More Possible Tour Dates, On-sale Date?

Undented reader Hank received an email today from Y-Rock, a Philly-based radio station, announcing that Tori will play Oct. 15 at the Tower Theater in Philadelphia/Upper Darby, Pennsylvania. It says — get this — that tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. this Saturday. Guess it’s time to thaw out our credit cards!

Also, we notice that Ticketmaster removed its Oakland listings from this morning. Again, nothing’s certain until the Tori camp says so, but it sounds like we’ll get a better sense about the North American leg of the tour very soon!

The first U.S. Tori dates?

As of this morning, Ticketmaster is showing two upcoming Tori dates at Oakland’s Paramount Theater — December 7 and 8, 2007. No on-sale or pre-sale dates are listed yet. Devin sent this in after spotting it today; keep checking their site to see if more listings emerge. Of course, nothing’s official until the Tori camp says it’s official. But we’d be lying if we said we weren’t squeeing just a little.

Backstory on "The Light Princess"

A few weeks ago, we reported that the much-rumored stage production Tori might be working on was a theater adaptation of “The Light Princess,” as reported in the UK Daily Mail. However, some of you might be asking, “What the heck is the ‘Light Princess?’” Richard Handal sent us a bunch of goodies that begin to answer that question.

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Sony launches Japanese Tori site

We know that Japanese fans won’t get their mitts on locally released copies of ADP until July 18, so Yuta Onaga sent in something to tide you over: Sony’s Japanese ADP site. There, you can see the tracklisting, photos of all the dolls, and plenty more.

Tori featured on Bosey site

We know that Tori and the piano-making dudes (and dudettes) at Bösendorfer have had a long-standing love affair with one another. It isn’t news that Tori played in Vienna, Bösendorfer’s headquarters, on June 8. But Jamee tipped us off to the fact that the pianomakers have also written a news item about Tori’s show. We especially like the “T&Bö” symbol illuminated on the curtains. Together forever, eh?

Bucharest Concert Preview From Nine O'Clock

Nine O’Clock, an English language newspaper in Romania, drums up some enthusiasm for Tori’s concert tonight at Sala Polivalenta in Bucharest. Apparently there are still some of the cheaper seats left for this show, but not many. Hopefully, those seat are as comfortable as those required in the green room by Tori’s rider!

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Tonight's ADP Review

Tonight, a South African entertainment guide, has posted their review of American Doll Posse, giving it a rating of 5 stars (out of how many though, they do not say). Read on for the review of check it out on their site.

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Kyriakatiki Eleutherotypia Article (July 8, 2007)

In preparation for the upcoming Fly Beeyond Festival, an article on Tori appeared in 7 Magazine in the Greek newspaper Eleutherotypia this past Sunday. You can view the article in the original Greek, or read on for an English translation from Christos Limnios.

[Additional note from Christos: “About Tori being abused by a family friend: I only knew about the rape. I only found this story in the Greek press, apparently everyone copies this bio-origin unknown.” But we could swear we’ve seen that same thing mentioned somewhere else in the very recent past, and we don’t think it was in the Greek press. We can’t turn it up now, though. Can any of you recall where this has shown up before, or were we on crack?]

UPDATE: Aha, Beverly Camp comes through… Check out the quote from Die Zeit (November 11, 1999) included in the “Black Dove” comments on HereInMyHead.com. Yay, so it wasn’t the crack! (We were probably recalling a recent discussion about that quote on one of the fora.)

Tori, Just As Persephone

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Radio Suisse Romande's Montreux Coverage

Radio Suisse Romande has been covering the Montreux Jazz Festival on their festival blog and have posted a few articles about Tori.

The first, if I can trust my crusty language skills, is a preview of Tori’s concert and includes an interview with Tori which you can stream or download. Tori’s answers are somewhat difficult to hear as a translation was overdubbed, but you can still make out some of her responses if you listen carefully.

The second is an interview, with streamable or downloadable audio, with a Tori fan at the meet & greet.

And the third is a review of Tori’s performance this evening at Auditorium Stravinsky.

If anyone would care to translate these posts to English for us, we’d be happy to post them here to share with everyone.

RSR has posted several photographs of Tori from before and during the concert in their photo gallery:

Jan Sundström points out that the photographer of the previous two pictures has posted the first image on Flickr and explains how he came upon Tori before the concert.

Montreux: Tori Takes Santa With Her

Tori played the Montreux Jazz Festival this evening. Santa opened the concert with her usual set of songs, including “God”, but the real news of the evening is that, after having it on the setlist a couple times but not playing it, Tori debuted “Take Me With You”, one of the new songs from A Piano that had never been played before! The full setlist comes from EverythingTori and is posted on our Montreux page. And, as I’m sure you’ve already guessed I’m about to say, if you attended the concert, please use the form at the bottom of that page to let us know what you thought of the performance!