Finnish symphonic rockers NIGHTWISH, who parted ways with vocalist Anette Olzon mid-tour and replaced her with Floor Jansen (REVAMP, ex-AFTER FOREVER), have issued the following update:

"Dear people and fans!

As a way to thank you for sticking with Nightwish, we've decided to add more VIP meet & greet occasions for the rest of the US tour.

This means that for every tour date till the end of the US tour there will be a limited amount of VIP tickets available. This also applies to the already earlier sold out meet & greet events, which now have additional VIP tickets on sale.

People with normal tickets have now a possibility to upgrade to VIP tickets.

As said: We're grateful for the faith you've shown to us. We're grateful for the brilliant shows with Floor at the helm already. And we're grateful for the chance to continue this tour for us all! Thank You!"

Remaining tour dates are available below. Go to Enterthevault.com to purchase or upgrade to VIP, or contact the respective venue box offices. The VIP meet & greet offer only lasts while the tickets are available:

October

5 - The Grove - Anaheim, CA
6 - House of Blues - San Diego, CA
7 - The Marquee - Tempe, AZ
9 - Diamond Ballroom - Oklahoma City, OK
10 - Emo's - Austin, TX
11 - House Of Blues - New Orleans, LA
13 - Revolution - Ft Lauderdale, FL
14 - House of Blues Lake Buena Vista - Lake Buena Vista, FL

Multi-instrumentalist and Nightwish touring musician Troy Donockley has posted the following update from the current tour:

"'Keep Calm and Carry On....'. Oh yes indeedy. These were the famous words written on 'morale boosting' posters by the British government at the beginning of WW2. Now, I am not for one moment suggesting that the first half of our US tour has been like the outbreak of the war, but those words are pretty bloody pertinent!

Oh how we love touring the states. It's trite to say that the fans here are so brilliant (they are of course) because the fans are brilliant EVERYWHERE. But they have been particularly lovely to us; especially in light of the recent explosive events.

Yes, a split with the singer Anette occurred but it was really, really for the best. Believe me. The joy of this adventure was being wrecked and everyone was feeling very insecure... It was seriously interfering with our tasting sessions of the fine wines from the Napa Valley. Outrageous!

I mean, we never could have predicted that myself and Tuomas would find ourselves on stage, alone, asking an audience of over 1,600 in Denver to vote by a show of hands on whether the band should perform or not. Touchingly we were met by a sea of upraised hands; beautiful but how surreal.

Anyway, we have fully embraced the slogan from that heroic old poster, and we are all feeling a squillion times better. Our replacement singer Floor is simply majestic and we are having fearless fun. And on evidence of the ecstatic response to the last two shows, the fans seem to understand that this 'vehicle of spirit' cannot be derailed so easily."

Fan-filmed video of Nightwish performing 'Nemo' in Seattle, and a 22-minute overview of their Portland show is available below: