Tom Waits: Well Worth the Waits
David Sinclair, Times, The, 22 October 2004
NEXT MONTH Tom Waits will make his first British concert appearance for 17 years. And if the word filtering back from Vancouver and Seattle, where he played his only North American shows earlier this week, is anything to go by, the 54-year-old troubadour is on cracking form.
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