Palais Theatre

Unrepentant Geraldines Tour

Date	November 15, 2014
City	Melbourne, Australia
Venue	Palais Theatre

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Setlist

Thanks to @onscarletswalk for live-tweeting the show!

Parasol
Bouncing Off Clouds
Wild Way
Upside Down
Winter
Beauty Queen
Horses
Flying Dutchman
Doughnut Song
Pretty Good Year

Lizard Lounge

I Touch Myself [The Divinyls]
Icicle

Merman
Silent All These Years
Forest of Glass
Cooling
Cornflake Girl

Encore

Almost Rosey
Riot Poof
Wedding Day

Reviews

@onscarletswalk says:

I haven’t really got much to say that I haven’t already on twitter, but WOW. Tori mentioned this was an all request show even though the Sydney3 show will be one as well, she also said that she always wonders why it takes her so long to get back to Australia. I was a little distracted by a drunk girl next to me who insisted on trying to hold me every chance she got , despite that particular hot mess the night was perfect. There is an energy from Tori on this tour that I haven’t felt on the ADP and Sinful tours.
Andrew says:

I went to the Sydney show and while it was a great experience I did think it was a tad pedestrian. Tori definitely seemed held back. BUT in Melbourne tonight it was nothing short of brilliant.
The set list alone was amazing and I think when others see it they will consider it one of the most enviable set lists of all time. Her voice was crystal clear and smoother than velvet. I do hope someone will post videos but I think this show will have a special place in history for it’s set list :)
Brian Ward says:

A mostly wonderful show. I was thrilled to get my request of Wild Way! I said to Tori at the meet and greet that it moves me to tears it’s so beautiful.

There was a loud ‘fuck!’ from Tori as she messed up the start of Doughnut Song. And we got one of her charming improvs about being forgetful due to menopause. She made another in Almost Rosey but kept going. That was a lovely version otherwise.

I Touch Myself was brilliant. In terms of innovative arrangements, Bouncing Off Clouds was the highlight of the night for me. I hope someone made a video of that.

I love how Tori improvises and interprets her songs when live solo, so it was something of a disappointment to see her push a button on the electric keyboard and start a full backing track for Cornflake Girl, to which she played along.

It was populism and obviously popular as most people in the audience loved it, but to me it broke the intensity and intimacy of the set thus far.

Riot Poof used a percussion track but not from the original recording so while the live performance was supplemented it was fundamentally different to the recording and thus a unique interpretation of the song. Wedding Day also used a full backing track.

Tori referred to the forthcoming 3rd Sydney show as it is planned to feature all requests, and then said that this show would be mostly requests too.

Some people are raving about the setlist and I’m happy with it, albeit some of the requests from the most dedicated fans at the meet and greet being typical serious fan requests, such as Cooling and Flying Dutchman. But it’s been a long time since I heard Mermen so that was great.

I would have liked more from Unrepentant Geraldines, 3 was adequate but a live 16 Shades of Blue would have been amazing.

Tori banged the lid of the piano down for affect more than any previous performance I’ve seen. She seemed alternately sweet and furious, varying her voice from cutesy lishp to growl. She whispered more too than I’ve previously heard.

For Melbourne audiences this was a far superior performance to her quite lacklustre 2009 show. Tori seemed to be enjoying playing solo like she did in 2005.

Overall it was a great show. Casual fans probably were thrilled with many familiar old songs. If only it has a little more intimate and a stronger presentation of her strong new work.
orfeo says:

Wonderful show. At the end I was debating whether it was the best I’d ever seen (the answer is now no, but we’ll come to that…)

More than anything else it was the wonderful flow of the setlist. From Parasol and Bouncing off Clouds all the way down to Cooling, it just felt like there was a beautiful, natural progression from one song to the next.

It’s hard to pick highlights, but ones that come quickly to mind including Bouncing (the best lighting effects I saw on tour), a passionate and extended Beauty Queen, the great Divinyls cover, a tender Merman and a version of Forest of Glass that made me pay more attention to the lyrics than I had previously. For me the only slight letdown was Wedding Day, which didn’t really feel like a suitable closer. I personally would have preferred if it had switched with Riot Poof, which had a superb trance-like quality.

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