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I’m finding it increasingly difficult to get to gigs over the past few years, but this gig was a must-see. Evelyn Evelyn, a pair of conjoined twin sisters performing dark tinged cabaret on a variety of instruments. Their story is engaging, their entire act is something truly original and there is a lot of heart in this act. There are three shows at Bush Hall and they were sold out well before I could scrape up the cash, so I let it go. Then I find out that their performance at Koko is not sold out. I didn’t have a choice not to go, really. Let’s just have a look at them.
Unless you’re in the know here, you may be confused when I say the show didn’t happen because of the volcanic ash coughed up by Eyjafjallajoekull having prevented… one of the twins from performing. I’d been alerted to this fact in advance so I wasn’t in the least bit disappointed when I learnt that Amanda Palmer would be performing instead. In fact, the slightly panicked collection of additional performers to ’round out’ what would have honestly been a great evening even without them made me even more excited to attend what would certainly be a once in a lifetime thing. Great gig to lose your born-again gig virginity on, eh?
I hadn’t seen Amanda Palmer live before, and whilst I enjoyed her music and the way she wrote and her general artistic output, nothing was to prepare me for the full impact of Amanda Fucking Palmer live. Let me digress for a moment to cover the openers.