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Tori Amos

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4.5

126 of 140(90%)customers would recommend this to a friend.

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5 / 5

Tori duz Birmingham,

Symphony Hall @

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- Mon 7 Sep 2009 @

Setlist: Too many to mention cos with this girl you always get more than your moneys worth @

Opening act(s): ONE ESKIMO: This really is a band to look out for! Stripped to the bare essentials Two guitars one trumpet and the drummer plays his seat! The lead singer has a very unique voice and a little jogging rhythmic dance that's very infectious.check youtube!! @

Posted 08/09/2009

by knortyboi

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As a tried and trusted fan of 'the goddess' I am of course guilty of bias even before the first word of this is written. This is my 5th time of seeing Tori live and by far the best.
First of all the venue is amazing and most fitting for this fabulous woman, small in ground space but falling upwards for ever with a beautiful deco caste to the whole room.
With over 10 albums to choose from it has to be said that Tori and her team chose well with a mix that bounced (off clouds?) from old to new to newer and back again.
She kept her audience enthralled and never failed to involve and engross.
With a two hour journey there and back to witness this I can honestly say it was worth every second!

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Review 2 for Tori Amos

5 / 5

Tori Amos was incredible!

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Posted 22/09/2009

by gufo73

Location: Tuscany, Italy

When I first saw Tori Amos in concert in 1994 she was an amazing performer but with age and new material she has gone from amazing to undescribable. I flew over from Italy to see her and it was definitely worth it. You have to be there to experience her stage presence to know what I'm talking about. A unique artist.

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Review 3 for Tori Amos

4 / 5

Tori Tori Tori

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Favourite moment: All of them @

Opening act(s): Eskimo 10 or something. Hated the singer with a passion! Music was pretty drab. 3/10 @

Posted 21/09/2009

by thecheesespecialist

Location: Hertfordshire, England

Hadn't seen Tori Amos live before. Loved her in the nineties and rediscovered her more recently. On the back of loving her recent albums, American Doll Posse and AATS, I decided to go see her for real.

Apart from being too far back in the venue the concert was fantastic, her vocals coming across really strong and dynamic as is her way. I felt it was ambitious trying to recreate her songs with only a three piece band but mostly they succeeded. Acoustically the venue was not great (probably due to my location near the back where the bass gets mushy)

Love Tori, her music is so beautiful and dynamic and I love her piano playing. Drummer was awesome and the bassist did his stuff well.

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Favourite moment: All of them @

Opening act(s): Eskimo 10 or something. Hated the singer with a passion! Music was pretty drab. 3/10 @

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Review 4 for Tori Amos

5 / 5

brings the songs to life

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Favourite moment: Cooling the B Side and Jamaica Inn ! @

Setlist: Precious Things, Cornflake Girl, Carbon, Cooling, Winter, Give, Jamaica Inn Big Wheel...... @

Posted 19/09/2009

by melilee

Location: London

Never a dissapointment Tori Amos brings her songs to life. Her lyrics and her ethereal voice are absolutely stunning. Each song takes on its own twist and has its own personality. You never know what to expect from her.
The show at London Apollo was amazing and of course will not be forgotten. Covering songs from long ago, even pre Under the Pink to more current classics from American Girl Posse and Abnormally Attracted to Sin, she had me stuck to the seat.

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Favourite moment: Cooling the B Side and Jamaica Inn ! @

Setlist: Precious Things, Cornflake Girl, Carbon, Cooling, Winter, Give, Jamaica Inn Big Wheel...... @

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Review 5 for Tori Amos

4 / 5

Tori Amos was mystical

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Favourite moment: Winter and Icicle @

Posted 19/09/2009

by bumper

Location: London

Her usual eclectic self, beautiful voice, sublime pianist, gorgeous woman

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Favourite moment: Winter and Icicle @

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Review 6 for Tori Amos

5 / 5

terrific tori

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Favourite moment: big wheel @

Posted 17/09/2009

by cin0s

Location: northampton

i was sat in stalls w26-28 with my two friends and the view was amazing!!!
tori was her usual amazing self!

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Review 7 for Tori Amos

5 / 5

amazing tori amos concert

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Favourite moment: welcome to england @

Posted 17/09/2009

by shanny

Location: london

the show was amazing! her voice and raw energy made for a brilliant performance. the line up included the right amount of new and old songs which certainly had the crowd eating out of tori's hand. lighting was great, venue was fantastic!

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Review 8 for Tori Amos

5 / 5

tori is amazing

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Posted 17/09/2009

by Anonymous

tori amos was everything i expected and more. this show actually changed my life, very inspirational. thank you.

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Review 9 for Tori Amos

5 / 5

As alwyas Tori was awsome!

