Showing posts with label Kaulitz. Show all posts
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Friday, July 11, 2008

Vanity Fair - Ellen Von Unwerth

Vanity Fair Photoshoot:

Remember that stunning Vanity Fair photoshoot? Well, there are more, stunning behind the scenes pictures which you didn't see in the publication!














Tokio Hotel With TRL Pictures













Updates

*Press all over the world have started to pick up on the fans that camped for a week or more to attend the Geneva concert. Check out just one of them here.

*"Keep an eye on the comments area for rabid fans, The same way 'Cujo' is drawn to a bloody limb, They will come"
So we're rabid fans?..Click here and prove them wrong!!


*Tokio Hotel on Fresh Crop:

Great publicity, but a little language clash. Do you say "Shray" or "Shry" when pronouncing "Schrei"?!

*MTV Buzzworthy have picked up on Fanboys and THA!The official term "Fanboy" has now been added to the dictiouany! Now all you male fans can cheer!

*Watch the 5 parts of the MTV TRL diary and the TRL performance in New York here. This is a great chance for all of us here in the UK who couldn't view the MTV videos.

Schedule:

Tokio Hotel will be live on MTV TRL before the Modena’s gig on Friday July 11. There will be the opportunity to deliver directly to them the TRL Awards won last May, and to satisfy many fans who haven’t had the opportunity to see them in concert in Rome or in Modena. Meeting Friday, July 11, at 7 pm, the only reason to lost that is to be at the concert!


Fan Work:

Check out this fabulous piece of artwork done by Bigfat, a French fan here. Isn't it truly amazing?!

Tokio Hotel TV [Episode 34]: Parc des Princes on Fire!


Album:


Longingly the Tokio-Hotel-fans are waiting for new music by Bill (18), Tom (18) and Co. TH-producer David Jost now exclusively in BRAVO: “We are working on new material. Bill writes so intensely on new songs like never before. But probably a new album will come in the early 2009.”



Italian TV...

TOKIO HOTEL LIVE ON TRL BEFORE MODENA’s GIG!
Tokio Hotel will be live on MTV TRL before the Modena’s gig on Friday July 11. There will be the opportunity to deliver directly to them the TRL Awards won last May, and to satisfy many fans who haven’t had the opportunity to see them in concert in Rome or in Modena.
Meeting Friday, July 11, at 7 pm, the only reason to lost that is to be at the concert!

Sorry it might not make sense...I don't speak a word of Italian!
but in otherwords For the fans who were not able to see Tokio Hotel live in Rome or in Modena you have a chance to catch them live on Friday, July 11th, at 7pm on MTV TRL, before there Modena concert.
I hope that helps..

Rome Articles and Translations

Translation 1 (Italian)

Rome (July 7) Yesterday, Tokio Hotel worked between sound checks, TV interviews and seeing the winners of the “meet & greet.” They didn’t see much of Rome, partly because at the Bernini Hotel in Piazza Barberini, in which they rented an entire floor, was besieged by 500 fans, whose clutches were hard to escape from. Some of them, who had arrived from Germany, had spent 280 euros just to rent a room. They then launched a pursuit of the four boys from Magdeburg, all the way till the Capannelle Hippodrome, where the band played live at 21:30.

The scene is one from the 80s, like it was for Duran Duran: troops of clones, a network of gloves and socks, studs and piercings, giant posters; the adrenaline had accumulated in March, when the concert was planned but then canceled due to the singer’s health problems. Minors in delirium, hundreds of which had spent the night outside the hippodrome. Once inside, the lawn was divided in half: parents behind, the children in front. A large fraction had invaded the place for guests and the press (the security wasn’t able to stop it) and the stage was transformed into a stuffed-animal and bra graveyard.

