amandapalmer.net: last-minute berlin show THIS thursday!!! spread it!
Melinda
· 3 months ago
I have to say, and you've said this many times before, but I absolutely LOVE THAT CEILING! I have this interesting star that I wanted to do something similar with. As of now, I'm attempting Van Gogh's Starry Night on my wall >.> I"m pathetic.
i owe you guys £150 for the glorious painting by daniel vanes you auctioned off on saturday. i've managed to get a paypal working but i just wanted to double check the email address to fowards the money to.
hope all goes well in berlin!
chrisdonia
· 3 months ago
People who had shows in the Free Fringe at Edinburgh this year seem to think that the honour system works rather well. Many say that they actually get more in thatn if they sold tickets!
jmv
· 3 months ago
I really wish I could go to the conference but sadly it's exactly the same date as the Tori Amos concert in Amsterdam I got tickets for like years ago. Sometimes two amazing things happening at this same time is obviously not so good after all. Anyway, have a great time in Berlin - I'm pretty sure the donation-thing is goint to work fine: even though Berlin folks can be a little tight with money at times, they appreciate a great performance.
Ceridfran
· 3 months ago
Yaaaaay! :) I'll be at the show, and have already told all my local friends to BE THERE!
Also, I NEED that lamp... sooooo shiiinyyyy...
sonja
· 3 months ago
Juhu, see you in two days. Ick freu mir!
okthought
· 3 months ago
Re-introduce the tradition of pinning banknotes to a singer's dress? I've even slipped an envelope containing $100 to a performer who I knew had medical expenses to meet.
JustinFL
· 3 months ago
Jill Sobule at the conference? Sweet. Please give that saucy little minx a big fat kiss for me. Sadly, I haven't enough goats to get to Berlin in time for the show. Rotten!
Beele
· 3 months ago
Looking forward to the gig, trying to find goat. In case you need a place to crash, I've got a spare bedroom not far from where you're playing.
tanja
· 3 months ago
please let my sister and me play as your support act in berlin sometime. we wear black pants with period blood on it(ok, it's fake) and think that leg hair gives us power. please have a look and a listen: http://www.myspace.com/jollygoods wir freuen uns sehr auf deine show! bis morgen abend!! liebe bloody gruesse geil, tanja
CiCee
· 3 months ago
When you see Melvyn Benn ask him when he's gonna book you for Reading Festival! It would be great to have someone I actually want to see on for a change!
Diana
· 3 months ago
Terry Moore (@TerryMoore) posted the drawing he made of you at the Comic-Con! I think it's just gourgeous: http://twitpic.com/hy6ha
marc_berlin
· 3 months ago
Ahhhhhhhhhh........you´ve been to Berlin yesterday and I just recognize it now! Life is cruel! Please come back soon so I get another chance.
Name
· 3 months ago
Thank you , thank you so much for that beautiful concert. It´s been one of the best concerts i´ve ever been to. Thank you also to Neil for posting it on his journal.( otherwise i would´ve never known) and for the story-reading. You are truly gifted Amanda. Please come back to Berlin soon. Take care and have lots of fun - Michaela
blackbettydarling
· 3 months ago
if your ever in Hawaii, Oahu preferably. play a show , i would love to hear you live. Just a thought and a wish.
MariahCarey
· 3 months ago
ok. Amanda I'm clicking the 'leave a tip' icon (in google chrome).... obviously cos I'd like to leave you some of my pathetic change.... and it's not working. Am I being retarded? Is there a technical team I should be sending this to? Can't we send you money since those crazy (but lovely) Australians stopped dancing for you?
And have you ever listened to Bear McCreary's Piano take on 'All Along The Watchtower'? It's in Battlestar Galactica, and the character Kara Thrace performs it. It sounds ridiculous I know, but it's very DDs. Just a thought.
Love you bastard.
JJ xx
Derek
· 3 months ago
Amanda I bought the DVD from your webcast on Partyontheinternet, and I was wondering how long it was going to take to recieve it. My address was a P.O. box do you know if Beth has already sent them out?
tom
· 3 months ago
Wonderful concert & music. Please come back!
