Magazines

[-kels-]

well we will have to just hold tight till they do come.
*hopes*

[xxxnashxxx]

Tokio Hotel in i-D Magazine!


Tokio Hotel have FINALLY made it into the ultra-hip, super trendy, cool as beans i-D Magazine. First it was supposed to be the Sept issue, then maybe Oct, but finally it's here! (If you don't know it, trust me, it's v cool.)

Our best Street Teamer and my second in command, Razzle, discovered this fabulousness this morning in her local WH Smiths and phoned me straight away with the good news. A six-page spread and it's CUTE apparently. I await a chance to see it myself, but thought I should update you all so you can rush out and get your copy. (It has Kate Moss on the cover.)

When you've got your copy, and had a good oogle, why not leave i-D magazine a huge thank you, by commenting on their Myspace:

www.myspace.com/idmagazine

For UK fans, this is super news. i-D magazine is a massive step-up from TOTP and a very reputable magazine within the media industry. For older fans it's even better: no need to pretend that copy of Mizz is for your neice.

[nicolekaulitz]

I bought i-D today. ^-^

[1edenlovesth]

Yey just got my copy of i-D!
omg they are so cool in it! i have been waiting for such a long time to buy a cool mag with them in! nearly went crazy in that WHSmith in high wyc!
xxx

[angelwings]

The article is great and I just love the pictures. Especially the one where Bill shows off his tattoo on the stairs.

[nicolekaulitz]

angelwings said:

The article is great and I just love the pictures. Especially the one where Bill shows off his tattoo on the stairs.

Yeah, they're well good.
Except that Tom is on one side of the page and on the other side is more pictures, I had to choose. =[

[1edenlovesth]

i chose the side with tom...just cos...
i felt kinda bad that georg only said one line ( 'Yeah i guess how we play it now might be the version fifteen') and gustav none...so nice of him to make waffles though!
xxx

[-kels-]

i cant afford it
and i cant find it anywhere

[midori]

I spent ages to find I-D Magazine yesterday because I didn't know what it looked like (also I didn't recognize Kate Moss on the cover ) or what it would go under. The WHSmith in York didn't have it but I found it in Borders... under "Fashion". Ah, that should be to Bill's liking. I mean, him being a fashion icon. ;D

[kiri]

i was in border yesterday i had 15min to kill waiting for my bus so i thought i'd look for it but didnt know what section to look in so i tried all of them! still i couldnt find it, my contacts must have failed me! >.< found it in WHSmith... missed my bus but oh well! at least i had somethin to read lol

[tokiohoteluk]

Hi everyone,

I didn't have time to update the street team before I left, but I posted some scans of the magazine on this gossip blog:

community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/16359124.html

If you're not familiar with the community, please do not get upset. They bash everyone on that community, and everytime I've posted we've picked up loads of new fans!

I'll add the full scans to the street team soon!

Claire x

[midori]

There is another article related to Tokio Hotel’s failure in the UK in a German magazine. "Yam" to be precise. Here are the links for the scans:

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I’ve just quickly translated it so it might not be perfect but I thought it would be important for the Street Team to know about this. (I’ve only translated the parts relating to the UK.)

All of Europe loves Tokio Hotel. Only one country resists.

It’s 2007. Tokio Hotel infected all of Europe. All of Europe? No, one island populated by Brits resists the Tokio Hotel virus stubbornly/obstinately!

Underneath the venue picture it says:
Totally bombed!
The concert halls stay empty in England. Nearly only German or French fans came to the first concert in London. Ready, Set Go only reached # 77.

The article:
Are the Brits bonkers? France, Italy, Russia and almost all the rest of Europe was taken by storm by Tokio Hotel. Only the assault on the English charts turned out to be a non-starter*. (* “Rohrkrepierer” is described as an overhasty action that ends in failure)
The single Ready Set Go only made it to # 77 in the official British single charts and had already disappeared from the top 100 in the second week. The boys of US5 were much more successful with “Maria” (# 38) in 2006. But what’s the reason? Do the “island monkeys” (sincere apologies from my part for that expression, it’s just something Germans call Brits sometimes, like Brits call Germans “Krauts” etc) only dig their own heroes? One explanation comes from England’s largest record shop HMV: “Here, singles almost only get downloaded on the internet these days. The TH single received real poor download numbers. And the few sold CDs just weren’t enough for a good charts entry.” To score on the Internet you need hype. But obviously that didn’t happen. Priya Elan of the British music magazine "NME" is assuming why Tokio Hotel failed: “In England they get compared to Emo-bands like ‘My Chemical Romance’. But for that they are too pop-like. In addition, there’s the language barrier. Bill’s English just isn’t good enough and the music not strong enough to balance that out.'
2008 Tokio Hotel want to conquer America.
At least: they were celebrated in Israel!


How lovely to be the only European country on their map that apparently doesn’t take an interest in the guys and their music.

If any of you feel the need to e-mail some feedback to them, here’s the guy’s e-mail who is responsible for this article:
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[tokiohoteluk]

Oh, god, not another one. I hate that we're being labelled the country that rejected Tokio Hotel. I hope that they don't feel similarly negative about us.

