Amanda Palmer to Play 2 Shows, in Wellington & Hawkes Bay

Amanda Palmer’s Wellington show has been rescheduled and a new show announced for Hawkes Bay.

Amanda Palmer will present this show with no band accompaniment, performing material from her critically-hailed global album and tour There Will Be No Intermission, alongside old favourites from The Dresden Dolls and – surprise! – new songs freshly-written during Level Four lockdown right here in Hawkes Bay, Aotearoa. Expect a night of graphic, honest, funny storytelling and very human and vulnerable songcraft. Handkerchiefs will be for sale.

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

WELLINGTON
ST PETERS CHURCH
SATURDAY 29TH, AUGUST 2020

Tickets on sale from fringe.co.nz
Existing ticket holders + AFP Patreon Presale Wednesday 22 July
Public sales opening on Friday 24 July.

Singer-songwriter Amanda Palmer, who is currently residing in Aotearoa until the smoke clears in her home of New York, returns to make up her cancelled Wellington show, with 500% more pain, love and pathos than usual.
“I am so excited to finally come finish my tour, and see you all in Wellington, and drink beer on Cuba street, and scout in some good used books stores, and find good playmates for Ash”

HAWKES BAY
TOITOI – HAWKES BAY OPERA HOUSE
FRIDAY 11TH, SEPTEMBER 2020

Tickets on sale from Ticketek.

Caught in Hawkes Bay for the outbreak of Covid, and currently residing in Hastings until the smoke clears in her hometown of New York, the front-woman of the internationally acclaimed punk cabaret duo The Dresden Dolls, Amanda Palmer presents a very special show at Toitoi – Hawkes Bay Opera House.

The unapologetic frontwoman of the Dresden Dolls, Amanda Palmer came to Aotearoa in March on the last leg of her third solo LP, There Will Be No Intermission tour. She played two sold-out shows at Auckland’s Hollywood Cinema as part of The Auckland Arts Festival and a one-off South Island show in Christchurch.

” It was an epic, exhausting four-hour gig, combining intense spoken-word storytelling with Palmer’s cathartic songs.” – Radio NZ National.  

For many, these were the last international shows in Aotearoa.

Her (sold out) Wellington show scheduled for Monday, 16th March was cancelled to the public and Amanda chose to live-stream her last show, alone with a ukulele and keyboard in a deserted hall in Wellington. Visitors from around the world streamed in to watch, topping 3200 viewers at one point.

After this, Amanda found herself in lockdown in a Hawkes Bay Airbnb (thank god it came with a piano) with her son Ash for eight weeks. They watched Jacinda Ardern’s live broadcasts daily, she celebrated her 44th birthday. When lockdown lifted they slowly emerged, integrating themselves into their new community. Ash is now going to school and Amanda is busking at the local farmers market. They are both so humbled and grateful to Aotearoa.

“I sort of still can’t believe all of this; my path, my luck, and most of all, the grandeur of generosity that the locals here in Hawkes Bay have shown towards me as I’ve struggled with one weird turn after another. It’s been….remarkable.”

Fast forward to August 2020 and Amanda is ready to finally get back on the road. She’s had enough time to get her s**t together and is heading back to the stage.

For many, these will be the first international shows in Aotearoa. How lucky are we right now?

Amanda is not going to perform There Will Be No Intermission – the 4+ hour stage show that she was touring around the globe before…y’know….happened. Instead she will be doing something even better: She’s going to wind together parts of the show with the truth of what’s happening right here, right now, on our fragile and in-trouble planet.

Amanda Palmer is a singer, songwriter, playwright, pianist, author, director, blogger and ukulele enthusiast who simultaneously embraces and explodes traditional frameworks of music, theatre, and art.

She first came to prominence as one half of the Boston-based punk cabaret duo The Dresden Dolls, earning global applause for their inventive songcraft and wide-ranging theatricality. Her solo career has proven equally brave and boundless, featuring such groundbreaking works as the fan-funded Theatre Is Evil, which made a top 10 debut on the SoundScan/Billboard 200 upon its release in 2012 and remains the top-funded original music project on Kickstarter. In 2013 she presented The Art of Asking at the annual TED conference, which has since been viewed over 20 million times worldwide. The following year saw Palmer expand her philosophy into the New York Times best-selling memoir and manual, The Art Of Asking: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Let People Help.

Since 2015 Palmer has used the patronage subscription crowdfunding platform Patreon to fund the creation of her artwork. This has enabled her to collaborate with artists all over the world with over 15,000 patrons supporting her creations each month. Join Amanda’s Patreon to help fund her art: https://www.patreon.com/amandapalmer

Palmer released her new solo piano album and accompanying book of photographs and essays, There Will Be No Intermission, on March 8, 2019, followed by a global tour. Recorded in late 2018 with grammy-winning Theatre Is Evil producer/engineer John Congleton at the helm, the album is a masterwork that includes life, death, abortion, and miscarriage among its tentpole themes.

THERE WILL BE NO INTERMISSION TRACKLIST

1. All the Things (Instrumental)
2. The Ride
3. Congratulations (Instrumental)
4. Drowning in the Sound
5. Hold on Tight, Darling  (Instrumental)
6. The Thing About Things
7. Life’s Such a Bitch Isn’t It  (Instrumental)
8. Judy Blume
9. Feeding the Dark  (Instrumental)
10. Bigger on the Inside
11. There Will Be No Intermission  (Instrumental)
12. Machete
13. You Know the Statistics  (Instrumental)
14. Voicemail for Jill
15. You’d Think I’d Shot Their Children  (Instrumental)
16.  A Mother’s Confession
17.  They’re Saying Not to Panic  (Instrumental)
18.  Look Mummy, No Hands
19. Intermission Is Relative  (Instrumental)
20. Death Thing

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