- Does it seem like the twins have grown 2 feet since then?
- Are you able to not go googly-eyed because of Bill’s stripes?
- Do Georg’s cheekbones look like they could cut glass?
- Is that hat on Georg a fashion hit or miss?
- Are you as jealous of Gustav’s tan in MARCH as I am?

I purposely left them big even though I know they will stretch the page a little. And thank you to Melanie for sharing these pictures and knowing when they were from!!! I happened across one of them in some google search and I had never seen it before and she had three more! She is an organizational goddess.

And to anyone who is a newer fan, yes, Bill’s face looks chubbier. This was back just before he had his vocal cord surgery and while it has never been confirmed, some believe he was on a steroid medicine at the time. Hence the puffy cheeks.

And then I got sad and remembered the note from the band just a few weeks after this meet and greet, asking fans not to be mad at them for canceling the shows.

And here is a video from that concert.

Man oh man, how much do you love this band?

In this first one is the place where Bill slips and falls. Direct to youtube

Screamin’ – Direct link to youtube

In Your Shadow – Direct to video on youtube

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

This is from Rockhal, 2/22

One word for this concert.
UNBELIEVABLE. The four of them were on fire, Tom was dancing around, Gustav has never had a better stage to showcase his talents and Georg, well… WOW.

The best way to catch up on everything is to read the first post in the thread at the forum which has been kept up to date by our staff, and they are still catching up as the news is coming in.

The setlist will be posted at the BOTTOM of this post in case you do not want a spoiler.

That thread is here.

Our photobucket where we are throwing all the photos as fast as we can is here.

Here are a couple of videos. I myself have only had a chance to watch about three of them, so I think I will be awake all night.

Tracklist
01.- Intro
02.- Komm
03.- Menchen Suchen Menschen
04.- Ich Brech Aus
05.- Kampf Der Liebe
06.- Lass Uns Laufen
07.- Hey You
08.- Alien – German
09.- Übers Ende Der Welt
10.- Humanoid – German
11.- Geisterfahrer
12.- Dogs Unleashed
13.- Träumer
14.- In Your Shadow (I Can Shine)
15.- Automatisch
16.- Screamin’
17.- Sonnesystem
18.- Zoom
19.- Durch Den Monsun
20.- Für Immer Jetzt

So exciting!

One thing that is really cool about this concert is wvery ticket you buy for a show is valid for free public transport within the whole Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg. They do this to help keep pollution down. I think that is fairly awesome.

Something that is maybe not so good if you are short like me, this is a standing only venue and the floor is flat. So if you are farther back, you might have some trouble seeing. :D

Here are a couple of pics from the last concert and if you want to keep up with news and events and find out who else is going, check our thread at the fanclub!

Link to the venue

Tokio Hotel always has been technically good, totally in sync with each other on stage and have added an enthusiasm and genuine appreciation of the audience’s welcoming reception of the band, something you don’t witness among many musicians today who seems to take for granted that the audience should be there and should love them. Tokio Hotel always gave the impression that they were grateful that they were allowed to stand on the stage, that the audience were there to see them.

You can read her full review of Strassbourg and Luxembourg at the forum. (you do not have to register)

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I just came back to Sweden after seeing the concerts at Zenith Europe in Strasbourg and Rockhal in Ech sur Alzette. One of the best trips ever (Alcase is a tremendously beautiful area in France) and definitely the two best concerts I have ever been too. Here’s my review, but it’s probably going to be awfully long as I have so much to say about those two brilliant concerts. I can’t really review them separately so I will post this in both concert threads.

I wasn’t sure what to expect really from the 1000 Hotels Tour. I was thinking that they have the same songs give or take one (Geh, since I heard/saw 1000 Meere in Essen last fall) and what else can they do? A new stage and change order of the songs. But will this really warrant a new tour name? Won’t it just be an extension of the 483 tour? Answer, yes on the first question and no on the other.
With 1000 Hotels Tour Tokio Hotel has reinvented themselves in the most positive manner and totally surpassed anything they have ever done in my opinion. I’ve seen them three times live before; in Amsterdam, Essen and London and I loved all these concerts, with Amsterdam being my favourite one. They were some of the best concerts I had seen and I go to a lot of concerts and have been since the late 80s.

TH always has been technically good, totally in sync with each other on stage and have added an enthusiasm and genuine appreciation of the audience’s welcoming reception of the band, something you don’t witness among many musicians today who seems to take for granted that the audience should be there and should love them. TH always gave the impression that they were grateful that they were allowed to stand on the stage, that the audience were there to see them. It was and is something I hope would never disappear from TH’s act but something I know will be hard to not disappear as the band gets more and more used to their skyrocketing fame.

