Urgent Voting

Hi everyone, the Viva Comet Awards are coming again. And this time, they need our help to decide which band should receive the Best Live Act award. It’s very easy to vote, it is unlimited! Please, let’s get Tokio Hotel nominated?

In a few weeks it has come: The COMET 2010, the 15th Award of the VIVA Music Prize, takes place. Where and when exactly will not reveal at this point. Only this:

This year is also awarded another award for best live performance. The problem: There are so many great bands that are on the stage is an absolute experience.

That is why your help is needed: you can here and now help determine who should be nominated for the category “Live”. Which offer the below bands and artists official live show? Vote now!

Voting Link: http://www.viva.tv/Events/ArticleDetail/id/2208582

Select the radio box next to Tokio Hotel and then scroll down and click LOS

Polls: Strange

You love it. No other way to say it, the numbers don’t lie.

Snippet of Strange, your opinion?

* Love it! (75%, 1,280 Votes)
* I am going to wait to decide after I hear the whole thing (19%, 326 Votes)
* I have not listened (4%, 70 Votes)
* Hate it! (2%, 37 Votes)

Total Voters: 1,713

And now the new poll is up. Which song would you choose as the new single?

Oberhausen Feb 26

Lots and lots of pics and videos from this show in the thread at the forum. This show was sold out with approximately 13,000 in attendance. There were a couple of fanactions, one again with lights (pics of it are there, it looked beautiful!) and another of being as silent as possible during Zoom, which was also a success. Tweets were coming in during that performance.

SO COOL!

Here are some tidbits from today. Bill has sweating flying off him in the Durch Den Monsun video here. That boy better be drinking LOTS of water. Heehee.

Full photobucket gallery, constantly updated is here

Optimus Secret Show Press Conference

This was filmed last week. Thank you so much to Stern for the translation. Please credit her when you copy this elsewhere? That will be awesome, thank you! The guys seem so happy and thrilled to be on tour again!

How do you feel like been Portuguese girls that are seeing you for the first time in your new tour?

Bill: It was cool… It was a totally different thing. It was the first time people could watch… it was not a whole show, just a rehearsal because we are still rehearsing for the tour, it was just an extract. But in all case, it was very good. Very intimate, even though it was big. It was a bit strange and something new. The fans were very lovely and were very pleased, which is already very good.

Are you excited for coming back to Portugal in April?

Bill: Absolutely! We already await the tour anxiously. We have many stuff to do and we planned and worked really hard on it during a long time. We await the begining of the tour with many joy and we are happy for being able to be back to Portugal!

Is your relation with the Portuguese fans different from the fans from other countries?

Bill: You can’t say that, in general, it’s different. It is hard to say if we have a different relation with the portuguese fans or the italian fans. I think it all always depends on the night, the concert or the meeting. Above all it always depends on the situation. But in general, we receive an exceptional support from Portugal. We hope for a great joy and energy and the girls that attended today already had a lot of energy. It was almost as it was a big event, even though it was few people.

You’ve been famous for about 5 years. How do you deal with the hysteria, you have fans in here parked in front of this stadium for I think several days, how do you deal with this? The good part, the bad part.

Bill: *laughs* Well, I think that is the good part. When we travel and are in tour and the people already wait for us at the venues… it’s a very good feeling. And we look forward for the concert.

Tom: When we travel we have more positive experiences. As more fan are there, the biggest is the excitment, the best is to travel there. We have more negative experiences when we try to be in private. But it doesn’t happen often. *laughs* So all good.

Can you explain the private part?

Bill: Private life is almost non existant. Only rarely and only when we are at home and we don’t travel with the band. But most of the year we are Tokio Hotel and when we return home for a week and spend time with our family, then that’s private.

Tom: : *interrupts* But, speaking honestly, we travel 320 days a year.

Bill: Right.

What is the feature of this new live show that are more excited about?

Bill: It’s the biggest Tokio Hotel production so far. For the first time we take our own stage. Though we have shown you a little extract, you can already see that it is done in a pompous way. And, as I said before, it’s the first time we take our own stage with a big team. It is really a huge production.

Tom: : We are not on tour just for 2 months, we already work in this for half a year.

Bill: Exactly.

Are you changing, are you more mature in this album? Your fans complain from this evolution? How different is this from your previous albums? Where do you want to go?

