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Green Day
Bill - Green Day, it's really a great band. I've already seen them in concert and I've been very suprised. They actually are formidable live and with their videos, I find they really have brought something new... they are very well-made.
P!nk
Bill - About P!nk, it's actually her voice that I love. It's quite atypical, very raspy. That's what pleases me because I don't really like common voices, thay make me bored. She's very particular.
Tom - We wanted to see her during her tour.
Bill - Yes it's true, but we'll have no time to see her, unfortunately. We have her live-DVD and she's actually a great singer.
Metallica
Gustav - For me, Metallica is THE metal band. We can't say otherwise. In 2006, I was in Berlin when they have played in the Waldbühne [06/06/06].
Tom - And we, we weren't here.
Georg - Yes and it was when I was at the Placebo's concert [in Magdeburg, I guess].
Gustav - Yes, you weren't here. They have celebrated the 20 years of Master of Puppets, they have played old songs, it was really great. It's actually the best metal band.
Foo Fighters
Gustav - I believe I'm the one who listens often to them.
Georg - Me too, I sometimes listen to them.
Tom - Me... [We don't hear what he says, but it seems to be not important... poor Tomi ^^]
Gustav - Yeah, yeah, of course, of course... I'm the one who listen to them very regulary. All their video clips and their albums please me. Their last album is quite pretty good but I prefer the others because there are more hits, more singles. As an artist, Dave Grohl [the singer and gitarist] is awesome. Since Nirvana he has matured a lot and in this album, he has done all by himself. It's someone who's really motivated, he'll become a giant.
Avril Lavigne
Bill - I like this song [Sk8ter boy, I think]. I find that it's almost the best video clip which has never existed. It has had to be very difficult and very very hard to produce. Really, it changes from all we heard and all we often see. When it's a girl who sings, it's mostly ballads. But her music is really cool and her videos are great.
Mittwoch, 27. Dezember 2006
27.12.06 RTL Punkt 6 - (s) (with Translation) X
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Translation:
translation by our awesome dypnf/tha!
In 2006 no way lead around this band. Tokio Hotel. In their second year they've won 3 awards and their fanbase grew bigger.
When the boys were at our studio over a year ago everyone said that they're not going to last. Error, now they're Europe's most successful teenie band.
Not even graduated from school but already rockstars who are folloed and admired by screaming and singing fans.
Fans: Who do we love? Tokio Hotel.
TH quasi the mother of all newcomer. Three number one hits in two years, 21 times on the cover of the Bravo. Match that if you can. Estimated income through tours, merchandise and sold albums: 2 million Euros. Although they don't live it up.
Bill: It's a cliche that you earn millions when you have a number one hit. We only can say that we also have to work for it. Of course do we earn money but you don't have millions on your account right away.
Matching the sound the twins, Gustav and Georg are showing themselves in rock style. Only because of a photo shooting for the magazine "Max" singer Bill for once switched his garb for a noble thread.
But even to the Bambi-Gala in Stuttgart 4 weeks ago they didn't come in Designer suit.
Bill: We sit there and watch completely relaxed the show and you have to feel comfortable. To be in a smoking... everything is so stiff and you can't move well. No, we all didn't feel like it.
Even without smoking the band got bombarded with awards in 2006. The Echo for "Best Newcomer" in March, in November the World Music Award for "Best German Band" and then two weeks ago the Eins Live Krone for "Best Live Band".
2006 truly a TH rock story full of highlights.
Tom: All events were great for us but a tour is always something special for a band.
But there also was not so pleasing news about the boys.
Bill got a tattoo without permission. To the delight of the fans, to the sorrow of Mommy.
Bill: She was angry and usually we discuss everything with our parents and normally we don't need to keep anything secret.
And then this shock. In October the twins were seen in a Hamburger disco. Lightly dressed girls and erotic dancing inclusive, allegedly alcohol within spitting distance. But the two assure:
Bill: All of us don't drink any alcohol.
Interviewer: Never?
Bill:Never. Apple juice and Apfelschorle (Applejuice mixed with sparkling water).
Ja right. Right is also that Bill and Tom didn't see a classroom from the inside for a long time with all their success. At the moment they graduate from school per distance learning school.
So that out of the fresh, cool rock stars also become smart rock stars
Tokio Hotel - Jahresrückblick bei Punkt 6 auf RTL... - MyVideo
Translation:
translation by our awesome dypnf/tha!
In 2006 no way lead around this band. Tokio Hotel. In their second year they've won 3 awards and their fanbase grew bigger.
When the boys were at our studio over a year ago everyone said that they're not going to last. Error, now they're Europe's most successful teenie band.
Not even graduated from school but already rockstars who are folloed and admired by screaming and singing fans.
Fans: Who do we love? Tokio Hotel.
TH quasi the mother of all newcomer. Three number one hits in two years, 21 times on the cover of the Bravo. Match that if you can. Estimated income through tours, merchandise and sold albums: 2 million Euros. Although they don't live it up.
Bill: It's a cliche that you earn millions when you have a number one hit. We only can say that we also have to work for it. Of course do we earn money but you don't have millions on your account right away.
Matching the sound the twins, Gustav and Georg are showing themselves in rock style. Only because of a photo shooting for the magazine "Max" singer Bill for once switched his garb for a noble thread.
But even to the Bambi-Gala in Stuttgart 4 weeks ago they didn't come in Designer suit.
Bill: We sit there and watch completely relaxed the show and you have to feel comfortable. To be in a smoking... everything is so stiff and you can't move well. No, we all didn't feel like it.
Even without smoking the band got bombarded with awards in 2006. The Echo for "Best Newcomer" in March, in November the World Music Award for "Best German Band" and then two weeks ago the Eins Live Krone for "Best Live Band".
2006 truly a TH rock story full of highlights.
Tom: All events were great for us but a tour is always something special for a band.
But there also was not so pleasing news about the boys.
Bill got a tattoo without permission. To the delight of the fans, to the sorrow of Mommy.
Bill: She was angry and usually we discuss everything with our parents and normally we don't need to keep anything secret.
And then this shock. In October the twins were seen in a Hamburger disco. Lightly dressed girls and erotic dancing inclusive, allegedly alcohol within spitting distance. But the two assure:
Bill: All of us don't drink any alcohol.
Interviewer: Never?
Bill:Never. Apple juice and Apfelschorle (Applejuice mixed with sparkling water).
Ja right. Right is also that Bill and Tom didn't see a classroom from the inside for a long time with all their success. At the moment they graduate from school per distance learning school.
So that out of the fresh, cool rock stars also become smart rock stars
Samstag, 23. Dezember 2006
Freitag, 22. Dezember 2006
Donnerstag, 21. Dezember 2006
Samstag, 16. Dezember 2006
Sonntag, 10. Dezember 2006
Freitag, 8. Dezember 2006
Donnerstag, 7. Dezember 2006
Montag, 4. Dezember 2006
Samstag, 2. Dezember 2006
Donnerstag, 30. November 2006
Dienstag, 28. November 2006
Montag, 27. November 2006
27.11.06 Infos Jeunes (France) - Video Interview X (with Translation)
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*translation by Serena /tha
First he talks about the band, general history, CD's, DVDs, hwo he can't speak German and they can't speak french blah blah blah
Bonjour!
Tokio Hotel: Bonjour!
Ahh! They know how to say Bonjour! That's cool!
So how are the French fans treating you?
Bill: We had a great welcoming, this time as well as last time. The concerts are great and there are always fans waiting for us outside the hotel! They are very dedicated!
There are also people in France who don't know you, what does Tokio Hotel mean? (I think all the fans already know the answer to this question lol)
Bill: The name Tokio Hotel has no real significance, we were looking for a name, and since we love big city's we thought oh Tokyo's great, it's a really cool city. So after we looked for a symbole that would describe us and since we are always in hotels we thought that it really described us. So that's why we are called Tokio Hotel.
So you are four guys, you are 24 hours together, isn't there tension between you?
Tom: No not at all, we have been together for 6 years now and we know each other well! Everythings good. Certainly when we have been together for a long time like on a long tour or something there can be little arguments sometimes like when we don't all agree on something but there are never any real big fights! We always seperate rooms in our hotels so when we want to see each other we can. For now everything is going good and I think it will stay that for a pretty long time!
Then the interviwer talks about Schrei for a bit and how it's coming out in France soon.
So can you tell us what to expect from this album? What is it about?
Bill: It's actually a mix of a bunch of different things! We have ballads, we also have a lot stuff that is very rock, A lot of different subjects are covered in this album! For example, there's this one song that talked about devorce, this is something that has affected us. In our song, we talk about stuf that interests us, sometimes we talk about stuff that our friends tell us, problems that people our age go through, each song has it's own message to deliver.
Are you a group that preffers recording in the studio playing live?
Bill: The best thing is to play live, we have a lot of tours and we play a lot of shows, it makes us really happy. Of course the studio is interesting aswell, writing a song recording it... They're both fun but playing live is definetly the best!
We have received a lot of e-mails from fans, the most significant question is is all of you are virgins?
All: Ya.
Tom: Ya for now we don't have steady girlfriends so we're virgins.
So another question from your fans, would you go out with a fan?
Tom: Of course, why not? It's not unimaginable. If it goes well and the feeling is good then why not? (haha that's so Tom : p)
Aren't you worried that they'll just go out with you because your Tokio Hotel and not for you?
Bill: I think that we can trust our fans, the fact that someone would be with us just because we are celebrities could happen with people that aren't our fans, because our fans know us, love our music, know our songs, know our personalities and respect us I think we can trust them! On the other hand, if we meet other people that don't know us well then we could ask ourselves, do they just want to be with us because we are celebrities?
We had a contest where the winner would get to ask you guys a question, the winners name is Sabrina, she is here with her friend and they will both get the chance to ask you one question
Sabrina: What our your goals for you professional life and what are your goals for your personal life? Do you want to get married and have kids?
Bill: Well it's a bit to early to get married and have kids, we're still very very young so for now we don't know, the future will tell us! For now we're really concentrating on what we do best: music. After that we'll see what the future has in store for us!
Friend: Do you compare the French fans and the German fans? Are they different?
Tom: It's hard to say because just like here, in Germany we are very well welcomed by our fans! The screams are just as lou dhere as they are there! Maybe the theatres are smaller here than in Germany, but that's not necesarily a bad thing, the fans are just as great here as they are in Germany! And even if the stages aren't as big and the volume is different the feeling is real, the same as it is in Germany.
What's the craziest thing a fan has done for Tokio Hotel?
Gustav: There really are a lot of things but what I notice are the big signs that are made by the fans and brought to concerts. It's cool because while we're playing we can look at them a little bit, we can read the different messages, it's a really cool thing.
