16.10.05 Backstage beim Cometen (with Translation)

Translation:

Presenter: Now it’s getting loud; the Comet for Best Newcomer 2006 goes to… Tokio Hotel!

B: Wow, I’m so overwhelmed. I don’t think anyone was expecting this. Our life has changed so quickly, everything went so fast and just because this one song, everything because of “Durch den Monsun”. We’re so grateful for this… Oh god, I don’t know what to say… erm, thanks to all our family and friends, and of course a big thank you to you! Thank you so much!

T: Thank you!

B: Thank you for letting us experience this!



17.00h: Arrival at Arena Oberhausen,

27 hours till the comet-awards.



B: Over there?

Guy: Yes



B: I was really stunned, because – it’s really beautiful, that it goes all the way up there and so on. When it’s filled with audience and the lights are on I think it will be quite impressive. I think it’s really done well.



18.00h: Sound check

26 hours till the comet-awards



B: The situation in which the singer is, like, more important and the others are jealous because of it has never occurred to us I got to say.

Gustav is the one who’s calm. He often withdraws himself and is very happy he can sit behind the drums and doesn’t have to go to the front of the stage.

Tom is a real poser with his guitar so he backs me up on stage and Georg is really the typical bassist; a bit reserved and quiet. This is who we are and I think everyone is quite happy the way it is.

T: Bill is like, the “mysterious” one of us. He often withdraws himself so he sometimes misses things and when he doesn’t feel like taking part in what we do, he just walks off.



T: Try-outs are so boring, it’s really nothing special.

B: You have to wait all the time…

T: Try-outs suck.



11.00h: Hotel room

9 hours till the comet-awards



T: I’m really looking forward to it. I want to go back there again, and after that the nervousness comes. I think that’s just part of it, I mean; when we wouldn’t be exited it would be pretty pathetic. We’re exited before every show.



[Standing in front of Gustavs and Georgs room]



T/B: Open the door!

Ge: I think this is going to be a very cool show. An hour before the show it kind of starts, then you get all jittery…

Gu: Then you’re exited, an hour before the show. And then you’re on the stage; the shortest minutes of your life. Then the applause comes and you get off stage; that’s always a nice feeling.



12.00h: Hotel Lobby

8 hours till the comet-awards



T: I think it’s great we have so many female fans, but of course I’m also very glad when we have male audience, which we get surprisingly much. We start getting more and more fan mail from male fans. Maybe no love letters, but they like our music and that makes me happy. And what also really makes me happy is when we get fan mail, which says “We’ve started a band and want to do it just like you do”. I find that extremely cool, when we show other people that it’s very well possible at our age.



Gu: Luckily I don’t stand out very much now, I’m glad actually. I still can walk on the street normally for 20 meters; Bill would have had to write at least five autographs in those 20 meters.



B: I got to say that it’s harder to find a permanent girlfriend, personally. Because you can never know if the girl would have been interested in you in normal life. For that reason it’s a bit harder, but of course I get to know people more easily now and get to talk to them. So there are two sides of this, you can never be really sure.



T: It would be really hard to create a proper relationship now, because you don’t know if it are true feelings or if the girl wants you just because you’re famous.



Ge: I mean, for a relationship there is simply not enough time right now. A good relationship asks much time to really get to know each other and I simply don’t have that time.



T: Well, when someone of the band would change we would all tell him (Not sure). I mean, we know each other for a very long time. And family and friends would also say something.



Gu: We’re just friends; we know when someone is going through a bad time and when to let someone alone, how to create a good atmosphere and what to expect from each other. we understand each other perfectly, but of course everybody also has his own friends.



(In the van:

T: Great!

B: Oh, no!

Ge: …and didn’t your ex-girlfriend Scarlet have …Tom?)



Ge: It’s always extremely funny, and I’m always happy when I see the bus with everybody in it and I know that my stomach will hurt in the evening because we’ve been laughing all day.



13.00h: Arene Oberhausen

7 hours till the comet-awards



Guy: Hey! Stay back!

B: I’m really hungry.



13.15h: Catering



T: A quarter to 2 and there is no breakfast anymore, ridiculous!

B: I got to say; in contrast to other things they really have a good catering. A good atmosphere here too, so… Yes.

T: The best catering we’ve had in a long time.



15.00h: backstage

5 hours till the comet-awards



B: [Points at the poster] Look, we’re not on it, because we’re going to be nominated afterwards (?)

T: Look, Die Toten Hosen! They have the coolest –

B: This is the love nest of Sarah and Marc, their cosy corner… I think Tom wanted to help Marc out a little…

T: I’ve heard help is needed…

B: Yes, it’s needed

[All laugh]

B: Everyone gets dancing girls, even Stefan Raab has dancing girls and we don’t. I think we also should have dancing girls!

All the way I’ve been waiting for only one person; Nena! But we haven’t passed her room yet, we’ll have to see…

[Bill meets Nena]
N: Finally we meet!
B: Hello
N: Hi!
[Bill and Nena hug each other]
N: When you’ve got some time left afterwards just pass by and I’ll introduce you to my band!
B: Yes, cool.
T: Right
N: My room is there around the corner.
T: yes, we’ve already passed it once…
N: [Laughs] Okay. Bye!
B/T/Gu/Ge: Bye!

B: Yes, that was cool! I’ve waited very long for that, it’s really nice. Now you notice – That’s the cool thing; you get to know so many people on events like this. And we’re just the same as before, but we’re allowed to go to this sort of events, that’s incredible.

