Victoriandustrial violinist / vocalist Emilie Autumn has updated her US tour schedule with four shows (**). Her schedule is now as follows:

November

22 - New Orleans, LA - House Of Blues
25 - St. Petersburg, FL - The State Theatre
26 - Ft. Lauderdale, FL - Culture Room
27 - Jacksonville Beach, FL - Freebird Live
28 - Charleston, SC - The Music Farm
29 - Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle

December

3 - Millvale, PA - Mr. Smalls Theatre
4 - Cincinnati, OH - Bogart’s **
5 - Louisville, KY - Headliner’s Music Hall **
6 - Pontiac, MI - The Crofoot **
8 - Milwaukee, WI - Pabst Theater **

Emilie recently announced European tour dates for 2010. They are as follows, tickets can be pre-ordered here.

January

28 - Bristol, UK - Academy
29 - Wolverhampton, UK - Wulfrun Hall
30 - Nottingham, UK - Rock City

February

1 - Cologne, Germany - Gebäude 9
2 - Hamburg, Germany - Knust
3 - Copenhagen, Denmark - Pumpehuset
4 - Stockholm, Sweden - Debaser Slussen
6 - Oslo, Norway - Sub Scene
8 - Berlin, Germany - Postbahnhof
9 - Warsaw, Poland - Progresja
10 - Leipzig, Germany - Werk 2
11 - Graz, Austria - Seifenfabrik
12 - Vienna, Austria - Szene
13 - Prague, Czech Republic - Rock Cafe
14 - Bratislava, Slovakia - Randal
15 - Innsbruck, Austria - Hafen
17 - Munich, Germany - Ampere
18 - Turin, Italy - Fabrik
19 - Florence, Italy - Auditorium Flog
20 - Pinarella Di Cervia, Italy - Rock Planet
22 - Frankfurt, Germany - Batschkapp
23 - Nürnberg, Germany - Hirsch
24 - Dresden, Germany - Schlachthof
25 - Zurich, Switzerland - Härterei
26 - Antwerp, Belgium - Trix
27 - Esch Sur Alzette, Luxembourg - Rockhal

March

1 - Eindhoven, Holland - Effenar
2 - Bochum, Germany - Zeche
5 - Bournemouth, UK - Academy
6 - Leeds, UK - Rio's
7 - Newcastle, UK - O2 Academy
9 - Sheffield, UK - Leadmill
10 - Glasglow, UK - Cathouse
11 - Manchester, UK - Academy 3
12 - London, UK - Islington Academy

BW&BK; scribe Carl Begai recently caught up with Emilie to discuss the long awaited North American release of her new album, Opheliac:

Three years on and Emilie is more popular than ever in Europe even though language barriers guarantee that most European fans won’t and don’t get all the nuances of her songs. A shame considering the amount of work and thought put into most of the lyrics.

“That’s actually a really big issue for me, and it’s funny that nobody else has ever picked up on that. It is significant, definitely, and it’s very satisfying when people understand the intricacies of the lyrics. In Europe, I don’t know how much the fans get out of the lyrics, but I do know that some of them have gone to an incredible amount of trouble to really understand what I’m saying because it matters enough to them. They definitely have to work for it. Other times I get the sense that… when we’re performing, for example, I don’t know if everyone gets the joke. That’s okay though, because it’s all in how you say it and they laugh in all the right places. The problem is that when I do interviews, for example, they don’t always see the sarcasm or when I’m joking, and that’s very difficult. So many of my songs are full of sarcasm and that’s not always perceived, so the European fans have a tendency to take me much more seriously than I take myself.”

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