You're currently recording your second album, what's it going to be called?
Bill: We're still working on it and for now we don't know what it will be called, so there's no secret and it's not because we don't wan't to say it, we're waiting to be finished recording it to give it a title. We are almost done the album but we don't really want to talk about it, we want to keep the suspens and for now there isn't even a release date for Germany! So for now it's all pretty vague but we can say that it won't take us that much longer!
What do you do in your spare time? Do you play video games?
Tom: We sleep a lot! It could be shocking because of our age but since we are always under a lot of stress, moving, and travelling we need some rest when we have days off, so we sleep a lot, watch TV, eat, pass time with our families, sometimes we visit our friends, but mostly we sleep a lot.
You can't really go out in public anymore, people recognize you everywhere! How do you deal with that?
Bill: Sure it's hard and we can't go out like we used to, when we are alone we wear hats or something so that people don't recognize us!
If you could please say a little something to the French fans to the camera that would be great!
Tokio Hotel: Hey we are Tokio Hotel, thanks a lot for your hospitality we are really glad we could come and play here!
*translation by Serena /tha
First he talks about the band, general history, CD's, DVDs, hwo he can't speak German and they can't speak french blah blah blah
Bonjour!
Tokio Hotel: Bonjour!
Ahh! They know how to say Bonjour! That's cool!
So how are the French fans treating you?
Bill: We had a great welcoming, this time as well as last time. The concerts are great and there are always fans waiting for us outside the hotel! They are very dedicated!
There are also people in France who don't know you, what does Tokio Hotel mean? (I think all the fans already know the answer to this question lol)
Bill: The name Tokio Hotel has no real significance, we were looking for a name, and since we love big city's we thought oh Tokyo's great, it's a really cool city. So after we looked for a symbole that would describe us and since we are always in hotels we thought that it really described us. So that's why we are called Tokio Hotel.
So you are four guys, you are 24 hours together, isn't there tension between you?
Tom: No not at all, we have been together for 6 years now and we know each other well! Everythings good. Certainly when we have been together for a long time like on a long tour or something there can be little arguments sometimes like when we don't all agree on something but there are never any real big fights! We always seperate rooms in our hotels so when we want to see each other we can. For now everything is going good and I think it will stay that for a pretty long time!
Then the interviwer talks about Schrei for a bit and how it's coming out in France soon.
So can you tell us what to expect from this album? What is it about?
Bill: It's actually a mix of a bunch of different things! We have ballads, we also have a lot stuff that is very rock, A lot of different subjects are covered in this album! For example, there's this one song that talked about devorce, this is something that has affected us. In our song, we talk about stuf that interests us, sometimes we talk about stuff that our friends tell us, problems that people our age go through, each song has it's own message to deliver.
Are you a group that preffers recording in the studio playing live?
Bill: The best thing is to play live, we have a lot of tours and we play a lot of shows, it makes us really happy. Of course the studio is interesting aswell, writing a song recording it... They're both fun but playing live is definetly the best!
We have received a lot of e-mails from fans, the most significant question is is all of you are virgins?
All: Ya.
Tom: Ya for now we don't have steady girlfriends so we're virgins.
So another question from your fans, would you go out with a fan?
Tom: Of course, why not? It's not unimaginable. If it goes well and the feeling is good then why not? (haha that's so Tom : p)
Aren't you worried that they'll just go out with you because your Tokio Hotel and not for you?
Bill: I think that we can trust our fans, the fact that someone would be with us just because we are celebrities could happen with people that aren't our fans, because our fans know us, love our music, know our songs, know our personalities and respect us I think we can trust them! On the other hand, if we meet other people that don't know us well then we could ask ourselves, do they just want to be with us because we are celebrities?
We had a contest where the winner would get to ask you guys a question, the winners name is Sabrina, she is here with her friend and they will both get the chance to ask you one question
Sabrina: What our your goals for you professional life and what are your goals for your personal life? Do you want to get married and have kids?
Bill: Well it's a bit to early to get married and have kids, we're still very very young so for now we don't know, the future will tell us! For now we're really concentrating on what we do best: music. After that we'll see what the future has in store for us!
Friend: Do you compare the French fans and the German fans? Are they different?
Tom: It's hard to say because just like here, in Germany we are very well welcomed by our fans! The screams are just as lou dhere as they are there! Maybe the theatres are smaller here than in Germany, but that's not necesarily a bad thing, the fans are just as great here as they are in Germany! And even if the stages aren't as big and the volume is different the feeling is real, the same as it is in Germany.
What's the craziest thing a fan has done for Tokio Hotel?
Gustav: There really are a lot of things but what I notice are the big signs that are made by the fans and brought to concerts. It's cool because while we're playing we can look at them a little bit, we can read the different messages, it's a really cool thing.
You're currently recording your second album, what's it going to be called?
Bill: We're still working on it and for now we don't know what it will be called, so there's no secret and it's not because we don't wan't to say it, we're waiting to be finished recording it to give it a title. We are almost done the album but we don't really want to talk about it, we want to keep the suspens and for now there isn't even a release date for Germany! So for now it's all pretty vague but we can say that it won't take us that much longer!
What do you do in your spare time? Do you play video games?
Tom: We sleep a lot! It could be shocking because of our age but since we are always under a lot of stress, moving, and travelling we need some rest when we have days off, so we sleep a lot, watch TV, eat, pass time with our families, sometimes we visit our friends, but mostly we sleep a lot.
You can't really go out in public anymore, people recognize you everywhere! How do you deal with that?
Bill: Sure it's hard and we can't go out like we used to, when we are alone we wear hats or something so that people don't recognize us!
If you could please say a little something to the French fans to the camera that would be great!
Tokio Hotel: Hey we are Tokio Hotel, thanks a lot for your hospitality we are really glad we could come and play here!
Samstag, 18. November 2006
Freitag, 27. Oktober 2006
Donnerstag, 26. Oktober 2006
Mittwoch, 25. Oktober 2006
Dienstag, 24. Oktober 2006
24.10.06 Pro 7 Taff (with Translation) (s) X
Tokio Hotel bei 50 jahre Bravo - Taff - 24.10.2006 - MyVideo
translation by Artax/tha
Bill from TH. His trademark: extravagant hair extensions.
Senna [German girl band Monrose]: Bill from TH?? Come on, you can't... Look, we're talking about men here. We're not talking about girls. Really, you can't do this... Looks like Nena's daughter to me...
??: Haha, a baby. A little boy...
Senna: Honestly, he hardly has hairs on his balls - and wants to give the rock star? Ya know, he doesn't know about anything yet...
Moderator: On saturday, the comeback of the year took place at the "50 years of Bravo"-show. Only concerning the screaming, the guys had to take a close second to four younger boys - and, when we do the math, they actually could be the kids of Take That:
TH. One look of them can bring thousands of girls to the brink of insanity. The four boys from Take That can do the same. After all, they are the most successful boy group ever. At the great Bravo gala, the mega bands met for the first time. The girls went crazy...
R: Are you here for TH or for Take That?
girl: FOR TOKIO HOTEL!!!
The treasured spots in the first row at the red carpet had been coveted by the young fans of TH on the weekend. At that point, there wasn't much to be seen yet from the Take-That-fans.
Mark Owen and Gary Barlow have an explanation:
GB: Maybe the got a little bit older... like we did: We're a little bit older, also.
MO: No, I think everybody grows up. Many of our fans have their own life now, a family. It's the same with us. So, I think everybody changes a little bit.
It seems that neither TH nor Take That generally have to complain about a lack in fans. But at what performance will the girls scream louder? Who makes the hearts beat faster? We ask the celebrity guests:
Jeanette Biedermann: I'm a bit grown out of the boy group age by now... but I think TH are really sweet, Bill is totally sweet, I think...
Erkan&Stefan: TT are super-cool. Legendary... back then, the first goy group band - and TH maybe are the first computer game band. I have a golf game... there they look similar.
DJ Ötzi: Someone's gonna lose... and I don't think it will be TH...
Somehow, DJ Ötzi knew it. The performance of the young Magdeburg rockers is accompagnies by ear-bursting screaming. The highlight of the gala so far - 1:0 for TH.
R: Because of whom are you here today?
girl: Because of TH, of course. Who else would there be?
R: Take That?
girls: Naw... They're too old already.
R: TT don't interest you at all?
girl: No, not the slightest bit. I don't like them at all.
So far, the young girls still scream a bit louder for TH. With their new hit "Patience", the old hands of TT want to change that. And, behold: During the show, the first TT signs appear... They can't beat the noise of TH, but many of their old fans have none the less turned out. It's a draw between the old and young mega stars.
Lena Gercke: I think, both. There are a lot of TH fans, and a lot of TT fans.
Kai Pflaume: I think you can't really compare it any more. Basically, TH are today - especially concerning the age - there, where TT have been 10-15 years ago.
And so the fans of both bands will go on cheering. Some of them a bit more quiet, the others a bit louder.
Samstag, 21. Oktober 2006
Dienstag, 17. Oktober 2006
Montag, 16. Oktober 2006
Montag, 9. Oktober 2006
Samstag, 7. Oktober 2006
Dienstag, 3. Oktober 2006
Sonntag, 1. Oktober 2006
Freitag, 29. September 2006
Mittwoch, 27. September 2006
Dienstag, 26. September 2006
Sonntag, 24. September 2006
Freitag, 22. September 2006
Donnerstag, 21. September 2006
Sonntag, 17. September 2006
Freitag, 15. September 2006
Donnerstag, 14. September 2006
Mittwoch, 13. September 2006
13.09.06 Taff X
translated by: 0kim0
http://thtchannel.xail.net/tht4fans/tht_0kim0_043.htm
Guy: They’ve had all their singles on number one in the chards and they’ve won all the prizes and all their concerts were sold out. There don’t seem to be any limits for the guys of Tokio Hotel.
Woman: well, maybe there’s one now: One of the guys is said to be leaving the band soon. After the dreamcity, is there going to be a trauma?
R: It was all to scream for the entire braces-generation this morning; for several days they read this headline in the youth-magazine Yam; The possible split-up of Tokio Hotel! The eighteen-year-old drummer Gustav is said to be planning on leaving the band.
People say that there have been disputes between him and the young rockers from Magdeburg.
Sascha Bernicke (?), editor for the Bravo, has been corresponding with the band often.
Sascha: It’s complete nonsense, there isn’t anything true about it; the fans have no reason to worry. Bravo has phoned Gustav and he said: Everything is nonsense; he stays with Tokio Hotel.
