Here is the translation of the swedish mag. OKEJ number 9

USA, Europe, Southafrica....
The Tokio Hysteria spreds over the world.

New Album?

It has been rumoured for a long time that the boys are recording a new album for a long time now. And it's true, Bill writes new songs almost every day. But no date is set yet and their popularity in the US risks delays in the recordings. What is comfirmed is that the album is going to be in German.

During the summer TH has...

X Toured through Southeurope

X Begun their 2nd tour in the US. The guys sold out in, amongst other places, Chicago

X Performed at Conan O'Brian

X Had the cover of a big mexican magazine

Did you know that Bill...

Dressed like a vampire on Halloween once? After that he decided to look that way every day.
He didn't know what anime was when he created his look.

Has maredreams that he sleeps too late and misses an important meeting?

Thinks that the Tokio Hotel logo tattoo on his neck was the one that hurt the most?

Likes Prison Break

Wouldn't hide his girlfriend if he had one?


Translated by Hanna

Translation up later I hope!!

When they knew that a lot of their disappointed fans had destroyed cds and posters in protest of not getting the promised autograph, the band members of Tokio Hotel just smiled in surprise.

"It wasn't our intention to upset anybody. WE're very sorry, but we were told that everything went according to what was planned", said lead singer Bill Kaulitz in press conference yesterday.

According to the germans, they didn't know that about 800 people with bracelets didn't get an autograph on last friday night in Plaza Cuicuilco.

That's why they never got offended by the fact that their fans booed when they left, saying that they didn't know that the record store Mixup had assured the fans the band would sign 2000 autographs.

The truth is that the store gave out that amount of bracelets and that in the event there were fans that traveled from other states of the country just to see the band and get an autograph.

When the band reached 1200 autographs, their security guard decided that it was time to leave.

When they knew that Tokio Hotel had left, some teenagers and their parents started to tear the cover of the Scream cd, while others went to the store to demand their money back.

Around 600 people caused the movilization of 20 security people inside the plaza, because they were pounding over the crystal doors of the store.

"Our record label (Universal Music) said that there were only 50 people left, not that many!! (800) We are very sorry about this incident, we thank our fans for all the love they've given us," said Bill's twin brother, Tom, in their encounter with the mexican press.

Scream! Scream! Scream! The teen band Tokio Hotel forces themselves onto the US market, tours through the country, and proves in a legendary San Francisco club that above all pubescent screaming is the single true world language of today.

The flair held itself, all changes because of defiance. The area around the Fillmore Street corner Geary is still always a little shabby. Dark house entryways alternate with small lower level shops, neon advertisements advertise fast food restaurants, before which the homeless beg for a few cents for a beer. Above all this, blazes a single yellow sign before the building with the number 1805 - "Fillmore".

Here, in the legendary Fillmore auditorium in San Francisco, the blues were re-discovered. The greats have played here: B.B. King The Who, Santana, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, The Doors, Aretha Franklin, and many more. That, however, is long gone, and now everyone who wants to make it big treads here.

Or even bigger.

Such as Tokio Hotel that teen band from near Magdeburg who proceeded directly to conquer the hearts of the US teenager with their English translated success melodies. With simple, honest lyrics like "Turn around, I am here" or "We are here tonight, leave the word aside," they want to bring the girls to screaming here exactly like they do at home.

In May, the first English-language album "Scream" reached place 5 in the US rock charts and earned the praise of the tasteful music magazine "Rolling Stone": "These boys are biggest German bubblegum-neo-glam-goth-emo-boyband. Of all time."

That wasn't meant ironically. But real help came from the music station MTV, who set not only one fan week, but also nominated the hit "Ready, Set, Go!" in two categories for the MTV Video Music Awards. Does one need more in order to leave teenage hearts captured?

And so stand the fans on this Tuesday evening far down the next block, out in the line until they are let into the Fillmore in small groups to the Tokio Hotel concert.

Way in front stands Cathleen, who held out in a hotel around the corner for a week in order to snag the best spot. "I heard of the band on the internet for the first time, there I didn't know at all that they're from Germany," says the 15-year-old. Afterwards she later read Wikipedia - and she fell in love with the boys even more. "That they sing in two languages impressed me. They lead the word together, and that's good" she says with a pompous seriousness that absolutely doesn't fit into her confession of being "forever in love with Bill".