Bill: We try to always like what we do. When we go in studio we don’t think of what people demand of us, what they want to hear. We could do it that way, theorically, but we don’t. For us the most important is to be happy with what we do. And so, our new album is a bit different, because for us is right this way. We wanted to try new things and do this album now. And it seems like fans like it. We are very happy with the reactions. Many fans grew up with us and there is some people we meet and that are 5 years more now.

Is it the first time you do an intimate show like this?

Bill: *big smile* Yes! Yes, it’s the first time. We never did such thing and were very curious.

Tom: : We already did some small Showcases, we did an acoustic concert in a club. But now it was the first time in such a big stage with such a few people, in an intimate atmosphere.

Did you notice that they kept running from one side of the stage to the other, following you Bill or you Tom?

Bill: Yes, we notice that, and it was funny because…

Tom: : *interrupts* – because Georg complained backstage that there were few people in his side…

Georg: ohh, Stupid…

Tom: : *continues* …as he always complains in backstage.

What is your favourite new song to play live?

Bill: *thinks*

Tom: : I must say all are great. But I personally prefer the openings of the concert. It’s the most exciting moment, the curtain drops, you are on stage and you are seeing the venue and the fans for the first time. The song is also excellent. I am fan of “Noise”.

Georg: I vote for “Shadow”.

You have conquered all Central Europe even Portugal. You are still missing the UK and the US. Are you going to conquer them all? Conquer the world with your music?

Bill: Of course. We have released in more countries than we expected. And our plan is to be all over the world. We still haven’t been in Tokyo and we want to go there. And this year we want to travel through Asia, in fact. We received the first reactions from fans and they show our videos there.

How many songs are you gong to play acoustic?

Bill: I don’t know if I want to reveal. But in two days the whole world knows – two. The two songs we played today, we will also play them acoustic in concert and we will have also another surprise, not acoustic, but… very intimate.

Tom: : Also very intimate.

What is going to be your next single?

Bill: It is hard to tell at this time. We have two songs to decide on. We have already done two video treatments for those two possible songs.

Tom: : we will probably decide that during the tour, we will see which is the song that has the best reaction live and then we will take that decision.

I read in a French newspaper that you guys were thinking in going into the movies industry.

Band: *total wtf face*

Is that true? I read it was like an erotic movie?

Band: *everyone points at Tom*

Tom: : Yes, I am planing a movie, but I still haven’t discuss it with anyone. But the idea is in my head…

Only you Tom?

Tom: : Yes, just me. The others are too shy…

Georg: Yes.

Tom: : And we don’t find actresses that want to make an erotic movie with them, that is another problem.

Conferência de imprensa Tokio Hotel no Luxemburgo

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Gustav working it

OMG, THIS IS AMAZING.

Stern Interview Translation

As always, please give credit to the amazing translators when you share this around. Without them, we would have to rely only on our Humanoid Translator Boyfriend Google, and while he is cute, he does wonky things with his umlauts. Credit to loveth-music.com

Not from this world
He’s loved or hated, nobody stays unaffected by him: Tokio-Hotel-Singer Bill Kaulitz is on the way to become a global superstar. For the first time the matured Musician talks about the burden of Fame, his fears, the longing for true love – and presents himself in a completely new Look.

Mister Kaulitz, You became a star at the age of 15 and since 5 years you’re living permanently under exceptional circumstances. When you look back, what do you feel?
The first years were like a flush. We didn’t have to go to school anymore, because it was besieged all the time. I, of course, thought that this was great. We could do what we wanted. But there was also an other side. I remember, that I wanted to celebrate my 16th birthday, but instead I had to give some interviews. It’s hard to develop this discipline and to accomodate to such things, it was exhausting.

2 years ago you lost your voice during a concert and you had to undergo a surgery. Now you’re on tour with your band Tokio hotel and you’ll play 32 concerts in 19 countries. How big is the fear that this’ll happen again?
I always carry this fear in me, it never leaves me. But I already played some concerts since then. It’ll work out.

Back then, did you think that you won’t be able to sing again in the future?
Sometimes yes. My whole life is based on my voice, that’s why it was such a horrible time. I was sitting alone in my hotel room in Berlin while the Band waited for me to return to Barcelona, to continue the Tour. I couldn’t even talk. I couldn’t even get out, because the whole Hotel had been surrounded by Paparazzi. I felt very helpless. The tour had to be cancelled. I’m glad that this is behind me now.

