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The State of All Things: FEB 2020, and also, i need a hug {official thing} (Patreon)
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hello my loves.
greetings from our kitchen in melbourne. i need a hug. a big one. maybe a medium one. a real one.
i am so sorry that you may have come here to escape the news cycle and read about fun and art and feelings, but i got some bad news.
and, i'm sorry to use this usual lovely monthly update as a blog platform for breaking news, but sometimes you just gotta do that. (for you new patrons - this is the monthly paid post i use to cover our staff expenses. we call it The State of All Things, or the "Althing" for short)
i began drafting this text below yesterday morning, and was about to clean it up and press send tonight. i just had some people over to our house in richmond, when i got a text from missy higgins, who was supposed to perform at our bushfire benefit tomorrow.
so: there was a melbourne doctor who was reported in the australian news - he'd come back from the USA and gone to work with symptoms; he treated 70 patients. the news just broke that the doctor was missy's dad. now missy is the #1 trending topic on the internet and people are being cruel to both her and her father. she must be in hell, and a circle of hell that i can't quite imagine. she's missy higgins, the most unproblematic musician on earth. to watch people tearing her down on the internet is breaking my heart. fucking people. goddamit it.
if you want to read the news story, it's here. neil and i just googled the clinic address. it's 1.5 miles from our house. i also just read that the SXSW music conference in the states is getting canceled. as a person who's attended the conference many times and knows the financial and knock-on ramifications of that decision....i cannot imagine.
so...missy has canceled her appearance (that's totally understandable, and i never would have encouraged her to do otherwise), and i'm wondering whether it's a good idea to cancel the entire benefit. neil says don't cancel, my manager says don't cancel, we'll check in with the venue and the news tomorrow. we probably won't cancel. but in case something happens and we are called to cancel it: please stay tuned. i'll announce here and on socials.
if we go ahead with it (and we probably will) we will love-bomb the shit out of missy and her dad from the stage and make her a video.
for the people coming to the CHARITY ICE BATH tomorrow, i think we'll play it safe and turn the whole thing into a little mini-gig and probably avoid sweating all over each other.
and.....about that hug?
i need one.
this whole night has been so hard.
i don't usually feel this kind of deep stress headache, and it's shown up.
hi headache.
but also, hi patrons.
hi community.
hi, people i love.
i'm going to take a bath, and i'm going to go to bed, and i'm going to tell you that i love you, and that the world can be scary sometimes, and that we have each other.
we do.
we are humans together.
we are gonna be okay.
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so we are going backwards in time, and this is what i wrote yesterday.
let's just pretend it's yesterday for a sec. can we?....
thanks.
greetings from australia, where the tour is finally winding down. i am feeling small gusts of relief coming through my mind-window as i head towards the home stretch...but everything still seems incredibly overwhelming, from getting to the podcast studio on time today after ash had an existential meltdown (oh, don't you worry, i talk all about it with one of the guests), to trying to map out my next moves.
everything feels kind of peaceful and yet frightening right now. i feel like my team is too burned out, we are limping along to the last few shows and even though the shows are amazing, i'm almost too dumbstruck by this whole experience to know how to experience it any more. sometimes i feel like ash seemed to feel this morning when he exploded in sobs after i explained that you do NOT want to run around the house with a knife, you could die, and when he told me he wanted to die, i told him that when you die you DISAPPEAR forEVER and then he melted down into sobs saying that no no no, he wanted to stay here with us.
i want to stay here with you.
this is not a cry for help, mostly my gallows humor articulating: i am existentially depleted and really ready for the long break i've just carved out for myself.
today i talked to two incredible australians for my podcast: clare bowditch, who just published an amazing and hyper-honest memoir i finished a few weeks ago about losing a sibling when young, PTSD, eating and panic disorders, and befriending her head demons. it's so good. and i talked to fred leone, an aboriginal butchulla songman who made his name in the australian hip-hop community a while ago (he also played didjeridoo on the new record).
i am not good at taking days off.
