While the government is discussing if to give or not to give the medal of friendship to Tatu, the girls are occupied by much more important subjects: They just had shot the video "Gomenasai", now they rehearse with new musicians and they are preparing the concert tour. Bravo found out how Tatu spent the day in Los Angeles...
12:03
The rehearsal begins only at 7 PM. And before that, as the girls saying, they "Have to do stuff". On their own slang it means "Important work should be done". There's a very important appointment in the schedule of the group today. Yulia and Lena take a taxi and go to the center of the city (downtown) for a visit in a very famous in California audio-clinic. But there's no reason to worry about the girls' health. They go to the clinic for a different purpose: moulds of their ears will be made for them there. According to these moulds, ear-monitors will be made for the girls later. They are small earphone connected to the receiver and allow the performer to hear what the musicians play.
The reception room in the clinic looks more like an office of a record-company. The walls are covered with CDs of the clients - Linkin Park, The Who, Disturbed, and many more. A CD of Tatu isn't there, but it's a matter of time: Yulia and Lena are promising to the audiologist to send their album for the collection.
One after another the girls sit down in a chair and bite a special white thin plastic piece, for not to lock their jowls, and accidentally not to bite their tongue. Dr. Miranda takes a special device: Something between a water-gun and a culinary bag for making cream flowers to decorate cakes. The "gun" is inserted into Len's ears. The ear is immediately filled with tender pink foam. It looks like a bubble gum from a far. The foam hardens - and the moulds are ready. Tomorrow they will be sent to a company, which makes the monitors. They find out that Yulia's ears are too small, and it's impossible to make monitors from her moulds... So she'll have to do it again in Germany, where the girls have concerts. She'll go through the procedure again and put another fresh portion of "bubble gum" in her ears.
13:01
Now the girls are running away from the medical cabinet, swearing solemnly that "at 7 PM damn for sure, we'll be for the REPA" (rehearsal in their slang). They want to walk in the famous sunset boulevard, to sit in a coffee house and to drop in Yulia's favorite boutique - "H. Lorenzo" - a brand shop that sales funky clothes, and classic as well. The fact that Lena caught a cold on the set of "Gomenasai" and kept sniffing doesn't stop them. Yulia tells her "bless you!" every few minutes, and gives her all sorts of advices.
Yulia: Lena! Don't blow your nose so often, the skin around will get dry!"
Lena: But I can't walk around with my nose blocked. And most of all, I won't be able to sing with the blocked nose."
Yulia: So maybe you shouldn't sing today, Lenok, if you don't feel well?"
Lena: "No… singing has to be done"
18:00
The musicians of the group Tatu are showing up on the best rehearsing set in Los Angeles S.I.R. This set – is one of the most famous in the US. Stars like the blues guitarist B.B King, Jim Morrison and his band "The Doors" rehearsed here, and from the more recent artists – Madonna, Tory Amos, No Doubt, Limp Bizkit and Ozzi Osborne, had rehearsals here.
There're two newbies among the musicians of Tatu: the drummer Steven and bus-guitar player Doman. The drummer is from America, and the bus-guitarist from Slovenia. For being chosen to play in the group, both of them had an audition two weeks ago – they played "Nas Ne Dogoniat" with Sven and Troy. By the way, there are about eight hundred A-class drummers in Los Angeles, who look for work, and to pick one is a hard decision. Steven's sticks got broken faster than any one's else – so he was taken. The new musicians need this rehearsal like air for breathing. Although they know the material of the group from recordings, but it's necessary to warm up before the girls will come. Steve hangs up his "Iron", and the work begins. Besides, the guys have to refresh the songs that the group didn't perform for a long time which are included in the program for the concerts in Estonia and Latvia – "Show Me Love" and "How Soon Is Now".
19:05
A little bit breathless, but almost on time, Yulia and Lena are about to run into the near by studio where's Courtney Love is having her rehearsal. The girls warm up their singing a bit then turn on the microphones and start to sing in full force. Sometimes they mess up the words, and run by turn to the laptop to check the text. In front of each "Tatu-girl" there's a set-list, written by hand, where the songs are listed in a short way. These short titles were invented by the fans of the group from the official forum of the group Tatu For example, the song, known as "Ya Soshla S Uma" is written as ATTSS ("All The Things She Said"), and "Nas Ne Dogoniat" – NGGU ("Not Gonna Get Us").
The hardest song for the girls is the cover on the Smiths song "How Soon Is Now", from the English "200 km/h in the wrong lane". Lena is obviously nervous after the first run and even says: "Guys, I wasn't here right now. Ok?" "Ok, Lena, but you still have to sing…" The live rehearsal turned to be much longer then the concerts. The girls rehearse for more than 2 hours and the musicians even more.
00:30
Eventually, the rehearsal ends after midnight. The musicians snick out mugs with the symbol of SIR from the bar of the rehearsing set. It's an unwritten tradition and not a crime here. Everybody should rest and have a good sleep – tomorrow the group has a flight to Germany, and the suitcases aren't packed yet. But the plans changed: A call from Yulia's friends in Los Angeles promises another sleepless night. Yulia: "hookah? Oh, yes… I miss hookah… We'll be at your place in an hour"… Where does this all energy come from?...
Eva Persikova
BRAVO (Russia)
Translation: Ev (tatu.ru)
Edited: TatySite.net |