16.00h: Interview “Sugar”
4 hours till the comet-awards

16.30h: Interview MTV
Ge: We absolutely love to play live, and that stimulates us, sometimes we’re like: “We’ve got a performance tomorrow and we’re still giving interviews now”. But I don’t mean that we’ve had enough of the interviews; it has always been clear that we would do that kind of things and we’re enjoying it actually.

17.00h: Fotoshooting “Bravo”

Gu: I think it’s exiting. When there always people there who scream for you… that’s cool.
T: Of course things have changed for us; we can’t just walk on the street without being recognised. We’re travelling a lot with the band, we also have a break of a year with school. So we can organise everything a bit better.
B: We’re doing now what we’ve done after school all the time. After school we always went straight to the rehears-room, we’ve only been making music. Now we can do that all day long so it all just turned around; when we have time left after making music, we do schoolwork. It’s going well.
Ge: There was always press waiting in front of the school and they also went inside the building. Sometimes I got called to the teacher’s room in the middle of a class because some guy from one or another magazine was waiting there who wanted me to give him an interview. That just doesn’t work.

18.00h: General try-outs
2 hours till the comet-awards

T: Well, maybe Gustav plays for his love. But I can imagine when I would be in love right now I would want her to watch. But further you’re totally free up that stage; it’s a rock show; we play for our fans.

18.27h:
3 minutes till the autograph session at the red carpet

B: Hey, has anyone got a black pen? No? Anyone? (Great timing ;-)
Guy: No chewing gum, Georg!

Ge: We always walk around like this, we don’t specially change before a show.
B: No… We come like this in the morning and stay like this all day.
T: I would go to school the way we look now; I always walk around like this.

18.30h: The red carpet

B: Impressive.
T: Indeed.
B: I don’t think there were even so many people at the red carpet, I was really surprised so many were standing there.
T: Now we’re getting a little bit exited.
B: Yes, the nervousness is coming.

B: I certainly thing that the after show-party is going to be really nice, we’re really looking forward to it. And of course extremely to the performance. And I got to say I’m really curious who is going to win the national best Newcomer comet. I think it’s going to a tight race, because there are very much great artist nominated, with some very successful songs. we’ll see, I’m curious.

Ge: We have very different characters, we’ve known each other for five years now, and we know each other’s kinks and quirks. We know exactly how to tease one another, but also when to leave one another alone. And that’s an advantage of us.

B: Shouldn’t we get going?
T: Man, we have to be there at about a quarter to ten, and now it’s only a quarter to nine!

20.45h
1 hour till the comet-awards

T: hey, are you crazy? [Laughs]
B: What? Oh, I’m sorry… I’m very nervous; I think I haven’t been this nervous in a long time.
T: To be honest I’m not really nervous yet.
B: I’m really a nervous wreck right now.
Ge: I’m all jittery [tickles Tom]
T: No more teasing!

Gu: Tom does that differently... (Plays air guitar)
Gu: The way we act here is the way we act everywhere; we talk big, we joke around, it doesn’t matter if we’re backstage at the Comet, in a cafe somewhere or rehearsing.

[Bill yawns]
B: They all bore me so much…
[Gustav massages Bill]
B: Now this is relaxing
T: Just to get this straight; Bill and Gustav are NOT gay.

21.43h
2 minutes till the nomination

Guy: Tokio Hotel on their way to the nomination….
Tokio Hotel entering nomination-launch

21.45h: Nomination “Best Newcomer”

Presenter: Now it’s getting loud; the Comet for Best Newcomer 2006 goes to… Tokio Hotel!
B: Wow, I’m so overwhelmed. I don’t think anyone was expecting this. Our life has changed so quickly, everything went so fast and just because this one song, everything because of “Durch den Monsun”. We’re so grateful for this… Oh god, I don’t know what to say… erm, thanks to all our family and friends, and of course a big thank you to you! Thank you so much!
T: Thank you!
B: Thank you for letting us experience this!

T: A great feeling! I can’t really believe it just yet…
Ge: I’m shaking all over
B: Yes, it’s even worse then before a show; then we’re also nervous but… Our first prise, we’re incredible proud!
T: I can’t get the grin off my face.

22.15h
30 seconds till the live-performance

B: I’m standing there, backstage and I’m so happy because there are a lot of people who want to hear us. And then you walk out there and you know that you’ve given those people something, they’re happy. And I think that’s the best, to be able to make people happy with your work.
T: When you’re on the stage you’ve got so much adrenalin in your blood that you don’t really get it. When you go off stage, all you remember is that it was awesome. And the screaming and all, that’s so incredible, especially because they’re with so many.

[Performance]

B: It’s a totally different feeling when you stand there and the hall is full of people...
Ge: The hall already looked big when there weren’t any people in it, bit it even looked bigger when it was full.
Gu: It also seemed much higher up, when you see the top rows.
T: Yes, our hearts where certainly throbbing [Laughs]

23.00h: Nomination “Supercomet”

Stefan Raab: The Supercomet 2005, ladies and Gentlemen –
Gülcan: Oh, I knew it!
Stefan Raab: …Tokio Hotel!
Gülcan: Come up here!

B: I got to say; this is getting scary! It’s incredible! There are so many great artists here and now we’re getting another Comet. We were already glad to even be nominated for the other one, this is so unbelievable. We owe this to YOU! Thank you!

B: For all of us it’s clear that we’ll always keep making music. I think we will always be making music. That is just what we want. It doesn’t matter if we’re performing in sold out halls or getting gold somewhere again, or if there are only ten people listening or if we’re just rehearsing; we will always be making music.