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From: Mike Snowden <snowdenm@syntegra.bt.co.uk>
Newsgroups: rec.music.tori-amos
Subject: Tour First Night
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 18:48:20 +0000
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I almost missed the support due to a security alert, delaying me 
by 3 hours.
There was a band partially leaving the stage, leaving one guy to 
play a hot acoutic guitar solo - shame I didn't see more. My 
seat was 4th row middle, straight in front - WOW.

The road crew took about 40 minutes to get the set changed over 
(WHY?) 30mins, almost nothing happened - it looked like they 
were waiting.......

The set was harpicord pointing left, bosendorg pointing right, 
and she sat between them.  The usual set of mobile lamps tracked 
back and forth.  The backdrop was two sets of star bulbs, and a 
white triangle projection that odd background videos were 
projected onto.  There were also various fill lights, including 
UV,

Tori came on stage to "son of a preacher man".  She made a 
comment about "being about 9 years old" at the beginning, and 
growing up as she went on.  She look absolutely 
terrified........ During the night, there were almost no spoken 
links between the songs. Also, I don't remember her doing any 
covers. All of these are very different to the usual 
performance, so I presume it was a bad case of first night 
nerves.

For some numbers, Steve joined her on guitar - either synth-type 
sounds as background, or acoustic riffs,  He very quitely just 
got on with it, and was intoduced as "playing with her on every 
album, even on YKTR" (sick grin). 

The entire set was about 2 hours, finishing around 10:40 after 
two encores.

The numbers I remember her doing (3 days ago, so I'm sure there 
were others) were

	Beauty Queen/Horses (opening)
	Leather 
	Crucify 
	Past the mission
	Take to the sky
	God(?)
	Putting The Damage On(?) 
	Cornflake girl
	Red Baron
	Me and a gun 
	Caught A Lite Sneeze
	Talula,
	Doughnut Song,
	Mr.Zebra,
	Hey Jupiter (last song)

Tori was her usual stunning self while singing, but as I said, 
almost silent between tracks..

Merchandice included:

Tour book: GBP 6 (Great photos, very self indulgent, Neil 
Gainman wrote one spread).
"Reformed Christian" tour T shirt: GBP 14
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