Added Shows: Sydney #2 and Groningen, NL

Two new shows have been added to the tour.

A second Sydney date has been added on November 17th. Tickets go on general sale through TicketMaster at 9am Friday, July 31 (same time as the first show, so that will be a challenge for people who don’t have tickets for either show yet).

And a date has been added for Groningen, NL on September 23, 2009. Tickets go on sale August 1st. No ticket purchasing link or info available yet, but here’s some info on the venue website.

A Night At The Hotel Miami

Last night, Tori performed for the first time in Miami proper since 1996, surprising everyone with “Raspberry Swirl” in the second slot of setlist and the Sinful Attraction tour debut of “Hotel.” “Winter” and Leonard Cohen’s “Famous Blue Raincoat” comprised the Lizard Lounge while other interesting song choices included “Horses,” “Little Earthquakes” and “Mother Revolution.”

Thanks to @Annie1079, @districtbelle, and @ahamkaara who were posting the set to Twitter, the complete setlist is up in the Tour section. If you were there, please feel free to use the comment form there to send in a review of the show for the site!

Thanks to @whizzboom for the recap title inspiration!

Diving Into Orlando

Tori seemed particularly happy to be near her home for last night’s concert in Orlando. The set was so water-themed the audience practically needed scuba gear, with the debut of “Pandora’s Aquarium” kicking off a stretch containing “Siren,” “Liquid Diamonds,” “Marys Of The Sea,” “Martha’s Foolish Ginger.” A particularly heartfelt improv about being “close to home, close to the water” lead the way into “Goodbye Pisces” for Lizard Lounge. “Here In My Head” was a treat!

Thanks to @___cat, @districtbelle, @converseluv06, @miao0726, and @JamesBlount3 for keeping us up with the set in realtime on Twitter.

You can read the recaps of this and other shows over in the Tour section. If you attended this show and want to share reviews, pics, or videos, just head to the bottom of the corresponding flashback page and send it on in!

Australian Presales

Presales for Tori’s Australian shows will start Wednesday, July 29th at 12 noon and run until Thursday, July 30th at 5 pm. Please note that while you may come across other ticketing agencies offering presales (at increased prices), we will only direct fans to vendors that have been authorized to sell tickets.

Melbourne Nov 12
Presale through: Ticketek. (No password required.)

Sydney Nov 16
Presale through: TicketMaster. (Password: SINFUL in fanclub box, ATTRACTION in general presale box)

Adelaide Nov 19
Presale through: VenueTix. (Password: ATTRACTION)

Perth Nov 21
Presale through: Ticketek. (No password required.)

Brisbane Nov 24
Presale through: QTix. (No password required.)

Atlanta: Hot! Hot! Hot!

The Sinful Attraction tour chugged its way through Atlanta’s Chastain Park tonight with much fanfare. Tonight’s set included the debuts of “Concertina” during the opening half of the show and “Sister Janet,” including an improvisation about fellatio during the Lizard Lounge. Tori must have been feeling the heat of the South as “Little Amsterdam” included a sexually-charged improv as well — that time about masturbation. Aside from those highlights and the tour staples, the show also included “Bouncing Off Clouds,” “Your Cloud” and “Cooling.” Check out the complete setlist in the Tour section — with thanks to Coldnickhot, @AmyJohnson__, @glory80s, @JamesBlount3 and @coobeastie for feeding everyone the details.

Tempers were also over-heated as word on the street is that an altercation broke out in the audience during “Sister Janet,” causing Tori to stop the song while that was sorted out. We’re still awaiting more details on that but that sounds like it would have been the low-light of the evening…

If you were at the show and want to share your thoughts on the performance, please use the comment form at bottom of the Atlanta page and we’ll get it out there for all to read.

92.9 Davefm Circle Of Friends

Tori performed an intimate set and answered questions for a small audience of about 60 people as part of DAVE FM’s Circle Of Friends series earlier today. (Moment O’ Squee: she talked a bit about the Christmas — er, pardon, “Solstice” — album.)

Check out recap, setlist, and [shortly] pics over in the Tour section.

