6.07.2010
Kids' Choice Awards 2010 (Mexico)
Nominate "World behind my wall" as "Song Of the Year".!!
Steps to vote
- This is the link: http://www.mundonick.com/concursos/m...questid=140883
- You have to vote every category,and click on "Continuar" to go on.Until you see "Canción del año" (=Song of the Year),now you can choose "World Behind My Wall".
- To validate your vote you have to insert your Name(Nombre Completo),City(Ciudad),Age(Edad) and Email address at the end of categories.
Steps to vote
- This is the link: http://www.mundonick.com/concursos/m...questid=140883
- You have to vote every category,and click on "Continuar" to go on.Until you see "Canción del año" (=Song of the Year),now you can choose "World Behind My Wall".
- To validate your vote you have to insert your Name(Nombre Completo),City(Ciudad),Age(Edad) and Email address at the end of categories.
6.06.2010
Brilliant Stages Tour Europe with Tokio Hotel -April 23-
Unleashing their third studio album, Humanoid, Germany’s biggest rock band, Tokio Hotel, is currently embarked on a mammoth tour visiting over 30 cities throughout Europe. Touring with them, under the guidance of Production Manager, Phil Broad, is a set built by UK-based Brilliant Stages.
As Germany’s most successful band ever, with credits including Germany’s first ever Moonman, MTV VMA for Best New Artist and EMAs in both 2008 and 2009, the Welcome to the Humanoid City tour is the biggest show this multi-award winning band have ever produced.
Brilliant Stages took the set designed by Misty Buckley and turned it into a full on touring show.
“This was the first time I have worked directly with Brilliant Stages and they were absolutely amazing,” says Buckley. “Tony Bowern and Mel Welch were so accommodating and understanding of what I was trying to achieve. They were happy to spend time discussing my design and were excellent on delivery. I was also lucky to have Malcolm Birkett to realise my design and help make the transition from design to stage a comfortable one.
“The process of taking my design from sketches to model construction was a very collaborative process in which I could take advantage of Brilliant Stages super-technological abilities. Brilliant Stages meanwhile were very open to any changes that occurred during development and, since Mel Welch and I both speak a common CAD language, we were able to communicate and develop the ideas on this level.
“Brilliant Stages give you real respect as a designer and nothing is ever a problem for them.”
The result is a set that lives up to Tokio Hotel’s well-deserved reputation for delivering spectacular live shows.
The centre piece is a giant, 6m high, metallic sphere, or Pod, with a crenellated split around its equator. The Pod breaks open around this split to allow the top half to elevate above the stage and reveal the drum riser. The top and bottom halves of the Pod are each formed from 16 faceted panels. Each panel is covered in an aluminium Expamet mesh laid onto a profiled backing, with a slotted detail which allows Lighting /Video Designer, Dave Maxwell, to back light with stunning results.
Seven of the lower panels are hydraulically operated to open out like the segments of an orange, revealing the band as they make their entrance onto stage. In the centre of the Pod is the drummer on the drum riser which can be raised 3.2m into the air by a pair of scissor lifts to the mid point of the Pod. At this level the drum riser meets an upstage semi circular walkway, flanked by safety barriers, from which, by means of two flown bridges, the performers can access upstage ego platforms to stage left and right. The bridges were also constructed to take the extra weight of a number of moving lights.
The Pod presides over a main stage measuring 23m x 8.5m which incorporates custom built tech bunkers complete with the, now-standard, Brilliant Stages’ louvre viewing grills giving sight lines onto stage. Set within the main stage are a lift at centre stage and a piano lift on stage left, while the downstage edge is finished with Neaco grill decks. Incorporated into the grills are pyrotechnics from ffp Spezialeffekte & Veranstaltungslogistik GmbH which sit abreast of a set of central stairs leading down to a catwalk stretching 7m into the audience.
Finally, the set was given an urban Gothic scenic finish by Perry Scenic.
“I found the entire design-to-construction process very straightforward,” says Phil Broad. “The team at Brilliant made every effort to ensure we had exactly what we wanted, and were very amenable to all the last minute small changes that always occur. In the end the set looked exactly like the model. As always it was a pleasure to work with them.”
