NASHVILLE |FROM: MITCH SCHNEIDER/LATHUM NELSON/MARCEE RONDAN
ALANIS WARMS UP THE EL REY: “These are songs I wrote during the last six months–I’m trying them on for size,” said ALANIS MORISSETTE near the beginning of her set on the first of two sold-out nights at the intimate 800-capacity El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles. The shows–which served as warm-ups for her summer overseas tour launching June 1 in Nurburgring, Germany–mixed in-concert ALANIS favorites with an array of new songs that may or may not appear on her next album (release date TBA). The new material included “21 Things I Want In A Lover,” “Fear of Bliss,” “Flinch,” “Unprodigal Daughter,” “Narcissus,” “Bent 4 U,” “A Man” and “Purgatorying.” Cheering ALANIS on during the two-nights were such folks as Jonatha Brooke, Paula Cole, Mike Einziger of Incubus, Sean (“Will and Grace”) Hayes, k.d. lang, Lisa Marie Presley, Gavin Rossdale, Gwen Stefani and Quentin Tarantino.
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