For someone whose rise was so meteoric, Alanis Morissette stirs up very little opinion. It is symptomatic of the fact that her music and her image are hard to dislike, but are not especially dynamic. And although 1995's Jagged Little Pill was a massive seller, it was perhaps because of the "more sinned against than sinning" position that so many people like to be a part of. Last year's Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie (which contains the words "thank you") has not had the same resonance.

Still, for all that, Sunday night's show was by no means bad. To really generate an atmosphere in the Point requires a solid ensemble, and I have never heard anyone else make such a vibrant sound here. Each note swam in reverb, and while it tended to obscure any of the really fruity chord changes, it did at least keep up a wall of sound. But while the five-piece band churned away, Alanis hopped about like a Kangaroo on a string and as a dozen different words for God flashed on the screen, it was hard to imagine that anything important was happening.

The landmark songs - You Oughta Know (in an impressively restrained version), You Learn and Ironic were shoved to the end, leaving a dozen less memorable ones to blend into each other. So while Alanis may not be the poet she might wish to be, or a spokesperson for any particular group, she has plenty of pleasant songs that she presents with the utmost competence.