R: Most fans still don’t know if the rumour is true or not, that Gustav doesn’t want to extend his contract with Tokio Hotel. He wouldn’t have been able to appear to full advantage with his roll in the teenage rock-band lately. And to be honest; in interview the eighteen-year-old is withdrawing himself, in contrast to his two band colleagues Bill and Tom. But at the show of Stefan Raab they make clear: they belong together.
Stefan Raab: Will you ever split up?
[Lot of “no-mumbling]
B: Well, the others aren’t very lucky if we would, anyway, because when you’re going to do something on your own, mostly that’s only the singer [Laughs]
Stefan Raab: That’s right. Most of the time it is.
B: And, well, I’m not thinking about it. I think we’ll stay as long together as we feel like it.
T: Yes.
B: And because we’re so long together now, that won’t change very soon I think.
R: Is Gustav feeling there’s being paid to little attention to him? A magazine confirmed that the young drummer’s roll has been that of a replaceable walk-on lately.
Sascha: Gustav is just a bit relaxed, he simply doesn’t talk as much as the others. And the others simply like to talk, especially in interviews. That’s just all part of the band; they’re a very closely-knit team, there isn’t any oppressing going on. He is part of them and he simply is who he is.
R: But now the management confirms there Gustav leaving the band is out of the question. So girls don’t worry; the next Tokio Hotel will definitely come, and with Gustav playing the drums.
Samstag, 9. September 2006
Donnerstag, 7. September 2006
Mittwoch, 6. September 2006
Dienstag, 5. September 2006
05.09.06 Kerner (with Translation) #
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TRANSLATION:
R: They get all the prises, and on every music chard. They’re already compared with the Beatles and the world of girls lies at their feet.
Welcome, Bill and Tom Kaulitz of Tokio Hotel.
And welcome to the audience. Professor Manch (?), you are the most well-known and successful cosmetic surgeon of Germany.
What would you do with yourself?
P (Professor): Ah, when were talking about you and me I would put my nose right and would do your right ear, but we’re so successful, we should stay who we are.
R: Has anyone ever come to you and said “I want to look like Bill or Tom”?
P: That certainly happens often. So I’m glad I’m sitting next to them so I can look. And just look, he is so good-looking…
[Girls scream]
R: Is there still anything you would like to change?
P: He has a super nose; I’m observing it all the time. And so does he.
T: You should watch closely, he squints a bit.
R: But that’s what’s making it so erotic! (He really says this, I can’t help it)
P: Squinting is sexy, squinting makes the eyes old. He has for me the perfect nose; I’ll probably make a print of it after the transmission so I can use it. Do your ears stick out under those hairs?
B: [touches his ears] No I guess not.
R: Don’t let him talk you into anything.
P: I didn’t want to!
R: Okay, and then we’ll look at the phenomenon Tokio Hotel. We know that this band has had success like no other; they’re even compared to the Beatles.
Video:
R2: Tokio Hotel is the music-phenomenon of this year. The twins Bill and Tom and their friends Gustav and Geog rock Germany! Even their first single races to the first place on the national chards. Since then they collect golden LPs and other prises like other people collect postmarks. Also that was their only dream for five years. Today thousands of fans get crazy at their concerts; girls collapse and pass out.The Tokio Hotel-rage goes on. Their new single “Der letzte Tag” (The last day) is on number one again.
End Video
[Fans sing happy birthday]
R: Happy Birthday Bill and Tom Kaulitz! It’s your birthday?
T: It was.
R: When?
B: The first of September.
R: Okay. Everything is going good; your new single on place one again. That wasn’t a surprise for you anymore was it?
B: It was. We still were surprised at the third single but Rette Mich (Rescue me) also went to number one. And now we made our fourth single because we thought: “We have performed so much now and we want the fans to always have something” We’ve written very much. We simply wanted to produce that one again as a single with bonus tracks on it; material from concerts and much more. Yes, but we’re still surprised
because actually the people already have this song, that this –
R: Succeeds again as single is crazy, yes.
B: No one counts on that, no CD-firm, no management, no one.
R: We have sat together and talked a few months or a small year ago. No I’d like to know; what has changed in you life this year?
T: That was relatively in the beginning, wasn’t it? Monsun was out. Yes…. well, since then we’ve travelled, toured and performed a lot,
non-stop actually. We played huge concerts; we have the final concert on Sunday. That was a very cool tour; we sold unbelievably much tickets, played enormous venues, we’ve won some prises –
R: You could say that yes… It’s a special thing that you’re not winning prises sometimes…
T: Yes, well, that was also very surprising of course.
B: Actually everything has changed what could have change.
R: Interesting enough, I asked the question and you’ve answered with things from the outside; tours, concerts, hotels you’ve seen, being on the road all the time. I also meant you; how have you changed? You personally.
B: Well, I hope we didn’t change as a person. We’re always keeping contact with our friends and family, I think that’s very important because we have a very heavy life now. We don’t have enormous luxury now.
T: Well, a good hotel is very nice. You should feel at home there, and then it’s nice if it’s looked after properly. But further we don’t really live in luxury.
R: And good food?
T: Yes, good food, in every case.
B: When we travel. We have really very little holyday, so when we go on a holyday that’s really nice.
R: Do you say where you go? Or maybe that’ll cause problems.
B: No, I won’t [laughs] But There we won’t save money I think, when it’s for holyday.
R: What means money to you? How important is money?
B: I think money is certainly important, but as said; of course not everything. Of course it is a big part if life.
T: We travel a lot now and you notice that with us; we make a bit of money now, and then you notice that just money doesn’t make you happy, you also need friends, family and also the normal life.
R: Who looks after you money? Who handles it? Or do you handle it yourselves?
T: Most of the time we handle it ourselves. Of course our parents advise us very much and we don’t throw it about, we can’t do that at all yet, but we save it up nicely. The only things I bought lately are, well, instruments, an amplifier or so. Invested in music.
(Other topic, other seats)
B: Otherwise we try… I think the bonus thing be have is that we are so long together already. We exist for six years now and knew us for a long time before that, that is the important part, When you suddenly come there it’s a bit different, then it happens quickly that you change.
R: You can see it if you look if you still see your old friends. From school –
T: Well we didn’t really have friends at school because we haven’t done it very long, but of course you see now who were your real friends.That hasn’t changes, they’re still all our friends.
R: Who would you ask when you would want to know if you changed?
B: We don’t have to ask that at all, I think that our friends and family would say that immediately. They would be the first to notice I think.
R: Okay, and in the last eight months, you haven’t had very much structure in your lives, does that bother you?
T: No. Because, we’ve been going to school for quite a long time, and we hated the whole everyday-school-life.
B: I really think that an everyday routine is terrible. I’m really glad that we can do it this way and everyday looks different.
R: What’s so bad about routine? I mean, most people have a lot of routine.
B: I know –
T: The worst about our routine was the getting up at 5.30, with the bus to school, meeting people where you really don’t feel like it, teachers telling stuff… I mean, partly it’s because of the teachers and the school, there probably are very good schools too. But what I mean; this normal routine. Everyday eight hours, going home by bus, going on the same immediately, getting up again next day and so on;
we’re not really made for that I think, that’s in us, that we can’t handle that routine.
R: Can you understand how hard that is for such young people – seventeen years young you’re now? – not to rise (I think he means getting a bit arrogant) by all what they have experienced this year? But not just in the studio, I mean in the morning, afternoon, evening, wherever, whenever.
Guy: Totally, totally. I’ve experienced the same thing so this is exactly the right question for me. I also have been in total success-state once, when I was a young actor, and I must say that it comes with s certain amount of substance, also having the consciousness of “we stay loyal to ourselves”. If that is true is a subjective question. When you say so objectively “I think we haven’t changed” it’s quite strong.
(In a way of “I don’t believe you”)
R: Really? I don’t notice any changes. The last conversation was just as relaxed as this one; we talk with each other in a nice way, the atmosphere actually didn’t change. But who looks after you so you don’t “rise” (I don’t know how to translate it differently)? You talked about your parents.
T: Yes. And we have an enormous team that accompany us the entire day; the producers-team, many people of the CD-firm and… well many people that are travelling with us non-stop; touring and so on. We’re actually already good friends with our team; we understand each other very well. And that’s how it should be I think.
B: I think that’s the very most important thing; that you can talk with your team, which you see really every day –
R: You said “people of the CD-firm”
B: Yes, but also simply people that accompany us all day, just people that are around us; the tour-manager and so on. When we open a door there are always people, and it’s very important that you feel comfortable in that situation. I believe that that is the most important thing.
R: But is it really “feeling well” when you have to walk around with bodyguards as a seventeen-year-old?
B: Well, luckily we don’t always have to. I have to say that in the beginning I thought it was rather difficult, because normally were very free people. I’m always out and have always done whatever I wanted so of course it tires us. When I’m out on my own I just wear a cap and a hood and then it also goes without them.
R: But isn’t that impossible with your hair? A cap and a hood?
B: It isn’t there then [Laughs] Yes, I also thought about getting a wig or a moustache or something… No just kidding, I mean; when we dress up a little we can also go without secu’s, just –
R: Secu’s?
B/T: Oh, from security.
R: From security, okay [Laughs]
B: Yes, well, when we’re travelling with the band they’re simply there, but that’s most of the time – many people think that we absolutely need them, but much of it isn’t really necessary and most if it during the concerts is for protection of the fans. We think that’s really important, because in a concert there’s really an enormous mass of fans, like 14000 people and that really needs some organising.
R: Okay. In the beginning of the show we talked a bit about envy. I know there are just people who don’t like Tokio Hotel, that’s clear, but are there also people who really show it openly?
T: Yes, there is, you notice it often. As you said; of course there are people who don’t like us or our music, that’s okay, I don’t always like everything Bill listens to, for example. But there are also people who are a bit jealous. I can imagine that that are partly young bands or maybe also older bands who play their buts of for years –
B: Yes, that’s really a thing we try to understand. We also know what that’s like; we’ve been very long in the practising-room and toured through many clubs. We were of course very young, but other bands that we played with in the same clubs were already double as old as we were. And they haven’t seen anything but their practising-room, small clubs and the five people who stand there for all their lives. You can understand that envy appears, we really try to keep thinking that. That is of course not very pleasant for us, but on the other side you could prefer that, because it (The touring through clubs) is really hard working.
R: That Tokio Hotel exists for five years already you can see when you look at the older material. I would say from your youth, but you’re still in your youth, so I say; from the very early youth. Enjoy watching!
- movie – (Little Bill sings “And then she sends me a star back, and then it stands out for me (or at least something like that) Drop by if you feel like it”)
T/B: That war three/ four years ago…
R: Indeed four years ago. So that was before the big popularity. You’ve said early: “We want on the stage, we want this popularity, we want to be famous, we want this music to be heard. Where did this willing come from?
