Tori Amos

I’d like to introduce myself as the new blogger for Tori Amos. I’ve been a fan of Tori’s since 1996, when a friend played me the “Under the Pink” album. I was working as a waitress at the time and once I heard that track, well, as you can guess, I was hooked!

Since then, I’ve purchased every album and been to numerous concerts, mostly in North Carolina, where I reside. I was lucky enough to stand (almost face to face) with Tori in 1998 and get her autograph. She’ll be passing through Charlotte on Nov. 13 and I can’t wait to see which ADP gal will grace us with her presence.

I’ve also been a staff writer for the official Tori Amos fan magazine, Little Blue World, since early 2006, and I’m happy to be working with such a great group of talented, creative fans over there.

For today, I’d like to mention a few contests that are going on.

Good luck!

BBC 2 - Scotland will air highlights from T In The Park on Friday, August 10th at 23:35 BST, that will include some footage from Tori’s performance. Keep checking with their listings, which are posted on Saturdays for the following week.

A German radio station Radio Eins aired the July 3rd concert from the Hammersmith Apollo in London on Wednesday, August 1st, and if you understand German, go to their site and see if there is a link to listen to it again…

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Go to THIS LINK to purchase the VIP Tickets for Tori Amos’ 2007 American Doll Posse Tour.

VIP Tickets for the following shows go on sale TOMORROW, August 2nd!!!!

*Tue, Oct. 9th show at Palace Theatre in Albany Gold ONLY
*Sat, Oct. 13th show at the Landmark Theatre in Syracuse Gold ONLY
*Wed, Oct. 24th show at Shea’s Performing Arts Center in Buffalo Platinum & Gold still available

What’s the big deal about VIP Tickets anyway?

Well, I’ll tell you.
Platinum Package includes:
-One (1) reserved ticket in the first 10 rows of the venue
-Special viewing of a portion of Tori’s sound check
-Meet and Greet with Tori before the show
-An exclusive Tori gift bag
-Crowd free merchandise shopping

Gold package includes:
-One (1) reserved ticket in the first 20 rows of the venue
-Special viewing of a portion of Tori’s sound check
-An exclusive Tori gift bag
-Crowd free merchandise shopping

More dates with VIP Tickets will be announced soon.

So loosen up those fingers, add the Ticket Master link to your favorites and say Omm! a few times for good measure…

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I received this email a couple of hours ago, but my power went out so I was unable to post it right away. This email comes directly from The Tori Store:

The Tori Store has now partnered with Ticketmaster to provide Tori fans with VIP Ticket Packages for the upcoming North American leg of the American Doll Posse Tour. Going on sale this Thursday (Aug 2) at 10 am EST will be the VIP Ticket Packages still available for the following shows:

Albany Gold (ONLY)
Syracuse Gold (ONLY)
Buffalo Platinum
Buffalo Gold

Please note there are an extremely limited number of packages available and they are sold on a first come first serve basis.

Also, due to the Pittsburgh show not being a Ticketmaster venue we will NOT be able to sell any further VIP Ticket Packages for this show.

Tori VIP Ticket Packages can be found at the Ticketmaster link provided.

Stay tuned for information about more on-sale dates for additional VIP Ticket Packages coming next week.

For more information visit The Tori Store.

Thanks,
The Tori Store

So does this mean all the stuff you told us about the VIP tickets only being on sale through The Tori Store doesn’t count anymore?

Yes, that’s exactly what it means. The VIP Tickets WILL NOT be on sale through The Tori Store, as previously indicated. I suppose when their website crashed (and crashed hard, from what I gather) they begged and pleaded with Ticket Master to offer these tickets.

Will I need a password to get these tickets, like with the pre-sale tickets for the concerts?

Not from what I understand so far. It should be a fairly simple transaction, if you can get them before they sell out, that is…

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Tickets for the Louisville, KY show will go on sale to the general public NEXT Friday, August 3rd at 10:00 a.m. NOT today, as previously announced.

