Tour Update - 27 May 2009

In addition to the new European dates added today, there were a couple other developments for the US dates today:

• As expected, Ticketmaster has added a listing for the Los Angeles show at the Greek Theatre. The iTunes presale, starting at 10:00 AM PDT tomorrow is listed, as is a simultaneous “Internet Presale.” There is no information about this Internet Presale at either the Greek’s website or KCRW (the radio promoter for the show). Our best guess is that this is just a duplicate listing for the iTunes presale, but if anyone knows otherwise, please let us know.
• ToriAmos.com and Everything Tori now show an on sale date of June 14th at 10:00 AM EDT for the show at Chastain Park in Atlanta. This is neither confirmed nor denied by the venue’s website or Ticketmaster as neither of which have a listing for the show at all. In lieu of any other information, we’ll go with this. Whether or not an iTunes presale will be held for this event is still unclear. The pre-sale notice from the official sites still says that an Atlanta presale is To Be Determined. However, Tommy DePriest contacted Chastain Park and was told that the event was part of the Live Nation concert series which would imply no presale. Then again, there are a couple shows on Live Nation which do have iTunes presales (Oakland, Washington, Detroit) so that may not rule it out. We’ll just have to wait and see.
• WTTS is giving away some tickets to the show at the Murat Theatre in Indianapolis. If you register in the 92-3 VIP Room by May 29th, you’ll be eligible to win tickets. One winner will also receive a VIP package which includes premiere parking and entry to the VIP Crown Room. Thanks to Libby for the tip!
• Finally, the first round of iTunes presales will take place tomorrow, Thursday May 28th at 10:00 AM local time. Presales will all be handled through Ticketmaster. The shows going on presale tomorrow are Seattle, Oakland (July 13th), San Diego, Los Angeles, Grand Prairie, Orlando, Washington DC, Chicago, Minneapolis, and Detroit. If you’re trying for tickets during any of these presales tomorrow, good luck!

Tori In The Hub

Tori was George Lamb’s guest in the BBC 6 Music Hub today. She performed two songs alone at the piano — “Maybe California” and “Fire To Your Plain” — and chatted with George about the new record, sinning and other various sundries. The program is available for your streaming pleasure from the BBC for the next week (provided you have RealAudio). Tori’s segment starts around 1 hour and 43 minutes into the program.

The Rest of the European Dates...

Several people wrote in earlier today to let everyone know that the Sinful Attraction Tour’s stops in Oslo and and Germany had been announced. Not long after, ToriAmos.com and the other other official mouthpieces updated their European tour dates, including a couple concerts in Italy as well.

So, here is the current European tour as we understand it, with new additions bolded:

German dates will go on sale on May 29th through Eventim.de. The Italian dates will go on sale at 10:00 AM CEST on May 29th through TicketOne.it. Oslo goes on sale on May 30th through Billetservice.no.

We’ll be getting the Tour section updated with any available ticketing links, prices, seating charts, etc. as soon as possible.

Note: Tori’s mentioned that she’s coming to Russia this tour, so this is probably not the rest of the European tour dates as the title of this article would imply. Chalk it up to youthful exuberance…or the gin and tonic. Your choice!

iTunes UK 'Fesses Up

iTunes UK has issues a statement regarding the pre-sale password fiasco over the last weekend and it’s been posted up on Everything Tori. To wit:

Due to an unforeseen system error the redemption codes for the Tori Amos iTunes / Ticketmaster UK promotion were not delivered to recipients on Friday 22nd May as promised. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Redemption codes were sent to all recipients on Tuesday 26th May. Additional tickets have been made available to the promotion to ensure that customers who didn’t receive their codes until 26th May have ample access to pre-sale tickets.

Fortunately, with everyone in the trenches calling and e-mailing iTunes, we think that most people were able to get their codes over the weekend and get decent tickets during the pre-sale. If you didn’t, now would be the time to try again and see what you can find.

Regardless of whether you were (or are) able to get codes and tickets or not, we’ve heard from more than a few people that it certainly wouldn’t hurt to make your displeasure known to iTunes directly.

Q&A: Will there be VIP packages for the AATS tour?

