done what we’re experiencing right now. so we thought, let’s take a city that represents that. and Hotel stands for us being on the move all the time.

interviewer: maybe you’ll make it to Tokyo soon... Bill and Tom, one can hardly tell, but you’re twins, identical twins. why do you look so different? are people not supposed to see that you’re twins?

Tom: no, that wasn’t intentional. we looked pretty much the same until the age of 6. people couldn’t tell us apart. then we somehow went different ways, but why...?

Bill: that was probably just why (because they couldn’t be told apart).

interviewer: you got separated at school, in 7th grade, why?

Tom: the teachers thought that we were too strong as a “twin couple”, that we were causing too much trouble and that’s why we got put in separate classes.

interviewer: and what do the teachers say, now that you perform late in the evenings and you have to go to school the next day?

Bill: they haven’t realized it yet. it started during the summer holidays and we’re curious to know what the others (at school) will say about this.

interviewer: one more question: do you have role models?

Gustav: um, i’m the only one who has a role model and that’s Lars Ulrich (Metallica).

interviewer: and you’re all into the same stuff so you can go to concerts together?

Georg: we listen to different types of music. i’ve been a fan of Oasis for a long time.

interviewer: but you still get along well.

all: yeah.

interviewer: great. well, i recommend the new record to everyone. nice to have you here...