Here is an audio interview with the band and Oliver Tanson. You can read more about Oliver at his website… link at the bottom.
The translation here is by THsSchatzi. She requests that you do not use this translation without giving credit to her, which we gladly do, because dang, without the translators, we would be screwed.
So thank you, 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*cking 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 platinum 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 über amazing.
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LMAO
Prostitute Georg XD!!
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aww haha * Georg: n bills my best costomer* xDDDDD wow!! hahah i love those guys!!!! <3333333 :DD
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i already have ever one of their cds! but this makes me want to buy them all again!!! haha maybe i will, one for home and one for the car hehe. and lmfao!!!
“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.”
i cracked up! and bill sounded so happy hehehe i love hearing that. haha if georg was a prostitute, he would have enuff $ to buy the world hehehehe. loved this interview <33
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Seriously I was dying laughing with Georg be a prostitute! :D
Thoose guys are killing me! <3
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bill and his eye-brows are killing me. because they are so sexy, and his look just kills you alone
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Hahaha
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*random comment*
HAPPY BIRTHDAY GUSTAV!!!!!!! HAVE AN AMAZING DAY
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A Tokio Hotel Lollipop is genius, but the real question is….what FLAVOR would it be?
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It should be…BILL FLAVOURED!! :D
And it should also come in Tom, Georg, and Gustav flavoured, so we can all be happy little fans squeeing till the end of time :D
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haha lol Geor a prostitute! lol lovely
Oh my gosh! A Tokio Hotel Lolly! That’s would get big sells XD
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Georg as a male prostitute—I would rob banks in order to buy up ALL his time. Forever. And ever.
Wow, it must have been really challenging to translate Tom’s speed talking!! (I think I heard a sonic boom.) Thank you, THsSchatzi!
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I think his girlfriend will disapprove, E… LOL :)
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I agree with Bill about the illegal downloads.
My friends actually tell me to just illegally download songs because it’s free but I always say no since I want to support the bands I love.
I think that people who illegally download songs aren’t true fans of artists, because the point of being a fan is to support.
lmao Georg and GUSTAV, TALK!
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Very well said.
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LOL
Georg prostituting and bill being his best customer ROFLMAO
And I agree with the download thing
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i like this interview. Bill cussed that is a miracle ( applause) jk jk. but yeah they should invent TH lollipops . just saying
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THE OLIVER TANSON INTERVIEW WAS AMAZINGLY INCREDULOUS
REMEMBER FANS FROM ALL OVER
TOKIO HOTEL ARE AN AMAZING BAND
TOKIO HOTEL SPOKE HONESTLY AND BRIEFLY WITH THEIR THOUGHTS
BILL AND TOM DID AN EXCELLENT JOB IN THEIR ANSWERS
TOKIO HOTEL YOU ROCK ! ! ! ! ! !
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Tom talks way too fast! :) But I love it!
Georg as a prostitute…. ;) Hmmmm…. *Thinks*
Haha! This interveiw was amazing! :D
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Bill looks amazing….
I spent my entire Labor Day Weekend trapped in a tour bus….
but I come back and see photos like this and I am very happy to be home once again! :)
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oh jesus im love with tom’s voice im lame but ye so manly and deep lol i hope that makes an since hehehehe XD!
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even though there are words i don’t understand he is saying…i just like listening to him. his voice just comforts me!
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it’s been a while since i see bill wearing another band shirt :)
and at EVERY interiview, somehow topics of sex and jessica alba always crept in. but mostly this interview quite deep. true fans should really buy the original copies. i mean, its impossible to buy the whole album if you only like one or two songs, but of you love nearly every songs, should just buy it.
and some company should so something in making sure singles can also be bought in other country. impossible to buy singles here >:[
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It’s not Kiss shirt. It’s DSquared one:). DS2…
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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.
HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA!!!!!!!!
XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
:D
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If Georg was a prostitute, the other male prostitutes would’ve been out of business by now. Bill’s Kiss shirt! I bet Tom’s inner “fangirl” comes out when he meets Jessica Alba someday lol. And Gustav if I was there I’d pay you $100 to talk!!!
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wow….camping in front of Jessica Alba’s house!!! *rolls over laughing*
Georg as a prostitute would be……would be hot. ;)
and yeah, they are right about the music business, it’s going down way too fast, with all the illegal downloading and stuff. Good thing I bought the legal copy of Humanoid City Live!!!!!!!!
and Bill and Tom sound sooo freakin hot, it’s senseless!!!!!!!
loved it.
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hahahahaha They are so funny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I want a REAL tokio hotel lollipop
(if you see what I’m saying ;) )
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Oh my gosh ur only 13!! And ur already talking about “lollipops” (if u know what I mean ;-))?!!?? Well I’m 13 too and I thought I was the only one that thought that!
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hahahhahhahhaha I act much older than I am… :p
and how did you know that o_O
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Because I am a vampire… OK JUST KIDDING!! I’m not! It’s just that in one of your comments you left on some page in here you said you were thirteen, I think it was Tom’s reebok pics and competition……. ok, I have a really freakish memory, sorry about that, hehe…
I’m thirteen (and a girl) too! I know what you mean I always act as if I was 20 or something, wherever I go I get asked what college I’m in, and I’m like, “I’m 13! I’m still in high school!” And they get really surprised and start going on about how much older I seem, I don’t if it’s how I act or look – that’s just me I guess!
It gets annoying when you don’t get taken seriously, cus they think ur just some teenager. Oh well…
BTW I am totally in love with Bill, just had to say that!
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Sorry I spelt my name wrong, it’s Mona not Mena, haha I sound so dumb! I’m not I swear!
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haha yeahh! thats exactly what happens to me :/ people think I’m in frickin collage lol… I don’t even look 13 AT ALL. its weird…
people also for some reason think I’m a model :p I guess its a compliment but like… seriously?????
lol anywhoo don’t worry :) I’m like that 2 haha ur not alone :pp
ur lucky u have such good memory :)
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I want a Tokio Hotel lollipop. o.O
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HAHA….Georg being a prostitute and Bill being his best customer….that was funny(:
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weare was gustav was he talking? i did’tn hear him
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uber amazing! <33 A Tokio Hotel lollipop is a fantastic idea, actually. I'd buy et.
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i hate lollipops but if its a tokio hotel lollipop then i would eat it of course.
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Tokio Hotel LOLLIPOP!!! <33333 They should really make that! That's a very nice idea ;)
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tom with leather gloves! that’s a nice change.
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“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.”
lmao XD love it! I’d be his second best customer lol. =)
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<3333333 it!
thanks for the translation!!!!!