Amanda Palmer Announces US Tour Dates, Tells Fans To Give Her Money

Amanda Palmer has announced some US tour dates this November, she also has some word for her fans regarding money. In a recent blog post she writes about making money in the current state of music and how she wants to get paid. In the blog post she tells her fans how she wants to get paid she says:

artists will now be coming straight to you (yes YOU, you who want their music, their films, their books) for their paychecks.
please welcome them. please help them. please do not make them feel badly about asking you directly for money.
dead serious: this is the way shit is going to work from now on and it will work best if we all embrace it and don’t fight it.

She also adds an anecdote from before she became a recording artist:

i am shameless, and fearless, when it comes to money and art.

i can’t help it: i come from a street performance background.
i stood almost motionless on a box in harvard square, painted white, relinquishing my fate and income to the goodwill and honor of the passers-by.

i spent years gradually building up a tolerance to the inbuilt shame that society puts on laying your hat/tipjar on the ground and asking the public to support your art.

i was harassed, jeered at, mocked, ignored, insulted, spit at, hated.
i was also applauded, appreciated, protected, loved….all by strangers passing me in the street.
people threw shit at me.
people also came up to me and told me that i’d changed their lives, brightened their day, made them cry.

some people used to yell “GET A FUCKING JOB” from their cars when they drove by me.
i, of course, could not yell back. i was a fucking statue, statues do not yell.

She also talks about how she still struggles to pay the bills:

for the last 10 years, i have been working my ass off in a different way: tirelessly making music, traveling the world, connecting with people, trying to keep my balance, almost never taking a break and, frankly, not making a fortune doing it. i still struggle to pay my rent sometimes. i’m still more or less in debt from my last record. i’ll lay it all out for you in another blog. it’s just math.

if you think i’m going to pass up a chance to put my hat back down in front of the collected audience on my virtual sidewalk and ask them to give their hard-earned money directly to me instead of to roadrunner records, warner music group, ticketmaster, and everyone else out there who’s been shamelessly raping both fan and artist for years, you’re crazy.

For the rest of the post you can go here. Her new tour dates in November can be seen below.

Amanda Palmer November Tour Dates:
11/11 South Burlington, VT - Higher Ground
11/12 Portland, ME - Port City Music Hall
11/13 Northampton, MA - Pearl Street
11/14 Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall Of Williamsburg
11/18 Philadelphia, PA - Theatre Of Living Arts
11/19 Falls Church, VA - State Theatre
11/20 Carrboro, NC - Carrboro Arts Center
11/22 Knoxville, TN - Bijou Theatre

Amanda Palmer - What's The Use of Wond'rin? feat. Annie Clark [zshare]
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