if i had a couple more days here, i would have filled them with podcast guests, because there are so many people here i wanna talk to. we'll have to skype.
the podcast is the thing i'm most looking forward to digging into....it's going to be an excellent way to keep work, work, working with and speaking with the world without having to get on too many planes and disrupt ash's life too much. i'm starting to see the wear and tear on him and i am so grateful that we can take him home. this seven-month stint away from his bedroom has been...too long. we all feel it.
a rest will be really, really good.
i love you all and am so grateful for your patronage, as usual.
you've changed my world.
and right now, it's messy. i'm messy.
it's the end of tour. it always is messy at the end.
hang in there with me.
xxx
afp
OKAY!
A LITTLE MEDIA ROUND-UP!
there's been some really incredible press coverage and reviews coming in from oz, here's a selection....
the sydney morning herald gave the blue mountains show a rave review....
https://www.smh.com.au/culture/music/clinging-on-for-the-wild-four-hour-ride-20200209-p53z2v.html
there's a whole round-up of more oz press and reviews in this post called "we are a unicorn covered in stars", here.
my soul is full.
thank you for understanding my show so beautifully, australian press.
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DOUBLE J RADIO - FEBRUARY ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
for the month of february i was DOUBLE J's Artist In Residence and got to program songs and DJ the airwaves!
you can see the WHOLE playlist (and double j is super nice and provides listenable links for each song) and stream each episode online any time now. weeks three and four are the ones i'd recommend the most. I GO DEEP.
1. for my first episode i went WIDE....picked some new discoveries and some of my favorites...
https://www.abc.net.au/doublej/programs/artist-in-residence/amanda-palmer-artist-in-residence-week-1/11891214
the playlist includes nina simone, ani difranco, elvis costello, ben folds, archie roach....
2. for week two, i went all over the place again and just played SONGS I LOVE....the playlist includes tori amos, saul williams, lorde, the xx, sharon van etten.....
https://www.abc.net.au/doublej/programs/artist-in-residence/amanda-palmer-artist-in-residence-week-2/11914910
3. for WEEK THREE.....i picked songs centered around reproductive rights, pregnancy and abortion. i called this episode THE DARK SIDE OF THE WOMB. :)
playlist inl=cludes john lennon, kimya dawson, john lennon, robyn, missy higgins...
4. AND for my final episode, i did a WHOLE EPISODE built around the backstories of the bushfire charity flash record!!! this one is really fun.
the playlist includes a ton of stuff from the record, plus originals by a lot of the artists who joined me, including montaigne, missy, clare bowditch, emily wurramarra, etc....
WHEEE!!!!
and.....i did an interview with zan rowe at the end of the month closing out my artist in residence. it's a sweet chat....listen online here:
https://www.abc.net.au/doublej/programs/mornings/mornings:-thursday,-20-february/11966850
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RAGE TV!!!!!!!
i guest programmed RAGE TV! australians will understand, everyone else will scratch your heads. if you're looking for more music to listen to, they've published the playlist of music videos i picked, here....
https://www.abc.net.au/rage/guest/amanda-palmer-guest-programs-rage/11950928
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"The Music Show" on ABC radio....
this is another great national-radio interview i did a few weeks ago from the ABC tardis in canberra. it's up online now, listen here:
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MORE EXCITING LISTENING!!!!!!!
this one is really good. BOLD AND ITALICS!
THE GERMANS WILL PROBABLY LOVE THIS MOST.
this is a podcast with my german hero, judith holofernes, who just became the biggest musician in germany to use patreon!....
judith and i TALKED LONG AND DEEP ABOUT PATREON, LIFE, ART, PAIN AND PATRONAGE....this is such a great listen....and a great primer for artists who are considering patronage and feeling squicky or uncertain about things.
listen and understand my soul. judith's, too. we were practically ON FIRE.
IT'S SO GOOD!
https://www.patreon.com/posts/first-podcast-in-34327245
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meanwhile....
WHAT HAPPENED LAST MONTH...
i had a bunch of shit i was gonna put out and i delayed it all so i could get weird and raise money for the bushfire effort.
we released ....
