2010 Show Amanda Palmer -The voice of 'The Dresden Dolls'- with support by Mikelangelo Monday 8th March Bangalow A & I Hall Doors 7pm / Show 8pm Tix: $33 (+BF) / $40 at door Tix available from: Mullum Books, Barebones Bangalow, All Music & Vison Stores (Byron, Lismore, Ballina) & www.kupromotions.oztix.com.au  This is an 18+ event To hear some of Amanda's music please visit: www.myspace.com/afp www.amandapalmer.net

Much-loved and lauded performer Amanda Palmer is returning to Australia in February and March to wow fans in Melbourne, Adelaide, Sydney, Byron Bay and Brisbane.  A musician, artist, writer and political activist all rolled into one, Amanda is a favourite with Aussie audiences with her creative, boundary-pushing shows selling out time and time again.  Make sure you see her at her finest in 2010.

Amanda Palmer can’t remember a time when she DIDN’T imagine being an artist, performer, and provocateur. Growing up in bucolic Lexington, Massachusetts, little Amanda spent her Saturdays dreaming up imaginary street fairs, great kaleidoscopes bursting with colour and sound and people swirling around her. But as anyone who’s ever seen or heard Palmer – whether raising eyebrows and attracting onlookers as The Eight Foot Bride living statue in Cambridge’s Harvard Square, delivering dramatically direct, wildly theatrical performances as one half of the cabaret-punk duo The Dresden Dolls, or, most recently, as a solo artist whose uncompromising vision has frequently made her a flashpoint for both admiration and controversy – will attest to the fact that being a musician and rock star is not merely a job, and never has been.

Instead, Palmer IS her art. And, in turn, her art is an extension of who she is, and is always becoming: a voracious seeker of creative catharsis and emotional release, a bold participant in games of truth or dare (she always opts for both) on a life-sized stage, and, above all, an utterly un-categorize-able work-in-progress. She’s a fearless singer and songwriter, of course, and an audaciously expressive pianist who simultaneously embraces – and explodes – traditional frameworks of composition.

She’s collaborated with indie pop pianist Ben Folds (who produced her most recent solo work “Who Killed Amanda Palmer”) and teamed with acclaimed author Neil Gaiman for a storybook of photography that beautifully expands the conceptual and narrative ideas outlined in her ambitious solo album. She created an ambitious 12-video DVD project to match each song of the record with filmmaker Michael Pope, and continues to post so-called "Karaoke Verité" lip-dub videos of other musicians' work on YouTube. She helped conceive and co-write an adventurous theatrical work, “The Onion Cellar" with the American Repertory Theater and played front-woman at Symphony Hall with the legendary Boston Pops.

Don’t miss out on a truly intensifying night!!!!