Tori Amos Fan Discussion Thread

The Dent has posted some new info like some upcoming tv appearances.

The Late Show With David Letterman - Oct 29
NBC Weekend Today - Nov 2
Last Call W/Carson Daly - Nov 8

Also they have some nice photos of her from an upcoming issue of 'Instyle' magazine.

http://www.thedent.com/instyle1002.html

 

I caught that last night before I went to bed. I love those photos from the polish sites!!

 

From the Sony UK site:

Not so much a collection of songs as a sonic novel, Scarlet?s Walk is the new album from Tori Amos. Both highly personal and deeply political, it?s an epic and thought-proving journey though America. A road trip in the classic Kerouac tradition, narrated by a character called Scarlet who is Amos herself and yet who is also Everywoman.

?Scarlet is walking in my shoes,? says Tori. ?You could say she?s based on me. Or perhaps I am based on her.?

As on all good road trips, along the way Scarlet discovers much about the world around her and even more about herself. About the past and where we?ve been and where we might be headed.

Populated by a cast of sometimes desperate but always fascinating characters and rich in symbolism and allegory, it?s both a voyage of self-discovery and an examination of the stark choices facing us in a world which often seems to have lost its moral compass.

Partly inspired by the stories told by Tori?s mother of her Cherokee family?s history and partly by the crisis of identity in contemporary America, it is the most challenging, ambitious and vivid creation from Tori Amos?s fertile imagination to date.

Scarlet?s Walk begins on the West Coast, where she visits AMBER WAVES, a phrase found in America The Beautiful and also the name of a porn star in the movie Boogie Nights. Amber?s in trouble. ?She had arrived in the city of angels with a dream of being someone. But ?from ballet class to lap dance and straight to video?, her soul has been slowly eroded. She?s still a young woman, perhaps in her late 20s. But the porn baron who made her a star has moved on to the next ingenue. The public has eatern her and spat her out and she has nobody who cares". So Scarlet and Amber undertake a journey, which eventually leads Scarlet to Alaska to see the Northern Lights. "There she's given the message to tell Amber they?re not drowning, but waving.?

A SORTA FAIRYTALE finds Scarlet back in LA with a man she has convincedherself is her life's soul mate. ?They take the big trip in the classiccar up the Pacific Coast highway and across the desert.But as they go on,the masks drop away and they discover the fantasy they have of each other isn?t who they really are.? They end up back where they started and Scarlet leaves. ?They did care. But somehow they lost each other. Which is why it?s only A Sorta Fairytale...?

Scarlet moves on to take other lovers. In WEDNESDAY she?s in a relationship with a man who harbours secrets. ?The trust is gone and she doesn?t know whether she is imaging that he?s up to something or whether he really is. She?s becoming something she never wanted to become - possessive and suspicious.? But on another level, Scarlet?s love-affair is with America. ? Is the land of the free really so free? People have put their trust in the ideal of America. But whether it?s the broken treaties with the native American people or the recent stock market crash , greed has taken over.?

On STRANGE, Scarlet?s journey takes her to the sites of some of the last stands of the native American people, including Little Big Horn. From there she journeys on through the Bad Lands. ?Scarlet has taken on the beliefs of her lovers and on another level those of her country. But she?s begun to question them. We are taught that America stands for democracy. But that?s not what she?s seeing.?

Next she meets up with the manic depressive CARBON. They travel through the Black Hills of Dakota and to Wounded Knee, scene of one of the darkest episodes in Native American history. ?All Carbon wants is to disintegrateinto nothingness. So its an extremely destructive story. Just as peoplerisked their lives to keep their sacred land, a meltdown is about tohappen in her life and a waltz into insanity is on the horizon. She?s on this downhill race in her mind and Scarlet has to get to her before she kills herself.? They end up in a ski resort - Bear Claw , Free Fall and Gunner?s View in the song are all ski runs. But for Carbon the normal parameters and boundaries have ceased to apply and

 

Ahhhh you beat me , Searah! I was gonna post that. Oh well

 

I cannot wait to hear the rest of the album now--October 29th is so far away!!

And I want to know more tour dates, darnit, so I can start making plans and saving money.

 

You read on The Dent how ticketmaster had some dates up one day and the next day they were gone right?

 

Yeah, that's frustrating. I mean her tour starts in a month and a half and we don't have a schedule.

 

Thanks so much for posting that!

If you think it's hard to wait for this album, what about me. I haven't heard any of the songs besides the radio edit of ASF.

 

I've got 'Taxi Ride' on my weblog to download

And you can find the others here:

http://hereinmyhead.oneway.com

 

I understand Epic's wanting to keep thinsg under wraps, but they also need to realize some of us have to start saving and finding close venues.

