london night #2...virtual signing line and love galore. (Patreon)

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hallo loves.

first off: WELCOME TO ALL THE NEW PATRONS. so many of you. HELLO. HI. welcome, welcome. it's nice here.

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also: HEADS UP, i'm going to send a mystery post in a moment asking you for a christmas photo contribution....i have a weekend-surprise-project for you.

greetings from a collapse-me after two epic london nights....holy bananas, that was a marathon, but just so, so wonderful. i apologize if i forgot to announce the pateon photo on night #1, i was stuffing so much bakc into my brain after the long tour break, and i just forgot. we tried to round everybody up....

i feel so exhausted and so grateful. the night one show was far more emotional and sloppy...i forgot bits....i foundered a little as i got my stage-legs back. it was like opening up scars again, like that feeling when you rip up a rug or open a hot oven - the emotional whoosh. oh right....this again.

so night one involved pretty miuch crying through every song, and last night i was a lot more polished - the show was back in my head - and i wasn't as collapse-y (i also managed to keep the show a little tighter, since we went 5 minutes over curferw on night 1 and the venue has been so lovely i did not want to piss them off....)

here's the patron post-show picture from night #1, taken by hayley rosenblum:

and here's night #2, taken by gabrielle motola:

THATS LIKE A THIRD OF THE ENTIRE AUDIENCE....?

i was so astounded at the massive number of patrons at the show last night and i was reminded that it was the first show to go on sale....that would account for it, i guess.

i also just got sent the 4-star review of the first night, from the UK telegraph. it's behind a paywall, but here's the start of it, so i can feel ethical about not copying and pasting the whole thing....

“Welcome to my Christmas show, we’re only going to sing Christmas songs tonight,” announced Amanda Palmer, strumming a ukulele on a church altar next to a large fir tree, and beneath the vaunted arches of London’s imperious Union Chapel. “No, I’m kidding,” she added, to nervous laughter from the pews. “I’m going to talk about death and abortion.”

Which indeed she did. For four hours. Interrupted by the occasional musical interlude. 

This was not a concert for the faint-hearted. “If you thought you were going to see a nice lady play lovely piano songs, you’re allowed to leave, without shame,” she generously announced, after an hour in which she had squeezed in just three songs while telling a sinister, darkly comic story about the circumstances leading to an abortion Palmer underwent while still in school. A handful actually did depart, shuffling nervously to the exits. But most were well-prepared, many having even brought along cushions (as advised on Palmer’s website) to soften the impact of spending a long night perched on wooden pews in a cold church.

Palmer is one of the boldest and most original singer-songwriters of our times, although less well-known than her talent warrants. This is partly because the 43-year-old American is a genuinely independent artist, the reigning queen of internet DIY music, who has effectively crowdfunded her whole career. This has allowed her to develop an idiosyncratic style unadulterated by the usual constraints of the commercial music industry. Palmer has a tendency to vent in music, concocting long songs where honest lyrics combine with extravagant melodies and melodramatic dynamics in a style blending cabaret, goth rock and flamboyant pop.

Hammering at a grand piano as if she might demolish it....

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given everything i've been through in the past week with the UK press, this was a welcomne blessing of a review. 

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and here's a few shots grabbed from instagram....gabrielle has some amazing shots but she hasn't uploaded them yet:

from @elcannings:

from @alexisgebbie:

for those who came....thank you all so much, it was.....incredible.

i love you all a lot.

more when i have a brain back

x

a

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