The crowd went wild as the opening techno beats rang out Tokio Hotel’s opening number, the energetic Noise. And that set the tone for the next 1-hour of their performance. As much as I am ambivalent to most of their music, they are a very, very tight band with their guitars, bass and drums fully audible and played without a single hitch. Barely into their twenties, the German pop rock band displayed incredible showmanship which proved how long Bill Kaulitz and gang have been playing together and demonstrated a caliber that even converted a hardened skeptic like me.

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The pop singer and Tokio Hotel charmed and delivered but the Wonder Girls disappointed.

OF THE music festival’s line-up over the three days, Tuesday’s certainly takes the cake for being the most international. There was saucy Katy Perry from California, pop rock band Tokio Hotel from Germany and pop group Wonder Girls from South Korea.

Not every act left a good taste in the mouth, though. After local singer Inch Chua, alternative rock band The Like and singer-songwriter Orianthi from Down Under warmed up the crowd, the five Girls came on around 8.30pm in an assortment of short dresses. They proceeded to underwhelm with their singing which sounded rather shrill and ragged.

They were also dwarfed by the size of the stage and could easily have done with another, say, five back-up dancers. Or perhaps they could have a live band instead of singing to a minus-one track as if this were a karaoke session.

When they disappeared for a costume change, a music video of theirs played on the screens. It was not a good sign that they sounded considerably better then.

Reappearing in matching denim outfits, they urged the crowd to sing along for Tell Me before ending with their big hit, Nobody. Their moves were smoothest here, but then again, they have been doing the same routine to this track for two years now so they certainly have had plenty of practice.

Tokio Hotel were up next and while some might dismiss them as goth-lite, they definitely got the crowd going. Next to them, the Wonder Girls seemed like rank amateurs.

In his all-black get-up, lead singer Bill Kaulitz looked like a tall and gangly dark angel with out-of-control shoulder pads. The boys revved things up with their radio-friendly brand of pop-rock and even hauled a motorcycle onstage.

They also knew how to turn up the drama, so Darkside of the Sun came complete with jets of flames.

(the rest is about Katy Perry)

Comments from people who attended:
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Germane D’Rozario, 20, student – I liked Tokio Hotel and Katy Perry. They really made an effort to make their performance mind-blowing. It was really good to see Orianthi perform for the first time. Wonder Girls were disappointing, though. I expected more from them.

Ahmad Kahar, 32, advertising executive – I thought it was very well organized. The acts were very cool. And even though I’m not an emo guy, I ended up falling in love with Tokio Hotel.

Kaylee Sia, 22, banker – I thought it was pretty good. The sound system was awesome. I liked that Katy Perry invited the audience to dance with her. Tokio Hotel put in a lot of effort for the visual effects. Overall, it was worth the money I spent.

Raymond Chia, 34, fund manager – I think Tokio Hotel’s performance was the best. The tightness of the band, their showmanship, and how they came back for an encore were all very commendable. The first few bands were not very good, though it makes sense that they would save the best for last.

Kings of the Darkness
Like no other group in these years Tokio Hotel manage to bring the attitude of life to the point – therefore the 4 Boys from Magdeburg were rightfully awarded as “Best Band” at the MTV Awards.

In the end, everything came like expected: Katy Perry moderated – with her suspenders on – through the evening, Beyonce lounged, with her suspenders on, through her performance, Bono from U2 didn’t wear any suspenders, but he was very eroticized by himself, through his acceptance speech. And just before everything was over, 4 young men stood on the stage and thanked their Fans. Tokio Hotel was awarded as the “Best Band” at the MTV Awards – and the ones who were surprised by this, probably spent the last few years in a cave.

For a long time the 4 Boys from Magdeburg were designated as a mere “Pop-Phenomenon”, as a cloned retorts Band, as fake, alien-like and unreal like their Frontman: Bill Kaulitz, you could see that in Berlin, appears like a hero from a Manga Comic: almond-shaped, with kohl accentuated eyes, androgynous face, pale skin, slender pelvis, thin legs, studdet belt, backcombed hair. A 20 year old as an timeless artificial character. And that’s what you can’t tell by the music of the band.