Oz Tickets On Sale Now (Sort Of)

Darn, still haven’t added the Australia dates to the Tour page yet (bad Violet!), but word just came in from Vic S. and Sarah M. that some tickets are currently on sale.

Ticketek is having a Visa Premium Pre-Sale for Perth and Melbourne from 12 noon today (Monday, July 27th) until Tuesday, July 28th at 5pm. (We’re told it’s for Visa card holders only, but can’t really be certain. The name would imply so, though.)

And we’re told Sydney tickets have gone on sale (early!) through the Sydney Opera House website, but we can’t find anything there about them already being on sale. We’re either not seeing something, or this is an error, or the site made a mistake and corrected it really fast.

[UPDATE: Katastat clarifies that Sydney tickets are on presale, but only to people who receive the Opera House Newsletter. If you get the newsletter, you would have received an email today with a direct link to buy tickets. If you did not receive that email/link, you won’t be able to access tickets.]

[2nd UPDATE: Vic S. tells us you can get tickets by calling the box office, though.]

[3rd UPDATE: Adam says he phoned the box office and they told him only press seats have been released so far, but nothing to the public, and tickets do go on sale on Friday, July 31st as originally announced, athough if you signed up as a member on TicketMaster, you can purchase presale tickets on Wednesday.]

[4th UPDATE: from Vic. S., “Ok, heres the deal i rang this morning and purchased my tickets for sydney through the opera house box office, though i just rang then and they told me general public goes on sale 31st july, when i told him i purchased tickets this morning he said the presale allotment had sold out. but the guy was willing to sell me more tickets with alot of pleading.” So I guess the upshot is … if you guys beg, plead, cry — perhaps sing a little “I Touch Myself,” with a moan or two thrown in for extra measure — maybe the ticket dude will take pity on you and sell you some tix.]

I could be up all night!

A Starry Starry Night In Austin

It was reportedly a perfect summer night under the stars in Austin last night. Tori’s set included “Horses,” “Doughnut Song,” “Digital Ghost,” and the two big surprises of the evening, “Juarez” and a gorgeous cover of “Vincent (Starry Starry Night” in memory of her brother, who [she said] never ever missed her Austin shows.

Head over to the Tour section for reviews and treats, with more to come. If you were at the show, do your thing at the bottom of that page.

Thanks to Melanie for rising to our Twitter challenge to come up with the perfect Austin recap title. (I know credit’s not as good a prize as the fuzzy lollipop from bottom of my purse, but too many people were fighting to get to the lolly and now credit’s all I got left, so it’ll have to do.)

Many thanks to @treethirteen, @AgiDoll_fin, and @meadowgirl for being on the ball with the setlist over on Twitter.

No Meet & Greet For Austin

Just logged on and saw there are several reports that today’s Austin M&G had to be cancelled. Not sure why, but suspect either scheduling conflict or heat (not sure what the weather’s like there today).

[UPDATE: Nath tells us venue staff confirmed that the M&G was cancelled because the stage door was in a secured parking area restricted to tour personnel only.]

She Was A Grand Prairie Girl

All reports indicate that last night’s Grand Prairie/Dallas show was fantastic. The setlist included “Black Dove (January),” “Mother,” “Putting The Damage On,” “Marys Of The Sea,” “Raspberry Swirl,” and a particularly touching rendition of “Taxi Ride” in honor of Kevyn Aucoin (not Michael Jackson, as was first thought).

Interesting tidbit (well, more like a bigbit in the EWF universe): both Jamie York and Robert Schrader have reported that at the M&G before the show, Tori said that the (now infamous) song from the Bonn soundcheck in 2005 is officially titled “Goodbye Girl’s Electric Band” and was supposed to be on AATS, but was replaced by “Mary Jane” at the last minute because John Philip Shenale’s strings weren’t finished. Darn!

We have the full setlist up over in the Tour section. If you attended the show, you know the drill — submit videos, piccies, and reviews at the bottom of the page. (I’m still trying to catch up on pics and video submissions for the last few shows, but I did manage to get a couple of things up already so the page wouldn’t be completely bare.)

Thanks to @torifan13, @AgiDoll_fin, @treethirteen, and @christinelaw for getting the set to us over on Twitter.