Sheling
· 3 months ago
F. For fuck. There, I've finally done it: I've finally turned into some weird celebrity stalker - broken the audience's own "4th wall". I totally blame you - I woke up today with "Dear Jenny" in my head and knew things were just going to go downhill from there.
Only it kinda didn't; cheerfully enough, a close friend dropped off a gorgeous copy of Niel's "Anansi's Boys" for me (what's REALLY weird is that my 4-year-old has been singing this song he learned at school all day "Anansi, yeah, he plays with one drum *bang*, one drum *bang" etc) and then made an utterly weird joke about coin operated boys. Have to say, it's weird to have so many AFP references out of the blue like that. And thus here I am..
The world isn't meant to be made of coincidence and yet, somehow, I'm still singing Dear Jenny, Euan's still singing about Anansi and I'm writing on your blog before turning in to dig into your beau's book. Life is pretty groovy.
And, actually, this is all irrelevant to what I actually wanted to say - things seem to have been quiet in AFP-Land. What's up? Your silent masses are starving.
Say "Hi" and "Thanks" to Niel for me, and fit a quick blast of Jenny in for a random fan next time you sit at a piano. Cheers x
markmasztal
· 2 months ago
Hello Dear Amanda, I received word that you are coming to Northampton MA, USA in November. Fantastic! It will be a delight to see you perform. Will Neil be joining you? Neil has comic book ties to Noho and we were wondering if he would be stopping over with you. I could notify Neil's Vermont amigo Steve Bissette and maybe plan a get together
Jon Hanna
· 2 months ago
Popkomm hardly makes a watertight argument.
Sales of cars and luxury electronics are seriously down in most countries. Are people downloading those too?
Sheling
· 2 months ago
Strictly speaking, in times of recession, sales of small "pleasure" items should increase: people will replace something big with something smaller and less expensive. Thus, instead of a gig, they will typically buy a CD (for example). It is this very trend that is watched to indicate when spending is on the increase.
Though your mustache is genius, your facile rejoinder reveals how badly you understand marketing trends of economic recession.
Jon Hanna
· 2 months ago
But measuring that by how many industry people decide to spend money attending a particular event doesn't track that closely enough to demonstrate anything.
A better example than the one I first gave may be the people I know who produce artistic or handcraft items who are choosing not to spend money attending a large annual national fair for such items, or at least considering not going, and the strong drop in sales they saw. Many of their items are equivalent in price to a CD (though those with more expensive items did see a larger drop). Drops and rises are both reported through other vendors, but big events aren't worth it according to quite a few such people.
Also, people in just about all industries are reducing spending on things they deem non-essential, and they may well view attendance at such events to be an example of this.
If I were to guess, I would say that small-payment sales were probably indeed damaging CD sales, for precisely the reason you gave (don't buy a CD on the promise of a song you heard and liked, just buy that song).
But that's a guess. I don't have anything to demonstrate this (the novelty of such markets makes their figures hard to judge in this regard; we would expect them to be going up in just about any economic situation). I have neither something to show that Gorny's industry is merely reflecting the current economic situation, nor to show that it isn't. My point is that Gornyhasn't given us anything to demonstrate this, either.
Sheling
· 2 months ago
Those are better points for sure! It could well be that these cut backs are effecting international travel that won't result in either immediate sales or promotion. As with many industries, the upturn will start on the high street, with consumer's pocket change kick-starting the improvement. Here (in the UK) there are rumours of that beginning but, frankly, I think that's the media laying the groundwork for the Christmas Hype which normally starts at the end of this month. I think I was too smart-mouthed in dismissing you (sorry) - the article raised good points but, as you pointed out, they aren't supported by anything beyond general assumptions taken from the economy as a whole.
As for me, I -like- owning CD's (especially silly as 95% of my collection is now on my PC) - much like books, I like the look and feel of CD's, that tremor of excitement you get when you buy a new one and slip out the paper insert to have a really good explore. I like reading the credits (always surprising to see who did what - you discover collaborations you'd never expect), eyeing the pictures and just plain -having- something to cast my eye over when I'm wondering what to listen to today.