FORTY-FIVE DEGREES: a bushfire charity flash record
i recorded and released a flash charity record. A WHOLE RECORD! WITH A GAZILLION special guests!!!!! all proceeds went to the to firesticks alliance.
you can listen or buy it on bandcamp, HERE. i also gave ALL patrons a download, get yours in this post.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/forty-five-flash-33759711
the album got a GREAT write-up here in pop matters....
"If Australia is the canary in the dark climate coal-mine," Palmer wrote in the record's notes, "I hope a bunch of artists making a response record like this, so fast and with such generosity, can provide a little crack of light."
Palmer's response revels in the darkness more than the light, but that's always what she's done best. And she puts herself out there for Australia and all the socio-political implications raveled up with it in the current crisis. For a $5 download, what more do you want?...
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then we released
"BEDS ARE BURNING" - Live Videos for bushfire charity:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/beds-are-burning-34331733
we haven't done a final tally yet, but between these two projects, the posters we are selling, and the benefit that neil and i are throwing in melbourne this weekend, we will have compiled a pretty hefty pile of cash to give to the firesticks alliance and a few other bushfire charities.
this is so beaitiful....and i am so proud this patreon is such an engine of good.
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AN EVENING WITH NEIL AND AMANDA AT THE BOSTON POPS
photo by remi chauvin / me fronting the tasmanian symphony orchestra a few years back for mona foma (dress by @kambrieldesign)
you should SEE what i can do with a symphony orchestra, people. i have SKILLS. and now, neil and i are doing two nights this june 11 & 12 with the boston pops orchestra - the first time we have ever attempted to co-front a night of joyful symphony gloom and doom and hope and panic and all the usual paradoxes. expect songs, poems, surprises, harps, TYMPANI, y’know. please come dressed to kill.
THIS ONE IS GONNA BE HISTORIC, FOLKS. it’s my third turn with the boston pops and it’s always a real pleasure. i plan to do this one with full grandeur and might even wash my hair and stuff...
this
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meanwhile, i TOURED AND TOURED.
i wrapped my tour in australia. there's a few dates left in aotearoa (new zealand) and that'll conclude the year long world tour for THERE WILL BE NO INTERMISSION.
i will have a lot to say when we wrap. right now i'm still so exhausted, with the tour itself, the accidental album on top, and....yeah. gimme a second.
some highlights....
melbourne - hamer hall
photo by mandy hall
brisbane powerhouse
photo by elizabeth sharpe
photo by hayley rosenblum
a day off outside brisbane in wongawallan with sarah beetson and her family....which was so delicious. they had just narrowly escaped the bushfires, and then their neighborhood flooded. aie aie aie. sarah had just wrapped work on the bushfire album art when i saw her.
photo by hayley
photo by hayley rosenblum...book by john waters!
canberra theater
on our drive from canberra to springwood we stopped for lunch in goulburn and drove past the big merino. it called to us. we obviously had to go back and take a picture.
from left to right!: me, michelle thorne our lighting op, michael, hayhay!
springwood, blue mountains theater
photo by brigitte grant
the last minute sydney Q&A
photo by hayley rosenblum
this event wound up happening on the day of the worst flooding sydney has seen, so a ton of people got trapped in their houses and towns, but we had an amazing throwdown and good, deep talks in this beautiful "uniting" church.
i like talking to everybody. if i don't get to do it every once in a while i feel weird.
the podcast is really gonna help with this.
adelaide, bonython hall
photo by @mugthecook
while we were there at the adelaide festival, ash got his first paying gig and reviewed a couple of kid shows for the adelaide fest mag. he was paid in ice cream....
read it here, it's pretty cute.
https://www.fest-mag.com/adelaide/kids/kids-critics-ash-palmer
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sydney, enmore theatre
photo by ashley mar
perth festival hall
photo by nic david
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darwin
i took a day off after the darwin show and walked around with my wonderful friend lance horne. we took each other’s pictures in front of the sea, the sea, the jelly-fish-full sea. i love lance.
