"Hello!" "How are you?" "... I've brought three." "Good." "Can you get that?" "Or do you want to go ahead?" "It's OK, it's gone." "Hey, friend." "Right..." "Playing so long live was the biggest challenge." "Because it's a bit like doing sport, I found." "The pilot last October was the first time I played live for about three hours." "Afterwards I was totally wiped out." "At the start of the tour it was like that." "But after a while" "I'd do three-and-a-half hours." "It wasn't a piece of cake, sure..." "but I got used to it." "I don't need it..." "What's this?" "Yeah, what?" "Equipment." "Light..." "I insured it." "I know what I've got here." "I got a bit nervous, too." "Do you want the monitor put higher?" "Good." "So the riser gets rolled up." "It's like a fairy tale here." "When they first told me that they wanna me to bee part of a tour" "I said, "OK, what do I do, am I be able to handle 10 000 people every Firday and Saturday for two months?" "Am I gonna be able to go on tour with ten boys?"" "Well, I'm ready." "Ever ready..." "There's one big dressing room." "Is this backstage, too?" "How do you organise it and make sure it's all paid for?" "At an event, as the Arena concert, with a crowd of 9000, you need a huge team working on it which also costs a lot." "And they don't care if the place isn't full." "They just want their money." "They've hung up lights, fixed the barriers, done security and cleaned the hall after the event." "They want their money." "We can't say, "Sorry, had a bad night." "Will you take less?" That's a no-no." "What are those things for?" "Are they staying here?" "Yes..." "In case it gets too full." "And the pressure rises." "Honest?" "That's the regulation." "By now, in 2010, Paul Kalkbrenner is almost a brand in his own right." "So his crowd has expectations." "And the visuals are part of that." "What about my lasers and all?" "Hey!" "Hey, hey!" "The lasers?" "Are you proposing to do them yourselves?" "Here we go, hi." "I'm Paul, hi." "How-do?" "All right..." "Hey there." "Hi." "It's off again." "Stefan Niesche." "Stefan Niesche." "And how are you?" "Well..." "Pretty hectic." "The lasers." "I can't operate them." "But I'd arranged..." "Here's the laser." "Where's the blue?" "Go down the menu..." "On Paul's tour we illuminated the whole venue." "Not just the stage but the entire area." "And the acoustics came from four sources so you felt the atmosphere, even if you were in a big hall." "Paul's got to like it." "It doesn't have to be a work of art that..." "Just because all the stars do something, doesn't mean Paul has to follow." "It's got to make Paul say, "Cool!"" "Be it the logo, the record sleeve, the posters, this is what we... as a collective..." "It's our passion." "Creating a strong visual identity." "And that goes for all aspects, from one to the next." "That's what I think." "And we also noticed how successful Berlin Calling was." "Some people think it was for real:" "That the film was his story." "People couldn't really separate the two." "It was interesting doing the same with the 2010 shows so that the two aspects hooked up." "So it's like, that was the film, right, but the character who actually only exists inside that book, Ickarus, he leaves the silver screen and he's standing up front there." "They raise it again, right?" "I've cleared it." "You can collect the laser on Tuesday at 10." "Will they raise it again?" "That bar, is it permanent?" "The girder?" "The girder!" "Yes." "I was going to have it removed..." "So from the back you can't..." "see the screen." "You can." "There's a bar across it, but it can't be helped." "So, let's go back in..." "That moment during our tour when we were all backstage in Berlin..." "Me, my mother, my father..." "Paul, Sascha, Nico, Onze, all our old friends and my parents... and 9000 people on the other side of the door!" "That was a surreal moment for me." "Right." "Let the oldies hang out here." "Then it won't get too full." "And the atmosphere will be more dignified." "We'll check if it's full out there, and..." "How's it looking?" "Quarter full." "Really?" "It's quarter full." "You can start now, if you want." "But she is up playing in just an hour." "Well..." "Quarter to eleven we have to change." "No, we don't have to change quarter to eleven." "It wont be full in one hour." "It will." "Everyone will be there by 11." "Paul always thought the venue wasn't full." "It was..." "It was like Groundhog Day." ""Paul, it was sold out!" "They're there." "At the back." "They'll be up front when you start."" "Just an hour." "What?" "Just an hour left." "If you like..." "So I'm gonna go on stage upright I need to change so..." "Simina's going on now." "And..." "Nice Mr Markus is taking her." "Baby..." "I have to get my stuff" "You see?" "She needs to get her stuff." "I love you." "My challenge was more internally with my self." "How do I present my self to this audience." "They don't know me, they don't know who I am, they don't know my music and will I do a good job." "So my challenge was basically be the best DJ I can be." "It became clear that there would be a proper tour." "When that was established, it was plain I'd take part." "I really wanted that." "Well, good evening!" "Axel Schulz!" "First off, Axel:" "Thanks." "I met Axel at a dinner party with a friend, an acquaintance, who told me he's a huge fan." "He said, "It's mad, you've got to try it." "Do it!" "I want it!"" "Think of the older fans, they're parents, don't want to queue at a club." "I think Axel really contributed to this." "They're calling your name." "Just before Paul goes on," "I always feel