5.10.2010
Tokio Hotel visited China(Taiwan) for the first time. Fashion guru Karl Lagerfeld praised (Bill) as a “New Fashion icon
Translation by Yipui Dawson@THCN - Pls credit!
Tokio Hotel visited China(Taiwan) for the first time. Fashion guru Karl Lagerfeld praised (Bill) as a “New Fashion icon”.
Fashion guru Karl Lagerfeld praised (Bill) as a “New Fashion icon”.
Tokio Hotel visited China(Taiwan) for the first time.
The twin members – singer with a black feather and visual rock look, guitarist with a hip hop look – amazed the whole audience.
Taiwanese little twins offer a local product “Twins”, (causing a)non-stop laughter.
The first visit to China(Taiwan) of Tokio Hotel has already make a furor at the airport. They also fascinated the Taiwanese media at the press conference! Tokio Hotel greeted the media in Chinese by saying ‘ni hao’. The record company invited four lovely children, wearing T-shirts printed with 「東」、「京」、「飯」、「店」(which is the Chinese translation of Tokio Hotel) respectively, to give special gifts (to the four guys), including a Taiwanese snack called “Twins” and a Taiwanese flower printed sheet. That made the four members very happy. Taiwan fans also recorded a fans video (for the guys) which touched Tokio Hotel a lot. The word “Hotel” of the name of Tokio Hotel comes form the fact that they often have to stay at the hotels like their homes in everywhere during the concert tour. At the press conference, they sit on a bed to conduct the interview, which made an interesting scene.
Average age of 20, 5 million sales in Europe, Tokio Hotel’s new album Humanoid has made a nearly 10 thousand sales in Taiwan. Taiwan fans launched a fans function on the internet. Every fan has to sing a sentence of Tokio Hotel’s song, and finally they were montaged into a complete fans song..
The video tape was played at the press conference which was specially arranged by the record company. The singer Bill was so touched and said “We travelled from a far place to here and haven’t expected that we would have so many fans on the other side of the world. That’s really nice.” General manager of Universal Music Taiwan awarded a gold record inlaid with Chinese dragon and phoenix (to them). The members said impressively “It may be the most beautiful gold record which we’ve received so far.” After the press conference, the members demanded to package the gold record up and brought it to Germany.
The four members started to form the band and make music since they were 7 . They started getting along with each other when they were young. The record company specially invited 4 lovely children, representing the record company and the fans, to give two little Taiwanese gifts to them. First, a pair of cute twin sisters brought a Taiwanese snack called “Twins”. The four members all said it was tasty. The other two kids brought a Taiwanese flower-printed sheet. Tokio Hotel suddenly checked in and became “Taiwan Hotel”.
The gorgeous singer Bill, was appointed by Fashion guru Karl Lagerfeld to cooperate with, praised as a “Fashion icon” last year and was invited to catwalk in a DSquared2 fashion show. He showed up with a look of black feather outfit plus Mohawks plus smokey eyes, which fascinated the whole audience. When he was asked whether he would like to enter the fashion industry and create his own brand, he answered “This is one of my dreams. I hope that it will come true one day,”. But his hip hop elder brother Tom teased him by saying “I don’t wanna buy his clothes, and he’s so busy so it’s impossible for him to have time (to do these things). Also became a great act in music industry by an exaggerating look, Bill admired Lady Gaga who can show up with her unique style bravely. He said “Everyone has his/her own style. As long as you can wear it comfortably and show your personal charm, it can be fashion.” Tom added “Just like us, each of us has different style. If everybody dresses up like Bill, won’t it be boring?”
Tokio Hotel entered the music industry when they were still very young. They’ve already got used to the flash light. Did they feel strange when came to Asia and face different media or afraid of being asked by some challenging questions? Tom said coolly “We have engaged (in the music field )for so long. Generally we’ve been asked by lots of different questions. We don’t refuse to answer any questions but you can’t bother what we’re going to answer,”. Tokio Hotel couldn’t help that their old schoolmates, teachers used to “help” them to answer the media’s questions. They also have lots of experience of their ex-girlfriends using them to sensationalize news. Until now, except for bassist Georg who has got his very first girlfriend in his life, the other 3 members are still single. Of course, it’s the media and fans choice to judge.