Claire x

[cho89]

^ I hope not!

hm... =)

[midori]

Articles like that annoy and even frustrate me a bit on so many levels. I guess I could write an essay about it.
First of all, I agree with Claire and find it horrible that the UK gets labelled as the country that rejected Tokio Hotel. People shouldn’t jump to conclusions and call it a total failure just because the first single didn’t do too well. I guess we were all a bit disappointed by that. I think the press is just glad they finally found something else to write about than the massive success the band has got everywhere. I find it unfair to label Tokio Hotel a failure over here already. There are quite a few things people should take into consideration. E.g. the promo wasn’t the best, I’ve never seen a single video on any of the freeview music channels and I’m convinced (I might be wrong) that if they’d gotten some(or more) airplay on there, there would’ve been more people that found out about them and probably bought the single. Which brings me to my next point. I find it hard to get singles in the UK (unless you order them) because from my experience the selection of singles being available is minimal. So I live in York. We have a Virgin and HMV store… all you can get in the shops are the top 20 and the current week’s new releases and if you’re not fast enough or miss a release by the week it’s gone the next (unless it’s in the top 20). So there’s no chance of someone walking past a single and go “looks interesting, I’ll have a listen” unless it’s during the week of its release. There were even times when the single sections in the shops were gone completely. No wonder people prefer to download songs, it’s much easier! (I for one don’t download singles but prefer to buy the CDs in shops… if I can get them!)
Another thing is this emo-talk. I don’t get it. I mean I don’t get emo. Ever since this expression turned up I didn’t get what it was all about. I’m really struggling with that one but I’m a bit useless when it comes to categorising music anyway… still, it doesn’t make too much sense to me why people call Tokio Hotel emo. Yeah ok, some of their songs probably could be called emo and yeah, maybe Bill looks a bit like it but besides that he’s not emo and there are still three other guys in the band that do not look the part. From what I gather the band in general are way too much fun, too happy with their lives and too smiley and joyful to be emo.
As far as the hype goes that apparently didn’t happen… well, from my experience living in the UK the past years, I have to say that fan-girls over here don’t seem to be too “extreme” and too “crazy” which doesn’t make them less determined and passionate. I know that sounds kind of stupid but I don’t know how to put it otherwise. Yes, there are always exceptions and yes, there are lots of girly fan-girls e.g. like bands like McFly have but I also feel that fan-girls over here can be more relaxed. I went to a Good Charlotte concert in Hamburg once and I also saw them in Leeds this year and I have to say that was a totally different experience as far as fans go. Jeez, I mean even the silverchair concert in Hamburg I went to years ago was full of screaming, pushing fan-girls I didn’t even know existed! Here in the UK I went to Manchester to see them and the fans were the complete opposite. I love that about UK fans.
The part about the music not being strong enough to make up for Bill’s not so English annoyed me a bit. I would agree that the music might not be the most innovative we’ve ever heard but the music is full of strength and just fine. It’s more about the attitude. Of course the music loses some of its strength when you don’t understand the German lyrics and what it’s all about but that’s not necessarily the music’s problem but more the problem of people not giving it the attention it deserves and writing it off from the start just for not being in English. I find it amazing Tokio Hotel have gotten so far with “only” the German songs and that’s only down to the wonderful fans embracing the German part of it all and making the effort to understand it. Bless them all! I find it disappointing to have to read something like Bill’s English wouldn’t be good enough to carry the music to more success in the UK. That’s being a bit ignorant. I appreciate English is the supposed world language and all and I think it’s great to be able to communicate in English but I think the press shouldn’t whine about it all the time and put it like it’s a real bad thing of the boys not be giving interviews in English. They’ll get there and until then the press should support them and not hold it against them. Seriously, if you don’t speak the same language use translators. That’s what they’re there for and otherwise they would be out of a job. Nobody would expect Bloc Party to give their next interview in German just because they’re doing promotion in Germany. International musicians get translated and that’s that. No big deal. I think what the British journalists/press really are bothered about is to lose some of their control during interviews and having to rely on translators and not being able to interact with the band the way they’re used to.
To finish this, I would just like to mention that Ready Set Go was the first release for
Tokio Hotel here in the UK and just because it wasn’t massively successful doesn’t mean they failed here… not yet at least. Look at The Killers. They re-released Somebody Told Me because it became a massive hit and it didn’t do too well the first time around… despite it being a brilliant song and them being an English speaking band. They just needed more exposure for the British people to take notice.
I also hope the band don’t take those talks of failure in the UK to their hearts and keep reminding themselves that they DO have fans over here. I'm sure they know that. I always only vote on the UK page of the EMAs just in case anybody should check how many votes musicians got from the different countries. ;D

I’m really sorry that this turned out so long (ended up being a mini-essay even though I tried to keep it short!). I hope I didn’t offend anyone, those are just general points of view and I might be completely wrong. Feel free to tell me off.