Tori Amos performed a sampling of new and old songs last night to a sold-out crowd at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco for the second-to-last show of her 12-date, "Plugged" club tour. Much of the material in the concert came from her latest album, "From the Choirgirl Hotel," which hit record stores only yesterday. This left fans unfamiliar with the new songs, but seemingly satisfied with the show nonetheless.

"We're playing some stuff you don't know too well, but hopefully some stuff you'll recognize too," she told the crowd. "Some of you have been to every show. Thanks for not getting bored," she added. With that, the band launched into her latest single, "Spark."

Besides the new tracks, Tori also played plenty of songs familiar to the audience of screaming fans, including bigger hits like "Cornflake Girl" and "God" as well as album cuts spanning her four-album solo repertoire. Among these were "Precious Things" and "Tear in Your Hand" from 1991's "Little Earthquakes," "Horses" from 1996's "Boys for Pele," and other assorted singles, including "Honey" and "Upside Down."

This is the first time that Tori Amos is performing songs that were written expressly for an ensemble of musicians, and she encouraged the audience to welcome her band early on in the evening. "I'd like you to meet these wonderful people," she said after the second song, introducing the audience to guitarist Steve Caton, drummer Matt Chamberlain, and the bass player, San Francisco local Jon Evans.

A few songs later, however, the band left the stage and Tori sat alone at the piano.

"This is our secret time," she told the audience, announcing that she would be playing songs by request. The crowd members immediately and enthusiastically started shouting a blur of titles. Tori played only two solo songs, "Mother" and "Upside Down."

During this quiet time, a few excited fans started making more than their share of noise, clapping loudly and shouting out "I love you Tori" in the middle of the songs. The rest of the San Francisco audience may have tried to get the eager fans to shut up, but as Tori told a few of her fans in an interview with MTV, enthusiastic fans are part of her show.

"People don't come to my shows to be complacent and have a picnic and sit there and talk about their investment-banking," she said. "Hopefully not, or I haven't done my job. They're sitting their and they're getting to places within themselves, so I don't think it's an insult to the majority of the audience to say that they're obsessive."

The band returned to join Tori for a few more songs, ending the evening with two encores. The "Plugged" tour winds up tonight in Los Angeles. Tori will return to the stage in July for a U.S. tour kicking off in Wisconsin.