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He said you're really an ugly girl
These precious things
I remember
With their nine inch nails and Tori Amos, Precious Things
how fates turn around in the overtime Tori Amos, Spark
God sometimes you just don't come through
You make pretty daisies pretty daisies love Tori Amos, God
I guess I'm an underwater thing Tori Amos, Liquid Diamonds
NEVER was one Tori Amos, Siren
Sugar Tori Amos, Sugar
You're already in there Tori Amos, Cloud on My Tongue
thought I knew myself so well Tori Amos, Hey Jupiter
sleep-overs Beene's got some pot Tori Amos, Jackie's Strength
right on time you get closer Tori Amos, Caught A Lite Sneeze
things are getting desperate Tori Amos, Raspberry Swirl
So I want to kill this waitress
But I believe in peace Tori Amos, The Waitress
just say yes Tori Amos, Iieee
She's your cocaine Tori Amos, She's Your Cocaine
so I got me some Horses Tori Amos, Horses
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("is that her DAD?") And so .. the lights went off, and The Devlins started their opening act. THAT was just really cool, I've heard so many people say they're okay but nothing special, and they've gotten really cold welcomes all tour, but I was pleasantly surprised.. and the singer was adorable. I was a bit shocked at how amazing the SOUND was, though, everything on stage really pulsated through my body. I think (and have heard later) that the welcome and applauds we gave them was the best they'd gotten all tour, I was happy to see that a lot of people genuinely cheered for individual songs, instead of just politely clapping their hands. The band members also seemed really really startled at the treatment we gave them.. it must be so hard to open for Tori, y'know? Talk about a no win situation.. It was just CUTE though, and I cheered like everybody else. At one point there was a song where they stopped playing in the middle, so the singer could switch guitar, and it was just a cool dramatic effect and.. this girl first shouter earlier "I LOVE YOU!" which made everyone giggle, and then during this pause, she belted out a "MARRRRY MEEEE!".. the band stayed quiet, the audience giggled, the singer was just leaning over his guitar, so at first we though he was going to ignore it and.. raises his head, goes "okay.", and start the song up with a loud riff.. it was hilARIOUS, and really got the audience cheering (me included). Midthrough the set the singer thanked us for "showing up early" so they got an audience.. hehehe As they ended the set, you could tell the band was energized and overwhelmed by our response, so.. it was really cute. :) And then it was intermission time, time for them to put together the Tori set... 45 minute wait? Something like that. A lot of people left their seats, but I just couldn't MOVE, I wanted to really absorb that I was there, and I was paranoid that if I left I'd miss something. 9.25 pm the lights go out, I notice that the Kenny doll from South Park had made it onto the stage yet again, everyone start screaming their heads off as the boys in the band start to play,.. At the beginning, we could only see their shadows, and then we got to see them and when I recognized Caton it just SLAMMED my cells - I was really *there*. And suddenly I realized what they're playing - Precious Things!!!!!!!! And then.. suddenly. Tori. Amos. Walked. In. ARGH! She was wearing nice black pants, a black top with the shoulder sort of pulled down, and an amazing white slinky apron with a ton of silver sequins sown onto it ... it really stopped my brain for a while. I could see her so well, there was the hair, looking just how I imagined it, it was a bit as if I was still watching this on tv, but got mysteriously hooked up so it seemed I was in Virtual reality.. Unbelievable. And that's when my tear canals decided that they needed to let some salty water flow down my cheeks. The thing is, I didn't feel upset, or overwhelmed, and I was bawling, it was just silent tears flowing because it seemed appropriate to my heart. I really never stopped crying during the entire concert, but it didn't feel embarrassing or even stupid, because it was just so calm, and quiet.. it dried up every now and then, but just as I'd stop, she'd go into some song or wailing or piano improv. that set it off again, so it just wasn't something that bothered me, except it slightly blurred my vision every no wand then. How's that for a pathetic confession? ;) Precious Things was really, really incredible. Earlier at Lee's place we'd watched a video where Tori plays the same song live, and I was so grabbed by the energy, but this version was _even_ better. I LOVED the fact that she had a band there! I know so many are disappointed and miss the old Tori with just a piano, but ghod.. the energy these people generate, the added soundlevel, the added sound landscapes.. amazing. As another Toriphile said it "I had plenty of Eargasms"... amazing. For once, the screaming also fitted the concert. It's _always_ bothered me that people feel it necessary to scream at Tori _during_ the songs, but this time, the only screaming that happened went on in between the songs, sort of as a "YEY that was GREAT" and "oh my ghod she's playing _insert title_) I was so surprised, and excited about that, people were just so quiet and respectful during the songs. It was amazing to hear her at the end of the song with the lines she's added during tours ("Daddy wash me, wash me clean..")