Wed
Sep
12
Amanda Palmer and The Grand Theft Orchestra
The Simple Pleasure, Jherek Bischoff, Ronald Reagan

Amanda Palmer is a performer, director, blogger and musician who founded the internationally acclaimed punk cabaret band The Dresden Dolls. In 2008, Amanda released her debut solo album, Who Killed Amanda Palmer, produced by Ben Folds and accompanied by a fine art photography book featuring text by esteemed author Neil Gaiman (who Palmer has since married). Amanda also tends a widely-read blog and twitter-feed and was dubbed “The Social Media Queen of Rock-N-Roll” by The Huffington Post. Amanda will release a new album in September 2012 with her new band, The Grand Theft Orchestra, followed by extensive touring the U.S., Europe and Australia. She will also present a fan-funded Pop-Up Art tour in 6 cities this summer in conjunction with the new album, taking the concept of crowd-sourcing to an entirely new level.
Composer/Musician/Producer currently living in Seattle Washington.
Composer-
Currently working on an orchestral record of original compositions including collaborations with David Byrne, Caetano Veloso, Craig Wedren, Carla Bozulich, Soko, Greg Saunier, Nels Cline, Mirah, Zac Pennington, Dawn McCarthy.
Musician-
Founding member of The Dead Science.
Only member of Ribbons.
Played with Xiu Xiu, Parenthetical Girls, Casiotone For The Painfully Alone, Soko, Evangelista, Former Ghosts, Degenerate Art Ensemble, Jason Webley, Led To Sea, Yellow Swans, Craig Wedren and many more.
Producer-
The Dead Science, Parenthetical Girls, Casiotone For The Painfully Alone, Jason Webley, People Get Ready, Led To Sea, Total Noise, Sleuth, Richard Webb, Lullabies For Falling Empires, Ribbons.
Session Work-
Los Campesinos, Soko, Octopus Project, The Holy Ghost Revival.
Music For Dance-
Degenerate Art Ensemble, People Get Ready, Dead Bird Movement, Allie Hankins
“Ronald Reagan” aims to revitalize America’s economy by promoting large tax cuts, moderate deregulation, reductions in inflation, and a revival of 80’s pop music. Following undistinguished careers in film, actors-turned-saxophonists Kelly Roberge and Alec Spiegelman recruited an ensemble of Boston’s finest rock musicians to the 13-piece ensemble that they named “Ronald Reagan”. However, only a sho...
rt time into the bands existence, the sidemen went on strike, violating a band regulation prohibiting critical players from striking. Declaring the situation an emergency, analogous to those described in the 1947 Taft Hartley Act, “Ronald Reagan” held a press conference in which Kelly and Alec stated that if the musicians “did not return to work within forty-eight hours, they have forfeited their jobs, and will be terminated.” Two days later, “Ronald Reagan” fired the 11 striking musicians who had ignored the order to return to work. Historians cite this as one of the biggest setbacks to the power of organized labor in 80’s pop cover band history. “Ronald Reagan” currently performs as a saxophone duo, and is currently seeking Boston’s finest (non-union) musicians to complete the band in anticipation of a 2014 tour to Grenada.
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Futurebirds
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