Tokio Hotel & Oliver Tanson Interview ; 22.02.2010 ,Esch. WITH TRANSLATION IN THE DESCRIPTION

Translation by THsSchatzi

B: We are extremely excited,we are always extremely nervous and that will never stop.
I think that just belongs to the whole thing,its sure that you are always nervous when you go on stage and ...but when you go on it and start,usually you relax very fast and then you just have fun.But i have to say,BEFORE we are extremely nervous.

B: The big difference this time is that we have our very own stage with us,yeah,that makes the difference.If you take a stage from the venue,which is already there at the place,ok then you dont have to drive it (the stage) all around...
And this time we have our own stage with us.So thats why everything is a bit more extravagant.

B:I stood when i was younger,when i was really young like...7 or 8 years at concerts of Nena and so on,in rain and i waited there and so on,...yeah..of course.

T: Georg and me took in the last album production phase,which was like almost a year, 2 weeks off and went with a tent infront of Jessica Alba's house and ...camped there a little bit. No no,she wasnt giving a concert there,she also wasnt opening the door, so that wasnt much successful buuuut..
But,..that are these small things that you just do sometimes ;)

B:Tom and me dont know it different,we grew up like that,and we caused even in young years hate in older people.But thats more a thing we enjoyed than to suffer because of that,and you really have to say,we wouldnt be there where we are now without having them,this haters.So,for some reasons we are like kind of ..thankful for that.


B: Usually people hate us or they really like what we do;something between that is very seldom.Tom and me grew up with that,also when we werent doing music already ,we just had to enter the school bus and there was the same,so..this became like routine for us.

B: Good question !How can you today earn money as a musician...thats really hard i have to say!

T:But,we have a similar problem,because we spend so much money for the production on a tour that at the end of the day we dont even really make much money with a tour then.And CDs also get more and more less,so ..

B:So besides that,Georg is prostituing himself at the off-days.He's always standing close to the street then,you know,buuu' *GEORG INTERRUPTING HIM*
G :By the way,Bill is my best customer.
B: Yes,true.


B: I really think for all this newcomer people it really sucks today because in this times it gets more and more difficult to get a record deal which is good and to get into the big music business as an artist.Because people also dont invest anymore.So when i look on our own f****** music company, then....we know it.

B: Ok,we can speak especially about the last 5 years,when you look at the music record sector,then there are many old guys in the record companies who sit infront of their desks and cry.. For sure.Its really going down,you can really watch that looking at the last 5 years.

T: When did you get platin ten years ago in Germany?That was maybe when you sold 2 millions of records.
B:Yeah,probably.
T:And today you already get it at 200.000 or something.

T: We also made the mistake,well,not saying we made a mistake,i think i would always do it the same way again; we never did things like taking contracts for some advertising or something like where we said 'Oh yeah lets do that to get more money or lets invent a Tokio Hotel lollipop' or something.We were always very careful with that we could really stand behind something and we really concentrated more on the tours and the albums and let everything else at the side which was there.

B: What do we wishhh for....we really wish to go to Asia next of course, we wish ... *TOM INTERRUPTING*
T: That the people buy the CDs and that the music industry will bloom again.
B: Yes,true.We wish for less illegal downloads for everyone.

B: Hey we are Tokio Hotel and we just had an interview with Oliver and it was .....
T: Okay.
G:Okay.
T:Okay.It was bearable.
B: It was überamazing.