…T: I think every band has that, when you’re in your practising-room – Of course there are also bands that like to play in clubs – but we always wanted to show our music to someone. In the beginning we’ve made music with the two of us and that was… even worse then we’ve just seen, but everyone says of course “for that age. Very sweet, it’s good” and so on.
B: When we were nine we’ve sent our first tapes. We recorded them and when we were nine sent them to Viva and other music stations… CD-firms
T: I think we eve sent a tape to the CD-firm we’re with now…
P (Professor/Surgeon): What interests me; what caused the break-through? Was it coincidence, luck? Who caused it? Because, if I see you four years ago, you were in a small studio. How did you become so incredibly successful?
B: Well, that (the studio) was already the next step. A producer had discovered us in a club. We were performing on an open stage there and he said: I think it’s cool what you do, simply come to my studio one, just drop by, let’s make something together. And what we just saw was his studio. There we’ve worked two years on our album, I think. We didn’t know at all if we would have a single or an album;
we simply recorded and recorded again. We wrote together.
T: Just in the weekends, we’ve played a lot together and just wrote songs all the time.
P: Hard work, hard work. Hard work and believing in yourself.
B: And then sometimes the CD-firm came and we introduced ourselves. And someday they said “Okay, we want to do this”. And then the single came, but we hadn’t expected it to be so successful at all. We’d made very few of them, a couple of hundred or so.
R: Later in the show we’ll speak with a colleague of the Bravo, who also did his contribution in the working-together that has lead to your success.
R: No one has ever appeared on the front page of the Bravo so often in such a short period of time as Tokio Hotel; 18 times now.
Fans: 21!
R: I have to apologise; 21 times now, I take it all back. [Laughs] Do you all have the “Starschnitt” (Maybe some other magazine?) at home?
Fans: Yes.
Fangirl: The Tokio Hotel Bible!
R: The Tokio Hotel Bible? I hadn’t heard of that yet… When I say something wrong again just tell me, no problem. I’ve always planned to learn all my life. And a life long on stage is correct to say in your case, because someone sent us a part of the movie “Verrückt nach dir” (Mad about you). Tell, me, who is who in this picture?
B: I don’t know myself, no idea.
T: You do!
B: Oh, yes I do! Tom had the yellow dog and I had a white one I guess…
T: Exactly.
R: So this is Tom and this is Bill, is that correct? (To the fans)
Fans: Yes!
R: Thank you for the support. This was a couple of years ago; can we also see it moving? Thank you.
Movie:
Woman: And you must come to me. That’s an order!
Man: Hey, didn’t you hear what she said?
Tom: My hearing isn’t too good.
Woman: Now to bed, both of you!
Tom: My bed is wet.
End Movie.
R: A short part, but… here you notice again how the girls react on you. You’ve gotten used to this I expect; you experience this every day. Are there ever moments where you hate this, when you think “It would be nice if it were different for once”?
B: No, not yet. I think – this is such a short time; the year went passed to fast – we just enjoy it, and I don’t think – at least not in the near future – that it will be to much. It certainly hasn’t yet. I don’t know, maybe when you do this for 20 years there certainly will be such moments, but not yet now.
R: Is it for a seventeen-year-old a heavy load to be a role model for the entire generation? An example?
T: It isn’t really a load actually.
B: We don’t really think “Now we should do this, because we’re an example” or something, because I think that would be very tiring. And we have very little time and we want to use it good, and do everything what normal sixteen-year-olds do. I mean seventeen-year-olds. [Laughs]
R: I mean; that piercing in your lip. There are certainly a lot of youths who think, “I want that too”.
T: Yes, well, those are cases in which you shouldn’t take us as an example; I don’t think the parents would like that. I’m being a real good boy now saying that. We just did this, we always had our own will and went there and said, “Okay, I want a piercing”. But often we’ve made compromises; we weren’t totally bad we said “I get rid of the 4 for Maths, then I can have a piercing”. We always thought of a goal, which our parents thought we could never reach anyway. nd then we reached them after all, so we could do something we wanted.
R: And the story is true; you have a tongue piercing?
T: No, he has.
B: Indeed.
R: Oh, that’s totally inconceivable for me.
B: Yes, that was exactly the store, with the 4 for maths.
O (Other guy): Just a short question; does it speak differently? I can imagine it does…
B: No, you don’t notice it at all, after a while that’s gone.
T: Just like this piercing, it doesn’t bother me anymore. When you’ve just let it pierced it is annoying, it bothers you with eating and so on. Bill had a pretty thick tongue, so he couldn’t speak anymore, but after a while you don’t notice it anymore.
R: Is it better when making out?
T: I don’t know, you should ask others that.
[Laughing]
R: No touching fans for you?
T: No
R: “Enjoying the popularity” does that include the female fans?
B: No, not with me anyway. In my case it’s only got less because of Tokio Hotel. In my case it’s always like; when I’m involved with someone,then I’m really involved. Especially because I’ve got so little time at the moment and I want to use it properly and spend it with people that mean something to me. I always give all my attention to such a person, and things like “once in the chamber and out again” don’t happen.
R: And with your brother (Or something like that, didn’t totally understand that)… [fans laugh]
And with your brother– is it different in his case?
B: Yes [Laughs]
R: Then let’s fast have this conversation, and then I’ll talk to you (Tom)!
So, every woman you meet, knows who you are, knows what’s behind it and you must always feel like she mainly likes the figure of Tokio Hotel,and possibly not mainly the people itself. Does that bother you? Is it harder to have a relationship?
B: Yes, it is a problem. I think that after a while you don’t let much get to you. You make some sort of wall. Very much people want to know something from you and think they have to say something and that’s crazy. In my case it’s very hard to come close to me.
R: And that’s why you haven’t had a girlfriend for so long?
B: Exactly, since that year actually.
R: And you’re okay with that?
B: I’m okay with that, because all my energy goes to the music and I’m not after getting a girlfriend, but when it happens, when someone crosses my path then, well… of course, then I’ll make time.
R: When someone crosses your path, well I can imagine someone doing that. And then your brother. You have experienced this quite differently, haven’t you?
T: Yes, I’m not always so…erm, so blocked I was going to say.
R: [Laughs] That’s a real conversation with the twin brother!
T: Yes, well, I simply see it a bit different. That was always like that actually. I never really had permanent girlfriends, well maybe once or twice, but that was more … erm… forced. [Fans laugh] Yes, well, because it was to difficult to change.
R: You mean you didn’t dare to brake up.
T: Exactly, you could say it like that… In my case… I don’t give those girls hope. I don’t say “You’re the love of my life, we’ll always be together”. In my case it’s more like… Well, I am certainly not after having an on night stand or something,
but I don’t rule it out. It’s okay for me when it happens to me once.
R: [Laughs] No, it’s completely okay…
T: Till I’m eighteen…
R: Till you’re eighteen?
B: Then there’s marriage…
R: You’re not planning on marrying when you’re eighteen are you?
T: No of course not!
R: Then you’ll just take more time you mean, okay. We already spoke about the Bravo. Did you read Bravo yourself when you were younger?
B: Well, I’m always a bit of an “along-reader”. There was always someone who had it with him and then everybody looked in it once, that was how it went.
T: Meanwhile we’ve got an enormous pile and actually we buy every Bravo.
B: Because we’re in it.
T: Yes, because we’re in it.
R: Because you want to know what they write about you!
B/T: Yes.
R: Okay. But most of it you should know of course.
R: We truly have an expert on the phenomenon Tokio Hotel in the audience; Alexander Gernandt is the deputy head editor of the Bravo. Welcome!
G (Gernandt): Good evening.
R: My colleague Gernandt, can you try to explain the success and the phenomenon Tokio Hotel?
G: Yes, actually that’s explainable. I had heard this music; this was a year before the first single appeared. Then someone asked me;how old do you think these guys are? And I said; Well, they’re still relatively young; begin twenty? So professionally sounded that. And then I asked if I could see a picture and Bill and Tom immediately stood out of course. The music was good, but even only by the look
I knew this couldn’t leave the German girls cold.
R: How has the sale of the Bravo changed, since you – As I’ve learned; 20 times –
Fans: 21!
R: All right, 21 [laughs] Well, since you’ve written about Tokio Hotel so much?
G: Yes, it has been advantageous for us.
R: How advantageous?
G: Yes, I would say 80000 more Bravo’s have been sold.
R: So approximately 25% advantage?
G: You could say that. Yes, the good thing was also that we’ve believed in the band from the beginning, and we’ve done something that had never been done in Bravo-history; we’ve done a double-page about an unknown band even before the first single appeared, and that was Tokio Hotel. The next day e-mails came immediately; ‘Who are these boys? Can we hear the song?’ And that’s how – for us – the Tokio Hotel
phenomenon has started.
R: 50 years the Bravo exists now, you had your birthday this week and the coming month this will be celebrated. And let’s have a look… This is the first one; it’s quite thin! Let’s see… “Where the torrent rushes…”
O: [Laughes] Yes, I remember that… The Bravo was for the youth, what film and women were for the adults. It was a movie-magazine, there weren’t any magazines for the youth in those days.
R: A magazine for movie and television?
O: Exactly.
R: But it was a very thin magazine.
O: Everything was thin in those days.
R: And Dr. Sommer wasn’t there yet?
G: No that started with “Michel for people in love” in 1962.
R: But Dr. Sommer came at the end of the sixties?
G: 1969 yes.
R: But questions like “What are the right contraceptives?” and “What’s going on when I miss my period?” must have been asked more then 5000 times.
G: Yes, of course. Every generation has these questions; there are every year 600000 eleven-year-olds who think about this questions, what adolescence is about. And Dr. Sommer has of course carried out revolutionary work and we’re very proud of that. We take this topic very serious of course.
R: Hmhm. When you compare the phenomenons; let’s take Peter Krauss (?) in the fifties and sixties, Ushi Glass was also such a figure or take a teen-band from the seventies. And compare it with Tokio Hotel today. What has changed?
G: Well, we’ve heard my comparison before; Tokio Hotel are the new Beatles. Of course I had to hear a lot of comment on it when I’d put that in the Bravo; “How can you compare the Beatles with Tokio Hotel?” but there are also, maybe 62 people who’ve said “What do you want with these four dotards? It will be the greatest band ever” (I don’t understand this)Tokio Hotel is the phenomenon of 2006. I also went to the concert in Loreley and it was sensational how 10000 kids have gotten loose and
celebrated the band. I don’t belive that the end is near and I think that the band will keep having success.
