Tokio Hotel - Fashion Rocks!

Tokio Hotel made it this time into the Fall 2008 issue of Fashion Rocks (supplement to Teen Vogue Fall 2008).

America meet Tokio Hotel.
The gender-bending emo-pop rockers are headed up by eighteen-year-old German twins Bill and Tom Kaulitz, whose looks are identical but whose styles couldn’t be more different. “We hate people telling us to wear this and that,” says guitarist Tom, who favors dreads, baggy jeans, and a carefully skewed baseball cap. “Sometimes at a photo shoot they try to style this hair,” singer Bill says, pointing to his hedgehog-like coiffure, “but no one knows how.” His secret? “Hair spray. A lot.” Between the hair and emotive vocals–not to mention the piercings, tattoos, and rock-chic clothes–it’s easy to see how Bill has become the object of many a teenage crush. And despite their varied senses of style, the Kaulitzes say their twin telepathy provides a shared vision of their goals for the future. “Be successful in America!” Tom says. Adds Bill, with a grin: “And play in Tokyo.”


Wonder Twins
Having already sold more than 5 million albums worldwide, Tokio Hotel is poised to conquer America with their grunge-inflected emo rock (and a whole lot of extra-hold product).

'Vi Unge' Danish Youth Magazine - Interview

In a recent interview with Vi Unge, a Danish youth magazine, Tokio Hotel reveals they will be coming back to Denmark sometime soon! After canceling their concert earlier this year and not being able to reschedule it this summer, they are hoping to go there as soon as possible.


We will come to Denmark!

In the spring you had to cancel a lot of concerts, because Bill had to be operated for a cyst on the vocal chords. Now you are back on the track. How does it feel to be back?
Bill: It is SO great to be back on stage again. I was really terrified under the whole process. Its obvious, that you get worried and thinks “What if my voice will be ruined?”, or “What if I dont sound like before”. Luckily I had a quick recover. First time I was on the stage after my surgery, it was really awesome, and I really enjoy the concerts we are playing at the moment.

What did Bills illness meant for the band?
Georg: It was a situation, where the power was out of our hands. The only thing we could do, was wish him well, and then just wait.
Tom: It took some time, before we actually realised we had to cancel the rest of our tour. In the beginning, when Bill went to Germany to get checked, the rest of us kept travelling from town to town, because all along we hoped he would come back.
Bill: I actually think the whole experience have brought us closer together.

Were you afraid it was over for Tokio Hotel?
Tom: Of course we thought about it. Especially in the beginning, were we didnt know what was wrong. But after some time, we started to think about the future, and that Bill would come back at some point. The worst we could imagine, was that I had to take over for Bill. Haha

You are currently breaking through in USA. Why is that so important for you?
Tom: To go to USA and try our luck there, is really amazing - especially for a German band. It’s really rare that happen. So of course we will take the chance when it comes, and see if we can make it over there. But its really not like we have a masterplan, on which countries we want to do make it in. It’s usually our fans, that discovers us online, and when we see there’s a lot that likes us, we go there. That’s how it works for us.

What is the craziest thing you have experienced in USA so far?
Bill: There’s so many things, it’s hard to choose. But recently, we experienced something pretty wild in L.A. We were sitting in the backstage-room after our concert, when all of the sudden, we hear a strange sound. Then we discovered it was a girl, trying to crawl through the window, on the second floor! Unfortunately, she got stuck, and then she even lost her camera. Pretty crazy.

Some of your Danish fans, feel a little disappointed over the cancelled concerts in Denmark, and that you havnt rescheduled. What would you like to say to them?
Bill: We really want to say - particularly me - that we are really, really sorry we had to cancel. We really couldnt do anything else in that situation. Unfortunately, we havn’t been able to find new dates, but we promise we havn’t forgotten about them, and that we will try to come and play as soon as possible.

Canadian Kids Magazine - Interview

“Let’s Take Hotel”
Tokio Hotel Talks

Since releasing their first English album, ‘Scream’, German band Tokio Hotel has been taking North America by storm. We caught up with the guys recent; to talk music, touring and more!

