Bill has replied to a fan on the BTK app who asked; “@Bill What is the special meaning of your new tattoo???? You can tell us? I think it´s amazing and I´m very curious ”

Bill replied; “Well my tattoo has a lot of different meanings. It stands for life and death, power and strength, beauty and perishabilty, love and bond, equality and distinctions… I think it just looks really cool ”

We can’t show a picture of the actual tattoo here as the app content can’t be posted elsewhere, but one fan has painted a very good replica of it on her Bill doll! The main difference is that the twin tattoo (his birth time) which is tattooed on Bill’s fingers is missing. But other than that, it’s a good enough likeness to show you how it looks!

The source of the pictures can be found HERE

Every week subscribers to the Tokio Hotel VIP Call get a message and yesterday they received a Valentine’s Day greeting. If you haven’t signed up yet but would also like to a get a weekly call from the band, go to http://www.vipcall.com/tokiohotel/en/ and register.

You might remember that song collaboration Bill did with another Cherrytree Record artist last year and that was supposed to be on a film’s soundtrack which unfortunately didn’t work out. Well, yesterday Marin from Cherrytree Records had some news about what will happen with the song and according to him it will be released on the other artist’s album some time this spring. *fingers crossed* We’re all dying to find out who Bill collaborated with and what the song sounds like.^^

Screen cap thanks to @TokioHotelNYC

Last month Tokio Hotel were nominated in two categories of Peta2′s Libby Awards and the winners were announced yesterday:

Tokio Hotel won “Best Peta2 Ad”! Thanks to everyone who has voted.

An article on athousandguitars.com about “4 German bands you should know” lists Tokio Hotel together with Scorpions, Rammstein and Kraftwerk. The article used a picture of the band taken at the MTV EMAs in Liverpool 2008 and embedded the video for “Scream”. Great to see the guys mentioned along with those other three world-famous German bands.^^

The mention says:

Tokio Hotel
Yet another subgenre spawned by traditional rock and roll is pop rock, and Tokio Hotel has it down pat. One of the youngest German bands around, it was formed in 2001. After releasing a couple of albums in their native language, Tokio Hotel came out with its first English-language album, Scream, in 2007. Rather than original material, the album consists of translations of songs from their two previous hit albums.

While their English album didn’t impress critics much, fans loved it, and Tokio Hotel won the Best New Artist award at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards. They’ve since gone on to win many other awards for their music, and have become one of the most popular bands in Germany, and around the world.

Check out this sweet message from Bill and Tom wishing all of you a Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to fans all over the world, from everyone here at THUKST. For those of you who’ve had a great 2011, we hope 2012 will be just as amazing for you. And for those of you who have had a difficult year, we really hope that 2012 will bring you some happier times.

We also hope, of course, that the guys are having a great time, whatever they are doing! And we hope to see them all in 2012!

Happy New Year everyone!

In February 2011 Tokio Hotel performed “Darkside of the Sun” in Japan for NHK Overseas which was broadcasted on 27th December 2011. Thanks to 619 from TH China for the recording:

Russian Muz TV reported about the twin tattoo Bill and Tom got a little while ago. Each of them had the other’s birth time tattooed. The footage was taken from the BTK Twins app which you can get from the Android Market.

Thanks to the girls from THNews.ru for the recording and subtitles.

As most of you will remember Tokio Hotel’s awesome “Welcome to Humanoid City” tour stage was designed by Misty Buckley so it’s not surprising that parts of the stage were built in the UK. One of the iconic pieces from this tour was definitely the motorbike Bill got to sit on and dance around during “Dogs Unleashed”. The Bristol based company “Fineline Manufacturing” built it and on their website you can look at some pictures accompanied by the following text:

Tokio Hotel is a pop rock band from Germany, founded in 2001 by singer Bill Kaulitz. Through our many music industry contacts we were approached by the stage designer to produce a stage prop based on a motorcycle for Bill to sit on for the climax of their current worldwide tour.

We were given some initial concept ideas and were told it had to be jet propelled and look like something from ‘Batman meets Judge Dread’ but the most important thing was it had to be very light weight as it was to be raised up through the stage on a lift and could be no more that 50Kg .

The whole chassis was fabricated in house and we assembled most of the bike from scrap parts we found and added some sculpted parts such as the jet engine. A final metallic paint effect and the prop was ready to tour the world!