Amanda Fucking Palmer

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Not new music or anything, posted for the news and the headline (which makes sense, you just have to read the piece to unpick it):
Pregnant communist Amanda Palmer leads Illuminati takeover of the Vogue

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“Once in a Lifetime”. It looks a bit haphazard as it’s a rehearsal, though in front of an audience.

A rehearsal for what ? For this, an evening of music by David Byrne at Carnegie Hall, which was later crashed by David Byrne and a marching band, seen here.

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She’s coming to the UK + Ireland, in May and June. Sorry for the FB link but that’s where it’s been announced, with details to come on the e-mail list (so subscribe if you are interested).

https://www.facebook.com/amandapalmer/p ... 596488375/

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Dates:

29 - May St. George's Bristol, UK
1 - June Queens Hall Edinburgh, UK
3 - June RNCM Manchester, UK
5 - June City Varieties Leeds, UK
8 - June Union Chapel London, UK
13 - June Academy Dublin, Ireland
13 - June Dalkey Book Festival Dalkey, Ireland
14 - June Limelight Belfast, UK

edit: another one in Ireland added from a second e-mail. Yes on the same day but that’s what it says in the e-mail.

Also she’s speaking at the Hay Festival, Hay-on-Wye, Wales on the 30th of May:

https://www.hayfestival.com/p-9890-amanda-palmer.aspx

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I should post a clarification. Seems this is the Art of Asking Book Tour, or at least the UK leg of it, not a concert tour. Makes sense as she is getting more pregnant by the week and these are her last public engagements before the birth, so doing her normal high energy stage show would be a bad idea.

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Her latest “thing” via Patreon is a cartoon:

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Another Patreon funded thing. NSFW. Even if you are ok with a naked very pregnant woman this is weird even by her standards.

http://amandapalmer.net/truth-and-consequences/

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Hardly news as coverage of her has been on nothing else these last few months but the baby has dropped. But, and the reason for posting, she has also been in the studio, dueting with John Grant on a track on his album. Very different from her normal fare but right up her street I think:

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Oh god, she has just done a bunch of Bowie covers, and they are very very good. Blackstar/Space Oddity/Ashes to Ashes/“Heroes”/“Helden”/Life on Mars?. $1 or more for the lot.

http://amandapalmer.bandcamp.com/album/ ... et-tribute

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Oh god, she's puttnig a time-limit on charity giving.

Proceeds are being given to charity for only 28 days "in memory of David Bowie".

After that, she'll coin the lot.

The minimum price here is $1 - $.54 of which will go to Bowie's publisher for the use of the songs.

The remaining proceeds from the first month of sales (until March 5th) will go to the cancer research wing of Tufts Medical Center, in memory of David Bowie. "

I think it's about time someone looked into this woman's tax affairs!

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Oh god, she's puttnig a time-limit on charity giving.

Proceeds are being given to charity for only 28 days "in memory of David Bowie".

So what? Is an artist not allowed to pay homage to someone they admired?

The biggest bulk of the sales will be in that first month, she's likely to be making a huge donation to the charity as a result.

After that she'll earn some money from her release, which after all is how she earns a living. Not seeing a problem with that.

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Here they all are in Youtube form. The first one is the standout for me, Blackstar, though Ashes to Ashes is close. The art was created especially for it.

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The biggest bulk of the sales will be in that first month, she's likely to be making a huge donation to the charity as a result.

After that she'll earn some money from her release, which after all is how she earns a living.

She earns a living through Patreon. She's already taken $35k for this. Husband had a net worth approaching $20m last time I looked.

Limited to one month! Do you recall many examples of artists time-limiting donations to charitable causes?

Rick Wakeman meanwhile is just giving and not taking :

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01A ... eluxeed-21

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If she was serious about time-limiting it, the charity would have to pay her back after 28 days. With interest.

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Oh god, she's puttnig a time-limit on charity giving.

Proceeds are being given to charity for only 28 days "in memory of David Bowie".

So what? Is an artist not allowed to pay homage to someone they admired?

The biggest bulk of the sales will be in that first month, she's likely to be making a huge donation to the charity as a result.

After that she'll earn some money from her release, which after all is how she earns a living. Not seeing a problem with that.

If only Amanda thought it fair that musicians should earn a fair wage from performance.

http://www.avclub.com/article/unions-up ... icia-84867

She's well within her rights to be doing this. That said it's also fair to criticise it as part of a continuing pattern of artistically empty, self serving acts of opportunism. She's a taker.

EDIT

The $1 donations (after licensing fees paid for the Bowie estate) go to Cancer research. The patreon money ($33k) covered costs as far as I can tell and didn't go to charity