{FULL FILM DROP!} No Alarms…and No Surprises: A Patron-only Concert + Q&A @ Utopia Studios (Recorded August 22nd, 2025) (Patreon)

Hello my loves.

Housekeeping first: there are three upcoming shows! Tonight, the Fall of Freedom show in Millis, MA has been sold out for a hot sec but we JUST released a tiny allotment of last-minute tickets if you wanna grab one: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/amanda-palmer-at-niagara-coffee-haus-tickets-1858757847759.

See many of you there.

December 4th I’m in conversion with the incredible Amie McNee at the Brattle Theatre: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/amie-mcnee-at-the-brattle-theatre-tickets-1963603539044?aff=oddtdtcreator

and Dec 19th we are throwing a holiday party at The Magic Room! https://www.ticketleap.events/tickets/magicroom-7/holiday-music-party-with-amanda-palmer-and-friends

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NEXT: FINALLY!! IT IS UP!

TL;DR

This filmed patron-only concert has been a long time coming - I can’t believe it took us this long to get the footage and post together….but it’s been that kind of season.

This past summer, on August 22nd, I played a concert in Bearsville, NY, just for friends, neighbors and local patrons. This post is the ONLY place to view the concert; I’m not putting it on YouTube or releasing it elsewhere.

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Bearsville is the teeny little hamlet where I lived for a few years after coming home from New Zealand. I lived there alone (though often surrounded by friends) with Ash in a house on a hill. That was over a year ago (we moved home to Boston last August right before the start of Ash's school year).

It was a deeply emotional - and healing - experience to head back to my old neighborhood there to play the new, feral batch of songs I’ve been working on, and to begin to make sense of the trauma, discovery, shock and healing that took place in those dark woods. You know me. I heal in community. This, along with London, Minneapolis, New York, London, LA, Boston and the Vineyard were all important shows to me. I needed to be with my people and share my work.

The fact that my old hometown welcomed me back and showed up for me was the most important element of all, and I found myself feeling so much lighter after this show…so….I’m so glad we filmed it. You can practically see the heavy lifting off me as a play and answer the questions from the audience.

Angel got up and read a poem she’d written. It was just….wonderful.

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Alex Knight created the transcript for this show, I'm about to post it to the $3 patrons. If you want it, up your tier, the link is here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/140569780

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I'm sending this film out to the free members as well, the reminder that all of this STUFF, the sound crews, the recording studios, the piano tuners, the editing studios, my rent, my team's health insurance, my legal fees and...waves hands at literally everything 🐳 costs real cash money. This patreon is literally how I make my living and pay for all of this work.

There are thousands of people here just following along the posts and not paying, and I'll never sneeze at that, I love you here and I want your eyeballs and support.

But if you've been here a while and you're enjoying the art and the music and my writing, I beseech you to up your tier to contribute to the funds that are necessary to make the actual stuff and pay the crew.

I’m not touring a great deal this season, so the patreon is really helping to cover all the bills that are usually covered by my show income.

So tier up!!! It would mean a lot to me; and you'll also be able to access more things (first grabs at tickets, events and webchats only for paid patrons, the co-working hours, etc).

My ask is over.

Pitch in if you can.

Now....

SHOW time!!

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Photo by Bahram Foroughi

There will never be another show quite like it.

I did it for me, I did it for them, I did it for us, I did it to heal.

I played an hour of new material (we filmed that too, but won't release it for ages, if ever), then we made this.

Pete Caigan engineered the recording (at Utopia Studios), and Bahram Foroughi manned the cameras and edited the footage.

This live concert was taped just for patrons, and it was a special and emotional day indeed. I think the footage and recording speaks for itself, so I'm not going to rattle on and on here, I'll just let the concert do the talking. If you, again, feel like sharing it with someone, go ahead, but they'll need to jump the email- or paywall to become a patron to access this footage; I'm not putting it up on youtube or vimeo, even privately.

Thank you to all the patrons wide and far who traveled for this show.

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Top - Introduction, thoughts
10:00 - "Drowning in the Sound"
15:50 - Q&A #1
24:30 - Angel's Poem "Run on Sentence"
29:52 - "No Surprises" arranged for piano
36:15 - Q&A #2
47:07 - "Another Christmas"
55:00 - Closing

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Read the beautiful review here in the local paper, the Overlook. A couple of our own patrons were interviewed.

https://theoverlooknews.com/amanda-palmer-returns-to-woodstock-to-mine-her-soul/

Photo by Laura Vogel

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So much love to all of you.

Oh how I love this.

And all of you.

Thank you all for being here for me. It’s everything.

xxx

AFP

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Some of this is a little outdated. I need to do some work on it (I know, I know...I've also been saying that for months. Gimme a second). Meanwhile:

1. If you are a patron and new to my work, don’t forget your patronage allows you access to ALL of my patreon releases to date. HERE is the link to download my latest big solo record, “There Will Be No Intermission”, and HERE is a link to download the PDF of the art/essay book that goes with it.

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