“I found the whole experience really fluid,” adds Buckley. “Brilliant Stages were very supportive to the creative concept, which is exactly what you want. As a designer one is continually working towards bigger dreams and my experience with Brilliant Stages has inspired me towards better and better things. I’ve been really lucky to work with them and would do so again at the drop of a hat!”
Photos: Misty Buckley
Source:
http://www.techietalk.co.uk/news/brilliant-stages-tour-europe-tokio-hotel/
As Germany’s most successful band ever, with credits including Germany’s first ever Moonman, MTV VMA for Best New Artist and EMAs in both 2008 and 2009, the Welcome to the Humanoid City tour is the biggest show this multi-award winning band have ever produced.
Brilliant Stages took the set designed by Misty Buckley and turned it into a full on touring show.
“This was the first time I have worked directly with Brilliant Stages and they were absolutely amazing,” says Buckley. “Tony Bowern and Mel Welch were so accommodating and understanding of what I was trying to achieve. They were happy to spend time discussing my design and were excellent on delivery. I was also lucky to have Malcolm Birkett to realise my design and help make the transition from design to stage a comfortable one.
“The process of taking my design from sketches to model construction was a very collaborative process in which I could take advantage of Brilliant Stages super-technological abilities. Brilliant Stages meanwhile were very open to any changes that occurred during development and, since Mel Welch and I both speak a common CAD language, we were able to communicate and develop the ideas on this level.
“Brilliant Stages give you real respect as a designer and nothing is ever a problem for them.”
The result is a set that lives up to Tokio Hotel’s well-deserved reputation for delivering spectacular live shows.
The centre piece is a giant, 6m high, metallic sphere, or Pod, with a crenellated split around its equator. The Pod breaks open around this split to allow the top half to elevate above the stage and reveal the drum riser. The top and bottom halves of the Pod are each formed from 16 faceted panels. Each panel is covered in an aluminium Expamet mesh laid onto a profiled backing, with a slotted detail which allows Lighting /Video Designer, Dave Maxwell, to back light with stunning results.
Seven of the lower panels are hydraulically operated to open out like the segments of an orange, revealing the band as they make their entrance onto stage. In the centre of the Pod is the drummer on the drum riser which can be raised 3.2m into the air by a pair of scissor lifts to the mid point of the Pod. At this level the drum riser meets an upstage semi circular walkway, flanked by safety barriers, from which, by means of two flown bridges, the performers can access upstage ego platforms to stage left and right. The bridges were also constructed to take the extra weight of a number of moving lights.
The Pod presides over a main stage measuring 23m x 8.5m which incorporates custom built tech bunkers complete with the, now-standard, Brilliant Stages’ louvre viewing grills giving sight lines onto stage. Set within the main stage are a lift at centre stage and a piano lift on stage left, while the downstage edge is finished with Neaco grill decks. Incorporated into the grills are pyrotechnics from ffp Spezialeffekte & Veranstaltungslogistik GmbH which sit abreast of a set of central stairs leading down to a catwalk stretching 7m into the audience.
Finally, the set was given an urban Gothic scenic finish by Perry Scenic.
“I found the entire design-to-construction process very straightforward,” says Phil Broad. “The team at Brilliant made every effort to ensure we had exactly what we wanted, and were very amenable to all the last minute small changes that always occur. In the end the set looked exactly like the model. As always it was a pleasure to work with them.”
“I found the whole experience really fluid,” adds Buckley. “Brilliant Stages were very supportive to the creative concept, which is exactly what you want. As a designer one is continually working towards bigger dreams and my experience with Brilliant Stages has inspired me towards better and better things. I’ve been really lucky to work with them and would do so again at the drop of a hat!”
