Translation: Vee/THA
Radio Carolina talked with Tokio Hotel
We talked in exclusive with the guys from Tokio Hotel, so they could tell us how they feel before their presentation in our country this upcoming 28 of November. The German band showed they were glad of their visit to Chile, noting that their fans will experience a great quality show, filling the Movistar Arena with music and colors.
1. Do you have many expectations for the concert in Chile?
"We are super glad to finally be able to offer a first concert in Chile, since we had wanted to do so for some time, but it was difficult. So now we are very happy to finally accomplish it, for which we are very anxious to be able to meet with our fans and be able to offer a great show for them."
2. What does it mean to you that your music is so successful and representative for teens?
"That is the biggest compliment that we as a band can receive and as an artist. Because that is where we notice that our music really excites them. For this, on our second album we wanted to offer music for "life", for the people and for ourselves also, as part of the youth. Since the best compliment that we have been able to get is that the public and the teens especially, identify with our music."
3. Do you have a hobby, something you like to do on your free time or on break?
"It's a very hard question to answer, it's very complicated, since Tokio Hotel is our life and we are dedicated to the band 24 hours a day and 7 days a week; we take care of everything, writing, producing...There's a lot more Tokio Hotel behind what people simply see. It requires a lot more dedication, since behind the scenes there is a ton of work, lyrics have to be written, composing, rehearse the shows, preparing, give interviews and everything that is necessary for Tokio Hotel. So we don't have much free time outside of the band. Besides that, we don't have any hobby, nor any other special talent aside from making music."
4. How is the relationship between you? The relationship you have as brothers?
"We believe all the twins in the world have an indestructible and very strong union. Our relationship is impressive, almost magical, because we dream the same and think the same. Practically we are the same person. We don't have any problem between us. Actually, it seems logical for us to spend all the time together, eat together, go out together, do everything together."
5. Where does the name for your tour "Humanoid City" come from?
"Well just as it appears, we want to represent a city with a strange species of humans. And what we wanted to reflect was a feeling that we have always had (Tom and I) of being on a planet that belonged to us, because we grew up on a very small city in Germany that for us was horrible, it bothered us and we hated it, so we always thought we were some aliens that were on the wrong planet. For that reason, the name of the album and the tour "Humanoid City."
6. We know that your concerts are always spectacular and avant-garde, can your fans in Chile expect the same for the show you'll do here?
"Unfortunately we can't take all of our production that we used in Europe, since we can not even take our own stage due to the distance. But I can tell you that it will be a great show. We will take all of our costumes, lighting, pyrotechnics, and special effects. Therefore all our fans in Chile can be sure they will experience an incredible performance and we will do all that is possible to give them a great and spectacular show."
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10.14.2010
Wolfgang Joop & Bill Kaulitz
Scan by http://tokiohotel-info.myblog.de/
Two Prodigies in Paris
A lot of wrinkles and 40 years lie between them, but spiritually they are close. It seems like the Fashion Guru Wolfgang Joop (65) found a new muse in Bill Kaulitz (21). In Paris they got closer and closer together.
Purely professional? A TV-Team accompanied the fashion addicts for a Show for the TV Channel ARTE. The longer the shooting took of said show took, the more familiar the Courturier and the very girly Tokio-Hotel-Frontman got. “We have a lot in common”, Bill was quoted later. That they shared a cigarette, giggling like little school girls, should be seen as some harmless fun.
So much affection, secured “Tokio”-Bill a place in the front row of Joop’s “Wunderkind”-Show on the day after. Nothing should be assumed – but not only Fashion Victims get a Déjà-Vu when seeing this combination of a Fashion Designer and his young appendage: One immediately thinks of Karl Lagerfeld and his muse Baptiste Giabiconi (20). “He reminds me of a youngling in ancient greece. He’s flawless.”, Lagerfeld gushed a year ago about his discovery.