Tokio hotel was ridiculed as a short-lived teen sensation at the beginning. Meanwhile you’re on the best way to become global superstars. Is it a satisfaction for you, that you could show the critics that they were wrong?
I’m over this now. It was important for me to prove that we’re not one of those one-hit-wonders when our second album has been released. Now we clarified this.

You played in Paris in front of a crowd of 500 000 people, after you got an invitation from the state president. What do you feel in such moments?
I’m really, really nervous before concerts. It constricts my throat, my heart beats fast and my hands are shaking. Then, when I’m on stage, everything happens as if you’re in trance. After the concert I often don’t know what I did on stage. The movements kind of happen automatically.

You’re under permanent observation, also through the Paparazzi. Is this a fulfillment or a impertinence for you?
I can’t live with fame, and I can’t live without it. There are days, where I wish I could walk on the streets without being discovered. But what should I do? Bill Kaulitz as an office worker, sitting in front of the computer – I would become dilapidated. I do the things, that I do best. Standing on a stage and entertaining people. I get anxious when I watch TV and see an award show where Tokio Hotel aren’t present. I want to be on the top. That’s my internal force. It’s what’s holding me together.

Your Band polarizes the mass. One either hates or loves you…
…and that’s how it should be. The most horrible thing that could happen is when people wouldn’t care about me or what I did anymore. Tokio Hotel should arouse strong emotions in a person. Of course I could dress normally in the morning, to not stand out, but that’s simply not who I am.

Is there just an artificial Bill?
It’s not that I’m startled when I look into the mirror in the morning, but the Bill who wears make-up is much closer to me. But I’m also not just an artificial character, like many people still think. The ones who make the effort to look at old pictures of my childhood will see that I always ran around like this.

You grew up in a village with 700 inhabitants near Magdeburg with your twin brother Tom.
My childhood was a long struggle. I knew that by stepping into the school bus in the morning, that one half would laugh about me and the other one would insult me. My brother Tom and I felt like aliens on the wrong planet. Sometimes our step father had to get us from the bus stop with our dog and a baseball bat, so that we wouldn’t get beaten up.

Did you search this provocation?
Of course. I didn’t make life easy for me. I wanted to provoke them. I enjoyed it when I stepped into school in the morning and when one half of our classmates turned around. I know it sounds a little neurotic and sick, but that’s how it was. I could have never lived with the fact that everyone likes me, because I grew up with polarizing people.

Did the hatred towards you surprise you at the beginning of your career?
When I watch our old Performances and Videos I start to wonder. We were so young and innocent and had those baby-faces. And then there was this enormous hatred towards us. It wasn’t just one that people called me a “fag”. Today I find it amusing. I understand that some people had this expression, but that the newspapers still write about this makes me wonder. It has to bore the people to death by now.

Maybe that happens because you never show yourself in company of a women?
Yes, that’s the big gap in my life. I didn’t fall in love since I was fourteen. It’s hard for me to trust people. It may sound clichee, but I’m looking for a girl who’s like a soulmate for me. I’m very romantic and I’m actually waiting for my true love. But I could vomit when girls walk up to me at a party and ask me questions like “Hey, don’t I know you from somewhere. Aren’t you a musician?”. That’s a moment where I tense up – but honestly, I don’t know how you could start talking to me without this happening.

Your twin brother Tom is more loose when it comes to dealing with female fans. Do you envy him for that?
Of course. I envy everyone who can deal with situations like those more loosely. Back then Tom was the one who took a different girl with him after every After-Show-Party, while I was lying in my bed, back at the hotel. Groupie-Sex disgusts me. I hate it so much when girls start pushing around, just to be on a picture which will be printed in one of the newspapers tomorrow. Tom is different when it comes to this. But sometimes, when I like a girl, I request of him to stay in contact with her, to call and to keep writing short messages with her. We know everything about each other.

How big is the fear that a girl will sell your story to one of the tabloids?
We always calculate this possibility. We know what could happen, so we always phrase the short messages that we send to them, in a way, with which we could live when they would sell this story to the tabloids. That’s just how it is.

Is it even possible for you to lead a normal life in Germany?
For us, Germany is kind of like a huge Big-Brother-House. The people are always watching us. You can find an article in one of the newspapers almost everyday since I’m fifteen. We’re always filling up the gossip columns. Abroad, that’s different. We’re getting perceived as musicians there, not as people who you can gossip about.

Why aren’t you moving away from Germany, like other celebrities?
I like Germany. That’s where my family lives, and that’s where my home is. That’s where I live together with my four dogs and Tom, in a beautiful house with a big property. When I close the gate, I can rest. I wouldn’t have the heart to turn my back on Germany.

