WITHIN TEMPTATION have issued the following update from vocalist Sharon Den Adel, on behalf of the group:

"Friday afternoon we came back from Japan, where we did two club shows, which was a great experience! Those Japanese people rock hard :-). Saturday-night we had the honor to close the Waldrock festival, in Friesland. Most of us crawled into bed around three or four o'clock. Except for Martijn and Jeroen who drove through some glass, from a car accident that had just happened. They had to change a tire in the middle of the night. Believe it or not they were still lucky compared to some other cars who had the same fate and were standing still with four flat tires.

This morning Robert and I were woken up by a wake-up call from Robert's mobile phone. At least that's what we thought... So, we jumped under the shower, had breakfast, brushed our teeth etc. We had just started our drive to Eindhoven, when I asked Robert 'How long is this drive to Eindhoven?'. 'Why?' he replied. 'Well, why do we need to leave at seven o'clock?' 'It's not seven o'clock, it's nine o'clock'. ' Oh my God, you're right it's seven o'clock...

Apparently my mobile phone went of reminding us for an appointment we had in Japan but filled in a wrong date or something.

As I have the same mobile phone and apparently the same taste for ring-tones, mine went off two hours earlier... lol. We drove back and slept another one and half hour... zzz We arrived at the Effenaar at 10.30. This was the first time for us in the new Effenaar. So we took our selves on a short tour, to check out the venue. We had lots of things to sign for the lottery and after that we went through the acoustic songs and preparing the drum-kit as the band-sound. We had not played 'Restless' for a while and this was the first time we played 'Angels' in this way. So that needed some practice as well.

To my surprise 'Ivar de Graaf' and his girlfriend were also present. Our former drummer was asked to present a quiz. So he recorded a few of our songs but they were performed in a different musical style. 'Stand My Ground' became a salsa song, 'Ice Queen' was performed in a country way and so on. Pretty hilarious :-). Contestants had to guess the titles and had to the answers to a lot of diverse questions in order to win some WT stuff.

After a short question round between us and the fans we had a signing session. Next time we will take even more time for it because 600 people don't fit in 45 min. So the 45. min became more than a hour and still we didn't have the time to sign everything, our apologies for that.

After our acoustic set and a short and spontaneous drum performance of 'Silvin' Stephen's son, we said goodbye to Sabina from TSF. We are sorry to see her go and hope that the new ' Sabina' will have the same talent and devotion. 'Sabina' TNX for those two years and the rest of TSF I would like to thank you on behalf of WT for your hard work and time for today, the magazine & internet site this year. TSF-members thanks for your presence, the cards, flowers and all the other gifts and we hope to see soon!

It was also really great to see the members from outside of the Netherlands increasing so rapidly. Tnx for coming all this way to our little country and we hope you to see you all again as well!

All the best!"

As reported earlier, Ticketmaster USA have a Within Temptation date lined up for Friday, September 7th at The Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza in New York, NY.

Ticket for the show go on sale July 21st at 1 PM. More details here.