... everyone seems to agree that the performance was spectacular. Someone said that she masturbated over her clothes during this song, but I strongly disagree. It was more her usual movements during this famous growl she makes out of the word "giiiiiiiiiiirl".. she sort of grabs at her crotch, and pulls her hands up towards the chest, but it's not in a masturbating kind of way, more like she's pulling strength from her vagina/womb/whatever and pull it up into the growl. Another gesture she did that I just adored was that in the midst of playing the second verse or so, she raised her right hand in the midst of playing, and clawed the piano in one quick flowing motion.. it just looked so concentrated. They barely stopped after the song, but instead lapsed into playing Spark which I know you know I adore. During the entire concert, the lighting show was incredible, I've read about it so I knew ahead it was going to be, but you just have to see it for yourself, the way all those coloured lights play in patterns over the musicians.. gorgeous. I held my breath during the "Ballerinas that have fins" bit, it was so powerful, and GHOD how can ANYONE play a piano like that?"??? Tori starts playing this intro I've never heard that's really intense, the rest of the band follow, and my brain is feverishly trying to figure out what song it is (it happened several times that I thought I recognized and intro for a song, and she'd start singing, and I'd be way off :) and.. her voice just lapse into "God sometimes you just don't come through" and we all SCREAMED because we couldn't believe *this* was God, nothing how the original intro is, but so wonderful.. I think the band *really* struck me then, because the guitars, the DRUMS (oh the drums..I want to MARRY that drummer!)... this is how the song should be, so strong and powerful. After that, she speaks for the first (and lengthiest) time. She sipped some water, and said that it was always special to be back here, that she had some cousins in the audience, and that after all "it's my birth state", at which point everybody starts to cheer, and she begins to play the intro for Liquid Diamonds. Now this song is so cool, because when I first got the album, it really didn't strike me as one of the stronger songs, but I'm telling you, live, it's really good, the way she lets her voice float and wail ... yum. And then. I can't tell you how the next part felt or sounded, but...ghod, it was amazing. She began this really intricate, cool piano intro that went on for quite a while, and everyone seemed really puzzled... I was running around in my brain thinking it must be one of those covers I'm not too familiar with, maybe Landslide or something (which I've heard, but only once, so I never remember how it sounds), and she starts singing, and.. _OH_MY_GHOOOOD_!!!!!! It was SIREN! At the time, we thought that this was the first time ever she played it in public, _ever_, later I heard she'd played it the night before too, but still. It was such a rare moment, and we all I think felt special because we were treated to something not many before us had gotten to hear. When the band and herself went into the "Never was one for a prissy girl" it just throbbed through my body - I so adore the rhythm in this song. In fact, after hearing it I knew I finally had to buy the Great expectations soundtrack and have the song for real. You think I got to catch my brain after this string of songs I've wished to get to hear live? NO! Because... she began to play SUGAR! I know I've mentioned it some time in this diary, but on the other hand, there's not a lot of Tori songs I haven't mentioned, but I need to say that Sugar is really, really, really one of my absolute favourite Tori songs. I could not believe it, and yeah hehe I was crying, and grinning like a damn fool. I've heard 2 or 3 live versions of this song before, and I have to say the energy she put into it this time.. let's just say it beat any sugar rush I've _ever_ been on, and that's saying quite a lot coming from me. As I'm writing this, I can't help but think this is so futile. I don't have enough words to describe it, it's not going to mean much if you don't know the songs, and really .. "it was so great and powerful!" isn't all that descriptive, but it's the best I can do. I really need this post written down, because I don't think I can handle retelling this to everyone I know 8). Now it was time for something referred to as "secret time", it's when Tori sends the bandmembers out ("Now it's time for the boys to leave .. bye bye.. "), and we all cheered because it's such a treat to get both band-Tori and girl-and-a-piano-Tori in one show (I don't care how many people complain. Let her do her thing, if you don't like it, that's a shame, but it's alright... just don't be so negative about this new thing, I believe everything has it's place, and I love this direction. And the drummer is so cute ;).. At this point, when I heard the first opening bars, my brain went "Is this icicle? No..".. but