How did you guys get started as a group?
Bill: We played in a lot of nightclubs and at weddings and we met Georg and Gustav in the audience. I think there were five people and two of them were Georg and Gustav… They came and asked if they could play in our band. We went to the rehearsal room and tried, and it was the beginning of Devilish. That was our fifth band name.

Is there a meaning behind your current band name?
B: We are all city people, so we came up with “Tokio”. We’ve never been there… It’s like a dream to play a concert in Tokyo. Then we said okay we need a symbol… and it was always a dream to travel the world and sleep in hotels, so we said let’s take “Hotel”.

‘Scream’ is your first album recorded in English. Was it hard to record a crossover album?
B: For me, it was really a challenge because… we just speak some words and we learned English in school, and I always sung in German. We said, okay we really want [it] so everyone can understand our lyrics. And the studio takes some time because I’m such a perfectionist and I really wanted it to sound natural, not like a German who tried to sing in English.

What do you like and dislike about touring?
B: Being on a promotional tour… it’s a lot of interviews and TV shows. That’s also okay, but playing live is just… yeah, more fun. The negative side of being on tour is you have not that much time for girls!

What has been your favourite stop since touring?
B: Hard to say… but I think I really love the big cities, so I really love Paris and Moscow. No, I think there are so many nice places in Europe. But, I also love New York, and I love Toronto. It’s a nice city.

Have you had any embarrassing moments while performing?
B: Georg always has embarrassing moments! No, I think yeah, there are some moments… I pushed my mike into my mouth… Gustav fell down from his chair. We were on the catwalk; it was in Russia, and we just jumped on the catwalk, and the whole catwalk jumped with us. It was like moving all around… It was like surfing.

What do you do in your spare time?
B: Most of the time, we sleep! I think we are the tiredest band in the world. On the tour bus, we have a lot of DVDs; I think two hundred DVDs and movies. Most of the time, not really interesting things. Just the opposite of our Tokio Hotel life.

The Naked Eye - Canada Interview

The Naked Eye, a Canadian Popculture Magazine, has published an interview with Tokio Hotel. The interview is quite interesting, asking the boys about the name of the band, if they want to visit Tokyo, their musical influences and other famous Germans.

Wer Ist Tokio Hotel?

Naked Eye gets the goods on the German glamo group: the origin of their name, their inspirations, and what the wunderkinds really think of fellow Musiker David Hasselhoff

Why the name Tokio Hotel?
Bill Kaulitz: It was just because we researched a name which is very close to us, so we are all city people, we love big cities, and we came from a really small, ugly town in Germany and it is really horrible and we always hated our village, and we wanted to stay in big cities. That was always our big dream. And Tokio sounds good, it is just a nice sound. And then we said, okay, Tokio. Everything we heard about it was, “Yeah, it is a huge city, it is just crazy there,” and we really wanted to go there…

So, you’ve never actually been there?
Bill: No, no.

Do you hope to get to Tokyo one day?
Bill: Yeah! Yeah, hopefully this year, but let’s see.
Tom Kaulitz: Maybe to play a concert.
Georg Listing: Tokyo Dome sounds good! There are some fan pages and stuff from Japan, and let’s see if we have the time this year or next year to go there.

Your song “Don’t Jump” – is there, a personal message in it?
Bill: Yeah, I think we talked about this, about suicide, because it is a song from our second German record, and the second German record was inspired by our fans and a lot of stories we hear. We get so many letters and stories from our fans that, yeah-
Tom: And we know some things from personal experiences, and it is a big topic, and you know we recognize it with the fan letters-
Bill: And you know everyone has a situation in their life where they are sure, you know, “Oh, I am so sad, I am so…” I don’t know, everyone has a worst part in their life and [we] said okay, let’s write a song about it and that it is never a way… to jump.

So you each had to tell me one of your musical influences, German or not…
Bill: For me the first touch with music, the first touch would be Nena. When I was six years old I saw her on television. Now I listen to Coldplay and Keen and Green Day.
Tom: And you know, I never had, you know, role models and stuff, but Aerosmith was always a big band when I was a child. A real child. I know I am eighteen now, but a real child. Yeah, Aerosmith.
Georg: For me, I also did not have a role model., I did not want to sound like this and this person. But I love Oasis. And with oasis I really started to listen to music.
Gustav Schäfer: I grew up with Eric Clapton and the old rock stars but now I listen to Metallica, to the harder stuff.


