Little Blue World Fanzine Photo Contest

Have you taken a great picture of Tori? Do you plan to? The Little Blue World fanzine is holding a photo contest with prizes including signed memorabilia. The contest will end on February 1, 2008. Please visit their contest page for more details.

LBW Summer 2007 Issue News

The Summer issue of the fanzine Little Blue World will ship to subscribers in mid-July. Here’s some of what’s included in this issue:

• LBW’s exclusive chat with Blaise Reutersward, the Swedish photographer who captured the American Dolls.

• ADP Section: “My Posse Can Do: A look at Tori’s American Dolls.” “Where Have We Gone Wrong, America?”: An Analysis of “Yo George.” “High Concept: a history of the concept album.”

• Articles: “Winged Painters and Frozen Frames: Tori Amos and the Visual Arts.” “Tori Amos and The Sims 2.” “Looking in on former opening act: Matt Nathanson.”

• Reviews: American Doll Posse and The Orphans by Kristeen Young.

• PLUS regular features likes News, Expert, and Ears With Feet (featuring Violet of Undented) and a brand new comic strip.

For more information about back issues, this issue, or how to subscribe, visit www.little-blue-world.org

Meet The Wombat

Amsterdam resident and fearless adventurer The Wombat set out from his cozy home with his best friend, Arjan, to meet Tori in person at the Amsterdam show on June 3rd.

There was a bit of a scare at the M&G-that-wasn’t when The Wombat fainted in the hot sun, sending many Toriphiles into shock. Fortunately Tori came out and did a M&G after the show. The Wombat was feeling much better in the cool night air and they had a lovely chat.

He is greatly looking forward to getting another shnoogle from Tori in London next month. (Perhaps Arjan will be lucky enough to get one as well.)

Grande Ruota!

Just when you were thinking to yourself, “Hey, how come we don’t see more Italian Toriphiles making videos for Big Wheel?,” one comes through. Woot! (And it’s fantabulous, too.)

Thanks, Saiph.

Return Of The Living Setlists

Just when you thought it had been ripped to bloody shreds by the evil Cyber Monster, Sped Erstad’s Tori Amos Setlist Database rises from the dead, victorious! Posted today:

“Rock stars have kidnapped my son!”

Or I should say Registerfly had kidnapped my domain. Apologize for the downtime, but I have rescued the domain and I will be getting the 2007 tour info ready to go soon. Thanks for stopping by. (June 11, 2007)

But will our fearless hero survive the demands of the real world and live to update the site another day? Stay tuned…

Petition: Bring Tori to New Zealand

Alastair wrote in to tell us that New Zealand-based Tori fans are putting together a last-ditch effort to bring Tori to New Zealand by collecting signatures on this petition. While Tori went Down Under in 2005 for the Original Sinsuality tour, she hasn’t been to NZ since Under the Pink!

Tori Makes Rare Promotional Appearance In Oz

Simon sent these photos of Tori making a rare in-store appearance in Sydney, Australia. Okay, don’t get too excited yet. It’s not really Tori. But somebody spent a lot of time on this. This gets an “A” for effort. (Or “A” for affort. Something like that.) This is loads better than the promotion most stores would bother to do, if any at all.

Note the chicken. Niiiiiiiice!

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Tori Meets The PS22 Chorus

On Friday afternoon, in New York City, Tori met a very special group of people: the PS22 Chorus. This was a dream come true for Gregg Breinberg and the kids, and was obviously quite special for Tori as well.

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Tori Billboard Mosaic

Several of you have asked if we’ve heard anything else about the giant Tori billboard mosaic that fans submitted photos for back in December.

We’ve asked Tori’s reps what’s up with this, but haven’t had any luck getting them to comment. We can only hope that the collage is still being worked on and news will turn up on it at some point.

Tori Amos Record Release Party in NYC

Join Tori as she celebrates the release of her new album, American Doll Posse, on May 1 at a secret location in New York City’s Times Square area from 7-9pm. The event will include an intimate, 30-minute solo performance by Tori. Starting at 10am on Tuesday, May 1st, be one of the first 80 people to purchase Tori’s new album at the Barnes & Noble Union Square location only (33 E. 17th Street, NYC), and you will receive a wristband which gets one person into this special event.

Epic will also be giving away 10 pairs of tickets to fans on Tori’s mailing list. If you live in the NYC area and want to go, send an email with the subject line “TORI IN NYC” and include the following in the body of your email:

• your full name
• email address
• mailing address
• phone number

The first 10 people to contact them will get the tickets.