The evening opened with fireworks. The Kaulitz brothers have made their triumphant entrance with glasses to “Break Away.” Bill in a red T-shirt, leather jacket, and mane; Tom with dreadlocks and cap, long white T-shirt down to his knees. Followed then by “Final Day,” “1000 Oceans,” “Live Every Second,” “Love is Dead,” and then the first German song “Wir sterben niemals aus” (there had been a petition to sing the songs in their original language, not in English) and “Scream.” On “Black” high flames arose, while a projection of a video of the band goes on.
….(Can’t understand the rest)

After “Geh” came “Don’t Jump.” All hands were raised on “Raise Your Hands.” The riot happened during the award-winning “Monsoon;” the stage was enlarged and some people went on it.

Etc…

(Translation 2 Italian)

Tokio Hotel, 15,000 fans partying in Rome

A big celebration yesterday in the Italian capital, the German band enchanted the public with their famous songs.

Rome, 7 July – The Capannelle arena was colored with fireworks, the fans are impatient and scream with joy, we must be talking about Tokio Hotel. The concert in Rome yesterday was a big success, around 15,000 people attended and supported the German band. Hordes of girls, and some rare boys invaded the hall. The average age, without counting the parents, must be around 17. The teens, before the concert, had invaded the tribune which was reserved for the guests, hoping to retrieve a smile from their idols.

Tokio Hotel had spent the whole day in interviews and doing the sound check. The rest of the day was spent in their hotel, Bernini in Barberini, which was assaulted by 500 fans…some of them had come directly from Germany and paid almost 300 euros to have a room.

Tokio Hotel became famous during 2005 with their hit “Durch den Monsun,” which was a success in Germany, Poland, Austria, and Czech Republic, and then the rest of Europe. The single entered 15th place in the top 50 singles’ sales in less than 7 days. That same year in September, they released their first album, “Schrei.”


(Translation 3)

Tokio Hotel at Rome, the fans’ parents protest

Last night, Sunday 7th of July, the well-awaited concert took place in Rome; the German rock band had cancelled the concert in March due to Bill’s health problems.
15,000 tickets were sold, but for the parents of the youngest fans, the hygiene and other conditions in which their children found themselves in weren’t very satisfying. “We arrived yesterday from Volterra (an Italian city) and we slept under tents,” said one father. “At 9, my daughter went in line. The organizers gave water to everyone: but the children waited there, without a drink. When they were able to have a gulp, it was scalding hot. They need to be more careful, they have to take care of some young ones (everyone younger than 18).”
“This is a hippodrome; I’m convinced horses are better treated than our children.” Declared one mother, while another one tells us about the entrance “It’s absurd, the tickets from March were made in sectors, which means there were several entrances, but now there’s only one! Today, in order to help those who slept here, the organizers gave numbers to guarantee priority to each of them, but that system didn’t work.”
The organizers of the concert defend themselves: “Already on Friday night there were teens who slept outsides.” Someone in charge said, “we were obliged to open the hall doors (for the toilets) and set up emergency toilets, and call people to give out 20,000 bottles of water. We did all we could.”

A summary of another article:

Rome, July 7
Disorder among the public and security guards, several girls were injured (not too serious) in the “breakthrough” of some barriers, incidents of abuse against parents and some children by police agents, many cases of illness caused by the long waiting in the sun for the opening of the gates, thousands of people without tickets…
That’s the Tokio Hotel concert, a German boy band, who’s here for the first time in Rome after the cancellation of the March 25 date.
The event, from the show’s point of view, was a success, but in terms of organization, the structure and police, was a failure. Already three days before the concert, there had been signs, but the difficulties which were going to be met were underestimated. Outside the hippodrome, dozens of campers with whole families were there, supporting the passion of their children in order to win a place in the front rows.
Military personnel watered the masses with water cannons. Countermeasures were not enough to prevent many common illnesses in the heat: ambulances had intervened in dozens of cases. Shortly before 17:00, some people broke down barriers (injuries and fractures were reported in the security personnel) and crowds of girls were injured mildly.
In some cases, in a vain attempt to bring order, some police officers produced some regrettable incidents of mistreatment against adults and even children. “We had numbered tickets,” tells Silvia 13, in tears. “the organization had said we could use them for the concert, even though they wouldn’t secure seats. Instead we’re treated like beasts, and at one point, an agent allowed us to get on one of the staircases, but then another arrived at the top and blocked us. A policeman has pushed my father, and my friend Beatrice fell.”
When it was no long possible to restrain the flow of fans waiting to enter, following the breakthrough of the barriers, several thousand spectators managed to pass without any ticket controls. According to internal organization sources, approximately 7,000 people entered without purchasing any type of ticket. The organizers had underestimated the impact of Tokio Hotel’s public: predominantly between 12 and 16 years, their behavior (as some of the security noted) is different and less manageable than those of adult audiences.
The area, in fact, has no separate entrances, and is completely outdoors and difficult to control….

