Amanda Palmer
Chanteuse

Américaine

DEATH THING - 2026

Feat. Amanda Palmer & Coco Karol
Editor - James Del
Production - Michael McComiskey

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This video features hundreds of personal objects mailed to me by my patrons around the globe.

I asked them to send things they wanted to get rid of; I promised to burn everything myself.
People mailed whole wedding gowns, love letters, stripper heels, diplomas, adoption papers, dog tags, family photos, old toys;
there was a child’s single shoe.

Some objects arrived with letters of explanation; some just arrived.

Sometimes it was more heartbreaking not to know.

Death Thing was the closing track on my 2019 album “There Will Be No Intermission”, and it never “got” a music video even though it was one of my favorite songs. It was written in 2017, shortly after I had a difficult miscarriage at three months, and after losing my best friend to cancer, and it was about the uncanny feeling of getting too good at grief. Little did I know what was in store for us all in 2020.

Wherever you are, may you find the strength to burn what needs to be burned; may you march nakedly into the future, phoenix-like.
Hold onto your friends, sometimes they’re the only ones who can carry you out of hell.

I love you.

-Amanda

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Thanks to Coco Karol; this was so much more than a performance.
Thanks to Michael McComiskey for midwifing this megafire.
Thanks to Mike Lavin and the Woodstock Fire Department.

“Death Thing” is the final track on “THERE WILL BE NO INTERMISSION”, which was crowdfunded via https://www.patreon.com/amandapalmer/

Listen/download here:
https://amandapalmer.bandcamp.com/album/there-will-be-no-intermission

Song/Lyrics, Piano, Voice: Amanda Palmer
Orchestration/arrangement: Jherek Bischoff
Mixing, Producer: John Congleton
Synthesizer/beats: Max Henry
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Solo Tour Dates:
Wed, July 29 - Padua, Italy - Anfitheatro del Venda
Thu, Aug 6 - Stockholm, Sweden - Slaktkyrkan
Sat, Aug 8 - Hamburg, Germany
https://amandapalmer.net
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With The Dresden Dolls:
Tues, Sept 1 - Vienna, AT - Arena Open Air
Wed, Sept 2 - Warsaw, PL - Progresja
Fri, Sept 4 - Prague, CZ - Archa Theatre - SOLD OUT
Sat, Sept 5 - Berlin, DE - Huxleys - SOLD OUT
Mon, Sept 7 - Utrecht, NL - TivoliVredenburg
Tues, Sept 8 - Paris, FR - Elysée Montmartre
Thu, Sept 10 - Manchester, UK - Albert Hall
Fri, Sept 11 - London, UK - British Airways ARC
Sat, Oct 3 - Los Angeles, CA - The United Theater Broadway
Tues, Oct 6 - Sacramento, CA - Channel 24
Wed, Oct 7 - San Francisco, CA - The Warfield
Fri, Oct 9 - Portland, OR - Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
Sat, Oct 10 - Seattle, WA - 5th Avenue Theatre
Tues, Oct 27 - St Paul, MN - The Palace Theatre
Thu, Oct 29 - Chicago, IL - The Salt Shed
Fri, Oct 30 - Toronto, ON - Massey Hall
Sat, Oct 31 - Montréal, QC - Théâtre Beanfield
Fri, Dec 4 - Boston, MA - The Colonial Theatre
Sat, Dec 5 - Boston, MA - The Colonial Theatre
Wed, Dec 9 - New York, NY - Brooklyn Paramount
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