Little Blue World's Spring 2008 Issue

The Spring issue of the Tori Amos fanzine Little Blue World will ship in mid-April. Here’s some of what’s included in the issue:

• Interview: “The Guy Who Runs the Place…” Our exclusive interview with Rantz Hoseley, who talks about Tori’s breakthrough into comics, as her songs become the subjects of an upcoming graphic novel.
• Special focus: the results of our photo contest; unveiling the winning photos and more.
• Feature articles: “Friday Night Margaritas: Tori and God,” “Polaroids 1998-2008, Part 2: A look back at from the Choirgirl Hotel,” “Tori and the Recording Studio: the invisible instrument” and “Giving Us the Boot.” Examining the “Legs & Boots” series.
• Reviews and retrospectives: “Singing Ears with Feet: Casey Stratton” and “When a Happy Song Isn’t: Happy Rhodes.”
• Regular features, like News, Ask the Expert, our quarterly comic and a “Tori Story.”

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

Tori Is Woman, Hear Her Roar

According the BBC Press Office, Tori was one of several women interviewed for “I Am Woman,” an upcoming BBC Radio documentary about Helen Reddy’s song of the same name and the women’s movement, emphasizing the perspective of women in arts and entertainment. Hosted by Mariella Frostrup, the program airs on BBC Radio 2 on Tuesday, March 11th at 10:30 PM GMT

Radio 2 can be heard in a variety of ways, but their online stream will probably be of most interest to the average Undented reader. If you miss it, the BBC seems to archive most of their documentaries so you should be able to catch it there.

Thanks to Mermaid and Saar for the tip-off!

"Yo, George" On "Body Of War" CD

Now, this is nifty. According to Billboard, Tori’s “Yo, George” joins songs by Pearl Jam, Bruce Springsteen and others on 30-song, two-disc album “Body of War: Songs That Inspired an Iraq War Veteran.” The collection also serves as the soundtrack to a documentary about Tomas Young, an Army soldier who was paralyzed while serving in Iraq. The album comes out March 18.

For more about the film, check out the Body of War Web site.

The full track list of the CD set is beyond the cut. Thanks to Mike P for sending this our way!

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Perez Sez Videos Online

Want to see Perez’s conversation with Tori from the “Divas” show?

Ask and ye shall receive:

You can see the whole episode here. Thanks, Marlina!

Tori In Geek Monthly (January 2008)

“It’s a blessing that I have to work within these constraints. I think that’s kind of…good for me,” she says, again laughing. “In no uncertain terms, when you work with the British National Theatre, you know what your gig is. I’m the composer. I write the songs. I’m not involved in the casting. I’m there to make sure that the singers and the actors have the best material they could possibly have.”

Thanks to an anonymous benefactor, we now have a full transcript of the Geek Monthly on Tori, including a bit of wordplay between writer David Michael Conner and Miz Amos.

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Tori And Perez (And A Doll's Tea Party)

We know many of you are off skiing or celebrating the last president who allegedly never told lies (Yo, George), but some of you are itching to see Perez Hilton’s “Divas” visit with Tori tomorrow and noticed that he posted a pretty cute picture of himself with Tori over on his site:

Check out those dolls and the adorable tea set next to them on the bed, Fabz and Marlina! Don’t forget that the show airs tomorrow on VH1.

Get A Piece Of Pele

Martian Engineering is apparently selling the Tascam M-3700 Mixing Desk Tori used in the recording of Boys for Pele. Click on over to see several views of this snazzy gear, and apparently you can swing by the Martian site to see what else they’ve got for sale. The desk price? 500 GBP, or about $1,000. Thanks, William M!

Tori A Diva? Perez Says ...

Well, we’re getting more details on the upcoming VH1 What Perez Sez About Divas program. Like, it’s going to air Feb. 19 — not Feb. 12, as previously reported. Over on the VH1 site, we learn “Catching up with Tori Amos, Perez gets behind Tori’s wig fetish.” Stay tuned to find out exactly what that means. Cheers to Robert Schrader, Chris Barrett and Lauren for keeping us informed!

Yoav In The Spotlight

After opening for Tori, Yoav is earning some extra attention. His album Charmed and Strange hit stores Jan. 29. He also earned a recent writeup on BuzzSugar.com. Jody Beard and kimberly, are you charmed? Or strange?

More Details On Comic Book Tattoo

The Dorothy Snarker blog at AfterEllen.com recently got wind of the Tori Amos’ Comic Book Tattoo project and included details from a recent SPIN article on the subject.

Among the juicy details: the comic will be 400 pages long and is due out in time for the July ComicCon. Cheers to kimberly, Tim Petrochko and RedHeadDancingGirl for drawing our attention to the blog.

To check out some of the art from the book, see this item from January 20. Whee!