Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Friday 24 February
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Burlesque sensation Amanda Palmer (lead singer of The Dresden Dolls) meets international cabaret diva Meow Meow at the Athenaeum, in what promises to be a night to remember. Get intimate with Amanda and Meow Meow as they peel off the layers in a revealing two-way conversation about life, love and creation.
Featuring
Amanda Palmer
Amanda Palmer is a performer, director, composer, musician and author who came to prominence as frontwoman and keyboardist for the punk cabaret band The Dresden Dolls.
In 2008, Amanda released Who Killed Amanda Palmer, her debut solo album. It was produced by Ben Folds and accompanied with the release of a fine art photography book, on which she collaborated with esteemed author Neil Gaiman (whom Palmer also married). She subsequently went on an international tour, highlights of which included three performances with the Boston Pops at Symphony Hall and a critically acclaimed performance at the 2009 Coachella Valley Arts and Music Festival.
She then took on the role of the MC in a sold out run of the musical Cabaret with Cambridge’s own American Repertory Theater in 2010. In the same year, she was named Artist of the Year 2010 by the Boston Music Awards. Amanda tends a blog and Twitter feed and was dubbed ‘The Social Media Queen of Rock-N-Roll’ by the Huffington Post.
Meow Meow
Post-post-modern diva Meow Meow specialises in a unique brand of kamikaze cabaret and performance art exotica.
The crowd-surfing queen of song ‘drags cabaret kicking and screaming into the 21st century’ (Time Out NY). Named one of the top performers of 2010 by The New Yorker and ‘a phenomenon’ by the Australian press, Meow has been curated by David Bowie, Pina Bausch, Baryshnikov and others.
She has created original works for international arts festival and theatres, including Soho Theatre, Malthouse Theatre and the Sydney Opera House (Vamp!, Meow to the World, Beyond Glamour, Matchgirl). Meow’s album Vamp, with composer Iain Grandage, was released this year. With Pink Martini’s Thomas M. Lauderdale, she has written and recorded the album Here Kitty Kitty …The Lost Sessions, due for release in 2012.
She has won the Edinburgh International Festival Fringe Prize, Adelaide Festival Fringe prize, New York Franklin Furnace Performance Art Award, Sydney Theatre Critics Award and numerous Green Room Awards. She is currently nominated for the London Cabaret Award.
She returns to Melbourne from a sensational series of solo concerts at the legendary Apollo on London’s glittering West End. She performs at the Famous Spiegeltent in Melbourne in February and debuts next with the London Philharmonic in Paris and London.