Amanda Palmer Stripped Naked for Daily Mail (Video), Coming to Auckland in September, Inspires Husband Neil Gaiman’s New Novel
Amanda Palmer and the Grand Theft Orchestra will perform at Wellington's San Francisco Bath house on September 4 and Auckland's Kings Arms on September 6, Stuff.co NZ reports.
Auckland fans were more than impressed by Amanda Palmer as she stripped naked in an answer to Daily Mail's tasteless coverage of her nipple slip in a concert in Glastonbury, June 2013 choosing to dwell on the 'accident' rather praising for her professional attitude to go on with the show even with the incident.
During her performance at London's Roundhouse on Friday Night, Amanda wrote a song particularly dedicated to the newspaper.
Before singing the song, Amanda told fans to film her performance and to specifically upload the clip to YouTube.
In the lyrics, Amanda called the newspaper "misogynist pile of twats" and accused the newspaper for "debasing women's appearances."
At one part of the song where she sings:
"In addition you state that my breast had escaped; from my bra like a thief on the run...
It appears that my entire body is currently, trying to escape this kimono!"
She then disrobes and finished the song entirely naked!
Watch video here:
Neil Gaiman for The Ocean at the End of the Lane
In an interview with Stuffco.nz, Neil Gaiman shared, "I think it's probably my best book, which is why I am very nervous about it, which is why I really want to do whatever I can to make sure that as many people as possible read it."
The award-winning graphic novelist also shared that his wife is his inspiration for the book, "Normally I don't write books by accident. I'm very methodical. Normally I go Right I'm going to write a book. I will be called American Gods and it will be a bit like a brick, it will be huge and then I'll write and can often spend two years writing that book."
He said that his book was like communicating a fable-like fairytale to his wife, "She was in Melbourne for four months rehearsing a band and recording an album and I missed her. I took this half-remembered fragment of anecdote that my fater once told me and I thought it was an interesting place to start, set in a landscape I grew up in, with a dude who looks a lot like me... And then it just kept going. It was kind of like driving down a narrow road late at night, in the fog, in a car, where you can only see a little bit ahead of where you are."
Neil also emotionally said that their relationship works because "I'm willing to let her go."
"I'm always happy to see her, but there's been no attempt by either of us to say We're going to be a proper married couple where we live in the same place all the time and all our attention goes to the other one or that kind of thing.
"years before she met me, Amanda spent most of her time dating lead singers of bands, which she did less because they were lead singers of bands and more because she kept expecting she would find one who thought like she did. And that one kept not turning up. One of the things we bonded on, when we first met, even though I was a writer and she was a rock star, we had very similar foundations and incredibly similar relationships with our fans."
Neil told Stuffco.nz that while writing the final draft of the his new book The Ocean at the End of the Lane, he would sweetly read the book to his wife in bed each night until she fell asleep.