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../DETAILS Released: April 27, 2007 (Netherlands & Germany) May 1, 2007 (US) Recorded: 2006 Genre: Alternative Length: Record label: Epic Records Producer: Tori Amos ^ top ../LINER NOTES Management: John Witherspoon and Chelsea Laird The Bridge Entertainment Group Chief Technician: Adam Spry Chef: Dan Stockland Household Coordinator: Debbie Thomas Resident Mary Poppins: Hayley West Studio Accountant: Helen Gilbert Builder of the Martian Empire: John Gardiner Strings and brass arranged by John Philip Shenale Piano technician: Trevor Lowe Photography: Blaise Reutersward Art Direction & Design: Ria Lewerke & Norman Moore Composites: Tim Wild The Glam Squad: Karen Binns, Lesley Chilkes and Cim Mahony US Accounting: Phil Holthouse and Cindy Cooper at Holthouse, Carlin & Van Tright European Accounting: NMG/MGR Legal: Peter Paterno and Michelle Jubelirer at King, Holmes, Paterno & Berliner US Booking: Carole Kinzei at CAA Australia and Asia Booking: marlene Tsuchii CAA European Booking: Mike Dewdney at ITB European Travel: Dave Brock at Rima Travel Wigs by TRENDCO Matt Chamberlain uses Ludwig Drums, DW, Remo drum heads, Istanbul Agop cymbals and Vic Firth sticks Thanks to: Rob, Charlie, Andy, lee, Jacquie, Cory, Lois, Tracy, Jeroen, Scott, Lisa, Sarah, Farra, April, Abe, Laurie My Personal Thanks... To Mark and Natashya for giving me more laughs in just one day than I used to have in a whole year before you two giggled your way into my life. Mom and Dad, as always and forever. Johnny and Chelsea, the creative Calvary. Irene Hawley, still the best mother-in-law in Christendom. Mollie and Dave. Marie, Cody, Casey, Kit, Kelsey and Cory - Team Dobyns. Matty Chamberlain and Jon Evans. Mac Aladdin and his very cool Dad. Marcel, Thea, Simone, and Leon van Limbeek. Phil and Katie Holthouse. Jim Garrity. Peter Paterno. Michelle Jubelirer. Carole Kinzel. Mike Dewdney. Cindy Cooper. Debbie, Wesley, Phillip and Kelly. Tim and Sue. Ali Evans. Barry and Kalen at Music Sales. Nancy Shanks (Beenie). Neil Gaiman. Nell Arnaud. Philly and Marta. Jon Astley. The Glam Squad. Sascha Breuer. Miranda Eggleston. Dr. Rita. Andy and Cristy. Keith Anderson. Smitty. Mr. & Mrs. Rose. Jenni Clark. To all the Martians: Hayley, Trevor, Emily & Maizy, Super Debs, Mark, Sian, Rhys & Abbie. Rob's Travel, Adam, karen, Edward & Luke, Helen, Dan, John, Debbie & Lee, Phil & Uncle Bob, Paul & Gary, Mick, Pearl & family. John and Heather Penn at SSE. Rob and Natalie van Tuin. Ed Grossman. Matthew Rankin. Krisy Gosney. Andre Beale. Barry Pluke. Louise Thestrup. Paulette and Ilene. Dana. The Beans. Armenda Delaney. Tanya Staite. The Medicine Men: Edru, Curtis Kekahbah. Last but never least, the Cornish faeries. Martian Thanks: Neil McCombie www.scotchmcneilaudio.com Martin Hemmerie at HBH Woolacotts www.hbh-woolacotts.co.uk Adam Swainson. Visit www.martianengineering.com www.toriamos.com www.everythingtori.com www.epicrecords.com ^ top ../MUSICIANS Vocals, Bosendorfer, B3 Hammond, Wurlitzer, Meletron, upright, Clavichord, Rhodes: Tori Amos Vocals: Pip, Santa, Clyde, Isabel, Tori Drums: Matt Chamberlain Bass: Jon Evans Guitars: Mac Aladdin Strings: Edward Bale, Matthew Elston, Holly Butler, Rosmary Bank Tuba, Euphonium: Nick Hitchens ^ top ../THE POSSE The American Doll Posse consists of five girls. From left to right: Santa, Clyde, Isabel, Tori and Pip (click on the image for a larger photo). They each have their own personality, they even own their own weblogs! Click on the links to view their blogs: ) ^ top ../QUOTES "Hey there, this is Tori. So by now