Tokio Hotel visited China(Taiwan) for the first time. Fashion guru Karl Lagerfeld praised (Bill) as a “New Fashion icon”.
Fashion guru Karl Lagerfeld praised (Bill) as a “New Fashion icon”.
Tokio Hotel visited China(Taiwan) for the first time.
The twin members – singer with a black feather and visual rock look, guitarist with a hip hop look – amazed the whole audience.
Taiwanese little twins offer a local product “Twins”, (causing a)non-stop laughter.
The first visit to China(Taiwan) of Tokio Hotel has already make a furor at the airport. They also fascinated the Taiwanese media at the press conference! Tokio Hotel greeted the media in Chinese by saying ‘ni hao’. The record company invited four lovely children, wearing T-shirts printed with 「東」、「京」、「飯」、「店」(which is the Chinese translation of Tokio Hotel) respectively, to give special gifts (to the four guys), including a Taiwanese snack called “Twins” and a Taiwanese flower printed sheet. That made the four members very happy. Taiwan fans also recorded a fans video (for the guys) which touched Tokio Hotel a lot. The word “Hotel” of the name of Tokio Hotel comes form the fact that they often have to stay at the hotels like their homes in everywhere during the concert tour. At the press conference, they sit on a bed to conduct the interview, which made an interesting scene.
Average age of 20, 5 million sales in Europe, Tokio Hotel’s new album Humanoid has made a nearly 10 thousand sales in Taiwan. Taiwan fans launched a fans function on the internet. Every fan has to sing a sentence of Tokio Hotel’s song, and finally they were montaged into a complete fans song..
The video tape was played at the press conference which was specially arranged by the record company. The singer Bill was so touched and said “We travelled from a far place to here and haven’t expected that we would have so many fans on the other side of the world. That’s really nice.” General manager of Universal Music Taiwan awarded a gold record inlaid with Chinese dragon and phoenix (to them). The members said impressively “It may be the most beautiful gold record which we’ve received so far.” After the press conference, the members demanded to package the gold record up and brought it to Germany.
The four members started to form the band and make music since they were 7 . They started getting along with each other when they were young. The record company specially invited 4 lovely children, representing the record company and the fans, to give two little Taiwanese gifts to them. First, a pair of cute twin sisters brought a Taiwanese snack called “Twins”. The four members all said it was tasty. The other two kids brought a Taiwanese flower-printed sheet. Tokio Hotel suddenly checked in and became “Taiwan Hotel”.
The gorgeous singer Bill, was appointed by Fashion guru Karl Lagerfeld to cooperate with, praised as a “Fashion icon” last year and was invited to catwalk in a DSquared2 fashion show. He showed up with a look of black feather outfit plus Mohawks plus smokey eyes, which fascinated the whole audience. When he was asked whether he would like to enter the fashion industry and create his own brand, he answered “This is one of my dreams. I hope that it will come true one day,”. But his hip hop elder brother Tom teased him by saying “I don’t wanna buy his clothes, and he’s so busy so it’s impossible for him to have time (to do these things). Also became a great act in music industry by an exaggerating look, Bill admired Lady Gaga who can show up with her unique style bravely. He said “Everyone has his/her own style. As long as you can wear it comfortably and show your personal charm, it can be fashion.” Tom added “Just like us, each of us has different style. If everybody dresses up like Bill, won’t it be boring?”
Tokio Hotel entered the music industry when they were still very young. They’ve already got used to the flash light. Did they feel strange when came to Asia and face different media or afraid of being asked by some challenging questions? Tom said coolly “We have engaged (in the music field )for so long. Generally we’ve been asked by lots of different questions. We don’t refuse to answer any questions but you can’t bother what we’re going to answer,”. Tokio Hotel couldn’t help that their old schoolmates, teachers used to “help” them to answer the media’s questions. They also have lots of experience of their ex-girlfriends using them to sensationalize news. Until now, except for bassist Georg who has got his very first girlfriend in his life, the other 3 members are still single. Of course, it’s the media and fans choice to judge.
