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Pics (Rome) - Check out the 3rd picture - Gustav's wearing sunglasses too!
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HQ Shots from Rome!
Love is Dead- Rome:
Pics (Monaco)!
Geh - Monaco:
Schedule:
A new date has been added to the Summer 2008 Tour for North America:
Aug. 22 – House of Blues – Las Vegas, NV
McDonalds:
Picture the scene - you're in McDonalds, buying your Happy Meal, you turn around the box, and TOKIO HOTEL are on the back cover! Well, that's what a Czech fan experienced. Take a look here.
*All articles translated by Narin at tokiohotel.org.uk. [Source]
Tokio Bill writes a new song almost every day
The frontman of Germany’s most successful band at the moment began to work on a new Tokio Hotel album after his vocal chord operation.
The period before and after his vocal chord operation was one of the most difficult times of his life for the Tokio Hotel singer Bill (18).
Yet now, after he’s gotten over it all well, it appears that the medically prescribed silence has also done some good. Since then, Bill’s been writing up new songs almost every day. “At the moment Bill comes to me continuously with new song ideas,” explains the band manager David Jost. Above all, the many travels (USA, France, Spain) seem to inspire him. “If you’re out and about, you generally don’t write songs completely to the end, but it produces many ideas. You then have to really devote yourself to a feeling like that when it comes about,” tells Jost.
Bill types his lines onto hotel receipts, into the mobile or into the laptop, then. Loads of stuff for the third and newest album has already come together. And one thing is certain – Bill’s carrying on singing in German! This is no problem for the fans abroad, tells Jost: “That mainly comes from the fact that the fans want to get as close as possible to Bill’s identity. Because of this, they want to understand the lyrics in German and would therefore prefer to hear Bill in his mother tongue at concerts.”
It’s still not certain when the new album will be produced, though.
The ‘Rock in Rio’ festival in Madrid has attracted fewer visitors than expected, despite appearance of big stars at the event.
The German teen band Tokio Hotel expected around 50,000 fans in the early hours of Sunday. According to details in the newspaper "El País", the reality was only half as much as the organisers had hoped for. There were only 40,000 visitors at the old rocker Neil Young’s performance the previous evening.
Next weekend at the Open-Air-Festival; Amy Winehouse, The Police, Bob Dylan and Lenny Kravitz are on the program, along with other appearances.
The rock festival born in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil was moved from ‘Sugar Cone’ to Lisbon in 2004. This year, for the first time, there are two venues – one in the Portuguese capital city, and the second in Madrid.
*On the Other hand - there's contradictory evidence! [Source]
Tokio Hotel at Rock in Rio: “Super feedback in Spain”
The first ‘Rock in Rio’ festival in Madrid is over. The absolute highlights besides the Spanish rock band El Canto del Loco belonged to the German megastars Tokio Hotel.
The Spanish fans had prepared themselves well for the concert and painted their messages to Tom, Bill, Georg and Gustav in perfect German on enormous banners. As well as “Tokio Hotel for ever,” or “Bill – we love you,” there was also an aggravating “Tom, fuck your guitar,” to read…
The Spanish press pounced on the Germans like their fans as well, and afterwards remarked, already impressed, that “Closely considered, the boys are much more interesting – particularly the lead singer Bill.”
And so, the four appear impressed by the many fans. After all, the band had to cancel the only concert in Madrid at the beginning of the year, when Bill was being operated on his vocal chords.
On Saturday, Tokio Hotel stuck to that promise and the concert made up for it. Bill, as ever with tons of hairspray and painted nails in the style of a ‘French manicure’, was pleased about the fans: “We find it cool, how we’ve been received in Spain. The feedback is absolutely super.”
Now the fans are waiting for further appearances of their favourite band in Spain. Maybe the boys will come back again?
What do you think about the differences in this media reaction?
*Live Daily have noticed Tokio Hotel's new itinerary for America. They say TH have struggled to win back success after Bill's operation, but we know that's not true, right?!
*There will be a TOKIO HOTEL WEEK on MTV TRL in the USA [Source]. "Week beginning Monday, August 4th"! Click for more details!
Tokio Hotel TV:
Above the Clouds!
Tom!
Fashion crisis?! Click to make bigger!
Fan Work:
Sent in by Katie - a UK Fan! Click here to view it. How amazing!
And yes - never fear! We have a sighting of Georg in action!
Random News!
Tokio Hotel release dates! (finally!):
New Parc des Princes DVD - Autumn 08
New Album - 2009
Let's play - SPOT THE STREET TEAM! Look - That's the amazing UK Street Team - featured in the French Rock magazine!