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Favourite moment: 'Usual' poses and arrangement of 'Cornflake girl' @

Posted 16/09/2009

by Gosia

Location: Guildford

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Very dynamic concert. Fully professsional, lively and well planned. The set up of the stage was fantastic. Mix of songs from the ew and old albums was balanced and brought up lots of memories. She was shining like aurora!

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Review 10 for Tori Amos

5 / 5

Tori Amos was Amazing

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Favourite moment: Icicle, Winter @

Posted 15/09/2009

by SaucyJack

Location: London

As a long term fan of Tori Amos, since Under The Pink, it was inevitable I was going to enjoy this gig, but it surpassed even my greatest expectations. The set list was a beautiful balance of new and old songs, performed superbly with Tori's unique and beauiful stage presence projected with amazing power and vibrance. The backing musicians provided exactly the right amount of support, perfectly complementing Tori's vocals and keyboards. Mark did a superb job with the sound and Tori's lighting engineer is nothing short of a genius.

The perfect woman has put on the perfect performance again. Eleven out of ten. I am already looking forward to the next time I get to see her perform.

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Review 11 for Tori Amos

3 / 5

Too careful, Tori Amos

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- Glasgow @

- Tue 8 Sep 2009 @

Favourite moment: Fast Horse, Bells For Her, great lights @

Setlist: taken from afterglowblog.com Give, Beauty of Speed, Cornflake Girl, Horses, Hotel, Martha’s Foolish Ginger, Curtain Call, Bells for Her, Marys of the Sea, Taxi Ride, Etienne, Pretty Good Year, China, A Sorta Fairytale, Fast Horse, Precious Things, Strong Black Vine, Caught a Lite Sneeze, Big Wheel @

Opening act(s): One eskimO @

Posted 15/09/2009

by Jaquarian

I expected (and looked forward to) hearing many songs from her latest album Abnormally Attracted To Sin. I was slightly disappointed when the concert turned out to be more of a retrospective of her long career. There were so many songs from her early albums (even Etienne from Y kant tori read), that the concert felt actually a bit boring at some point. I have all her official albums, bootlegs, b-sides and live collections, so I have heard "old pieces" quite many times. Tori Amos made me think she performed too carefully this time! I know, it sounds impossible but that's how I felt. The songs are great but I just wanted more of that Sinful Attraction :D

Somehow she didn't seem to be at her best. I can't help thinking that she has been focusing so much on the outer look (appearance, fashion, photographies etc.) of her as an artist, that it starts to interfere with her performances. Or maybe she tours too much in a short period of time. The shows become too mechanical, too controlled. The concert dealing with the thems of Sinful Attraction would probably work out better in a more intimate club(?) The Glasgow Royal Concert Hall appeared to be too formal a stage for the gig I was anticipating. Her music should make one dance wildly, not to keep one sitting in a bench for two hours.

All in all, he show was worth the ticket, but it left me to wish for more.

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Favourite moment: Fast Horse, Bells For Her, great lights @

Opening act(s): One eskimO @

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Review 12 for Tori Amos

5 / 5

Truly Amazing!

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Favourite moment: Cooling and Winter. Carbon and Precious things were amazing too! @

Posted 15/09/2009

by Fitzy007

Location: London

Embarrasingly, this was only the second time I had seen Tori live. I was blown away by her last gig here in 2007 but this time was even better. I think she managed to play at least 1 track from each of her albums but for me it was the 2 middle songs, without the bass/drum accompaniment, The truly incredible 'Cooling' followed by the classic 'Winter'.
No one in the entire venue moved during these two songs and for me, this was worth the entrance fee alone. With Tori, she can do a 2 hour set full of fantastic tracks yet she will still leave out about 15 that you also would have wanted her to play.
Not a note or a beat out (apart from her counting in 'Big Wheel' which was such a humbling moment), she is perfect and i really wish I'd gone to the second night aswell.
The only negative thing I'd say (and i know it's cliched) but it just wasn't long enough!!!
can't wait for 2011!

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Review 13 for Tori Amos

5 / 5

Entrancing

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Favourite moment: Seeing her walk on stage and just loving the audience @

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Posted 15/09/2009

by Snarkly

Location: Reading

I've loved Tori Amos since hearing her first album. There is just something about her thats... different. She is very intense, very pure, very real. Her first stuff was very hurt, very not angry or angsty like Alanis Morrisette, but... wounded. It bit deep with me. Later, she spread out, became more childlike, happier, more full of wonderment. Then she spread further, became experimental, playing, exploring. I kind of lost her at that point, it became a little too over the place for me, jarring kind of. Whilst I may have lost the albums then, I never stopped adoring her.