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WHAT ELSE IS COMIN' DOWN THE PIKE...?
CAMPAMERSAND at OMEGA.....!!!!
if we aren't all dying of coronavirus, and that joke isn't as funny as i'd like it to be....
after a brave 50 people from this community tested the grounds out with our "real compassion" workshop last year (and what an amazing time we HAD...)
it's on.
memorial day weekend (friday, may 22nd through monday, may 25th) we'll be taking over OMEGA in rhinebeck, ny.
we are calling it CAMPERSAND!
more details on the sessions, presenters, musical guests, tickets, and timings will be shared soon. we're self-producing this with just our tiny team (michael is leading the charge, hayley is helping out and i'm pulling in some great guest performers/teachers to join us).
this will be patron only, only 300 spaces will be available, and as a heads up, this will be a little costly (depending on your housing option anticipate something around $800-$1,000 or so) - i am keeping the admission cost really low for a thing like this....and may actually lose money presenting this, but there are omega operational fee and accommodation/housing fees that are mandatory for each ticket.
we are working on childcare options! stay closely tuned.
with coronavirus shutting a lot of things down, this may have to go on hold. we will see.
meanwhile, feast you eyes on the site....
https://www.eomega.org/rhinebeck
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TASMANIA CONFESSIONAL DOCUMENTARY....
coming soon....here are some screenshots from luke's doco.
it's looking INCREDIBLE.
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BBC SYMPHONY....
wait for it. we made a song.
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LOOK MUMMY NO HANDS
this video has taken so long and we've hit so many walls that i've decided to edit it in person with michael pope. it'll be a month or more. but it's coming.
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the "THERE WILL BE NO INTERMISSION" ARTBOOK PDF
your annotated, PDF-version of the companion artbook that we created along with the record is still being worked on! and we'll thing it when it's ready for ya....
i'm hoping this one is ready for this month, or april. while i've been on tour i haven't had the time to sit down and write the new introduction i want to write for this, but it's coming together.
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THE ART OF ASKING EVERYTHING PODCAST.....!!!!
EEEE!!!!!!
the team and i are aiming to get this out by the end of may.... there are so many pieces to this massive project, but as the logistics are worked on, i'm still interviewing guests .... i just talked to two INCREDIBLE people in australia yesterday: clare bowditch and fred leone, both of whom also sang on the bushfire record.
i am stock-piling lots of great talks so when episodes do roll out, i have a huge colelction to roll seamlessly.....EVERY WEEK!! a lot of the content will be a little old, but mostly we're talking about big themes and not weekly news, so it'll be okay. i think.
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now...NITTY GRITTY TIME.
HOW THE PATREON HAS GROWN....
patreon bills credit cards on the 1st of the following month so we usually see a couple hundred people drop off in the beginning of the month due to payment errors and credit card issues, it takes a few days for this to adjust once people fix their accounts. it's life.
as of this writing there are about 14,782 patrons pledging about $50,548 for the first THING of the month.
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shop talk!!
patreon charges you monthly & retroactively.....meaning that you get billed on the 1st of the month for all the Things released the month prior (for example, you were charged for the Things released in january on february 1st).
(i say this every single goddamn month, but if you're new, listen up....)
because people have their pledges capped (HAVE YOU NOT CAPPED YOUR PLEDGE? if you are on a budget, you should. here's the tutorial again), the first Thing raises the most money, and anything released thereafter raises less and less. I LIKE THIS. it means i never feel too guilty!!!!!. really. do it.
the numbers below are gross. they are not net.
meaning: it's the money raised before fees were deducted by patreon and is not the total deposited to me. patreon takes a 5% fee (which they use to build and sustain the platform, which is GOOD) and then there's a payment processing fee, which varies on a ton of factors and is usually between 5-9% of the total collected.
also, none of this reflects the money i SPENT MAKING THE ART, running my business, paying the office rent, getting myself around, getting the team around and fed and slept,....all the collaborators and my actual staff payroll, etc.
i don't share that level of nitty-detail-stuff with you because i assume it would bore you to fucking tears. but you can trust me: paying for a full-time staff, office, manager, accountant, and massive team of art-collaborators ain't cheap. sometimes we barely break even, especially when we do a lot of charity projects (like we did this month).
last year patreon changed their pricing and fee plan. however, all creators who've had accounts up until may 7, 2019 are considered "founding creators" (read: grandfathered in) and for the time being are locked into the original fee structure with the 5% patreon fee and the 5-9% credit card payment processing fee.