5.09.2010
HRS: Lukas Lindemann Rosinski makes Bill Kaulitz an artificial character
HRS: Lukas Lindemann Rosinski makes Bill Kaulitz an artificial character
LLR stages Bill Kaulitz the way, he likes to see himself the most.
As beautiful as an Angel he lies there. A little waxy, a little artificial. Exactly how Bill Kaulitz, the highly acclaimed and idolized Frontman of the now slowly growing-up Teen-Band Tokio Hotel, likes to manifest himself. The almost black and white Optics appear elegant and accentuate the slightly morbid atmosphere, that sticks to the situation – drop-dead gorgeous the young man lies there. And with his attitude he reminds us of the big fish in the music industry.
This picture holds so much strenght, that it doesn’t let the almost stifling colorful Text, which occupies almost the whole picture, crush it. Because when it comes to the color and the size of the font, the company wan’t stingy. What a shame, the huge Headline takes the calm as well as the artificial and the fancy of the picture away and prevents the viewer of the picture of losing himself in Bill Kaulitz’ beautiful face. That’s how fast art turns into an advertisement again. But still with a beautiful and an outstanding approach.
Source: wuv.de
Translation by: Icey @ LoveTH-Music.com – Pls credit! (:<
5.08.2010
Bravo Otto Awards 2010: BEST FOREIGN BAND !
Tokio Hotel is nominated at the Hungarian Bravo Otto Awards in the best foreign band category!
Vote Here : http://otto.bravo.hu/szavazas
You can vote until 1st June and the voting is unlimited!!! But you have vote in each category!!
And at the end of the voting you have to add:
- Név: (kötelező)/ Name: (obligatory)
- E-mail (obligatory)
- Lakcím/Address (not obligatory)
- Telefonszám/Phone number (not obligatory)
After that you take a check into the two little boxes and after that click to the "MEHET!"/ (Go!)
Vote Here : http://otto.bravo.hu/szavazas
You can vote until 1st June and the voting is unlimited!!! But you have vote in each category!!
And at the end of the voting you have to add:
- Név: (kötelező)/ Name: (obligatory)
- E-mail (obligatory)
- Lakcím/Address (not obligatory)
- Telefonszám/Phone number (not obligatory)
After that you take a check into the two little boxes and after that click to the "MEHET!"/ (Go!)
5.06.2010
New Straits Times, Malaysia
No privacy for Tokio Hotel
2010/05/06
SYIDA LIZTA AMIRUL IHSAN , BIBI NURSHUHADA RAMLI
slizta@nstp.com.my, bibiramli@nst.com.my
It’s all about the band. Members of German group Tokio Hotel tell
SYIDA LIZTA AMIRUL IHSAN it’s impossible to have a private life
“SO what’s your favourite hotel in Tokyo?” The current hottest German band Tokio Hotel was asked this at a roundtable interview.
“Actually, we haven’t been to Tokyo,” says its lead singer Bill Kaulitz. “But we hope to go there this year.” The band, made up of Bill, his identical twin Tom (guitar), bassist Georg Listing and drummer Gustav Schafer, would surely fit right in with the stylish young crowd in the Japanese capital.
Here’s why. Tall and skinny, Bill wears his signature spiky hair (“I use a can of hair spray a day”) with skinny jeans and silver jewellery. Tom’s hip-hop look is complemented with dreadlocks and Georg’s mane looks like he just came out of the hair salon after a re-bonding session.
And don’t forget Bill’s liberal use of dark eyeliner and eye shadow that makes Adam Lambert look as conventional as Kris Allen.
“We are on tour 340 days a year and we don’t have much time for anything else,” says Tom. “In fact we’ve given up everything. Now, it’s all about the band.” Tokio Hotel has gone 10 times platinum, scored four No. 1 singles and sold out arenas and stadiums across Europe recently. With the massive popularity the band is enjoying, the members say it’s impossible to keep their lives private.
“We tried to do that but as we became more popular, it became harder,” says Bill. “Thank God we don’t have private lives,” his brother interjects.
