Spinner Premieres Precious Things From Montreux

As if the three clips from the Live at Montreux DVD weren’t already whetting the appetite, Spinner has a fourth: “Precious Things” from the 1991 performance at the Jazz Festival. Check it out below:

Amoeba Records Video Interview

Another video interview clip has surfaced from the Comic Book Tattoo media blitz. Not having had a chance to view the whole thing yet, we would guess that this is another segment of the the Comic Book Resources interview, but it is actually hosted by the record store itself on their site.

View it on their site or below, thanks to super-hetrodyne object embedding technology!

Thanks to Darrell for letting us know about it and to Amoeba for posting it!

Learn To Hit Things ... From Matty

As per his website, Matt Chamberlain will giving drum lessons from September 22nd through the 26th at Donn Bennett’s Drum Shop in Seattle. If you’re interested, call the shop at +1-425-747-6145 to make arrangements. Thanks to Erin for catching this one!

UPDATE: Also, check out this timely Seattle Weekly article about our favorite little drummer boy and his attempts to school the author in the art of the beat.

Additional Details About the North American Live at Montreux

We have received confirmation from Eagle Rock Entertainment that the North American release of the Live at Montreux CD will, in fact, be a single disc with the abbreviated 16 song track list mentioned previously. However, we’re told that the omitted 3 tracks from the 1992 concert — “Crucify,” “Silent All These Years,” and “Happy Phantom” — will be available exclusively as digital downloads from from Amazon.com so folks in the States and Canada will not have to resort to ordering the CD from overseas to get the complete 1992 performance. Of course, at Amazon.co.uk’s current price of £8.98, self-importing isn’t a bad deal for a double-disc release — and other UK and European retailers have the same double-disc edition available for a similar price.

UPDATE: ToriAmos.com and Everything Tori indicate that the 3 tracks will only be available to those who purchase the album — either a physical CD or a digital download — from Amazon.

And to be absolutely clear, the North American DVD, available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and many other e-tailers will have the complete performances of both concerts.

Knights of the Roundtable

Last Thursday, Tori joined musician David Holmes, actor David Soul and host Steve Lamacq on the BBC 6 Music program Roundtable. During this weekly segment of Steve Lamacq’s afternoon radio shift, guests critique and rate new songs on 6 Music’s playlist. This past week, the panel of esteemed guests turned their baleful gaze on Keane, Bloc Party, Fleet Foxes, James Yuill, MGMT, and Razorlight. You can listen to what Tori and the rest had to say about these songs on the BBC’s media player. Note that the archive with Tori will be replaced after the next Roundtable airs on Thursday afternoon, so listen quickly if you want to check it out. Thanks to alice for the tip!

Check Out Live at Montreux!

To promote Live at Montreux, Eagle Rock Entertainment has posted a few songs from the DVD to Myspace and YouTube. Check them out below!

Thank You

Silent All These Years

Winter

Thanks to Eliot Lear, Mike Jones, Jimmy and Peter Smith for the heads-up!

Eagle Rock Announces Details About Live at Montreux

Eagle Rock Entertainment, the company releasing Live at Montreux in North America, has announced details about the DVD and CD. While the release confirms the track list that we mentioned previously for the DVD, they indicate that the CD issue will be a single disc that includes all of the 1991 appearance and a subset of songs from the 1992 concert. The CD setlist is as follows:

1. Silent All These Years
2. Precious Things
3. China
4. Crucify
5. Leather
6. Song For Eric
7. Upside Down
8. Happy Phantom
9. Winter
10. Thank You
11. Little Earthquakes
12. Precious Things
13. Whole Lotta Love/Thank You
14. Me And A Gun
15. Winter
16. Smells Like Teen Spirit

Tracks 11-16 are taken from the 1992 concert, meaning that year’s performances of “Crucify,” “Silent All These Years,” and “Happy Phantom” are excluded from the CD release.

At least in North America.

Even though the European CD is identified as a single disc release on Amazon UK, the back cover image on Amazon UK (at right) shows 2 discs, one for each show, and includes the entirety of the 1992 performance. On the other hand, HMV and Play both clearly indicate that it’s a two disc set in their listings. Unfortunately, there is nothing on the Eagle Rock UK site that addresses this seeming discrepancy, but it would seem that the European market would be getting a double-CD set with both shows complete while North America is getting an abbreviated single-disc release. If anyone happens to have any information about this, please let us know so we can clear it up.

As a reminder, Live at Montreux is released on September 22 in Europe and September 30th in North America. The DVD and CD are currently available for pre-order from all the usual places if you are interested in procuring it online. Although it is not for sale at The Tori Store yet, it should be as the release date near if one prefers to patronize Tori’s official merchandiser.

While we’re on the subject, Little Blue World contributor Alex Ramon reviewed the DVD in the latest issue of Wears The Trousers and certainly whets our appetite for the release!

Thanks to MiMi, Eliot Lear, Mark Bednarz, Melanie, Christoff, and Terry for helping out with this article.

Finally, on a somber note, we’re saddened by the death of Géo Voumard, jazz pianist and one of the founders of the Montreux Jazz Festival. His obituary appeared in the New York Times earlier this week and was passed on to us by Richard Handal.

Tori Writes the Forward for Nemi Volume 2

The second collection of Lisa Myhre’s popular comic strip Nemi features a forward written by one of the goth-girl’s favorite musicians: Tori Amos! Although the book is only featured on the UK section of publisher Titan Books’ website, it will be available in both Europe and North America starting the week of September 28th and can be pre-ordered from all the usual online booksellers right now.

Thanks to Mart for giving us the initial head’s up about this!

Here A Tori, There A Tori - List Edition! (September 10, 2008)

[Here-a-Tori, There-a-Tori is an occasional column rounding up small Tori mentions far and wide.]

In this episode, we list a number of recent Top Whatever lists on which Tori or her work have appeared:

• Entertainment Weekly’s readers pick their Top 20 Worst Covers
• Yahoo Music’s 25 Best Singer-Songwriters Currently Working
• WYEP’s Top 100 Songs from the 90’s
• Out Magazine’s 100 Greatest, Gayest Albums

read more...

CBT On Spread TV

After a couple of false starts, it looks like Rantz Hoseley‘s visit to discuss Comic Book Tattoo with Dave Navarro on Spread TV should finally be up sometime today (August 28th) over on maniaTV. That’s what the giant banner on the front page says, at any rate, though the episode isn’t listed in today’s schedule on the site. The best we can suggest is that you keep checking. It’ll show up eventually. We hope.