So was it present at this tour too? Yes, definitely.

But there was also something more to these two concerts which added to the fact that they were my two favourite concerts ever. It something quite not tangible and hard to describe, but I’ll give it a try anyway. I don’t know what happened with Bill since last tour but he is otherworldly on stage now. He’s a Rockstar God. His presence which was impressive before is almost overpowering now. He’s now a bigger than life persona. I challenge anyone to find another musician who can pull off Bill’s over the top mannerism on stage and his looks without coming off as a total fool. The way he plays with the audience is interesting to witness, they are feeding out if his hand. He has them in total control. And he’s basically toying with those girls’ emotions. He is cocky, he’s sexy, he knows he’s fantastic, there’s no question about it. But at the same time he appears humble and genuine and totally innocent like a child. How he manage to pull off that combination is beyond my grasp. I was thinking about it during both concerts and afterwards. He is a walking contradiction. Fascinating. His bigger than life persona dominates the concert as any good frontman should, without taking away from the fact that it is a band we’re watching, not a solo artist with a comp-band. The chemistry between the boys is heavy and notable. But Georg and Gustav with their lower-key personalities takes a step back and let Bill owns the stage, just like they do in other aspects of their career. Tom is more dominant in his presence than the two Gs, and Tom plays more with the audience than Georg. Gustav really can’t do much being trapped behind his drums, as no drummer really can. But he is drumming away on those drums with all his heart and power, just like he was born to do it. He’s giving his all.

Georg and Gustav sang most of the backup, most notably on An Deiner Seite, and Tom only contributed on Wo Sind Eure Hände, along with Gustav and Georg and Bill. Bill didn’t have that second square-shaped microphone for WSOH that he used on the 483 tour. Oh, and the other guys’ microphones must be tuned down cause we still only hear Bill. LOL.

Every song was played so well that they sounded better live than on CD. The band was absolutely brilliant technically and Bill’s voice was pure utter perfection on both concerts. He has sometimes lazy-sung on some concerts, letting the fans sing the most difficult high notes, but here he didn’t resort to that. He interacted with the fans and let them sang parts but did every high note perfect himself. It was only on 1000 Meere that he went down at the end of one line instead of going up.

The sound was better at Esch sur Alzette than in Strasbourg, but Zenith in Strasbourg was a nicer and more audience friendly venue. Rockhal was one big standing floor without any elevated areas, so there were so many thousands who didn’t see a single thing. I’m pretty tall for a girl, around 175-176 cm, so I had good view, but there were a lot of young kids at this concert, and a lot of dads and grown men, and they were at least 50 cm taller than the small girls in the back. I saw so many girls crying their hearts out cause their view were blocked. Next to us was a dad who desperately tried to carry both his dauthers up so they could see at leats soemthing. He was exhausted from alternating between his daughters or trying to carry them both at the same time, so my bf took one of the daughters on his shoulders and had here there for the rest of the concert. At least one little 10 year old girl was in heaven.

The peculiar thing is that there were lots of kids at the Esch sur Alzette concert, much more so than at Strasbourg. It was two completely different set of audience, and that was interesting to observe. At Strasbourg there was people from very young to very old. The Strasbourg concert made the cover of both of the biggest Alcase daily newspapers the next morning and one of them, DNA, described the concert as a family affair with an audiecne spanning from 7-77. That’s an absolutely accurate description.
The best thing was that there were plenty of guys and they showed up in groups without any girlfriends in sight. And those guys were from 18-35. Some of them even wore TH t-shirts. That was cool to see. In the first 2000 or so in line there were mainly teenage girls from 14-19, but after that the age started varying a lot. I talked to a retired couple in their 70s without any grandkids tagging along. They just loved TH and thought they were a ”fresh band.”
It was a blast to wait in line at Strasbourg and we had tremendously fun talking with people. The weather was beautiful, sunny and not a cloud in sight. It got a bit chilly as the sun started setting, but it was nothing compared to the freezing weather at Luxemburg. I could hardly feel my toes when they lfinally et us into the venue. My legs were shaking and cramping from tensing up so much due to the cold. But it is amazing how none of that really matters while waiting in line. Three hours pass so quickly.

