Third Sydney Show Added!

Live Nation Australia & New Zealand has announced that a third show in Sydney, NSW has been added to Tori’s Australian tour next month!

Unlike the two orchestral shows at the Sydney Opera House that kick off the tour, the third show will be a solo performance, taking place at City Recital Hall Angel Place on Thursday, November 20th. Additionally, as described in the release about the performance, it will be an all-request show. Details on how to make a request will be shared on toriamos.com soon.

Update: A form has been added to Tori’s website to put in your requests for the solo Sydney show…

There will be a pre-sale for Live Nation members on Wednesday, October 29th starting at Noon AEDT while tickets go on sale to all starting at 10:00 AM AEDT on Friday, October 31st.

Thanks to Mark for the tip about the show being announced!

Ex-Bodyguard Steve Sanchez Has Passed Away

We’re sorry to report we’ve received the very sad news that Tori’s bodyguard of many years, Steve Sanchez, passed away on August 7th.

Many of you remember Steve from the tours in the late ’90s and early ’00s. Constantly by Tori’s side, always vigilant, he kept our girl safe across the globe for many years.

We would like to express our heartfelt condolences to all of Steve’s family and friends. What a terrible and tragic loss.

No Meet And Greet In Miami

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but we’ve gotten confirmation that there will not be a meet and greet at the final North American show in Miami. Unfortunately, tomorrow’s schedule is tight and does not allow for there to be meet and greet.

Unrepentant Gratitude Extension

Since we’ve gotten so few Unrepentant Gratitude submissions (and since it seems like a lot of folks misunderstood the purpose of the project: entertainment), we’re extending the deadline until 5:00pm BST tomorrow. That’s 12noon Eastern/9am Pacific.

We’re just looking for fun, lighthearted entertainment from EWF around the world to make the Miami setlist a little more special than just song title after song title, which is what we normally do. So won’t you consider drawing us a little picture or making a teeny-tiny short video, like the sort you’d normally post to Instagram, expressing something you’ve been grateful for this tour? Bonus points for silly!

So come on … can you help us make the Miami show extra special for the EWF who will be following the set online, many who haven’t gotten to see a live show at all on this tour? Pretty please?

Full guidelines here and some ideas and more details here.

Unrepentant Gratitude Deadline Reminder

The Unrepentant Gratitude deadline is about 26 hours away now, at 8:00pm BST has been extended to 5:00pm BST on Sunday (check what time that is in your region here.

Are you busy bees getting your gratitudes ready? They don’t have to be epic productions, just just a short video or picture expressing whatever you’ve been most grateful for this tour in whatever creative, entertaining way you can come up with. Maybe you’re grateful Tori signed your copy of LE, or that you made a new friend because of this tour, or Tori played a song you’d been wishing for for years, or you enjoyed tracking the virtual setlists, or … whatever. Sing, dance, dress up your dog, run in circles, do a finger painting, use puppets, express it however you like.

This is open to Toriphiles around the world, whether you’ve physically been to a show or not. So hurry, hurry! Specific guidelines here.

Happy Birthday, Tori!

Wishing the happiest of birthdays to Tori on this August 22nd! Hope she has a great day today and a great show tonight!

Shhhhhhhhhhhhh!

51 maybe not be as big a deal as 50 in birthday terms, but Tori’s 51st year has been a significant one between the long-awaited run of The Light Princess, the release of Unrepentant Geraldines, and the subsequent tour — so there is much to celebrate! And celebrate we will on Friday as Tori celebrates her special day on the stage at Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater!

As we alluded to earlier this week, the tour crew has formulated a plan…but it’s still a bit of a secret as a certain someone (who undoubtedly will be suspecting something) isn’t supposed to know. So! The plan will be explained by Trevor Moss and Hannah-Lou during their opening set. Get there early Friday to get the low-down on what’s going to go down and please follow their lead so that Tori’s first birthday show in a decade is as wonderful as it can be!

No Clearwater Meet and Greet

Sorry, guys, we’ve gotten word from the tour crew that there will be no M&G in Clearwater tomorrow. We know a lot of you were hoping to wish Tori a happy birthday in person and Tori is very sorry she won’t be able to chat with you on her special day, but the schedule is packed. You’ll just have to send her extra-strong best birthday ESP vibes during the show.

Final North American Show Blowout: Unrepentant Gratitude

Get your creative hats on, kids!

As most of you are aware (or at least we hope you’re aware), the Miami show on Sunday marks the final date of the North American leg of the Unrepetant Geraldines Tour. After that, we won’t get to have any more setlist fun until Tori hits Australia in November (three whole months away!), and a good chunk of you won’t be around for our live coverage then because the Oz shows will be taking place while most of you are either asleep or at work. So instead of having our big bash on the final-final date of the tour as we normally do, we’re going to make Miami our big fiesta show, since woj and I will both be around covering it.

We put our heads together and we’ve decided you guys are going to help us turn our Miami coverage into … the UNREPENTANT GRATITUDE party! Yes, you guys are going to share your overflowing Tori gratitude with your fellow EWF all over the world. YAY!!! So put on your best party clothes and your thinking caps and help us make this virtual shindig a total blast.

RULES

• This is open to all Toriphiles around the world. And you don’t have to have physically been to a show to participate.

• Make a short video or create a picture (photo, drawing, graphic, painting, whatever you like) expressing whatever you’ve felt most grateful for this tour. Be as creative as you can, whatever you can dream up, the sky’s the limit. Seriously, go wild.

• Videos: keep them under 30 seconds, upload them to YouTube as unlisted, then email the link to this special address with “VIDEO” as the subject.

• Pictures: email them as an attachment to this special address with “PICTURE” as the subject. Please let us know the name with which you’d like to be credited.

• Deadline for submissions is 8:00pm BST on Saturday 5:00pm BST on Sunday. For those of you who are time zone-challenged, you can see what time that is in your region here.
  

We’ll sort through and choose the best of the best to share during our live coverage on Twitter on Sunday. Depending on how many submissions we get, we may not be able to include them all, but we’ll fit in as many as possible. Once we have some idea how much (or how little) we’re going to have to work with, we’ll let you know what time we’re going to be starting.

So do whatever you can to make your submission really stand out as entertaining and unique! Who knows? Tori might even see some of them.

No Nashville Meet and Greet

We’ve gotten word from the tour crew that, because of the schedule for the day, there will not be a meet and greet in Nashville on Monday. While we’re sorry for those hoping to say hi to Tori tomorrow, at least no one will have to dodge the thunderstorms in tomorrow’s forecast.