Joop isn’t any less euphoric about Bill: “I’m blown away by this boy!” The Designer can even imagine the singer as a Model at his “Wunderkind”-Show: “I would have sent him on the catwalk in women’s clothing, since he’s the most beautiful girl at the Fashion Week.”
Is the Designer in love with the singing-youngling? It sure isn’t allowed to say it like this, but it seems like “Tokio”-Bill took his mind off of other things. The 65-year-old happily said: “I competed with a Message about the joy of life, and that in a year where I had to suffer because of so many losses.”
Translation by: Icey @ LoveTH-Music.com
Radio FM TU 103.7-Interview - 14.10.2010 [Mexico]
You can listen to the interview HERE! On the right side are the "Top Charts", you can find the interview on the positions #11 and #12!
Translation
We have promised and now they are on the phone - Tom and Bill!! Hi guys!
Bill & Tom: Hi!
When did you decide to come to Monterrey (Mexico)?
Bill: We had already planned it a long time ago to play a Southamerica-Tour. So we are very happy, that we could finally managed it and that we are able to make it. We are really happy to see our fans and to play an own tour there. We are so pleased, that it worked out.
Now you are a succesful band, but we have to remember that there was a time, when you played only in front of 500 people...now you play in front of thousands.
Bill: I think, this is the special thing for us as a band. We are a band since 10 years and expierenced everything together. And that's the beauty of it, we know both sides. To play in little clubs and being not succesful and the other side. And that makes us proud and we enjoy it, that we are able to go on tour on a different continent, unbelievable.
It must be very special for you guys, to play at exotic venues. Tell me, how was it like to play in front of more than 500.000 people at the Eiffel-Tower?
It must be very special for you guys, to play at exotic venues. Tell me, how was it like to play in front of more than 500.000 people at the Eiffel-Tower?
Bill: That was the most exciting point in our carrier. I guess that had been the most amount of people I ever saw. It was an incredible moment for us as a band. The scenery in front of the Eiffel-Tower. It was unique...a moment, that we as a band will always remember.
Tell me, where do you want to play and have never been before?
Tell me, where do you want to play and have never been before?
Tom: In Tokyo...and this dream will come true shortly, because in December we will fly to Tokyo.
Bill: And we would love to be the first band, to play on a different planet...somewhere. We really want to travel into the univers and play somewhere on a different planet.
This is not your first time in Latin America, you have already been in Mexico, but what are you thinking when you hear the word "Mexico"?
Bill: And we would love to be the first band, to play on a different planet...somewhere. We really want to travel into the univers and play somewhere on a different planet.
This is not your first time in Latin America, you have already been in Mexico, but what are you thinking when you hear the word "Mexico"?
Tom: I remember of course awesome signing sessions, a lot of energy and we have only good expierences so far. Until now, we have been only in Mexico-City. We had great performances and we have of course very energetic fans...super.
Tell me which part do you enjoy the most during the performance at a concert?
Bill: The best moment is, when you go on stage, see for the first time the audience, how many people are there, and have the first contact to the audience. That's the moment I am looking forward in the evening. And of course it's wonderful, if all the people...you know that all the people are singing along. That are the most beautiful moments. But if you go on stage and have the first view, that's most special.
Finally, I would like to ask you...many European bands have the dream to conquer America. Is it also your dream? Is it important for you to conquer America?
Bill: It's very difficult, especially as a German band it is unbelievable difficult to establish yourself in America...yes, to start in someway. But we had already some great concerts overthere, we have been on tour two times...but it is of course the biggest challenge for a German band to get famous in America.
So, to finish the interview... What can we expect in Monterrey on November 30th, when the lights turn off and the music of Tokio Hotel starts?
Bill: Of course we bring our show with us, that means...we are still on tour with "Welcome To Humanoid City". That's the focus. We pack a bit of our production, costumes and for sure the same setlist as it was for the European tour and we are really looking forward...I believe, it's going to be an energetic show.
