May 1 – View An Deiner Seite/Ich Bin Da

Today is the day! The global fanaction to show support for the band by viewing their video on Youtube. It’s a small thing, but is a way to show the band we love them. And the side benefit is we get to see them over and over and listen to one of the most beautiful and meaningful songs they have done.

Here is the link: An Deiner Seite

If you get the “Not available in your county error”, you can view it this way:

Use this awesome site (thanks nicoletagenoveva!!!!)
http://w2.hidemyass.com/

and put in the box the Ich bin da link (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I__sdmB7nmw)

It started at 19,248 views, so we are raising it! You do need to watch the entire video for the view to count.

Further action will be handled legally… Jost

David Jost, the manager of the Magdeburg band announced on Thursday that the band won’t give any statements more to the incidents. “We think that from now on the stalker issue can and has to be finished legally”, Jost explains.

Source

David Jost seems like such an incredible person. This is a good decision on the part of the band, I think. Full article follows, translation by dypnf, please credit her when you use this.

Tokio Hotel is defending themselves against stalkers with legal action

Hamburg: The teenie band Tokio Hotel wants to leave the conflict with the pushy fans completely to the justice.

David Jost, the manager of the Magdeburger band announced on Thursday that the band won’t give any statements more to the incidents. “We think that from now on the stalker issue can and has to be finished of legally”, Jost explains.

In the beginning of April Bill’s twin brother Tom Kaulitz clashed with a young woman at a gas station in Hamburg. The manager reported thereupon that the band is being followed for years and since recently also got harassed from masked girls. This is also the reason why the band and their families kept moving to different homes/locations (?).

Site Stuff… please read

Moderation. Comments are still going in, I have to figure out why.

But… small venting here, as a fellow fan…

Some of the comments that are being posted are just so hate-filled and horrible. It’s draining the life from me and probably others who read them. Stuff like “Tom should have punched out all of her teeth” or “They look like *insert stupidly used words for gay or lesbian*“.

As a fellow fan, I am going to beg of you. If the best you can do is call someone else a name or wish that Tom had hurt someone or you want to brag about what you would do if you were in Germany? Please don’t comment. This situation is enough of a drag without having to read that kind of stupid stuff.

YOU ARE ALL EVIL.

Okay, so I am mad that you voted Raise Your Hand Together off the island. But, fair is fair and so RYTH will go live with On The Edge at the fancy hotel.

I think something illegal is happening. Ready Set Go has the lowest votes? This can’t be happening!!!!

Okay, new poll up in a minute.

* Raise your Hands Together (29.0%, 493 Votes)
* Live Every Second (23.0%, 395 Votes)
* Sacred (18.0%, 306 Votes)
* Final Day (10.0%, 167 Votes)
* 1000 Oceans (8.0%, 135 Votes)
* Scream (7.0%, 112 Votes)
* Ready Set Go (5.0%, 79 Votes)

Total Voters: 1,687

David Jost statement…

best translation so far.

“I hope the stalkers are not planning any other attacks. We will now prosecute not only individual members, but the entire Stalker Gang and through the justice of the court ensure that they can not get near the band or first and foremost, their famlies, ever again.”

We need some giggles.

This is from New York last February. Someone took the time to transcribe Bill’s lyrics with what the girl is screaming. It’s very very amusing.

Her: “I want your babies!! BILL!!! I know you understand this!! You know English (?)!!!”

Bill :”I’m burnin can’t you see?”
Her: “Bill my PANTS are burning!!”

Bill:”Come and rescue me”
Her:”Come and have my babies!”

“Tom! I’M FERTILE!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

“Bill I love you!!!”

Bill: “You and me~you and me~”
Her: “Do me! DO ME!!!”

Global Fan Action for May 1

One million views. The goal is to show, by our viewing of the video Ich Bin Da on Universal Music’s channel, that we love and support the band. Here is a brief description of the fan action, as well as how fans from other countries are able to view the video. (damn youtube restrictions). We are already starting to watch it, to drive the view count up and up and up.

“It would be a great idea if all the fans would watch Universal’s video of Ich bin da on May 1st 2009, as May Day is a day off in many countries. The goal is to show our support to Tom, the boys, their families and friends by dramatically increasing the numbers of views of this video.

