Live Performances
The song was included on the set list of the band's The Open Door Tour. According to Donnie Moorhouse of The Republican, the song receives a "full band treatment" during the performances. While reviewing a concert by the band, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Jon M. Gilbertson said that the title "pushes away from rock's party mood". However, he praised Lee's live performance of the song saying that she "projected so loudly and clearly that she seemed to be trying to reach well beyond the confines of the Eagles Ballroom, and she hit the notes throughout the set. No screaming or growling, in other words." Chris Harris of Rolling Stone described the performance of the song as having "everyone in the place headbanging along with Lee, whose hair whipped in circles wildly as she belted out the chorus."
During the Family Values Tour 2007, Evanescence performed "Call Me When You're Sober" on July 30, 2007 in Mansfield along with Korn. They had a 65-minute set during the show and Sarah Rodman of The Boston Globe praised their performance saying "'Call Me When You're Sober' was a seething highpoint, with Lee heaving and hurling her bitterness like so much china at a betrayer's head." On the 2006 Jingle Ball, Evanescence performed "Going Under" and "Call Me When You're Sober". Before starting to sing the song, Lee announced: "We're going to do something completely different from everyone else tonight — and rock as hard as we can." During the performance she was "bending over and pumping her fist" as stated by Kelefa Sanneh of The New York Times. Later the band performed the song during the 2009 Maquinária Festival in São Paulo, Brazil. In 2011, the band added the song to the set list of their third worldwide tour in support of their third self-titled studio album Evanescence (2011). They also performed "Call Me When You're Sober" during the 2011 Rock in Rio festival on October 2, 2011.
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