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It took us an hour to walk to the venue which was at the other end of Phoenix Park in a big circus tent. The gig was sold out and all were early and awaiting Mr Tom Waits - who never tours but found himself on the Glitter and Doom Tour in 2008. It was Dublin so it started raining as soon as we arrived at the Gig and didn't stop the whole time - turned out that the tent leaked a little, but no one cared because Tom was amazing, really, really amazing and we were sitting front and center, four rows back. We had to walk back to the hostel where we were staying and we got soaked to the bone and then I flew back out to England early next morning. It was so worth the detour from Krakow.
From Wikipedia:
“Thomas Alan "Tom" Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, composer and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car." With this trademark growl, his incorporation of pre-rock music styles such as blues, jazz, and vaudeville, and experimental tendencies verging on industrial music, Waits has built up a distinctive musical persona. He has worked as a composer for movies and musical plays and as a supporting actor in films, including Down By Law and Bram Stoker's Dracula. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his soundtrack work on One from the Heart.
Lyrically, Waits' songs frequently present atmospheric portrayals of grotesque, often seedy characters and places – although he has also shown a penchant for more conventional ballads. He has a cult following and has influenced subsequent songwriters despite having little radio or music video support. His songs are best-known to the general public in the form of cover versions by more visible artists: "Jersey Girl", performed by Bruce Springsteen and "Downtown Train", performed by Rod Stewart. Although Waits' albums have met with mixed commercial success in his native United States, they have occasionally achieved gold album sales status in other countries. He has been nominated for a number of major music awards and has won Grammy Awards for two albums, Bone Machine and Mule Variations. In 2010, Waits was chosen to be inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011.”
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