Ich bin da seems the most adequate video for obvious reasons. There are many Ich bin da videos out there but it is important that we all click on the same one. The Universal version currently has less than 20 000 views, so the increase should be noticeable.

It would be great if this idea could spread in every TH forums and websites to make the action more potent.

And here is how you can view it, and get around the “not available in your country”.
Workaround #1
Use this awesome site: http://w2.hidemyass.com/

and put in the box the Ich bin da link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I__sdmB7nmw

Workaround #2
If this doesn’t do the trick, another solution has been proposed by scarletswidow: use a Mexican IP address! Here’s how to proceed:

Address: 200.65.129.2
Port: 80

In Firefox
Tools > Options > Advanced > click on Network tab > Settings > click the Manual proxy configuration radio button > copy the IP address in the HTTP Proxy box and the port number in to the Port box > click Ok > clear your cookies and cache

In IE 7
Tools > Internet Options > Connections tab > click on the LAN Settings button (at the bottom) > check the proxy server box > paste the IP into the Address box and port into Port > clear cache and cookies

To turn the proxy off just uncheck the box.

Have fun.

Kaulitz twins speak to Bravo

Thank you so much to Emmla for this translation, which was translated from Swedish back to English for us. No scans or anything, the issue hits the stands tomorrow apparently. Tom says he understands that these stalkers are NOT representative of the fans. Here you go.

Exclusive for BRAVO!
Tom speaks about the girl gang that stalks them: “Its not fun anymore!”

This is not fun anymore!
Tokio Hotel live in fear for their families.
Tom and Bill tell exclusivly to BRAVO about the gang! that stalks them!

Tokio Hotel in the claws of a masked and disguised stalkergang!
Since 6 months Bill [19], Tom [19], Gustav [21] och George [22], and their families and friends are being stalked by a french group “the afghanes on tour”. They are insulted, threatened and even attacked! It went so far that Tom eventually lost control at a gas station in Hamburg last week and hit the 21 year old gangmember Perrine D. Now, for the first time Tokio Hotel-twins Bill and Tom talk about the accusations: “We have almost gotten used to it, to always having stalkers around”, says Bill to BRAVO.

“But if our family is attacked, the limit has been reached. Its not fun anymore!”

What happened? In the beginning of april, the mother of the Kaulitz twins were attacked by ” the afghanes on tour” in Hamburg. To gather evidence against the stalkers, Tom and Bill’s mom took photos of the girlgang with her mobilephone.The girls grabbed her and hit the mobilephone out of her hand. The mother reported the event to the police. This was not a one time thing!

Also other fans have been attacked by the french girls: “We have heard that too”, says Bill. “Its obviously not okay. I have no idea what goes on in the minds of the stalkers. This has to be stopped somehow”, the singer demands.

Many fans are now worried about their loved ones. They fear that the band are angry with all their fans: “No, absolutely not,” Tom makes clear. ” The fans should not have to worry. We would never place them in the same box as the stalkers. We know that our fans would not do something like that. On the contrary: We are so grateful that our fans are being so supportive.”

Some followers of the Magdeburg rockband are now taking it one step further: they have begun the hunt for the terroristgroup!
On the Internet many join forces. “RockStarStephi” said in a Youtube-video that she made with some friends that they plan an attack on “the afghanes on tour”.

“We want to go to Germany and make your lives a hell” she says. There are also other videoclips with threaths such as: “we will get you f**** ” and “Let the hunt begin”.

A war between fans and stalkers? ”The afghanes on tour have barrciaded themselves in Hamburg ”, says an insider.

This does not however calm Bill and Tom. They were supposed to be in Los Angeles with their producer David Jost [36] to record more song and guitar parts to their new album. Out of fear that the stalkers might yet again come near their mother, the trip was cancelled.

Not until the police can confirm in writing that “the afghanes on tour” will not come anywhere near the families of the bandmembers will Tokio hotel be able to fly to the U.S to work on their CD. David Jost: “The lawyer of three of the “afghane-members” have been in contact with Bill & Tom’s lawyer.” He tried to leave a proposal. The people representing Bill and Tom were willing to agree to a settlement if the members of the gang could agree to never come near their families again.