Credit: http://tokiohotel-info.myblog.de/
10.13.2010
BRAVO #42/2010 [Germany]
Scan by KirscheDeluxe @ Twitter
Translation
Real Fashion-friends!
One is a rock star, the other a legendary fashion-designer. For the TV-Show "Durch die Nacht..." (on ARTE, no date yet), the two birds of paradise, Bill Kaulitz (21) and Wolfgang Joop (65) were together now in Paris. The Tokio-Hotel-Boy says: "It was beautiful." And for Joop's fashion-show at the next day Bill got a VIP-ticket for the first row...
Translation by http://tokiohotel-info.myblog.de/
10.11.2010
Tom's Blog 10.10.2010
10.10.2010
Hmm...
Wie erhöht man das Bewusstsein bzgl. Themen die eigentlich nicht "greifbar / sichtbar" sind? So funktioniert es:Watch video on Tom's blog HERE
English blog.
10.10.2010
Hmm...
How do you create awareness for something you can not really see? This works:Watch video on Tom's blog HERE
Special event for 10 Tokio Hotel fans in our education center on November 6th
Special event for 10 Tokio Hotel fans in our education center on November 6th
Author: Ninette Murk
As a thank-you for all Tokio Hotel fans, DAA is organizing a special afternoon for 10 of you in our new Education Center and DAA HQ in Deurne, a suburb of Antwerp in Belgium. On Saturday November 6th from 2 PM, we will have a small reception, where we give a tour of the building, explain more about our work, show you our new book (there will also be a possibility to buy the book there), have a drink & a snack together and answer your questions about our future plans and projects. Your visit will be filmed, so we can put the video on Youtube- this way it can be shown on ever y TH website afterwards, giving a private look at our living & working space for everybody to enjoy- also for the fans who live too far away to come to meet us.
Would you like to be present at this event? If so, send a short motivation letter in English to: ninette@designersagainstaids.com and we will select the best ones, together with our entire DAA team! We will announce the winners before October 30.
Some simple rules: you have to be interested in the subject of HIV/AIDS, able to understand (and preferably speak) English, you have to be in the possibility to travel to and from Antwerp the day of the event on your own costs (we are a charity, so we can't pay for trips or hotels) and you have to be sociable and friendly in the group of visitors, so we can all have a great day together.
Looking forward to hearing from al l of you!
Ninette & the DAA Crew: Sophie, Gianluca, Peter and Carsten
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Author: Ninette Murk
As a thank-you for all Tokio Hotel fans, DAA is organizing a special afternoon for 10 of you in our new Education Center and DAA HQ in Deurne, a suburb of Antwerp in Belgium. On Saturday November 6th from 2 PM, we will have a small reception, where we give a tour of the building, explain more about our work, show you our new book (there will also be a possibility to buy the book there), have a drink & a snack together and answer your questions about our future plans and projects. Your visit will be filmed, so we can put the video on Youtube- this way it can be shown on ever y TH website afterwards, giving a private look at our living & working space for everybody to enjoy- also for the fans who live too far away to come to meet us.
Would you like to be present at this event? If so, send a short motivation letter in English to: ninette@designersagainstaids.com and we will select the best ones, together with our entire DAA team! We will announce the winners before October 30.
Some simple rules: you have to be interested in the subject of HIV/AIDS, able to understand (and preferably speak) English, you have to be in the possibility to travel to and from Antwerp the day of the event on your own costs (we are a charity, so we can't pay for trips or hotels) and you have to be sociable and friendly in the group of visitors, so we can all have a great day together.
Looking forward to hearing from al l of you!
Ninette & the DAA Crew: Sophie, Gianluca, Peter and Carsten
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Androgyny's appeal
Androgynous characters have always received their fair share of the limelight.
NINA Porter: Yes, she may have tripped on the catwalk and all, but she’s still London’s hottest new face, or so we read somewhere. Apparently the 16-year-old kicked Emma Watson aka Hermione Granger out of the Burberry campaign not so long back. And why? Because Watson wasn’t boyish enough for this autumn’s distinctly androgynous look. Which brings us to the point of our story – androgyny and its mysterious appeal.
