Anaheim: Pip and Santa Sitting In A Grove

Double-Doll action really can strike twice!

The Grove of Anaheim was treated to sets by both Pip and Santa last night — and Pip even came back out a second time, sipping Santa’s mojito, to close the show performing “Suede” for the second encore!

As a general admission show, the audience was on the rowdy side and, it seems, Tori anticipated that by returning the favor in advance with the two “loud” Dolls.

T & Bö included “Carbon” and “Take Me With You”. Other interesting song selections included “Liquid Diamonds,” “Pretty Good Year,” “Hotel,” and, during Pip’s set, “Heart of Gold.”

The full setlist, thanks to jamesy, is posted in the Tour section. If you were there, please let us know what you thought of the show!

The [San Diego] Shizznit Hits The Fan

Numerous agencies have picked up the news about Tori kicking the two girls out of the San Diego show during “Code Red.” (Jump the cut to read some of them, provided by Stephanie, Kimberly, jenndawn, JupityrBoi, Annie Marie, Chris, franco/pork, Joshua, and Fredrick.)

Those of you who checked the San Diego concert page after the show know that we mentioned this at the time and had the “Code Red” footage (including the expulsion) up a couple of hours later, but in my excitement to post the roundup article, I completely forgot to mention that bit here on the front page and it was still news to some of you. Oops, my bad! I was a little verklempt at the time and not thinking clearly. Check out the video on the concert page (it’s at the 2:28 mark).

The incident is still unclear… Some fans have said that the two girls were being outrageously squirrelly, running in and out all night, talking on their phones, taking pics of themselves, and yapping up a storm. Others say that they moved up into the front row seats when they were vacated by other people in an attempt to jump the gun on the mass stage rush at the end of the song. Either way, it’s safe to say that whatever they were doing, it was distracting enough to piss Tori off royally.

UPDATE (Dec. 16): d. ackerman sends us this additional info:

As we were leaving the show, we happened to walk past one of girls that got kicked out. She said: “I don’t know why the fuck she did that. We were just switching seats with someone,” so the information about them preparing for the stage rushing appears to be accurate.

Right after the incident, a man ran up to an empty seat in the front row and asked Tori (via gesture) if he could sit. She gave him the nod and (venue) security promptly removed him. I felt really bad for him.

Interesting. So the mystery (and confusion) only deepens. Chances are, no one except Tori will ever know exactly what happened or why (including the girls it happened to, apparently). LOL

As a final note, we’d like to make a point of giving another shoutout to Stebbo (aka butterfly0fdoom) for taking the footage — and in fact recording almost every song — and sending it in to us so we could have it up for you guys right after the show. For those of us who couldn’t be there (and were at home crying into their cocoa), that was the next best thing, and was truly awesome! Rock!

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Santa Barbara: Clyde Heard About Your Fandango

Alas! There was no repeat of San Diego’s double-doll action last night at The Arlington Theatre in Santa Barbara. Clyde opened and played her regular allotment of tunes. Following her set, Tori came out and ripped through a set which featured the debuts of “Alamo” and “Talula”, as well as “Parasol”, “Spark”, “Lust”, and “Past The Mission”.

By now y’all know the routine: the full setlist, thanks to Jimmy and jamesy, is in the usual spot. If you were there an would like to review the show, please use the comment form there. Violet or I will get them posted a bit later today — right now though, I have to go dig my car out of a pile of snow and ice.

AZCentral.com Concert Review (December 12, 2007)

The excellently-named Justin Doom reviewed the December 11th show at Phoenix’s Dodge Theatre for azcentral.com. (the same review can also be found on their concert blog.)

Perhaps more interestingly to some, there is a four-photo slideshow with some nice close-ups for the Clyde fans out there.

Check it out!

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San Diego: Girl On Girl Action!

Holy crap, a two-doll show! Santa and Izzy both showed up in San Diego tonight. (I know woj is saying, “Why the hell did I let her talk me into going to the Oakland shows?!” right about now. Sorry sorry sorry, dude!)