"San Francisco is Beautiful"

Singer Bill Kaulitz looks like a Japanese cartoon version of Christian Siriano - the youngest winner of the talent show "Project Runway", wrote the "New York Times" in February. And join, the US fans should please not freak out for a "goth-punk-boy-band" led by a "sexy androgynous person with spectacularly spiked hair."

Why not? After all, nothing stays anymore on Rammstein to mint the German image in the US.

The US fans stand freaking out for nothing in any case. When Tokio Hotel took the stage shortly after nine, an ear-deafening screaming concert breaks out - as the fans take the album title "Scream" literally. The parents, in not insignificant numbers, look tortured and seem first relieved when their kids ignore it, sing along with the lyrics.

The object of hysteria is - like in German - singer Bill Kaulitz who presented the first three songs as routinely as little electrifying presentation. First after the third song, he greeted the crowd with little imaginative sentences "Hi everybody, how are you tonight?" and "San Francisco is beautiful!"

That brings the fans to screaming anew, but also shows how ambitious the project of the four boys is, to sing in a language that isn't their mother language.

Music from Kids for Kids

Allegedly, they couldn't speak especially good English a year ago. Their pronunciation is pretty hard, out of "eyes" comes "ice" - but the fans sooner find that to seem sweet. And only on that, it's brought. In order to release the enthusiasm storm, it works anyway that Kaulitz bends down and touches hands now and then. Sometimes he even stretches the microphone out into the audience, but such designed gestures for big halls don't work in the Fillmore, the venerable jazz club is too intimate.

Here on this evening, simple kids music is made for other kids - what isn't certainly absolutely bad if the band and fans are lucky. Only too bad, that neither one nor the other appears to know where they stand.

The boys had only jerked their shoulders, when they would make it noticeable where they appear, says a member of the crew. Most of the fans don't notice the hundreds of concert posters in the lobby of the Fillmore that represent decades of music history once the four boys enter.

Where something of Tokio Hotel's will soon also hang, according to tradition. After just barely an hour, the concert is over. Elders, who still know other times, wonder. "No concert can end so early," the taxi driver snarls. "That was different earlier."

He probably doesn't know the total work of Tokio Hotel still doesn't really grant a longer appearance.


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Long-Haired Rockers Are the Antidote to the Jonas Brothers

Move over Heidi Klum and Hugo Boss. The new ambassadors of German popular culture have arrived in the United States, but they're not what you'd expect.

Tokio Hotel may sound like a new Japanese resort, but it's actually a group of four rocker guys whose singer is often mistaken for a girl but is actually the identical twin of the dreadlock-haired guitarist. Puzzled yet? The band scored two No. 1 albums in its native Germany, and yet most of the band members aren't even old enough to legally drink here.

Tokio Hotel's sharp rise to fame, from playing school concerts and weddings a few years ago in its hometown of Magdeburg, a hundred miles southwest of Berlin, to currently selling out venues in New Jersey, San Francisco and Chicago, can arguably be seen as Internet-driven. The band has amassed a frenzied fan base of mostly young women who take the title of the band's first English album, "Scream," seriously -- by doing just that at a mere glimpse of the band.

Wendy is a young fan from Brooklyn, N.Y., but jokingly claims, "Ich bin ein Deutsch!" She thinks the band is "hot," but also found the music to be so powerful it "can bring tears" to her eyes. "Tokio Hotel ist der beste!," says Doris, 18, who says she is learning German because of her interest in the band.

"I've spent over $600 this past week for all the tickets I just bought and the traveling I have to do," said Kiila, a 20-year-old student who plans to attend as many concerts as she can on the band's tour through North America this month. She spent four days hanging around Times Square near MTV's studio in the hopes of meeting the band, which recently hosted the network's show "TRL."

Like the launch of some resplendent blitzkrieg, Tokio Hotel is eager to conquer American shores. Its success abroad draws comparisons here as the "Jonas Brothers of Germany" -- if the Jonas Brothers were a long-haired, sexually ambiguous-looking act, blending genres from pop to glam rock to hip-hop.

