As the mouthpiece for Brechtian pop duo the Dresden Dolls, Amanda Palmer epitomized the idea of the everyman artist: the group’s rabble-friendly antics incorporated everything from acrobatics and pantomime to avant-garde performance art and cabaret. Since the duo went on indefinite hiatus in 2007, Palmer has had no shortage of co-conspirators: her solo debut, Who Killed Amanda Palmer, was produced by Ben Folds; her recent stage adaptation of Neutral Milk Hotel’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea is being buzzed all over the Internet; and a book project with bestselling novelist Neil Gaiman is just weeks from release. (Check them out at Housing Works later this month.)
That’s not to say Palmer is without any enemies. At odds with Roadrunner Records over the supposed “unmarketability” of her album, she’s made a series of very public demands to be dropped. Here, Palmer sets the record straight on whether the Dresden Dolls will return, and reveals exclusively to Flavorpill what went down the last time she met her label’s boss for dinner.