Photos: Misty Buckley
Source:
http://www.techietalk.co.uk/news/brilliant-stages-tour-europe-tokio-hotel/
6.05.2010
Play #146 (TW) - Humanoid: Tokio Hotel
Scans - by theresa/THCN
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Article - Translation by xxcheukxx
Humanoid – Tokio Hotel
Although they were only 16 years old on average when debuted, they had already won an Echo Award for Best New Comer, which is the highest honour of the German music circle, in a short period of time. Tokio Hotel is formed by Visual Vocal Bill Kaulitz, Hip Hop Guitarist Tom who has dreadlocks and is the elder twin, Bassist Georg Listing and drummer Gustav Schaefer. Since they debuted, they have got 3 NO.1 albums, 4 NO.1 singles, 10 platinum records and 40 different awards from various countries including “Best New Comer” of VMA 2008 and “Best Band” of the European Music Awards 2009. They are very popular, a hundred percent! This is their first time to visit Taiwan, they will occupy your vision and raid your hearing.
__________________Article - Translation by xxcheukxx
Humanoid – Tokio Hotel
Although they were only 16 years old on average when debuted, they had already won an Echo Award for Best New Comer, which is the highest honour of the German music circle, in a short period of time. Tokio Hotel is formed by Visual Vocal Bill Kaulitz, Hip Hop Guitarist Tom who has dreadlocks and is the elder twin, Bassist Georg Listing and drummer Gustav Schaefer. Since they debuted, they have got 3 NO.1 albums, 4 NO.1 singles, 10 platinum records and 40 different awards from various countries including “Best New Comer” of VMA 2008 and “Best Band” of the European Music Awards 2009. They are very popular, a hundred percent! This is their first time to visit Taiwan, they will occupy your vision and raid your hearing.
P: Did you google “Taiwan” before you came?
TH: Not really (laughter). This is the first time of us to visit Asia and we think this place is very mysterious. We come from another part of the world so we felt really warm when we knew that we had so many fans here.P: Have you ever listened to any music of Taiwan singers?
TH: No, we still haven’t had this chance but we do want to know more about the kinds of music that Taiwan people are listening to.P: What is the first Chinese word that you learnt?
TH: Our band name “Tokio Hotel”. On the press conference, there were children who wore shirts with our band name on them and the host told us about it. Ha, those children are really cute! (the editor: those 4 children, good job! If anyone has photos of them please provide them to us.)P: What is your first impression of Taiwan fans?
TH: We don’t think they are crazy, but they are beautiful (Woahh). We saw a lot of fans welcoming us at the airport and they had made some posters with German on them. There were also fans who drew portraits of us which was very touching. Taiwan fans always follow the rules and are polite, we think that they are one of the best group of our fans. (Is it true?)P: Why are you so obsessed with Tokyo?
TH: We came from a small town of Germany so we always want to see the outside world. We knew there was a city called “Tokyo” when we were small and it sounded like it had many amazing stuff there. Although we still haven’t been to Tokyo, we hope we can have this chance soon so we can perform for our fans there.P: Please list your favourite top 5 hotels.
TH: The ones that we have deepest impressions are the hotels in Madrid, Moscow, Paris and Berlin. Of course the Taiwan hotel that we are staying in is great too! (editor: graceful answer.)P: When did you start to be vegetarians?
TH: We can’t remember, but the reason is very simple that we don’t want to kill animals. We humans should not take away animals’ lives because of our desires and nothing bad would happen even if we didn’t eat meat! (laughter)P: You have 4 dogs, Do you mind telling us their names? Could you share their photos with us? Who is responsible for taking care of them when you are on tour?
TH: Sorry we can’t tell their names as this is our little secret(laughter). Our parents are also dog lovers so they will take care of our dogs when we are not at home. We have to thank them! (laughter)P: Have you ever think of having other jobs besides singers and rock stars? Such as a professional make up artist?
TH: Frankly I have never thought about it because we were a band when we were small and it feels like we are always doing things related to music. I never think of others job like policeman or fireman, music is the most important thing to us.P: Lastly, can you use the songs in your new album <> to describe yourselves?
TH: It is very hard to use the songs to describe our looks or feelings because every song is about different aspect and they are like our kids. I don’t have a favourite one but if I must choose one, I will choose “Automatic” because this song tells about the advanced technologies and their impacts on human relationships. 6.04.2010
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