Amanda Palmer Announces 'Theatre Is Evil' Release Date & Autumn UK Tour
Tuesday, 10 July 2012
Written by Elliott Batte
Singer, songwriter, pianist, and blogger Amanda Palmer is preparing to release her first studio album in four years - ‘Theatre Is Evil’ - on September 10th. This is the first release with her new band The Grand Theft Orchestra, and will be preceded by the single ‘Want it Back’ on September 3rd, and followed by a tour in Autumn.
Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft Orchestra unleashed the new ‘Want It Back’ music video today, offering another taste from the new album. The video is a stop-motion animated video created with Australian director Jim Batt, and shot in Melbourne when Palmer and her band were recording the new album this past spring. You can check it out below.
"I've never made a video with such a small, concentrated art-crew, and it was magic,” she notes. “For three days straight it was just me, Jim, the tattoo-graffiti artist Curran James, and a painstaking process as we created the video, shot by shot by shot.” Jim Batt explains, “"Hand crafting a film frame-by-frame is always an intense experience, even more so when you're using someone's body as a canvas, but there's something magical about stopmotion that you can't capture any other way. I'm still impressed that we managed to get Amanda to sit still for that long, she was a champion!"
Following their sold out rock show at London’s Village Underground in June, Palmer and The Grand Theft Orchestra will embark on a full European tour this autumn, which will kick off with three shows in the UK. Tickets for this tour (as well as US dates starting on Sept 10th) go on general sale on Friday July 13th at 9am priced at £14 & £16.50 (subject to booking fee) and are available from Stereoboard - just check below.
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