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.)

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.

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!

Tour News - 20 May 2009

First and foremost, we’ve gotten word that the US iTunes pre-sale passwords will be e-mailed on May 25th. Turns out the page about the promotion within the iTunes store said that explicitly. Since the offer ended, the page was taken down so no one could double-check there.

Second, we’re told that the UK pre-sale passwords should be sent on Friday, May 22. Meanwhile, Ticketmaster.co.uk has added listings for the Glasgow and London shows with the London listing showing a pre-sale on Saturday, May 23rd at 10:00 AM. That all ties together nicely, so UK iTunes pre-orderers, keep an eye on your inbox on Friday.

In other news, LiveNation.dk has added a listing for the Copenhagen concert, where tickets slated to go on sale on Saturday, May 25th. Velvet also found an article on Kulturplakaten which says tickets will be sold through Billetlugen.dk. However, Rikke points out a listing for the Copenhagen concert on BILLETnet.dk which is the exclusive ticketing vendor for the Royal Opera , so that looks to be the actual site to purchase tickets for this show from.

Finally, at the risk of causing a heart attack, we note that the Toronto listing has been removed from Live Nation. What this means, we do not know.

The iTunes Pre-Sale - What We Know

We’ve been getting a lot of questions about the iTunes/Ticketmaster pre-sale promotions. Most of the questions being asked have been addressed at one point or another over the past week but details like that can easily get lost in the torrent of news, articles, reviews that get posted on the site so here’s a quick summary of what we know that will, hopefully, clear some things up for those with questions:

• According to the pre-sale page on iTunes (no longer available), US pre-sale passwords should be sent out on Monday, May 25th.
• UK pre-sale passwords, we’re told, will be sent on Friday, May 22nd.
• According to Live Daily, the US pre-sales are scheduled to start on Thursday, May 28th. UK pre-sales appear to be scheduled for Saturday, May 23rd.
• Pre-sale passwords are not included with the receipt of your purchase from iTunes. They will be sent separately.
• Pre-sale passwords will be sent from iTunes. Still, it wouldn’t hurt to make sure iTunes, apple.com, ToriAmos.com, and ticketmaster.com/.co.uk are not blocked by any spam filters so that the delivery of your password is not delayed.

With all that said, we hasten to point out that we are not the authority on this stuff. Ultimately, that would be some combination of Tori’s management, iTunes and Ticketmaster. We know iTunes and Ticketmaster have been playing a game of pass-the-buck when folks have been calling them so it is frustrating to find anything concrete out about this. Nevertheless, we’re pretty sure that the points above are, to the best of our knowledge, accurate.

And rest assured: soon as we hear that the pre-sale passwords have started to arrive, we’ll be sure alert the troops…

New Tour Date: Copenhagen!

Everything Tori sneakily added a new date to their listing for the upcoming tour: September 20th at the Royal Opera House in Copenhagen, Denmark. Tickets are slated to go on sale on May 25th, though no specific time or vendor are identified yet.

Additionally, Everything Tori has also added vendor links for the four UK dates as well.

Thanks to Valentina and Rikke for catching this!

Your Morning Tour Update: On-Sale Dates

On-sale dates for nearly all of the North American stops on the Sinful Attraction Tour have been posted at ToriAmos.com, Everything Tori and Myspace. Most of these are on the weekends of May 30th and June 5th, so one would assume that these are the general on-sale dates and not the dates for the iTunes pre-sales or any other pre-sales that promoters or the venue may hold.

These on-sale dates have been added to the Tour section and, as pre-sale information becomes available, those will supersede the general sales in the listing until the pre-sale passes.

Thanks to Stinkysoul for catching this last night and Jack for noticing the late night update on the official site.