Amanda Palmer "Want It Back" Video + International Fall Tour Dates!

International Tour Dates Kick Off September 10
 in Support of New Album, Theatre is Evil, Out September 11
General Public Tickets Go on Sale Friday, July 13.

Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft Orchestra unleashed the new “Want It Back” music video today, offering another taste from her new album, Theatre is Evil, to be released on Palmer’s own 8ft. records on September 11. 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. The video continues a strong visual art theme, incorporating her naked body as a canvas for hand-painted lyrics to unfold across the screen.

Body politics, and body pride, have always been a strong theme for Amanda: “I'm so comfortable being naked at this point that I almost forget… I'm also proud that that video has nudity, but it isn’t sexual or erotic.... it's using the body as a raw canvas, which I love.” Although a “censored version” of the video will be made available online, Palmer hopes the video will be widely seen in it’s original form, despite some nudity.

Palmer is excited to release such a stunning piece of art for her first video. "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!"

“Jim Batt is a visionary film artist, and I hope this video shines some light on the art-talent that's hiding out in Melbourne,” says Palmer. “That city is harboring some of the best creative minds in the world."
 
US Dates
9/10: Philadelphia, PA @ Theatre Of Living Arts
9/11: New York, NY @ Webster Hall
9/12: Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
9/14: Carrboro, NC @ Cat's Cradle
9/15: Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse
9/17: New Orleans, LA @ Tipitina's Uptown
9/18: Houston, TX @ Fitzgerald's Upstairs
9/19: Austin, TX @ Stubbs (Outside)
9/21: Denver, CO @ Gothic Theatre
9/22: Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom
9/24: San Diego, CA @ House Of Blues
9/25: Los Angeles, CA @ The Music Box /The Fonda Theater
9/26: San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore
9/28: Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom
9/29: Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom
9/30: Seattle, WA @ Neptune Ballroom
10/03: Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue

UK and European Dates
10/23: London @ Koko
10/24: Manchester @ Cathedral
10/25: Glasgow @ Oran Mor
10/27: Amsterdam @ Melkweg
10/28: Berlin @ Festsaal Kreuzberg
10/29: Prague @ Palac Akropolis
10/30: Zurich @ Abart
11/01: Antwerp @ Trix Club
11/02: Paris @ La Maroquinerie
11/03: Cologne @ Gebaude 9
11/05: Vienna @ Arena

More US Dates
11/09: Toronto, ON @ Phoenix Theatre
11/10: Chicago, IL @ Metro
11/11: Milwaukee, WI @ Turner Hall
11/13: Detroit, MI @ St. Andrews Hall
11/15: Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club
11/16: Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club
11/17: Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club