amazing sydney morning herald review...& another australian voice-ramble, birds included (Patreon)

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hallo loves. 

i just wanna say....i fucking killed it today. i managed to get on a flight, get to the recording studio on time to produce a vocal from a fancy-pants melbourne musician for the bushfire record AND i am gonna make it to daycare to pick up my fucking kid. and i’m managing to get this post out the door. WE WIN. 

but i do none of this alone. you know how books have acknowledgements? this day of killing needs acknowledgements.

i would have been able to make my re-scheduled flight without jordan pulling a total smooth one at the virgin ticket desk in sydney. 

i wouldnt have made it to the recording studio if i hadn’t magically stumbled two weeks upon the first-class sound engineer who has wound up being the secret weapon of this flash record, anna. and jordan found her. 

and i wouldn‘t have gotten this post out if hayley hadn’t taken the time, while i worked in the studio and picked up ash, to cobble this post together and upload my voice ramble to soundcloud. 

this shit may sound boring to you but so many people help me every day, especially jordan, michael and hayley. on a day like this where everything happens by the skin of its teeth, i feel it even more. they make the magic possible. thanks my team. i fucking adore you. 

to say nothing of the patreon. you. guys. i would never have the balls to leap so fast without you. i know i thank you all the time. but goddamn. thank you. 

anyway...here is my little voice ramble from this morn. it’s 7 minutes. those birds, i found out, were probably sulfur-created cockatoos. i asked jordan. 

play native here or stream or download from soundcloud, here:
https://soundcloud.com/amandapalmer/voice-ramble-feb-10-2020/s-b6q6W

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meanwhile - i got a four-star review in the sydney morning herald and that’s just fucking fantastic. the reviewer snuck up on me and came to the blue mountains show. 

heres the start...

https://www.smh.com.au/culture/music/clinging-on-for-the-wild-four-hour-ride-20200209-p53z2v.html

AMANDA PALMER: THERE WILL BE NO INTERMISSION 

Blue Mountains Theatre, January 8

★★★★

In fact there was an intermission, slicing the four hours in half. Otherwise it was one woman's voice, piano and ukulele, leading us through the secret doors of her life: the ones behind which hide the memories most people try to forget. And this soul-baring, heart-baring, abortion-baring and life-baring had a cumulative effect.

Amanda Palmer's finest song, the gripping 10 minutes of The Ride, was the first encore, and worth the wait....

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for all of you in oz who are trying to convince people to come to the show: THATS THE ARTICLE TO POST along with the remaining tour dates. please do....

here’s what’s left:

Fri Feb 14 & 15 - ADELAIDE, SA - Bonython Hall, Adelaide Fringe 

Thu Feb 20 - SYDNEY, NSW - Enmore Theatre

Sat Feb 22 - PERTH, WA - Perth Festival Hall

Sat Feb 29 - DARWIN, NT - Darwin Entertainment Centre

Thurs March 12th: Auckland Festival: Hollywood Avondale

Fri March 13th: Auckland Festival: Hollywood Avondale

Sat March 14th: The Piano, Christchurch

Mon 16th: Wellington Fringe - St Peters Church

all info:

https://nointermission.amandapalmer.net

please post everywhere...that article is gold for convincing people the show isn’t weird and scary. 

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if you want to read more about why our flight was cancelled last night:

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2020/feb/10/nsw-queensland-floods-weather-rain-sydney-traffic-commuters

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and last but not least, i promised this screenshot in my voice ramble. someone posted this to my instagram...

really? still?

i posted this to instagram:

this comment is worth its own post. dude. define need. we all bleed red and we all need places to sleep at night. and i don’t care if you have $5 to your name or $5,000,000 in the bank. staying in someones house is a goddam honor and the oldest, realest and, i would proffer, even holy form of human kindness. i wrote a whole book about this shit after doing a TED talk to explain it .... and i still believe that we are one human family, and i still feel a kind of failure of imagination and community every time i check into a hotel. and i stay in hotels all the time. i can afford to now. but. nothing beats staying in the home of a stranger, ie a friend i haven’t met yet. i made a ramble-voice-recording this morning for my patrons and was musing about this before i even saw this comment....really, there is nothing like a home. with real, human pictures on the walls. a kitchen with smells. a bookshelf. a bathroom with half-empty exotic shower gels that smell delicious. cats. dogs. sounds of spoons clanking and radiators rattling. in short: life. spending the night in someone’s house - especially in a last-minute pinch - is a reminder that there is an invisible web of human kindness and generosity that delicately connects us, always. we forget. okay? okay. .

greetings from the actual couch on which i am sleeping tonight. all flights to melbourne were cancelled because of the heavy rains and flooding and jordan, my australian manager, is putting me, @mwmccomiskey and @hayleyfiasco up in his house and we will try agin in the morning. we could have stayed at the airport hotel. but why? we got to play piano, play guitar, look at records, eat food in a kitchen, and talk like human beings around a low-lit table. i can think of nothing grander. money can buy you a suite in the hilton, but it can’t buy you this. maybe i have to write another fuckin book. jeez.

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a

ps for your amusement, yesterday also contained my most-liked comment on instagram, under the same photo:

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

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UPCOMING SHOWS:

Fri. Feb 14 — Sat. Feb 15 - ADELAIDE, SA - Bonython Hall, Adelaide Fringe 

Thurs. Feb 20 - SYDNEY, NSW - Enmore Theatre

Sat. Feb 22 - PERTH, WA - Perth Concert Hall, Perth Festival 

Sat. Feb 29 - DARWIN, NT - Darwin Entertainment Centre

Thurs. Mar 12 — Fri. Mar 13 - AUCKLAND, NZ - Auckland Arts Festival: Hollywood Avondale

Sat. March 14th - CHRISTCHURCH, NZ - The Piano

Mon. March 16th - WELLINGTON, NZ - St Peters Church, Wellington Fringe

ALL TICKETS: https://nointermission.amandapalmer.net