POTD 12.31.2009

Photoshoot 2005

POTD 12.30.2009

MTV Day 2009, Athens, October 09

POTD 12.29.2009

Bamboozle, May 03 2008

POTD 12.28.2009

KIIS 102.7 FM, Los Angeles, Oct 20 2008

Live in Modena

Just found these on youtube, with mad thanks to xIreneKaulitz90x for posting it. She says that he dad filmed it for her. THANK YOU DAD!

Tokio Hotel and PETA

This is very cool that Bill and Tom have made a PETA blog. “All I Want for Christmas is — vegetarian Duck!”

In an interview with a German magazine, twins Bill and Tom said of their holiday plans, “We celebrate Christmas eve traditionally, at home with our family and the dogs. We are vegetarian, and our mother must pull a vegetarian duck out of her sleeve.”

Read the full interview at the PETA site and be sure to comment and MAKE SOME NOISE!

World Behind My Wall Single

The tracklisting and more information has been released today! First up, here is what the artwork is like:

You can buy this at Amazon.de in the mp3 downloads section. Not sure if we can get this in the USA, probably not, but last time, they also had them at MediaMarkt and we were able to get them here. Here is the info:

World Behind My Wall – ACOUSTIC
* Release Date: 22 January 2010
* Label: Universal Music Domestic Pop
* Copyright: (C) 2009 Hoffmann, Benzner, Roth & Jost GbR
* Duration: 4:07 minutes
* Genres: Pop
* ASIN: B0031UOXZE

Lass uns Laufen
* Release Date: 22 January 2010
* Label: Universal Music Domestic Pop
* Copyright: (C) 2009 Hoffmann, Benzner, Roth & Jost GbR
* Length: 4:17 minutes
* Genres: Pop
* ASIN: B0031UTUOS

World Behind My Wall (accoustic) + Lass uns laufen
* Release Date: 22 January 2010
* Label: Universal Music Domestic Pop
* Copyright: (C) 2009 Hoffmann, Benzner, Roth & Jost GbR
* Total Length: 8:24
* Genres: Pop
* ASIN: B0031UOXRW

POTD 12.27.2009

Berlin Interview, Aug 22 2006

Drumheads – Gustav Interview

How cool! An interview with Gustav in Drumheads! What a nice way to celebrate the day after Christmas. And a nice interivew about the actual music. And I know you Gustav fans are all doing the happy dance! Translation by Artax, please credit him when you use it. Thanks.

At the very top – interview with Gustav Schäfer

Because the musicians were still so young, many so-called experts derided Tokio Hotel’s breakthrough. Four years later the band tours world-wide and breaks one record after another. Instead of talking about gossip, Gustav gives us straight talk about drumming with Germany’s supergroup no 1.

Drumheads!!: You’ve been thrown into the cold water of big stages already at a young age. Do you feel yourself whether you’ve become more secure in your drumming by now?
Gustav Schäfer: I think I’ll never become really secure. I’m nervous before a show and sometimes there just is a mistake when performing. But even the big ones like Chad Smith or Danny Carey mess up sometimes, that’s how it is. Who stands in front of 13,000 people, isn’t excited and plays every show perfectly – is in my opinion no real drummer!

D: What’s for you so alluring about drumming and being the musician who always sits at the back?
Gu: I think it’s awesome that I act from the background and that most people don’t even know what weight lays upon a drummer. Of course it’s like that also with the other musicians on the stage, but when the drums give out, then the song is messed up. Someone once told me that the drummer is the band’s clockwork. He alone makes the beat and all have to listen to his “1″.

D: What’s important at a Tokio Hotel concert from a drummer’s view? What do you have to bring to the show?
Gu: First of all, I should of course master the songs, and that I do! Sometimes, I play them differently live than on the record and especially with our new record it’ll be a big change, since we also have many programmed rhythms. Apart from that, it’s like with any other band: The drummer sits in the back and enjoys.

D: What song do like most for the stage?
Gu: That changes constantly for me. I’m a fan of the heavy beats. Right now, I very much like to play “Komm” resp. the english version “Noise” and “Für immer jetzt” oder “Forever now”. These songs are very enjoyable to play, and they have good power in front of the stage.

D: What things at the drums would you still like to get better at, and how do you approach that?
Gu: Regrettably, with all our travelling, there’s not much time for exercises that I’ve been wanting to do for a long time already. One of my shortcomings are fast Fills. I always hammer them and don’t do double-beats. But it sounds better! Oh well, I think I’ll always play them like that. After all, so far, nobody has complained.

D: How much do you practice, when you get the time in between all the interviews and autograph sessions?
Gu: When I get to the studio to practice, then always 4-5 hours with short breaks in between. But then, I’m pretty done for.

D: What has changed for you, recording the new record compared to earlier studio time?
Gu: On Humanoid, I also plays parts with an E-drumset. These things are incredible. It was a completely new experience for me to bring that in. Live I’ll also play a few things on E-pads.

D: What difficulties did you have to overcome at the recording sessions?
Gu: Sometimes one could really go crazy: I always want to put everything in one song. That it’s too much, I then see in the faces of our producers and my band. And then I also realize it when I listen to the take and I sit down at the set with the sentence: “Sometimes less is more, you dork.”