R: Well, we can only wish that! Thank you for being here Mr.Gernandt, and a happy birthday!And then we’ll try to look forward. So, now you’re seventeen; you’ve had one super-intensive year. How long will this continue? What do you thing, or what do you want?
B: Well, I think we’ll always want it to continue, because I really can’t imagine what to do else. I don’t think I can sit in a bank somewhere and do something else. I simply don’t have other interests, that has always been like that. When I came out of school I always wrote songs or went to the rehearsing room and that has always been like that so I really can’t imagine anything else.
T: We’ll probably always make music.
R: Do you have any feelings of respect, or maybe even fear, that it’ll be suddenly over; that it was just a dream?
B: We try not to think about that, but of course it can happen and we all have it in the back of our head but in principle we firstly look forward. We’re now working on the second album and we just try to start again and go on like before and we still feel like doing this so we don’t really look how this could possibly end.
R: Normally there are other offers very quickly, like playing in a movie.
T: Yes, there are. We’ll have to look, maybe we’ll do other things sometimes, but now our priority is finishing the second album, but maybe we’ll do other things sometimes. I can imagine… You’ve just seen; we’re also very good actors… [Laughs]
R: [Laughs] Yes, that was really amazing, barely developable… Are there favourite programmes you’d absolutely want to be in?
T: King of Queens! But you can’t play in that when you’re German of course…
B: Desperate Housewives…
T: That’s also good.
R: Desperate Housewives?
B: Eva Longoria!
T: Yes, then we can meet the actresses…
R: [laughs] Then you can meet the actresses, I understand…
T: Yes, but further… I don’t watch that much programmes.
B: No…
R: And then there was this mirror-article. And one comparison really stood out for me; You know what it’s about?
B: No
R: [Picture of Bill next to picture of young Elizabeth Taylor] Because in the article is written–
[Fans scream]
R: Wait a second! In the article was written that there hasn’t been such a beautiful face since the young Liz Taylor. Just an explanation; the right one is Liz Taylor!
P: Well, I already said it in the beginning; He makes me unemployed, it’s just so perfect. Everything is okay, everything great. Great voice; with a lot of weight.
R: Weight? Excuse me? If you want to weigh him you’ll have to take of all the rings or it will make a difference!
B: [Laughs] Well, this article wasn’t meant wrong.
R: No, on the contrary!
B: Well, because the audience goes “Boo!” and “No!”. It doesn’t bother me.
R: (To the audience) It isn’t good? Oh, of course; Bill is looks much better!
O: I think the left one (Bill) is looks much better.
R: Well, when … (Other guy) says that, then something must be going on!
B: The picture isn’t very good when I’m aloud to say that. [Laughs]
R: But you’re not squinting on it!
B: I do, a bit.
R: You think so?
B: Just look, the one eye… It’s just when I’m tired.
R: Look at me.
B: It is really light.
O: That doesn’t matter; squinting makes sexy.
R: [Laughs] Bill and Tom, I thank you very much for the relaxed conversation. I can only wish that you’ll keep this relaxedness, this ease and that you’ll keep making good and successful music. Good that you were here.
B: Thank you.
TRANSLATION:
R: They get all the prises, and on every music chard. They’re already compared with the Beatles and the world of girls lies at their feet.
Welcome, Bill and Tom Kaulitz of Tokio Hotel.
And welcome to the audience. Professor Manch (?), you are the most well-known and successful cosmetic surgeon of Germany.
What would you do with yourself?
P (Professor): Ah, when were talking about you and me I would put my nose right and would do your right ear, but we’re so successful, we should stay who we are.
R: Has anyone ever come to you and said “I want to look like Bill or Tom”?
P: That certainly happens often. So I’m glad I’m sitting next to them so I can look. And just look, he is so good-looking…
[Girls scream]
R: Is there still anything you would like to change?
P: He has a super nose; I’m observing it all the time. And so does he.
T: You should watch closely, he squints a bit.
R: But that’s what’s making it so erotic! (He really says this, I can’t help it)
P: Squinting is sexy, squinting makes the eyes old. He has for me the perfect nose; I’ll probably make a print of it after the transmission so I can use it. Do your ears stick out under those hairs?
B: [touches his ears] No I guess not.
R: Don’t let him talk you into anything.
P: I didn’t want to!
R: Okay, and then we’ll look at the phenomenon Tokio Hotel. We know that this band has had success like no other; they’re even compared to the Beatles.
Video:
R2: Tokio Hotel is the music-phenomenon of this year. The twins Bill and Tom and their friends Gustav and Geog rock Germany! Even their first single races to the first place on the national chards. Since then they collect golden LPs and other prises like other people collect postmarks. Also that was their only dream for five years. Today thousands of fans get crazy at their concerts; girls collapse and pass out.The Tokio Hotel-rage goes on. Their new single “Der letzte Tag” (The last day) is on number one again.
End Video
[Fans sing happy birthday]
R: Happy Birthday Bill and Tom Kaulitz! It’s your birthday?
T: It was.
R: When?
B: The first of September.
R: Okay. Everything is going good; your new single on place one again. That wasn’t a surprise for you anymore was it?
B: It was. We still were surprised at the third single but Rette Mich (Rescue me) also went to number one. And now we made our fourth single because we thought: “We have performed so much now and we want the fans to always have something” We’ve written very much. We simply wanted to produce that one again as a single with bonus tracks on it; material from concerts and much more. Yes, but we’re still surprised
because actually the people already have this song, that this –
R: Succeeds again as single is crazy, yes.
B: No one counts on that, no CD-firm, no management, no one.
R: We have sat together and talked a few months or a small year ago. No I’d like to know; what has changed in you life this year?
T: That was relatively in the beginning, wasn’t it? Monsun was out. Yes…. well, since then we’ve travelled, toured and performed a lot,
non-stop actually. We played huge concerts; we have the final concert on Sunday. That was a very cool tour; we sold unbelievably much tickets, played enormous venues, we’ve won some prises –
R: You could say that yes… It’s a special thing that you’re not winning prises sometimes…
T: Yes, well, that was also very surprising of course.
B: Actually everything has changed what could have change.
R: Interesting enough, I asked the question and you’ve answered with things from the outside; tours, concerts, hotels you’ve seen, being on the road all the time. I also meant you; how have you changed? You personally.
B: Well, I hope we didn’t change as a person. We’re always keeping contact with our friends and family, I think that’s very important because we have a very heavy life now. We don’t have enormous luxury now.
T: Well, a good hotel is very nice. You should feel at home there, and then it’s nice if it’s looked after properly. But further we don’t really live in luxury.
R: And good food?
T: Yes, good food, in every case.
B: When we travel. We have really very little holyday, so when we go on a holyday that’s really nice.
R: Do you say where you go? Or maybe that’ll cause problems.
B: No, I won’t [laughs] But There we won’t save money I think, when it’s for holyday.
R: What means money to you? How important is money?
B: I think money is certainly important, but as said; of course not everything. Of course it is a big part if life.
T: We travel a lot now and you notice that with us; we make a bit of money now, and then you notice that just money doesn’t make you happy, you also need friends, family and also the normal life.
R: Who looks after you money? Who handles it? Or do you handle it yourselves?
T: Most of the time we handle it ourselves. Of course our parents advise us very much and we don’t throw it about, we can’t do that at all yet, but we save it up nicely. The only things I bought lately are, well, instruments, an amplifier or so. Invested in music.
(Other topic, other seats)
B: Otherwise we try… I think the bonus thing be have is that we are so long together already. We exist for six years now and knew us for a long time before that, that is the important part, When you suddenly come there it’s a bit different, then it happens quickly that you change.
R: You can see it if you look if you still see your old friends. From school –
T: Well we didn’t really have friends at school because we haven’t done it very long, but of course you see now who were your real friends.That hasn’t changes, they’re still all our friends.
R: Who would you ask when you would want to know if you changed?
B: We don’t have to ask that at all, I think that our friends and family would say that immediately. They would be the first to notice I think.
R: Okay, and in the last eight months, you haven’t had very much structure in your lives, does that bother you?
T: No. Because, we’ve been going to school for quite a long time, and we hated the whole everyday-school-life.
B: I really think that an everyday routine is terrible. I’m really glad that we can do it this way and everyday looks different.
R: What’s so bad about routine? I mean, most people have a lot of routine.
B: I know –
T: The worst about our routine was the getting up at 5.30, with the bus to school, meeting people where you really don’t feel like it, teachers telling stuff… I mean, partly it’s because of the teachers and the school, there probably are very good schools too. But what I mean; this normal routine. Everyday eight hours, going home by bus, going on the same immediately, getting up again next day and so on;
we’re not really made for that I think, that’s in us, that we can’t handle that routine.
R: Can you understand how hard that is for such young people – seventeen years young you’re now? – not to rise (I think he means getting a bit arrogant) by all what they have experienced this year? But not just in the studio, I mean in the morning, afternoon, evening, wherever, whenever.
Guy: Totally, totally. I’ve experienced the same thing so this is exactly the right question for me. I also have been in total success-state once, when I was a young actor, and I must say that it comes with s certain amount of substance, also having the consciousness of “we stay loyal to ourselves”. If that is true is a subjective question. When you say so objectively “I think we haven’t changed” it’s quite strong.
(In a way of “I don’t believe you”)
R: Really? I don’t notice any changes. The last conversation was just as relaxed as this one; we talk with each other in a nice way, the atmosphere actually didn’t change. But who looks after you so you don’t “rise” (I don’t know how to translate it differently)? You talked about your parents.
T: Yes. And we have an enormous team that accompany us the entire day; the producers-team, many people of the CD-firm and… well many people that are travelling with us non-stop; touring and so on. We’re actually already good friends with our team; we understand each other very well. And that’s how it should be I think.
B: I think that’s the very most important thing; that you can talk with your team, which you see really every day –
R: You said “people of the CD-firm”
B: Yes, but also simply people that accompany us all day, just people that are around us; the tour-manager and so on. When we open a door there are always people, and it’s very important that you feel comfortable in that situation. I believe that that is the most important thing.
R: But is it really “feeling well” when you have to walk around with bodyguards as a seventeen-year-old?
B: Well, luckily we don’t always have to. I have to say that in the beginning I thought it was rather difficult, because normally were very free people. I’m always out and have always done whatever I wanted so of course it tires us. When I’m out on my own I just wear a cap and a hood and then it also goes without them.
R: But isn’t that impossible with your hair? A cap and a hood?
B: It isn’t there then [Laughs] Yes, I also thought about getting a wig or a moustache or something… No just kidding, I mean; when we dress up a little we can also go without secu’s, just –
R: Secu’s?
B/T: Oh, from security.
