Amanda Palmer

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Amanda Palmer (2008)
Chart placements
Explanation of the data
Albums
Who Killed Amanda Palmer
  US 77 04/10/2008 (1 week)
Theater Is Evil (with the Grand Theft Orchestra)
  US 10 09/29/2012 (2 weeks)
There Will Be No Intermission
  AT 30th March 22, 2019 (1 week)
  US 169 03/23/2019 (1 week)

Amanda Palmer (born April 30, 1976 in New York ) is an American musician , singer and songwriter . She became internationally known primarily as a member of the duo The Dresden Dolls . Since 2008 she has mainly worked as a solo artist, sometimes as Amanda "Fucking" Palmer.

Career

Palmer grew up in Lexington . Although she had never really learned to read music , she played the piano as a child and composed her first melodies. At the age of ten she created her first musical . According to her own statements, Palmer had few friends in her youth and spent most of her free time writing songs and lyrics. Palmer studied at the private Wesleyan University in Middletown , Connecticut . At the end of the 1990s, Palmer spent several semesters abroad as a German studies student in Heidelberg , Regensburg and Cologne .

Amanda Palmer (2008)

At a party in October 2000 she met the drummer Brian Viglione, with whom she got along well straight away. Viglione liked Palmer's songs, and a few days later they met to play together. This was the beginning of the band duo The Dresden Dolls , with whom they released four albums between 2003 and 2008 and - in addition to appearances in the opening act of other bands - went on their own tour three times. In 2006 she was named "Most Stylish" Woman in Boston by Boston.com .

In 2006 the book The Dresden Dolls Companion was also published , in which Palmer describes the formation and history of the band and the album of the same name as well as partly their biography. The book also includes lyrics and sheet music from the album and a DVD interview with Palmer. In the same year she also wrote the play The Onion Cellar , which was based on a chapter from Günter Grass ' Die Blechtrommel and, accompanied by music from her band, was shown at the Zero Arrow Theater in Boston from December 2006 to January 2007 . In 2008 the book Virginia Companion followed for the duo's two other albums.

From January 2007, Palmer worked on her first solo album, released in September 2008 under the title Who Killed Amanda Palmer . Her colleague Ben Folds worked as a producer and musician. The title is a reference to the television series Twin Peaks , in which the murder of the fictional character Laura Palmer is investigated. In an accompanying book, the singer was portrayed as a murdered woman in some photos; In addition to song lyrics, stories by the author Neil Gaiman were added. In 2007 she also released the EP Elephant Elephant with Jason Webley as a fictional " Siamese pair of twins " under the band name Evelyn Evelyn . In March 2010 an album and a world tour followed with Evelyn Evelyn.

In July 2010, the EP Amanda Palmer Performs the Popular Hits of Radiohead on Her Magical Ukulele was released , which consists exclusively of cover versions of songs by the British band Radiohead , which were recorded by Palmer on the ukulele . With the album Palmer celebrated the emancipation from her record company after she had terminated the contract with the company after two years of tough negotiations.

In 2011 she released the EP Nighty Night on Bandcamp as part of the 8in8 collaboration . After a discussion on Twitter , Nighty Night was placed under a Creative Commons -BY-NC license, as was the EP Ukulele Anthem, which was released a few months later . At the beginning of 2012, Palmer recorded their new album Theater is Evil with The Grand Theft Orchestra and then started a Kickstarter project to finance production and tour costs through album pre-orders from fans. In the end, 24,883 supporters funded the album and tour with $ 1,192,793, making it the most successful music crowdfunding project ever.

Amanda Palmer and Neil Gaiman (2011)
At the Open Piano for Refugees (Vienna 2019)

A recurring theme in Palmer's lyrics is sexuality . She is very open to different sexual orientations and describes herself as bisexual . She and Brian Viglione were never a couple, which was their express wish from the start, as such a relationship breaks up very quickly and music is more important than anything else.

She has been married to the British writer Neil Gaiman since January 2011 . On September 16, 2015, they had their first child together.

The Art of Asking Palmer's autobiography was published in book form in November 2014 . The personal trigger and basis for this were topics such as her crowdfunding project from 2012 and her attitude towards life, asking others for help without shame, which she had discussed in a TED lecture the previous year and which she had not let go of afterwards. The book made her entry into the New York Times bestseller list .

In March 2015 she released the single Bigger On The Inside , which she had funded through crowd funding, which she has been using frequently since then. She also acted as a jury member at the Independent Music Awards 2015. That year she also began working with her father, Jack Palmer, and recorded an album with him after a few singles in 2016 called You Got Me Singing . In addition, the two performed together at several concerts.

On the occasion of David Bowie's death , Amanda Palmer released the EP Strung Out In Heaven: A Bowie String Quartet Tribute in February 2016 . The cover songs also include a German version of the Bowie song Heroes. In September of the same year there was a renewed collaboration with her colleague Jason Webley in the form of the EP Sketches For The Musical JIB . A few weeks later, Piano Is Evil , a piano version of their CD Theater Is Evil, was released .

The third official studio album There Will Be No Intermission followed in 2019 . Inspired, among other things, by Hannah Gadsby's Nanette and Bruce Springsteen's Broadway Show ( Springsteen on Broadway ), Palmer conceived the accompanying world tour as a 4-hour show - including a break (intermission) - which was partly a concert and partly a narrative. The main focus of these narratives was on Palmer's personal experiences of motherhood, miscarriage, and her three abortions. Instead of concert halls and clubs, classic theaters were used.