During the intro of Schwarz, which was really long and had Georg and Tom sort of playing solo for a while, Georg’s bass was lit up in blue LED light. Really cool effect and gave Georg a well deserved time in the spotlight. Gustav had a shining moment right before that at the end of Shrei when the song was prolonged by a little drumsolo. It was during those two solos that Bill quckly changes clothes, and then in darkness without anyone really noticing (due to the distraction of Georg’s bass light effect and footage on the video monitors) climbed up a platform which was lowered down from the ceiling until maybe a metre and a half above Gustav’s drums. Brilliantly excecuted

As most of you know the setlist for both concerts were in german, and Bill did all the talk in German too. I didn’t follow his in between talk since I don’t know German and it seemed I wasn’t alone in Strasbourg where most of the crowd probably didn’t understand it either. But Bill spoke less between songs than he did in Essen, and he didn’t really have long monologues.

The stage consist of four permanent staircases and one removable. The two large ones work as a frame around Gustav. Gustav’s position is really brought to the center on this stage by this consctruction, much more than on the previous 483 tour stage. The two huge videomonitors on each side have platforms in front of them with stairs leading up to them and the boys use those to great effect, performing in front of the monitors. The best way this was used was in Strasbourg during Wir Sterben Niemals Aus when Bill went up to the platform of the left monitor and was filmed full body shot at the same time. So we saw Bill at the platform and a bigger Bill on the monitor behind him. And as that was filmed Bill got duplicated multiple times on the screen. Really nice effect. It was unfortunately not used like that at Esch sur Alzette to the same effect.

The aluminium screen in LED light as you seen on most pictures were used terrifically as illustrations to the lyrics. For Don’t Jump the screens were lowered down to appear as a wall, and gave the impression that Bill was standing on a rooftop ready to jump. They also had the platform I mentioned above coming down from the ceiling for more songs and the fifth stair was a removable one so Bill could walk up on this platform. They used the platform for maybe three songs. There was also an elevated level behind Gustav, the two main staircases led to this level and Bill used this for the intro song Ich Brech Aus, he remained here for that whole song. He also used it for the beginning of Schrei and some other songs. Thanks god he was on this level as I suspect it was the only time the short people in the back of the audience in Rockhal probably ever saw him.

The LED screen was used to the best effect during Leb die Sekunde where the LED lights formed a big bright red countdown clock countomng down, and durong Totgeliebt the screens looked like they were set on fire. Right below the screens, between the two big video monitors to the left and right of the stage, there were 4 additional video monitors. Sometimes these flashed unseen behind the scenes footage. Some standouts were during Reden where they showed hotelrooms interiors, Tom going in and out of hotel room doors, empty beds, fan footage etc. Really nicely illustration to the meaning of the song.

And that you can say about everything about the light show and the stage, everything was designed to emphasize the songs. For Totgeliebt, in addition to the LED screens looking like they were set on fire, the four video monitors showed an illustration of a human heart, being put on fire and eventually destructed and turned into the symbol of deathg a graveyard cross as the lyrics explain how love can leave you mentally dead. For Schrei the light effects were turned down and the stage appeared grey, giving the impression that we watched a scaled down rowdy hardrock song at some worn down club.

Many songs felt heavier and were slightly rearranged, like Schwarz and Shrei. 1000 Meere was played without a piano. I was so happy to see how they now more and more rearrange their songs continuously and start playing with their instruments and songs in a more playful manner, that they don’t get stuck to play the CD versions only. It seems like a huge development for them as stage performers as well as musicians. They let lose and play more. Some songs were extended a little bit in the middle like Ich Bin Da. The biggest difference musicwise were however Geh and I don’t know what to feel about it. Geh is one of my all time favourite songs, it’s an awfully depressive song, at least it is too me and always set me in a melancholic state of mind. I love how it builds from being quietly acoustic into being more intense. The live version was rearranged from a acoustic slow song to a mid tempo song, with drums and electric guitar, making it sound more happy. The melancholic and desperate feel of the song had completely disappeared. They had added yellow arrows on the LED screens, going in all direction as Bill sang “Geh.” My bf loved this version of Geh and thought it was a complete upgrade from the studio version, but I am torn. I love the live version too, but miss the calm quiet acoustic song. Geh was however played in the middle of the concert so the studio version probably wouldn’t really fit into it as well, so I guess the change was for the best in that sense. Geh and 1000 Meere got huge cheers from the audience when they started, probably the biggest cheers of the whole evening at both concerts.

All in all those were brilliant, magnificent concerts and I don’t know enough superlatives in English to describe them well enough.

My bf’s favourite one were Esch sur Alzette and he told me this morning on the flight home that any true TH fans should have been at that concert cause things can’t be more perfect than at that concert. It’s Tokio hotel at is very best. Me? I can’t pick a favourite one. Even though I saw two concerts back to back, the 2nd one was just as fun to watch. That has never happened to me before. I don’t know what it is about this band that makes you want to see them again and again. I feel ready for the asylum sometimes.