as if I'll collapse as I'm just as nervous as Paul." "I always think:" "Anything could happen." "A power cut, say... the mixing desk might break." "That was four hours and ten." "The longest ever." "It was the home game." "The venue sold out last year, this was in April..." "People looked forward to it." "Here... we go!" "A photo!" "Back then I said to Paul, fine, if we sell out the Arena, he'd have to do the encore in the Berlin Calling smock." "The 19-meter..." "19?" "No way..." "Hey there..." "Dear Markus..." "Ice cream, hey!" "Presents." "Shaving cream, great." "From the get-go, yeah." "On the way to Cologne, winter set in." "I had to drive through a snow storm." "And we were late already." "I was lucky:" "The radio announced that the slip road I'd just passed had been blocked by crashed lorries." "I counted my blessings." "Most of all, I felt, to round off what we said, the feeling of getting off the bus having woken at 12, and then inspecting the vacant hall... which is huge and entirely empty, and you think, okay," "by tonight, you know... it all has to be set up." "So everyone lends a hand." "You help with lighting, get help from the lighting guy," "There's no time for ego." "No time for getting touchy." "It has worked in every hall." "Both large and small." "The rule was, everyone off the bus at 10 a.m." "We're here the whole time." "Sold out." "No precise figure" "No precise figures." "Okay, cool, see you." "Bye." "Mr Kalkbrenner." "Hello." "So." "You both ready?" "We are." "Off we go." "Great." "They record it all..." "The producers." "Paul..." "Hey there." "Here's the visitors' book..." "The older I get the more I realise that my path towards music..." "I was influenced heavily by the music I unknowingly heard as a child." "As a boy East Germany who could sing well," "As a boy East Germany who could sing well, that was before my voice broke," "I attended a state-run musical school." "There I learned music theory and how to play the trumpet." "I like national anthems." "I follow football and at the World Cup, as watched by everyone, even non-fans, players sing their anthems before the game." "So, Paul Kalkbrenner's second choice on Guest's Pick, Swedish anthem, Du gamla, Du fria." "AR:" "The major label's officer for soul acquisitions." "Down:" "Yesterday's up." "There are loads of people at the back." "We'll wait." "There's another half hour." "Three quarters..." "I remember that in Frankfurt" "I found myself in front of this poster with this list of everyone who'd performed there since 63." "And..." "I don't believe anyone was missing from the list." "Empty." "A Beck's." "Don't want?" "I do." "It's Czech Bud." "In that case..." "Both count..." "What's he playing at?" "The number of shows Paul played last year was certainly greater as he played lots of clubs, though this year, too, he played a load of shows." "I don't remember..." "It's been about three a week." "French said, "We gonna go to check sound."" "I like your song." "My name is Antoin." "I'am driver for new Sonate 2010." "Whats your name again." "Antoin." "Perfect." "So..." "In we go." "Hello, Mr Kalkbrenner." "Good to see you." "Pretty lively, huh?" "My fan base is such now, that nowadays I can be thousands of kilometers away," "and it's a home game, anyway." "There you are." "Hello!" "This is the type of person that Paul is, you know." "He could come home on May 8. which is my birthday and make a birthday party, but he prefer to bring me on the 7th and have me there with him." "I imagined it different." "The artist-manager team is a concept with a future as it's a very old concept." "He knows the master-plan so he can fill out the calendar with an eye to it." "He knows how I like to do a bunch of gigs in a row, and then have a bit of time off, say... and... and..." "I like how he 'bundles' them, as they say in the trade." "There's this dumb quote from Entourage." "Ari Gold says to the actor:" ""You make the movies, I make the calls."" "That's it." "Paul does music, I do calls." "In Istanbul I played two evenings in a row at Indigo." "It was a place for 500 people, tops." "And, right, I did it twice in a row." "And it was real fun." "May I have one photo with you?" "The problem was I went on very late on the second night, and that same day we also had a show the Melt!" "Picknick." "That was during the day, so we sat round with the guys there till it was over and it was time to get our flight." "I could have come later, as per schedule, but, as I was the curator there, I wanted to show my presence." "But sitting there in that van I just felt wiped out." "Let's go there." "Wicked!" "It was basically a big family event, in terms of the artists." "I guess Paul went through his speed-dial numbers and called them all." "Melt!" "Festival was initially pure techno." "When I was 17 I took part in the second Melt!" "Festival back in Mecklenburg." "Paul and Sascha and the rest were there with a crowd of 800 at most." "Pass for tonight." "Mr Kalkbrenner?" "Mr Kalkbrenner?" "Your appointment!" "Move it." "What, move your bed?" "Don't start arguing." "It was your idea, not mine." "It'll be great, come on." "I can't..." "it'll be great fun." "You complained last time that I'd let you sleep." "I'm not sleeping." "No!" "You chill over there." "I'm resting." "You're not." "You're snoring." "I heard you." "This won't do." "Hey, mate!" "02:30." "Yes. 02:17." "Then call at 02:17." "Paul Kalkbrenner, guys!" "We have seen your film!" "Shit, huh?" "So we lost to Spain in the semi-final." "This arrangement with the other finalists was put up at that stage." "The old Danube Monarchy, Austria