I saw her once before, in London in a small intimate theatre and I fell in love. It was her and about 4 keyboards. Nothing else. No one else. She sat on her stool. Talked about her life, about growing up with this big smile and open trusting eyes. Spoke to us like old friends, then launched into a few songs. It was the most amazing thing I had ever seen. I'll never forget it.

This time I was a little nervous. I knew I hadn't liked a lot of stuff she had done recently, the leaping around, the change of styles jarred with me. I was a little nervous I would feel alienated because of that.

I neednt have worried though. This time she spoke briefly at the beginning to welcome everyone to her patch and hope they enjoyed it like being in her local listening to the piano bar. Her, a drumer and a guitarist.

She is still stunningly beautiful, at 46. She was wearing a black dress, open from the waist down with long tail at the back - showing her perfect legs, glad in shiny white leggings. Her high heels. Her hair is perfectly straight now, still luscious red. She span on stage like a fairy. Little dancing movements with her hands which made little sense but just fitted in with her geekery, her enjoyment of what was going on, her not caring about how it looked or how she should be but just part of how she was.

She opened her world to us, through her music. A glimpse into Tori's music, her life.

She sang for over 1hr 45mins without stopping for a pause or even a glass of water. She sang with sweeping songs all over her range, which is huge. Her voice is an instrument and she used it to its utmost. Her voice is so pure, its so clean, its so precise you don't need to hear the words. It is music in itself.

Some songs I didn't like so much and it didn't matter. Sitting watching her, watching her live those songs it didn't matter what they sounded like. It was experiencing her, her love for them, her love for the music. Getting lost in that with her, not caring where it went.

I know I was entranced.

She is a virtuoso pianist of such passion. She had (to start with) her grand piano with keyboard atop it. Behind her back, two other keboards stacked on atop the other. Sitting on one corner of the piano bench, one bum cheek just barely resting on it, one leg forward, the other stretched straight back, like a runner about to sprint. Trademark Tori. Uncaring of style, just her place. Sometimes sitting astride it, spread legged, not caring of the view she was giving... Sometimes arching up and humping the air, probably very deliberately aware of the view she was giving.

Some songs she just played the grand. Some she played two. One song she played all four. Sitting, facing the audience, not looking at either set of keyboards. One hand on each, at right angles to her. Playing each as it had the sound she needed. A microphone above each so she could sing wherever she faced.

Some people that would be pretentious, look at me, look how clever I am. Look what I can do. Some people the changes in style, the clashing, the jarring would be "artistic". Not to Tori though, I don't think. To her, thats just how it sounds in her head, so its the way it is. Find a way to play it.

Some artists change clothes in a concert. No, she had her keyboards changed, to a different three. Always the grand piano though.

I cried at "Winter". That line "When you gonna love you as much as I do" always gets to me.

Precious Things... Another song from 1992. Wow.. so long ago, yet still so powerful. Precious Things gave me the chills. That piano drove through you, every line was ice, ice that came from the pain long ago. I was impressed after so much time, after so much happiness she could play it with such venom.

Every line a chill down my spine. Yet... her versatility that she could leap from something like that to a Jazz number, a rockier number, a ballad quiet and still, a leaping dancier number, a gentle piano piece, a concotion. No jarring, no pause, just leap.

Her body throwing itself into every piece. Loving every minute.

I've just been re-reading the Magic Kingdom of Landover books and in them there is the description of a character who is eternally wanting but unfulfilled because of his lust for the wildness of the wood nymph he had one night but who could never stay with him. He could just watch her dancing, wildly, to her own tune in the woods but could never be tamed or captured. Thats how it feels to watch Tori. Watching her dance her dance thats just her own on stage with her keyboards, her songs, her voice. Watching some ethemeral spirit on a moonlit night that you've just happened upon in a woodland glade. Don't make too much noise or she will be gone. Don't try and capture it, its like bottling mist. Just be entranced and go away feeling you've seen something very very magical.

I'd go again in a heartbeat..

More mundately, the audience was weird. It wasn't a cheap concert and yet people came in 25mins after she started, missing the support completely and the first part of her set. I have never seen a more restless crowd getting upto go to the bathroom or get drinks. In and out all the time... yet they were loving her, not bored.... There was even a fight....

The support act "One eskimO" were great and totally worth looking out for. The lead singer is "Kristian Leontiou" who had a big hit in 2004 with the lovely song "Story of my life". It was an amazing song but things didnt go the way he wanted so he stepped back and found where he wanted to go, and they are just ready to come to prominance again. They should do, they have a great great sound.

