Interview on the 1000 Hotels Tour

Friday 11pm in Esh sur Alzette, south of Luxemburg in one of the four double decker-Nightliners, those aerodynamic Tourbus bungalows on wheels: Upstairs for sleeping, downstairs for living, with a wooden sitting corner with sterio system, Sony-Playstation, Microwave, fridges. The home of the german rock phenomenon Tokio Hotel – Bill, Tom, Gustav and Georg. The four are outpowered but everything else but tired. On the table in frot of them: Coke, chips, pizza. 20 minutes behind them(this phrase doesn’t make any sense in german aswell): their fourth gig of their completely booked out(meaning sg. Like busy schedule) europe tour. 24 concerts in 15 countries, 15 000 kilometers in four and a half weeks with a 60 people straong crew in six trucks and four busses. That is impressing.

First of all, congratulations to your A-degree, Bill and Tom! Mittlere Reife(see thread about their school degree for info) with a 1.8 grade, but such a grade only works at a distance learning school, right? There you can cheat easily...
Tom: That would be great. Unfortunately only the studying was allowed to be done from a distance. The exams were completely official, with such a examinator, who was staring at our sheets permanently.
Bill: But before, at school Tom always used to copy from me.
Tom: Yeah, that’s why my grades were so bad.

Now you’re touring through Europe: What is actually trhe difference between the fans in Oslo and Dijon?
Tom: There is none. I simply expect beautiful women everywhere.

And which country writes the hottest fan banners?
Georg: In the United States you’re not even allowed to say “f***”. In germany banners with slogans like “f*** me through the monsoon” are very popular.

And where in europe are the most blatant groupies?
Tom: Well one always valif rule is definitely that no matter if in Germany, USA or elsewhere: Noone gets flashy with Georg.(big laughter)

The compliment that all girls on this continent like to hear?
Tom, Oh, that whole compliment-thing is awful.

Do you sleep in one or two bed rooms in hotels?
Georg: Eacho of us has a double room for himself. We are on the way almost all the time. As much fun the time we spend together can be, we really don’t need to be together in the hotel rooms aswell.

But if you’re with someone: One big blanket ort wo smaller ones?
Bill: I always need my own blanket.

What do you do before going to bed?
Bill: Gustav sets his drumkit up and down, Georg does who-knows-what, Tommi tries to lay someone and I refresh my eyeliner.

How cool are you as a band, if you’re actually really wellbehaved, like you are?
Tom: Well, Georg, you have to say that to his apology, is well behaved involuntairily. He finally needs an opportunity not to be well-behaved.

One thing – apart from singing – that only works with men?
Tom: Being silent(meaning not saying anything).

Okay. Something that is only fun with women around?
Bill: Going to the cinema.
Tom: By now the things that I only did amongst guys before are even more fun with girls around, for example saying chavy lines about tourbusses. That makes awesome reactions. Some just prefer to act like they didn’t hear it and say something distracting. With some you can see that they are shocked, while they’r trying to act like that is all completely normal for them. But the funniest are those who really concider that normal and actl like they’re shoced, so you don’t label them so spolit. That’s just god-like(meaning totally hilarious).

Concert tours eariler have always benn accompanied by orgies, wild groupies drugs and alcohlo excesses. Today you only tour through some(random) cities, sing and fall into your bed exhaustedly. How sexy is a popstar nowdays?
Tom: Well, with the three other borers it is actually the way you describe it. And what nowday is still sexy, goes on with me.
Bill: Oh come on, do you mean those few girls, that I have to talk into going with you? You can certainly not talk about orgies.

When was the last time you destroyed a hotel suite?
Tom: That was quite a while ago. We’re even out of that age by now, but maybe we’ll repeat that, when we’re in our mid-life crisis.

Doing chambermaids?
Tom: the thought is intriguing, but thei clichee is so used, that it blocks you. Even when a hot chambermaid stands right in front of you. Maybe I’m afraid of clichees.

Are there things that you can use as drums, when there’s no drumkit around?
Georg: That is bad: Gustav drums on everything, that is not on a tree by three.(idiom)

What comes to your mind thinking about Europe?
Georg: Euro, warm food, beautiful girls...

Faveourite european President?
Georg: Merkel. (???? She’s not a president)

How does it feel being as famous as Kleenex, Pizza and Sneakers in every country?
Tom: Well, that I’m needed everywhere like Kleenex is nothing new. And the connection to pizza and sneakers is also not deniable talking about me.

Do you have power?
Bill: No idea, I think power is overrated. Why is everybody chasing power? Being powerless can be very freeing sometimes.(Uhm, Billy, being powerless is something good? Aren’t you the guy that said, I do what I wanr and noone can tell me whet to do? That, my dear is power.)

Political message of your tour?
Bill, Man, that would be ridiculous, if we’d say now that our tour has a political message.

Stupidest thing you’ve ever done or said on stage?
Bill: Once in nizza, I said “Hello, Nancy!”. That wasn’t cool at all.

24 Concerts in 37 days, what’s the best measure against throat diseases?
Bill: none of them work. It’s the best thing if you’ve been sick a few weeks before the tour already.

The stage sentence that you can say in every language?
All: Hello Paris! Hello Brussles! Hello Stockholm! Hello Oslo!

Chances that today in Paris Carla Bruni comes to your concert?
Tom: I don’t even know, if that’d be good. She just got married after all...
Georg: Oh come on, you don’t seriousl ythink that you stand a chance with er, forget it boy.

What is on your shopping list?
Tom: Well, Georg is the only one of us, who has time for shopping, and on the top of his list I’d write shower gel., but we don’t wanna continiue picking on that right now.

Most exciting stamp in your travel passes?
Bill: Oh, it’s not that exciting after all. More exciting for me was, when tom and I put the stamps of some parties on our hands ourselves, because we didn’t have the money to buy tickets. (Note: here, when you go to a disco or party, you get a stamp on your hand, instead of a ticket, so that’s what he’s talking about)

Are tax-avoiders worse people?
All: next question.

Where are your millions(money)?
All: Next.

Building savings contract?
Georg: Noo, electric Espresso-machine.

One geography question, because it was your favourite subject: Why is germany the most beautiful country?
Bill: Well, I don’t know, I simply love this country, I feel at home there. Even ion german hotels I somehow feel like being at home. Apart from that, in germany I have the possibility to sleep in my own bed at leat once in a while.


Translation by Lucky, credit: "by Lucky for tokiohotelamerica.com"