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so back in JANUARY, i Thanged Three Things, and it came out like this:
December 2019: State of All The Things was the first Thing and it earned about $57,920 from 14,957 patrons
There Will Be Some Introspection — Part 2: Revolution was the second Thing and it earned about $26,090 from 8,850 patrons
"an entire theater gives an artist a hug" short film was the third and final Thing and it earned about $16,165 from 5,752 patrons.
(we say "about" because patreon may be still trying to process some pledges that have yet to go through...we never know, you know.)
them's the numbers, peeps.
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and now.....
DISPATCHES FROM TEAM AFP!
from hayley:
At the end of January I headed to Australia for three weeks to join Amanda on tour and get some IRL team time in. This invitation came in December while we were wrapping up the four shows in London, so it was quite last minute and involved some scrambling to update my passport in time and sort out a visa. Unbeknownst to any of us, instead of the team time being used to plan ahead for the year, as our was originally intended, it turned into bunkering down preparing for the flash album release. In retrospect, I don't know if the album would've been possible, or nearly as smooth, without us being there to work together on it. If all the pieces had been cobbled together across oceans and timezones, quite frankly, it'd have been much more stressful and messier. All in all the time in Oz and the release were a lot of work, with maybe two days off in total out of three weeks - when there wasn't a show we were working on computers on traveling to and from airports.
Y'all, I'm not going to lie - I am very, very tired. I am beyond tired, really. It's been a non-stop whirlwind that keeps gaining more and more momentum. Each month when I reflect on what's happened to write this update, I always feel the weight of the month, always mindful not to simply write "this month was busy" because all months are busy, but shit - February was brutal. The surprise album release was rough. Because any time a new project like that is added, it doesn't negate the other urgent and time sensitive things that need to get done - especially when it comes to this patreon and our cadence of Things that need to be done. You can see from the "WHAT'S COMING DOWN THE PIKE" portion of the Althing a sliver of the things we have in production in addition to he things that actually get put out each month - and there's even more that aren't quite cooked enough to be shared here as coming soon. So, while it's always a lot, it feels like it's been more heavier than the usual heaviness.
To get a sense how the spontaneous bushfire album alters workflow, or really any new additional time sensitive project, I'll demonstrate with this Althing - I spend hours each month prepping this post for Amanda to go in and write text and collaborate with me on the pieces to include. I intended to get a jump start on this earlier in the month of February but that luxury went out the window in reorganizing my work priorities to launch a single, coordinate the charity poster launch across three webstores, confirm artwork, replace youtube uploads that compressed the visual art, give the publicists everything they need to share the music to press and announce, proof all the press releases and official copy, make sure the liner notes and lyrics were correct, double, triple and quadruple check that everything was sorted in bandcamp for the album preorder and launch, made sure everything was timed correctly across the web, completed drafts for patreon so all patrons could get the album and details first, proofed and copyedited patreon posts amanda wrote, and made sure amanda was aware when everything had to go out and her text was written to share with you and so on.... it's a long list. And between all of this, my favorite part of my work was happening - helping out at live shows and being part of the live music experience of this project that's been a labor of love for us for so long.