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Review 14 for Tori Amos

5 / 5

Tori is amazing as always

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Posted 14/09/2009

by RandomFan

If you are not a Tori Amos fan, you will be after seeing her live. If you are already a Tori Amos fan, well, then there shouldn’t even be a question of whether or not to see her perform live.

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Review 15 for Tori Amos

1 / 5

Yawni Amos

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Favourite moment: Bells For Her - thankfully played when the oaf in front of me left to get a beer and I could see the stage. @

Posted 14/09/2009

by devilbond

The Apollo is an amazing venue, unless you get a bad seat, which is nearly all seats in the middle of the upper circle. Problem being is that the seats aren't tiered enough to see over the person in front of you, even though you're about 30 feet above the stage! Location woes aside, the real let down of the night was Tori herself. She left the stage after 2hrs of playing a largely 'sameish' set without as much as a single word between songs - or even a goodnight. I find this to be so disrespectful to her fans who have paid to see *her* not just to listen to the songs played live.

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Review 16 for Tori Amos

5 / 5

amazing

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Favourite moment: the opening song was amazing.. a bit of a wait between the support act but well worth it. came over all emotional. just an amazing feeling @

Opening act(s): opened with give from the new album. @

Posted 14/09/2009

by darren008

Location: manningtree essex

tori amos at hammersmith appollo

sound and visual effects were stunning

a great experience.

well worth it

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Favourite moment: the opening song was amazing.. a bit of a wait between the support act but well worth it. came over all emotional. just an amazing feeling @

Opening act(s): opened with give from the new album. @

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Review 17 for Tori Amos

3 / 5

Tori - perfect but cold!

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Favourite moment: Winter - which she sang beautifully @

Opening act(s): I enjoyed One Eskimo and will be looking out for them in the future. @

Posted 14/09/2009

by Dorian

Location: London

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I had looked forward to this for a long time and although her performance was faultless, Toria Amos was rather distant and, for me, did not connect at all. She barely acknowledged the audience and seemed completely detached. Having said that her voice was amazing but the whole experience was little better than watching a film and I left feeling rather disappointed. Still love her music though!

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Favourite moment: Winter - which she sang beautifully @

Opening act(s): I enjoyed One Eskimo and will be looking out for them in the future. @

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Review 18 for Tori Amos

5 / 5

tori amos, she is marvellous.

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Favourite moment: lizard lounge, when the stars came out . but hell, the entire show was superb. @

Setlist: cornflake girl,little amsterdam,power of orange knickers,putting the damage on,1000 oceans,mr zebre,not the red baron,precious things, strong black vines, tear in your hand, and loads of others since mind like seive. @

Posted 14/09/2009

by carlosgecko

Location: london

she is an artist supreme, entrance stage right dressed in metallic gold dress, matching leggings and looking very wow! jon and matt having got things started by creating this menacing groove and building up anticipation for our girl.
then on came the show with new songs and old favourites and we lapped it all up.
lots from pele and scarlet and earthquakes and venus and choirgirl, all in all a greatest hits night. the sound was magnificent, all players at the top of their game making these stories alive with flesh and blood, calm down! but it was truely that good. it came to an end as all great empires do but the book has been writen and we remember, always.

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Favourite moment: lizard lounge, when the stars came out . but hell, the entire show was superb. @

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Review 19 for Tori Amos

3 / 5

Songs great- Sound bad

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Favourite moment: Playing both pianos at the same time. @

Setlist: Loved Cornflake girl @

Opening act(s): One Eskimo- Heard them before-can't remember where but will deffo try to hear them again! @

Posted 14/09/2009

by Huggles

Location: Surrey

Admittedly I haven't been to this venue for a few years (Last time was for Robert Palmer) . Tori was doing all the things she does best- but the sound quality just seemed so poor-especially at the beginning of the show. I could hardly make out any of her great lyrics or even at times that wonderful lyrical hook that she does so well which makes her lets face it- Tori Amos!

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Favourite moment: Playing both pianos at the same time. @

Setlist: Loved Cornflake girl @

Opening act(s): One Eskimo- Heard them before-can't remember where but will deffo try to hear them again! @

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Review 20 for Tori Amos

4 / 5

winter was awesome!

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Posted 14/09/2009

by Anonymous

Tori Amos performance was great - plenty of enthusiasm and an overall feeling that she had enjoyed the show as much as the audience, which was very apreciative. She played for at least two hours. Best number of the evening was Winter from her first album.

A couple of critisisms - Hammersmith Apollo upstairs bar had horrible beer - tried serveral pumps and both guiness and carlsberg - all nasty. Bottled beer ok.
Soundman took a few numbers to sort out sound - drummer sounded great but was overwhelming piano and vocals as heard from row Q in the circle. This got better across the evening.

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