As many of You know Amanda Palmer put a stunningly beautiful album out this month. It’s called “Theatre Is Evil” (GET. IT. HERE. http://www.amandapalmer.net/shop/ ). I have adored Amanda ever since I heard “Yes, Virginia”. It’s been a while since then and I am telling you: THIS album is untouchable. You have to hear it (and if you read the above link carefully you’ll see there is no excuse for not having it.)
And so I am sorry, but I simply have to share the joy and pride I felt after reading a recent muzyka.wp.pl interview with Amanda (link). […and forgive me if it sounds a bit out of character – I re-translate this back into English, so, yeah.]
You played with Gaba Kulka i Prague. How did that happen?
Amanda: I’m a big fan of hers. She sent me some of her work and I thought she was an amazing artist. I loved her album “Hat, Rabbit”. I was obsessed with that record, I listened to it for the following two or three weeks. I fell in love with Gaba’s voice. We got in touch and tried to figure out how to play a couple of shows together. When I knew I was coming to Prague I wrote to her that we won’t make it to Poland, but maybe she’d like to come to the Czech republic. We’re mostly in touch through Twitter. I’m a big fan.
Can I just say… ROCK! \m/ -_- \m/ ?
In other, a bit less egocentric news:
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- The Saintbox will play Rzeszów on October 14th. Check out the live page for details, and here’s a facebook event. (As you know, this Sunday September 23rd. we’re in Kielce, Sept 28th in Poznan and Sept 29th in Bytow)
- September the 30th – I’d like to remind you of the charity concert at Fabryka Trzciny in Warsaw
– all proceeds are going to the Warsaw children’s hospital. We’re
playing for free and we’re really looking forward to it – here are the
details http://www.wielcyimali.pl/ . We have a guest in the trio – Hubert Zemler, known to you from the Saintbox gigs, will join us on drums. - Varsovians!
Please note the date October 9th – I won’t tell you much just yet, but
be prepared to be dragged around town by a very nice group of artists
for a very good cause. Details soon! - Don’t forget about our trip to the Ukraine in October (with Baaba)