Concert Review: Alanis Morissette - ICC Sydney January 2018

If you’re anything like me you grew up in the 90s listening to Alanis Morrisette and to this day you still do so when it was announced that she was touring Sydney you just had to buy your ticket to this must see show.

Let me tell you, she did not disappoint. It was a stripped back show that opened with You Learn. As you would expect the majority of songs were from her standout record, Jagged Little Pill which was released in 1995. She did offer a track from her follow up, supposed Former Infatuation Junkie and a couple of songs from Under Rug Swept, Hands Clean and Precious Illusions.

When she sung Hand in My Pocket, Ironic and You Oughta Know the crowd joined in. It was obvious from looking at most of the members in the audience that they’d grown up with Alanis.

There was no Encore with Alanis telling the audience that she didn’t want to leave the stage.

The management at the ICC is appalling and security was over the top (with bags being confiscated) but the acoustics of the venue were excellent and as long as you had a good seat you could see everything.

It would’ve been great if she’d sung a few songs from Supposed Former Infratuation Junkie such as So Pure and Unsent, but given the album tanked it’s not surprising that she didn’t.

It was great to see an artist just focus on singing rather than over produced music, which Alanis did so effortlessly. 

All in all this was a great show and I would give it a 4/5.