patron-only: "THERE WILL BE NO INTERMISSION"! ALL THE THINGS! pre-order & tour tix (Patreon)

GOOD MORNING MY LOVES.

today's the day i've been working towards - and my team has been working towards - for the past six years.

i am officially announcing my new full length record THERE WILL BE NO INTERMISSION - THE ALBUM, THE ARTBOOK, & THE TOUR to the wide, wide world. we are all up and caffeinated and ready to do this today.

i'm gonna try to keep the text here brief (that's always hard for me), because there's A LOT TO SHOW YOU AND A LOT TO DO.

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THE PATRON-ONLY LIVESTREAM TODAY for ALL PATRONS!!!!!

reminder: i am going to do a webchat webcast open to ALL patrons today. it'll start at 4pm ET (find your time zone here) and go for about an hour. we'll talk about the album, the songs, the artwork, the tour, anything you want and celebrate together.

COME BE WITH ME.

i'll make a new post right before we go live, we'll be using crowdcast, the link will be in a patreon post, stay tuned.

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NOW....

in order of importance

1) WATCH THE SUPER-EMO ANNOUNCE VIDEO. IT'S SUPER FUCKING BEAUTIFUL AND I MADE IT IN MY LIVING ROOM WITH MICHAEL POPE AND COCO KAROL AND IT MADE US ALL CRY. grab a hanky. your patreon dollars went to fund it. it's not fancy, but it cost money....we needed to hire crews, and lighting people, and all that. it's...so good. pope killed it. link below:

https://youtu.be/HtMln7jWWuM

ARE YOU CRYING?

OKAY!

2) GET TICKETS FOR TOUR! THIS IS IT! PRE-SALE TICKETS ARE ON SALE FOR PATRONS ONLY FOR THE NEXT THREE DAYS! presale starts at 12pm local time TODAY,  tix go public dec 14th.

3) ORDER MERCH! THIS IS IT. vinyl, shirts, CDs, art prints and the patron-only edition of the book and vinyl are UP. 

4) SPREAD THE FUCKING WORD and help get people to the landing page. send everybody in the world to the landing page (nointermission.amandapalmer.net - go look! IT IS BEAUTIFUL!!!), where they can see the album artwork, tour dates and listen to the new "drowning in the sound". tell people how fucking proud you are. tell the story of how we did this together. help me explain this whole patronage thing to people - they don't know what you know.

a FB post/tweet/IG post as simple as:
"AMANDA FUCKING PALMER JUST ANNOUNCED HER FIRST RECORD/TOUR IN SIX YEARS & I HELPED HER DO IT AND NOW I AM DYING OF HAPPINESS: amandapalmer.net" is just fine with me. talk about how i'm coming to your city. shout out when you have tickets. you all speak internet. just do your thing. i need you as my megaphone.

5) SIT BACK AND SMILE AND PAT YOURSELF ON THE BACK, YOU HELPED ME CREATE ALL OF THIS. I LOVE YOU ALL SO GODDAMN MUCH. 

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today is also the day that DROWNING IN THE SOUND drops as the first single. you can now buy or stream it on all the major digital music services - not that you need to, but yeah.

if you're that type of listener: here's a link that will let you pre-order (for digital music stores) or pre-save (for streaming services) my new album so you can hear it first on all the platforms.

https://apalmer.lnk.to/NoInterPa

NOTE:
i'll be sending all download patrons ($3+) a digital download of the full album in march.

all of the pre-order merch on my site comes with a digital download. if you're a $3+ patron, you ain't gonna need that, but it was a way of enticing people into my lair.

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here we go: 

the ALBUM + MERCH PRE-ORDER:

we're offering patron-only merch and the team busted their asses off to come up with a system that will allow all of you to get the patron-only merch AND the publicly-available bundles. 

listen up...and read slowly.

in order to do this, there is a unique way to order the patron exclusives for each store which will allow you to also order other pre-order items all in the same cart (with consolidated shipping). you following? i didnt' want you to have to whip out your credits cards twice (once as patrons, once as public peoples).

(sigh: maybe one day patreon well let us set up patron-only merch through patreon, until then, team afp has you covered.)

