Tori Amos toured solo (with her Bösendorfer piano, rhodes electric piano and two hammond organs) in North America, Australia and Europe in the Spring of 2005. She returned to North American in the August and ended her solo tour in September 2005.

The stage setup:


* listen to live songs from the tour

With a sad heart we leave Australia, the luggage is spread out across the floor, the cases are still open - not yet locked, but they will be within a few hours. Jen has taken out two potential outfits for our final show here in Melbourne. I don't know which one I will wear yet, that's about the only thing that I am not quite sure about... I'm sure that I will miss this place.

When we decided to come across the Pacific Ocean, meeting half of our crew who had crossed the Indian Ocean, none of us really knew what awaited us here. The crew and I have traveled to many places over the years and although we've been excited about a show or jazzed about an audience, we haven't necessarily been romanced by a country itself. As I've flown across this land, which is vast, I'm struck by its beauty. Australia's beauty cannot be compared to a place like Ireland or to a place like Cornwall, the emerald sisters. This lady I speak of now is a Desert Sister. Hues of russet rose and amber tan her skin as you fly above her. She reminds me of a Bain de Solei Ad -- "Bain de Solei for a St. Tropez tan..." which had a woman with delicious skin - our desert sister doesn't need a sun bed, unlike a lot of popstars today. People here wistfully speak of rain, in ways that I've never heard a Brit speak about rain before. It fascinates me how we begin to really value that which has been withheld from us for whatever reason. It seems like we've been here a lifetime, those of us that we're fortunate enough to come feel changed...some of our rough edges softened. The sincerity that we have come across night after night has left me humbled. With a sad heart we leave Australia. [toriamos.com - May 2005]