I met so many of you at the PATRONATOR tables and it really was such a joy. During the USA tour I started taking selfies in front of the patron group photos - as a way to have a little postcard of the new places and people I was meeting (the first one was taken outside the White House). I continued that little tradition for each show I worked on the tour, ending in Sydney with this neat acro-yoga pose Amanda did in front of the group. You can see the silly thread of all the photos on twitter, here:
https://twitter.com/HayleyFiasco/status/1230507072829022208
Of the many adventures had on this tour, one highlight was going to an airport lounge for the very first time. What an amazing little luxury! Amanda and I went to the lounge in Melbourne on our way to Adelaide for two shows at the fringe. We used this time to get some urgent work done for the album and to put out a patreon post for the Adelaide show ticket giveaway. I just expected to take a fun selfie with Amanda for the Patreon post, I didn't expect her to instagram it and share such sweet words - it caught me by surprise and was really touching. Thanks, Amanda.
Since coming back to New York from Australia I have been having trouble sleeping/sleeping through the night. I'm going on two weeks here of not having a full night's sleep and it's throwing me off for a loop a bit, but I'm keeping my head up and trying all the things to regulate my sleep. The show must go on, the Things must be thung...
onward we go.
Hayley
{HAYLEY! i love and appreciate you so much. i hope you're recovering after the oz dash and taking good care of yourself....get ready for the post-tour crash. love, -afp}
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from michael:
Hello patrons,
I'm writing to you from Brooklyn, that's right I'm finally home! After about a year on the road, it's so great to be back home. Even though February was a short month, it never ceases to astound me how much we fit into a single month time after time after time.
The month of February started out in a wonderful way as Hayley, Amanda, and I took a break from touring and drove down to Wongawallan to visit Sarah Beetson and her amazing family. It's always such a treat when on the road to stay with friends and experience great meals, good music, and lots of laughs. If you were following along Amanda's socials this is where we got to collaborate on a new song written by Etta which I was fortunate enough to accompany her on guitar. We were only there for a couple of days, but I was almost instantly adopted by the kids and I couldn't have been happier. It was hard to say goodbye. And I sincerely hope that someday soon I'll get a chance to visit again.
The whole team went back to Melbourne for meetings and Jordan, Hayley, and I we're able to have some great meetings in person in the same time zone which is always a huge treat. After a couple of days of meetings we were back on the road and played a wonderful show in Canberra before hopping in the car and driving up to the Blue Mountains where on the way I got to see kangaroos in the wild for the first time. It was awesome. In spite of all the news about the fires when we reached the Blue Mountains we were beset by torrential thunderstorms. Amanda and I spent the night in a wonderful patron’s home and then drove to Sydney for her Q&A the next day. Due to the storms we almost didn't make it and wound up having our flights to Melbourne that evening cancelled due to weather. However, the amazing Jordan came to the rescue and put Hayley, Amanda, and I up at his house for the night.
After finally getting back to Melbourne, we were able to continue our meetings about all things AFP related, and let me tell you there are seriously good things coming down the pike. I’m really excited.
Next up was Adelaide Fringe. I could write an entire update about the few days we spent there and Fringe Festivals in general, but I’ll just say that if you have a chance to go to a major ART Festival, even if it’s just to walk around and stand in the atmosphere and dip into whatever is Free or Cheap. . . Go. Just do yourself a favor and go soak in thousands of people all coming together in one place to make Art Happen (and this coming from someone who has a REALLY hard time in crowds).
After Fringe we had one more big show together as a team, and Sydney did not disappoint. The Enmore is such a great venue, perhaps my favorite of the entire Australian Tour (that I got to see). It’s a 110 year old theatre where the history is palpable. Those theatres that have survived through so much history always feel like home to me in a way that I can’t quite describe, but being in that theatre for what was my last show on this year long tour got me incredibly emotional. It’s been a ride, y’all.
And now. . . back to “real” life. I know this update was more of a simple play by play than what I normally write, and it feels like just a recap, but to be honest for all the fun times and wonderful things seen, February was a really hard month for me. Being that far from friends, loved ones, cats, NYC bagels, etc really takes its toll. I’m not sure I’m quite over it yet as I’m still experiencing a bit of culture shock from being home and readjusting to the normal pace of life, but I’m getting there and I’m really looking forward to all the new projects that are starting to come to life. Until next moth everyone.