then she played a few bars more and IT'S CLOUD ON MY TONGUE! The intro was rather lengthy and so complex.. it was magical to get to hear it live, it's been looped in my cells so many times ("circles and circles and circles and... got to stop spinning")... for the first time I leaned back in my seat and just watched her do her thing, I just could not move. I was REALLY surprised over how _loud_ the piano was on it's own.. I'm not going to blame people for missing this, it _is_ different and enormous. She always plays two songs solo, that much I knew, but nothing could prepare me for the next song... Hey Jupiter!!! I know that to some, the set list weren't THAT special, with the exception for Siren, but to me, it was heaven. Every song so far had been something I'd longed to hear and see and experience, and having the music pass through you body was.. argh. She played the song so gently, very much like on the album, and yeah, the tears were flowing as usual, it's such a dynamic powerful song disguised as a naked, gentle tune. I think it was either during a pause in this one, or the previous song that someone yelled "I love you!", which was sort of okay, because it didn't happen a lot during the concert otherwise, and Tori was leaned over the piano when it happen, so she didn't look up, she just raised her hand and made a little wave to the person... wonderful. What WAS disturbing though was that everyone took these songs as an opportunity to snap pictures. If any of the pictures come out nicely, they'll be spectacular, because it was just her on a darkened stage, with intense red lights making the area around her a pulsating red mist, but it was _so_ annoying. It sort of ruins the gentle atmosphere to have flashes light up everywhere, and hear that annoying camera sound in the middle of a floating note. Blergh. :) This is where the band came back, and the performed a beautiful floaty version of Jackie's Strength, complete with her voice echoing back to her in the chorus. It was great to get the same feeling from it I get from when I hear it on the album, it always fills me with this sense of anticipation, anxiety, yet it's so calming, at times giggle worthy (the David Cassidy passage gets me every time)... loved it. It's really a white song, I feel, not so much because of the bride theme, it's more how the song sounds.. white, like a summer sky cloud that can get a bit grey at times and shed a light summers rain, but soon comes back. As soon as it ended, she started playing this _very_ powerful piano intro that really seemed to just pour out of her body, and my ears grew so big, so big, trying to figure out what it was, but I didn't get it until she began to sing - Caught a Lite Sneeze! It was so different from the harpsichord version, and she repeated "I need a big loan from the girl zone" a lot of times, making many symbolic gestures, a bit like in Precious Things, although not as clear because she really had to work at playing on the piano to just keep the amazing rhythm going. I think we were all a bit stumped after that, because as they started to play really fast, and drums started, we could tell something was wrong with Tori's keyboard. She tried several times to play on it, nothing happened, so she had to keep going on the piano until this guy came up on the stage and fixed it. It ruined the mood just a tinsy winsy bit, but come one.. Raspberry swirl is SUCH a great song! Matt, the drummer went _wild_, Tori went wild, heh, we all did, but no one got up to dance like I've heard they've done at the other shows. I didn't really miss that, it was amazing anyways, but it was a shame because it's such a rhythmic musical and vocal explosion. My head almost started to spin out of joy, hehe :) And then, as she was ending the song with wonderful long wails of "And she swirls...swirls...", she GRABBED the microphone with both hands, pulled it up to her mouth, and started to shake as she breathed real fast into it, creating this ecstatic almost orgasmic insane effect .. it really blew my mind :) I didn't even get a chance to calm down, because as soon as it got quiet, they lapsed into.. THE WAITRESS! It was so cool too, because they'd made the rhythm slightly slower it felt like, and it flowed really rhythmically. I really, really, really, really can't explain how it felt to hear this song - many said afterwards that of the times they've heard it on this tour, it was the best she'd done, and to me, it was as if someone had hooked me up to a chocolate I/V.. Okay, This song, with a band, and a long added midsection with new lyrics (some girl said she clearly heard Tori sing "I believe in the devil, bitch" twice, which I really really didn't hear at all, nor did Lee or Jenny). It was so odd, because during one of the times she sang the chorus, I looked down on my leg, and I just saw my tattoo shining back at me "I believe in peace, bitch", and I just remembered all over again why this song really grabs and shakes my spine. Afterwards I've heard rumours that they've begun to tape all the concerts for a possible live release after the tour is ended, and that this song might get on because it was just the strongest ever. They let on this bright orange/yellow light behind Tori