You been doing your bit for Tokio Hotel promotion in the UK? Send your story into
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Aug. 7 - Starland Ballroom - Sayreville, NJ
Aug. 9 - Intl. Hot Air Balloon Fest of St. Jean - Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, QC (Canada)
Aug. 11 - House of Blues - Cleveland, OH
Aug. 12 - The Fillmore - Detroit, MI
Aug. 15 - House of Blues - Chicago, IL
Aug. 16 - Myth - St. Paul, MN
Aug. 19 - The Fillmore - San Francisco, CA
Aug. 20 - House of Blues - Anaheim, CA
Aug. 25 - Gothic Theatre - Denver, CO
Aug. 27 - House of Blues - Dallas, TX
Aug. 28 - Verizon Wireless Theater - Houston, TX
More North American tour dates! What do you think?
Just to let you know, the moderators and myself have been working hard to make the forum easier to use, so now there's no excuse to stop by and take a look! Click "FORUM" on the menu!
Do you remember the Kerrang Reader's Poll last year? Remember how they completely ignored us even though we were by far the most active and dedicated voters? Before we crashed the site, Tokio Hotel were way ahead of the game.
Well, now it's time to crash their site again!
Let's get them back for ignoring us! Lets show them that they can't ignore Tokio Hotel again this year! Time to get those voting fingers working!
Possibly the funniest episode ever - so why not watch it again, if you've already seen it?!
Press:
Bravo - on how to get your dog looking like Bill! If you don't understand German - just follow the pictures!
Tokio Hotel are in Teen magazine (not sure which issue, it looks like it says Summer 08):
For all of you UK fans (and some other European countries) that could not see Tokio Hotel's MTV diaries in America, check them out here, here, and here thanks to German TV website, VIVA.
Tokio Hotel are number 1 on Israeli radio:
Schedule:
Newest dates for North America, this August! More to come soon:
* 07. 08. 2008 - New Jersey, USA - Starland Ballroom (tickets onsale)
* 09. 08. 2008 - Montreal, Canada - Festival des Mongolfiéres
www.seher.no commented on Bill Kaulitz's hair - not in a particularly nice way. There's also a comparison with English star Russel Brand in there! Translated by JennyTH at the forum!
[Source] "Lead singer of Tokio Hotel, Bill Kaulitz, tries to surprise us with some new crazy hairstyle, but it's not necessarily pretty."
From German TV Channel VIVA - translated by THUS.
We will be putting five episodes of the MTV Diary online - every day a new episode. At the end of the week you can win the brand new TH picture book!
On their giant success story through America, Tokio Hotel was of course followed by cameras. Sure, it doesn’t happen that often that a German band has as many fans there in the US like here by us in Germany.
Even if us fans from the first minute were a little afraid of if the boys can really take the great success while we are sad because they are so much overseas – we are still proud of Tokio Hotel.
Now Viva.tv has prepared five episodes of MTV Diary which was filmed in the US for you.
From Monday till Friday we will show you one episode. Keep watching as it will pay off twice, because at the end of the week, we will give away freshly printed copies of their new TH picture book “Ein Tsunami”!
From Bild.de
Saturday night in Paris. Point 20.30 pm Bill, Tom, Gustav and Georg from “Tokio Hotel” storm the stage accompanied by lots of fireworks in the “Parc des Princes” stadium. 30.000, nearly all female fans totally freak out; screeching their souls out of their body, screaming in German: “Bill, I want a child for you”. Complete “Tokio Hotel” alarm in the French capital. BILD.de has exclusive pictures and footage of the amazing gig.
The special thing about this concert: “Tokio Hotel” sings all the songs in German. Thousands of French fans wrote in to the record company and media that they really want to hear the four boys sing in German. Tom tells BILD.de with a grin: “There were also angry letters from parents that had protested to the French record company, because their children have dropped English in school to take German class instead.”
90 minutes the four Magdeburgers rocked Paris, many fans singing along to all the words. Gustav about the mega performance to BILD.de: “It’s awesome to stand in front of such a mass of fans.” Bill goes on: “When such a whole stadium sings along to all of your songs, you certainly get goosebumps.”
The next Tokio Hotel concert will be on the 6th of July in Rome.
Click here to watch a brilliant HQ video with clips and here to view some amazing pictures!
For Fun!
What happens when you have Bill Kaulitz and Photoshop?!
Click hereto have a look at this hilarious video!
Don't forget you can send in your fan work to
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!
