Tori Amos at Royal Albert Hall

Tori Amos at Royal Albert Hall, London — 2026-04-21

Tori Amos performing at Royal Albert Hall

There are artists you see live, and then there are artists who completely take over a room. Tori Amos at Royal Albert Hall is one of them.

I’ve seen her here before, and she mentioned this was her 11th time playing the Hall, which says a lot on its own. It still feels like a perfect fit. It’s intimate in a way that doesn’t make sense for its size, and she knows exactly how to use that. No overplaying, no trying to fill space for the sake of it.

Before that, Isaac Levi opened with cellist Meg Ella. Just guitar, voice and cello. Simple, but it worked, especially in a room that’s not always easy for support acts.

This tour feels stripped in the right way. Not smaller, just more intentional. With Jon Evans on bass and Ash Soan on drums, plus her backing vocal trio, everything sits exactly where it should. There’s no guitarist, and you don’t miss one. The space is part of it.

Before the show I got chatting to a fan who’s been booking dates across Europe and the UK just to follow this run, which sounds like a lot until you’ve seen it. Then it makes sense. These aren’t shows you just tick off once.

The set itself moved between older material and deeper cuts without ever feeling like a greatest hits run. “Precious Things” still hits exactly where it should, “iieee” felt as strange and sharp as ever, and “Cornflake Girl” in the encore landed without being overplayed.

She still carries that thread back to the alternative 90s scene, but it feels more distilled now. Everything is deliberate, nothing wasted.

Setlist

Fire to Your Plain / — hello — / Shush / iieee / Little Amsterdam / Ruby / Bliss / Damage / Pandora / Stronger Together / Black Dove / Sweet Sangria / Poison & Wine / Crucify / Precious Things

Encore

Big Wheel / Cornflake Girl

It ends without any big dramatic send-off, just a final note and a kind of shared understanding in the room. No rush to leave, people hanging back, like breaking it too quickly would feel wrong.