We have the impression that you’re loved more abroad, than here.
There’s not a single person in Germany who would listen to our music without having prejudices. There once was a survey on TV, where they let pedestrians listen to our music without knowing who it was from. Most of them were thrilled. As soon as they knew that it’s Tokio Hotel they made a face. That says everything!

A few months ago, your Band-Colleague Gustav got hit with a beer bottle on the head. Are you scared of assassinations?
I think that this could happen to me. There were situations at the red carpet where our Bodyguards had to pull people – who had camouflaged themselves as fans – out of the crowd, because they stood there with a knife in their hands. I’m also always tense while walking through the airport. I keep my head down and breathe heavily. Sometimes I watch myself from the outside and think: “Hey, Bill, relax!” But it doesn’t work.

How do you spend your free-time?
In the past I went to Clubs every now and then because I wanted to be among people. I thought that this had to work, but as soon as I stepped into the Club, I had to sit in one of the booths at the corner and let myself get goggled at by people. They held their mobiles over the barriers and took pictures, as if they were in a zoo. I can only relax when I’m away from all of that. Recently I was on the Maledives with Tom, but even there Paparazzi took pictures of us.

Recently you surprised us with your appearance as a Model during the Fashion Week in Milan. How did it come to this?
It was a dream that I fulfilled for myself. Already at the age of seven I bought cheap T-Shirts and Jeans to make my own clothes out of them. When the time comes, I’ll design my own collection, but I want to do this for real and not just as a job beside doing music.

What do you say to the accusation of you apparently being anorexic?
It bores me. If people made an effort to actually investigate, this wouldn’t be a topic anymore. Just take a look at pictures of me from five years ago or look at old pictures from my vacations. I was as thin back then, as I am today. I’ve always been like this.

Your brother Tom says that you two smoked pot and drank alcohol at the age of 13. How abstinent are you today?
Since I’m really afraid of losing control, drugs never had a chance to make me addicted. I tried a lot of things out at an early age, which is why I can let it go now. I could never play a concert, when having taken something before. That’s unimaginable!

With just 20 years of age you met a lot of other celebrities. Who impressed you the most?
Jay-Z surprised us by watching one of our concerts in L.A. Then we went out to dinner with him. That was great. and Karl Lagerfeld also impressed me. Maybe it sounds silly, but I think I could get along with Britney Spears very well. We kind of led similar lives in the past years, so we’d probably be able to tell each other a lot.

Is it true that you’re a fan of Angela Merkel?
Yes, I like Angela Merkel a lot. Lately she got criticized a lot, but I have to say that I still trust her. I believe in her.

Miles of Smile

Bill Kaulitz has always loved fashion. He hasn’t really changed all that much. Heehee.

Oberhausen Sold Out!

Thanks to our friend Google for this translation. Heehee. Oberhausen (RPO) on Friday held in Oberhausen, a concert of “Tokio Hotel” instead. For a few days camping so some 100 young girls there because they want to be at the concert in the front row.

On a parking lot for campers near the Anrena the girls who come from all over Europe, a small tent city has built.

Michel (17) undd Isy (17) already isolated since Friday. Both can not wait to see their idols on stage. They are desperate to stand in the front row.

The young fans like to sleep. Even at lunch time they lie in their tents and dreams of the four boys from Tokio Hotel.

The parking area for motor homes in the Imperial Garden on CentrO in Oberhausen, Wednesday morning. Straight line is the 16-year-old Bianca woke up. She has her thick fur jacket with a hood pulled far over her face. “Finally no rain,” she says. Since Friday Bianca already tabernacled with more than 100 other girls from all over Europe, despite the rain and cold near the Arena Oberhausen – and all because of Bill Kaulitz and Co.

Jungendamt controlled

The young people are fans of the teen band Tokio Hotel, which will be on Friday evening at the Arena Oberhausen in the context of their “Humanoid Europe Tour” her first concert in Germany for some time. The four guys around the 20-year-old twins Bill and Tom Kaulitz have been part of successful years on the German music bands.

Meanwhile, they sold out venues all over the world and have millions of fans in North and South America, Asia and throughout Europe. In Oberhausen play Tokio Hotel on Friday for the third time, but never had the hysteria among the fans have been so great as this year, says Thomas Notthoff by the youth of the city of Oberhausen.

