Hi Azeem! Good to get your impressions of Ben - wish I could have been at that London concert - sounds like it was really something! Is the Kashmir Club where Annabelle Lamb plays?
I wrote down Ben's name last December, but lost the paper and couldn't remember his name. Then recently it occured to me that maybe there would be a Tori Amos concert listing for last year somewhere on the web, and sure enough, I found one and it gave me his name, so I ordered both of his CDs (they arrived yesterday, thus my post about him). His music really is other-worldly and I like it very much. It was even more impressive in concert, though - to see him up there all on his own making all that beautiful noise and he really does have an outstanding voice - I remembered being impressed by its clarity last December - almost like a Vienna choir boy, just a little deeper. I don't know what it was about Tori - part of what bugged me was it sounded like the mike was in her throat the whole time and you could hear her breathing in and out during all the phrases - I hated that! The music was overall very dark. I couldn't understand the words and don't know them because I've never listened to her before, but the songs made me feel creepy and I was REALLY GLAD to get out of there. I've never ever had such a bad reaction to a concert before. Marian Vienna
