Special Note Re London Presale Tickets

We know Ticketmaster is currently showing that there are no more presale tickets available for London.

Don’t give up just yet…

Ticketmaster will be adding another allotment of tickets for the London presale. We expect them to be available on Monday (yes, that’s today for you UK folks), so check Ticketmaster then. (Sorry, we don’t have a specific time.)

If they don’t get added on Monday, don’t panic. They will will DEFINITELY be available on Tuesday.

So keep those chins up!

Update: Ethan reports just picking up a pair of tickets in the stalls for London so it looks like the additional pre-sale tickets have been released.

More On The iTunes UK Presale

As much of a mess as the iTunes UK presale has been, folks will have until Thursday to take a crack at presale tickets. Even if it takes iTunes until Tuesday to sort the presale passcode mess out, there will still be two days left to redeem.

For those who don’t manage to get tickets through a presale, don’t be discouraged. We’re told enough top-class seats were held back to have good seats available through both the presale and the general public sale so that people who ordered physical copies of the album won’t be penalized. As always, getting the very best tickets, even in presales, comes down to luck. Not everyone can be in the front row. But the general on-sale is yet to come and everyone will have a chance to step up to the Tori ticket roulette wheel.

Fortunately, most people we’ve heard from managed to get their passcodes and got pretty good seats.

We don’t anticipate any problems with the US presales. Those should go smoothly. (knock wood)

How To Get Your iTunes UK Presale Passcode

Trying to head to bed, but quickly popping over to post this for folks who may not have been following the saga on Twitter…

Several people have reported that if you call 0870 876 0753, choose option 5, and ask to speak with a manager, you will be given a passcode. Don’t take no for an answer.

If you get a code that doesn’t work, call again. This is working for people.

Good luck.

iTunes UK Presale Code Update

If you’ve been keeping up with our updates on Twitter, you’ve seen us urging Toriphiles to contact iTunes UK about missing presale passcodes.

Apparently this is having some effect. Reports are starting to trickle in from people who have gotten their passcodes in direct response to complaints. So if you haven’t gotten yours yet, contact iTunes UK immediately.

(And yes, this is extremely disappointing and frustrating.)

Chatting With Perez & Tori

Looks like all the SXSW videos are finally coming home to roost. First there was Spinner’s fan interview (with questions collected by yours truly) and now Perez Hilton has posted a video clip of his long-awaited conversation with Tori from SXSW. Which one is more fabulous? Maybe we should hold a poll…

Thanks to Patrick, Nina and Armen for the link!

UK Tour Update - Pre-Sales For All!

All four stops on the UK tour are now listed at Ticketmaster.co.uk — Birmingham was added earlier today. And all four show iTunes pre-sales starting at 10:00 AM BST tomorrow, Saturday, May 23rd. We haven’t heard of anyone getting their passwords yet, but our understanding is that they should be e-mailed sometime today.

UPDATE: iTunes confirmed passwords were sent out today at 5pm UK time. As of 9:45 BST, we haven’t heard of anyone who’s received one. We’re doing what we can to find out what’s going on. Until we have something more concrete to report here, we’ll be posting updates on our Twitter stream.

US iTunes Pre-Sale Details

ToriAmos.com has posted details about the US iTunes presales. They’re buried at bottom of the tour page and can’t be linked to directly, so here’s a copy and paste for your viewing pleasure:

For those of you who pre-ordered Abnormally Attracted to Sin through iTunes, you will be receiving your Ticketmaster pre-sale password from iTunes via email on May 25. Pre-sales will be done in 2 tiers for participating venues, one starting May 28 and another starting June 3.

First tier of pre-sales: May 28 at 10 am – May 29 at 10 pm local time
Seattle, WA
Oakland, CA (7/13 date only)
San Diego, CA
Los Angeles, CA
Grand Prairie, TX
Orlando, FL
Washington, DC
Chicago, IL
Minneapolis, MN
Detroit, MI

Second tier of pre-sales: June 3 at 10 am – June 4 at 10 pm local time
Durham, NC
New York, NY
Portland, OR

TBD: Atlanta, GA

Non-Ticketmaster venues (meaning no iTunes pre-sale)
Phoenix, AZ
Salt Lake City, UT
Denver, CO
Kansas City, MO
Austin, TX
Miami, FL
Milwaukee, WI
Indianapolis, IN
Toronto, ON
Montreal, QC
Philadelphia, PA
Boston, MA

For more information please visit Ticketmaster.

Update: Just to clarify, all pre-sales take place in the time zone of the venue.

Update: The Toronto date has not been removed from the tour. It has since been added to the list of concerts without a pre-sale at ToriAmos.com and is now on the list above as well.

Tori on Channel 4's 4PLAY

Gareth has better search-fu than us as he spotted this needle in the UK television Channel 4 listings haystack: Tori will be the subject 4PLAY on Saturday, May 30th at 12:55 AM — late Friday night in most folks’ parlance. The programme is a scant 15 minutes long but the description in the Channel 4 listings — “Profile of singer-songwriter Tori Amos and her long-awaited new album Abnormally Attracted to Sin” — indicates that it should be fresh material.

Associated Press Interview (May 21, 2009)

Power is kind of a central component for this record. How do we define it? And then how does our idea of what is a powerful man? I’ve been exploring that for years. But if we associate it with money and success, our world has turned upside down, and then a lot of people right now are not feeling very successful. But if you change the definition of what is power, somebody that is able to create even under adversity then power starts to redefine itself.

“This brief interview”: from the Associated Press in which Tori discusses her religious upbringing, her father and the new record will, no doubt, hit the wires soon and show up in countless newspapers and online media. Yahoo! was one of the first places to have it. Thanks to velvet for catching it!

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Tour Update - 21 May 2009

As of this evening, one new show has been added in Europe and there are several new listings at the ticket vendors:

• Tori will be performing at the Prague Congress Center in the Czech Republic on Thursday, September 24th. Tickets will go on sale on Monday, May 25th at Ticketpro.
• Tickets for the Paris show on Saturday, October 3rd will be sold through A Vos Billets. As a reminder, those tickets are slated to go on sale on Tuesday, May 26th.
• A listing for the Manchester Apollo has been added at Ticketmaster.co.uk, indicating a pre-sale on Saturday the 23rd. Additionally, the Glasgow listing now shows a pre-sale on Saturday as well. Still no sign of ticket information for Birmingham, though the concert is confirmed on the Symphony Hall’s website.
• Meanwhile, back in the States, Ticketmaster has added a listing for San Diego and Live Nation has added a listing for Phoenix, which has an on-sale date of Monday, June 1st at 10:00 Mountain Standard Time (don’t forget: Arizona doesn’t do the DST thing).
• Finally, the Chicago Theatre has added an event listing which includes the prices for the August 3rd show at that venue ($39.50 – $59.50).

Thanks to everyone — Heather, Beata, Rami, Cristina and Julienne — for their help with this!