Monday, September 7, 2009

Band of the Week by Martina



Tokio Hotel is a German band founded
in Magdedurg,Germany in 2001 by singer Bill Kaulitz, guitarist Tom Kaulitz, drummer Gustav Schäfer and bassist Georg Listing. The quartet have scored four number one singles and have released two number one albums in their native country, selling nearly 5 million CDs and DVDs there. After recording an unreleased demo-CD under the name "Devilish" and having their contract with Sony BMG terminated, the band released their first German-language album, Schrei, as Tokio Hotel on Island Records in 2005. Schrei sold more than half a million copies worldwide and spawned four top five singles in both Germany and Austria. In 2007, the band released their second German album Zimmer 483 and their first English album Scream which have combined album sales of over one million copies worldwide and helped win the band their first MTV Europe Music Award for Best InterAct. The former, Zimmer 483, spawned three top five singles in Germany while the latter, Scream,spawned two singles that reached the top twenty in new territories such as Portugal, Spain and Italy. In September 2008, they won their first MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist. In October 2008, they won 4 awards including Best International Artist and Song of the year at Los Premios MTV Latinoamérica. Tokio Hotel became the first German band ever to win an award at both the MTV VMAs and the MTV Latin America Awards. They also picked up the Headliner award at the MTV Europe Music Awards 2008 held in Liverpool on November 6, 2008.
(Info found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokio_Hotel)

(FOR THE ALREADY FANS)
For Bill and Tom's Birthday the guys rented out a whole amusement park. They rented Heide Park Soltau in Germany.
Says Tom, "We didn't miss a single ride: roller coaster, wild water rides and anything that was spinning."

"This has always been one of our childhood dreams, to have an amusement park just for ourselves," said Bill. "No long lines, no waiting and we can get on the roller coasters as often as we want. That's what we've been dreaming about since we were young. It was so freakin' amazing."

As you may know the whole band has a whole new look and here's a pic.
Their new video "Automatic" is now out from their album Humanoid, but their album will be out sometime in mid September.
Here's the link (only works if your not using a school computer): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xjj9zj0xPIY

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