 

Yes, I am going to have to book a flight at least to Florida. The sooner i can book it, the cheaper it will be. (And the more Tori concerts i can see.)

 

7-Nov Tampa, FL Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center
9-Nov Melbourne, FL Maxwell C. King Center For Performing Arts
10-Nov Atlanta, GA Atlanta Civic Cetner Theatre
12-Nov Fairfax, VA Patriot Center
13-Nov New York, NY
15-Nov Camden, NJ Tweeter Waterfront
16-Nov Wallingford, CT Oakdale Theatre
17-Nov Providence, RI Providence Performing Arts Center
19-Nov Lowell, MA Tsongas Arena
20-Nov Montreal, Quebec, Canada Molson Centre
22-Nov Toronto, Ontario, Canada Sears Theatre at the Air Canada Centre
23-Nov Columbus, OH Palace Theatre
24-Nov Auburn Hills, MI The Palace of Auburn
26-Nov Cleveland, OH State Theatre
27-Nov Chicago, IL Chicago Theatre
30-Nov Minneapolis, MN Northrop Auditorium
1-Dec Milwaukee, WI Milwaukee Riverside Theatre
3-Dec St. Louis, MO Fox Theater
5-Dec Denver, CO Magness Arena
7-Dec Salt Lake City, UT Ford Theater
9-Dec Vancouver, BC, Canada Queen Elizabeth Theatre
10-Dec Seattle, WA Key Arena
11-Dec Portland, OR Childes Center
13-Dec La Jolla, CA RIMAC Arena
14-Dec Las Vegas, NV The Joint
16-Dec Tempe, AZ Gammage Auditorium
17-Dec Los Angeles, CA Universal Ampitheatre
21-Dec San Francisco, CA Bill Graham Civic Auditorium

She'll have to be adding a few dates here and there because there are plenty of gaps. And I don't see Washington, D.C. or Baltimore, two places she almost always stops.

I am so excited she is coming to the King Center in melbourne. I'll have to call my sister today and tell her to get me a ticket!!!

 

I hope she's adding a few more dates. Cause she usually goes to Texas. And as of the moment St. Louis is as close as she is coming to me.

I wonder if she is going to do what she did with the 'Plug' tour? Cause if she doesn't add then yet again I won't see her in concert.

 

I'm still shocked she is coming to the Maxwell King Center in Melbourne--it only seats 2,001! That's a small venue.

 

I just read on The Dent, there is a possibility that she'll do a 2nd leg of her tour once the new year starts.

Saerah, that is an extremely small venue! There goes my idea this tour being similiar to the 'Plugged' one.

 

I know! That is why I was suprised. I'm also thinking she may stick in a date in Orlando/Kissimmee on Nov. 7 since that date is open. It's unusual for her not to have a concert there in Florida! The King Center's site is www.kingcenter.com. Thankfully my sister lives minutes from there and can get tickets straight from the box office. It's on the campus of Brevard Community college. She played there on the DDI tour in 96 though...not sure why this venue was picked again.

I keep thinking this isn't going to be like Plugged or the '99 tour...especially with her venue choices.

She better have a second leg She never missed the D.C./Baltimore area, and I still have my fingers crossed for a Pittsburgh date.

 

St. Louis is the closest she is going to come to me. I've already begun trying to get people to go with me... but it's so far away. Hopefully she comes to at least Kansas City on the second leg... but I don't know what I would do with myself if she came to Omaha!

 

She came to Omaha in 96, right? I have a few mp3s from that show.

 

I don't know... but if she did, she needs to go there again!!

I found out that I'm good friends with a Torifile today at school. I mentioned that Tori was going to be St. Louis to my friend and she was like, "Whoa! I really love that one cd... um, Strange Girl?" We had a really nice discussion about it. Now if only she could drive.

 

Lol, I have some good news though via the dent:

Tori verifies that she will tour again in the States starting in January 2003 and then begin her European tour around March 2003. There are plans to do "something" in Australia at some point in 2003, but no details were given. (Not sure if that means a tour or just a promotional visit of some kind!)

YAY!!!

 

YAY!!!


Then there is hope she'll come my way!

*dances a happy dance**

BTW I love the new look for www.hereinmyhead.com

 

The one bad thing about Audrey's design is this: it takes forever to load on a 56k modem.

Tickets to the Melbourne concert go on sale FRIDAY @ 10 AM!! I can't wait!!!

 

Yeah, it took me awhile to load as well.

 

At least October 29 is getting closer...

 

Did anyone get the presale password?