”We have now gotten the message that “the afghans on tour” smashed their lawyers proposal”, says David Jost.”According to the information I have gotten that lawyer only represents one of the stalkers.”

An end to this terror does not yet seem to be within reach…

Bill Kaulitz – US Magazine mention

Bill Kaulitz has made it into a USA magazine. Thanks to Neldagirl for finding this. The magazine is “Twist” and Bill is on the last page. Here is the image of the magazine page. Demi = Tokio Hotel’s Bill is the headline in the Twisted Twins section.

Bill Kaulitz – The Real Suga Baby

Latest news

It is our top priority to respect the band and their privacy and clearly some of the information in the news videos violates it. But is also our top priority to support the band and in light of the latest occurrences, we decided to allowed this video. Not so you discuss Tom’s hair or car, but so people can really see if they so choose, how far stalking has gone, because this is one case, but there are more like them and this needs to stop.

Please consider our strongest warning that the content in some of the video is disturbing.

The latest news. Tom and Bill have postponed any travel to work on the new album according to several news sources.

The stalkers have appeared on television.

PLEASE KNOW… we know that people are very upset by this situation. But please refrain from making threats against the stalkers in the comments. That is a potentially legally punishable situation FOR YOU, so don’t do it. It’s not helpful or constructive

News from Bild, translation by Pat
This is why we follow Tokio Hotel.

to what will this fan-illusion lead?
They followed Tom and Bill Kaulitz of Tokio Hotel ’s every move.
They disguise themselves as criminals. They name themselves :afghans on tour.
They come from France and have been following the musicians for 6 months now.

Their names: Perinne, Georgina, Aurore and Noemai.
Bild reporters asked the girls, who show themselves undisguised:
why dont you leave the boys of Tokio Hotel in peace?

We are not stalkers, Perrine claims. We love the music, the texts. we have not followed them, we just want to know where they live and how. that interests us.

under the extreme-fans a competition has started. who can see the boys in private situations the most. Videos of wild pursuits the so-called fans have posted on the internet.

Perrine: what is special, is that we want to be around Tokio Hotel all the time. the more often you see them, the happier you are.

Perrine took her fanaticism as far, as moving from Paris to Hamburg, 2 years ago, to be near Tom and Bill. she found a job,(doesnt say as what) and found a house in the area of the twins. following both of them around all the time.

On april 15 the fancrazyness climax happened at a hamburger gasstation, as tom lost his nerves and hit Perrine in her face. The young woman pressed charges.

Shortly before that day the mother of Bill and tom had been attacked by the afghans. the girls deny that.

Noemai: the mother of Tom had attacked us, with a PEt cokebottle.

The dispute happened in front of the Hamburger home of Bill and Tom, where the afghans had been waiting for the twins.

What do the french girls want now?
their attorney Burckhard Benecken to Bild:
We want an apology and compensation. We will claim for at least 10.000 euro.

The management of Tokio Hotel did not want to comment yesterday on the statements the girls made.

source

When you’re gone… Bill Kaulitz

A fan video that is hauntingly appropriate.

Pic of the day on hiatus

hi there,

sorry to do this again, but we have a combination of staff vacations and other big news that is keeping us super super super, omg, super busy.

Here are over 10,000 photos, updated regularly.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tuckle/

Site Stuff: Poll, moderation

Okay, the fighting has been vicious, but On The Edge has been voted off the Island. But don’t be sad, the songs voted off the island just get to move into the five-star hotel and get room service.

Also, moderation has been removed. Only your first post ever should need to be approved. Please feel free to report any fights or trolls or people claiming to know Tom and Bill. That silly girl, saying she lived in their apartment. *pokes her with a stick*

MTV TRL Italy – Best Band Voting

Great news! Tokio Hotel is nominated for two awards in Italy! The MTV TRL Awards 2009 will take place in Trieste (Piazza dell’Unità) on May 16th,and they will be aired on MTV Italia. Their two nominations are Best Band, which anyone in the world can vote for and Best TRL Artist, which can only be voted for within Italy.

So, here’s all you need to do to vote for Best Band. First, go to the voting page, which is here: Link Link

Then, click on Best Band

Then, click on Vota next to their name. That’s it!

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