LONDON secret patron-only show will STREAM for patrons...& goth party in upstate NY (Patreon)

HEY LOVES - 

the london dresden dolls tickets are selling out AS WE SPEAK - good luck with getting tickets. the original pre-sale allotment was about half the tickets (about 1500 per night) and you BLEW THEM OUT OF THE WATER. we just got the venue to give us even MORE tickets for pre-sale at 5pm BST more tickets will be available. i'll let you know how the sales go....i'm so excited for those shows i can't tell you. the pre-sale link is below, it was sent out to the AFP mailer and dolls mailer this morning: https://www.axs.com/uk/series/6411/the-dresden-dolls-artist-presale-tickets?skin=goldenvoiceuk

you're welcome.

now....

a few things.

i'm on an off/admin day in london. catching up on emails, mainlining coffees, working on my public theater script, playing in the sun with ash and doing the round of swings, slide, swings and slide again and again, sending notes to a friend about her book, incubating some song lyrics, trying not to take the broken trauma of the universe personally. this is an off day. yes.

my back is better! i'm getting myself a massage today and hauling myself into a pilates class. i'm not gonna be able to make it through 2019 if i don't up my back game. twisting at that fucking piano is a right pain in the ass, and i'm only really starting to understand how different it physically is to play a piano-piano instead of a keyboard. i don't know if you've really clocked it (i've barely clocked it) but i've been a KEYBOARD player for about 20 years and i'm turning into a GRAND PIANO player. my solo shows are now going to be keyboard free. i finally drank the ben folds kool-aid on that one (he won't touch a keyboard in any circumstances). funny enough: the dresden dolls literally can't function with a piano-piano (brian and i can't see each other - we've tried it tons of times) and i sort of carried those habits over into my solo era. it's time. but it has changed the whole physical shape of my torso and limbs on stage and i have to learn how to cope with a new stage-body.

look at that posture.

look at this twisty woman. and pregnant no less (this is from about 3 years ago.

always learning.

SPEAKING OF LONDON:

the two secret patron parties (this monday may 21st and tuesday may 22nd) are upon us!
both shows sold out quickly, but we allowed refunds up until a week before the show so there is now ONE single ticket remaining for tuesday's show, jump on it, HERE with the password: AllTheThings 

and a LOT of you asked that they be streamed, so....

WE ARE STREAMING NIGHT #2!!!!!!!!

the show starts at 7pm BST local london time. find out what this time is in your timezone here.

i'll post the streaming link to watch here on patreon RIGHT BEFORE THE SHOW STARTS, so be watching email!

here's more about the special guests to get you excited...

andrew o’neill will be the evening's emcee ....

"Andrew O'Neill is an award-winning stand-up comedian, musician and writer. His distinctive voice and alternative credentials have set him apart and allowed him to carve out a unique place in the comedy world."

mercury & maxim

Mercury & Maxim present ‘Queerstory: The Music Hall’
Queerstory is a musical cabaret about the history of queer culture and queer identity. From the coded languages of forbidden desire to the modern fight for equality in gender identity, Queerstory sees international cabaret artiste Mercury and musical academic Maxim Melton collaborate to ask the question - What does it mean to be queer? 

Think polari patter songs, vintage protest anthems, and a rather thorough examination of the hanky code...


laura kidd (she makes war)

She Makes War is the solo project of multi-instrumentalist producer and visual artist Laura Kidd, based in Bristol, UK. She's released three albums, several EPs and tons of music videos independently with freshly crowdfunded LP "Brace For Impact" due out in September. Visit http://www.shemakeswar.com to pledge on the new record, nab some freebies and admire her gorgeous dogs.

meth

Meth has stormed the UK scene in a relentless revolutionary charge of strange and seductive extravagance. 

The mistress of internationally acclaimed Drag show The Meth Lab and  self proclaimed female-surrealist; Meth has quickly earned an infamous  reputation around the world for her bizarre and beautiful spin on Drag.

A member of the queer performance collective The Familyyy Fierce and a star of the London Live's Docu-Soap series Drag Queens of London, Meth is turning out an army of addicted  lil’ Meth Heads who are screaming for more and more and more...

Remember kids: Drugs are bad... 
Don’t do drugs, do Meth.

.................

aaaaand if all goes well there will be a few SURPRISES.

TUNE IN!

................

ALSO.....leaving london for a moment and waving over to new york:

WOODSTOCK GOTH THROWDOWN!

ash's, ahem, assistant is justine & a lot of you have met her at shows and in life and whatnot. she's an anarchist vegan french goth who has an even harder time than i do being stuck in the woods of upstate new york...AND we're going to be stuck in the woods when her birthday happens (june 23rd) ....

(justine & ash in paris/ photo by quentin caffier at studio five monkeys)

.....and i figured the best thing i could do for her birthday was to throw her a goddamn goth dance party. so i am. we just need dancing goth people at the party - that's where you come in.

there will be a dj and at least one band from NYC. and i’ll also hop on stage and play some cure or depeche mode covers while wearing a black veil or something. 

this place is TINY and i made the show super super cheap....tickets will disappear. don't come if you can't handle the goth vibe. we might even get a fog machine. it's gonna be like that.

details:

COLONY
woodstock, ny
june 23rd
8:00 PM 

https://www.ticketfly.com/event/1698458

LOVE

AFP


p.s. if you want a little heart bump, here’s some teenage girls in rock camp rehearsing “in my mind”

https://vimeo.com/269376389

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

1. if you’re a patron, please click through to comment on this post. at the very least, if you’ve read it, indicate that by using the heart symbol.

2. see All the Things i've made so far on patreon: http://amandapalmer.net/patreon-things

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/

5. general AFP/patreon-related questions? ask away, someone will answer: patronhelp@amandapalmer.net