R: From security, okay [Laughs]
B: Yes, well, when we’re travelling with the band they’re simply there, but that’s most of the time – many people think that we absolutely need them, but much of it isn’t really necessary and most if it during the concerts is for protection of the fans. We think that’s really important, because in a concert there’s really an enormous mass of fans, like 14000 people and that really needs some organising.
R: Okay. In the beginning of the show we talked a bit about envy. I know there are just people who don’t like Tokio Hotel, that’s clear, but are there also people who really show it openly?
T: Yes, there is, you notice it often. As you said; of course there are people who don’t like us or our music, that’s okay, I don’t always like everything Bill listens to, for example. But there are also people who are a bit jealous. I can imagine that that are partly young bands or maybe also older bands who play their buts of for years –
B: Yes, that’s really a thing we try to understand. We also know what that’s like; we’ve been very long in the practising-room and toured through many clubs. We were of course very young, but other bands that we played with in the same clubs were already double as old as we were. And they haven’t seen anything but their practising-room, small clubs and the five people who stand there for all their lives. You can understand that envy appears, we really try to keep thinking that. That is of course not very pleasant for us, but on the other side you could prefer that, because it (The touring through clubs) is really hard working.
R: That Tokio Hotel exists for five years already you can see when you look at the older material. I would say from your youth, but you’re still in your youth, so I say; from the very early youth. Enjoy watching!
- movie – (Little Bill sings “And then she sends me a star back, and then it stands out for me (or at least something like that) Drop by if you feel like it”)
T/B: That war three/ four years ago…
R: Indeed four years ago. So that was before the big popularity. You’ve said early: “We want on the stage, we want this popularity, we want to be famous, we want this music to be heard. Where did this willing come from?
…T: I think every band has that, when you’re in your practising-room – Of course there are also bands that like to play in clubs – but we always wanted to show our music to someone. In the beginning we’ve made music with the two of us and that was… even worse then we’ve just seen, but everyone says of course “for that age. Very sweet, it’s good” and so on.
B: When we were nine we’ve sent our first tapes. We recorded them and when we were nine sent them to Viva and other music stations… CD-firms
T: I think we eve sent a tape to the CD-firm we’re with now…
P (Professor/Surgeon): What interests me; what caused the break-through? Was it coincidence, luck? Who caused it? Because, if I see you four years ago, you were in a small studio. How did you become so incredibly successful?
B: Well, that (the studio) was already the next step. A producer had discovered us in a club. We were performing on an open stage there and he said: I think it’s cool what you do, simply come to my studio one, just drop by, let’s make something together. And what we just saw was his studio. There we’ve worked two years on our album, I think. We didn’t know at all if we would have a single or an album;
we simply recorded and recorded again. We wrote together.
T: Just in the weekends, we’ve played a lot together and just wrote songs all the time.
P: Hard work, hard work. Hard work and believing in yourself.
B: And then sometimes the CD-firm came and we introduced ourselves. And someday they said “Okay, we want to do this”. And then the single came, but we hadn’t expected it to be so successful at all. We’d made very few of them, a couple of hundred or so.
R: Later in the show we’ll speak with a colleague of the Bravo, who also did his contribution in the working-together that has lead to your success.
R: No one has ever appeared on the front page of the Bravo so often in such a short period of time as Tokio Hotel; 18 times now.
Fans: 21!
R: I have to apologise; 21 times now, I take it all back. [Laughs] Do you all have the “Starschnitt” (Maybe some other magazine?) at home?
Fans: Yes.
Fangirl: The Tokio Hotel Bible!
R: The Tokio Hotel Bible? I hadn’t heard of that yet… When I say something wrong again just tell me, no problem. I’ve always planned to learn all my life. And a life long on stage is correct to say in your case, because someone sent us a part of the movie “Verrückt nach dir” (Mad about you). Tell, me, who is who in this picture?
B: I don’t know myself, no idea.
T: You do!
B: Oh, yes I do! Tom had the yellow dog and I had a white one I guess…
T: Exactly.
R: So this is Tom and this is Bill, is that correct? (To the fans)
Fans: Yes!
R: Thank you for the support. This was a couple of years ago; can we also see it moving? Thank you.
Movie:
Woman: And you must come to me. That’s an order!
Man: Hey, didn’t you hear what she said?
Tom: My hearing isn’t too good.
Woman: Now to bed, both of you!
Tom: My bed is wet.
End Movie.
R: A short part, but… here you notice again how the girls react on you. You’ve gotten used to this I expect; you experience this every day. Are there ever moments where you hate this, when you think “It would be nice if it were different for once”?
B: No, not yet. I think – this is such a short time; the year went passed to fast – we just enjoy it, and I don’t think – at least not in the near future – that it will be to much. It certainly hasn’t yet. I don’t know, maybe when you do this for 20 years there certainly will be such moments, but not yet now.
R: Is it for a seventeen-year-old a heavy load to be a role model for the entire generation? An example?
T: It isn’t really a load actually.
B: We don’t really think “Now we should do this, because we’re an example” or something, because I think that would be very tiring. And we have very little time and we want to use it good, and do everything what normal sixteen-year-olds do. I mean seventeen-year-olds. [Laughs]
R: I mean; that piercing in your lip. There are certainly a lot of youths who think, “I want that too”.
T: Yes, well, those are cases in which you shouldn’t take us as an example; I don’t think the parents would like that. I’m being a real good boy now saying that. We just did this, we always had our own will and went there and said, “Okay, I want a piercing”. But often we’ve made compromises; we weren’t totally bad we said “I get rid of the 4 for Maths, then I can have a piercing”. We always thought of a goal, which our parents thought we could never reach anyway. nd then we reached them after all, so we could do something we wanted.
R: And the story is true; you have a tongue piercing?
T: No, he has.
B: Indeed.
R: Oh, that’s totally inconceivable for me.
B: Yes, that was exactly the store, with the 4 for maths.
O (Other guy): Just a short question; does it speak differently? I can imagine it does…
B: No, you don’t notice it at all, after a while that’s gone.
T: Just like this piercing, it doesn’t bother me anymore. When you’ve just let it pierced it is annoying, it bothers you with eating and so on. Bill had a pretty thick tongue, so he couldn’t speak anymore, but after a while you don’t notice it anymore.
R: Is it better when making out?
T: I don’t know, you should ask others that.
[Laughing]
R: No touching fans for you?
T: No
R: “Enjoying the popularity” does that include the female fans?
B: No, not with me anyway. In my case it’s only got less because of Tokio Hotel. In my case it’s always like; when I’m involved with someone,then I’m really involved. Especially because I’ve got so little time at the moment and I want to use it properly and spend it with people that mean something to me. I always give all my attention to such a person, and things like “once in the chamber and out again” don’t happen.
R: And with your brother (Or something like that, didn’t totally understand that)… [fans laugh]
And with your brother– is it different in his case?
B: Yes [Laughs]
R: Then let’s fast have this conversation, and then I’ll talk to you (Tom)!
So, every woman you meet, knows who you are, knows what’s behind it and you must always feel like she mainly likes the figure of Tokio Hotel,and possibly not mainly the people itself. Does that bother you? Is it harder to have a relationship?
B: Yes, it is a problem. I think that after a while you don’t let much get to you. You make some sort of wall. Very much people want to know something from you and think they have to say something and that’s crazy. In my case it’s very hard to come close to me.
R: And that’s why you haven’t had a girlfriend for so long?
B: Exactly, since that year actually.
R: And you’re okay with that?
B: I’m okay with that, because all my energy goes to the music and I’m not after getting a girlfriend, but when it happens, when someone crosses my path then, well… of course, then I’ll make time.
R: When someone crosses your path, well I can imagine someone doing that. And then your brother. You have experienced this quite differently, haven’t you?
T: Yes, I’m not always so…erm, so blocked I was going to say.
R: [Laughs] That’s a real conversation with the twin brother!
T: Yes, well, I simply see it a bit different. That was always like that actually. I never really had permanent girlfriends, well maybe once or twice, but that was more … erm… forced. [Fans laugh] Yes, well, because it was to difficult to change.
R: You mean you didn’t dare to brake up.
T: Exactly, you could say it like that… In my case… I don’t give those girls hope. I don’t say “You’re the love of my life, we’ll always be together”. In my case it’s more like… Well, I am certainly not after having an on night stand or something,
but I don’t rule it out. It’s okay for me when it happens to me once.
R: [Laughs] No, it’s completely okay…
T: Till I’m eighteen…
R: Till you’re eighteen?
B: Then there’s marriage…
R: You’re not planning on marrying when you’re eighteen are you?
T: No of course not!
R: Then you’ll just take more time you mean, okay. We already spoke about the Bravo. Did you read Bravo yourself when you were younger?
B: Well, I’m always a bit of an “along-reader”. There was always someone who had it with him and then everybody looked in it once, that was how it went.
T: Meanwhile we’ve got an enormous pile and actually we buy every Bravo.
B: Because we’re in it.
T: Yes, because we’re in it.
R: Because you want to know what they write about you!
B/T: Yes.
R: Okay. But most of it you should know of course.
R: We truly have an expert on the phenomenon Tokio Hotel in the audience; Alexander Gernandt is the deputy head editor of the Bravo. Welcome!
G (Gernandt): Good evening.
R: My colleague Gernandt, can you try to explain the success and the phenomenon Tokio Hotel?
G: Yes, actually that’s explainable. I had heard this music; this was a year before the first single appeared. Then someone asked me;how old do you think these guys are? And I said; Well, they’re still relatively young; begin twenty? So professionally sounded that. And then I asked if I could see a picture and Bill and Tom immediately stood out of course. The music was good, but even only by the look
I knew this couldn’t leave the German girls cold.
R: How has the sale of the Bravo changed, since you – As I’ve learned; 20 times –
Fans: 21!
R: All right, 21 [laughs] Well, since you’ve written about Tokio Hotel so much?
G: Yes, it has been advantageous for us.
R: How advantageous?
G: Yes, I would say 80000 more Bravo’s have been sold.
R: So approximately 25% advantage?
G: You could say that. Yes, the good thing was also that we’ve believed in the band from the beginning, and we’ve done something that had never been done in Bravo-history; we’ve done a double-page about an unknown band even before the first single appeared, and that was Tokio Hotel. The next day e-mails came immediately; ‘Who are these boys? Can we hear the song?’ And that’s how – for us – the Tokio Hotel
phenomenon has started.
R: 50 years the Bravo exists now, you had your birthday this week and the coming month this will be celebrated. And let’s have a look… This is the first one; it’s quite thin! Let’s see… “Where the torrent rushes…”
O: [Laughes] Yes, I remember that… The Bravo was for the youth, what film and women were for the adults. It was a movie-magazine, there weren’t any magazines for the youth in those days.
