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
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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
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