oh, icicle, icicle, where are you going?

I went to see Tori Amos with Alison at the Manchester Apollo tonight. It was right up there in the list of Best Nights Ever :-)

We had brilliant seats, and the entire concert hall was alive with energy. She played lots of oldies, and I spent most of the gig slouched in my seat with my eyes closed, just listened. It was bliss. I didn't know all the songs, and her voice is so radically different live that a few of them were nearly unrecognisable, but those I got were Caught a Lite Sneeze, Cornflake Girl, Icicle, Spacedog, Northern Lad, Mother, The Power of Orange Knickers and Precious Things, along with an encore: a song I didn't know and Tear in Your Hand.

I picked up a shirt with a pointillist picture of Tori and the lyrics "by the time you're 25, they will say you've gone and blown it / by the time you're 35, I must confide, you will have blown them all". We wanted to get our tickets signed as well, but she escaped out of a different exit and we didn't get to meet her.

In other news, someone at University of Warwick has designed an ecological Formula 3 car. It's steered by carrots, made from potatoes, runs on waste chocolate and can do 125mph around corners. I'm amazed. I mean, there's such a thing as waste chocolate?