Fan Work:
Hannah from the UK sent us her drawing of Bill. Click to see the full beauty!
VIP Chat
VIP Section - The CHAT will take place on JUNE, MONDAY 30th! The exact time will be announced shortly - so check the page daily…
Parc des Princes went exceedingly well he other night. The music was brilliant and the boys looked gorgeous! Don't believe us? See for yourself:
Quotes and interviews:
Translated by Narin @ tokiohotel.org.uk:
Do you actually know Tokio Hotel?
Nick: “Of course, the boys are cool and have loads of fans in America too! We even have their CDs!”
Meaning, you’ll soon appear in Europe as TH’s opening act, and then they’ll return the favour for you in the USA?
Joe: “We don’t know anything about that. But the idea’s not bad. Who knows…”
Kevin: “It’s cool that there are also brothers there as well. People don’t often believe us that we’re really related!”
This is claiming that the Bravo rumour about Tokio Hotel touring with the Jonas Brothers is simply just a rumour!
Bill (Tokio Hotel) – “As children my twin brother Tom and I looked more or less similar. Now if I look at photos from that time, I myself don’t know which one I am from us both.”
My operation changed a lot in my thoughts. Till then it was totally normal for me to sing. Now I know what kind of a gift it is. For this gift I am extremely thankful.
Click "Read More" to read another magazine article entitled "Triumph in America". It includes contradictory release dates for the new album to which we've been told!
Misc
The Official Fanbook previews have been released! Take a look at the lovely pages:
Although it's rather late, I thought I'd mention that I've made the forum easier to use for those with Internet Explorer. Click here to check it out!
Click here to vote for Tokio Hotel with Don't Jump on Greek radio!
Official Fanclub, Merchandise, Competition, Fan Work, Interview
Saturday, 21 June 2008
Official Fanclub:
We received some very brilliant news today: as from today this site is the:
Official UK Tokio Hotel Fanclub!
Expect to see some changes around the place in the next couple of weeks.
We'd like to say a huge thank to you everyone at the Tokio Hotel UK Street Team, Tokio Hotel Universal Management, Polydor & Fascination Records and the fantastic moderators of the forum - without you we wouldn't be here today!
Are you a total Tokio Hotel fan and is your dream to meet the band especially on their next concert in Monaco on July 5th? Your dream could come true! Fnac gives you the opportunity to step backstage and meet the band. All you have to do is buy a ticket at Fnac.com and film a message for the band. Two winners will be chosen from the entries sent in before June 29th. They will be able to step into the VIP area and meet the band. Source.
Fan Work
Sent in by Chloe or ClovesTH as she is known. Isn't it remarkable?
Interview
Click "Read More" below to read an interview with Tom form the Olivia magazine (Tokio Hotel America).
We'd like to apologize for reporting wrongly the figures for Park Des Princes yesterday. However, we are only quoting from the press and do not take back anything that was written. I'd like to point out that the aim of this fansite is to provide news; not just favourable, praising news, but REAL news; things that are going around. And on a slow news day, the press only provide us with sensationalism. So please be supportive and bear with us until something exciting comes along.
We'd like to come back at Jackie: yes, it was a rubbishy update. But don't judge on simply one of them. And no, we don't want to "bring the boys down" or anything of the sort; this site is here to provide the fans with all news and related items that are reported. I'm sure you'll agree with me that it's hard to be supportive when there's so much bad press and it makes our job more difficult.
That said, look forward to next month when we have an exciting competition to launch and many other fabulous features! (Sorry this month's been so bad).
Tokio Hotel TV:
LA Tripping and UK Fan Meet-Up
MTV
For twentysomething Germans, the love might not extend past the Hoff.
Three friends from Hamburg recently came to New York for a visit. (Lovely bunch of people. Very open-minded, always up for anything.) One night during dinner — and somewhat out of the blue — their chief pop-culture export of the moment came up: Tokio Hotel.
On this side of the Atlantic, the boy band has been gathering both
buzz and rabid, tween young fans. (Hey, we already apologized for that one!) But my friends aren’t buying into the hair, the eyeliner or the hype.
Words like “embarrassment” and “lame” were thrown around a lot. One woman said Tokio Hotel only appeal to “kids and teenagers between 6 and 12 years old” or those “too young to realize what kind of stupid phonies these boys are.” My guy friend begged Americans like myself to “take them off our hands.” He added, simply, “They suck.”
I’ll be the first to admit this was not exactly a scientific poll, though they could represent a bigger backlash to come. Is this band just part of a prepubescent phase, or are fans onto something big?
