Amanda Palmer
Sun 8 Mar 2009
Fully Flying Solo
In a blog post today, Amanda Palmer announced that she will not be bringing her band The Danger Ensemble to New Zealand. On her popular blog titled Amanda Fucking Palmer she wrote, “we’ve all been through hell and back and we’ve performed ourselves raw and we’ve reached the end… and we are performing our last show together tonight in Perth… after tonight, everyone is getting on planes headed to different corners of the globe tomorrow.”
In the post she also expresses her love for all four members of the ensemble and is deeply saddened by the split. She calls them her “family” and says “what these guys do, and are going into the world to do now without me - it is way beyond theater. It is a pure manifestation of wanting to change the world into love through performance. Please, please, don’t stop watching.”
The separation also comes after recent news of her split with fellow Dresden Doll Brian Viglione (you can read a wee bit more about that here), which Palmer blogged about several months ago.
Amanda Palmer has two shows in New Zealand; in Auckland on March 10 and in Wellington on March 12. Local band Battle Circus will be playing support at both shows. The band has previously supported Amanda Palmer on a tour throughout Germany in October last year.
Amanda Palmer- Leeds United: MP3
Posted by Nick Fulton under U.S.A
June 10th, 2009 at 7:39 am
oh dear…That’s such a pity…I do so adore Miss Palmer, such an inspiration to free spiritism and bohemian ideals and all that. The danger ensemble are such fantastic artists, and it’s a shame they are through, but I don’t believe she was ever actually a member of the ensemble, she just toured with them.
June 11th, 2009 at 1:32 am
the danger ensemble aren’t a band, they are an acting & performing troupe from perth and varios other parts of Aus.
they toured with afp for the Australian tour & a few other places i think, so please get facts right before you post :]
oh, and the dresden dolls havn;t ’split’, Amanda said that one day they would write music together again, but now it is just time to fly solo & rekindle her love for art, writing, the piano & experiment with other artists.