Tokio Hotel WW145 (RollingStone article and turnout in Portugal)

Tokio Hotel Festival turnout in Portugal
More than 50.000 visitors!

Yesterday evening, Bill, Tom, Gustav and Georg successfully opened their summer festival season for about 50.000 visitors! At the famous “Rock in Rio” festival in Lisboa, Portugal! The Rock in Rio festival has an impressive history and among the biggest stars in the world such as Bon Jovi, Lenny Kravitz, The Police and Amy Winehouse, the four Magdeburgers rocked for one hour at an amazing stage as the headliner!

And the best thing about it: Bill is 100% healthy and he sings better than ever, let the Tokio Hotel Festival Summer 2008 come! For Bill, Tom, Gustav, Georg and their fans the summer festivals are always something unforgettable and that’s why the boys have come up with something really special for you

At 21.06 the band is playing a Mega-Open-Air-Concert in the legendary Paris stadium “Parc des Princes”. For you Tokio Hotel have designed a special “Parc de Princes” t-shirt for this sensational event.

Bill: “We really want to give our fans a t-shirt that you would get out of the closet and it would remind you of being at the “Parc des Princes” festival.”

This is your chance - ensure yourself of this limited t-shirt together with a much wanted standing ticket for the Stadium!

The price for this exclusive pack is just 66,66euro


Rolling Stone
Tokio Hotel: Adored by Hair-Loving Fans, Inspired by Nena

6/3/08, 11:40 am EST

It’s a cold, rainy Saturday in New Jersey, and hundreds of hoodie-clad teenyboppers are scrunched shoulder to shoulder in the Meadlowlands parking lot, screaming for Tokio Hotel. “Bill, I want to comb your hair!” shrieks a teen girl in the front row as the band — fronted by glammed-out singer Bill Kaulitz, 18, and his dreadlocked twin, guitarist Tom — kick into “Ready Set Go.” Bill doesn’t answer — after all, if he complied with every hair-combing request, his trademark porcupine spikes would be defunct. Instead, he swivels his skinny hips, pumps his fist skyward and sings.

Since Tokio Hotel’s third album, Scream, was released in the U.S. on April 29th, the German emo rockers — who blend lashing riffs and forceful wails into dark, snarling anthems — have become superstars, snagging a spot on MTV’s TRL, sold-out shows in New York and LA and legions of admirers. “When we played [New York’s] Irving Plaza in February, the audience sang all the songs — even two German ones,” says Bill. “In Europe we play big concerts, but in America it’s so cool to see all the people — and all the girls.”

A few years ago, Bill and Tom were performing for tiny crowds in their hometown, the small salt-mining town of Madgeburg, part of former East Germany. “Every weekend we played to, like, 15 people in the same club,” says Tom, who picked up his first guitar at age seven, around the same time that Bill decided he wanted to be a star. (”I saw a concert with Nena singing ‘99 Red Balloons’ on TV and I said, ‘I will also go onstage and sing,’” he recalls.) Tokio Hotel was born in 2001, when local teens Gustav Schafer (drums) and Georg Listing (bass) caught one of the duo’s gigs. “We said, ‘Oh my god, someone should help them!’” jokes Listing.

Scream — which is culled from tracks on the group’s first two German discs (which both hit number one overseas, earning them their ten-times-platinum status) — is the band’s English debut. “Every song has a strong connection to us,” says Bill, who models his look after a vampire Halloween costume he wore as a kid.) “‘Ready, Set, Go’ is kind of our story,” he adds. “It’s about going for your dream and not being afraid to start a new life.”