another school wedding & a royal shooting (Patreon)

hello my loves.

i'm still recovering from brighton :)

and last night i went out dancing for the first time in ages (to this incredibly fun/wet/theatrical/dorky/dancey wonderful immersive version of bladerunner done up by the folks in secret cinema who i've known forever) and felt my body come alive. neil stayed home with ash and this morning i woke up and was confronted with the royal wedding (the brits are going nuts) as a strangely formal and surreal backdrop against which to read the harrowing news of more dead kids in america. shot dead en masse, again, by guns. 

i read the news with tears in my eyes and a few minutes later tuned into the royal wedding, which i sort of expected to just depress me.

but then by some bizarre turn of fate i tuned in JUST as michael curry, a black preacher, fucking THREW DOWN some seriously non-british-style compassion ALL-ONE business...and i was brought to tears even further. it's funny how things connect sometime. 

and for good measure:

history IS NOW, my friends....

it's now. 

i can only hope the light keeps fighting back the dark.

it's all so much.

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

speaking of the dark vs the light

i have a we-are-the-media favor to ask of you.

as threatened, i'm dropping a new song this week - on wednesday - called "Mr. Weinstein Will See You Now." it's a really powerful track. i don't know quite what it is. an anthem? a mini-opera? it's...really something.

as with many of these out-of-fucking-nowhere collaborations/patreon-driven songs, i am not doing a formal press release.

it will live the life it lives and reach the people it reaches outside of this patreon-cave because people share it (because it resonates) or don't share it (because it doesn't, or because people are too frightened to share it for weird reasons, which happens).

BUT

in this case i'd really like to send some advance warning to allies in the media. they don't need to be "feminist" media, just REAL journalists/websites/etc who will care about the existence of this track and give it the correct treatment. if you're friends with any of them (or you ARE any of them, as i know some of you are) and you want an advance listen to the track and look at the artwork, drop me a line in comments below with your outlet and email or send a message to management@amandapalmer.net and i/jordan/hayley will get on it. 

i'm playing norwich festival tomorrow and then i'll be back to london and then dublin: let journalist people know that i'm available for press to talk about the song. 

ALSO; any of you lucky ones coming to the secret LONDON patron-only shows on monday and tuesday will get a listen - i'll play it for you over the system (it doesn't work as a live track at the moment - i have no jasmine to duet with). AND DON'T FORGET WE ARE STREAMING THE SHOW just for patrons....on tuesday night at around 7 pm london time. prepare popcorn. i'll email the streaming info right before we go live. it's looking good. not sure the stream can or will include the song, the audio might not work, but we'll see.

i can't wait to share it with you. again, it all happened because of the beauty and bounty of the patreon. from thin air, came art.

we are the media, my loves.

ALSO: REMINDER THAT DRESDEN DOLLS TICKETS GO ONSALE TO THE PUBLIC MONDAY MORNING AT 10 AM BST!!! link:  

http://www.axs.com/dresdendolls

more soon.

xxx

aFP

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