(this is from tokiohotelamerica.com)


"Awesome article. source Welt.de - translation via janasternenreise - danke danke! credit her if you use it please.

Singer Bill Kaulitz was not allowed to speak a word for 4 weeks – and “Tokio Hotel” couldn`t play concerts anymore, the European tour was cancelled. Now the young Magdeburgers celebrated their mini-comeback: at a festival in New Jersey. Snoop Dog performed before them.

A Cyst had to be removed from his left voice cord, and after the operation there was strict silence for him, because his voice had to be trained carefully.

A full month without Bill! For the fans of Tokio Hotel this situation grew to a nightmare.
“I thought: Oh god! Hopefully nobody takes me that amiss”, Bill commented the situation, “and hopefully nobody was angry.” For many haters it was more like a holiday for the ears. Tokio Hotel polarize like no other band.

At Saturday night now the Magdeburger stood with his three bandmates – twinbrother Tom Kaulitz ( 18 ), Gustav Schäfer ( 19 ) and Georg Listing ( 21 ) – on stage in New Jersey. At the “Bamboozle-festival” – the first performance after the operation.

Because of the still prescribed voice cord-rest Tokio Hotel only played three songs.
“4000 fans stood in front of the stage and could sing every song along by heart”, band-manager David Jost says. And that, though the US-album isn`t released yet.
“Bill seemed to be pretty impatient and tensed up before the performance, but when he stood on stage, all the excitement was forgotten”, Jost describes the first performance.

At the festival in New Jersey performed already celebs like the Rolling Stones, Prince and Nirvana. Now the American rapper Snoop Dogg stood on stage before the Magdeburger. A full blood musician, who looked at the German newcomers with interest for sure. But the quartet has to get used to that fast.

Already at Thursday the four boys will be at the Late Night Show of Conan O`Brien, and at May 13th they will perform their only complete concert in the US at the Avalon in Hollywood.
“Bill has turned the hearts of the New Yorker again to the left”, manager Jost believes.

Tokio Hotel stood on stage in New York already at February. The “New York Times” published in their online-issue a cover story with video about the band “from Germany”. There you can see the known love-offers on placards and chanties: “We love Tokio Hotel”.

No matter, where the band performs, they put the fans in a state of emergency."

I don't know if this is true..

(from muchmusic.com )

Canadian dates have been rescheduled!

May 16 @ Sound Academy, Toronto
May 19 @ Stade Uniprix, Montreal

From bild.de

Only five weeks after his vocal cord operation, rockstar Bill Kaulitz (18) performed again in front of his audience.

He sang with his boys in front of 4000 fans three of his hits in English at an open-air festival at the famous “Giant Stadium” before the gates of New York (USA).
Bill’s voice – powerful and full of energy like never before!

Manager and producer David Jost: “Bill was pretty nervous and couldn’t wait to storm finally on the stage.”
Bill added after the performance: “It was a relief to sing again in a mic after such a long time.”

The whole week Tokio Hotel will run from date to date and will give interviews to American medias. Next week their CD “Scream” (“Schrei”) will be released in the US.

(from tokiohotel.org.uk (the forum))

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 Your prize if you win:

• (2) Round-trip economy airfare to Rome, Italy
  
  
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For all the American fans we would just like to remind you all that tomorrow, 06.05.2008, this is happening in NYC!!

NYC ON MAY 6TH: SEE TOKIO HOTEL TWICE IN ONE DAY!!!
See Tokio Hotel TWICE in one day!!!! Come to 45th and Broadview in NYC on May 6th at 1:30 pm for your chance to get on stand-by in the MTV TRL audience to see Tokio Hotel perform Ready, Set, Go! After that head over to the Times Square location of Virgin Megastore for the second highlight of the day: A chance to be part of Tokio Hotel´s in-store performance and the exclusive "SCREAM" CD signing session with Bill, Tom, Gustav & Georg. The Virgin event starts at 6pm.

I found a video from bild.de that tells a bit about their concert in the us.

Click here to see todays video!

Bill talking to the audience