Extreme Sounds In Manchester

Whether you support City, United, another club or don’t give a toss about football, everyone at the Apollo in Manchester walked away a champion after an epic set this evening.

Continuing to shy away from new album which is not yet officially released in much of the world until Monday or Tuesday, tonight’s set featured a trio from Scarlet’s Walk, “A Sorta Fairytale,” “Taxi Ride,” and “Pancake,” classic chestnuts like “Cornflake Girl” and “Leather,” Billy Idol’s “Eyes Without a Face,” Moby’s “Extreme Ways,” and, to top it off, the first-ever solo performance of “Raspberry Swirl.” The only song from Unrepentant Geraldines performed was “16 Shades of Blue” which closed out the evening.

The complete setlist, thanks to the mighty efforts of tonight’s tweeters @RoppleRob and @icingboy, has been posted in the Tour section where you will already find several videos to tingle your earballs. (Who doesn’t like living in the future? Not us!)

Needless to say (but we’re going to say it anyway), we’d love to hear what those in attendance thought of the show. Drop us and the world a review using that there comment form at the bottom of the show’s page. If you have any video or photographs to share, please let us know and we’ll get them added to the site as well.

Sweet Dreams Are Made of Glasgow

The UK portion of the tour kicked off tonight in Glasgow, Scotland at the O2 Academy. Given the nod to Ireland in the Irish shows, it comes as no surprise that Tori acknowledged where she was in her song selection which included, during the encore, the Y Kant Tori Read favorite “Etienne” and, from the other end of her career, “Selkie,” and, during The Lizard Lounge, The Eurythmics’ “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This).” The rest of the Lizard Lounge was James Taylor’s “Fire and Rain” while the rest of the set featured “Indian Summer,” “Doughnut Song,” “Your Cloud,” “Bouncing Off Clouds,” and “Twinkle.”

The full set list, with thanks to our beloved revolutionary tweetheart @purplesnap, has been posted in the Tour section. Video, photos, and, most importantly, your reviews will be added as they come in. We’d love to share what you thought of the performance on the site so if you are so inclined, please send in a review using the form at the bottom of that page.

Thanks again to @purplesnap for sending us the set list!

Dublin #2: It's A Landslide!

The second Dublin show was electric, with the first appearances of several songs this tour including “Sister Janet,” “Toast,” Tori’s always-amazing covers of “Landslide” and “River,” a snippet of Taylor Swift’s “I Knew You Were Trouble,” and the world premiere of “Wild Way” from Unrepentent Geraldines.

Head over to the Flashback page to check out the full setlist, or to submit a review if you were at this show. We’ll be adding videos and photos as they turn up (or as you tip us off about them, hint, hint!).

Many thanks to our setlist tweeters, @SchizoEclectic and @tangentfairy. We couldn’t have covered the show live on Twitter without them.

An Open Letter to Dublin

If the first two shows on the Unrepentant Geraldines tour are anything to go by, all the talk about mixing up the sets on this tour is not proving to be just talk as tonight’s show in Dublin, the first of two nights at The Olympia Theatre, shared only four songs with the tour’s opening night in Cork. But that wasn’t the only surprise…

Thanks again to @SchizoEclectic, we were able to update tonight’s setlist on Taitter in real-time and it has now been posted in the Tour section. After opening with “Parasol,” Tori wasted no time in changing things up by playing the ever-divisive “Ireland.” The first half of the show also included “Horses,” “Cool On Your Island,” and “Here. In My Head.” Things got even more unexpected during the Lizard Lounge segment which featured covers of Rickie Lee Jones’ “On Saturday Afternoons in 1963,” Miley Cyrus’ “Rooting For My Baby,” and, in a nod to pop culture, Sinéad O’Connor’s “Three Babies” (though, one wonders, shouldn’t she have followed that with an Amanda Palmer song?). The balance of the show included the b-sides “Purple People” and “Never Seen Blue” and, perhaps because of its premiere on NPR yesterday, “16 Shades of Blue.” “In The Springtime of His Voodoo” again closed out the main set — between it and “Parasol” as an opener, not a bad pair of bookends!

If you were there, we’d love to hear what you thought of the show! If you care to share, send in a review using the form at the bottom of Dublin’s show page! Keep an eye on that page for photos and video too as they surface or are shared.

