Evelyn Evelyn are conjoint twins. They play music. Great music. They perform live and they're good at it. They tour the world. They're fictional.
Evelyn Evelyn are in fact Amanda Palmer (Dresden Dolls) and Jason Webley. An Amanda Palmer concert is always more than just a music concert. It's cabaret, circus, comedy, interaction with the audience. It's everything. Not to be missed.
The concert at Arenbergschouwburg in Antwerp was the last of the tour and we were in for a crazy night full of surprises.
The show started with the Evelyn Evelyn concert and story, hosted and narrated by Sxip Shirey. Amanda and Jason as Evelyn Evelyn performed the songs. Weird. And fun. Standout moments were Chicken Man, where the twins start to panic because the complexity of playing to many instruments together is getting too much. Also the amazingly dark cover (on ukelele!) of Joy Division's 'Love Will Tear Us Apart'.
In between the songs, the Evelyn Evelyn story was presented by Sxip Shirley with a very simple puppet/projection screen, assisted by 2 fans from the audience.
Sounds heavy, it is, but time flew by. Pause.
After the pause, solo perfomances of Sxip Shirey, Jason Webley and last but not least Amanda fucking Palmer! Great moment with Jason Webley where the audience was supposed to be the symphony with parts violins and parts trombones. Everybody went along with it.
Amanda started with some solo songs (Astronaut is a great song). Time flew by, more strrange things happened onstage as it was the last night. An INCREDIBLE Jackson cover Billie Jean! Sxip, Jason and Amanda trying a new up song 'Electric Blanket' and ending up playing it Sex Pistols way. Didn't work and so they started improvising what else they could do. Jason started playing Dresden Dolls song 'Sing'. Another high. Last song was Coin-Operated Boy. Thè Dresden Dolls classic.
Encore was a drinking song. Amanda, Jason and Sxip invited everyone to come onstage and sing. Seemed like a step too far for the audience because only 20 people or so got up. So I ended up singing along onstage.
Show started at 8:15pm, a 30 minutes intermission, and ended at 11:30pm. Not one dull second! Amanda, already miss you!
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Evelyn Evelyn: "My Space"
Jason Webley: "Ways To Love" and an incredible participation of the audience as 'the orchestra'
Amanda Palmer: 'Billie Jean'
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