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DEETS!

you have until DECEMBER 31st to order the patron-only vinyl and the hard cover artbook, which are detailed below. THESE ITEMS ARE ONLY FOR PATRONS, FOREVER. we are printing limited editions BASED ON ORDERS, then we close down production on those items for ever and ever, so order now or forever hold yer peace.

the rest of the items (CD, regular vinyl, etc) public pre-order merch items are available for pre-order up until MARCH 7th. then the pre-order turns into just a normal order, because the album comes out on march 8th.

there are a few different pre-order bundles, but here's a picture of the deluxe bundle with everything, containing:

1) the pre-order machete/skull shirt (it won't be sold after the pre-sale) in unisex or "women's cut" (i know, fuck gender) sizes. it'll be a soft shirt, made from eco-friendly material (this was important to me).

2) a set of 10 individual, frameable art prints in a special packaging

3) a physical copy of the album in the format of your choice CD or vinyl:
a) the CD includes fancy packaging (as voted by you, mofos), it'll have small frameable cd-sized art prints included in the packaging, it looks awesome. they're little art cards.
OR
b) the album on double gatefold vinyl.

the items above are available for pre-sale until march 7th, the day before the album comes out.

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the limited edition patron exclusives:

PATRON-ONLY MERCH EXCLUSIVES:

the patron-only, limited edition hardback artbook:

this book is going to be so sad and sexy you are going to die.

i've been working on the introduction and book text for two weeks now, and it's sort of like a mini-sequel to The Art of Asking. there's a ton of backstory and insight into the songs, the photos, the whole mess.

the book also come with a signed letter (yes, from me) and limited edition print JUST FOR PATRONS.
this patron-only version has a special cover photo:

this is me, surrounded by all the THINGS you mailed.

it took us hours to shoot this. we haven't burned everything yet - that's coming.

this cover photo is unique to the patron-only hardback edition and the cover of the book has a cloth border.

i wanted this book to be a beautiful edition, and especially special for you because my gratitude is deep for this community - but this also means something this high quality is expensive to make, and therefore, expensive to buy. if the price is too high and you can't afford it, know that i love you and that's okay, there will be a cheaper (but equally beautiful) softcover version available to the public online after we take orders for this hardback edition....and it will be sold at the merch booth at the live shows.

the photos and the stories in this book are just so so beautiful.

here's some of them:
photos below by kahn & selesnick

ALL OF YOU WILL BE THANKED IN THE BOOK - BOTH EDITIONS. sometime, later this week or so, i will be sending out a FORM to collect your names as you want to see them printed.
it's gonna be seven fucking pages of names, but goddamit, it's gonna be awesome.

VINYL:

patron-only limited edition colored vinyl!!!! yesssss.

i'm making a limited edition patron-only blue colored pressing of the vinyl. the color i chose (midnight blue) will be slightly darker than what you see pictured here. 

it's a gatefold vinyl, and there's two LPs (this fucker is almost 80 minutes long!!!) in the record packaging. there will also be art printed on the sleeves of the record. 

also included in the patron-only vinyl will be a 12x12inch insert poster - a gorgeous one - that i will sign. 

the standard public vinyl will be BLACK, come with no signed print - and cost the same. 

you guys win.

HERE'S WHERE YOU GET EVERYTHING:

USA/WORLDWIDE MERCH SHOP

http://shop.amandapalmer.net
password: nointermission

when you browse the merch store, you'll be asked for a password to be able to add the limited edition patron-only vinyl record and the limited edition patron-only hardback artbook. the password is simply "nointermission" this is case sensitive, so either cut and paste, or type it all lowercase and no spaces.

please do not share the password. honor system, folks. okay?

UK/EUROPE MERCH SHOP

https://eupatreon.amandapalmer.net
password: nointermission

this is a special link, for patrons only. at this link, you can add all the public pre-order bundles to your cart AND the patron-only exclusive hardcover artbook and patron-only exclusive vinyl.

the password is, you guessed it, "nointermission" - no spaces, all lowercase.

two important notes about the UK/EUROPE merch shop:

`first -
alex is still the UK merch queen, but we're switching store fronts for this album (you will notice!), and album-specific merchandise will be fulfilled by a merch partner in england that we're working with, who are set up to handle hundreds and (god willing) even thousands of album orders.

second -
the link above is PATRON ONLY. if you click the "uk shop" button on amandapalmer.net you'll be directed to a different merch store that has the public merch only. this unique link shared here, on patreon only, is for patrons only. if you'd like to share the shop link with friends, thank you, but please use the public afp uk shop: http://shopuk.amandapalmer.net

got that? sorry if this is all confusing. if you have questions, hit the comments below. we are online all day and will help.

