The Believer Article (June/July, 2007)

There was a Tori mention in an article from the June/July 2007 issue of The Believer. It was featured in the 2007 music issue. (Vol. 5, No. 5) The article is written by Gina Gionfriddo and is entitled Radcliffe, Shelley, Freud, Reznor. william the silent told us that this piece is about 10 pages long and kindly provided us with the Tori mention:

Tori Amos brought anger into the mix with songs like ‘God,’ but even then, the most a disappointed Christian woman could do was tell God off and claim the catty last word: ‘God, sometimes you just don’t come through / Do you need a woman to look after you?’ Of course, innumerable bands have played with rock concert as black mass or satanic pep rally, but these always seemed to me more Halloween party pageants than serious sacrilege. Nine Inch Nails was the first band I’d seen dig its heels in for a prolonged theological slugfest. And where Madonna and Amos played one role in the drama, Reznor played all of them—oppressor God, interpreter-priest, fearless rebel, petrified victim, insatiable Faustian transgressor, etc.

On the magazine’s website you can find an excerpt of this article, tho if you want to read the entire article you’ll have to purchase the whole issue. Well duh, I hear you say.

Tori Interview on Oz TV's "Sunday"

Tori was on Oz television’s Channel 9 this morning, where she was interviewed on a program called Sunday. You may not be able to see the video unless you have Internet Explorer installed, so be warned. You can check out the accompanying text here. Thanks to the many of you who sent this in, including Anna, who was the first.

UPDATE It’s on YouTube too, thanks to kalysc:

Red Sabbath (October 7th, 2007)

“Red Sabbath”... sounds lurid, maybe even a little sacrilegious, doesn’t it? It’s Sunday, you’re here looking for a little Tori somethin’-somethin’, and it’s not like you were planning to go to church or anything, so it’s no use pretending you have anything else going on.

Here’s the first column of what we hope will become a regular-ish Sunday feature where we’ll present some interesting Tori-related nugget for your amusement: artwork, humor, silliness, whatever strikes our fancy at the time.

This week, check out “Choirgirl”, a photo project inspired by From The Choirgirl Hotel. About the project, journalist/photographer Aaron Alper explains:

Music and its energies reflect every aspect of my life. Tori’s music does especially. I get inspired by her enough to want to translate her songs into photography.

From the Choirgirl Hotel is, despite the origins for the songs, an album about loss. Each song has an element of loss in it, whether it be through losing another person or losing oneself. But more importantly, Choirgirl teaches that losing something isn’t permanent and, with the proper searching and emoting, when you find what you’re looking for once more you are more whole than before.

I hope these pictures parlay that fact.

(As an interesting aside, Aaron also interviewed Tori back in 2005 and it happens to be one of my favorites, so if you haven’t read it, you may want to check that out as well.)

Now go get some coffee and bagels and go to a park or something. You look too pale.

Additional MSG Tickets Released (And An Ad!)

Stephen let us know that he had gotten an e-mail notice from Madison Square Garden indicating that more tickets had been released for the two shows there next week (and, in fact, I just looked and pulled up a few seats in the section closest to the stage for Thursday’s show; the best currently available for Friday are in the middle section).

Additionally, that e-mail also included a link to the concerts’ page on the WaMu Theatre’s website where you can find this neat little television commercial for the show:

I haven’t seen this on the boobtube myself but then, I’m still catching up on the last season of Lost!

Third Oakland Show Added

filmbuff83 alerted us that Everything Tori has announced a third Oakland show at the Paramount on December 9th. Woohoo!

There will be VIP tickets available for this show. They’ll go on sale on October 12th. (General sale begins October 14th.) No exact URLs yet, but as soon as we know them, we’ll add them.

We’ll see you at the Oakland shows!

Tori On The Tonight Show (October 1, 2007)

Tori performed “Bouncing Off Clouds” on The Tonight Show on Monday, October 1st. If, like me, you slept through it by accident (damn you comfy couch!), YouTube is your friend!

Thanks to robbit, Tony, and Saar for the link!

Update: Lisa071573 attended the taping. Jump the cut for her account of the performance and a brief (and I mean brief) video of Tori leaving afterwards.

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Yahoo! Music Adds Bouncing Off Clouds Video

The video for “Bouncing Off Clouds” is now available on Yahoo! Music. As has been reported, this video is comprised of a series of still images of Tori dressed as the members of the Doll Posses and is very similar, though not quite identical to, the “Big Wheel” video.

Yahoo! Music’s video player is Flash-based and should work with all platforms. However, if you have trouble viewing it there, it is also available at Sony Australia’s musicbox and may still be on Rage’s playlist as well.

Thanks to mayfly for reminding me to post this!

Yoav: Meet The Opener

Over the weekend, The Bowery Presents, promoters for the Albany, New York City and Syracuse shows, listed Yoav as the opener on their show listing. The Santa Barbara Independent’s listing for the Arlington Theatre show concurs. And while the tour dates on his website don’t show anything after September, the tour dates on his MySpace are beginning to look suspiciously like Tori’s. (One assumes that the October 1st show at the Palace Theatre in Albany is a typo.)

Update (2007-10-07): Yoav’s website has been relaunched and all of Tori’s tour dates are now listed.

So, it would seem we have our opening act for the North American leg of the tour.

For everyone planning on hitting one or more of the shows on the upcoming tour, check out any of the several songs from Yoav’s debut album that can be streamed on his website or MySpace to get an idea of who will be kicking the evenings off.

Thanks to Saar for the tip!

Lighting and Tori and Pictures! Oh My!

Meg points out this posting at Martin Professional, Inc.‘s website that addresses the lighting design and gear choices made by Dave Farmer, the lighting designer on the American Doll Posse tour. As Martin is a company that produces stage lights and other kit, the article is unsurprisingly slanted towards their products but, nevertheless, it’s fairly interesting since it gives a behind-the-scenes perspective which we normally do not see.

However, more importantly for the average Toriphile, there is a fantastic gallery of several dozen images of Tori on stage, featuring the aforementioned lights in action. Check out the full set of images at Martin’s website!

Video Of Triple J's Top Shelf Interview On Jtv

As earlier mentioned, Tori was interviewed by Robbie Buck (Australian Triple J’s Top Shelf radio program) on Thursday 13th of September 2007. This interview was filmed and then broadcast on jtv on Friday 28th of September 2007. In this interview she talks about her alter egos and writes an apology note to Richard Kingsmill for an interview they did together in 1998. You can now view the video here.

Update: The video has unsurprisingly surfaced on YouTube as well:

There are some other goodies if you scroll down that page:

• An mp3 of the notorious Richard Kingsmill interview from 1998.

• A link to an mp3 of a mixtape done by Costa Zouliou for Triple J Music Specials from 2005.

• A link to the Triple J gallery which has some hot shots of Pip from the 14th of September 2007 Sydney concert.

Grab it all before it disappears!