The Tori Store is up and running (hoorah!) but the VIP Tickets are not available yet (booo!). There will be mass emailing with plenty of advance notice as to when they will be available again. So my advice is to go to The Tori Store website and follow the instructions for

Email Newsletter Sign Up.

This will create your account, if you don’t already have one, so that you will receive the email when the VIP Tickets are available, AND it will ease the check-out process, as you will already be established in the system.

There is also a FAQ Section about the VIP Tickets, detailing the differences between the Gold and Platinum tickets, where and when to arrive…

1. What do I get with my Platinum VIP Ticket Package?
2. What do I get with my Gold VIP Ticket Package?
3. I don’t see my date for sale. When will the rest of the shows go on-sale?
4. When will I receive my ticket for the show?
5. When should I plan to arrive at the venue?
6. Will I meet Tori?
7. How long are VIP Ticket Packages available to purchase?
8. How do I get added to your mailing list?
9. None of these answered my questions. How do I get into touch with you?

My understanding is that NOT every show on this leg of her tour will allow VIP Tickets, for one bureaucratic reason or another. So if your city isn’t listed as having VIP Tickets yet, keep checking back. But if the tickets are on sale for the show in your city and there are no VIP Tickets listed with The Tori Store, looks like you’re outta luck. Unless you want to travel to the next closest city, which for me would mean going to Atlanta, which would mean 10+ hours in the car each way, so let’s all hold hands and say “Ommm” in the hopes that VIP Tickets will be available for the FL show.

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An important VIP ticket message from the folks at The Tori Store, that comes via undented.com:

Hello patient Tori Store customers,

As many of you are well aware, we had many problems with our VIP Ticket sale. First off, sincere apologies for this. We knew the demand was going to be amazing and were told the technology we had in place would be able to handle this. Unfortunately not.

Having said that, there are a lot of orders that were successfully placed and those people have been emailed and notified.

We would like to point out that before our server crashed we did sell out of VIP Packages for the following…

Syracuse Platinum
Philadelphia Gold
Philadelphia Platinum
Boston Gold
Boston Platinum
DC Gold
DC Platinum
Pittsburgh Platinum

Additional packages are still available for:
Albany Gold
Albany Platinum
Syracuse Gold
Buffalo Gold
Buffalo Platinum
Pittsburgh Gold
and will be back on sale shortly. As well as packages for over 20 more dates.

Please note we were able to capture the check-out queue successfully and responded to those who were in line before tickets sold out. If we have not individually responded to you then it means your attempt was not successful regardless of whether you had tickets in your shopping cart or not. Please remember this is a very limited supply offer.

We will be continuing with the VIP Ticket sales but orders will not be fulfilled directly through our servers. We will be sure to send out emails announcing new and additional on-sale dates and where you need to go to purchase. All this information will also be available on the front page of The Tori Store as soon as it is available.

Once again, apologies for all the confusion and frustration. As regular customers know this is not a usual occurrence. We did everything we could to rectify the situation in real time but after a while we had no choice but to take the site down. The Tori Store will be back up and running Thursday morning, excluding any VIP Ticket Packages.

Thanks for your patience,
The Tori Store

So if you were one of the people who had the tickets in their cart, check all 12 of your email addresses to see if The Tori Store has accounted for yours or not.

One more thing: The VIP Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable.
What does that mean?
If someone else purchases tickets for you (qualifying for a non-transferable clause): As is always the case online, when you purchase with a credit card you are required to include both a billing address and a shipping address. If someone else — your mom, brother, roommate, summer school teacher, pit bull, whoever —purchases VIP tickets for you and puts them on their credit card, as long as they use the address that is on your personal ID/Driver’s License as the SHIPPING ADDRESS, you will be able to get your tickets. In other words, as long as the billing address or shipping address — one or the other — is the one on your personal ID, you’re good to go.

The Tori Store is still not online yet, but keep checking!!!

Patience truly is a virtue.

