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Review:
Tokio Hotel checks in
German band performs in Sayreville to excited fans
SAYREVILLE — Music fans from across North America descended on the Starland Ballroom here Thursday to see a band from Germany whose lead singer dresses like a Japanese anime character.
Welcome to the world of Tokio Hotel, and if you haven't heard of them yet, you will.
"Tokio Hotel will play to an audience of five or to an arena full of fans. It doesn't matter to them because they care about the music and the fans, and that comes across," said Samantha Watson, 18, of Roselle.
Fans lined up by the hundreds in Starland's parking lot Thursday afternoon to get into last night's sold-out show for the glam-pop group described as an emo version of Disney teen stars the Jonas Brothers.
Kiila Lowe, 21, of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and Rai Renee, 21, of Philadelphia were the first two in line. They arrived at 1 a.m Thursday even though the venue prohibited fans from forming a line until 10 a.m They were asked to leave, they said.
"We're bush babies because we slept in the bushes," Lowe said.
Others, like Geetika Lahr, 17, of Toronto, stayed in a hotel room.
"They're very awesome," Lahr said of the band.
Tokio (pronounced like the city, Tokyo) Hotel was formed in Magdeburg, Germany, and is fronted by twin brothers Bill and Tom Kaulitz, who are 18 years old. Bill, with black hair standing on end, an impossibly thin build and packed-on makeup, resembles an anime character, though he has said in past interviews that the look he's going for is goth.
The band has racked up four No. 1 singles and two No. 1 albums in Germany, including "Schrei," their debut, in 2005. The English language album, "Scream," released in the United States on May 6, is composed of tracks from the band's first two German albums, re-recorded in English.
The band's video for its single "Ready, Set, Go" was recently nominated for an MTV Video Music Award. So far, much of the attention on the group has come from the Internet.
"It's like a Beatles thing for us," said Sam Ali, 40, of Hazlet, who was attending the show with his twin children, Anthony and Vanessa, 14, and several other family members.
The band's show at Starland kicks off a U.S club tour. Locally, Tokio Hotel is scheduled to meet fans at an in-store signing at Hot Topic in the Freehold Raceway Mall at 3 p.m today. Wristbands that guaranteed fans an autograph from the band have been distributed. There are none left, said a rep from the store.
Christine Giannetti, 14, of Florham Park, who attended last night's show with Shannon Healy, also 14 of Florham Park, was ready for anything.
"I can sing with them if they sing the songs in English or German," Giannetti said.
It's all in your hands who will take the precious Moonman trophy home in the category BEST NEW ARTIST on Sept. 7th in Los Angeles! Click HERE to cast your vote to support Bill, Tom, Gustav & Georg! Thanks for your support!!! [Please note: You need an MTV.com account to participate in the voting - if you don´t have one yet sign up HERE first.]
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Tokio Hotel took a break from their TRL hosting duties (watch backstage footage from today’s show here), meeting fans, and from spending their downtime in the green room playing “Rock Band” (they did a Foo Fighters song, for the record) for a four-on-one Buzzworthy interview.
Watch as they address their oft-referenced Spiderman fan (Bill’s “hi!” = hee!), the possibly non-existent Jonas Brothers fan feud, how it feels to switch back and forth between English and German, and, naturally, girls.
Oh! The most amazing moment involves their virginity status, courtesy of Tom and his oversharing ways. Gotta love that absolute lack of shame.
And now, here it is, your six minutes and 24 seconds of German Zen.
BILD August 8th, 2008
Americans love our boys!
Tokio-Hotel-week at MTV USA
Americans are in a flap since the first concert of the German whizz kids Tokio Hotel on American ground – especially the females! The hysteria of the US-fans knows no borders like you can see in the chart-show “TRL” at MTV.
The New Yorker Time square is totally marked by Tokio Hotel since Monday, August 4th, 2008! The MTV-show is taped there – and the music-channel dedicates the German boys an entire fan-week. In the show are not only shown the videos and performances of the teenager-band, but also the boys are guests in the studio. Bill, Tom, Gustav and Georg account 60 minutes, moderate and give a live-concert.
One of the many topics: their VMA-nomination!
Tokio Hotel are nominated for the “MTV Video Music Award 2008” (September, 7th (the article said 9th, but it’s actually the 7th), Los Angeles) with their music-clip of the song “Ready, Set, Go!” (“Übers Ende der Welt”) in the category “Best Pop-Video”.
In the MTV-TRL-Interview Bill says about that: “It’s so cool for us to be nominated! It’s really, really something special – it’s America and it’s our first American award-nomination.. That’s great!”
It’s fact: America likes our four Magdeburger boys!
Scream-alarm, cuddly toys-throwing and some “Marry me”-placards cause Tokio Hotel-fever since Monday.
At the beginning of their abroad-journeys the boys performed at the famous open-air-festival: “Giants Stadium”. The boys have really gained a foothold in America!
Translated by janasternenreise
source: bild.de
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