Tom Waits

Tom Waits at London Hammersmith Apollo, Tue 23 Nov

Review by Nick Cowen

'..I once heard it said that you could make ninety per cent of all the songs ever written better if you imagine Waits singing them. Judging from the whoops and screams that greeted him as he walked on stage at the Hammersmith Apollo last week the audience agreed with me..'»

Hammersmith Apollo

Tube: Hammersmith (5 mins)

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Tom Waits

Combining experimental song structures, velvet black atmospheres, and a voice like a St. Bernard with a severe tobacco dependency, Tom Waits is arguably the best singer songwriter, ever. His work reels from bar to bar, plucking the weird and the wonderful from the smoke choked ether, blundering into pianos and glockenspiels, croaking sorry, tawdry stories to anyone who is willing to listen. »