Cork: The Unrepentant Geraldines Tour Kicks Off

The first night of the Unrepentant Geraldines Tour is in the books. After posting a picture of herself at the Cork Opera House, Tori took the stage and powered through a set that included two songs from the new album, “Trouble’s Lament” and “Selkie,” several hits like “Silent All These Years,” “Caught A Lite Sneeze,” “Winter,” and “Crucify,” covers of The Eagles’ “Desperado” and U2’s “New Year’s Day,” and a couple curve balls to keep people on their toes: “In The Springtime of His Voodoo” and “iieee.” On the Hammond B3 organ. Yup.

With many thanks to @SchizoEclectic for updating Toriphiles round the globe on Twitter in real-time, the complete setlist has been posted in the Tour section.

By all accounts, the performance was top-notch but we’d love to hear your thoughts on the concert if you were there. If you are so inclined, post a review using the comment form at the bottom of the show’s Flashback page. Photos and video clips are also very welcome!

P.S. You’re welcome for not making a cork pun!

It's The Night Before Tour And All Through The House...

It begins again!

Tomorrow, Monday, May 5th, the European leg of the Unrepentent Geraldines Tour gets under way in Cork, Ireland! After two nights in Dublin later this week, Tori crosses the Irish Sea for a week in the United Kingdom before moving on to The Continent where she’ll be playing from France to Russia and from Norway to Bulgaria through June. After that, she returns to South Africa and, following a couple week break, it’s on to North America. No other countries have been confirmed but we’re expecting a return to Australia and we have all extremities crossed for the tour to touch down in other countries as well…

As with the past few tours, we’ll be doing our best to keep you abreast of setlists, reviews and media in our Tour section including, as we can, posting setlists as they happen on each concert page and on our Twitter.

If you’ll be attending a show and would like to help out with live-updating that concert — either via Twitter, text or some other form of communication — we’d love to hear from you! You can get in touch using the contact form or by DM/reply on Twitter (we have a Facebook page too but that’s not really the best way to reach us).

Finally, say hi to the openers for the tour! In Europe, your support act is Trevor Moss and Hannah-Lou and in South Africa, the concerts will be warmed up by Michael Lowman. Here’s a taste of each!

Tour News: New Oregon Date, Cleveland On Sale

Britt Festivals has announced the line-up for their Summer 2014 season and it includes a new date on the North American leg of the Unrepentant Geraldines Tour: Saturday, July 19th. Britt’s shows take place at an outdoor venue in Jacksonville, Oregon, near the city of Medford, so it slides nicely into the three day gap between the Portland and Oakland shows on the 18th and 21st.

This show has not been added to the tour listing on ToriAmos.com yet but tickets went on-sale to Britt members today and will go on sale to the general public on May 16th. Check out the listing on the festival’s website for more information.

Also, in case anyone has forgotten, the Cleveland show at Cain Park on August 7th went on sale today via Ticketmaster.

Istanbul Tickets Now On Sale

Tickets for the June 22nd Istanbul date on the Unrepentant Geraldines Tour are on sale now via Biletix.

Tour Tidbits (April 2, 2014)

A couple quick tour-related items for today…

Tickets for the Istanbul concert on June 22nd did not go on sale today as originally indicated by Sosyotix and they are now saying they will be on sale “very soon,” possibly through Biletix amos. The show has not been added to any of the official tour listings yet nor to Küçükçiftlik Park’s website but it does look like it’s happening. Soon as we hear anything, we’ll pass along the news.

Meanwhile, mike h, Konstantin, Elph, and several others have pointed out several news articles reporting that Matt Chamberlain, Tori’s long-time studio and tour drummer, will be touring with Soundgarden this summer. While that does not, in and of itself, mean the Unrepentant Geraldines Tour will be solo (there are other drummers!), Tori has said, when asked in a recent interview about what to expect on the new tour, “the show changes every night and because I am playing alone I can make those changes,” so we are expecting this tour to be solo.

Istanbul Tour Date Added

A week or so ago, a stop in Istanbul, Turkey on June 22nd briefly appeared on Deutsche Grammophon’s Unrepentant Geraldines Tour listing. It quickly disappeared but there were several signs that the date would materialize…

While not confirmed by ToriAmos.com or restored to Deutsche Grammophon’s listing, the ticket agency Sosyotix announced the show on their website today. According to them and the promoter, the show will take place at Küçükçiftlik Park on Sunday, June 22nd, starting at 6:00 PM local time.

Sosyotix’s website neglects to mention an on-sale date for tickets but they indicate on Facebook they’ll be available starting Wednesday, April 2nd. No time is specified so keep an eye on their website tomorrow to see. The venue is an good-sized open air arena and will have both general admission and reserved seating for the performance.

Thanks to Rami, Tanya, and Mert for the news about this date!