diff --git a/mopidy_iris/core.py b/mopidy_iris/core.py
index 1a83bf95..cea30acd 100755
--- a/mopidy_iris/core.py
+++ b/mopidy_iris/core.py
@@ -636,8 +636,9 @@ class IrisCore(object):
         }
 
         try:
-            response = requests.post(url, data)
-            self.spotify_token = response.json()
+            http_client = tornado.httpclient.AsyncHTTPClient()
+            request = tornado.httpclient.HTTPRequest(url, method='POST', body=urllib.urlencode(data))
+            http_client.fetch(request, callback=callback)
 
             self.broadcast(
                 data={
@@ -646,8 +647,6 @@ class IrisCore(object):
                 }
             )
 
-            return self.get_spotify_token(callback=callback)
-
         except urllib2.HTTPError as e:
             self.raven_client.captureException()
             error = json.loads(e.read())
@@ -724,7 +723,7 @@ class IrisCore(object):
         # Our request includes data, so make sure we POST the data
         if ('data' in data and data['data']):
             http_client = tornado.httpclient.AsyncHTTPClient()
-            request = tornado.httpclient.HTTPRequest(data['url'], method='POST', data=data['data'], headers=headers, validate_cert=False)
+            request = tornado.httpclient.HTTPRequest(data['url'], method='POST', body=json.dumps(data['data']), headers=headers, validate_cert=False)
             http_client.fetch(request, callback=callback)
 
         # No data, so just a simple GET request
diff --git a/mopidy_iris/handlers.py b/mopidy_iris/handlers.py
index 1c8a3bb9..d6597425 100755
--- a/mopidy_iris/handlers.py
+++ b/mopidy_iris/handlers.py
@@ -201,6 +201,7 @@ class HttpHandler(tornado.web.RequestHandler):
         # when our request calls subsequent external requests (eg Spotify, Genius).
         # We don't need to wrap non-HTTPResponse responses as these are dicts
         if isinstance(response, tornado.httpclient.HTTPResponse):
+            print response.body
             response = {
                 'response_code': response.code,
                 'response_reason': response.reason,
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 993953aa..771c5d81 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -26,8 +26,7 @@ setup(
         'Mopidy-Local-Images >= 1.0',
         'ConfigObj >= 5.0.6',
         'raven >= 6.1.0',
-        'requests >= 2.0.0',
-        'promise >= 2.0.1'
+        'requests >= 2.0.0'
     ],
     classifiers=[
         'Environment :: No Input/Output (Daemon)',