Amanda Palmer

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About Amanda Palmer

Provocative, irreverent, controversial and wildly creative, Amanda Palmer is a fearless singer, songwriter, playwright, blogger and an audaciously expressive pianist who simultaneously embraces – and explodes – traditional frameworks of music, theater and art.

Amanda first came to prominence as one half of the internationally acclaimed punk cabaret duo The Dresden Dolls. In 2008, she released her debut solo album, Who Killed Amanda Palmer, produced by Ben Folds and accompanied by a fine art photography book featuring text by esteemed author Neil Gaiman (who Palmer has since married). After parting ways with her record label in 2010, she self-released two EPs: Amanda Palmer Performs The Popular Hits of Radiohead On Her Magical Ukelele and Amanda Palmer Goes Down Under, along with a musical theater-esque Evelyn Evelyn album and tour with Jason Webley.

Amanda is widely known as “The Social Media Queen of Rock-N-Roll” for her constant and disarmingly intimate engagement with her fans via her blog, Tumblr, and Twitter (800,000+ followers), and has been at the vanguard of using both “direct to fan” and “pay what you want” (patronage) business models to build and run her business. In May of 2012 she made international news when she raised nearly $1.2 million pre-selling her new album, Theatre is Evil, along with related merchandise and “experiences” via Kickstarter. Theatre is Evil went on to debut in the “Billboard Top 10” when it was released on Sept. 11, 2012, and has been released in over 20 countries on her own label, 8ft records.
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Tour Dates

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  • May 25 Saturday
    New York, NY, US The Bowery Ballroom
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  • Jun 9 Sunday
    Milwaukee, WI, US Miller Stage
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  • Jun 26 Wednesday
    Shepton Mallet, UK Worthy Farm
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  • Jul 7 Sunday
    Utrecht, Netherlands Tivoli Oudegracht
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  • Jul 8 Monday
    Esch Sur Alzette, Luxembourg Rockhal
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  • Jul 9 Tuesday
    Paris, France La Cigale
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  • Jul 11 Thursday
    Manchester, UK Manchester Academy 1
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  • Jul 12 Friday
    London, UK Roundhouse
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  • Jul 13 Saturday
    Brighton, UK Concorde 2
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  • Jul 15 Monday
    Bristol, UK O2 Academy Bristol
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  • Jul 16 Tuesday
    Birmingham, UK The Institute
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  • Jul 16 Tuesday
    Birmingham, UK The Institute
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  • Jul 17 Wednesday
    Edinburgh, UK The Picture House
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  • Jul 18 Thursday
    Dublin, Ireland Academy
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  • Jul 26 Friday
    Newport, RI, US Fort Adams State Park
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  • Sep 4 Wednesday
    Wellington, New Zealand San Francisco Bath House
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  • Sep 6 Friday
    Auckland, New Zealand Kings Arms
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  • Sep 14 Saturday
    Sydney, NSW, Australia Enmore Theatre
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  • Sep 20 Friday
    Melbourne, VIC, Australia The Forum Theatre
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  • Oct 29 Tuesday
    Hamburg, Germany Docks
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  • Nov 1 Friday
    Cologne, Germany Gloria-Theater
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  • Nov 4 Monday
    Berlin, Germany Kesselhaus in der Kulturbrauerei
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  • Nov 6 Wednesday
    Krakow, Poland Klub Studio
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  • Nov 12 Tuesday
    Munich, Germany Ampere
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Discography

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  • A Is for Accident (2013)
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    A Is for Accident (2013)
    Topspin Media
  • Theatre Is Evil (2012)
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    Theatre Is Evil (2012)
    8ft. Records
  • Amanda Palmer Goes Down Under (2011)
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    Amanda Palmer Goes Down Under (2011)
    Liberation
  • Who Killed Amanda Palmer (2008)
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    Who Killed Amanda Palmer (2008)
    Roadrunner Records
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