Tokio Hotel в роли диджеев на Radio Energy в Гамбурге (20.02.10) Билл: Какая красивая песня. Это первый сингл с нового альбома, диск получился просто супер. Всем рекомендую, очень классная группа. Кстати, тур у них тур в то же время, что и у нас… И прям злость берет, потому что, естественно, хотелось бы сходить на концерт 30 Seconds to Mars… Том: Особенно потому, что билеты у них не так хорошо продаются, из-за того, что у нас тур в это же время… так что….(Билл смеется) Георг: Ну мне лично понятно, что все выбирают концерт ТН! Том: Точно, лично мне тоже! Билл: Конечно, если кто-то не знает, какой концерт выбрать, выбирайте ТН! И все-таки, в эфире "Kings and Queens"!
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Tokio Hotel will be coming to Kuala Lumpur for promotion between April 29 to May 2 whereas the showcase will be on May 1. MCA Music Inc. / Universal Music Philippines
Сегодня группа прерывает свой европейский тур, чтобы присутствовать на Radio Regenbogen Award! Билл, Том, Густав и Георг получат желанную награду в категории "Band International 2009"
After their huge success in Europe and in the US it’s time to take the four boys of Tokio Hotel seriously and not to dismiss them as a Teen-Band. ‘MISS’ interviewed the twins Bill and Tom Kaulitz and talked with them about girls, brotherly love and having success as a drug. читать дальше Doesn’t the fact of how successful you already are scare you?
Tom: It doesn’t scare us. For a german Band it’s not natural to be this sucessful. We’re more proud than scared.
When did being a celebrity disappoint you for the first time?
Bill: There are a lot of things against which we still fight in the music business. Rules, that other people want to impress on us. Or when we read the first articles about us in the newspapers, which stated things we didn’t even say. As a young person you’re overwhelmed with all of this, but we learned to cope with it.
A known tabloid printed some vacation pictures of you. Do things like that violate your privacy?
Bill: The line has been crossed to 100% when this happens! I’m still mad about this. We also try to make their – the people who were in charge of this – lifes as difficult as possible. That’s such a thing which I’ll never get used to.
What was the most absurd thing that’s ever been written about you?
Bill: From suicide in a hotel room ’til… – it’s hard to say, I think almost everything’s been written about us by now.
Bill, you once stated that you hate a daily routine. Isn’t playing in a Band by now also a routine for you?
Bill: Sure, there are some processes which are a bit boring, but there’s never a dull moment in this job. You never know how a day will end – so it’s the most multifaceted job I can think of.
In contrary to school, where you’ve been a real troublemaker. Where did you get this early self-confidence from?
Bill: We didn’t get along with the other people. We came back from school and said that we never want to go there again. Going to school was the most horrendous thing for us. We got in trouble with our teachers and constantly got transfered because of disciplinary reasons. But also our appearance didn’t make our life easier. Just: We didn’t want to pretend being someone other than who we are. That’s why we dressed how we wanted, and when living in the deepest province – you kind of feel like an alien. The self-confidence has always been there because we were together. That’s why the other kids never catched us alone to beat the crap out of us.
You experienced your first kiss with the same girl. Have you ever been jealous of the other?
Tom: You have to ask Bill this question, because I was always the first one to get the girl (laughs).
Bill: We never fought about girls.
Tom: And we never really fell in love with the same girl.
Bill: There’s no one who could seperate us, no person that could be more important than our relationship. Sure, we fight, Tom and I are both very self-confident and stubborn. Exactly because of our similar personality we often clash. No one of us wants to cave in. When we start to fight the others leave us alone and get out of the room.
You constantly interrupt each other while talking…
Bill: It’s hard for the others to intervene when Tom and I talk with each other. Our friends accustomed to talk as loudly as us and to interrupt us when we’re talking, because they simply have no other chance to get noticed by us.
You’re living together in Hamburg, so you sort of spend 24/7 together. Don’t you annoy each other?
Tom: We’re together for 24 hours a day, but also not really, because we sleep in seperate rooms. But it doesn’t annoy us. Everyone always says: Doesn’t it annoy you to spend 24/7 together and things like ‘What if one of you’ll have a girlfriend’ or ‘What will you do if one of you wants to move into an other city’. We aren’t asking those questions to ourselves, because it has always been clear to us that we’ll stay together. It’s a special bond which identical twins have. It’s hard to describe it, actually we’re one person. When I would think about moving, it would be clear for me that Bill would come with me.
Bill: We automatically start thinking for the other one.
Are you musically on the same level?
Bill: I think that both of us have a good feeling when it comes to noticing a good song, independent from our personal musical taste. We listen to different music in private; Tom listens to a lot of Hip-Hop music. There are just a few bands which we both like, for example the Stereophonics and Aerosmith.
A lot of famous Bands clam up very fast during interviews. How come that you’re so open?
Bill: Tokio Hotel has never been just a job for us. It’s our life. We’re still Bill and Tom Kaulitz when we get off the stage. We don’t just shut down our laptops and call it a day. Sure, when it comes to being open there are lines that shouldn’t be crossed, but I also want to tell people about the bad things that happened, rather than to always say that everything’s cool. I think it’s good to give the people a realistic insight into our whole career.