So hot a topic was androgyny in the 1970s, that a notable researcher in the field of gender, Sandra Bem, even created a scale for measuring it, called the Bem Sex Role Inventory. Bem’s model of gender was a straight line with masculinity at one end and femininity at the other, the two being opposing forces. For the intents and purposes of this story however, androgyny will be defined as the combination of both masculine and feminine traits – a unified gender that defies social roles and psychological attributes, and therefore finds favour with both men and women alike.
Twenty-five years ago while I was still in my teens, I remember having a huge crush on Nick Rhodes of British band Duran Duran, a man who had no qualms about donning a fuchsia suit, wearing hot pink lipstick and looking notoriously beautiful. My elder sister, meanwhile, was crazy about Boy George, a South Londoner who tied his hair in braids, wore eye make-up and had a flair for fashion. Today, teenage girls go gaga over the likes of Bill Kaulitz, a German singer who looks like a (way) prettier version of Pat Benatar.
Androgynous characters have always received their fair share of the limelight in the entertainment world. In fashion – from 1960s’ Twiggy to today’s radical Agyness Deyn and blue-eyed candy boy Ryan Taylor – the world has embraced the androgynous look, lapping up models who feature the best of both worlds. Androgyny has also made its presence very much felt in the world of gaming – think of Vega from Street Fighter or Luneth of Final Fantasy III. And why stop there?
Androgyny is even on screen, big and small. Why, even The Powerpuff Girls cartoon series featured a certain mysterious character called “Him” (with red skin, crab-like claws, pointy ears and a beard, who wore makeup and a skirt with pink tulle), while actors like Tilda Swinton and John Leguizamo seem to be blessed with the ability to play both men and women equally well. Why, even the luscious Cate Blanchett took on the role of Bob Dylan not so long ago and earned kudos for her portrayal of the famous folk singer.
In the music business androgyny seems to come and go in waves. Marc Bolan in the early 1970s possessed such an original sense of style that it hoisted the glam rock era to what it is, making him one of the most memorable British rock stars of all time. He is often cited as inspiration for today’s glam rockers.
Soon after Bolan and T-Rex, came a whole slew of rock musicians who used their androgynous allure to captivate fans of all genders, sexualities and sexual preferences. Artistes like David Bowie, David Sylvian (of the band Japan), Roxy Music’s Brian Eno, Kiss’s Paul Stanley, Freddie Mercury (of Queen) and rock bands like Pretty Boy Floyd and Poison had no qualms about snuggling up to the avant guard concepts of teasing their hair, wearing eyeliner and lipstick, and donning feather boas. Women like Annie Lennox, Madonna and kd Lang, on the other hand, slicked their hair back and wore suits and ties. And all their fans loved it.
Today, the fad seems to have been revived by a young generation of stars who continue to push the boundaries and deck themselves out in leather, feather and a whole of lot of panache.
Bill Kaulitz
Kaulitz, the lead singer of the German pop punk band Tokio Hotel, earned international fame in 2007 when the band released an English album featuring songs that were previously released only in German.
At 21, Kaulitz seems to be going from strength to strength in terms of popularity and gaining much attention along the way from young teenaged girls the world over, who scream his name and sing along to his German songs without even understanding the lyrics.
When he was 19, he was the youngest person to have their wax statue created by Madame Tussauds. Last year, Kaulitz found himself in the German edition of GQ’s Best Dressed List.
How did it all begin for this star?
Kaulitz cites his fashion and style influences as David Bowie, Nena, Vampires, Paris secondhand shops, striking jewellery and Dior Homme. So pretty is Kaulitz that now you can even get step-by step tips on how to look like him. Don’t believe us? Go to www.make-up.becomegorgeous.com, we kid you not.