Love and hugs,
Michael
{JESUS MICHAEL!!!! i love you, and i hope your'e getting some good rest-soul time after that insane oz tour. what you do is hard. you deserve a damn break, man. love, -afp}
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from alex:
hello my friends, just a very quick missive this month, as it has been a very unremarkable month in UK AFP merchland...... it's pretty much just been packing up online orders and taking them to the post office.
i did have a little US holiday, including a trip to vegas which is a really weird place but i unexpectedly loved it lots. but now i am back home in england and it's been wet and stormy and grey and miserable. business as usual. feel free to go and order lots of nice things from the UK store to keep me busy in these grey stormy days :)
-alex
xo
{VEGAS ALEX RIDES AGAIN? i love watching you travel the world, outside the UK things are not like inside the UK!!! enjoy yourself, merch queen - xxx love afp}
also, to anyone out there who's in the FB patron group, alex has decided to step down from the exhausting job of being a moderator over there. he's still going to be posting tons of amanda-related merch, etc, stuff, but his libra nature has led him to cease doing a job that's been driving him slowly crazy. -AFP)
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OTHER ARTISTS TO SUPPORT.....
speaking of patreon being awesome, you should read this article about christine mcconnell.
One day six months ago, Christine McConnell picked up the phone and learned that her Netflix show, The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell, wouldn't be renewed. The production company called with the news, citing an email it had received from Netflix. McConnell had been floating in limbo since her first season wrapped and aired around Halloween last year, unsure if she'd get another chance at streaming stardom.
Curious Creations starred a menagerie of creepy-cute Jim Henson puppets, including an undead raccoon named Rose, who helped McConnell create intricate...
https://www.engadget.com/2019/10/17/christine-mcconnell-spooky-halloween-youtube-patreon-netflix/
then you should think about joining her patreon....i am! and it's pretty great.
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allan amato is kickstarting again....
these are all photos allan has taken of me (and neil. and a kitten).
he has a new kickstarter that's going until march 12th....
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/punchgraphicnovel/punch
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if you're looking for a good NEWS patreon, i've started supporting nafeez ahmed....
he is "creating a journalism framework for inner and outer transformation"....
his writing is fascinating.
join here: https://www.patreon.com/nafeez
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THE "ART BEGETTING ART" DEPT......
here's some gorgeous eye-candy....
from @JustGottaDraw on instagram....
i love this one....@dosomethingcharlie on IG got lyrics from Drowning In The Sound tattooed...
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just some dresden dolls beauty from @rainhadopijama....
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this painting by thomas campi ....eeeeee.....
i stand humbled as usual.
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and, of course. some ash pictures.
he is so beautiful to me.
woodend, australia...
perth....
i love you all.
a lot.
your patronage means everything to me.
your patronage makes my whole life and team possible.
don't you forget it.
feel you soon.
xxxx
AFP
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THE "THERE WILL BE NO INTERMISSION" TOUR.....ROLLS ON!!!!
as always, all info and tickets can be found on our tour page:
Sun. March 8th - MELBOURNE, VIC - Forum - An Evening with Neil and Amanda BUSHFIRE BENEFIT - SOLD OUT
AOTEAROA (NEW ZEALAND)
Thurs. Mar 12 — Fri. Mar 13 - AUCKLAND, NZ - Auckland Arts Festival: Hollywood Avondale (BOTH SHOWS ARE ALMOST SOLD OUT!!!!)
Sat. March 14th - CHRISTCHURCH, NZ - The Piano (STILL PLENTY OF TICKETS!)
Mon. March 16th - WELLINGTON, NZ - St Peters Church, Wellington Fringe (ALMOST SOLD OUT!!!!)
if you're on facebook, you can RSVP to the official event pages, invite your friends, SPREAD WORD!!!!!: http://facebook.com/amandapalmer/events
------THE NEVER-ENDING AS ALWAYS---------
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3. join the official AFP-patron facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/afpland
4. new to my music and TOTALLY OVERWHELMED? TAKE A WALK THROUGH AMANDALANDA….we made a basic list of my greatest hits n stuff on this lovely page: http://amandalanda.amandapalmer.net/
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