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Okay, so here’s the real deal:
The pre-sale tickets for cities previously listed, but I’ll list them again because I’m so nice:
Albany, NYC, Syracuse, Philadelphia, Boston, Buffalo, Washington DC, Detroit, and Louisville, are ON SALE NOW!!!!

You must go to the Ticket Master website (open that link in a new window) AND you must have your password from when you pre-ordered American Doll Posse from iTunes.

What if I didn’t pre-order American Doll Posse from iTunes?
You will not be able to order the pre-sale tickets. The tickets are being sold through Ticket Master, but you need to have the password from your pre-order purchase of the album through iTunes, NOT your TicketMaster account password.

What about the VIP Tickets? Can I still buy those if I didn’t pre-order American Doll Posse from iTunes?
Yes and no.
Yes, you must go to The Tori Store to order the VIP tickets. Only certain cities have VIP tickets available. However, due to the fact that the new site launched only days ago, there has been a breakdown within the site and the message reads as follows:

Due to the overwhelming response from fans for the VIP Ticket Packages, we have experienced unforeseen extreme technical difficulties and have had to temporarily take down The Tori Store in order to fix these problems. We apologize for all the frustration that this can caused. We are working very hard to resolve the problems as soon as possible. VIP Tickets will go back on sale. We will let everyone know via email when that will be so you can all plan accordingly. Please bear with us.

Thank you,
The Tori Store

So the best advice I can give is to make sure that you have an account set up with the new Tori Amos website so you will receive an email alert when the VIP tickets will be on sale again. VIP Tickets are ONLY FOR SALE through the Tori Store, so don’t check Ticket Master for those.

Confused yet?

Email or comment with any questions and I will do my level best to answer them.

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Pre-sale info has been added for NY, Detroit, and Toronto.

Please note that the regular on-sale dates will be the Friday immediately following the pre-sale date.

10/11 Madison Square Garden, NYC
iTunes pre-sale begins Wednesday, July 25th, 10am Eastern

10/12 Madison Square Garden, NYC
iTunes pre-sale begins Wednesday, July 25th, 10am Eastern

10/23 Toronto, CANADA
Circle Of Friends pre-sale begins Thursday, July 26th, 10am Eastern
**you need to be a member of Hummingbird Centre’s Circle Of Friends to participate in this pre-sale

10/28 Detroit, MI
iTunes pre-sale begins Wednesday, July 25th, 10am Eastern

There have been some disgruntled Tori fans with regard to the iTunes exclusive pre-sales. (Hell hath no fury like a Tori Amos fan scorned…isn’t that the saying?)

The deal is this: if you pre-ordered American Doll Posse through the iTunes Store, you received a log in ID and password. The log in and password given to you for the album pre-sale will be the same for the concert tickets pre-sale, which will begin July 25th at 10am. You will receive another email from iTunes when more shows become available for this promotion.

As I mentioned in a previous post, the shows with pre-sales so far are the following:
Albany, NYC, Syracuse, Philadelphia, Boston, Buffalo, Washington DC, Detroit, and Louisville.

But it is my understanding that you should still be able to purchase pre-sale tickets through the TicketMaster website, as it states the pre-sale dates and times. I can’t seem to find any confirmation or denial of this. Anyone with any information leading to the resolution of this hot topic will be rewarded with… the knowledge that he or she helped resolve the issue… or …something…

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This is almost how excited I am now…

Well, if I thought she was busy before…

The ALL-NEW Tori Amos website launched today! Check it out now at the same web address: www.toriamos.com

What’s changed?
Well, I’ll tell you. Now, you can create your own profile pages within the site, upload photos, comment on news and blog posts, review shows, rate songs and much more!

Why the change? ToriAmos.com was pretty kickin’ just the way it was…
In her own words:

“So many of the letters I get from fans include stories of how they’ve met some of their closest friends at one of my shows. I love that they’ve created this network. It inspired the idea of creating an online place outside of the tour where my fans could get to know each other and hang out and once in a while I can pop in and say hello. This seemed like a fun way to do both.” — Tori Amos

Wow, that’s awesome!
But wait! There’s more!!!

