Jason Webley & Amanda Palmer are conjoined twins joined by famous friends
First of all: Jason Webley is responsible for the best show of which I’ve ever heard. Webley and friends staged a guerrilla concert at a Safeway. Look at photos of the show while you read the description and see if you don’t get all giddy and excited.
Now, the idea that Webley has teamed with Amanda Palmer of the Dresden Dolls as “conjoined twins who had spent their lives trapped in the circus industry” fills me with happiness and a lightness of heart. The news from TwentyFourBit:
Their eponymous full-length album will include “an anthemic 80’s power ballad entitled ‘My Space'” featuring “gang vocals” by “Weird Al” Yankovic, My Chemical Romance singer Gerard Way, Andrew WK, writer/Palmer fiancé Neil Gaiman, Tegan and Sara, and Frances Bean Cobain.
This is either going to be an epic piece of art which boggles the mind and redefines the word “chorus” or an artsy-fartsy piece of crap which collapses under the weight of its own hubris. Either of which is possible considering the updated news that, “[a]ccording to Chantal Claret, she and members of Mindless Self Indulgence (her husband, Jimmy Urine is their frontman and Gerard Way’s wife, Lyn-Z, is their bassist) have also contributed to this project.”
In my mind, I’m building it up to sound like a cross between Flight of the Conchords’ “Petrov, Yelena, and Me” and Bonnie Tyler’s “Total Eclipse of the Heart.” I know that it’s not going to sound anything like that, but if someone wants to get on making that, I’d be more than happy to hear it.
