Swedish Online Interview With Schneider and Till(part 1)

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Host:Hello there and very welcome to Stockholm, we’re live and direct from Queen street here in the centre of the city and once again we have some very nice guests here in the studio today. I have two of the guys from Rammstein, so you’re here, very welcome.
Till & Christoph: Thanks
Christoph: Hello
Host: How has the day been here for you in Stockholm today?
Christoph: So far very well, we’ve had some interviews done and enjoyed the nice weather. It’s fucking cold here (laughs)
Host: So what’s it like promoting again. Is it weird to be back in the limelight so to say?
Till: Yeah, it really sucks, it’s very hard, 10 or 12 sometimes 20 interviews, its…..
Christoph: We’re promoting our new album the name is ‘Mother’….
Till: It comes out the second of April, we called it the Mother’s Day.
Host: Mothers Day?
Till: Yeah
Host: Is it worldwide, a worldwide release?
Till: Exactly, a worldwide release, yes.
Host: So what has the response been so far of the new single, what does people say to you?
Christoph: Things we heard about – it’s doing very well. The single is……they play it on TV stations and …um….
Till:: Actually, we don’t really know, we just came from Australia and Japan, had a couple of days in Berlin and now we’re hers, so, some people talk on the phone and say it’s quite good.
Host: Over here in Sweden, you’re very famous for your live shows. You played a gin in Hultsfred which is down near the south of Sweden, a couple of years ago and the while scene sort of…..what happened, was it a huge fire, wasn’t it?
Christoph: That was a usual Rammstein concert, I would say and we had a lot of fun and we had an extra pyro show because the stage were made of wood and it got burnt and some way, but nobody gets hurt, so far and I have good memories of the show.
Till: Was it a stage curtain or something, burned up?
Host: So I’d like to point out now that it’s the viewers, its you that asks the questions to Rammstein so start sending us emails now but before we start with the questions we’re going to have a little look at Rammstein live from Berlin.
----‘Du Hast’ from Live aus Berlin ----
Host: Rammstein live from Berlin. So its time now to start with the questions from all the viewers out there. We’ve seen that it’s a lot of folks from sort of Mexico and the States and everywhere. So the first one is actually from a guy called Ulf Eng and it’s a question: The question goes like this, you have an obvious inspiration from Kraftwerk and will that create some kind of joint project in the future with them?
Christoph: I don’t think so. I think Kraftwerk are a German legend and they’re a lot of influence to electonical music all over the world. We love them actually, we did a cover of one of the songs of Kraftwerk but they didn’t like it and I don’t think we’re going to do anything together.
Till: It was a shitty cover version too, but…so I can’t understand this guy.
Host: But are they like legends for you?
Till: Not……not for me, in a way, but it’s a part of German music.
Host: German culture almost?
Christoph: Yeah, I think it’s almost, one of the bands they ever made it in the world with German music, so Einsturzende Neubauten, and that’s it…..Rammstein (laughs)
Host: So Mark Sanford from the US wants to know what can we expect from your new live show?
Till: Two dildos instead of one
Host: Something else?
Christoph: I think fire is gonna be a part of the show. We’re gonna keep this and what we want to do is change the stage set of course, I think we should do the artwork of the cover to the show and we don’t know yet what.
Till: We’re teasing the Fire Marshalls still, of course.
Host: Actually I’ve got a question also about the artwork and the…it’s a guy called, or maybe a girl called Shelley O’Neill from California, US, says that the artwork for ‘Mutter’ is exceptional. Is there a particular significance to the theme of the photographs or is it just art, an artic statement. What’s the thought about that?
Christoph: It’s an artic statement. I think it fits very well with the music, with the feel of the whole album and so we have chosen these pictures and made these pictures.
Host: Erich says, I’ve been a fan of yours for like 4 years, I was wondering what your inspiration was for the new ‘Mutter’ album.
Till: I’m wondering why he isn’t a fan for 7 years?
Host: He’s been a fan of yours for 4 years anyway, so er….is there a, where did you find the inspiration for ‘Mutter’?
Christoph: That’s a very complex question and we are not usually, we don’t listen to any other music during the recording process, during the writing process and sure, we’re inspired by things we hear, we listen to, we see in the movies, we see on TV
Till: We open a shelf in our soul and look inside and we find something
Christoph: …..nothing special
Host:Do you always……
Christoph: We are just Rammstein and ‘Mutter’ is what Rammstein are about and in this time in these days. Host: So we have Gustavo from Mexico, he wants to know, a lot of people around the world are wondering if you’re going to do another world tour, so…..?
Christoph: They’re wondering about…..?
Host:If there’ll be another world tour?
Till: Of course, and Mexico we have lots of Tequila, so….
Christoph: We’re going to play the whole world for the next two years, I think, and we try to go everywhere we can and everywhere people wants to have.
Host: The Mexicans seen to like Rammstein
Christoph: That’s true….we’ve been there once and I don’t know what about Mexico but people over there they’re going crazy, they’re watching our shows and….
Till: Maybe it’s Spanish and German, it’s a bit similar concerning the rolling r’s, stuff like that and we went to Spain and there was the same excitement but I think maybe the temperament and the language (shrug), I don’t know but we are happy (Till into the mike in a deep voice: “We are happy”)
Host: So Spain and Mexico, that’s favourite places of yours to travel to?
Till: …and Japan…..and Sweden, of course.
Part 2