We’re adding a new category here on the News page: Q&A. We’ll use it to publicly answer questions we get that are of interest to Toriphiles in general. Normally they’ll be things several of you have asked and we’ll get to them as we have time and, of course, answers.

Here’s the first…

Q: Do you know if they are going to sell VIP packages for the 2009 tour? — Simone Gabrielle

A: There will be no VIP packages for any of the shows on the AATS tour. Some venues, such as Lotto Arena in Belgium, offer VIP tickets to their patrons; these VIP tickets entitle holders to luxurious “royal treatment” in a private lounge before and during a show. They have nothing to do with Tori herself and are not related in any way to the meet & greet VIP packages Tori offered to fans during the American Doll Posse tour.

Extra Goodies From Polari!

As you may recall, Tori was the cover interview for the fourth issue of Polari magazine. Turns out, even a digital magazine has space limitations! Fortunately, it’s not too hard to make room for additional digital content and, as a result, Polari has posted some extras and out-takes from the interview that did not make the article published in the issue. Topics touched upon are the album artwork, Doug Morris from Universal Republic and her daughter Tash.

Thanks to velvet for the tip!

The Latest Chart Action

With the release of Abnormally Attracted to Sin last week, it’s started to appear on various album charts this week. It debuted at #20 on the BBC Radio 1 Chart in the UK and, with only a couple days’ sales under its belt, at #15 on Poland’s album chart. Pretty not bad!

Meanwhile, in the States, we won’t see whether or not the album debuts on the Billboard 200 until Thursday when the chart showing last week’s sales is published, but “Welcome to England” creeped up another spot to #16 on the Triple A Single Chart in its third week on the list.

Thanks to michal, Matt, Jared, Rahdne and Andy Taylor for keeping a close eye on these things!

Q Radio Session Redux

Q Radio deejay Danielle Perry, who hosts the station’s afternoon drivetime slot, posted the following on Twitter yesterday in response to a question about whether or not Tori would be making a studio appearance on the station:

Hello! Tori will be in QHQ on Friday, so a special all next week on drivetime…will try and get some albums signed for prizes

So it looks like the session will either be broadcast live on Friday or recorded for broadcast next week. We’re operating under the former assumption until we hear otherwise. More details to come as they surface…

Thanks to amywaz for catching this!

Tour Update - 26 May 2009

After the last-minute madness of the Antwerp, here are some more leisurely updates from the ticket vendor sites today:

• Ticketmaster has added listings for the first Oakland show, Washington, Minneapolis and Detroit. All four shows have iTunes pre-sales taking place this Thursday at 10:00 AM local time.
• The only show with a presale this week that hasn’t been added to Ticketmaster yet is Los Angeles. However, since the presale is not scheduled to take place until Thursday, there is no reason for alarm just yet. It’s not uncommon for listings to be added the day before tickets go on sale.
• Ticketpro.ca has added a listing for Montreal. No sale dates or ticket price information is posted yet, but the show is still supposed to go on sale Saturday, May 30th at Noon local time according to ToriAmos.com’s tour page.
• Theresa got the scoop regarding Ticket Rush pre-sales, of which there is one for Denver. It seems that Ticket Rush is being folded into Live Nation and to be eligible for a Ticket Rush pre-sale you must register as a Live Nation member.

Belgium Show?

erikwithak let us know that Tori will apparently be playing at Lotto Arena in Antwerp, Belgium on October 4th.

UPDATE 23:04 CET: Tickets will go on sale one minute after Midnight CET on Wednesday May 27th — so about an hour from now — and the prices are 39, 44, 47 en 52 euro.

The only information we’ve been able to dig up on this so far is this article, which says tickets go on sale tomorrow (which presumably means Wednesday, May 27th) via ProximusGoformusic.be. Tickets are between 35 and 48 euro.

Unfortunately there’s currently no listing for Tori on ProximusGoformusic.be and a search on the site doesn’t turn anything up, so I’m afraid we don’t know any more beyond what that news article says. If anyone comes across more details anywhere, please send them in.

UPDATE: And a mere two seconds after posting this, another search turned this Live Nation listing up. And a listing on Sportpaleis.be/nl/.