Tokio Hotel is one of the most successful german Bands. What is yet to come?
Tom: After our current Tour is over we want to tour through Asia – do a Japan and a latin american Tour. It’s hard to set goals, since our whole career started so suddenly. But we fought for those bits of freedom, and we’re doing our thing. We don’t need other peoples opinion. Is fame addicting?
Tom: Yes. When you’re in the public eye, like us, then there’s no way back. In a way you’re kind of addicted to it. You don’t have the option to say “Hm, maybe I don’t want to be famous anymore”.
Do you think that you’ll ever be satisfied with the things you achieved, or are you craving for even more?
Bill: Your mind doesn’t stop thinking, you start coming up with new ideas or Songs for a Video. We always try to do things better than we did the times before.
Are you still nervous before you perform?
Bill: I’m really, really nervous before concerts, that never changed. But as soon as I’m on stage this nervouseness is gone.
Is there a certain uncertainity behind the artificial character Bill Kaulitz?
Bill: I don’t think of myself as an articficial character. When you meet me privately I look the same as on the red carpet, unless I want to stay igcognito. I don’t try to look even more extreme in public. That’s just me. I would always wear the hair and the make-up like this while doing something else.
Несмотря на возникшие разногласия между Татьяной Дальской и менеджментом Tokio Hotel в Германии, у обеих сторон нашлись силы для того чтобы сесть за стол переговоров и найти способ провести столь долгожданный концерт в Москве. Большую роль в принятии такого решения сыграли многочисленные просьбы фанатов группы о возвращении их кумиров в Россию.
Для тех, кто приобрел билеты в кассах СК "Олимпийский", Concert.Ru и Ticketland, наш офис текущую неделю работает на прием заявлений о возврате денежных средств (время работы с 12 до 19 ч). Со следующей недели по билетам, приобретенным в вышеуказанных кассах начнется основной возврат денежных средств. Руководство TOPconcert завершает переговоры о кассе, в которой этот возврат будет происходить. читать дальше В Санкт-Петербурге билеты, приобретенные в Софите, также можно будет вернуть со следующей недели. Сегодня в Софит перечисляются денежные средства для выплаты компенсаций по приобретенным билетам. Объявление о начале возврата билетов в Софите последует в начале следующей недели.
German pop act Tokio Hotel continues to have problems in the old Eastern Bloc, where an alleged combination of poor ticket sales and unreliable promoters have led to shows being moved or canceled. читать дальше Having lost Russian shows in St. Petersburg (March 8) and Moscow (March 10), where the act pulled the dates for what a note on its Web site described as “a very material contractual breach and violation by the local promoter,” it’s avoided a similar mess in The Balkans by switching its March 28 show 238 miles from Zagreb to Belgrade, Serbia.
Sol Parker of William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, who booked the act’s 32 dates across 19 European countries, had reservations about the Croatian show promoted by Marijan Crnaric and kept a hold on the same date in the Serbian capital.
Parker’s reservations turned out to be justified when Crnaric failed to come up with the deposit, although local media sources report another reason for the cancellation was that he also failed to pay the deposit on the Zagreb venue.
Crnaric’s show puzzled the Croatian media from the outset as it wasn’t clear if he was promoting it himself or on behalf of a charity organisation. The cancellation caused further confusion when the show disappeared from the Zagreb Arena Web site while tickets remained on sale.
The Dnevnik.hr news service, which was apparently deluged by calls from worried fans, suspected “something fishy” was going on and said Crnaric is known for hanging on to ticket money from canceled shows.
It cited two shows from 2004 when he was unable to make refunds on Lenny Kravitz and Metallica, with the latter making fans so angry that police had to be called in to protect box office staff.
Parker won’t comment on what went wrong with the “Welcome To Humanoid City” tour in Russia because it may be the subject of legal action. But he didn’t deny stories suggesting that Tatiana Dalskaya of Top Concerts – the band’s regular promoter in the territory – had failed to come up with any deposit payments.
Dalskaya told national newswires that she did deliver her side of the contact, although she’s not responding to Pollstar questions regarding the payment of the deposits.
“To understand what happened and why I couldn’t handle the shows, one must understand [the] Russian market as it is,” she wrote to friends and colleagues, explaining that she wanted to put across her side of the story because she thought the cancellations may be the subject of gossip at ILMC.
She’d already told RIA Novosti news service that she won’t be taking legal action against the band, which left Russia without playing and headed off to Poland and Czech Republic. She also said she’d “do her best” to ensure that all ticket-holders get a refund.
The young German pop stars did their best to appease Moscow fans who won competition prizes that included meeting the band at their hotel. They also signed autographs for the crowd that gathered on the pavement outside.
Tokio Hotel reportedly attracted about 3,000 people to the Polish show at the 10,000-capacity Lodz Arena March 14, and a similar number a day later in the Czech Republic at the 15,000-capacity Tesla Arena in Prague.