Yle Interview (June 9, 2015)

Tori spoke to Ville Vedenpää from Yle, Finland’s public-broadcasting company, and video of the interview is available from in Yle’s media player. (Strangely, you can not embed the video…but you can download it. Huh, go figure.)

The interview is about 10 minutes long and during it Tori fields questions about The Light Princess and the future plans for the musical, the current tour, the status of women in the music industry, her parents and what her plans for her next album are – or aren’t as she is currently focusing on the musical and getting the cast recording ready for a September release.

The clip is also available with a text summary from Yle’s news website.

Update: As you would expect, the video clip you can download has been uploaded to YouTube:

Tori To Play Lokerse Feestern

A third festival date in early August has been added to Tori’s summer itinerary. This one is Lokerse Feesten, a festival which takes place in Lokeren, Belgium (about midway between Antwerp and Ghent). Tori will play the festival on the evening of Thursday, August 6th. Tickets are on sale now. For more information about the festival and to purchase tickets, check out their website.

And yes, we said third. Even thought we mentioned it on social media and even added it to the Tour section, we forgot to post a news article about Tori’s playing A Summer’s Tale, a festival in Luhmühlen, Germany (close by to Hamburg and Lüneberg). She will be performing on Saturday, August 8th. Tickets are available now; head over to the festival’s website to purchase and for more information.

So, this means there are several performances in early June (Finland and Norway) and the three festivals in early August: Stockholm Music & Arts, Lokerse Feestern, and A Summer’s Tale. One wonders if there might be one or two more dates in August yet to surface…or maybe not! We shall see…

Finlandia Summer

Continuing the Scandinavian hopscotch tour, the first concert of Tori’s two-night stand at Helsinki’s Finlandia Hall is in the books. Many thanks to @sunjan for live-tweeting the show on Twitter; the complete setlist now has been posted in our Tour section.

Like the show in Denmark, this evening’s performance was a full-length concert, tipping the scales at just under two hours in length with one four-song encore. The set featured “Apollo’s Frock,” “Indian Summer,” “Fire On the Side,” “Upside Down,” and covers of Depeche Mode’s “In Your Room” and The Eurythmics’ “Here Comes The Rain Again.” A little of U2’s “Running To Stand Still” also made an appearance within “The Power of Orange Knickers,”

Videos of several songs have already surfaced on YouTube and have been added to the concert’s page in the Tour section. We’d love to share reviews from anyone who was at the show; if you’d like to post your thoughts, scroll down to comment form on the concert’s page and scribe away!

Tuesday brings us the second show in Helsinki. Looking forward to see what she has in store for those who attend!

Castles Are Burning In My Heart

One week ago and on the other side of the continent, Tori had just finished performing at Primavera Sound on the southern shores of Europe for crowds of thousands. Tonight she held a concert in the garden of a Danish castle for just over a thousand people. No contrast there at all!

Thanks to the efforts of @muskelmaria, we were able to update the setlist in real-time. Somewhat unsurprisingly given the non-festival setting, tonight’s concert diverged quite a bit from what was played in Barcelona. Featuring “Spark,” “Oysters,” “Forest of Glass,” and “Girl,” the set also included a cover of Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love” with a bit of the chorus from “Abnormally Attracted to Sin” tossed in for good measure! The complete setlist is up in the tour section if you want to take a peek. Thanks, also, to Lisa for sending us a photo of the printed setlist.

We’d love to hear from anyone who was in attendance! If you’d like to share your thoughts on the performance, you can send a review in using the comment form at the bottom of the setlist page.

The rest of the week sees the continuation of the summer’s “Scandinavian swing” with concerts in Helsinki on Monday and Tuesday and festival shows in Norway on Friday and Saturday. Looking forward to those too!

Primavera Sound Today!

Update: Today’s show is in the bag and the setlist is up on the site! We’d love to hear from you if you were there and would like to share your thoughts or photos or videos from from the show. Just use the form at the bottom of the setlist page or let us know!

Holy crap! Time flies when you’re busy and, all of a sudden, the first of Tori’s several summer festival and theatre appearances is upon us! And it is a historic one at that as today’s performance at Primavera Sound in Barcelona marks the first time Tori has held a concert in the country of Spain! Needless to say, we are quite happy for all who getting their first chance to see her in their home country today as well as for everyone else who has traveled to the Catalan coast for this enormous and sprawling music festival on the Mediterranean.