Tori announced her North American Tour today! Kicking off in Albany, NY on October 9th and finishing in Los Angeles, CA on December 17th, Tori and the band will be playing close to 50 dates in the US. Here are initial dates with more to be announced shortly:

10/9 Albany, NY Palace Theatre
10/11 New York, NY Theatre at Madison Square Garden
10/12 New York, NY Theatre at Madison Square Garden
10/13 Syracuse, NY Landmark Theatre
10/15 Philadelphia, PA Tower Theatre
10/18 Boston, MA Orpheum Theatre
10/21 Montreal, Canada Place des Arts
10/23 Toronto, Canada Hummingbird Centre
10/24 Buffalo, NY Shea¹s Performing Arts Center
10/26 Washington, DC DAR Constitution Hall
10/27 Detroit, MI Fox Theatre
10/28 Louisville, KY Palace Theatre
10/30 Pittsburgh, PA Benedum Centre
11/1 Cleveland, OH
11/2 Indianapolis, IN
11/3 Milwaukee, WI
11/5 Chicago, IL
11/7 Minneapolis, MN
11/9 Lawrence, KS
11/10 Omaha, NE
11/12 Nashville, TN
11/13 Charlotte, NC
11/14 Atlanta, GA
11/21 West Palm Beach, FL
11/24 Dallas, TX
11/25 Houston, TX
11/26 Austin, TX
11/28 Denver, CO
11/29 Salt Lake City, UT
12/3 Vancouver, CAN
12/4 Portland, OR
12/5 Seattle, WA
12/7 San Francisco, CA
12/17 Los Angeles, CA

As I mentioned before, the presale will be exclusively through iTunes, so check iTunes or the new Tori Amos website for more details. However, keep in mind that as of today, the shows with presales will be: Albany, NYC, Syracuse, Philadelphia, Boston, Buffalo, Washington DC, Detroit, and Louisville.

Wow…even cooler! Thanks!!!
But wait, there’s even MORE!
More??
Yup.

The Tori Store is pleased to announce the availability of VIP Ticket Packages for select dates on Tori’s upcoming US fall tour. VIP ticket packages? Of course–> Very Important Posse tickets. In an endeavor to provide fans with guaranteed preferred seating, VIP treatment, and backstage access to Tori, a limited amount of these VIP Ticket Packages will be available for select dates on this fall’s American Doll Posse World Tour.

Fans will have the opportunity to purchase either gold or platinum status VIP ticket packages.

Platinum packages include:
- A reserved ticket in the first 10 rows of the venue
- Special viewing of a portion of Tori’s sound check
- A Meet and Greet with Tori before the show
- An exclusive Tori gift bag
- Crowd free merchandise shopping

Gold packages include:
- A reserved ticket in the first 20 rows of the venue
- Special viewing of a portion of Tori’s sound check
- An exclusive Tori gift bag
- Crowd free merchandise shopping

Visit The Tori Store for more information and details about when VIP ticket packages go on sale.

Holy crap! That’s almost too much delicious, Tori goodness to handle in one sitting!
I know, just remember to take deep breaths and concentrate on one thing at a time. Got it?

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This info comes via Tori Amos.com, which was actually taken from various posts on undented.com, found here and here and here.

Unconfirmed (but likely) U.S. Tour dates:

Oct. 11 and 12 New York City - WaMu Theater (Possibly Onsale July 27th at 10:00 am)
Oct. 15th Philadelphia,PA Tower Theatre (Possibly Onsale July 27th at 10:00 am)
Oct. 26 Louisville, Kentucky Palace Theater
Oct. 30 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Benedum Center
Nov. 2 Live Indianapolis, Indiana Murat Theatre
Oct. 26 Louisville, Kentucky Palace Theater
Dec. 7 & 8 Oakland, CA Paramount Theater

I’m assuming (read: hoping) that this is not a complete list, there will be more stops in the U.S. (*ahem* Miami) but as the info (rumors) trickles down, I’ll keep posting what I hear/see/read, even if it feels a little like the he-said, she-said stuff from junior high.

