The Parc des Princes concert (in Paris) will be filmed for a future DVD and a TV broadcast. The fans themselves are organizing their welcome for the boys, who will be staying at the hotel, Park Hyatt Paris Vendome.
It will be difficult for the more fierce fans to squat around the stadium, because it is strictly forbidden to sleep in front of the venue. The police, as well as the “brigade des mineurs” will be there to make sure all is in order (like the last concert at Bercy in April). Especially, for the first time, the activist fans have agreed together to prepare 2 special moments during the concert.
-The first one, is that each person come with a balloon, to create the German flag in the stadium: those in the blue tribunes will have black balloons, those in the red tribunes will have red balloons, and those on the lawn will have yellow. Everyone will stand up in the last song, "Ich bin da", and will release the balloons at the end of the song.
-The second ‘event’ is that each fan come along with paper with a big heart on and will hold it up on the song, "Wir sterben niemals aus" (it is even advised to bring more than one heart for those who don’t have). Blogs even propose models to print out, and some ‘super fans’ will be at the entrance to distribute some to those who have forgotten…
(That will be amazing! I can’t wait to see it on TV!)
Festival des Mongolfières
Tokio Hotel will be back in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu at the Festival des Mongolfières August 9 at 9:30PM. So far we don't have any other information about this, please don't email me about it.
Any dates in other Canadian cities are not yet known - please don't contact me about it.
Tokio Hotel in the International Balloon Festival of Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu
The International Balloon Festival of Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu this year celebrates its 25 years. The event will take place from 9 to 17 August. In addition to admiring the many balloons, the public may once again attend several concerts. The band Tokio Hotel will also kick off the festivities.
On August 9, the "show au profit du Club des petits déjeuners" will feature Tokio Hotel. The bands, Creature and Hedley, will precede the young Germans on stage
On 10 August, Philippe Berghella and Stéphane Rousseau will be attending the festival. The next day, Marc Dupré will show a presentation. On 12, Sylvain Cossette will offer his "70's" show. It will be preceded by the group Cherry Sweden.
Here's a little Gusti info :
Name: Gustav Schaefer
Band: Tokio Hotel
Drumming since: 1993
With MEINL since: 2006
Birthday: September 08, 1988
Zodiac Sign: Virgo
Place of Birth: Magdeburg
Currently living in: Hotels and Nightliner
Favorite Food: Wiener Schnitzel (Bahahah, the famous Schnitzel!!!)
Favorite Drink: Cola
Matched Grip or Traditional Grip: Matched Grip MEINL
Cymal series used: Mb20, Byzance
Favorite MEINL cymbal: Mb20 Heavy Crashes
Car that you currently drive: Nightliner
Not counting on drums, what do you do for fun: Riding my bike
Teacher: Learning by doing
Drumtech: Tammo Vollmers
Highlight of your career so far: My first tour and simply everything I have experienced so far with my band Tokio Hotel
Drumming strengths: Power
Drumming means to me: Everything
Advice for up and coming drummers: Have fun and play what you like.
How would you describe yourself: I dont like to describe myself...hang on...here is somebody who can do it: Nice, outgoing, ambitious and sometimes a little impatient.
When I look back on my life one day, I would like to be able to say: I am too young to answer this question
.Just some pieces of a French article.
The 60,000 tickets were bought in several hours. 34,000 were sold in 50 minutes. Dozens of fans were there early in the morning, in the winter-like-cold, in order to get the best places. Production agents even had to bring blankets to some of the fans, in order to protect them from the cold. Finally, their hours of waiting, are later rewarded. Their idols arrive in Bercy. The girls and boys get up with a jump and start screaming, crying to welcome Bill, Tom, Gustav, and Georg. On this subject Tom says "As soon as we arrive for a concert, there are fans running towards us. I am proud of their "vocal qualities," they know how to create an atmosphere, and build up the event. Thanks to them, it (can't read what it says) and it makes us more important."
Next comes the tour in Nantes, Marseille, Montpellier, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Lille, Amneville, Nice, Toulon, all the biggest cities in France have heard of the Tokio Hotel craze. Toulon was the closing of the tour in 2007 in France. If our idols don't do concerts in France, it's the other countries in Europe who will have to start the 'tornado'. The French public is very fond of the band (I must agree). The public is asking for more. The fans are awaiting the second part of the tour, so they can live their passions 100%.
6 March 2008, it was Strasbourg, the place chosen to launch the second part of the tour. On the menu, guitars, wide-view show, and of course, our four Stars. The whirlpool has begun again. The spectacle is taken at stride, and the boys take to being live on stage like fish do to water.
(It just goes on and on about different concerts they had in France...won't bother making a translation to that.)
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In spite of it all, they manage to make one friend, Andreas, who they meet with at the cafeteria between classes. The other students see Bill as "sick" or "crazy." And it doesn't get better. The more prestigious the boys become, the more amplified becomes the jealousy. The foundation of this "hate" is due to the fact that more and more girls start to act like real "groupies" towards the twins, and other boys think the twins are rich. Which is far from being the case, because all they got from their mother was 50 euros allowance per month. (I read it was per week, somewhere else...but anyhow.) The remarks made against them become more violent day by day, and one day, a student comes to the school with a t-shirt on which is inscribed "I will kill Bill und den Rest der Fuckband auch!" Because of the extent of the situation and their professional obligations (TV appearances, photo sessions, interview, concerts...), Bill realizes that he and his brother will have to stop school as soon as possible. That's what happens in the autumn of 2005. From that time on, they took private courses whenever they had time. After several laborious scholastic years, Bill and his brother finally receive their diploma. (The article compares their diploma to the "Brevet" - French exams taken after 9th grade - which isn't the same thing as a High School diploma, it's a bit lower.) Even if they were never good students, they managed anyhow to pass this exam. Passing it three years late, they are still happy to have done it. (Okay, so from what this article says, they aren't done high school?? It says they took the exam three years late, when actually, kids do finish school at 18 years old in Germany, so that means they aren't done high school...?) They also passed it with flying colors, having an average of 17/20, but it wasn't without trouble that they passed it; they had to double their efforts. Waking up at 6 in the morning, reviewing at night, they ended up being worn out, but happy nevertheless.
The boys were so happy to have finished their studies, that as soon as they received their diploma, they went and burned all their school books.
Finally free from school's grasp, Bill and Tom can now devote themselves entirely to their music.
Character-wise, Bill is more sensitive and gets anxious and worked up easily. Being more solitary, he can stay alone for long moments and not ever get bored. Starting in nursery school, he took refuge in little houses in the courtyard, wanting peace. He admits to being selfish, and wishes to think a little more of others. Leader of the band, he is very close to Gustav and Georg who are his best friends. With Tom, it's different, a very close bond unites them. Together they share their secrets, and communicate through telepathy. If Bill's motto is "Leb die Sekunde" (Live every second), he adds: "Inspite of the success, I stay myself; ambitious, lazy, happy, and a little selfish. What others think of me, doesn't mean much. The most important things in my life are my mother, my brother and our band, Tokio Hotel."
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