R: A magazine for movie and television?
O: Exactly.
R: But it was a very thin magazine.
O: Everything was thin in those days.
R: And Dr. Sommer wasn’t there yet?
G: No that started with “Michel for people in love” in 1962.
R: But Dr. Sommer came at the end of the sixties?
G: 1969 yes.
R: But questions like “What are the right contraceptives?” and “What’s going on when I miss my period?” must have been asked more then 5000 times.
G: Yes, of course. Every generation has these questions; there are every year 600000 eleven-year-olds who think about this questions, what adolescence is about. And Dr. Sommer has of course carried out revolutionary work and we’re very proud of that. We take this topic very serious of course.
R: Hmhm. When you compare the phenomenons; let’s take Peter Krauss (?) in the fifties and sixties, Ushi Glass was also such a figure or take a teen-band from the seventies. And compare it with Tokio Hotel today. What has changed?
G: Well, we’ve heard my comparison before; Tokio Hotel are the new Beatles. Of course I had to hear a lot of comment on it when I’d put that in the Bravo; “How can you compare the Beatles with Tokio Hotel?” but there are also, maybe 62 people who’ve said “What do you want with these four dotards? It will be the greatest band ever” (I don’t understand this)Tokio Hotel is the phenomenon of 2006. I also went to the concert in Loreley and it was sensational how 10000 kids have gotten loose and
celebrated the band. I don’t belive that the end is near and I think that the band will keep having success.
R: Well, we can only wish that! Thank you for being here Mr.Gernandt, and a happy birthday!And then we’ll try to look forward. So, now you’re seventeen; you’ve had one super-intensive year. How long will this continue? What do you thing, or what do you want?
B: Well, I think we’ll always want it to continue, because I really can’t imagine what to do else. I don’t think I can sit in a bank somewhere and do something else. I simply don’t have other interests, that has always been like that. When I came out of school I always wrote songs or went to the rehearsing room and that has always been like that so I really can’t imagine anything else.
T: We’ll probably always make music.
R: Do you have any feelings of respect, or maybe even fear, that it’ll be suddenly over; that it was just a dream?
B: We try not to think about that, but of course it can happen and we all have it in the back of our head but in principle we firstly look forward. We’re now working on the second album and we just try to start again and go on like before and we still feel like doing this so we don’t really look how this could possibly end.
R: Normally there are other offers very quickly, like playing in a movie.
T: Yes, there are. We’ll have to look, maybe we’ll do other things sometimes, but now our priority is finishing the second album, but maybe we’ll do other things sometimes. I can imagine… You’ve just seen; we’re also very good actors… [Laughs]
R: [Laughs] Yes, that was really amazing, barely developable… Are there favourite programmes you’d absolutely want to be in?
T: King of Queens! But you can’t play in that when you’re German of course…
B: Desperate Housewives…
T: That’s also good.
R: Desperate Housewives?
B: Eva Longoria!
T: Yes, then we can meet the actresses…
R: [laughs] Then you can meet the actresses, I understand…
T: Yes, but further… I don’t watch that much programmes.
B: No…
R: And then there was this mirror-article. And one comparison really stood out for me; You know what it’s about?
B: No
R: [Picture of Bill next to picture of young Elizabeth Taylor] Because in the article is written–
[Fans scream]
R: Wait a second! In the article was written that there hasn’t been such a beautiful face since the young Liz Taylor. Just an explanation; the right one is Liz Taylor!
P: Well, I already said it in the beginning; He makes me unemployed, it’s just so perfect. Everything is okay, everything great. Great voice; with a lot of weight.
R: Weight? Excuse me? If you want to weigh him you’ll have to take of all the rings or it will make a difference!
B: [Laughs] Well, this article wasn’t meant wrong.
R: No, on the contrary!
B: Well, because the audience goes “Boo!” and “No!”. It doesn’t bother me.
R: (To the audience) It isn’t good? Oh, of course; Bill is looks much better!
O: I think the left one (Bill) is looks much better.
R: Well, when … (Other guy) says that, then something must be going on!
B: The picture isn’t very good when I’m aloud to say that. [Laughs]
R: But you’re not squinting on it!
B: I do, a bit.
R: You think so?
B: Just look, the one eye… It’s just when I’m tired.
R: Look at me.
B: It is really light.
O: That doesn’t matter; squinting makes sexy.
R: [Laughs] Bill and Tom, I thank you very much for the relaxed conversation. I can only wish that you’ll keep this relaxedness, this ease and that you’ll keep making good and successful music. Good that you were here.
B: Thank you.
Sonntag, 3. September 2006
Mittwoch, 30. August 2006
Dienstag, 29. August 2006
Montag, 28. August 2006
Freitag, 25. August 2006
Donnerstag, 24. August 2006
Mittwoch, 23. August 2006
Montag, 21. August 2006
21.08.06 Pro 7 Taff - Tourbus (with Translation) X
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Woman: And now four boys who’ve made it to the top without a casting show, and the success isn’t getting any less in the last few months.
Guy: Yes, we mean Tokio Hotel. They cause a lot of teenage-hysterics everywhere, with exception of their tour bus. There the guys can have a quiet time, without any girls.
Woman: Or at least so they say.
Reporter: This is how it sounds outside… and this is inside. Once more just to compare. Whene everywhere else is rock ‘n roll, in the buss it’s always quiet; a strict rule of Tokio Hotel. their night liner is about 30 square metres used by four people; a pretty narrow tour-life, but Bill, Tom, Gustav and Georg have made it themselves as comfortable as possible.
Tom: This is just the toilet.
Reporter: Oh, that’s very important!
Tom: Yes, but I think it’s peeing only!
Bill: the rest you have to do at a filling station…
Tom: Sometimes Georg forgets…
Let’s go a bit further…
Bill: I sleep in here.
Tom: Bill sleeps here…
Georg: I sleep here, above on the other side.
Tom: There sleeps Bill. Here sleeps the chef; that’s me. That’s the best one.
Reporter: Where are the groupies sleeping them?
Tom: Depends, it’s big enough in here.
Georg: We have some baggage compartment down here…
Tom: It’s a bit bigger here, here we’ve got playstation and a small TV, and that’s all there is in the buss.
Bill: That was all the luxury!
Georg: yeah, extremely…
Reporter: What’s notable; at stage Tokio Hotel lets their guitars rock and make the fans scream with teenage rock. But in the bus it looks more like “mummy’s little darling” than like “hell’s angel”.
Tom: We’ve just got in, so there isn’t much to see yet, but after three days – we’re going to travel for three days in this thing – I think it’s really for some serious cleaning…
Georg: Indeed
Reporter: So sex, drugs and Tokio Hotel after all. Today they have a concert in Hamburg, with fifteen degrees (Celcius) and rain. But the two thousand fans don’t care, most won’t even wear waterproof clothes, they want to get Tokio Hotel’s attention with narrow shirts.
Tom: It isn’t really cold, I’m glad about that, but I still find it pretty incredible; I wouldn’t be walking around in a skirt when it’d be raining like this. Well, not at all actually…
Georg: But otherwise he’d love to…
Reporter: Without a skirt, but with much to large pants Tom stands on the stage a short time after that. And with such an image, the cold and wet, young groupies will soon get warm again. A performance that has been great for everyone in spite of the bad weather.
Bill: Today was extremely good.
Tom: Today it struck me that all the banners were new, I’d never read those sayings before. There was “Tom, spank me with your dreadlocks” and “Put away the guitars and play with me”. I must say they were pretty creative today.
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Woman: And now four boys who’ve made it to the top without a casting show, and the success isn’t getting any less in the last few months.
Guy: Yes, we mean Tokio Hotel. They cause a lot of teenage-hysterics everywhere, with exception of their tour bus. There the guys can have a quiet time, without any girls.
Woman: Or at least so they say.
Reporter: This is how it sounds outside… and this is inside. Once more just to compare. Whene everywhere else is rock ‘n roll, in the buss it’s always quiet; a strict rule of Tokio Hotel. their night liner is about 30 square metres used by four people; a pretty narrow tour-life, but Bill, Tom, Gustav and Georg have made it themselves as comfortable as possible.
Tom: This is just the toilet.
Reporter: Oh, that’s very important!
Tom: Yes, but I think it’s peeing only!
Bill: the rest you have to do at a filling station…
Tom: Sometimes Georg forgets…
Let’s go a bit further…
Bill: I sleep in here.
Tom: Bill sleeps here…
Georg: I sleep here, above on the other side.
Tom: There sleeps Bill. Here sleeps the chef; that’s me. That’s the best one.
Reporter: Where are the groupies sleeping them?
Tom: Depends, it’s big enough in here.
Georg: We have some baggage compartment down here…
Tom: It’s a bit bigger here, here we’ve got playstation and a small TV, and that’s all there is in the buss.
Bill: That was all the luxury!
Georg: yeah, extremely…
Reporter: What’s notable; at stage Tokio Hotel lets their guitars rock and make the fans scream with teenage rock. But in the bus it looks more like “mummy’s little darling” than like “hell’s angel”.
Tom: We’ve just got in, so there isn’t much to see yet, but after three days – we’re going to travel for three days in this thing – I think it’s really for some serious cleaning…
Georg: Indeed
Reporter: So sex, drugs and Tokio Hotel after all. Today they have a concert in Hamburg, with fifteen degrees (Celcius) and rain. But the two thousand fans don’t care, most won’t even wear waterproof clothes, they want to get Tokio Hotel’s attention with narrow shirts.
Tom: It isn’t really cold, I’m glad about that, but I still find it pretty incredible; I wouldn’t be walking around in a skirt when it’d be raining like this. Well, not at all actually…
Georg: But otherwise he’d love to…
Reporter: Without a skirt, but with much to large pants Tom stands on the stage a short time after that. And with such an image, the cold and wet, young groupies will soon get warm again. A performance that has been great for everyone in spite of the bad weather.
Bill: Today was extremely good.
Tom: Today it struck me that all the banners were new, I’d never read those sayings before. There was “Tom, spank me with your dreadlocks” and “Put away the guitars and play with me”. I must say they were pretty creative today.
Samstag, 19. August 2006
Freitag, 18. August 2006
Donnerstag, 17. August 2006
Montag, 14. August 2006
Donnerstag, 10. August 2006
10.08.06 Best of Viva live (with Translation) X
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Gülcan: guys, when i realised that it’s about the best bands of the world today, i took some of the posters off the walls at home and i brought along the best of them, the one of Tokio Hotel as you can see. they stand there looking all sexy into the camera and letting their eyes speak. that’s what a lot of girls think and they do make good music, too. i really like them. Klaas, do you like them too?
