Paris Ticket Update

Tickets for Tori’s Paris show went on sale at 10am CET, but Clemens Hemer tells us they aren’t accessible via avosbillets.com. UPDATE: avosbillets.com has the ticket link open now.

The sites that are currently selling Paris tickets are Francebillet.com and
Fnacspectacles.com.

iTunes US Passwords

The passwords for the iTunes US presales went out around 9:30pm Pacific on Sunday.

Whew!

Update: Please note that the pre-sale codes are good for the purchase of up to FOUR TICKETS FOR ONE SHOW. They can not be used to buy tickets for more than one show.

Here’s the text of the e-mail which came with the codes (thanks to the many people who sent it in):

Thank you for pre-ordering Tori Amos’ new album, Abnormally Attracted to Sin. Your order makes you eligible to purchase up to four concert tickets for her upcoming tour before they go on sale to the general public. Presale tickets will be available this week.

The first iTunes Presale for these shows begins at 10 a.m. (local venue time) on Thursday, May 28, and ends at 10 p.m. (local venue time) on Friday, May 29, in the following markets: Seattle, Oakland, San Diego, Los Angeles, Orlando, Dallas, Chicago, Minneapolis, Detroit, and Washington, D.C. And the second iTunes Presale begins at 10 a.m. (local venue time) on Wednesday, June 3, and ends at 10 p.m. (local venue time) on Thursday, June 4, in the following markets: Durham, New York, and Portland. Additional cities may be added at a later date. Please check Ticketmaster.com for regular updates.

To get your tickets, go to Ticketmaster.com and enter the password below in the iTunes Presale field (right next to your ticket selection).

One Ticketmaster Password per iTunes account. Each password is good for one order of up to four tickets.

MTV Germany Chats With Tori

MTV Germany talked to Tori while she was in Berlin recently and have posted the interview. Unfortunately, due to copyright reasons, the video is available only to those within Germany, but we suppose it’s only fair after all those US and UK only streams and offers. Still, if an enterprising soul wants to free the interview from its bonds, we’d be happy to share the wealth!

Thanks to velvet for the link!

Holy Moly! Interview (May 20, 2009)

There were good people in the church, you know it and I know it, and sometimes I don’t think people hear that enough from me. They all hear me blast it. But there are some ladies who really made that lemon poppy seed cake with the right intentions.

Holy Moly! published this fun little interview last week, filled with questions you’re usually not going to see in most music journalism…but then, maybe music journalism needs more questions about
wizards transforming you into Britney Spears or Lindsey Lohan. Thanks to Felipe, James and Kate for the linkage!

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Daily Mail Interview (May 21, 2009)

Those songs were there to hold their hands out to me when I was at my lowest ebb. It was my way of turning a destructive situation into a positive one. My mantra has always been that the best way to beat hardship is with creativity.

So says Tori in an interview in last Thursday’s Daily Mail. In addition, she talks about her sense of humor, the impact of motherhood, and The Light Princess musical.

Thanks to Kushv, James, Lesley and Christoff for the tip!

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Something for the Weekend

The episode of the BBC Two programme Something for the Weekend during which Tori was a guest is available for your streaming pleasure in the BBC iPlayer for the rest of this week. Tori was on for three segments of the 90-minute show and answered questions from the hosts and fans and discussed — of course — food! And cocktails!

In case you have any trouble viewing the show on the BBC iPlayer, YouTube comes to the rescue! Jump the cut for embeds from YouTube user SFTWfever.

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Welcome to The Tonight Show

Tori, with the help of Jon Evans and Matt Chamberlain, performed “Welcome to England” on The Tonight Show last Friday. The performance is available for viewing on NBC Rewind but if you don’t want to sit through a commercial for Dove Hair Care products you can also find it on YouTube:

Thanks Mario and Sally!

Tour Update - 25 May 2009

Here’s the latest and greatest from the ticket trenches….

• First, we still have not heard of anyone getting a password from iTunes for the US pre-sales. At this point, we’d guess that someone overlooked the Memorial Day holiday and that the passwords were always intended to be sent on Tuesday, the first business day of the week. We’ll see though… Pre-sale tickets were sent out at 9:30 PM PDT on Monday, May 25th.
• Live Nation has added listings for Oakland (the first show), Denver, and Indianapolis.
• Denver has a Ticket Rush pre-sale taking place on May 29th at 10:00 AM MDT. Unhelpfully, TicketRush.com loops back to Live Nation where the signup link redirects back to itself as well.
• Indy has three pre-sales happening simultaneously at 10:00 AM EDT on Friday, May 29th: a Citi pre-sale for those who have a Citi card, a Live Nation pre-sale that looks to be open to the public, and a “radio” pre-sale that we’re guessing will be sponsored by WTTS as they appear to be giving away some tickets to the Murat show to members of their VIP Room.
• eVenue has added a purchase link for Kansas City.
• Ticketmaster has added listings for Orlando and Chicago.
• Ticketmaster has added an All Access pre-sale for Grand Prairie. It is scheduled to start at 10:00 AM CDT on Friday, May 29th — one day after the iTunes pre-sale. We haven’t been able to uncover any details about this pre-sale yet but will share anything we learn once we do.
• Tickets.com has added a listing for the Milwaukee show.

All this info has been added to our listings in the Tour section.

US iTunes Pre-sale Password Update

According to ToriAmos.com, the passwords for the US iTunes pre-sale were supposed to be mailed today, Monday, May 25th. Our understanding is that the e-mails were to go out during the afternoon today. However, we’ve yet to hear from anyone who has gotten their password and have gotten several reports of people not receiving them yet.

If anyone has gotten their password, please let us know so we can get the word out. If you haven’t gotten your password, double-check your spam filters to make sure that the e-mail hasn’t been shunted off to junk-mail-land.

To be honest, it was a little strange to us that iTunes would send out passwords on a holiday but stranger things have happened. Fortunately, the pre-sales are scheduled to start on Thursday so there are a few days’ cushion if the passwords are not mailed today.

Swiss Dates From Good News Productions

Misha let us know that two dates in Switzerland have been announced on GoodNews.ch: Sunday, September 13th at the Grosser Festsaal Messe in Basel and Tuesday, September 15th at the Kongresshaus in Zürich.

There is a pre-sale for both shows for GoodNews.ch members on Tuesday, May 26th at 8:00 AM CEST and both shows go on sale to the general public on Wednesday, May 27th at 8:00 AM CEST.