News: Live Nation Breaks the Tour Ice

Live Nation has added two concerts to their listings for Tori: Massey Hall in Toronto on August 10th and, as rumored previously, Bank of America Pavilion in Boston on August 17th. Both have on-sale dates coming up extremely soon: Boston on this Friday, May 15th and Toronto on the following Friday, May 22nd. Several people have written to get this scoop on this since the conventional wisdom, due to what we knew about the iTunes pre-sale, was that tickets would start to go on-sale at the end of the month.

Well, it appears that it’s not that simple…

Stephen contacted iTunes and learned that the personalized passwords from the pre-sale will be sent out on May 25th (which jives with the May 28th pre-sale date that Live Daily reported) but that not all dates on the North American leg of the tour will be included in the pre-sale.

While we kind of suspected the latter based upon the short list of cities included in the pre-sale promotion, it’s extremely disappointing that that fact wasn’t made perfectly clear from the start since that makes any iTunes pre-orders in markets where there won’t be a concert that is part of the promotion pointless — at least as far as pre-ordering for the sake of the pre-sale goes.

Stephen also contacted Live Nation and confirmed that the Boston concert does, in fact, go on-sale this Friday and was also told that there is no pre-sale for that show.

We’ll see if we can learn any more details about the pre-sale given what has come to light…