Set-list :

01.- Break Away
02.- Final Day
03.- 1000 Oceans
04.- Live Every Second
05.- Love Is Dead
06.- Wir sterben niemals aus
07.- Scream
08.- Black
09.- On The Edge
10.- Ready, Set, Go!
11.- Reden
12.- Sacred
13.- Geh
14.- Don't Jump
15.- Raise Your Hands
16.- Monsoon
17.- In die Nacht
18.- Rescue Me
19.- Forgotten Children
20.- By Your Side

Tokio Hotel In 'The Guardian'

New band of the day:

Tokio Hotel

Who's the cat that won't cop out when there are new bands all about? Paul Lester. And today, he introduces a puppydog Pantera, a tweenybop Sepultura, a MiniPops Metallica...

Monday May 21, 2007
guardian.co.uk


Tokio Hotel... the puppydog Pantera


Hometown: Magdeburg, Germany.
The line-up: Bill Kaulitz(vocals, guitar), Tom Kaulitz(guitar), Georg Listing (bass), Gustav Schäfer (drums).

The background: Germany's Tokio Hotel, the hard-rock Hanson,have such an enthusiastic female following across Europe that on a recent visit to France the screams from the young ladies as the band left their hotel (see here) blew the dials on the local Richter Scale, a fact verifiable by Sylvie, 13, a local schoolgir. "Mon dieu!" she cried as she caught sight of one of the depressingly cute pop-metal band as he attempted to reach a waiting limo. "Zis screaming, it will blow ze local Richter Scale."

We're not saying Tokio Hotel are good-looking, but even the most ferociously heterosexual male staff up here at Guardian Unlimited Music have been found whispering, in hushed, awed tones, "Mmm, yummy, mummy" when confronted by images of Germany's handsomest export. Identical twins Bill and Tom Kaulitz are especially delicious. Bill is the one with the piercings, tattoos and belief in "freedom without boundaries", while Tom has the gorgeous mousey blond frightwig (sigh). The bassist and drummer are bowsers in comparison, but we'll let that pass because they're only, you know, the rhythm section.

We interrupt this swoonfest for a little history. Tokio Hotel, named after the great Japanese city and the great alternative to houses, formed in 2001, when the four players were amoeba - okay, they were 11 and a half, but still pretty young. They were called Devilish, but for some reason (maybe because people - call people unfashionable - felt uncomfortable with the idea of a death-metal band with a Satanic name) they didn't happen, commercially speaking, until they became Tokio Hotel. After a flurry of hit singles, the band achieved total domination and submission of the European mainland, with something approximating lebensraum being accomplished in Germany itself, including numerous Number 1 singles, tours played to over 400,000 willing sinners, various MTV Europe statuettes and more than 2.5 million units shifted from shops to homes.

The music? Oh, that. Not bad. Generic pop-metal, innit, with an impressive balance between power and melody. But, ooh, those cheekbones! Have those boys scrubbed and sent to our tent.

The buzz: "Tokio Hotel are the sexxx!!!"

The truth: They're the puppydog Pantera, the tweenybop Sepultura, the MiniPops Metallica.