and Hungary, is, given the size of the population," "the place where you really get the most feedback." "And the Balaton Sound Festival was bigger than the Arena." "On the one hand is the luxury of having less stress by choosing a wife who's happy to know nothing about your work." "If you have someone who's involved, there's more friction, but on the other hand, it's nice if your wife understands perfectly what you do." "Remarkable, certainly." "Towards his fans, too." "I mean, the tour we did..." "That Paul took it to such lengths." "Every weekend he played three to four hours per gig." "Then, after the gig, at 1 a.m." "into a van and onwards..." "Or Streetparade." "First the Streetparade, then another gig at a club," "Well..." "He's a powerhouse." "I've known Paul since school." "Since we were in 9th grade." "I think I met him in Paris at the airport." "He was my booker at BPitch." "He was my booker, now he's my manager." "We talked for a quarter of an hour, flew to different destinations." "That was our first meeting." "We've got mutual friends out there in Toronto and we've spent some time and I think just our energies just" "I've known Paul since the late 90s." "We used to do open-airs in the region and in the Potsdamer Platz underground." "We had a steady line-up." "Sascha Funke, Hausmeister," "Paul, Sammy Dee, Tom Clark." "Anja Schneider." "When he did the first record, right?" "Right." "We booked him back then." "Back then it was... it was still affordable." "You know?" "So it was the other way round." "We bought him, now, ten years later, he buys me back." "What goes around, comes around." "But we've only seen a lot of each other since 92 or 93." "After schooldays." "At our Berlin youth club where techno began for us." "The real beginnings were far out in Lichtenberg, out in Friedrichsfelde, in those typical two-storey prefabs with a flower shop and a post office downstairs, or sometimes, if memory serves, it was a drug store and up top was a youth club." "I forget what it stood for." "There was BBC, TC, and KKH..." "Kreis Kulturhausz (Local Culture House)." "There'd be dancing from 6 p.m. to 12 on Saturdays." "In the early days I had to leave so as to be home at 11." "I wasn't allowed to come along during the early clubbing days as, according to Paul, if not the law, I was still too young." "Paul and Sascha would play at the BBC or the Alte Brauerei, then we'd go on to another club, or we'd just..." "we didn't get so many bookings then, we'd go to other clubs together." "The Tresor, say." "Then came the E-werk." "It wasn't new in 95, but it was 95 before I got to know it... properly." "And started going every Friday, every Saturday." "And Wednesdays if there was a bank holiday." "The first two years he wasn't so crazy about it." "He had some vague reservations or something." "Maybe he thought, gee, I'm doing the same as him!" "The advantage I have is that I started making music using equipment like the 909, MPCs, samplers, effect devices." "There'd be piles of compressors and equalizers..." "They all fed into the mixer." "And I'd play as I do now." "The feed-in is smaller, though, since the computer does everything that was done by the drum machines, MPCs, etc." "Now it's unthinkable how much equipment was being shipped about." "Back then I'd have to dismantle my studio with its huge Roland SC-50, plus monitor, so as to be able to play live at all." "The larger the technical set-up, the more unknown variables there are." "The larger the technical set-up, the more unknown variables there are." "So more things can and do go wrong." "The sound checks were horrible but it was all right on the night." "Those were the days!" "But it had to be done live, so you'd work out how to play a track." "At 3:30 a bit of delay comes in." "Then, at 3:45, you mute the wrong track and have to do it again." "And again." "And you might even lose the best take you had." "But that's why I can do it live now." "If I'd started making music with a computer and a controller, as I do now, I wouldn't have this ability." "This goes with bulky luggage." "Great." "Okay, that's fine." "Great." "Climb aboard." "You speak German?" "Yes." "Okay, super." "Broken German..." "Your flight attendant." "We go in and get the plane out." "It should take 45 minutes." "Last weekend Paul had to go, let me get this straight, from Frankfurt to Nice so as to do a gig there." "He missed his plane, missed his connection, the next was too late." "It wasn't his fault." "It was an act of God." "So the contract wasn't binding." "But Paul didn't see it that way." "He said, "I got to go!" "They're my fans!" "Even if I have to fly by Learjet and spend all the takings to do so..." "So he did that." "He flew by Learjet, was there at 10, played at 10:30, and everyone was happy." "I'm Thorsten Reitz." "Do you have white gaffer tape?" "Gaffer tape, how to you call it?" "Gaffer!" "I don't really think about..." "What when I'm 40?" "Will I still be able to do this?" "There's so much to do even just this year, that the 2011 tour isn't yet worth talking about." "There's supposed to be a record and so on, but always..." "Then you're never in the here and now." "You don't feel grounded if you're always thinking about the future." "Watering the flowers!" "I always have to water them." "It has to go in the contract." "In the contract." "Yes." "I saved it." "Out!" "Flowers, water the flowers," "I have to water Mama's flowers." "Tickets for the team!" "Huh!" "Paul, over here." "Yeah." "Exploitation!" "Flowers!" "I get the remix, but have to water Mama's flowers in exchange." "SubRip by:" "luximus"