(06.10.2005)
Oberhausen, Germany
Comet Awards – Backstage pt I
Translation
17:00
Arrival at Arena Oberhausen, 27 hr till the Comet Awards.
Bill: I was really stunned, because it was really beautiful, that it goes all the way up there und so on. When it’s filled with the audience und the lights are on I think it will be quite impressive. I think it’s really done well.
18:00
Sound Check, 26 hrs till showtime.
Bill: The situation in which the singer is like, more important und the others are jealous because of it has never occured to us I have to say. Gustav is the one who’s calm. He often withdraws himself und is very happy he can sit behind the drums und doesn’t have to go to the front of the stage. Tom is a real poser with his guitar so he backs me up on stage und Georg is really the typical bassist; a bit reserved und quiet. This is who we are und I think everyone is quite happy the way it is.
Tom: Bill is like, the mysterious one of us. He often withdraws himself so he sometimes misses things und when he doesn’t feel like taking part in what we do, he just walks off.
Tom: Try-outs are so boring, it’s really nothing special.
Bill: You have to wait all the time…
Tom: Try-outs suck.
11:00
Hotel room, 9 hrs till showtime.
Bill: I’m really looking forward to it. I want to go back there again, und after that the nerviousness comes. I think that’s just part of it, I mean; when we wouldn’t be excited it would be pretty pathetic. We’re excited before every show.
Tom: Open the door Georg!
Georg: I think this is going to be a very cool show. A hour before the show it kind of starts, then you get all jittery…
Gustav: Then you’re excited, an hour before the show. And then you’re on stage; the shortest minutes of your life. Then the applause comes und you get off the stage; that’s always a nice feeling.
12:00
Hotel Lobby, 8 hrs till showtime
Tom: I think that it’s great we have so many female fans, but of course I’m also very glad when we have male audience, which we get surprisinly much. We start getting more und more fan mail from male fans. Maybe no love letters, but they like our music und that makes me happy. Und waht also really makes me happy is when we get fan mail which says; “We’ve started a band and want to do it just like you do”. I find that extremely cool, when we show other people that it’s very well possible at our age.
Gustav: Luckily I don’t stand out too much now, I’m glad actually. I still can walk on the street normally for 20 meters; Bill would have had to write at least five autographs in those 20 meters.
Bill: I got to say that it’s harder to find a permanent girlfriend, personally. Because you can never know if the girl would have been interested in you in normal life. For that reason it’s a bit harder, but of course I get to know people more easily now und get to talk to them. So there are two sides of this, you can never really be sure.
– Backstage pt II
– Backstage pt III-IV
– (missing footage)
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