Victoriandustrial vocalist / violinist Emilie Autumn has issued the following recap of her North American fall tour:

"Dearest Plague Rats,

Have I taken the time to thank you properly for being there with all of us lunatics on the N. American tour? If I have not, THANK YOU!!! From the bottom of my plague-ridden heart, thank you. As I said so many times on stage, you have proven me right and everybody else wrong (we have no audience in America? Really???), and I love you for that. Many of you drove for hours to see us, and god knows we drove for hours to see you ;), and I now sit in a cell surrounded by letters and paintings and poems and rats and tokens of remembrance given to me by you, but the most cherished gift of all is that you sang with me. You sang with me, and you knew every word, and I will never forget that. My girls and I saw MANY of you beautiful Muffins coming to show after show after show, and in the end we felt like we were singing to old friends...and don't think I don't realize that a lot of you had waited more than five years to see me, and I thank you sincerely for not giving up on me that I would ever come to you, because I know for some time it seemed that I would never make it back to the homeland. I thought perhaps you would have forgotten me, but I didn't give up on you, and we made this happen at last, both of us hoping and praying that the other would be there, and the magic is that we all were! So, is the economy down? Yes. Are ticket sales down more than 60% for all concerts in America no matter the artist? Yes. But did we all make it happen, and do what it took to find each other at last, despite these odds, AND dress up in our finest Asylum best? YES. Should I stopping asking myself questions? Yes.

Of course, for my VIP Book Reading PRs (you know you are all VIPs to us, PRs): You gave me your time and your love each and every night. You cried with me. You watched me bleed. You heard things about me that my closest friends don't know, and you accepted them with open ratty hearts. And you sang 'My Fairweather Friend' with me and gave new and happy memories to a song I had only before associated with sadness. I adored meeting you, I adored holding you in my arms and taking beautiful sexy crazy photos with you, I adored singing with you, I adored teaching you all about leeches (THE AMAZING LEECH!!!), I adored sharing out secrets, and we ALL enjoyed the tea cookies many of you made for us;)...we had some sweet after-show bus parties with those!

Lastly, I want to thank all of the parents (and there were many) who took their young Plague Rats to see us. Some of you knew about us and wanted to sing along too, and others just went because you saw how much it meant to your little ones that they could be there that night, and you may be sure that it meant just as much to me and the Crumpets, because (a) we recruit early;), and (b) there is something in the Asylum for everybody, regardless of age (we're pretty much a dinner theatre children's show anyway...). I saw (and was happy to meet many of you) mothers and daughters (often both dressed to the nines), fathers and daughters, mothers and sons, fathers and sons, (no, I won't go through every genetic combination here) fathers carrying tiny daughters on their shoulders so they could see...having a four-year-old with a heart painted on her cheek call out 'I'm still innocent!!' after the song 'I Want My Innocence Back'...well, it just doesn't get much better than that.

Now, Europe, North America has raised the bar, so get ready to fight like a girl because we are coming for you, and we can hardly wait!"

EA

<center

Emilie's European tour dates 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