North American Tour Dates Announced!

The dates for Tori’s North American tour have been announced via e-mail and on toriamos.com. The tour starts in Albany, New York on Tuesday, October 9th and continues through to Monday, December 17th in Los Angeles. The confirmed dates so far are listed below, but more will be added shortly, as well as venues for the dates with just cities listed.

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

iTunes Pre-Sale Details From ToriAmos.com

In the e-mail announcing the tour dates, ToriAmos.com also includes some information about the the iTunes pre-sales:

If you pre-ordered Tori Amos’s new album American Doll Posse from iTunes, use the password that was emailed to you to purchase up to four presale tickets beginning July 25th at 10am. You will receive another email from iTunes when more shows become available for this promotion.

For the first leg of her tour, the shows with presales will be: Albany, NYC, Syracuse, Philadelphia, Boston, Buffalo, Washington DC, Detroit, and Louisville

Information on pre-sales for additional markets will be posted in the coming weeks. Stay tuned to www.ticketmaster.com/toriamos for updates.

Note that the iTunes pre-sales are not available for the Canadian dates, though we suppose that there may still be local pre-sales possible for the Canadian dates.

Very Important Posse Ticket Packages

ToriAmos.com’s latest newsletter also announced there there will be “VIP Ticket Packages” available during the North American tour. A limited number of VIP packages will be made available for selected dates on the tour. According to the newsletter, there are two levels of VIP tickets.

“Platinum” packages will 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 will 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

First round of VIP ON SALE DATES
July 25 at 10 am EST:
10/9 Albany, NY
10/13 Syracuse, NY
10/15 Philadelphia, PA
10/18 Boston, MA
10/24 Buffalo, NY
10/26 Washington, DC
10/30 Pittsburgh, PA

More information about the VIP ticket packages and when they go on sale will be posted at The Tori Store (and here too, hopefully) as it is available.

New Date: Boston, October 18th

Ticketmaster has added a listing for a concert at the Orpheum Theatre in Boston on Thursday, October 18th. As with the other two shows added today, a presale starting at 10:00 AM this Wednesday is indicated with the general sale starting on Friday, also at 10:00 AM. The presale is specifically listed as an iTunes presale so that should give hope to those wondering about that since it was first announced way back in April.

Thanks to Foxy and Tasha for the heads-up!

Update: Forgot to mention that the Philadelphia Ticketmaster listing has been removed. Don’t be surprised if the Louisville or Boston listings blink in and out of existence before the dates are finally announced fo’realz.

Ticketmaster Adds The Philadelphia and Lousiville Shows

Ticketmaster has added listings for two shows this morning: October 15th at the Tower Theatre in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania and October 28th at the Palace Theatre in Louisville, Kentucky. Presales for both shows are scheduled to be held on the morning of Wednesday, July 25th at 10:00 AM local time, while the general on-sale date for both is Friday.

Bryan was the first of many to ping us about these — thanks to you all!

Bucharest Press Conference Video

Thanks to adorrre for letting us know that a video clip of the press conference Tori gave before the Bucharest show on July 13th is available at metalhead.ro.

(Video moved behind the cut since it annoyingly played automatically….)

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Potential New York Tour Date

Both Mike and Chrissy B. dropped by to tell us that it looks like Tori will be playing the WaMu Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City on Oct. 11 and 12, show starting at 8 p.m. Tickets range from $39.50 to $60 and go on sale Friday, July 27, at 10 a.m. (You have to go to the Web site and then search for Tori Amos to get the event to come up, but it’s there.) Like all the others, this date is not officially confirmed, yadda yadda yadda.

Israeli Press Conference With Tori

Israeli journalist and Toriphile Sheer Ganor attended a press conference for Tori on Thursday. You can read Sheer’s article (in Hebrew, translation anyone?), which also contains a video that’s a bit different from the one on YouTube posted earlier today. (I didn’t have any trouble getting the video to play in Safari on Mac, but it opened another window with a blank screen and took about 30 seconds to start up, so after you click to play, be patient. If more then a minute passes, then it’s safe to assume it won’t work for you.)

A Molly Good Analysis

Plenty has already been said about the Dolls and their fashion sense, but the celeb-watchers over at Molly Good decided to take a turn recently, and came up with a piece called Character Study. The entry is short on verbiage but includes several nice shots of the Dolls on stage. Thanks to Astred for the tip!

More Possible Tour Dates

U.S. Tori fans have been busy this week, trying to tease out information on possible tour dates for the fall. Here’s what they’ve found:

Jon actually called every venue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and was told by a Benedum Center employee that Tori will play there Oct. 30 at 8 p.m. Ticket prices were quoted at $34.50 and $40.50.

Ernie Diaz heard from Live Nation that Tori’s playing the Murat Theatre in Indianapolis, Indiana on Nov. 2 at 8 p.m. So far, this hasn’t been posted to the Live Nation site.

Habidabad has a source inside the Palace Theater in Louisville, Kentucky who claims Tori will play there on or near Oct. 26.

We’ve said this before, and we’ll keep saying it until a full tour itinerary is confirmed: these dates are by no means confirmed or finalized, but we’re reporting them anyway because there’s a chance many of them will turn out to be legit. And knowing is half the battle.