Tokio Hotel was in town for a showcase at Park Avenue in 1Utama, Petaling Jaya, its first visit to the country. Its latest album, Humanoid, with hits such as Automatic and World Behind My Wall, was recorded in German and English.
“Humanoid is like the soundtrack of our lives. There are more instruments like keyboards to add to the original Tokio Hotel sound. The stories in the songs may or may not be ours but we sing of real happenings,” says Bill. The song Automatic, for example, talks about automated life — doors opening and closing, shifting gears in a car, a camera lens — but the mechanical qualities should not be part of human emotions like love, which has to be spontaneous and genuine.
“We’ve always felt like humanoids, like aliens on the fourth planet,” reveals Bill, saying that as kids, he and Tom were different from their classmates. They wanted to break out and did it with music, fooling around with guitars at age seven.
Eight years later, their first single was released and their 2008 album, Scream, which had some of their favourite tunes from their two German albums recorded in English, introduced the band to a legion of English-speaking fans.
“The most challenging process was recording in two languages. Our English wasn’t that good to start with and I wanted to sound like a native speaker, not like a German trying very hard to speak English. But it became much easier with Humanoid,” says Bill.
So do the brothers fight? “Yes, we do. All the time!” came the spontaneous answer. And suddenly one cannot help but think of Noel and Liam Gallagher of British outfit Oasis, who were so at loggerheads that it broke the band.
“No, that will never happen with us. We are identical twins and we have had our biggest fights and survived.” Spectacular showcase TOKIO Hotel fans, mostly in their teens, thronged 1Utama’s Central Park Avenue, Petaling Jaya. The rain did not put a damper on the concert. There were a few fans from Hong Kong, Singapore and Thailand at the free-stand concert. Before the group came on, a boy had fainted from the pushing and shoving in the crowd, which was packed like sardines. Several could not stand too long and asked for seats.
Hitz.fm deejay Jin warmed up the crowd before introducing the first opening act, rock indie group Pop Shuvit, who performed the songs Oh! Shizuka, Jump and Mara Bahaya. Then there was award-winning band Bunkface with Situasi, Extravaganza, Revolusi, Prom Queen and lastly, the Telekom Malaysia theme song Melalui Tingkapku (Through My Window). After Bunkface came a long wait before Tokio Hotel came on. While the production crew set up the musical instruments, the audience was entertained by a deejay who played several hit songs to which the crowd sang along to. But after one song too many, everyone’s patience was wearing thin. A loud “boo” was heard, followed by two more songs.
The wait for Tokio Hotel was totally worth it because the band gave a spectacular performance with Noise, Human Connect To Human, Pain Of Love and a crowd favourite, World Behind My Wall.
Many rock band vocalists insert a certain raw strain in their voices to emphasise the rock sound. Bill Kaulitz’s tone, however, was devoid of that, even for the high notes, and that always wins the fans’ hearts. The band continued to rock non-stop. The crowd sang along while jumping in the spot.
Tokio Hotel also performed Hey You, Ready Set Go, Dogs Unleashed, Screamin’ and another crowd favourite, Automatic. After the “last” song for the night, Forever Now, the band performed its German song Durch Den Monsun (Through The Monsoon) for an encore. The audience was more familiar with the English version of the song and could only cheer along.
Tokio Hotel promised to come back and hopefully, it would be at a bigger and more comfortable venue.
Source
2010/05/06
SYIDA LIZTA AMIRUL IHSAN , BIBI NURSHUHADA RAMLI
slizta@nstp.com.my, bibiramli@nst.com.my
It’s all about the band. Members of German group Tokio Hotel tell
SYIDA LIZTA AMIRUL IHSAN it’s impossible to have a private life
“SO what’s your favourite hotel in Tokyo?” The current hottest German band Tokio Hotel was asked this at a roundtable interview.
“Actually, we haven’t been to Tokyo,” says its lead singer Bill Kaulitz. “But we hope to go there this year.” The band, made up of Bill, his identical twin Tom (guitar), bassist Georg Listing and drummer Gustav Schafer, would surely fit right in with the stylish young crowd in the Japanese capital.