every time chorus came.. argh, so good. And that's when she waves bye bye... and even though I knew she was coming back for encores, it was really.. sad, and yet wonderful. Tori and her 3 bandmembers did a group hug on stage, and left, but of course we wouldn't shut up or stop clapping our hands until they came back (small mav, as they walked on stage, someone accidently maved and turned the auditorium ceiling light on, hehehe) First, they played Iieee, and oddly enough, they all seemed a lot more loosened up and happy to be back out there, which got us all excited. This became even more apparent during the second song ... She's Your Cocaine.. It was so cute, because before they started, Caton did motions towards Tori, as if looking to see if she had directions for how he should play the guitar intro, she swirled and flagged her head back in a "Do whatever you want" kind of manner, and WHOA, did he ever! That opening was really thrilling, and everyone on stage was GRINNING, including Tori, they all really seemed to enjoy playing this song. At the end, she once again grabbed the mike, and did a breathing effect into it, all whilst shaking as if she was almost electrocuted - _very_ effectful, and it sounded really, really different than anything I'd heard made by voice before. So cool :) Then it was time for them to leave again... yeah.. but we managed to drag them back for a second encore... the snazzied up version of Horses! This one really moved me, it was SO different from the album version, so energetic, such a different rhythm and beat and everything (well, I guess bringing a quiet slow solo piece on stage with a full band can do that to a song ;) And then, she left for real. Argh I thought moving this to a different page would help but... I'm running out of space AGAIN! I'll try and summarize the rest. We went to the bathroom, where the smoke from the show set off THE FIRE ALARM when we were in there.. Lee had just called Mikewhy at the Dent website and given the set list, and so eventually, we went outdoors to meet up at the tourbuses to at least hope for a glimpse of her. Unfortunately the gate by her bus that had been fenced off was really small, so we knew we weren't going to get very close.. Therefore, we ended up crossing the street and positioning ourselves right across from where everybody walked out from the building. I got a giggle attack when I saw Joel, Tori's bodyguard come out that way, because it meant we were at the right side at least, even if we had to stay across the street due to the security guards. Suddenly, this white haired couple stepped out, went right toward us, we see that the man is wearing a priests collar and OH MY GHOD it's Tori's parents! They were both so cute to us, her dad did this cute wave and all, and later when they drove past us, they waved goodbye.. they seemed to really enjoy it :) Someone got to speak with them at the show, and Tori's dad apparently said (and I quote 8) that "is was the most interjestic lively and most beautiful shows he' has ever seen her do. He also said that Tori's voice was the strongest he has ever heard it and that he wished she would tone it down cause she was going to blow it out again but she never listens to him. He also said she was recording this concert and others for a live album coming out after the tour was completed. " It really made me happy to hear I wasn't the only one to feel that the magic and presence was _really_ there. After the Amos couple, we saw the bandmembers come out, so we all gave up this cheer and clapped out hands, and they all looked at us a bit as if they were surprised we were over there.. We waited a bit longer, longer, more.. and... Tori walked out. You can image the reaction. She was so sweet, because before she walked up to where the fans where by the bus, she turned to us and waved sweetly before moving on. We all moved a bit so we could see her in the glitch between two of the buses, so we saw her sign things for maybe 10 minutes.. and then she walked into the bus, and this is when I had the cliche "I swear she looked at me even though I was 30 miles away behind a pilar!!" moment. We cheered because the drivers seat window was open, so she stopped there and jumped up and down really energetically and waved to us, and we screamed and waved back.. And something snapped in my head, so I stepped forward a bit, and when she was looking in the direction I was at, I just instinctively took both my hands over my chest (well, heart ;), "grabbed" it with my hands, and threw it towards her, and well, I sort of know she must have seen it, because as soon as I threw it towards her, SHE stretched out HER arms, and pulled them to her chest in a catching motion with a big smile. Yeah yeah, I know, she could have just done it to all of us, I don't care. My cells will always remember it. We saw her silouhette in the bus, and then as they drove off, the WINDOW opened, and the hand puppet showed up, waving at us. Yey! :) Before leaving we got the security personal to take a pic of us (one of them insisted to be in it, and we of course didn't stop him ;), and off we went. I just have one last thing to say. Um (no that's not it).. Wow. |
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