With his staff, he keeps a watchful eye on since Friday, the area around the arena. Because many of the fans are still minors, and attend school. “We control the cards, if necessary, we then call the parents of the girls,” said the youth workers.

Tight organization in the tent city
The girls, camping on the parking lot and, according to to have all the permission of their parents who are themselves tightly organized. There is a list on which every girl needs to enter.

“Who does not do that, the concert may not be on the front row,” says the 16-year-old Isy, which leads the list. Tonight, fans can clock from 22 in the lobby of the arena. Then there will be a scramble.

“Without the list, there would be fights among the girls,” said Isy. The concert is sold out with nearly 13,000 tickets sold so well as. Some but there are remaining tickets at the box office. The guys from Tokio Hotel are consciously aware of the great hype. Lead singer Bill Kaulitz is afraid even an attempt on his person. Without bodyguards, he was not going on the road.

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Bill speaks Spanish in message to fans

He is saying in the first one that they will be in Madrid in April. (how I understood this, I don’t know. Maybe growing up in California, I learned just enough Spanish. Heehee)

And in this one, he says they will be in Barcelona in April

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Comments in other languages

Hi there,

I just wanted to let you know that sometimes we will moderate out comments that are posted in other languages. We really do not have time to try to translate them all to make sure they are not porn or spam or haters. Sometimes I can tell they are just love notes, i.e., ICH LIEBE BILL KAULITZ, VEN A PERÚ, and we let those go, but other times, they are really long and like I said, we just do not have time to check them to make sure they are okay.

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Bill Kaulitz Fashion – The Breasts Shirt

Fashion crazy fans are definitely sleuthing the clothes Bill is wearing in that latest photoshoot. One thing I found is that the shirt he is wearing with the breasts on it? This one in case you missed it because you were staring at the CHAIN (like I did).

Well, I found a version that was worn in 1977 by the guitarist from the Sex Pistols. Here is that picture.

I wonder if Bill’s is vintage?

You can buy it here

Footage from Rotterdam

Oh wow. This is a video of some of the footage about Tokio Hotel that is being shown at the Humanoid City Tour concerts. I love when the band shares this kind of intimate stuff with us. They really do love their fans. Plus it is always fun to see them when they were little. They have done so much in the last seven years since their career as Tokio Hotel began (in 2003). Amazing young men.

Bill Kaulitz in Stern Magazine

This is by far one of the hottest photoshoots ever. EVER. In the history of mankind. But first, the article and small interview. “Office worker? I would perish” is the headline on the Stern website.

He’s the biggest teen star in Germany, feels like this country away in the Big Brother house and will not yet: Bill Kaulitz. The new star of the Tokio Hotel singer talks about fears, his great desire – and Angela Merkel.

Tokio Hotel singer Bill Kaulitz is afraid of assassination. In the new edition of the phenomenal on Thursday the 20-year-old star admits that it had already given situations, which had “bodyguards pull on the red carpet men who stood with a knife and had disguised himself as a fan.” Without bodyguards, he would never leave the house. “Attacks?” I do believe that something could happen to me,” said Bill Kaulitz to Stern. A normal life is no longer possible for him. “Germany is for us something like a giant Big Brother House. Always watching us the people.” Nevertheless, the native of Magdeburg do not want to leave his residence Hamburg. “Here, my family lives here, my home. I could not bring myself to turn back on Germany.”

The pop star, who is currently on a European tour with his band, is adored by millions of female fans around the world, but is still single. “This is the big gap in my life. Since I was 14, I was no longer in love,” says the Tokio Hotel singer. “I am looking for a girl with whom I share a spiritual kinship.” Groupie sex disgusted him against it. The constant rumors about his alleged homosexuality, it would now be surprised and amused. “The people must be bored but slowly to death.”

The Chancellor has Kaulitz loyalty. “Yes, I like Angela Merkel a lot,” he confesses in the Stern. He still had a “very great confidence in them,” even though she was recently criticized “quite often been”. Kaulitz: “I believe in them.”

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p.s. The fanclub is working with a supplier to see if we can get some of these magazines here in the USA. Will keep you posted on that.

Dogs Unleashed HD

I would post the video here, but you absolutely positively must go to Youtube and watch this and click FULL SCREEN to see the amazingness of this performance. Bill’s WOO at the beginning is amazing. Can someone maybe stuff that motorcycle in their pocket and bring it home to me? If Bill happens to still be on it, that is a risk I will take.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEIIvIZFGvE

This is from Rockhal, 2/22

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