[QXCharles]

The Evelyn Evelyn tour is wrapping up, the Radiohead covers EP is due out in about a month and Cabaret will be starting in the fall. It's an exciting time to be an AFP fan!

[QXCharles]

One of my favorite DD live videos: AFP as Jack White and BV as Meg White (complete w/ fake boobs)!

[AndrewBoss]

Brian and Amanda 2010!!



SisterE

[Kimeoffessyr]

^ 2010?! I think my heart just melted.

[AndrewBoss]

Yep, it was before the Evelyn Evelyn show in NYC.



SisterE

[chuecaloversvv]

What fucking cabaret?! All these side projects just distract her from the new album

[bloriMal]

Damn, he's still so hot!

[QXCharles]

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Amanda will be performing as the Emcee in a production of Cabaret at the American Repertory Theater in Boston for two months this Fall. The production is directed by Steven Bogart, has choreography by Steven Mitchell Wright (of the Danger Ensemble) and music directed by Lance Horne.

Tickets are not on sale yet, but you will find more information on the A.R.T.’s website. Stay tuned for on-sale information.

For more details on Amanda’s involvement in Cabaret and other fun projects she will be doing this Fall, check out her blog “AMANDA PALMER in CABARET at the American Repertory Theater”.

[SallythePearl]

Sigh. She's one of the most talented songwriters working today, but sometimes I feel like she couldn't be LESS interested in working on her own material.

[Veronnisa]

I finally got 'round to listening to the Idioteque cover. Well, half of it. Got bored.

[Rinkeliacasse]

I enjoyed the Evelyn Evelyn show, but I'm really ready to see what she plans on doing for her sophomore solo record. That and her shows are generally better when she's on her headlining promotional tours for the records.

[FYvWldC0]

Brian and Amanda 2010!!



SisterE

oh man... i wish they'd make music together again. I'm an AFP fan, for sure... but nothing tops DD, IMO.

And I agree with The Markness... Cover albums are nice (even though I'm not particularly a Radiohead fan... or a Ukulele fan...) but I'd much rather hear her original material. Especially now that she's no longer under the control of her old record label. Whatever she has coming ought to be wild...

[goctorsurger]

Yeah. Definitely waiting for Amanda to work on her own material, and not goofy side-project material, again. Especially since some of the songs she's got locked away are so fabulous (Living Room, Australia, Bed Song, Trout Heart Replica).

[QXCharles]

Good news then (if it pans out) - from AFP's Blog:
the tour brought up some strange feelings. i wasn’t playing the ultimate-amanda-palmer show but i dragged out some strange songs…i played requests, old dolls songs, did some odd covers.
going into the studio for the day in chicago to record the steel train cover reminds me that i’m actually good at making music when i sit down and do it. i don’t do it much anymore, i’m too busy fucking running around.

i want to finish writing a few years worth of unfinished songs this fall.

[cenRealliat]

^ that's awesome news. i appreciated her honesty/humility about the low ticket sales too:

business-wise….we were (or i was) really cavalier about how we booked this tour, i gotta say.
i expected everyone would make the jump from the dresden dolls to amanda palmer to evelyn evelyn and that selling tickets wouldn’t be too difficult.
i was wrong. the general touring climate blows…it’s BAD out there, ticket prices are getting slashed and a lot of artists are playing to half-empty rooms due to the economy and the overgutted market since EVERY band and their moms are hitting the road to make up for the shortfall in record sales. and the weirdness of the show billing dented us…the shows were about half sold-out, which was actually pretty respectable…but it did teach me a damn fine lesson in marketing. we billed the show wrong; it should have been billed as an amanda palmer & jason webley extravaganza, with the twins as a support act, not the other way around. those who knew about the twins would have gotten what they expected, those only familiar with me & jason would have been strangely surprised by our weirdo stunts.

[SallythePearl]

going into the studio for the day in chicago to record the steel train cover reminds me that i’m actually good at making music when i sit down and do it. i don’t do it much anymore, i’m too busy fucking running around. Exactly. Please stop running amok and doing random shit; write awesome songs, record them, and then melt our faces off with them live. That's what a lot of us are here for, and that's all a lot of us (well, at least me) want from you/are interested in.

i want to finish writing a few years worth of unfinished songs this fall. PRAISE BE TO THE BABY J.

[QXCharles]

Please stop running amok and doing random shit; write awesome songs, record them, and then melt our faces off with them live. That's what a lot of us are here for, and that's all a lot of us (well, at least me) want from you/are interested in.

Oldie but a goodie: She's not your bitch. Do we really have such a short attention span that she can put out an awesome album and tour (WKAP), workshop and appear in an original high school play, rehearse and perform with the Boston Pops, get engaged, record, release and tour a unique (if not well-loved) concept album, set up ad hoc meet-ups with fans, attend the Golden Globes, record and mix a handful of Radiohead songs, Twitter, Blog and webcast IT ALL and we still aren't satisfied? Let the woman do her thing!

[AndrewBoss]

^Word.

[SallythePearl]

edit: oh, never mind. I just love her music and I want her to make more of it. If not caring about her other projects means wanting her to be our "bitch," well, then, guilty. Consider my wrist slapped.

[Agitoligflise]

re: her not being anybody's bitch, she did point out herself that she gets too distracted, so I don't feel like that's where Markness was coming from. I get it. Every song I've heard from her that is as yet unrecorded is more brilliant than anything she's released (Trout Heart Replica, Bed Song) and I am anxious for her to record them in her current incarnation. One never knows how marriage and romantic contentment will alter an artist's output (I'm looking at you, HARDCORE, Ms. Amos-Hawley!) and I would selfishly hate for her not to address all of her creative energy. I don't think it's about her being someone's bitch, but more about her fulfilling her own potential destiny as a songwriter and performer. If she craps out on the steam she has building, the music world, and most likely her, would have lost out. And I say all of that with Tori in mind, as I think that she had way more to give and then she changed.