Little Blue World Issue & Contest Announcement

Have you taken a great picture of Tori? Do you plan to? Little Blue World fanzine is holding a photo contest with great prizes, including signed memorabilia! The contest will end on February 1, 2008. For more information, please see our contest page.

The Fall issue of the Tori Amos fanzine Little Blue World will ship in late October. Here’s some of what’s included:

• Interview: “Lord of the Strings”: We check back in with Tori’s string arranger, John Philip Shenale, about arranging ADP.

• Feature Articles: “Guys and Dolls: the male influences on ADP,” “A Whole Lotta Love: Tori and Led Zeppelin,” “Concert Photography,” and “Around the World in 44 Years: Tori Amos and the Impact of Place, Part 1.”

• Song Interpretations of “Butterfly” and “Amber Waves”

• PLUS regular features like News, Reviews, Expert, Ears with Feet and our quarterly comic strip.

For more information about back issues, this issue, or how to subscribe, visit the Little Blue World website.

Melbourne #2: Clyde Takes A Stand

The second Melbourne concert is in the can and, despite Violet’s prediction that Isabel would take the stage, it was Clyde who opened the evening. Thanks to Clinton, jamesy and Marcus for sending us the setlist. It included “Sugar”, “Siren”, and “Mother”, as well as two improvs during T & Bö — one dealing with Britney Spears and the other with her Yamaha keyboard that was being difficult.

Reviews are starting to come in and are being posted on the second Melbourne page in the Tour section. If you were there and want to let us know what you thought, use the comment form at the bottom of that page.

Melbourne #1: Santalicious

Santa opened the first show in Oz. No real surprises in the setlist, but she did play “Tombigbee” and “Space Dog,” which are always treats. She also did a beautiful solo version of “Taxi Ride.” Joel tells us there was a cute improv about what do people in Melbourne eat for breakfast, because Tori only has four Luna Bars left and she wants to get more. (When you need to have a Luna Bar, you really need to have a Luna Bar. If I could teleport some of my stash to her, I would. Not the S’mores ones, though. Those are MINE, ALL MINE!)

If you were at this show and want to submit a review or photos/videos, head over to the Melbourne concert page in the Tour section.

We’re going to go out on a not-so-big limb and predict that Izzie will open the September 11th show. We’ll see…

Flight Of (Tori) Fancy

Admittedly this is a teeny sighting, but since I’m a huge FOTC fan (back off, Mel!), I’m going to make a big deal out of it….

At the end of this week’s first-season finale of the HBO series “Flight Of The Conchords” — which chronicles the day-to-day lives of New Zealand’s 4th most popular folk-comedy duo as they struggle to find gigs and girlfriends in New York City — Murray tells Bret and Jemaine that he has to rush off because he has a lunch date with Tori Amos. Undoubtedly the topic of Tori not playing New Zealand this tour will have been brought up over eats, since Murray works as a Deputy Cultural Attaché at the New Zealand consulate when he’s not busy moonlighting as the band’s manager.

But for our money, the best part of the episode was Bret’s hilarious (and spot-on) spoof of Kevin Bacon’s overwrought angrydance freak-out from the movie Footloose after Jemaine tells him he’s been kicked out of the band.

Thanks to Meredith, Habidabad, kelly, Matthew Schmitt, and Maureen for having keen ears and good taste in shows.

Tori on Sunrise

Cjoelad and Shane McDonnell let us know that the Australian morning television program Sunrise announced during today’s program that Tori will be a guest on the program on Friday, September 14th. Sunrise airs on Channel 7 from 6am till 9am. Looks like they archive video of musical guests for a week after the broadcast date, so check back after September 14th to view it again (or, for those of us not in Australia, for the first time).

Tori/ADP Article in Sydney Star Observer (Sept. 6, 2007)

“There are so many people who are against anything that is not a male, heterosexual power. Until those of us who choose to pull our heads out of the sand understand that this force means business, then in 20, 30 or 40 years from now we will look back at this time and say, ‘My God, where were we?’ This is life and death, the lives that you and I and our friends have, the freedom that we have to live our lives without somebody telling us what should go on in our bedrooms or what our morals should be.”

Tori and the Posse are featured in a new article in the Sydney Star Observer, as we found out from Robert Schrader. Click the link below to check out the full piece.

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San Diego Confusion?

A handful of folks wrote in today to ask about Tori’s date at San Diego’s Copley Symphony Hall, because Ticketmaster’s Web site briefly gave the show date as sometime in February of 2008. After that, the show’s listing disappeared entirely, then reappeared with the December 12, 2007, date. This is one of those times we’re just going to have to shrug and say, “We don’t know, but if that date changes, we’ll let you know.” Thanks to Robert Schrader and a couple of anonymous tipsters for sending word.

London Set to Air in Oz

Australian radio station Triple J will broadcast a live recording of one of Tori’s London concerts on Sunday, September 9th at 5 PM on Live at the Wireless. Non-Aussies can listen to Triple J online. Thanks to Astred and to Moo & Tracey for sending this in!

Update: Triple J DJ Nic Findlay has confirmed that the July 3rd London concert will be the performance aired on Live At The Wireless.

Update: According to Brian, they only played 5 songs during the broadcast: “Body and Soul”, “God”, “You Can Bring Your Dog”, “Professional Widow”, and “Big Wheel”. Unfortunately, the broadcast has not been archived by TripleJ.

Tori on Rove

During last night’s edition of the Australian television program Rove, it was announced that Tori would be one of the guests next Sunday, September 9th. Rove’s website is still showing the guests for this weekend’s program (Suzi Quatro!), but that should be updated soon once the weekend is over. Rove’s website now confirms that Tori will be on the show, performing “Big Wheel”. The program airs at 8:30pm 9:30pm on Channel TEN on Sunday evening.

Thanks to Matt L and Zeph for the tip!

Perez on Tori on Lindsay

Mayfly and Armen dropped by tonight to let us know that Perez Hilton is shining his spotlight on Tori again, this time for an improv she did in honor of Lindsay Lohan during her May 30 show in Florence, Italy. Click the link to see what Perez had to say, or just check out the video below, in which the improv leads into a performance of “Winter”: