Who the fuck is Amanda Palmer?
One half of Brechtian punk-cabaret band The Dresden Dolls, Amanda’s recently been touring her solo album “Who Killed Amanda Palmer” (produced by Ben Folds). She’s a prolific blogger and twitterer and she’s about to release a coffee table book of photographs to accompany her album, the text for which has been written by none other than Neil Gaiman, who also crops up now and again on stage with her and reads prose pieces in between songs. The world is crowded with very good musicians who have nothing to say and people who do have something to say but lack the talent to back it up. Amanda Palmer is the best of both worlds; brave, outspoken and talented… A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY… “Palmer grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts. She attended Lexington High School, where she was heavily involved in the drama department, and received her B.A. from Wesleyan University. She worked for some time at an ice cream shop in Cambridge, Massachusetts called Toscanini’s. She staged performances based on work by th
