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Short Biography
Amanda Palmer Goes Down Under

Provocative, irreverent, controversial, entertaining and artistic. Amanda Palmer continues to push the boundaries as the Queen of Punk Cabaret.

"Amanda Palmer Goes Down Under" is her latest offering as a solo artist.  A collection of live and studio tracks with an Australian theme, the album berates a lover for his love of Vegemite and celebrates a lady's nether regions with the new single ‘Map of Tasmania'.  All material for this album was lovingly penned for and recorded in Australia.  It includes some special tributes in the form of covers of Nick Cave and New Zealand's Peter Jefferies.

Anyone who's ev...

Short Biography
Amanda Palmer Goes Down Under

Provocative, irreverent, controversial, entertaining and artistic. Amanda Palmer continues to push the boundaries as the Queen of Punk Cabaret.

"Amanda Palmer Goes Down Under" is her latest offering as a solo artist.  A collection of live and studio tracks with an Australian theme, the album berates a lover for his love of Vegemite and celebrates a lady's nether regions with the new single ‘Map of Tasmania'.  All material for this album was lovingly penned for and recorded in Australia.  It includes some special tributes in the form of covers of Nick Cave and New Zealand's Peter Jefferies.

Anyone who's ever seen or heard Palmer - whether raising eyebrows and attracting onlookers as The Eight Foot Bride living statue in Cambridge's Harvard Square, delivering dramatically direct, wildly theatrical performances as one half of the cabaret-punk duo The Dresden Dolls, or, most recently, as a solo artist whose uncompromising vision has frequently made her a flashpoint for both admiration and controversy - will attest to the fact that being a musician and rock star is not merely a job, and never has been.

Instead, Palmer is her art.  And, in turn, her art is an extension of who she is, and is always becoming: a voracious seeker of creative catharsis and emotional release, a bold participant in games of truth or dare (she always opts for both) on a life-sized stage, and, above all, an utterly un-categorize-able work-in-progress.  She's a fearless singer and songwriter, of course, and an audaciously expressive pianist who simultaneously embraces - and explodes - traditional frameworks of composition.

She's collaborated with indie pop pianist Ben Folds (who produced her most recent solo work Who Killed Amanda Palmer) and teamed with acclaimed author, and now husband, Neil Gaiman for a storybook of photography that beautifully expands the conceptual and narrative ideas outlined in her ambitious solo album.  She created an ambitious 12-video DVD project to match each song of the record with filmmaker Michael Pope, and continues to post so-called "Karaoke Verité" lip-dub videos of other musicians' work on YouTube.

"Amanda Palmer Goes Down Under" coincides with the Opera House ‘Australia Day Spectacular' with Amanda inviting special guests; Neil Gaiman, cabaret darling Meow Meow and Mikelangelo & The Black Sea Gentleman to join her on this January 26th celebration.

Amanda Palmer will be touring across Australia in January & February, taking in the MONO FOMA festival in Tasmania as a special guest of curator Brian Ritchie of the Violent Femmes, and reprising her much lauded performance at the Forum Theatre in Melbourne.

Amanda Palmer brings her special brand of humour to Australia with headline performances across the country.

"Amanda Palmer Goes Down Under" is released on January 21st through Liberator.  It is available for pre-order from [insert link here]

The Frontier Touring Company Presents:
Amanda Palmer Goes Down Under Tour

With special guests to be announced

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26TH: THE FORUM THEATRE, MELBOURNE

In-depth Biography
Before she was the lead singer, pianist, lyricist, and composer for the "Brechtian punk cabaret" duo the Dresden Dolls, Amanda Palmer was a Wesleyan University graduate who had been involved in theater for a number of years. After college, she founded the Shadowbox Collective, a group that performed plays as well as street theater. (Palmer herself was a busker who performed as a living statue.) In 2000 she met drummer Brian Viglione; though Palmer could not read music, she formed the Dresden Dolls a year later and became the main musical force behind the group. She also continued to explore other creative avenues, and in 2006 released The Dresden Dolls Companion, a book that featured original art, a history of the band and its first album, and a partial autobiography by Palmer. At the end of that year, the Dresden Dolls performed the Palmer-penned musical The Onion Cellar with the American Repertory Theatre. In 2008 she released the solo album Who Killed Amanda Palmer, which featured Ben Folds as both a producer and a performer. After paying tribute to Radiohead on the 2010 EP Amanda Palmer Performs the Popular Hits of Radiohead on Her Magical Ukulele, in early 2011 Palmer released Amanda Palmer Goes Down Under, an album filled with references to Australia and New Zealand and written while on tour there. ~ Katherine Fulton, Rovi