Here’s why. Tall and skinny, Bill wears his signature spiky hair (“I use a can of hair spray a day”) with skinny jeans and silver jewellery. Tom’s hip-hop look is complemented with dreadlocks and Georg’s mane looks like he just came out of the hair salon after a re-bonding session.
And don’t forget Bill’s liberal use of dark eyeliner and eye shadow that makes Adam Lambert look as conventional as Kris Allen.
“We are on tour 340 days a year and we don’t have much time for anything else,” says Tom. “In fact we’ve given up everything. Now, it’s all about the band.” Tokio Hotel has gone 10 times platinum, scored four No. 1 singles and sold out arenas and stadiums across Europe recently. With the massive popularity the band is enjoying, the members say it’s impossible to keep their lives private.
“We tried to do that but as we became more popular, it became harder,” says Bill. “Thank God we don’t have private lives,” his brother interjects.
Tokio Hotel was in town for a showcase at Park Avenue in 1Utama, Petaling Jaya, its first visit to the country. Its latest album, Humanoid, with hits such as Automatic and World Behind My Wall, was recorded in German and English.
“Humanoid is like the soundtrack of our lives. There are more instruments like keyboards to add to the original Tokio Hotel sound. The stories in the songs may or may not be ours but we sing of real happenings,” says Bill. The song Automatic, for example, talks about automated life — doors opening and closing, shifting gears in a car, a camera lens — but the mechanical qualities should not be part of human emotions like love, which has to be spontaneous and genuine.
“We’ve always felt like humanoids, like aliens on the fourth planet,” reveals Bill, saying that as kids, he and Tom were different from their classmates. They wanted to break out and did it with music, fooling around with guitars at age seven.
Eight years later, their first single was released and their 2008 album, Scream, which had some of their favourite tunes from their two German albums recorded in English, introduced the band to a legion of English-speaking fans.
“The most challenging process was recording in two languages. Our English wasn’t that good to start with and I wanted to sound like a native speaker, not like a German trying very hard to speak English. But it became much easier with Humanoid,” says Bill.
So do the brothers fight? “Yes, we do. All the time!” came the spontaneous answer. And suddenly one cannot help but think of Noel and Liam Gallagher of British outfit Oasis, who were so at loggerheads that it broke the band.
“No, that will never happen with us. We are identical twins and we have had our biggest fights and survived.” Spectacular showcase TOKIO Hotel fans, mostly in their teens, thronged 1Utama’s Central Park Avenue, Petaling Jaya. The rain did not put a damper on the concert. There were a few fans from Hong Kong, Singapore and Thailand at the free-stand concert. Before the group came on, a boy had fainted from the pushing and shoving in the crowd, which was packed like sardines. Several could not stand too long and asked for seats.
Hitz.fm deejay Jin warmed up the crowd before introducing the first opening act, rock indie group Pop Shuvit, who performed the songs Oh! Shizuka, Jump and Mara Bahaya. Then there was award-winning band Bunkface with Situasi, Extravaganza, Revolusi, Prom Queen and lastly, the Telekom Malaysia theme song Melalui Tingkapku (Through My Window). After Bunkface came a long wait before Tokio Hotel came on. While the production crew set up the musical instruments, the audience was entertained by a deejay who played several hit songs to which the crowd sang along to. But after one song too many, everyone’s patience was wearing thin. A loud “boo” was heard, followed by two more songs.
The wait for Tokio Hotel was totally worth it because the band gave a spectacular performance with Noise, Human Connect To Human, Pain Of Love and a crowd favourite, World Behind My Wall.
Many rock band vocalists insert a certain raw strain in their voices to emphasise the rock sound. Bill Kaulitz’s tone, however, was devoid of that, even for the high notes, and that always wins the fans’ hearts. The band continued to rock non-stop. The crowd sang along while jumping in the spot.
Tokio Hotel also performed Hey You, Ready Set Go, Dogs Unleashed, Screamin’ and another crowd favourite, Automatic. After the “last” song for the night, Forever Now, the band performed its German song Durch Den Monsun (Through The Monsoon) for an encore. The audience was more familiar with the English version of the song and could only cheer along.
Tokio Hotel promised to come back and hopefully, it would be at a bigger and more comfortable venue.
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