{"id":203,"date":"2009-04-04T05:45:45","date_gmt":"2009-04-04T05:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shoottheplayer.com\/blog\/?p=203"},"modified":"2022-09-09T06:16:55","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T06:16:55","slug":"amanda-palmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shoottheplayer.com\/blog\/amanda-palmer\/","title":{"rendered":"AMANDA PALMER"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/4006724?h=53026ef80a&amp;badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" title=\"Amanda Palmer:  Exit Music (for a Film)\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>We were thrilled when Amanda Palmer&#8217;s management approached us about doing a shoot.  We&#8217;ve been fans of hers for years &#8211; we love her enormous skill as a musician, her punk attitude, her sense of humour and her great dedication to her fans.<\/p>\n<p>But things didn&#8217;t go smoothly.  Days before the shoot, it turned out there had been a miscommunication and Amanda was looking for somebody to film her whole gig.  Unfortunately, filming on-stage gigs hadn&#8217;t really been our thing, and our equipment definitely isn&#8217;t right for it.  We were disappointed, but we didn&#8217;t want to leave Amanda in the lurch so we made arrangements for a different camera and decided shooting the concert could be new and fun.<\/p>\n<p>Once again things didn&#8217;t go quite to plan.  The night of the shoot we couldn&#8217;t get in to the Opera House Studio until very late and we were all rushing to set up when we realised Amanda was going to do a take of Exit Music for a possible future record.  She said we could film it if we could do it immediately &#8211; the audience was gathering in the foyer and they couldn&#8217;t wait any longer.  We tried to get the camera ready in time, but we just didn&#8217;t make it.  Another disappointment!<\/p>\n<p>Then things took a surprisingly good turn.  The take wasn&#8217;t as good as Amanda wanted &#8211; and we got ballsy.  We ran downstairs and said if she tried it again we could get a Shoot the Player video at the same time.  Amanda asked if the Opera House could hold the audience outside for an extra ten minutes, and agreed to have a go.  Excited and nervous as hell, we clambered up on stage and filmed her amazing performance of one of Radiohead&#8217;s best songs.<\/p>\n<p>Special thanks to Amanda, Emily, Jeff, the Opera House Staff, and to Jaron for letting us use his beautiful live sound.<\/p>\n<p>(We also stuck around for Amanda&#8217;s gig, and filmed her encore performance of Radiohead&#8217;s Creep from the balcony &#8211; check out our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=faDiGGOrC1g\">YouTube <\/a>for that terrific Not-A-Shoot-The-Player clip.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were thrilled when Amanda Palmer&#8217;s management approached us about doing a shoot. We&#8217;ve been fans of hers for years &#8211; we love her enormous skill as a musician, her punk attitude, her sense of humour and her great dedication to her fans. But things didn&#8217;t go smoothly. Days before the shoot, it turned out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shoottheplayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shoottheplayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shoottheplayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shoottheplayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shoottheplayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shoottheplayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008,"href":"https:\/\/shoottheplayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/1008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shoottheplayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shoottheplayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shoottheplayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}