When the Band released their debut Album “Schrei” and the Single “Durch den Monsun” in Summer 2005, they immediately rank on #1 in the German and Austrian Charts. 2 Years later, the song is still in the Charts – but this time on the french, italian and portugese ones. For their in 2007 released Album “Zimmer 483″ the french girl start learning german, and when Bill, Tom, Gustav and Georg travelled to the US, their shows are sold out.

Wherever Tokio Hotel appears, the Band is the target of idolatry love. Or abysmal hatred. Nothing in between. The 4 boys unsettle, seduce, and enchant. And they succeed, because they brought it to the point, like no other Band in the last few years. The staggering and dreams of an entire generation on the edge of the abyss.

Dark, foreboding, and ominous are their songs, never inconsequential songs, like the Boybands from the 90s produced them. Tokio Hotel are singing about a world, which is haunted by monsoons and populated by Humanoids, a world, that “tipped over” and in which you can’t be certain of a lot of things. „Zwischen den Welten / Bin ich gefangen / Koordinaten / unbekannt“, Bill Kaulitz sings, and you don’t need a lot of talent to hear the attitude of life, of a disoriented, in need of love, nostalgic and romantic youth, the “Generation Crisis”, that’s how it’s called, the generation for which Stephenie Meyer also writes her somber Twilight-Series Novels.

“I’m consumed by a certain craving in all possible directions. But I think all the people have such an indefinite longing in them”, says Bill Kaulitz. Not long ago he turned 20.
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MTV Europe Music Awards 2009: The pop is saved
Just in time for the Fall of the anniversary of the MTV Europe Awards have taken over the capital. While U2 played at the Brandenburg Gate and Tokio Hotel almost abfackelten (burned down?) the stage, the evening was primarily one thing clear: The future of the Royal Family Pop is guaranteed. By Sophie Albers

The king is dead, long live the king Bill Kaulitz

Stop the presses, and retrieves the patrols. The 16th MTV Europe Music Awards proved one thing above all: that we must get to the Kingdom of Pop not worry. Yes, the king is dead (of course, Michael Jackson was also honored that evening with a tribute. She was even funny and beautiful people from the street singing his hits.) But who has not thought so before, which was still once said that Bill Kaulitz has taken the crown. The singer of Tokio Hotel as mysterious and androgynous looks like King Michael in his heyday. Only for the Moonwalk must be the pop-folk looking for someone else.

And then the desperate seek for a successor to Madonna. In the new queen is already there, worked, and she reigned in splendid beauty, albeit with a strict hand: Beyoncé’s appearance in a monstrous box of chocolates, the Kate Perry and Lady Gagas refer to their seats. It was pomp, ostentation and pop to perfection.

In general, Kate Perry. Despite suspenders, darling, on the flaunted underwear, bed, boots and the ever-to the O-shaped mouth had the asterisk, which could moderate the evening, about as much sex appeal, like the thick lederbejackte Einheizen, in all 20 minutes of the show cleaving commercial breaks jumped on the stage to hold about 9000 spectators happy. No, a woman is not fresh and sexy, just because they are the two words constantly repeated. Perry’s jokes were boring and annoying. Sometimes the perfect show had settled like, because no interest to the U.S. market. Beyonce wanted to pass their award for best artist right on Shakira. They already had two. Many of the stars appeared not to be right there. But that was probably the short attention span of the TV cameras due.

Tokio Hotel and U2
Two highlights of the evening had durchwachsene: the appearance of Tokio Hotel and the live Kill for a free concert by U2 at the Brandenburg Gate.

The beauty of Tokio Hotel are in addition to the increased ability of the former school band from Magdeburg, the fans. When the guys arrive just before 22:30 clock on the stage, chatting with Pete Wentz Kate Perry important, placebo and Juliette Lewis. But the interest in the huge O2 Arena anybody. The Tokio Hotel’s typical screaming begins. MTV Awards? Indifferent? U2? No matter. Reunification? Whatever! Finally, Bill Kaulitz is waiting in black leather and sunglasses on his bet. When he finally allowed to sing, and rise behind him even columns of flame, which is really a thin boy king of pop. Since even the drums start the fire.