you may have heard about American Doll Posse. I wanted to officially introduce you to the girls. They will all be going on tour. We’re out shopping right now, and I can’t keep a-hold of a-one of them. They’d love to get to know you; they’ve all heard so much about you. You can look for them online. They will all be accessible if you can find their blogs, which they update frequently. Instead of an Easter egg hunt this season, I’m hosting a Posse hunt. Happy hunting." "It's not just, 'I'm going to wake up and play dress-up today,' " she said. "I think it's fair to say that all women are a different percentage of these archetypes, and each culture has different versions of these if you're a rich culture. And if you were around before the monotheistic authority, [when] God came and then suppressed the power of the mother gods, these women at one time were powerful and autonomous and part of the pantheon as well as the male gods. Now, of course, there's just one guy, and the women are subservient to him. I find this incredibly myopic. We have access to this rich culture as women, and we need to open ourselves up." "Isabel (HisTORIcal), a photographer, is a reflection of Artemis (link) and is the most outwardly political of the bunch. She opens the album with "Yo George," a shout-out to our commander in chief, questioning what horribly dark road he and his crooked cronies have led us down, and closes the CD with the anti-war anthem, "Dark Side of the Sun." "Then there's Clyde (CliTORIdes), who draws from Persephone (link). She wears her emotional wounds on her sleeve, but remains idealistic. "She is looking at the effects of not being a whole person. She is trying to figure out what she believes in and she is dealing with having been disappointed in her life," Amos says. Clyde is a little girl lost on the string-laden, gorgeous "Girl Disappearing" and on the heartfelt ballad "Roosterspur Bridge." "Pip (ExpiraTORIal), who represents Athena, (link) swaggers her way through the driving "Teenage Hustling" and duets with Santa on the rollicking "Body and Soul." "Pip, being the warrior that she is, does confront issues and sometimes it's explosive, but I really love her energy and her casual approach to rubber." "Santa (SanaTORIum) relates to Aphrodite (link) and is the sensualist of the quintet. Through songs like the shimmery pop of "Secret Spell" or the wonderfully wicked "You Can Bring Your Dog" or the delightfully retro "Programmable Soda," "Santa is somebody who's a girl's girl," Amos says. "She understands her fellow sisters and she believes that there is enough love and passion out there for everyone. But she won't accept that there is something perverted about being very sensual and she won't drink shame with her sensuality." "And, of course, there's Tori (TerraTORIes), who, surprisingly, was one of the hardest characters for Amos to get her head around. "She was Demeter (link) and Dionysus (link), so she was really holding and channeling the male, as well as Demeter, who was the mother, the creator of this," Amos says. She is front and center as the M-I-L-F on "Big Wheel" and on the dreamy, Lennon-esque married with the Mick Ronson guitar inspired "Digital Ghost." ^ top ../SINGLES
