Amanda Palmer & the Grand Theft Orchestra: Theatre Is Evil – review

(8FT)Performance artist, former Dresden Doll, tweeter, poseur, bisexual and wife of goth fiction god Neil Gaiman – Amanda Palmer's bohemian pursuits have rather overshadowed her music until now, but her third album reveals a vibrant songwriter as keen on the rigours of classical piano, polka and waltz as she is on punk; imagine Regina Spektor doing My Sharona, or Siouxsie yelping her way through Tori Amos' Choir Girl Hotel. Smile (Pictures Or It Didn't Happen) unfurls into a gargantuan pop son...

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