Discography

Albums

  • 2008: Who Killed Amanda Palmer
  • 2011: Amanda Palmer Goes Down Under
  • 2012: Theater Is Evil
  • 2016: You Got Me Singing (with Jack Palmer)
  • 2017: I Can Spin a Rainbow (with Edward Ka-Spel)
  • 2019: There Will Be No Intermission

EPs

  • 2010: Amanda Palmer Performs the Popular Hits of Radiohead on Her Magical Ukulele

collaboration

  • 2003: Trudy (with Ad Frank and the Fast Easy Women on In Girl Trouble )
  • 2005: Circus Freak Love Triangle (with Hierosonic on Pornos and Razorblades )
  • 2006: The Lovers (with Meredith Yayanos on Brainwaves (compilation))
  • 2006: Life , Eight Days of Hell and Witch's Web (with … And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead on So Divided )
  • 2006: Warsaw Is Khelm (with Golem! On Fresh Off Boat )
  • 2007: Elephant Elephant , Have You Seen My Sister Evelyn? (with Jason Webley as Evelyn Evelyn )
  • 2007: Stuck with You (with Voltaire on Ooky Spooky )
  • 2010: Evelyn Evelyn (with Jason Webley as Evelyn Evelyn )
  • 2011: Nighty Night (with Ben Folds , Neil Gaiman and Damian Kulash )

Web links

Commons : Amanda Palmer  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chart sources: [Austria] / USA
  2. ↑ MTV Hive: Amanda Palmer Is Comfortable Wearing Her Own Blood ; TED: Amanda Palmer - Musician, Blogger ; IFC: [NSFW] Exclusive Premiere: Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft Orchestra "Want it Back" [NSFW]
  3. ↑ Amanda Palmer's biography ( memento from September 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) ( English )
  4. ↑ Amanda Palmer: “I've never written better songs” by Luigi Lauer on www.deutschlandfunk.de ( Deutschlandfunk ), September 3, 2012
  5. ↑ Amanda Palmer talks German and explains her connection with Cologne. Retrieved August 16, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Boston's stylish 25
  7. ↑ Article on spin.com ( Memento from April 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ Description of the article and characterization of the volume for Evelyn Evelyn
  9. ↑ Interview ( Memento from August 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) with the magazine uMag
  10. ↑ Blogatrikel by Lorenzo's Music
  11. ↑ a b COUNTDOWN PARTY & ALBUM TITLE !!!!! . In: amandapalmer.net . June 30, 2012. Archived from the original on June 9, 2012. Retrieved January 11, 2021.
  12. ↑ ON RECORDING, MARRIAGE, AND THE PROBLEM WITH FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS . In: amandapalmer.net . April 9, 2012. Archived from the original on June 26, 2012. Retrieved January 11, 2021.
  13. ↑ IT'S MY BIRTHDAY AND HERE'S WHAT I WOULD LOVE. . In: amandapalmer.net . April 20, 2012. Archived from the original on June 26, 2012. Retrieved January 11, 2021.
  14. ↑ a b Amanda Palmer: The new RECORD, ART BOOK, and TOUR. . In: kickstarter.com . Retrieved June 7, 2012.
  15. ↑ Amanda Palmer Raises $ 1.2 Million On Kickstarter, And The Crowd Goes Wild . In: techdirt.com . June 1, 2012. Retrieved June 7, 2012.
  16. ↑ a b Amanda Palmer Explores "The Art of Asking" on washingtonian.com, November 11, 2014, accessed October 7, 2016
  17. ↑ Interview with Amanda Palmer ( Memento from March 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  18. ↑ Interview with Brian Viglione ( Memento from October 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  19. ↑ Hermione Hoby: Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer: an audience with geek royalty. In: the Guardian. Retrieved October 11, 2015 .
  20. ↑ Amanda Palmer and Neil Gaiman welcome baby boy - The Boston Globe. In: BostonGlobe.com. Retrieved October 11, 2015 .
  21. ↑ THE BOOK IS OUT, THE BOOK IS OUT, GOD ALMIGHTY, THE BOOK IS OUT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! . In: amandapalmer.net . November 11, 2014. Retrieved November 22, 2014.
  22. ↑ Hardcover Nonfiction . In: The New York Times . Retrieved September 10, 2016. 
  23. ^ Combined Print and E-book Nonfiction . Retrieved September 10, 2016.
  24. ↑ BIGGER ON THE INSIDE - the first thing is HERE.
  25. ↑ Steve Smith: Amanda Palmer teams with long-estranged father for album, tour , The Boston Globe. July 14, 2016. Retrieved August 30, 2016. 
  26. ↑ Bill Pearis: Amanda Palmer playing shows with her father in support of their collaborative covers LP (tour dates) , The Brooklyn Vegan. May 16, 2016. Retrieved August 30, 2016. 
  27. ↑ THE FULL BOWIE. thank you for making this happen. | Amanda Palmer Blog . In: Amanda Palmer Blog . February 5, 2016 ( amandapalmer.net [accessed November 4, 2016]).
  28. ↑ Strung Out In Heaven: A Bowie String Quartet Tribute . In: The official website of Amanda Fucking Palmer. Yes it is - Amanda Palmer . ( amandapalmer.net [accessed November 4, 2016]).
  29. ↑ Amanda Palmer & Jason Webley - Sketches for the Musical JIB . In: The official website of Amanda Fucking Palmer. Yes it is - Amanda Palmer . ( amandapalmer.net [accessed November 4, 2016]).
  30. ↑ piano is evil (or: what i've been doing for the past 5 days) | Amanda Palmer Blog . In: Amanda Palmer Blog . September 26, 2016 ( amandapalmer.net [accessed November 4, 2016]).
  31. ↑ Amanda Palmer bares her soul in her one-woman show at the Warfield. Retrieved February 2, 2020 .
  32. ↑ Elena Witzeck: The end of the metaphor. FAZ.net, accessed on February 2, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Palmer, Amanda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American musician, poet and cabaret artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH New York , United States