Tokio Hotel just can't stop the music

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TOKIO Hotel have never been to Tokyo.

In fact, when the German rock quartet popped into Singapore three weeks ago, it was their first time visiting the region. However, they were so thrilled by the response of their fans here - and, yes, they do have fans here - they plan to return with a full show.

The band - twin brothers Bill (singer) and Tom Kaulitz (guitarist), bassist George Listing and drummer Gustav Schafer - are still tickled that they have fans halfway across the world. It's something they certainly didn't expect when they started Tokio Hotel as teenagers.

"When we started in Germany we were still in school. If someone told us five years later we'd be in Asia, I'd have said you're crazy," said Bill. "But here we are."

Still, success came at a price. "We don't have a private life any more," said Bill. "It's not possible to say, 'I want to be a superstar' and the next morning go down to the bakery. You can't just go out any more. But that's the decision you have to make."

Part of their international success stems from the fact that they've gone from just recording in German to recording in English as well.

Their new album, Humanoid - a marked departure from the hard rock sound of previous offerings, with an emphasis on electronica instead of distortion guitar - had both English and German versions released simultaneously. They previously released Scream (2007), a compilation of English versions of songs from their German releases Zimmer 483 and Schrei. Of course, detractors said they were selling out.

"The idea of the English versions was simple: We wanted everyone to have a chance to listen and understand the lyrics," said Tom. "But we started out by playing German and English songs, so it's like getting back to our roots."

Such naysayers are just the latest in a string of people the band has had to deal with since the very start. "The biggest challenge was that we were so young," said Bill, who turns 21 this year. "It was really a fight to speak to the record labels. Everyone had their idea of what we had to be, but we didn't really want to hear all that. We wanted to do our own thing."

"Everyone was thinking: They're kids, what do they know?" added Tom.

Well, these "kids" have performed at the Eiffel Tower to 500,000 people, and are taking their biggest show ever around the world. And they can't wait to bring it to Singapore. "It's the next level of our live show," said Tom. "I think it'll be good fun."

Even as the rest of the world is beginning to embrace Tokio Hotel, the band said they're already thinking of what to do next. "We want to get to the next level," said Tom. "For this album, we wanted to have this electronic sound, but maybe for the next record it's completely different."



Tokio Hotel's Humanoid is out in stores now.
http://www.todayonline.com/Entertainment/Music/EDC100527-0000062/Tokio-Hotel-just-cant-stop-the-music

@темы: interview, интервью, Tokio Hotel, Токио Отель, Токио Хотель

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Билл - Малайзия

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Интервью в Сингапуре 29.04.2010

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@темы: photo, фото, Tom Kaulitz, Том Каулитц, Georg Listing, Георг Листинг, Gustav Schafer, Густав Шефер, Bill Kaulitz, Билл Каулитц, Tokio Hotel, Токио Отель, Токио Хотель

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Стиль Тома

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Sweat Kickz 59, 90 euros

275,00 ?

@темы: style, стиль, Tom Kaulitz, Том Каулитц, Tokio Hotel, Токио Отель, Токио Хотель

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Universal Music Malaysia - Q4 - What do you like besides music

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Comet 2010 - фото HQ

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BRAVO WebTV Interview – Comet 2010

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By: Evule

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Audi's Gala-Night - Singapore 27.04.2010

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Bravo WebTV 26.05.2010 - Backstage beim Comet 2010

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Translation - Bravo Web TV - Part 1 (first 3 minutes)


Sascha: Well, then tell me what you experienced in the last weeks…

Bill: Well, we were in Asia, and uhm… yeah, we had a concert there, a small one, and we met our fans there for the first time, so to say it was the very first start..

Tom: Oh yes, that was really good.

Bill: ..that was very exciting because you fly so far and then it’s a totally different culture and totally different people, and the people can sing along though.

Tom: We had a good show.

Bill: ..yeah, we had a good show.

Tom: In Malaysia we had a real show, how long did we play? An hour or something..

Georg: Yeah..

Tom: ..and then, uhm.. then we were in Taiwan, we had a small acoustic session there. It was really good.

Sascha: What is the craziest thing which happened to you in the last time?

Bill: The craziest thing… Well, Sascha, I don’t know it!

Sascha: But was there one thing in Asia, which happened to you, where you thought “Woah, crazy!”?

Tom: We ate crazy things..

Bill: Yeah, we ate some weird stuff.. well, once we went to a Chinese restaurant for dinner with a colleague, and there we tried some desserts. Some weird stuff, which you actually don’t get here and…

Tom: We’re vegetarians, so we had been discussing the whole day with all the people there and yeah.. we ate Chinese food and tried vegetarian stuff, some vegetables and fruits, which you just know there and which are also growing just there, and I also don’t know anymore what kind of food it was, but the one or other tasted really weirdly.

Bill: So, they were really things which you don’t know here.

Woman: Did you also have diarrhea once? *laughs*

Bill: That is Georg’s special topic.

Georg: I can’t remember anymore, actually.

Tom: I can remember that something … (sorry, I didn’t get it, Tom is mumbling too much) … But he always has a bit diarrhea …

Sascha: Are you careful with the food then?

Bill: Uhm.. well, as long as it’s vegetarian, I’m really willing to try it, but of course I was a bit afraid in China, we actually weren’t there, but there you eat cats and dogs and so on as well, which is really a no-go for me. Of course I informed myself why this happens and so, and I find it really really horrible, but as long as I knew what it was and that it wasn’t an animal, we tried it, so we were really… But you know us, we’re always really usual, we always eat just pizza, pizza and pasta, and there [in Asia] it was like that, too, actually. We tried some things out…

Tom: It was just once…

Bill: In a TV-Show we also drank such a weird drink and

Georg: … tea with milk or something..