Most likely to: Make you faint with delight. You girls, too.

Least likely to: Be taken seriously by the metal press until they get a bit older and uglier.

File next to: Metallica, Limp Bizkit, Papa Roach, Hanson.

Sunday, July 6, 2008

Scoop on Tom!

(Translation from the Danish magazine "Olivia", article about Tom)

“I think people should stay themselves.”
“Bill is my soulmate.”

Tom is the most mischievous of the two twins, but if there’s one thing that he’s serious about, it concerns the fraternal link he has with Bill and the love he has for him.

Find out now how to be the girl of his dreams and why he had dreadlocks.

About Tom Kaulitz:
Age: 18
Birthplace: Leipzig, Germany
Job: Guitarist in Tokio Hotel
Eye color: brown
Favorite dish: Pasta
Passions: evening outings, skating (???) and tagging
Other: he always buys his clothes in XXL

At the moment: Their group is touring, the “1000 Hotels European Open Air Tour.” Tom adds that he is ready to go back to the studio to record new songs, and that the fans will have something to listen to for Christmas.

So keep your fingers crossed!

Tom was first noticed at the age of 5, in a German sitcom called “Verruckt Nach Dir” (crazy over you) in which he appeared with Bill. But establishing a career in cinema wasn’t Tom’s primary purpose, because at that age, his dream was to be a cow-boy.

But everything changed when his stepfather put a guitar in his hands at the age of 9, since then, music has become his reason for living, and almost immediately, he started writing his own songs.

Look:
His style is directly influenced by rap, he loves caps and baggy clothes.
His favorite star: the German rapper, Samy Deluxe of course!
In fact, that was the first concert he had attended.

Small personal touch: his dreads! He has them ever since he was 12.

“I found it nice, when I was a kid, I had short hair, and I was tired of having to make my hair in the morning. I wanted something easy to wear, and practical in the morning. That’s why I let my hair grow and now I have dreads!”

Tom thinks that Bill dresses oddly with tight pants, but he also believes that it’s important for everyone to feel comfortable in their own clothes.

“I don’t want to change anything, I think people should stay themselves and no one should try to change us.”

Brother and soulmate!
Though Bill is rather a shy boy, when Tom is being interviewed he always has to bring out his jokes in order for all eyes to be focused on him. But when we talk about his brother, no one can be more serious!

“I cannot live without Bill, we do everything together, we tell each other everything, we’re inseparable.”

Like all twins, Tom thinks there’s a special bond that unites him and his brother. He knows what Bill is feeling, even without talking to him.

We don’t really look like twins, but we are soulmates. When I look at Bill, I know exactly what he’s thinking. I can feel if he’s not feeling well, and that, even if I’m not with him.”

Serious with love:

Tom is known to be a “lover” and even if Bill makes all the girls melt, he isn’t far behind!

Like all the boys in the band, there are lots of rumors about his conquests, but he denies them all. He adds that he couldn’t confide in a girl as much as he confides in Bill. So even if he takes love (or his conquests, should we say) lightly, for him love is something important, something you can’t play with.

“I’ve already been in love, but I don’t think I’ve really liked someone. Love is rare and beautiful. But it’s stressful when the other does love you (as you love that person).”

Tom’s opinion:
Money:
“Money is good to have, but it’s not everything in life.”
Friendships:
“It’s great to have friends. Friends are vital, even if it’s difficult to find true ones.”
The girl of his dreams:
“She must be funny and spontaneous (natural). I must be able to have fun with her; it would also be great if she had a good look. It’s important that she’s in the same delusion as me, and of course she must please me.”

Tom and numbers:
He has over 350 caps!
4 words to describe him *he chose these*: resting(always laying down on a sofa), spontaneous (natural), disheveled (dressed like a sack, low jeans, overlaying shits…etc), and smart.
He wears baggy jeans ever since he was 9.
He is 1.84 m.
He has a lip piercing.

Friday, June 27, 2008