The Key

North American Key Tour Poster

The Key Tour was Emilie Autumn's first full tour of North America as well as her sixth tour with Opheliac. This tour was promoting both the The End Records' release of Opheliac as well as The Asylum For Wayward Victorian Girls. This tour introduced VIPs to Autumn's tours which included a book reading, a copy of The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls, and on the all legs besides the first, a poster.

Development

The North American tour was originally planned to start on May 22nd in New York; however, various issues involving the rest of the tour between the New York show and the show planned for California in August led up to her parting from Trisol. Subsequently, those dates had to be pushed back and the European festival dates were canceled all together. After being signed to The End Records it was announced that the tour would commence in the fall.

For this tour Emilie remade the entire set from scratch instead of using any of the elements from older tours. This includes a large clock for the shadow screen, a chandler made from spoons, and various small props. As well as this, The Key tour introduced Captain Maggot doing lyra during Opheliac in venues that were able to have areal acts. For the 2010 shows a number of other props were also remade to fit with the more recent look of The Asylum.

The Masquerade Incident in Atlanta, GA, happened during this tour.

Captain Maggot was absent for some tours due to scheduling conflicts with her own band, Insects v. Robots.

VIP Ticket Package

Approximately $45

• 1 concert ticket
• 1 autographed copy of The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
• 1 Poster (for second-leg tour dates only)
• Reading from The Asylum... book by EA

Due to printing problems prior to the tour dates, the books were not sent to Autumn and could not be brought on tour to be distributed to the VIP holders. The VIP holders were instead promised that Autumn would autograph them when they arrived and would ship them out to them herself. It was assumed that the VIP holders would still get their books before their public release in 2010, as that was what their package promised. However, due to poor management on Autumn and her management's behalf, the books were not sent out until late 2010 and early 2011 (long after the book had gone public); much to the fans' dissapointment and despite EA's claims that she was autographing the books via a Twitter post, the books arrived unsigned. To make up for this, Autumn and her friend, Queen fLee, sent out autographed sticker book plates that the VIP holders could put in their books at the end of 2011.

Bloody Crumpets

• Captain Maggot
• Lady Aprella
• The Blessed Contessa
• The Naughty Veronica

Set List

1. Best Safety Lies in Fear
2. 4 O'Clock
3. Opheliac
4. Liar (not performed on certain European dates)
5. The Art of Suicide
6. I Want My Innocence Back (not performed on certain European dates)
7. Shalott
8. Dominant
9. God Help Me
10. Unlaced
11. Dead Is The New Alive (not performed on certain European dates)
12. I Know Where You Sleep (not performed on certain European dates)
13. 306
14. Misery Loves Company
15. Face The Wall
16. Mad Girl
17. Bohemian Rhapsody
18. Thank God I'm Pretty
19. Outro

Tour Dates

North American 1st Leg

Date	Venue	City	Country
October 9	Opera House	Toronto	Canada
October 10	Studio JPR	Montreal	Canada
October 12	Middle East	Cambridge, MA	United States
October 13	Highline Ballroom	New York, NY	United States
October 14	Bourbon Street Ballroom	Baltimore, MD	United States
October 16	The Masquerade	Atlanta, GA	United States
October 17	The Social	Orlando, FL	United States
October 19	Meridian	Houston, TX	United States
October 20	Granada Theatre	Dallas, TX	United States
October 22	El Circo Volador	Mexico City	Mexico
October 24	The Glasshouse	Pomona, CA	United States
October 25	Key Club	Los Angeles, CA	United States
October 27	Great American	San Francisco, CA	United States
October 29	Hawthorne Theatre	Portland, OR	United States
October 30	The Rickshaw Theatre	Vancouver	Canada
October 31	El Corazon	Seattle, WA	United States
November 2	Murray Theatre	Salt Lake City, UT	United States
November 3	Bluebird Theatre	Denver, CO	United States
November 4	Granada Theatre	Lawrence, KS	United States
November 5	Varsity	Minneapolis, MN	United States
November 6	Logan Squ. Auditorium	Chicago, IL	United States