Tattooed lead singer Bill Kaulitz, 18, is rarely seen without black eye makeup and with his hair, also dyed black, styled in a gravity-defying lion's mane. Born in the Internet and video game era, he already seems astutely aware of the power of the visual, and credits the Internet with the band's breakthrough outside Germany. "Especially as newcomers, it's really important to have the Internet, where people can talk about you and listen to your music," he said in accented English. When thousands of fan Web sites, blogs and YouTube postings began sprouting up worldwide, its record company noticed.

"The fans outside of Germany send us e-mails, they come together and shoot a video or something, and they say please come to wherever, Israel, whereever," Kaulitz said. So the band did -- not only Israel , but France, Italy, Switzerland, Russia and other countries, often selling out stadiums and fulfilling a kind of prophecy of the band's chosen name -- which band members changed from "Devilish" in 2005 -- which evokes their love of foreign destinations.

"It was always our dream to travel the world and play in big cities and ...," Kaulitz starts to say before his twin, Tom, chimes in, "and to stay in good hotels!"

Although the two often complete each other's thoughts, Tom Kaulitz, who plays lead guitar, prefers the almost opposite look of his sibling -- baggy clothes, a sports cap around blond dreads and a lip piercing. Drummer Gustav Schäfer and bass-guitarist Georg Listing complete the four-member band.

Adoration: From Internet to Miles-Long Fan Letter

Several female fans admit to first being intrigued by the band's looks and mash-up styles, but insist they became hooked, some even obsesses, when listening to the songs. In Germany, the band is a household name, and girls stalk its recording studio, hiding with cameras behind bushes. Pieces of the Kaulitz twins' former school bus stop were auctioned off last week on eBay for thousands of euros (no bids though). The quartet once received a fan letter that was more than 7 miles long. (They didn't read the whole thing.)

The Goethe Institute claims increasing interest in its German language classes because of the band, especially in its Paris branch. The San Francisco office organized a concert ticket giveaway earlier this year, and deputy director Anna Weber said in one day without any promotion "we got 80 to 120 e-mails. We got so many phone calls, you have no idea. We thought they were unknown here."

The Internet has made it easy for fans to chat and share stories with others around the world who share their passion. After a concert ends, girls post videos and pictures from their cameras and phones capturing the band's performances, it seems, from every possible angle.

The boys have mastered the quality of being exotic, and yet approachable, online. They make video appeals for fans' award votes and post weekly "Tokio Hotel TV" Web episodes as a way "to take the fans with us." The band was stopped only momentarily in March, when it had to cancel several concerts so Bill Kaulitz could have surgery to remove a cyst on his vocal chords.

These teenage rockers are becoming accustomed to the idea of growing up in front of the eyes of a 24/7 media world. "Our whole life changed from one day to another," Kaulitz said. "We have so much inspiration. It's everywhere. ... So I always have a pen with me and a laptop, and I write everything down." The band has started to work on its new album, which it will release in German and English. The band writes and plays its own music but is helped by a team of four producers. "We are like a big family," Kaulitz said.

That family seems to have landed on a winning combination of lyrics laced with "emo" angst, wrapped in a flamboyant pop-rock package. It's PG-rated but still edgy enough for younger fans. Songs range from catchy pop anthems to anti-suicide messages to appealing rock ballads. Tokio Hotel seems to straddle the line between boy band fad and hopeful rock icons, but where it will eventually end up is unpredictable.

Tokio Hotel Vs. Miley Cyrus

"Scream" landed in U.S. stores in May and peaked at No. 39 on the Billboard 200, selling quite a bit less below the multiplatinum status the band achieved in Europe, but you wouldn't know it by the Internet hype. This month fans voted online to give Tokio Hotel two MTV Video Music Award nominations for best new artist and best pop video, pitting the band against best-selling artists like Miley Cyrus and Britney Spears. "We think we have no chance, but it's just great being nominated," Bill Kaulitz said.

Right now, the band is just awestruck at the attention they are getting in America. "The fans voted so much for us, it's a great feeling," Tom Kaulitz said. "It's really a big deal for a German band to have the chance to go to the U.S."