Blitzkrieg Bop:

These acts put the toot in teutonic – but what do Tokio Hotel think of Germany’s other famous exports?

Now I would just like to get your honest opinion on some of your fellow German rockers. First, Kraftwerk…
Bill: Kraftwerk? Oh… Kraftwerk. I am not really into this music. [Murmurs of agreement from the group.] I don’t know so much about it.

Nina Hagen.
Bill: I think she is really cool. I met her once, I don’t know, sometime in Germany, and she is really nice.
Tom: And she is really crazy. You know, she speak the same bad English we do.

Nena.
Bill: Nena! Nena was really my first concert and I still love Nena. [She] is a really great artist and I really love her.

The Scorpions.
Bill: Scorpions! “Wind of Change.” [They whistle a few bars.] We met the Scorpions, I think, half a year ago.
Tom: I think that [they are[ great. They had a lot of success over here, playing big arenas and big venues and I think it is great. It is not really, you know, my favourite music. I like, you know, I like what they are doing in terms of having success. It’s good.

Rammstein.
Bill: Rammstein! I think they are very successful and always have great stages, great live performances. And I think I is a really great career and I think, respect for that.

And, of course, the most important, David Hasselhoff.
Bill: [Laughing] It is a role model of Georg!
Tom: Knight Rider is more successful than the music from David Hasselhoff and Baywatch.
Bill: Everyone told us, “David Hasselhoff is so successful in Germany,” and we say, “What? I never heard about it!”
Tom: We just know Knight Rider and Baywatch. But I don’t know anyone who likes his music, I just know Georg. Georg is not a fan of the music, but a fan of the dance moves. And I just know Baywatch, but not because of David Hasselhoff, because of Pamela Anderson!

Various News...

Tokio Hotel Interview with Oliver Tanson

Tom: Hi, here’s Tom!

Georg: I’m Georg.

Bill: And I’m Bill!

All: And we are… Tokio Hotel!

Bill: Lots of fans have written to us saying that some of our songs help them in certain situations, and to deal with them that they feel better afterwards. I know so myself, and I think that every one of us listens to a lot of music at the moment and that music can help and support quite a lot in certain situations, and we of course want to as well. And it we’re happy to know that when we make songs that people feel better and understood afterward.

I don’t think very much of [indiscriminate]. I think it’s better for people to find themselves like how it was by us, and those that find themselves would be an optimal opportunity. But yeah, I’m not really the type for that.

Tom: It’s good that if you have a band and that you know each other for so long, it’s good to have one another to help and hold on to so that you don’t go walking around through life in a pink bubble and to keep you down on the ground of reality.

Oliver Tanson.

Reaching the stars…Thanks for the heads-up, Dany @ olivertanson.com!source: olivertanson.com
Translated from audio by Lenny pour at tokiohotelus

Yam.de have posted an article saying that Tokio Hotel still have a chance to win a VMA, but you guys need to vote, vote VOTE!

In September, one of the hottest music events of all time takes place again. The MTV Video Awards will occur. Top acts like the Jonas Bothers perform on stage it will and it will bring some prizes. If everything runs well, Tokio Hotel can also swipe the international prize.

Now, MTV has listed all possibilities in the “Best Pop Video” categoriy. The pre-voting decides who will make the nomination list in the end. Up to now, the trend goes against Bill, Tom, Gustav, and Georg.

Under the most viewed videos, Monsoon is not in the top 20 on the nomination list. Here, up to now, Jordin Sparks, Mariah Carey, and Chris Brown dominate. At the beginning of August it will be certain which acts made it into the nominations list.

Here, you can vote for Tokio Hotel (unfortunately, only by logging in).

In the categories “Best Female Artists” and “Best Male Artist”, the nominations stand ready: Mariah Carey (Touch My Body), Katy Perry (I Kissed A Girl), Rihanna (Take A Bow), Jordin Sparks (No Air) und Britney Spears (Piece Of Me) are there.