North American 2nd Leg

Date	Venue	City	Country
November 20	Diamond Ballroom	Oklahoma City, OK	United States
November 21	The Village	Little Rock, AR	United States
November 22	House of Blues	New Orleans, LA	United States
November 23	Emo's	Austin, TX	United States
November 25	The State Theatre	St. Petersburg, FL	United States
November 26	Culture Room	Ft. Lauderdale, FL	United States
November 27	Freebird Live	Jacksonville Beach, FL	United States
November 28	The Music Farm	Charleston, SC	United States
November 29	Cat's Cradle	Carrboro, NC	United States
November 30	9:30 Club	Washington DC	United States
December 2	Music Hall of Williamsburg	Brooklyn, NY	United States
December 3	Mr. Smalls Theatre	Millvale, PA	United States
December 4	BogartÍs	Cincinnati, OH	United States
December 5	HeadlinerÍs Music Hall	Louisville, KY	United States
December 6	The Crofoot	Pontiac, MI	United States
December 8	Pabst Theater	Milwaukee, WI	United States

European and Australian Legs

Date	Venue	City	Country
January 28	Academy	Bristol	United Kingdom
January 29	Wulfrun Hall	Wolverhampton	United Kingdom
January 30	Rock City	Nottingham	United Kingdom
February 1	Gebäude 9	Cologne	Germany
February 2	Knust	Hamburg	Germany
February 3	Pumpehuset	Copenhagen	Denmark
February 4	Debaser Slussen	Stockholm	Sweden
February 6	Sub Scene	Oslo	Norway
February 8	Postbahnhof	Berlin	Germany
February 9	Progresja	Warsaw	Poland
February 10	Werk 2	Leipzig	Germany
February 11	Seifenfabrik	Graz	Austria*
February 12	Szene	Vienna	Austria*
February 13	Rock Cafe	Prague	Czech Republic*
February 14	Randal	Bratislava	Slovakia*
February 15	Hafen	Innsbruck	Austria*
February 17	Munich	Munich	Germany
February 18	Fabrik	Turin	Italy
February 19	Auditorium Flog	Florence	Italy
February 20	Rock Planet	Pinarella Di Cervia	Italy
February 22	Batschkapp	Frankfurt	Germany
February 23	Hirsch	Nürnberg	Germany
February 24	Schlachthof	Dresden	Germany
February 25	Härterei	Zurich	Czech Republic
February 26	Trix	Antwerp	Belgium
February 27	Rockhal	Esch Sur Alzette	Luxembourg
March 1	Effenar	Eindhoven	Netherlands
March 2	Zeche	Bochum	Germany
March 5	Academy	Bournemouth	United Kingdom
March 6	Rio's	Leeds	United Kingdom
March 7	O2 Academy	Newcastle	United Kingdom
March 9	Leadmill	Sheffield	United Kingdom
March 10	Cathouse	Glasglow	United Kingdom
March 11	Academy 3	Manchester	United Kingdom
March 12	Islington Academy	London	United Kingdom
March 18	The Metro	Sydney	Australia
March 19	Gershwin Room	Melbourne	Australia
March 20	The Zoo	Brisbane	Australia

*Cancelled Dates

Cancelled Dates

We are very sad to announce that Emilie Autumn has today been struck down with Tracheolaryngitis. This is basically a serious infection (and subsequent inflammation) of the voice-box and windpipe and yes, it is as painful as it sounds!! Emilie is currently unable even to speak, let alone sing or perform, and she is under strict doctor's orders to rest totally and not use her voice at all for the next three or four days minimum. Obviously it would be impossible to perform her usual show under such conditions, so we have no choice but to cancel the shows in Graz, Vienna, Prague, Bratislava and Innsbruck . This is not a step we take lightly, and while we understand that muffins will be disappointed, we also hope that they will understand and join us in wishing her a full and swift recovery.

The rest of the scheduled shows will take place as planned, and we will be announcing rescheduled dates as soon as possible. Please visit this topic on the forum, or go to emilieautumn.com for future updates.

Notable Events

• During the Show in Orlando, Florida, Autumn and the Bloody Crumpets were repeatedly cat-called and heckled while they were on-stage. Autumn eventually responded to the audience member and paused the show momentarily to insult him and set things straight.

Exclusive Merchandise

To celebrate the Australian Tour dates, Autumn made an exclusive t-shirt (with dates on the back) for their short visit to the country.

To celebrate the first Mexico City visit, Autumn also designed and released two additional t-shirt designs exclusively for the event. The concert turned out to be one of Autumn's biggest performances ever.