The kings of rock, it is again, the same capture time in German history. U2 may, what was left Barack Obama denied: occurring against the backdrop of the Brandenburg Gate. Berlin is the stadium, and the glow of lighters replaced the phone display when playing rock veterans to complete “Sunday Bloody Sunday”. Jay-Z is also there and let himself be carried away by the momentous historical pathos: “I look forward to the time when all the walls fall and it is just about music.” But is it all about money, stupid, one might say. Leaving aside but then, because in this bubble of pop, opulence and we-feeling, the reality on a break.

By Sophie Albers

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And that leads to a certitude : Tokio Hotel phenomenon is not history, it’s always here and now.

Showcase in Paris or the french madness…

German band Tokio Hotel was giving a private show yesterday evening under the Alexandre III bridge in a place called The Showcase and, once again, fans had a lot of troubles to hide their enthousiasm. Bill, Tom, Georg and Gustav actually only played three songs after their 3D show. A short appearance like scheduled, for the opening of Saturne Domus, that has left many wanting more.

Tokio Hotel is still a phenomenon really hard to control and this private show has for sure convinced all of those who weren’t believing in it. The 3D show, with the band in holograms, was scheduled at 9pm and then at 9.30pm the boys in real were to come. But a lot of fans were there since the morning or even since the day before. The German guys had already caused quite a stir last time they came for promotion in September or October in order to promote Humanoid : but this time they basically brought hysteria all on their way.

Inside of this really beautiful place, all in stone with arcades and all, the 3D show started and with it : yellings, tears, pushings. Yes, for 3D ! A technology that is by the way really amazing with Bill Kaulitz all in white, looking like real despite the fact he got his old dreadlocks look. So the first title is played, Dark side of the sun, and then in the middle of the next the show has to stop. Yeah the venue is gorgeous but obviously too small to handle hundreds of hysterical fans, all standing in front of a stage not high enough. So it’s the chaos, with everybody pushing and young girls in front row are stuck in the bariers. Fearing the accident, the guys in charge, even if security was there and all, put the light on and try to calm everybody down. They ask them to go back but of course no one follows. So that’s when you understand that with the real Tokio Hotel guys coming soon, that could totally end in a nightmare. But the music starts again and here we go for Zoom, World behind my wall and the single, in german, Automatisch. Fans know it by heart and sing. They sing more than they can actually see. And here’s the issue of this evening : the first half of the venue was the only one able to see something… The other half has only seen a head or an arm from time to time…

An insatisfaction not too serious for 3D show but that has caused an other chaos when they boys came. Because yes after a pause to prepare the stage and try again to calm the people, Tokio Hotel really came. Lead by Bill with his now famous mowhawk, the band chose to play old songs like Ubers Ende der Welt and Schwartz. Boys are really good, acoustic sound is gorgeous : Tokio Hotel live never disappoints. The fans, girls mostly,are out of control, jumping everywhere like mad. So when Bill announces the last song the venue is suddenly on shock. Used to a lot of calls back they don’t wanna believe it. So everybody starts to sing on Automatisch : awesome vibe with this time a real good moment shared with the band.

It’s already 10.30pm and after a whole hour of madness, we finally feel like in a real and normal show. Too bad, it’s already the end… Tokio Hotel was supposed to play 3 to 4 songs and finally played only 3. Really late in the schedule and with all those nerves crisis in the crowd… But Bill and co are real generous people and we also witnessed how much they were happy to see that in France passion was still there. So some fans had the nice suprise to get a quick signing session with the band. Just the time to notice the change of hair color of Gustav who seems to have decided to go back to blond. Some fans will tell that it has saved their evening. The others hesitate between the joy of having listen to the boys, the disappointment of the only 3 songs played and some are disgusted of the way the whole evening went. Some say they wish they hadn’t come…

We kinda want to answer them that it’s not the band’s fault. Wanting to please the band and the fans, organization has let a lot of people without tickets enter and didn’t have realized what kind of reactions Tokio Hotel was bringing from fans totally unable to keep their cool. Fans didn’t give themselves a present by behaving like this because it may be harder in the future to convince people to set that kind of private event again.