Tori’s performance today is on the Ray-Ban Stage at 20:30 CEST (click that link for when that is in your local time zone). She has a hour long slot, as is typical for festival settings. We’ll be hanging out, as usual, over on Twitter monitoring the social media streams for news from the show and, hopefully, the set as it happens. If not, we’ll wrap up the coverage afterwards. (Unfortunately, Tori’s performance is not one that will be streamed live – alas!)

We’ll be doing this for the rest of the date this summer. If you’re going to any of the shows and are willing to send us the set list in real-time, let us know!

Tori To Play Stockholm Music & Arts

Just when you thought the little summer tour that’s been mapped out and complete, out pops another date!

The line-up for the 2015 Stockholm Music & Arts festival was announced today and Tori is on the bill for Saturday, August 1st. Tickets go on sale on Monday April 27th at Noon CEST or maybe 11:00 AM CEST, if you believe Tori’s social media streams.

As this show is happening a month and a half after the latest of the shows at the start of the summer, we’re wondering if this means that more dates may be announced…but, alas, the tea leaves in our cup are just saying, “Future murky, ask again later…”

Little Earthquakes And Under The Pink Re-issues Released This Week!

Calloo Callay! The deluxe re-issues of Little Earthquakes and Under the Pink are out today!

Well, at least in Europe. North America has to wait until Tuesday for these remastered albums with extra tracks to see the light of day and, if you believe JB HiFi, Friday is the release day in Australia. Of course, many pre-orders of the CDs and vinyl have already shipped and and been received in the US and Canada.

Complete streams of both re-issues are available on YouTube, kindly uploaded by Rhino Records. Give ‘em a listen if you’re mulling over picking them up or want to but aren’t able to do so just quite yet…

Deluxe Little Earthquakes And Under The Pink Are Go!

In the still of the night, ToriAmos.com got spiffed up with a new splash page announcing the release of the deluxe CD editions of Little Earthquakes and Under the Pink!

Each re-issue will include a second disc with b-sides, live tracks and other rarities culled from the singles released during each albums’ era. Additionally, both albums will be released on 180 gram vinyl — the first time either has been released in the US in that heavier format. (There is no word on non-US releases of either record in any format. Hopefully some light will be shed on that soon from Tori and/or Rhino Records)

On that splash page, you’ll also find a static video of “Take To The Sky,” if you want to get a taste of what’s coming.

As we reported earlier, the double-CD re-releases of both albums are available for pre-order on Amazon.com but the release date is one week earlier on April 14th — even though Amazon still lists the 21st for both. You can also pre-order both iTunes, which indicates the albums have been remastered, as well. (Of course, these will certainly be available from other retailers if you’d prefer to make your purchases elsewhere.)

Update: Jump the cut to read Girlie Action’s press release about the re-issues.

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Things That Make You Go Hmmmm...

Update: And lookie at what popped up today…

Check back tomorrow….. pic.twitter.com/jg4xSiEhR2

— tori amos (@toriamos) February 3, 2015

We wonder why this picture of the Little Earthquakes “mushrooms” appeared on Tori’s official social media channels last night…and we wonder if a bit of the artwork from Under the Pink will show up today.

??????? pic.twitter.com/Lde19ISHs4

— tori amos (@toriamos) February 3, 2015

Rhino To Reissue Little Earthquakes And Under The Pink?

If one believes Amazon.com listings, it would appear that Rhino Records, the label that brought you A Piano: The Collection, will be re-issuing Little Earthquakes and Under the Pink on April 21st!

According to the listings, the CD editions of both albums will include a second disc with most, though not all, b-sides from each album’s singles. Both re-issues will be available on vinyl as well, though, it appears, as a single long-player, without the b-sides disc. We’d guess, however, that the vinyl will come with a digital download for the whole collection or, possibly, will include a copy of the CD as well — some labels do that these days.

As of now, there is no mention of these releases on Rhino’s website or ToriAmos.com but hopefully there’ll be more details soon…

Jump the cut for the track listings snarfed from Amazon…

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