The e-business just doesn't satisfy my senses: it's a crappy reason to hope that CD sales pick up, but it's a reason nonetheless.
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i owe you guys £150 for the glorious painting by daniel vanes you auctioned off on saturday. i've managed to get a paypal working but i just wanted to double check the email address to fowards the money to.
hope all goes well in berlin!
Anyway, have a great time in Berlin - I'm pretty sure the donation-thing is goint to work fine: even though Berlin folks can be a little tight with money at times, they appreciate a great performance.
Also, I NEED that lamp... sooooo shiiinyyyy...
see you in two days.
Ick freu mir!
In case you need a place to crash, I've got a spare bedroom not far from where you're playing.
You are truly gifted Amanda. Please come back to Berlin soon.
Take care and have lots of fun - Michaela
And have you ever listened to Bear McCreary's Piano take on 'All Along The Watchtower'? It's in Battlestar Galactica, and the character Kara Thrace performs it. It sounds ridiculous I know, but it's very DDs. Just a thought.
Love you bastard.
JJ
xx
Only it kinda didn't; cheerfully enough, a close friend dropped off a gorgeous copy of Niel's "Anansi's Boys" for me (what's REALLY weird is that my 4-year-old has been singing this song he learned at school all day "Anansi, yeah, he plays with one drum *bang*, one drum *bang" etc) and then made an utterly weird joke about coin operated boys. Have to say, it's weird to have so many AFP references out of the blue like that. And thus here I am..
The world isn't meant to be made of coincidence and yet, somehow, I'm still singing Dear Jenny, Euan's still singing about Anansi and I'm writing on your blog before turning in to dig into your beau's book. Life is pretty groovy.
And, actually, this is all irrelevant to what I actually wanted to say - things seem to have been quiet in AFP-Land. What's up? Your silent masses are starving.
Say "Hi" and "Thanks" to Niel for me, and fit a quick blast of Jenny in for a random fan next time you sit at a piano. Cheers x
I received word that you are coming to Northampton MA, USA in November. Fantastic! It will be a delight to see you perform. Will Neil be joining you? Neil has comic book ties to Noho and we were wondering if he would be stopping over with you. I could notify Neil's Vermont amigo Steve Bissette and maybe plan a get together
Sales of cars and luxury electronics are seriously down in most countries. Are people downloading those too?
Though your mustache is genius, your facile rejoinder reveals how badly you understand marketing trends of economic recession.
A better example than the one I first gave may be the people I know who produce artistic or handcraft items who are choosing not to spend money attending a large annual national fair for such items, or at least considering not going, and the strong drop in sales they saw. Many of their items are equivalent in price to a CD (though those with more expensive items did see a larger drop). Drops and rises are both reported through other vendors, but big events aren't worth it according to quite a few such people.
Also, people in just about all industries are reducing spending on things they deem non-essential, and they may well view attendance at such events to be an example of this.
If I were to guess, I would say that small-payment sales were probably indeed damaging CD sales, for precisely the reason you gave (don't buy a CD on the promise of a song you heard and liked, just buy that song).
But that's a guess. I don't have anything to demonstrate this (the novelty of such markets makes their figures hard to judge in this regard; we would expect them to be going up in just about any economic situation). I have neither something to show that Gorny's industry is merely reflecting the current economic situation, nor to show that it isn't. My point is that Gornyhasn't given us anything to demonstrate this, either.
As for me, I -like- owning CD's (especially silly as 95% of my collection is now on my PC) - much like books, I like the look and feel of CD's, that tremor of excitement you get when you buy a new one and slip out the paper insert to have a really good explore. I like reading the credits (always surprising to see who did what - you discover collaborations you'd never expect), eyeing the pictures and just plain -having- something to cast my eye over when I'm wondering what to listen to today.
The e-business just doesn't satisfy my senses: it's a crappy reason to hope that CD sales pick up, but it's a reason nonetheless.