PART2

FRom 9:30 until 16:25

Will we see Tom in a suit once?
Tom: In my life I already wore a suit once. At a special event, a private one. That looked extremely good, I have to say. I actually can wear what I want. But in my private time I have to feel well, in a suit it’s all really tight and I’m such an extremely muscular guy.. And.. such being the case, it’s really hard to even find something for me. If I can decide, then I always take something comfortable.

Marrying in a suit? How will it look? Which shoes?
Tom: I’d wear Reebok-shoes, with the suit. But I’d definitely have a white suit and white sneakers, I find this cool. I actually wore this at this private event, I wore a white suit and white sneakers, this looks really good. I mean, dress shoes and so on are not really my style, to be honest.

What about the stage outfits?
Tom: The difference on this tour is that we all have stage outfits. At the previous tours only Bill had a stage outfit.. or several stage outfits.. and I had every day a different outfit. You can imagine, it’s really complex when you gotta have always different outfits for 35 shows. Then you have to take about 20 bags only for the shows. And this time we all have outfits, extra for the stage, and they’re a bit more specific, they are matched to each other this time. The tour is called “Welcome to Humanoid City”, means that everything is more future-oriented. And I think Bill extremely stands out, my outfit is rather relaxed and a bit like I would also wear it in my private time. But yeah, it’s really a bit more future-oriented, more.. funky.

Shoe passion Sneaker!
Tom: It’s always important for me that I have the suitable sneakers to all the clothes I have. This means that I have them in all colors, with all shoelaces, all types of sneakers. I think I have.. I actually don’t know how much they are but they’re really a lot. We also made a kind of storeroom at home now, a kind of fundus, where you can go in, and for example when I wear a yellow shirt, then I have to wear yellow sneakers. I have a complete repertory, and I think I buy about 10 pairs of new shoes every week.

Sneakers because you can better run away from women?
Tom: No, not at all. I’m not even a fast runner, because of my low pants I can’t run fast. Uhm.. but no, that’s not the case at all. As I said, it’s always important to me that the colors match. And the others always laugh about me, because they all have only 5 pairs of shoes or so, and I have.. but my shoes always look new as well, this is also important to me, I hate it when they’re dirty or something. And I have them in all colors. And for example when there’s a red shoelace in the shoe, I have to find the color again somewhere in my outfit. There has to be uhm.. uhm.. red somewhere in my outfit then.

Why a shooting for Reebok?
Tom: For me it’s always important when I do such things, that it’s authentic and that I’m into it. And that’s like with the stage outfits, I would never wear or do something what I can’t represent personally. And with me it’s that I wear Reebok since I’m about.. two years old..and.. uhm.. so, this is always really important to me. And I think that about 80 % of my sneakers are from Reebok, I have them in all colors. They simply make awesome shoes. And I can totally represent it. That’s always the most important thing to me, I could never position myself somewhere and then, for example, advertise for dress shoes. That would a bit difficult with me.

Interviewer: I think nobody would buy this from you.

Tom: Yeah, yeah, probably not. But, I have to say, it would look good on me though. That’s just the case, everything looks good on me.

Do you have fun being a model? Difference to other shootings? This time alone?
Tom: Yeah, definitely. Here it’s really that you have to outspend yourself. Normally at photoshootings there are just one or two subjects, then you stand in front of the camera, and then jab jab, it’s in the box. But here you really have to outspend yourself, but it makes fun, definitely. And above all, I’m oing this alone, that’s way more uncomplicated than if I’d have these other three dudes with me. So, it’s really awesome. The photoshooting makes really fun, and it’s also a good team and something different, not these typical things. Here you can activate yourself sportily a bit.

Why does the new Reebok-campaign suit you?
Tom: Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. It matches very well.. I also think that what we made here is a very good thing, this contest and so on, that the people can accompany us. And for us as a band, this contact to our fans is very important. It is very good, definitely. And also with our next tour, everything is a bit future-oriented, our album is called “Humanoid”, everything is very future-oriented. I think it matches very well, definitely.

If the winner will be female, could there become a little more out of it?
Tom: Well, I can’t exclude that. The thing is, in our band already two are taken, the bassist and the drummer. Bill is still solo, and I.. I actually have another girl every day. Well, this means, I can’t exclude it with me. It depends on what developes, if you’re on the same wave length. But I definitely can’t exclude it.

Music, lifestyle, art belong together?
Tom: We often get asked “How is it with your styling?” and so on “Did anyone give you that style?” and for us it has always been extremely important, that, no matter if it is Georg, if it is Gustav, it is me or if it’s Bill, we all are how we stand on stage, it’s 100 % us. Bill just looks so crazy because he wants to, nobody tells him to look like that. And so it’s with me, I would never let anyone tell me what I have to wear or something. So, I find what concerns the outfit, the styling, art and the music, everything has to belong together, because when you can’t represent what do you for 100 %, then it’s not authentic, that’s always been most important to us. And I think with music it’s like that, always when I listened to music and liked the artist, then I also want to like the personality of this guy and I want to know him and I want to like his style. Because of that you shoot music videos, because it simply belongs together. The personality, the styling, the music, I think this all interacts. If I find something crappy, then I wouldn’t be a fan of that anymore. Well, when I’m a fan of an artist or of his music, then I’m also a fan of his personality, I’m a fan of everything about the artist.

Translation by : Herzblut THUS