Tokio Hotel will be on tour in France in march during their big european tour, but no more in small venues, only in Zenith and a Bercy. They can’t do less anymore. And that leads to a certitude : Tokio Hotel phenomenon is not history, it’s always here and now.

While there’s little doubt that screaming teenage girls will still stand front and center at the foot of the stage, the band has set its sights on the “First Person Shooter” male demographic this time around, baiting the hook with enough generic sci-fi imagery and Depeche Mode-meets-Fall Out Boy melodrama to fuel one hundred angry bike rides home from work.

That’s not to say that the results aren’t effective, as Humanoid, though predictable and generally harmless, is immaculately crafted, thanks in part to longtime producer David Jost and a handful of A-list engineers. Between the Auto-Tune heavy first single “Automatic” and the Arcade Fire-lite stadium anthem “World Behind My Wall,” one can almost envision the elaborate stage show being planned for the next MTV video music awards, and while Tokio Hotel may not have matured enough to hang with the big boys yet, they are most certainly the dark horses pacing up and down the Disney fringe.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4ZS6AMizmI

Right now Tokio Hotel is doing the rock/emo vibe better than anyone else, and they’ve become incredibly popular world-wide as a result, with legions of loyal fans attending every show or autograph signing. On Scream, Tokio Hotel shows how polished they are for being young musicians. They pump up the crowd with energetic, rhythm heavy songs like Ready, Set, Go, get a little darker in Scream, and the rock ballads Monsoon and Rescue Me, and put the emo into emotion with Sacred and Forgotten Children. Cheers to the boys and especially Bill who worked very hard to pull off singing his strong vocals in English. Though they’ve received a lot of hype world-wide, the boys of Tokio Hotel proved that they rock, no matter what country you might live in.

Fun Facts

* Scream contains English versions of songs from previous albums Schrei and Zimmer 483
* The US version of Scream has two bonus tracks, Black and Raise Your Hands, plus the world premiere of 1000 Oceans.
* In Germany, Tokio Hotel have released four number one singles and two number one albums.
* By Your Side appears in the 2008 thriller Prom Night.

Hot Tracks
Ready, Set, Go, Monsoon, Scream, Rescue Me.

And theres a little poll at the bottom where you can pick your favorite band member. It looks like Georg is in need of some love xD He’s at 0%

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3.5 out of FOUR stars!

No, I don’t know who scanned it. So, if it was you, you can post in the comments. It was sent to me.

The band’s hour-long set was culled primarily from Scream. Since the album already saw release in Europe, the songs weren’t new to the crowd. The band kicked off the show with a fast and furious rendition of “Ready, Set, Go!” The flurry of screams nearly drowned out singer Bill Kaulitz’s vocals, but the band still sounded tight. Bill’s twin brother Tom took up a Nikki Sixx-style pose shredding his licks right through “Don’t Jump” and “Scream.” He exuded a cock-rock cool, as he winked at various girls in the audience.

If the phenomenal Black Tide are the new Guns N’ Roses, then Tokio Hotel are definitely the new Bon Jovi. As a frontman, Bill knows how to play to his crowd. Right before “Don’t Jump,” he proclaimed, “It’s so good to be here in Los Angeles! We’ve come all the way from Germany to be with you here, tonight!” Cuts like “Breakaway” and “By Your Side” elicited the biggest cheers, and the band were gods to those teen girls.

At certain parts of the set, it was interesting to see all of these kids holding up cell phones instead of the lighters their parents probably held up during Poison shows in the ’80s. What 13-year-old needed a cell phone in rock’s heyday? It just goes to show how much has changed. Right before the band went on, two girls were talking about Tokio Hotel. “They’re so great to their fans; they love us!,” exclaimed a girl that couldn’t have been older than 14. She continued, “Because the show’s supposed to be out around 10, my mom said I could go.” At least it wasn’t a school night.

—Rick Florino
02.19.08
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