One would have to go back almost a generation when a German band last achieved huge crossover success in America. In the 1980s. The Scorpions topped the charts with songs like "Rock You Like a Hurricane" and artist Nena scored big with her Cold War-era protest song "99 Luftballoons." Incidentally, watching Nena as a child was what inspired Bill Kaulitz to become a singer, he said.

But for every "next big thing," there can be an eventual backlash. "I don't really want them to get really famous here," posted "Isabella" on Tokio Hotel's U.S fan site. "Getting big also brings about the question of them losing sight of their German culture."

As fans grow, so do "haters" of the band, who create and upload anti-Tokio Hotel videos and Web pages. The Internet has other dangerous downsides. Recently in France, a young man was arrested for allegedly posing as Bill Kaulitz in chat rooms, convincing young girls to send him naked pictures, which he then posted on the Web. The band says it doesn't have personal accounts like MySpace, other than its official Web sites, just for this reason.

But most of the fans simply want to concentrate on the good stuff, like one young brunette who waited on a New York City street to see the band when it visited. She is crying but smiling, her teeth lined in braces. "I got Bill's autograph. .... I got their autograph, and I love them!" she cried, wiping tears from her eyes with neon-polished fingertips, just another uber-happy Tokio Hotel fan.

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Very soon, on September 1, we will be celebrating the 19th birthday of the Kaulitz twins.
But for now, let's take a look at all the events that have taken place recently in the life of Tokio Hotel.

Success and Achievements
Bill Kaulitz has everything necessary for a successful career: talent, a look, money, the love of the fans. But there is one thing missing for the total happiness of every young man - a good car! This month Bill finally got his driver's license and immediately bought a luxurious, silver convertible from BMW, for almost 100 000 Euros. Aside from that, the group is among the nominees for the MTV VMAs in the "Best New Artist" category. This, yet again, proves that the boys are successfully conquering the Unites States and are already quite popular in this country. You can vote for the guys on MTV's official website (mtv.com). The Award show is very soon- on September 7.

This month, Tokio Hotel is also celebrating another important event: exactly three years ago, the August of 2005, the single "Durch Den Monsun" was released, which made Tokio Hotel known to the world. With that song started the band's history. And with that song these boys changed the world of music forever.

Indecent Proposal
The twins are getting older, which means, that the scandals, that they are sometimes involved in, are getting bigger too. Not that long ago, a few girls declared that Bill spends the nights in different online chatrooms, using his big name and fame to get the girls to send him naked pictures. But we know that Bill would never dare to take advantage of the love of his fans, with such low behaviour. The police did an investigation and caught an 18-year-old Frenchman, who, for few weeks was posing on the internet as Bill Kaulitz and making the girls believe that he really is the "real" Bill. During the contact with the girls, the false-Bill was very friendly and caring, so it took awhile to find out about the fraud. But the Frenchman took too much advantage of Bill's fans, and this brought about hard consequences. At first the girls were nervous to send the poser their naked pictures. They were suspicious, but still sent the photos. Finally, the law enforcements were able to trace the guy and found him in a small town in France. With him, they found many photographs of naked girls in erotic positions. The police were in shock, when they found out that some of the girls were only 11-years-old. Now the dude will have to pay a large fine. When we contacted Bill for a comment about the event, he assured us and all of his fans, that neither he nor anyone else from the group ever were and ever will be at these online chatrooms. They just don't have the time.

Pic Captions (Clock-wise from the top)
Page 1
- The boys had fans waiting for them at the New York airport.
- Tokio Hotel are being pulled in different directions. Despite their tight schedule,
they promise to come to Russia. You will know about the concert dates first in BRAVO!
- Bill tries to pay attention to each fan.
- Even on the streets of New York the boys are greeted by large groups of fans.
- The tough American cops protect the boys like "the apple of the eye"..
- ...But the love of the fans cannot be stopped.

Page 2
- The future "Birthday-boys" are ready to party.
- There is no limit to the excitement of the American fans.
- Today the guys of Tokio Hotel are welcomed guests on MTV,
but once they couldn't even dream of such tremendous success.

Translated by: Aella @ THA