Alongside the boys, Chris Brown (With You), Flo Rida (Low), Lil Wayne (Lollipop), T.I. (No Matter What) und Usher (Love Is In The Club) are on the list.

Tokio Hotel TV Update!

Effective Immediately:

We have removed all download links for Tokio Hotel TV per a request from TH Management. Please do not post download links for the THTV episodes in the comments either. It is a copyright infringement and we will comply.

Tokio Hotel’s management team is working diligently with Youtube to try to resolve the issues with Youtube and the video not being available in all countries.

We hope that this will be resolved soon so that you may be able to watch the episodes in every country.

Thanks for understanding!

TRL

TRL announced that they are asking fans to send pics of the fans with Tokio Hotel, and TRL will post them up on the jumbo-tron in New York’s Times Square next week during TOKIO HOTEL TRL week.

Submit your pics now at trl.mtv.com under the “Upload Your Tokio Hotel Fan Photos!” section!
HERE

(im not sure if this applies to US fans only, but theres only one way of finding out, and thats by uploading a picture an waiting to see what happens?...remember its pictures of the fans WITH Tokio Hotel...)


MTV Buzzworthy
Congratulations to Kelsey M. from Bristow, Va., who is the winner of the Ready Set Fly to TRL to See Tokio Hotel sweepstakes!

It’s OK to be jealous of Kelsey, because she will be in New York next week to see the band up close and personal during Tokio Hotel week on TRL. But don’t hate. It’s all good. She’s a very deserving fan who will fly the flag proudly in NYC for everyone who’s ever wanted to get close to the band. We’ll post a full report on Kelsey’s visit — and Tokio Hotel’s visit, too, of course — to TRL next week.

Thank you to everyone who entered our Ready Set Fly to TRL to See Tokio Hotel sweepstakes!

Isnt she soo lucky....

News and more News

Tokio Hotel America T-Shirt Contest

"We have narrowed it down to four designs we would like to use for our t-shirt. "
If you are interested in voting, the poll is located here.

Monsoon on TRL today #4

Good job voting fiends! We want them at #1 for their visit here (which is America, btw) which is….
NEXT WEEK, OMG OMG! Lucky americans...

VMA Voting ends July 30th - Gmail Hint…

Did you know that if you have Gmail, you can use ONE account as many different accounts? Oh, I don’t know… for something like setting up more MTV accounts? It’s true! And it is so so easy!!!! Guess what I will be doing for next several hours? Here’s how you can use your Gmail as MANY accounts.

# Append a plus (”+”) sign and any combination of words or numbers after your email address. For example, if your name was hikingfan@gmail.com, you could send mail to hikingfan+friends@gmail.com or hikingfan+mailinglists@gmail.com (sorry thats not a real email address...lol it just comes up as one..)

# Insert one or several dots (”.”) anywhere in your email address. Gmail doesn’t recognize periods as characters in addresses — we just ignore them. For example, you could tell people your address was hikingfan@gmail.com, hiking.fan@gmail.com or hi.kin.g.fan@gmail.com. (We understand that there has been some confusion about this in the past, but to settle it once and for all, you can indeed receive mail at all the variations with dots.)

For those who dont know..Gmail, is google email..to set up your own Gmail [and to vote for Tokio Hotel] click HERE and aimply click 'Sign Up For Gmail'

Emo - Russians Will Ban It!

Moscow - Black hair, make-up, piercing and melancholy rock. The "emos" are the same everywhere, but in Russia they've legislated against them."For the school-age young people would be forbidden to appear with the "emo look" in the school, and the petty offences would involve punishments." - said Jevegenij Jurjev, deputy. The bill is supported which would grade the eccentric young people's cult as a "dangerous campaign", because its followers are emblazoning the sociopathic behaviour and the suicide.After Tokio Hotel's appearance, the German sociologists were alarmed as well, but only the British people wanted to antagonize, because the police psychologists suspected emo-influence behind the teen-suicides.The fans of the american emo band, My Chemical Romance, were successful with their demonstration against the discrimination. In Russia, the bands are also challenging."You can't ban the quivering of the spirit!" - said Dimitrij Gilevich, the singer of Maio. Deputys are writing the swan-song of the russian emo?"