Gustav’s Hair is Blonde + Paris Event Review: Evous.fr

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.