Klaas: mhm...
Gülcan: do you also have their cd’s?
Klaas: mmh...
Gülcan: do you also go to their concerts sometimes?
Klaas: mhm...
Gülcan: really?! do you have a mug with their picture on it?
Klaas: mhm...
Gülcan: boah, you’re really cool man... but not only Klaas is cool, Tokio Hotel are cool too and they’ve been in our show quite a few times. here is the best of!
Gustav: it’s exciting. i like it when there are people who scream for you... that’s cool.
Bill: this is the love nest of Sarah and Marc... their cozy corner. i think Tom wanted to help Marc out a little bit...
Tom: i heard help is needed...
Bill: yeah, help is needed.
Bill: everyone gets dancing girls, Stefan Raab has dancing girls too... everyone but us! i think we should have dancing girls too.
Tom: rehearsing is so boring. there’s just nothing special about it.
Bill: yeah, you have to wait all the time...
Tom: rehearsing sucks.
Bill: the fact that the singer usually stands in the front and the others could feel disadvantaged doesn’t prove to be true for us. Gustav is rather quiet. he likes to seclude himself and he’s glad to be behind the drums and that he doesn’t have to go up front. Tom is a real poser with his guitar. so he backs me up on stage. and Georg is the typical bassist, a little reserved, also quiet. and that’s who we are, and i think everyone’s happy the way it is.
Tom: Bill is the most mysterious one of us. he likes to seclude himself. and when he doesn’t feel like taking part in what we do, he just walks off.
Klaas: this is Tokio Hotel!... wait, let me take a picture of you.
Klaas: everything went so fast. i think not even as a viewer you could really understand what was going on and you guys probably even less. it happened overnight. how did that feel?
Bill: i think because it happened so quickly, you can’t really tell. it came as a big surprise for us. i think a lot of guys our age dream of seeing their video on Viva...
Klaas (to Tom): you said in an interview “women, great... doesn’t matter if they’re stupid”... i read that today. tell me, what’s this all about?
Tom: well, i’m the type of guy who makes decisions by gut feeling, so i don’t pay attention to a certain IQ or something like that. i mean, why would i? people who do too much thinking are not that much fun.
Georg: there’s this saying...
Tom: yeah. (laughs)
Bill: shut up.
Klaas: excuse me? say it again with the mic.
Georg: well, there’s a saying...
Klaas: yeah, there’s this saying...um... right. you know it. *lol* (must be something bad, i don’t know which saying they mean)
Gülcan: i’ll ask you questions and we’ll see if your answers are the same.
Bill: red means correct and blue means wrong?
Gülcan: yeah, red means “i am”... for example funky, and blue means “i’m quiet”.
Bill: ok.
Gülcan: let’s get started. first question: are you romantic?
(Bill quickly says yes.)
Tom: uh...
Gülcan: are you? then show... (Tom shows the blue side)... you’re not?
Tom: no.
Gülcan: ok.
Bill: what did he show?
Gülcan: well, that’s a perfect match... i mean no match.
(Bill turns around to look at Tom’s thumb.)
Gülcan: no looking!
Bill shrugs: oh well...
Gülcan: next question: have you ever written a love letter? to a girl?
(Bill again is quick with his answer. what the hell is Tom thinking about? ;o)
Gülcan: you both have. ok, that’s a match. can you cook? cause that’s important.
(Bill quickly says no.)
Tom: we know how to cook sauce.
Bill: yeah, that’s true.
Gülcan: it’s a very important question. girls dig that. don’t we, girls? (girls agree)
Bill (to Tom): come on, tell the truth.
Tom: can we cook?
Bill: no.
Gülcan: ok guys, say no... alright, it’s a match. oh, important question: are you faithful?
(now he’s quick. ;o)
Gülcan: both yes, that’s great.
Johanna: well, not only the girls in here but also the girls out there have a lot of questions for you. here are some of them.
girl 1: hi Bill, i wanted to ask if you believe that the girl of your dreams could be among the audience at your concerts.
girl 2: i love you so much.
guy: hi Bill, i was wondering if you’re also into guys. *lol*
Johanna: ok, we’ve heard some questions now and one of them was particularly interesting. spit it out!
Bill: which one? the last one, of course. well, certainly not. i used to have a lot of friends who were gay, but me, not at all.
Johanna: have the fans ever done things that made you say “that’s going too far”?
Bill: well, there was this girl who slept at the bus station next to our house. that was heavy and i felt sorry too, cause we’re hardly ever at home. to meet us there would really be a coincidence. and the girl actually slept there, it was really cold and she was almost frozen to death when they found her the next morning, so that’s really heavy.
Klaas: a lot of girls who stand in the front row faint, a hundred of them at autograph sessions... and you see that. what do you think?
Bill: well, we don’t usually see that, cause we’re focused all the time and... well ok, you can see the first row, but you don’t see what’s behind them. sometimes there’s light and then we get to see them all, but we don’t see who’s fainting and who’s not. i gotta say though, we have a very caring team who makes sure everyone’s fine. they give out water, they’ve also started giving out hot soup for those outside, cause they stand there for hours...
Klaas: it’s incredible. like in a refugee camp with blankets and soup...
Bill: right, they also give out blankets...
translation by THTchannel
Gülcan: guys, when i realised that it’s about the best bands of the world today, i took some of the posters off the walls at home and i brought along the best of them, the one of Tokio Hotel as you can see. they stand there looking all sexy into the camera and letting their eyes speak. that’s what a lot of girls think and they do make good music, too. i really like them. Klaas, do you like them too?
Klaas: mhm...
Gülcan: do you also have their cd’s?
Klaas: mmh...
Gülcan: do you also go to their concerts sometimes?
Klaas: mhm...
Gülcan: really?! do you have a mug with their picture on it?
Klaas: mhm...
Gülcan: boah, you’re really cool man... but not only Klaas is cool, Tokio Hotel are cool too and they’ve been in our show quite a few times. here is the best of!
Gustav: it’s exciting. i like it when there are people who scream for you... that’s cool.
Bill: this is the love nest of Sarah and Marc... their cozy corner. i think Tom wanted to help Marc out a little bit...
Tom: i heard help is needed...
Bill: yeah, help is needed.
Bill: everyone gets dancing girls, Stefan Raab has dancing girls too... everyone but us! i think we should have dancing girls too.
Tom: rehearsing is so boring. there’s just nothing special about it.
Bill: yeah, you have to wait all the time...
Tom: rehearsing sucks.
Bill: the fact that the singer usually stands in the front and the others could feel disadvantaged doesn’t prove to be true for us. Gustav is rather quiet. he likes to seclude himself and he’s glad to be behind the drums and that he doesn’t have to go up front. Tom is a real poser with his guitar. so he backs me up on stage. and Georg is the typical bassist, a little reserved, also quiet. and that’s who we are, and i think everyone’s happy the way it is.
Tom: Bill is the most mysterious one of us. he likes to seclude himself. and when he doesn’t feel like taking part in what we do, he just walks off.
Klaas: this is Tokio Hotel!... wait, let me take a picture of you.
Klaas: everything went so fast. i think not even as a viewer you could really understand what was going on and you guys probably even less. it happened overnight. how did that feel?
Bill: i think because it happened so quickly, you can’t really tell. it came as a big surprise for us. i think a lot of guys our age dream of seeing their video on Viva...
Klaas (to Tom): you said in an interview “women, great... doesn’t matter if they’re stupid”... i read that today. tell me, what’s this all about?
Tom: well, i’m the type of guy who makes decisions by gut feeling, so i don’t pay attention to a certain IQ or something like that. i mean, why would i? people who do too much thinking are not that much fun.
Georg: there’s this saying...
Tom: yeah. (laughs)
Bill: shut up.
Klaas: excuse me? say it again with the mic.
Georg: well, there’s a saying...
Klaas: yeah, there’s this saying...um... right. you know it. *lol* (must be something bad, i don’t know which saying they mean)
Gülcan: i’ll ask you questions and we’ll see if your answers are the same.
Bill: red means correct and blue means wrong?
Gülcan: yeah, red means “i am”... for example funky, and blue means “i’m quiet”.
Bill: ok.
Gülcan: let’s get started. first question: are you romantic?
(Bill quickly says yes.)
Tom: uh...
Gülcan: are you? then show... (Tom shows the blue side)... you’re not?
Tom: no.
Gülcan: ok.
Bill: what did he show?
Gülcan: well, that’s a perfect match... i mean no match.
(Bill turns around to look at Tom’s thumb.)
Gülcan: no looking!
Bill shrugs: oh well...
Gülcan: next question: have you ever written a love letter? to a girl?
(Bill again is quick with his answer. what the hell is Tom thinking about? ;o)
Gülcan: you both have. ok, that’s a match. can you cook? cause that’s important.
(Bill quickly says no.)
Tom: we know how to cook sauce.
Bill: yeah, that’s true.
Gülcan: it’s a very important question. girls dig that. don’t we, girls? (girls agree)
Bill (to Tom): come on, tell the truth.
Tom: can we cook?
Bill: no.
Gülcan: ok guys, say no... alright, it’s a match. oh, important question: are you faithful?
(now he’s quick. ;o)
Gülcan: both yes, that’s great.
Johanna: well, not only the girls in here but also the girls out there have a lot of questions for you. here are some of them.
girl 1: hi Bill, i wanted to ask if you believe that the girl of your dreams could be among the audience at your concerts.
girl 2: i love you so much.
guy: hi Bill, i was wondering if you’re also into guys. *lol*
Johanna: ok, we’ve heard some questions now and one of them was particularly interesting. spit it out!
Bill: which one? the last one, of course. well, certainly not. i used to have a lot of friends who were gay, but me, not at all.
Johanna: have the fans ever done things that made you say “that’s going too far”?
Bill: well, there was this girl who slept at the bus station next to our house. that was heavy and i felt sorry too, cause we’re hardly ever at home. to meet us there would really be a coincidence. and the girl actually slept there, it was really cold and she was almost frozen to death when they found her the next morning, so that’s really heavy.
Klaas: a lot of girls who stand in the front row faint, a hundred of them at autograph sessions... and you see that. what do you think?
Bill: well, we don’t usually see that, cause we’re focused all the time and... well ok, you can see the first row, but you don’t see what’s behind them. sometimes there’s light and then we get to see them all, but we don’t see who’s fainting and who’s not. i gotta say though, we have a very caring team who makes sure everyone’s fine. they give out water, they’ve also started giving out hot soup for those outside, cause they stand there for hours...
Klaas: it’s incredible. like in a refugee camp with blankets and soup...
Bill: right, they also give out blankets...
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