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^ top ../TOUR EUROPE May 28, 2007 ROME, ITALY TEATRO SISTINA details May 30, 2007 FLORENCE, ITALY TEATRO VERDI details May 31, 2007 MILAN, ITALY TEATRO SMERALDO details June 2, 2007 PARIS, FRANCE LE PALAIS DES CONGRESS details June 3, 2007 AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS HMH details June 4, 2007 HAMBURG, GERMANY MUSIKHALLE details June 6, 2007 DUSSELDORF, GERMANY PHILIPSHALLE details June 7, 2007 MUNICH, GERMANY PHILHARMONIE details June 8, 2007 VIENNA, AUSTRIA STADTHALLE details June 10, 2007 STUTTGART, GERMANY BEETHOVENSAAL details June 11, 2007 NURNBERG, GERMANY SERENADENHOF details June 13, 2007 COPENHAGEN, DENMARK FALCONER details June 14, 2007 OSLO, NORWAY NORWEGIAN WOOD FESTIVAL details June 15, 2007 SEINäJOKI, FINLAND PROVINSSIROCK details June 17, 2007 BERLIN, GERMANY TEMPODROM details June 19, 2007 WARSAW, POLAND SALA KONGRESOWA details June 21, 2007 PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC CONGRESS CENTRE details June 22, 2007 BRATISLAVA, SLOVAKIA INCHEBA HALL details June 24, 2007 BUDAPEST, HUNGARY ARENA details June 26, 2007 LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA HALA TIVOLI details June 27, 2007 GRAZ AUSTRIA, KASEMATTENBüHNE details June 29, 2007 ZURICH, SWITZERLAND KONGRESSHAUS details June 30, 2007 FRANKFURT, GERMANY ALTE OPER details July 1, 2007 WERCHTER, BELGIUM ROCK WERCHTER FESTIVAL details July 3, 2007 LONDON, UK HAMMERSMITH APOLLO details July 4, 2007 LONDON, UK HAMMERSMITH APOLLO details July 5, 2007 MANCHESTER, UK APOLLO details July 7, 2007 EIRE, IRELAND OXEGEN FESTIVAL details July 8, 2007 KINROSS, SCOTLAND T IN THE PARK details July 11, 2007 MONTREUX, MONTREUX JAZZ FESTIVAL details July 13, 2007 BUCHAREST, SALA POLIVALENTA details July 15, 2007 ISTANBUL, MASSTIVAL details July 18, 2007 ATHENS, FLY BEYOND ATHENS FESTIVAL details July 20, 2007 TEL AVIV, RA'ANANA PARK details AUSTRALIA September 10, 2007 MELBOURNE, HAMER HALL details September 11, 2007 MELBOURNE, HAMER HALL details September 14, 2007 SYDNEY, OPERA HOUSE details September 15, 2007 SYDNEY, OPERA HOUSE details September 16, 2007 CANBERRA, CANBERRA THEATRE details September 18, 2007 NEW CASTLE, CIVIC THEATRE details September 20, 2007 ADELAIDE, THEBARTON THEATRE details September 22, 2007 BRISBANE, CONVENTION CENTRE details September 24, 2007 SYDNEY, OPERA HOUSE details September 25, 2007 SYDNEY, OPERA HOUSE details September 27, 2007 PERTH, CONCERT HALL details September 28, 2007 PERTH, CONCERT HALL details USA For details on the USA leg of this tour, please visit the Legs & Boots section of this site! October 9, 2007 Albany, NY Palace Theatre October 11 & 12, 2007 New York, NY Theatre at Madison Square Garden October 13, 2007 Syracuse, NY Landmark Theatre October 15, 2007 Philadelphia, PA Tower Theatre October 18, 2007 Boston, MA Orpheum Theatre October 21, 2007 Montreal, Canada Place des Arts October 23, 2007 Toronto, Canada Hummingbird Centre October 24, 2007 Buffalo, NY Shea’s Performing Arts Center October 26, 2007 Washington, DC DAR Constitution Hall October 27, 2007 Detroit, MI Fox Theatre October 28, 2007 Louisville, KY Palace Theatre October 30, 2007 Pittsburgh, PA Benedum Centre November 1, 2007 Cleveland, OH November 2, 2007 Indianapolis, IN November 3, 2007 Milwaukee, WI November 5, 2007 Chicago, IL November 7, 2007 Minneapolis, MN November 9, 2007 Lawrence, KS November 10, 2007 Omaha, NE November 12, 2007 Nashville, TN November 13, 2007 Charlotte, NC November 14, 2007 Atlanta, GA November 21, 2007 West Palm Beach, FL November 24, 2007 Dallas, TX November 25, 2007 Houston, TX November 26, 2007 Austin, TX November 28, 2007 Denver, CO November 29, 2007 Salt Lake City, UT December 3, 2007 Vancouver, CAN December 4, 2007 Portland, OR December 5, 2007 Seattle, WA December 7, 2007 San Francisco, CA December 17, 2007 Los Angeles, CA August 1, 2008 Dranouter Festival, Belgium details )
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