Fly Beeyond Festival Tickets On-Sale

Christos alerted us to the fact that Ticketnet.gr is now selling tickets for the Fly Beeyond Festival in Athens, where Tori is playing on July 18th. Tickets are 63 € for a single day and scale up from there if you want to attend multiple days of the festival.

If you can not read Greek, there is a page in English where you can submit contact information to Ticketnet.gr so that they can contact you to complete the sale. I do not know if there are any limitations for using the Greek order form for people from outside Greece.

Update: According to Christos, the order forms — both Greek and English — appear to be tailored for Greek inhabitants. However, he indicates that it is always possible to order tickets for pick-up at the Ticketnet office or the Badminton Theatre. And, as always, it never hurts to “contact Ticketnet”;http://www.ticketnet.gr/contactENG.html to find out for sure.

ADP Tour Merchandise

While the details are sketchy, it appears there is a variety of merchandise being sold during the tour including several different t-shirts, a tour program (scans of which can be found in CollectingBees.com’s photo gallery, a poster, a scarf, and coffee mugs. I believe I also saw mention of a tour necklace though I can not confirm that.

In various discussion fora, the t-shirts have been described as:

• one shirt which includes the caption “Got MILF?”
• one with wolves howling at the moon and lyrics from “Mr. Bad Man”
• one with a graphic of Santa and a lyrics from “Programmable Soda”
• one shirt with lyrics from “Teenage Hustling”
• one shirt with lyrics from “Bouncing Off Clouds”

If anyone can provide additional details about or photographs of the merch, it would be greatly appreciated!

Florence, Italy: Yo Isabel!

Isabel made her first appearance tonight in Florence. There were reportedly some technical problems during “Almost Rosey” ( vocal problems? confirmed to be a sound issue) and when Tori left the stage as Isabel during the interlude, she was reported to be visibly upset about it. (She did NOT leave the stage immediately after or during “Almost Rosey” — thanks for the clarification, Andy.)

The show featured an expanded version of “Devils & Gods”, the b-side “Sweet Dreams”, “Caught A Lite Sneeze”, and “Space Dog”. The solo songs performed were “Winter” and “Daisy Dead Petals”. Additionally, Tori improved about celebrities and cocaine at the start of the solo part of the show. “Big Wheel” and “Code Red” again bracketed Act II, so they appear to be the anchor songs for Tori’s part of the show. The “Professional Widow” remix was played again during the costume change. Finally, Mark played guitar on-stage during Isabel’s set — let’s hope someone was minding the store back at the mixing desk!

If you were there and wish to share you thoughts or media about the show, head over to the Florence concert page and use the Comment form at the bottom!

Tori In Israel In The News

The Jerusalem Post reports on the upcoming show in Ra’anana, Israel. While getting the opening city of the tour wrong, they do provide a few logistical details of interest about gear (11 tons of it!) crew size (12 people) and venue alternations to accommodate the performance.

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The Tour Has Begun!

The first show of the tour in Rome is in the books! Santa opened the show with a set of her songs, starting with “Body & Soul.” Tori, Jon and Matt were joined by guitarist Dan Phelps on songs from American Doll Posse. There is video of several songs thanks to Robert. And thanks to mina and thewaves for sending the setlist in to The Afterglow! As far as we know, no Popes were in attendance….

Keep track of what’s going on and what reports, photos and video people have sent in for each show by heading over to the Tour page and clicking on the “flashback” link for each concert. And if you attended a show, please comment with your review and we’ll add it to the site!

A-Touring We Will Go...

The first show is tonight, so I wanted to explain how we’re going to handle concert details here on the site. (C’mon, you didn’t think we were going to leave that out, did you???)

As each show is in progress, the links in the Details column on the Tour page — the ones that have shown on-sale status so far — will automagically morph into links that say “flashback”. When you click on a “flashback” link, you’ll be taken to a page where you can both submit and read details about the concerts (setlists, photos, info, thoughts, etc.; M&G information and stories are also encouraged).

So wheeeee … let’s get this show on the road! We can’t wait to find out which doll is going to kick the tour off.

(Oh, and just a reminder that if you don’t see the new links appear, refresh the page or clear your browser cache.)

"Dear Pope, You Can Bring Your Posse..."

Tori has extended an invitation to the Pope to attend the first American Doll Posse show in Rome:

A MESSAGE FOR HIS HOLINESS POPE BENIDICT XVI

As a Daughter of the Christian Church I invite you, The Father of The Vatican to partake in Musical Communion as we commence The American Doll Posse World Tour in Rome.

Because it’s you, a small entourage would be welcome.

As Always,

I am
Tori Amos

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UN MESSAGIO PER SUA SANTITA BENEDETTO XVI

Sono una figlia della chiesa cristiana e dunque Vi invito Padre Del Vaticano, ad assistere ad una comunione musicale mentre iniziamo ‘The American Doll Posse Tour’ a Roma.

Visto che l’invito è per Voi, un piccolo entourage sarà il benvenuto.

Come sempre,

Io sono
Tori Amos

Oooh, we hope he gives her a ride in the Popemobile! Or at least lets her try on the funny hat.

Thanks to jeremy, ciciley, and angie for sending this in.

Your Daily Giggle

The Rochester Democrat & Chronicle reports that Tori will be performing with Nickel Creek in Rochester in August:

The popular bluegrass-folk outfit Nickel Creek, on its “Farewell (For Now)” tour, and piano chanteuse Tori Amos join forces (they’ll even be onstage together some) for an 8 p.m. Aug. 16 show at the High Falls Festival Site.

Of course, to anyone paying even a little attention, that doesn’t make a whole lot of damn sense. Fortunately, a quick check of Ticketmaster reveals that that is just a bad case of the reporting blues. The piano chanteuse in question is actually Fiona Apple. Hmmm, maybe all those female piano-playing singer-songwriters really are interchangeable!

Israeli Concert Tickets On-Sale Now

Tickets for the July 21st concert at Ra’anana Amphitheatre in Israel are on-sale now at www.tkts.co.il. Thanks to Matan for passing along that information!

Tori To Play In Israel

Israel’s leading news website, Ynet, confirms that Tori will be playing in Israel’s Ra’anana Amphitheater on July 21. (English version.)

Tori Amos to Israel

Another international star in Israel: Tori Amos to perform at Ra’anana Amphitheater in July as a part of her world tour

Or Barnea
Published: 05.13.07, 17:59 / Israel Culture

Mark your calendar: Tori Amos, the woman and the piano, will arrive in Israel as a part of her new world tour and will perform at the Ra’anana Amphitheater July 21.

The man behind the event is producer Shuki Weiss, who is also responsible for bringing Evanescence, Blonde Redhead and probably the Rolling Stones and Britney Spears to Israel. This will be Amos’ second visit to Israel.

Amos, 43, recently launched a new album, “American Doll Posse,” which will be featured in a world tour that will begin in May. Amos will perform in Italy and Turkey before landing in Tel Aviv.

This will be Tori’s first performance in Israel since 1992’s Little Earthquakes tour. Tori had been in negotiations to perform there in 2005, but that didn’t work out, so this news is very exciting!

Thanks to Harel Tassa and Lisa R. for letting us know about this.