D: Could you imagine to never again touch a drumstick if Tokio Hotel should dissolve one day?
Gu: No! I started to play drums with four, five years. In elementary school then there were other things that interested me, but I never pursued them like drumming. My dad also always had an eye on that, and when we watched a concert of Genesis, and I saw the masses, he said: “Gustav: practice, practice, practice, if you want to get there.” I guess it must have stuck.

source

POTD 12.26.2009

Paris, September 27 2006

Bill & Tom sitting under the tree

Tokio Hotel: Also Bill and Tom are sitting under the Christmas Tree with their family
HAMBURG A peaceful christmas, that’s what the Band Tokio Hotel has been looking forward to this year. Because the time before christmas has been very stressful: Bill, Tom, Georg and Gustav are stuck in the preparations for their “Welcome to Humanoid City”-Tour. Nevertheless the Band took some time to talk about music, their life as celebrities and christmas with Susanne Linnenkamp.

You’re already rehearsing for the Tour?
Tom: Yes, we’re preparing for the Tour. This will be one of the most elaborate Tokio-Hotel-Shows. This means, that we go through intense tour preparations – as a band we rehearse in Hamburg and then later with the whole Crew in London.

You promised the Fans one of the best and most spectacular Tokio-Hotel-Shows ever…
Gustav: Yes, the stage will be amazing.
Bill: It’s a brand new and sensational stage – a little spacy and huge. There are six to seven meter wide constructions. A lot of things will happen: We’re working with Pyro and with some moving elements. The Tour is called “Welcome to Humanoid City”-Tour and we will really build-up our own Humanoid City, in every city we play in.

You also promised to play a lot of new songs. But it seems like your german fans don’t even want to hear them. You got kicked off of the Top of the charts pretty fast…
Bill: That’s a false conclusion. We always have a run on the charts in the first few days. What other artists sell in a longer period of tiime, we sell in the first few days. That means, our Album gets kicked off of the top very fast, because everyone already bought it. Humanoid is, so far, the most successful Tokio-Hotel-Album.

Critics are accusing you of neglecting your german fans lately…
Tom: This accusation is understandable – because our career started in Germany, and we were on the road with our first Album there. And now we have to travel to 100 different countries. We try to keep it balanced.

Your music sounds more mature, do you want to get away from the pure-teen clientele?
Georg: We took our time with the new Album. Before that, we were always on the road, and played an unbelievable amount of tours. And then we spent a year in the studio, to see, which kind of music we want make. It wasn’t a decision to sound more mature. It was a natural developement.
Tom: You make the music, you feel like at the moment and the people who feel like this too, hear this. Whether they’re older or younger – to be honest – we don’t give a shit about that.

At the last tour, in Dortmund, you had some trouble with the authorities, because Teens camped out in front of the venue for weeks. What can you do to avoid this in future?
Bill: I don’t even want to avoid this. For us as a band it’s great that the fans are waiting so long to see us.

With your new Tour you’ll be in the region of Oberhausen again. Why?
Tom: Because we have a lot of great fans there. 30 cities in nearly two months, a strenuous program …
Georg: … you could say that, yes…

…and you Bill, you’re getting thinner and thinner. The fans are worried, and asking themselves if you can get through the tour.
Bill: Sure, such a tour is exhausting, but I wouldn’t do it if I didn’t believe that I could get through it.

How do you prepare for the tour physically: With relaxing or fitness training?
Bill: I prefer relaxing. But since I don’t have a lot of time to do this, I want to make some sports, to be in shape for a show on this huge stage. We’ll be taking a small gym on tour with us.

Allegedly you’re not going shopping on your own anymore…
Bill: Yes, that’s right. I’m thankful for the life I’m living now, but there are also bad sides to it. As Bill Kaulitz, you don’t have a private life anymore. That’s just how it is.

Who buys things for you?
Bill: Personal Assistents.

Christmas Shopping?
Bill: Also our assistans. Or I order something from the internet.

How will you spend christmas?
Tom: Traditional – We’ll be sitting under the christmas tree with our family.

And you’ll sing „Silent Night, Holy Night“?
Bill: Absolutely not…
Gustav: …if we do so, then the rock Version…
Bill: …nope, absolutely not. I don’t like to sing christmas songs. I always hated it, it’s too uncreative for me

source in German

POTD 12.25.2009

Goldene Kamera, Berlin, Feb 06 2008

Bill’s an angel

Or a wreath. Wait, he was a wreath first and then he became the angel at the top of tree. This is from ToastieGhostie on twitter. Love it!

Holiday message from Tokio Hotel

It’s up at their site! Click here!

SPIN Year End Poll

Whew, you guys are amazing. Tokio Hotel fans are making a difference and making some noise on the SPIN Year End Poll. For those who do not know, SPIN Magazine is a Music Magazine that is in the caliber of Rolling Stone, so this is not just a “zomg, who is hotter, Bill or Tom?” type poll.

Currently, Tokio Hotel has made it into the top 5 of Video, Song and Album of the year thanks to fan voting! Keep up the excellent work you guys!

Here’s the link! It seems you can vote about every 6 hours.

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