As someone on one of the forums said, this is what we thought Oakland was going to be: “Mountain,” “Tombigbee,” “Doughnut Song,” “Leather,” “Twinkle,” “SPACE DOG”!

I … I can’t go on. Just go check out the setlist and post your reviews if you’re one of the folks lucky enough to have been there and leave me to cry into my cup of cocoa. sniffle No, don’t worry about me, I’ll … be … okay …

Ah well, at least the rest of us have the promise of reliving the shweet, shweet memories vicariously via Legs & Boots. Files not up yet, but should come soon.

Pair Of Free Tix To L.A. Show

Toriphile Scott just found out he won the LAist.com contest and he has two tickets to the L.A. show on December 16th.

Problem is, Scott can’t go. He lives in Portland and can’t get down to L.A. on such short notice. He’d like to pass the tickets (which come with a free copy of ADP) on to a deserving Toriphile in the L.A. area who can attend this show. He needs to send the LAist.com people the full name and mailing address of the person who is going so their name can be added to the will call list. Then the replacement “winner” will just have to show their driver’s license to pick them up.

If you’re interested in a free pair of tickets to the final show of the tour, send a message to Scott right away. They’ll prolly go quick, so hurry! The LAist.com people need a response from him as soon as possible.

[UPDATE: The tickets are gone. We wish Danny a great time at the show. It’s going to kick ass!]

Phoenix: Clyde Redux

Clyde opened the concert last night at the Dodge Theatre in Phoenix, marking one of the few times that the same Doll opened back-to-back shows. While there were no debuts, there were several rarer songs performed including “Purple People” (with the band) and “Black Swan” (solo). “Silent All These Years” balanced out T & Bö. The rest of the set was leavened with “Sweet Sangria”, “Concertina”, “Northern Lad” and, for the final encore, “The Beekeeper”. The full setlist, sent in by jamesy, has been posted in the Tour section. (I should have taken a few more days off work and stayed out West for this one, huh?)

If you were there and would like to share your thoughts about the concert, please do so using the comment form at the bottom of that page (note: we’re a bit behind on comments and other tour stuff right now, but hope to clear out the backlog soon).

This show is already available as a digital download in mp3 format from Legs & Boots, with flac files to come.

The SF Weekly Loves Santa

Last week, in the run-up to Tori’s three-night stand at The Paramount, SF Weekly became the latest in a long line of periodicals to print D.X. Ferris’ Piano Girl piece — though they sneakily retitled it Piano Posse. More interestingly, they posted a slideshow of photographs from Friday’s show on their All Shook Down blog. Santa’s elves should find something there to whet their appetite!

Thanks Kimberly for the link!

Oakland III: The Landslide Brought Clyde Down

The final night at The Paramount in Oakland was opened by Clyde. Despite some speculation that the show was going to be filmed, no camera crews were in evidence and the concert was a bit more “normal” as far as the proceedings went after the last two nights. As the show is not slated for an official bootleg, covers abounded: Clyde played “Rattlesnakes” while Tori brought forth “Landslide” during the solo T & Bö section. The other T & Bö tune was “Baker Baker” and the rest of the set featured “Josephine,” “Siren,” “The Beekeeper,” and “Digital Ghost.” The full set list has been posted in the Tour section where, as always, we encourage people who were at the show to post their thoughts in the comments.

Oakland II: A Little Pip'll Do You

Pip opened the second of three shows at the Paramount in Oakland last night. Despite the rolling cameras and the potential warning sticker, she swore her way through “Cruel,” “Bliss,” “The Waitress,” and her repertoire of Posse songs. Tori’s set featured “Space Dog,” “Spring Haze,” “Digital Ghost,” and, during T & Bö, “Cloud On My Tongue” and “Winter”. The full setlist (for real this time!) has been posted in the Tour section. If you were at the show and would like to share your thoughts on the evening, please do so using the comment form there.