Harp Magazine Interview (August 2007)

I think that if I had approached this maybe 11 years ago, then there wouldn’t have been the seduction that some of the great rock gods had. Over the years, this is just the truth, I didn’t really understand about feminine seduction.

John B let us know that the August 2007 issue of Harp Magazine includes a one-page interview with Tori conducted by Brian Orloff. The article is not on Harp’s website yet but John kindly sent us a scan, transcribed below.

July 25, 2007 Update: The article has been posted on Harp’s website.

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Radio Suisse Romande Interview

Clément also points out that Radio Suisse Romande broadcast an interview with Tori during Gérard Suter’s program Radio Paradiso back on June 12th. It’s not clear when this interview was conducted. The interview was conducted in London in March (thanks Aimee), includes several album tracks, but no live performances, and is archived in Real Audio. Note: Tori’s answers are overdubbed in, if I am not mistaken, French, though you can still mostly make out what Tori is saying.

Also, a quick search of RSR’s site pulls up a future listing which appears to indicate that Radio Paradiso will be broadcasting from the Montreux Jazz Festival, where Tori is playing on July 11th. Whether or not they actually air any of the live performances though is not clear.

Monte Carlo Nights Interview Stream

Clément reminded us that we hadn’t mentioned that Tori’s April 30th appearance on Monte Carlo Nights has been archived and streamed on demand in either Real Audio or Windows Media (click on your preferred format when you follow the previous link). Unfortunately, the several songs she performed live during the session — “Father’s Son”, “Beauty of Speed”, “Almost Rosey” and “Silent All These Years” — are not complete, but the interview segments with Nick The Nightfly are intact and good listening (and, I’m sure if you poke around the recesses of the Intertube long enough, one can locate the complete songs as well).

Music Express Re-Run On Ovation

Dave Fanning’s 2005 interview with Tori on the program Music Express will be re-run two more times in July on Ovation. If you’re one of the few who receive this cable television channel, look for it at 5:00 PM on Tuesday, July 17th and again later that night at 2:00 AM. Ovation’s description of the program goes like this:

The singer/songwriter/pianist Tori Amos is known for combining the stark lyrical attack of alternative rock with a distinctly ’70’s musical approach. Her music falls somewhere between the orchestrated meditations of Kate Bush and the stripped-down poetics of Joni Mitchell. Many credit Amos with single-handedly reviving the piano as a sexy, rock and roll instrument. In this interview, Amos talks about her ninth album, The Beekeeper, which weaves together ancient feminine mysteries and Biblical mythology represented through allegories of queen bees and gardens.

Thanks to Amy and Mallory for the tip! Incidentally, we’re still lacking any details about this interview, so if anyone would care to describe or transcribe it, we’d greatly appreciate it!

Update: Thanks to Lorna for pointing out that Ovation is now carried by DirecTV on channel 274. Hopefully that will allow more people to catch this elusive interview!

CD Times Concert Review (Manchester, July 5, 2007)

Luke McNavey reviewed the Manchester concert for the music community site CD Times and was, after some initial disappointment, a fair bit more impressed than his counterpart at the Evening Times.

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Manchester Evening News Concert Review (July 5, 2007)

Tom Oliver attended Tori’s show at the Manchester Apollo on July 5th and, as his review in the Manchester Evening News reveals, wasn’t too impressed.

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American Songwriter Interview (July 2007)

My point to you is, as a songwriter, greatness is not measured by how many eaters of fast food there are, there’s more fast food eaters and beer drinkers than there are of good wine. So you have to know, am I making good wine, or am I making Pabst for the planet?

Sean Curran also let us know about this interview in the July 2007 issue of American Songwriter magazine. The full interview is available to those who register on the site.

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SPIN's Transformers: Tori In Disguise (July 2007)

Jamee and Sean Curran report that the July issue of SPIN includes a brief Tori mention in a section titled “Transformers”, which describes musical artists who have drastically changed their image and sound. Tori’s transformation from “rock glam” to “earth-toned alt goddess” is the first listed and they, perhaps somewhat harshly, describe YKTR as such:

Big hair, ruby lipstick, cleavage, and a sword: the vixen pictured on the cover of the self-titled 1988 album by Y Kant Tori Read might have stepped out of a Whitesnake video. Inside, she thanks her label boss for “letting me make the record I wanted to make.”- namely, a collection of glib ’80s crud.

Of course, what comes around, goes around as the distance between Y Kant Tori Read and American Doll Posse is a lot shorter than 19 years.

Other artists included in the piece, which is not yet on SPIN’s website, are Marc Bolan, Dr. Dre, Vanilla Ice and Al Jourgensen.

Pubs And Clubs Overview (June 28, 2007)

Presumably in light of the new about her September tour of Australia, Pubs And Clubs magazine has posted a Tori-in-a-nutshell sort of article on their site, which is a decent overview of Tori’s career for the uninitiated. While the average Undented reader probably won’t learn anything from this piece, the average scenester might!

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Smarthouse ADP Review

No to be out-done, the Australian magazine Smarthouse has weighed in on American Doll Posse as well, giving it 3½ stars out of 5.

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