For the Boston melophobe crew, Amanda Palmer and her various projects have been unavoidable over the past decade. We remember seeing her live doll act in Harvard Square on a weekly basis. We remember when she streaked on-stage during a Kaiser Chiefs show. Even now, despite her national popularity, she's still making waves in our beloved home town, whether it's collaborating with the Boston Pops or collaborating with our high school students.
And while adapting our all-time favorite album to the stage makes us uneasy, we know that's exactly what Amanda Palmer does best. This past month, our Seattle counterparts witnessed Palmer's latest unsettling project, a collaboration with Jason Webley called Evelyn Evelyn. The self-proclaimed "world’s only conjoined twin singer-songwriter duo" brought a night of vaudeville and unlikely musical marriages (a ukulele cover of "Love Will Tear Us Apart?" - why not?) to the Showbox stage. Melophobe photographer Troy Dunham was there to bask in its weird glory.