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NINA Porter: Yes, she may have tripped on the catwalk and all, but she’s still London’s hottest new face, or so we read somewhere. Apparently the 16-year-old kicked Emma Watson aka Hermione Granger out of the Burberry campaign not so long back. And why? Because Watson wasn’t boyish enough for this autumn’s distinctly androgynous look. Which brings us to the point of our story – androgyny and its mysterious appeal.
So hot a topic was androgyny in the 1970s, that a notable researcher in the field of gender, Sandra Bem, even created a scale for measuring it, called the Bem Sex Role Inventory. Bem’s model of gender was a straight line with masculinity at one end and femininity at the other, the two being opposing forces. For the intents and purposes of this story however, androgyny will be defined as the combination of both masculine and feminine traits – a unified gender that defies social roles and psychological attributes, and therefore finds favour with both men and women alike.
Twenty-five years ago while I was still in my teens, I remember having a huge crush on Nick Rhodes of British band Duran Duran, a man who had no qualms about donning a fuchsia suit, wearing hot pink lipstick and looking notoriously beautiful. My elder sister, meanwhile, was crazy about Boy George, a South Londoner who tied his hair in braids, wore eye make-up and had a flair for fashion. Today, teenage girls go gaga over the likes of Bill Kaulitz, a German singer who looks like a (way) prettier version of Pat Benatar.
Androgynous characters have always received their fair share of the limelight in the entertainment world. In fashion – from 1960s’ Twiggy to today’s radical Agyness Deyn and blue-eyed candy boy Ryan Taylor – the world has embraced the androgynous look, lapping up models who feature the best of both worlds. Androgyny has also made its presence very much felt in the world of gaming – think of Vega from Street Fighter or Luneth of Final Fantasy III. And why stop there?
Androgyny is even on screen, big and small. Why, even The Powerpuff Girls cartoon series featured a certain mysterious character called “Him” (with red skin, crab-like claws, pointy ears and a beard, who wore makeup and a skirt with pink tulle), while actors like Tilda Swinton and John Leguizamo seem to be blessed with the ability to play both men and women equally well. Why, even the luscious Cate Blanchett took on the role of Bob Dylan not so long ago and earned kudos for her portrayal of the famous folk singer.
In the music business androgyny seems to come and go in waves. Marc Bolan in the early 1970s possessed such an original sense of style that it hoisted the glam rock era to what it is, making him one of the most memorable British rock stars of all time. He is often cited as inspiration for today’s glam rockers.
Soon after Bolan and T-Rex, came a whole slew of rock musicians who used their androgynous allure to captivate fans of all genders, sexualities and sexual preferences. Artistes like David Bowie, David Sylvian (of the band Japan), Roxy Music’s Brian Eno, Kiss’s Paul Stanley, Freddie Mercury (of Queen) and rock bands like Pretty Boy Floyd and Poison had no qualms about snuggling up to the avant guard concepts of teasing their hair, wearing eyeliner and lipstick, and donning feather boas. Women like Annie Lennox, Madonna and kd Lang, on the other hand, slicked their hair back and wore suits and ties. And all their fans loved it.
Today, the fad seems to have been revived by a young generation of stars who continue to push the boundaries and deck themselves out in leather, feather and a whole of lot of panache.
Bill Kaulitz
Kaulitz, the lead singer of the German pop punk band Tokio Hotel, earned international fame in 2007 when the band released an English album featuring songs that were previously released only in German.
When he was 19, he was the youngest person to have their wax statue created by Madame Tussauds. Last year, Kaulitz found himself in the German edition of GQ’s Best Dressed List.
How did it all begin for this star?
Kaulitz cites his fashion and style influences as David Bowie, Nena, Vampires, Paris secondhand shops, striking jewellery and Dior Homme. So pretty is Kaulitz that now you can even get step-by step tips on how to look like him. Don’t believe us? Go to www.make-up.becomegorgeous.com, we kid you not.
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