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Busy Little Bee

Tori Amos will never be criticized for being lazy. She is all over the place with this new album: television appearances and performances, both morning and late night; interviews with reporters in essentially every town she visits on tour; magazine interviews; choosing a winner for her contest; performing at AOL Music Live… it’s exhausting just to keep up with all she’s got going on, I can’t imagine actually doing all these things.

And yet, I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve heard her music on the radio. (All 3 of which were years ago when I lived in Michigan) Or heard a DJ mention her songs or even just her name. I don’t watch MTV or VH1 anymore, but I can’t assume that she’s all over those channels either. This is the brilliance of Tori Amos. She doesn’t need (or want) the mainstream “support system,” because she understands that the mainstream is what kills an artist. Sure, for some it’s a springboard, perhaps even a necessary evil, but in the end the artist needs to know that what she or he doing is greater than their ’self.’ The artist needs to know their own voice and what it’s saying. As she points out in this July issue of American Songwriter “…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?”

Three cheers to Tori for making wine. Lord knows we don’t need any more Pabst.

Tori Amos is featured in two other recent articles: the July issue of American Way and the August issue of Harp.

Nils van der Linden for IAfrica.com also recently reviewed American Doll Posse, giving it 3.5 stars out of 5. Check out the review here.

Still no updates about the American Doll Posse 2007 U.S. Tour Dates.

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Tori Amos was holding a contest for fans to create the video for her single “Big Wheel” from the album American Doll Posse. Here is the winning video, created by Wes Sutton:

Click here to view the other 75 entries.

Click here to see Tori’s live AOL Music performance, click here to listen to her BBC 2 Interview from this last Tuesday, and check out this video interview with Tori posted at lexpress.ch which was done during Tori’s recent visit to the Montreux Jazz Festival. In the clip, she reflects on the Festival as being the starting point of her career, the power of seduction, and her future as a touring artist. While she doesn’t say she’ll never tour again, she does say that she’s not planning another big world tour.

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Tori Amos will be touring in the U.S., the dates have just not been posted as of yet.
So, here are the remaining European Tour Dates Tori has lined up for the American Doll Posse Tour:

July 8, 2007 - KINROSS, SCOTLAND – T in the Park

July 11, 2007 - MONTREUX, SWITZERLAND – Montreux Jazz Festival
On sale now at ticketcorner.com

July 13, 2007 - BUCHAREST, ROMANIA –Sala Polivalenta
On sale now at phoenix.ro and bilet.ro

July 15, 2007 - ISTANBUL, TURKEY – Masstival
On sale now at masstival.com and biletix.com

July 18, 2007 - ATHENS, GREECE –Fly Beeyond Athens Festival
On sale now

July 21, 2007 – TEL AVIV, ISRAEL –Ra’Nana Park

September 10, 2007 – MELBOURNE, AUSTRAILA – Hammer Hall
On sale now at coppel.com, and ticketmaster.com

September 14, 2007 – SYNDEY, AUSTRALIA – Opera House
On sale now at coppel.com, ticketmaster.com, and sydneyoperahouse.com

September 16, 2007 – CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA – Canberra Theatre
On sale now at coppel.com and canberratheatre.com

September 18, 2007 – NEWCASTLE, AUSTRALIA – Civic Theatre
On sale now at coppel.com and ticketek.com

September 20, 2007 – ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA – Thebarton Theatre
On sale now at coppel.com and venuetix.com

September 22, 2007 – BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA – Convention Centre
On sale now at coppel.com and ticketek.com

September 27, 2007 – BERTH, AUSTRALIA – Concert Hall
On sale now at coppel.com and bocsticketing.com

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