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(20.10.2016)

Tokio Hotel Bill Kaulitz “stunned” over the rise of the AfD

In the summer of 2005 the teenagers Bill, Georg, Gustav and Tom from Magdeburg as a band “Tokio Hotel” started a world career. Thier first title, “Through the Monsoon” is still a hit to this day and made them famous to Russia and South America. “Dream Machine” is the tour with which they will come to Leipzig in spring 2017. With the brothers Bill and Tom Kaulitz, who have been living in Los Angeles for seven years, Anja Förtsch spoke.

Ten years ago there was not a day when you heard nothing from you. Lately it has become quiet. How are you actually?
Bill Kaulitz: We’re fine. We are in the studio without end, are very busy momentarily. There is no day when we do not work from early to late on the album and new songs. We have built up a bit of time pressure. If you do not do it, you can probably creep in the studio for years. Every band and every musician knows this.

Is the album coming this year?

Bill: So 2016 is nothing more. (Laughs) But there’s new music.

And a new tour?
Bill: It starts in March. We start in London and bring a lot of new material. In Europe we have the first 30 gigs, then we go on to South America. To catch up in London was a good luck at the last tours, so we keep this in mind.

In Leipzig you play in Haus Auensee. Have you deliberately chosen smaller halls?
Bill: We’ve played many club gigs on the last tour. We mix that. Our music has changed a lot, it is much more electronic than it used to be. That is why it has proven to us to transform even small clubs into real nightclubs and parties and to celebrate there. But we also played open air when the weather played.

Tom: We also played in a church in Hamburg or had concerts in old theaters. We are always looking for venues where there is simply a cool clash between electronic night club and historical building. We want to keep everything fresh and special.

The hit “Through the monsoon” had made you world-famous overnight in 2005. Are you still playing it?
Bill: Definitely! Actually only in English, but in Germany, the fans sometimes overcame us when they sang it in German. It is the same with me when I go to concerts: one wants to hear the songs with which the people have become famous. “Monsoon” is part of the show, which still touches us all the years. The song has changed our lives so radically that it is simply a part of us.

Bill Kaulitz in the interview – these are his current projects

Bill, you have recently tried a solo: own music, black and white film, photo book, you even wanted to go into fashion. Are you concentrating less on music and more on other projects in the future?
Bill: We always do what we’re up against. We live in all areas. For me is fashion and photography. I also love to do my solo stuff and always keep it running side by side. Next month, I finally bring my own fashion pieces on the market. There will soon be a biofilm of the band. There are definitely many projects in which we are realizing and working alongside. We are as a band at a point from where we only make the things that we really want to have a 1000 percent desire. Everything else becomes less and less funny. Uh, important. (Laughs).

Tom: Less funny (laughs)!

You have changed a lot from the outside. Bill, you’ve already had almost everything: long hair, short hair, black hair, blond hair, pink hair. Tom, you had Dreads, then Rastas,… How important is fashion and style?
Bill: So Georg is extremely important, with Tom and me it is the second violin (laughs). No, nonsense, so for us it’s all part of that. Fashion is my passion, for music. This is for me a form of expression, a form of freedom. Fashion, costumes, hairstyle, can not go without each other. I’ve never seen myself as someone who only makes music at the camp fire. So I have never seen the band. Our goal is to deliver a real show. To create an experience that you will never forget. And this always goes beyond the music.

You come from Magdeburg, have lived in Los Angeles for years. How connected are you with your home?
Bill: Tom and I always come to Germany to visit the family and friends. Since we are no longer living in Germany, we enjoy it quite differently. We are much more likely to come back and are inspired by Germany. At the beginning of the year we were in Berlin-Kreuzberg in the studio and laid the foundation for the new album. For the first time we were really inspired by a German city. So far we have always wanted to go to other countries and other cities to make songs. But we also like to live everywhere. We love to travel and want to go to India and Thailand. For us it is absolutely important to always be on the road.

Do you follow the political developments in the country from Los Angeles? The rise of the AfD and the right-wing populist?
Bill: Yes, absolutely! These are things that reach us here, that move us. You get angry and sad, too. Especially with regard to the election result in Saxony-Anhalt, where we have come and grown up. What the AfD in Germany harbors in hate, from the fear of the people, that happens just everywhere in the world. In America this is exactly the same, with Donald Trump. That moves us.

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