Tori Amos @ Olympia Wed 8th May

CorkFenian

Hi heading to this next week, i see the doors open for 7.30pm anyone have any idea on what time Tori Amos will be on stage, support acts etc, any info appreciated,

run_Forrest_run

CorkFenian wrote: »

Hi heading to this next week, i see the doors open for 7.30pm anyone have any idea on what time Tori Amos will be on stage, support acts etc, any info appreciated,

I'm going to the Cork gig so I'll be able to tell you about support act etc after it.

Do you happen to know if she's using a band on this tour or just herself with the Bosendorfer & keyboard ?

Hitting this gig sort of blind because her new album upon which this tour is based comes out AFTER the Cork and Dublin gigs. That's annoying.

RolandGoose

I am pretty sure this is a solo tour, with just Tori onstage.
I have heard it said in the promotional interviews for Unrepentant Geraldines.

It is kinda annoying not been able to get familiar with the new material, the lead single sounds great tho, and she has no shortage of great songs in her back catalogue, so it should be a great night, and lets hope the new record is more of the same!

CorkFenian

Thanks RolandGoose, any idea when she will start on stage...Just heading from work and looking to get food etc beforehand....If she starts at 7.30 etc? Thanks....

run_Forrest_run

right, very good gig last night in the Opera House.
There was a support, a male & female couple with acoustic guitars sharing one mic, they did say who they were but I honestly couldn't make it out from their accent (English). Her voice was great, they played for 30 mins, started at 8 (as stated on the ticket).

At 9pm on the dot out walks Tori to a sold-out Opera House. The large gay man contingent taking up the first two rows were all jazz hands immediately. Tori obliged.

She opened with a track I presumed was off the new album (due to fairly silent crowd reaction).

She introduced her tour in a song, I've never seen her live before but you can really pick up her quirky sense of humour as she talks. Very energetic behind the keys and sounding stunning, her voice is top notch.

I loved the intense smiles she would throw at the crowd, once she just burst into a fit of smiles during an intro, I wondered had she made a mistake but I couldn't hear it, she has the knack to turn to the crowd and make you feel it's only you in the house that she is playing to.

I was always unsure about how many of her 'old' stuff she would play as I haven't been keeping up with a lot of her newer stuff (post Beekeeper:) ) of late but I was pleasantly surprised. She played plenty of old well known stuff such as:

(not in any particular order)

Baker Baker
Caught a Lite Sneeze
Pretty Good Year
Crucify
Bells for Her
Silent All these Years
Past the Mission
1000 Oceans (as part of encore)

There were more but I must admit, I didn't recognise them, one was played with an organ and wow, stunning piece.

She spoke about it being the 20th anniversary of Under the Pink, no, she did not play Cornflake Girl

She did a covers 'Lizard Lounge' section, as publicised on her website I believe. Songs such as Desperado (for all the gay men she announced), New Year's Day & Under a Blood Red Sky. There were more covers but I couldn't make it out, the lyrics were familiar but I couldn't place the song under the way she was playing it (sorry!!).

A very entertaining night, personally I would have liked to see a band behind her but Tori on her own is pretty good either way, her playing and her voice both not showing any of the miles on the clock.

The more intimate venues like the Opera House and the Olympia will be suited to this show. She brings a nice 'bricks' backdrop with her accompanied with some nice lighting. She uses some effects on her voice, a bit of echo mainly, nothing over-done. Sound in the Opera House was excellent as always.

Despite the requests for no cameras/flash photography there were some muppets flashing away, the staff were fairly strict and would be over to the offenders reminding them to put the camera down.
Jesus, why do people feel the need to stick an electronic device between them and the real thing.

With encore she played for just under 2 hours.
Anyone going to the Olympia is in for a treat.

CorkFenian

Great review, much appreciated, thanks a lot run_Forrest_run

run_Forrest_run

CorkFenian wrote: »

Great review, much appreciated, thanks a lot run_Forrest_run

no problem, enjoy the gig.

limnam

The supporting act was

Trevor Moss & Hannah-Lou

They'll be with her for the next 7 weeks or so they mentioned

run_Forrest_run

limnam wrote: »

The supporting act was

Trevor Moss & Hannah-Lou

They'll be with her for the next 7 weeks or so they mentioned

yep, I got the 7 week think but you as you can appreciate, saying their names fast with their accents could be easily missed
They were very good in fairness.

limnam

run_Forrest_run wrote: »

yep, I got the 7 week think but you as you can appreciate, saying their names fast with their accents could be easily missed
They were very good in fairness.

Yes they were very good.

BTW. She opened up with Parasol. The silence was because it's such an amazing song.
Probably :-)

horseburger

the website for the Olympia is usually good for including the times of shows.

Maybe they update the site, on the day of the shows, to include the times?

It had the times listed beforehand, for the Neil Finn gig last week.

http://www.olympia.ie/whats-on/tori-amos/

run_Forrest_run

limnam wrote: »

Yes they were very good.

BTW. She opened up with Parasol. The silence was because it's such an amazing song.
Probably :-)

yep, I saw that later...bad of me not to have copped that one. Ah, she has loads of material

flasher0030

Great gig last night in The Olympia. To classify me as a casual fan is an understatement. I owned (and loved) Under the pink 20 years ago, and wife was listening to Little Earthquakes recently enough. Other than that, I knew no other songs before this week. Did a bit of pre-gig cramming – listening to songs that she played live recently. But she mixes the setlist up so much, it doesn’t matter.

Anyway, point is that it was a gig that you could enjoy immensely without knowing the songs or singing along to the words. It was beautiful. And had a lovely intimate atmosphere to it.

I’d love to know what the avid fans thought of it.

InReality

^
I thought it was excellent on Thursday.

A guy behind me was sneezing continuously for a few minutes and I nearly freaked out as I thought he might never stop.

Tori seemed very happy so that was great to see. She looks fantastic in glasses too - I didn't know she was wearing them before hand.

I guess for songs she has so many great ones she could spend another few hours and still wouldn't be enough time.

A second encore would have been amazing though .

Does anyone have the set list from thursday ?

run_Forrest_run

InReality wrote: »

^
A guy behind me was sneezing continuously for a few minutes and I nearly freaked out as I thought he might never stop.

I wonder was he related to the guy beside me tapping is leg for lengthy periods intermittently, causing all connected seats to vibrate (he wasn't even in time with the music:mad:!). The joys of sit down concerts eh.