Bill: ..yeah, tea with milk

Georg: ..and such small jelly balls..

Bill: ..but it was really cool, because we had a kind of big drinking straw and the small jelly ball came through this..
Translation - Bravo Web TV - Part 2 (3:00 to 6:00 min)


Tom: Speaking of crazy things… the craziest thing which happened to us in Asia was at the arrival. As soon as you arrived you have to sign something which says that you get punished with the death penalty if you bring along drugs..

Bill: They cut your head off! *laughs* No…

Tom: No.. but kinda.. means that you have to sign something which says that if you bring drugs along with you, and you also don’t know exactly what is allowed and what’s not allowed, then they cut your head off..

Georg: You just have to bring along the wrong medicament with you, then it’s over..

Sascha: Okay.. but you didn’t have something with you, right?

Bill: No, we didn’t have drugs..

Woman: Did anyone offer you something?

Tom: Well, you stand there in Singapore and they’re very very strict, so all in all it was the cleanest city I’ve ever seen..

Bill: You barely get out there..

Tom: You’re also not allowed to spit chewing gums on streets and so on..

Bill: But I made it anyway!

Tom: Really?

Sascha: And nothing happened?

Bill: I didn’t think of it in that moment! I really didn’t think of it! Everybody told me first “Don’t do that!”, but then I was sitting in the car and…

Tom: But I’m gonna make a phone call and at the next trip…

Bill: … but Singapore was really impressing, all of us didn’t expect that, it was really the most beautiful city I’ve been to in a long time. It was really really beautiful, we had a great hotel and a really good time, so… yeah, it was really good.

Sascha: What are you planning to do in the next time?

Bill: Next we’ll go to Asia again, we’re gonna do another MTV Worldstage there, and we’ll be in China for the first time, we’ll be in a TV show there and yeah, first we’ll be in Asia again.

Tom: Besides we’re always planning. Currently we’re having a rather relaxing time, we’re just back from our tour, so to say…

Bill: And of course our Tour DVD will be released, in July, but don’t ask me about the exact date…

Tom: In summer, definitely

Bill: In summer… and the Live album… Tom and me just released the final cuts of the Live DVD, it will be really good, we recorded the concert in Milan. And it just goes on.. we want to play a tour in South America this year, and there also will be more concerts in Asia…

Woman: Do you even get around to do sports, do you have hobbies or so..?

Bill: No, but we never have been doing sports so far, well I have to say that I’m totally unathletic. I went on the treadmill for the tour, but it was unnecessary.

Georg: 2 times?

Bill: No no no, this time I did it really intensely. I have to defend myself, I really pulled it through, I was with Tom…
Tom: For two weeks…

Bill: … I was even on the treadmill in my vacation..

Tom: But Tom doesn’t go running…

Bill: I see.. no, I just wanted to get condition and… but you totally can forget that..

Woman: But doesn’t it have a bad effect when you can’t do sports that extremely..?

Tom: Well, it’s simple, of course I just look better…

Bill: Well, I never have been doing sports, so I don’t know that, but I’m living unhealthy anyway.. I smoke like a chimney and eat pizza all day long..

Tom: You smoke?!

Bill: Nah, just now and then…

Sascha (to Tom): But you do sports?

Tom: Just when I get round to do it.. I’m not a sport fetichist.

Georg: Nah, but Tom is.. he’s actually everyday at McFit’s.

@темы: interview, интервью, Tokio Hotel, Токио Отель, Токио Хотель, TH-video, ТХ-видео

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Comet 2010 - фото

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запись создана: 26.05.2010 в 18:15

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Comet 2010 - видео

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M&G Comet 2010 - скрины

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By: Evule

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Bravo #22 Германия

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Билл

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первую заменила на лучшее фото

запись создана: 23.05.2010 в 22:00

@темы: photo, фото, Bill Kaulitz, Билл Каулитц, Tokio Hotel, Токио Отель, Токио Хотель

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Пресса

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Frikvarter апрель 2010

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Билл Каулитц в стиле ...

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Сходство не слишком велико, но кажется, что это идеальная возможность для продолжения нашей серии "Билл Каулитц, как ...". На этот раз он одет, как Каули Миноуг, но я видел, как он одевался в стиле Мадонны, Рианны, Виктории Бекхэм и Леди Гага.
http://red17.com/art/513-bill_kaulitz_se_disfraza_de_kylie_minogue

@темы: Bill Kaulitz, Билл Каулитц, Tokio Hotel, Токио Отель, Токио Хотель

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Аромат Tokio Hotel

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Слухи:
Немецкая косметическая фирма разрабатывает аромат по заказу немецких рокеров.
Фирма уже делала подобную работу для близняшек Олсен. Флакончик 50 мл должен быть выпущен в ограниченном лоличестве - 1000 шт.
http://asturias-tokiohotel.blogspot.com/2010/05/nuevo-perfume-de-tokio-hotel.html

@темы: Tokio Hotel, Токио Отель, Токио Хотель

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Tokio Hotel, Andreas, Dunja and Nathalie @ Comets 2010

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Kiss: Tokio Hotel - законные наследники ?

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... Kiss будет всегда!

- Не могли бы Tokio Hotel стать преемниками?

Симмонс: у Tokio Hotel хороший имидж и действительно хорошая музыка. Мы любим их, но название абсолютно сумасшедшее для немецкой группы!
http://www.mopo.de/2010/20100526/hamburg/kultur/die_grosse_pyro_splatter_glamrock_show.html

@темы: Tokio Hotel, Токио Отель, Токио Хотель

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Comet 2010 - фановские фото

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@темы: photo, фото, Tom Kaulitz, Том Каулитц, Bill Kaulitz, Билл Каулитц, Tokio Hotel, Токио Отель, Токио Хотель