German band Tokio Hotel was giving a private show yesterday evening under the Alexandre III bridge in a place called The Showcase and, once again, fans had a lot of troubles to hide their enthousiasm. Bill, Tom, Georg and Gustav actually only played three songs after their 3D show. A short appearance like scheduled, for the opening of Saturne Domus, that has left many wanting more.

 

Tokio Hotel is still a phenomenon really hard to control and this private show has for sure convinced all of those who weren’t believing in it. The 3D show, with the band in holograms, was scheduled at 9pm and then at 9.30pm the boys in real were to come. But a lot of fans were there since the morning or even since the day before. The german guys had already caused quite a stir last time they came for promotion in september or october in order to promote Humanoid : but this time they basically brought hysteria all on their way.

 

Inside of this really beautiful place, all in stone with arcades and all, the 3D show started and with it : yellings, tears, pushings. Yes, for 3D ! A technology that is by the way really amazing with Bill Kaulitz all in white, looking like real despite the fact he got his old dreadlocks look. So the first title is played, Dark side of the sun, and then in the middle of the next the show has to stop. Yeah the venue is gorgeous but obviously too small to handle hundreds of hysterical fans, all standing in front of a stage not high enough. So it’s the chaos, with everybody pushing and young girls in front row are stuck in the bariers. Fearing the accident, the guys in charge, even if security was there and all, put the light on and try to calm everybody down. They ask them to go back but of course no one follows. So that’s when you understand that with the real Tokio Hotel guys coming soon, that could totally end in a nightmare. But the music starts again and here we go for Zoom, World behind my wall and the single, in german, Automatisch. Fans know it by heart and sing. They sing more than they can actually see. And here’s the issue of this evening : the first half of the venue was the only one able to see something… The other half has only seen a head or an arm from time to time…

 

An insatisfaction not too serious for 3D show but that has caused an other chaos when they boys came. Because yes after a pause to prepare the stage and try again to calm the people, Tokio Hotel really came. Lead by Bill with his now famous mowhawk, the band chose to play old songs like Ubers Ende der Welt and Schwartz. Boys are really good, acoustic sound is gorgeous : Tokio Hotel live never disappoints. The fans, girls mostly,are out of control, jumping everywhere like mad. So when Bill announces the last song the venue is suddenly on shock. Used to a lot of calls back they don’t wanna believe it. So everybody starts to sing on Automatisch : awesome vibe with this time a real good moment shared with the band.

 

It’s already 10.30pm and after a whole hour of madness, we finally feel like in a real and normal show. Too bad, it’s already the end… Tokio Hotel was supposed to play 3 to 4 songs and finally played only 3. Really late in the schedule and with all those nerves crisis in the crowd… But Bill and co are real generous people and we also witnessed how much they were happy to see that in France passion was still there. So some fans had the nice suprise to get a quick signing session with the band. Just the time to notice the change of hair color of Gustav who seems to have decided to go back to blond. Some fans will tell that it has saved their evening. The others hesitate between the joy of having listen to the boys, the disappointment of the only 3 songs played and some are disgusted of the way the whole evening went. Some say they wish they hadn’t come…

 

We kinda want to answer them that it’s not the band’s fault. Wanting to please the band and the fans, organization has let a lot of people without tickets enter and didn’t have realized what kind of reactions Tokio Hotel was bringing from fans totally unable to keep their cool. Fans didn’t give themselves a present by behaving like this because it may be harder in the future to convince people to set that kind of private event again.

 

Tokio Hotel will be on tour in France in march during their big european tour, but no more in small venues, only in Zenith and a Bercy. They can’t do less anymore. And that leads to a certitude : Tokio Hotel phenomenon is not history, it’s always here and now.