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THE TOUR!!! 

PATRON PRESALE STARTS TODAY

LET'S GET SAD, TOGETHER!!!!

i'm starting off in north america, in the new year i'll announce a european leg, then australia & NZ, and sometime in 2020 i'll do a second north american tour.

the patron presale starts TODAY at 12pm local time (that means they start when it is 12pm in the city the show is taken place). pre-sale runs up until an hour before public sale, on december 14th.

the public ticket sale starts on DECEMBER 14th at 10am local time for all shows except where noted below (chicago starts at 11am CST and st. paul starts 12pm CST on the 14th).

if you're in a guest list eligible tier ($75 and above), you should have received a notification from me last night with details on how to request guest list tickets. if you're not yet in the guest list tier, you can still join, but you should read the post i made last night and confirming the ticket details there. (if you're in the $75 tier here is the post for you. if you're in the $100 tier and higher, here is the post for you).

an important thing to note: if you join a guest list eligible tier NOW to claim tickets, you need to still be in that tier by the time the show happens, we'll be checking. these tickets are also non-transferable. all of this is in place to stop sleazy people and scalpers.

HERE ARE THE VENUES!!!!!

this tour was booked really mindfully, all these theaters are ACE.

and it's a bit scary: these are some of the biggest venues i've ever played in these cities.

i am crossing all my toes and fingers that all the shows sell out quickly, but some cities are really a stretch (2,000+ seats!) and i will really need help to get the word out.

we'll do our best to keep these links up-to-date. if anything breaks - which sometimes happens - you can also always go to http://amandapalmer.net for the latest ticket links and information.

for TOUR: the PATRON PRE-SALE PASSWORD is: nointermission

i've asked the venues for this password NOT to be case sensitive, so you should be able to cut and paste, if you have any trouble leave a comment below.

March 21 - The Cathedral - Masonic Temple - Detroit - Tickets

March 22 - Queen Elizabeth Theatre - Toronto - Tickets

March 23 - Monument National – Ludger-Duvernay Theatre - Montreal - Tickets
note:  this pre-sale link is different from the public on sale link. this is a private link for patrons, you will not be asked for a password.

April 5 - National Theatre - Washington D.C. - Tickets

April 6 - Temple Performing Arts Center - Philadelphia - Tickets

April 12 - Chicago Theatre - Chicago - Tickets
note: public ticket on sale starts at 11am CST on dec. 14th

April 13 - The O'Shaugnessy at St. Catherine's University - St. Paul - Tickets
note: public ticket on sale starts at 12pm CST on dec. 14th

April 19 - Orpheum Theatre - Boston - Tickets

April 20 - Beacon Theatre - NYC - Tickets

May 10 - Warfield Theater - San Francisco - Tickets

May 11 - Theatre at Ace Hotel - Los Angeles - Tickets

May 17 - Cobb Energy Centre - Atlanta - Tickets

May 18 - Ryman Auditorium - Nashville - Tickets

May 30 - The Pageant - St. Louis - Tickets

May 31 - Arvest Bank Theatre at The Midland - Kansas City - Tickets

June 1 - Paramount Theatre - Denver - Tickets

June 6 - The Chan Centre for the Performing Arts - Chan Shun - Vancouver - Tickets

June 7 - Paramount Theatre - Seattle - Tickets

June 8 - Crystal Ballroom - Portland - Tickets

TWITTER Q&A TODAY

i am also going to do a twitter q&a today at around 12pm-ish new york time using their new beta twitter q&a app (remember when we all first started using twitter, back when it was only 140 characters and i regularly did "ask amanda" sessions while bored in a tour van?) well...now twitter made an app that let's us do a q&a session officially and even let's me record video answers to your tweeted questions. i'll post on twitter when i'm ready for questions, but you can tweet using the hashtag #AskNoIntermission.

IT'S A BUSY BUSY DAY.

i'll write more emotional things tomorrow. 

right now it's all about getting the word out to the world.

i love you all so much

let's do this.

love,

a

------THE NEVER-ENDING AS ALWAYS---------

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