Forwarding Fodder - Tori Amos throws front-rowers out of her gig
When Tori Amos played San Diego recently, she showed two girls with ants in their pants that she isn’t one for messing about. The girls, sat in the front row, presumably weren’t paying enough attention and coming and going as they pleased. So, during ‘Code Red’, Tori stopped short and, with echo still on the mic, shouted “Get the fuck out of my show! It’s a privilege to sit in the front row and I reserve those seats for people who appreciate music, get the fuck out!”
Fast forward to about 2:10 to see it. Tori fans must be a meek bunch - I woulda kicked up a serious stink and demanded a refund…
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I’m a big fan of Tori’s music, but she has always been a little full of herself when it comes to this entitlement perception she has to only have fans who treat her like she performs classical music, when in fact she covers a lot of bases (not many classical at all) and has a lot of fans that are into some pretty weird stuff. I’m afraid fans come with rock star type status even if you’re a small fish. She herself is into faeries and yet she cannot cope with a couple of fans getting out of their seats??? Frankly, this is not the first time she’s had an outburst during a concert and I have to say that if I was someone watching the concert, I probably wouldn’t pay a whole lot of attention to a couple of girls getting up out of their seats, but I WOULD notice her ruining one of her own songs by abruptly stopping and using the f-bomb. I’m sure that’ll make a good boot concert to listen to in the future. The strange thing is we have this kind of outburst from a woman who humps the piano bench during her performances, show boats by playing more than one instrument at a time and despite having a sound engineer as a husband cannot seem to actually get good sound acoustics at most of her concerts (apparently Sarah McLachlan knows someone that’s actually good since her last concert I saw actually sounded REALLY good sound quailty wise). Yes, it’s sad to say, but it may be time to see the shrink and combat those past life demons. Either that or maybe she should play music only at home were only her cat might make a sound during a performance. Too bad if it walks around the room while she plays. She might just throw it out of the house.