Amanda Palmer, of The Dresden Dolls is back in Australia to support her new album "Amanda Palmer Goes Down Under", an album of live and studio songs written & recorded in the Antipodes and including the songs _x0018_ Vegemite_x0019_ , _x0018_ New Zealand_x0019_ and the instant dance club hit _x0018_ Map of Tasmania_x0019_ . Amanda Palmer is a performer, director, composer, writer and musician who is best known for her role as front woman and pianist for the internationally acclaimed punk cabaret band The Dresden Dolls. In 2008, with the help of fellow pianist and producer Ben Folds, Amanda released Who Killed Amanda Palmer, her debut solo album, along with an accompanying art book of the same name with short stories by writer (and husband-to-be) Neil Gaiman. Amanda recently wrapped up a two year-long touring cycle that took her five-star-reviewed performance through Europe, the USA, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. After touring the world endlessly (live highlights include acting as support for Nine Inch Nails, Cyndi Lauper, and Debbie Harry) and delivering three critically-hailed performances with the Boston Pops at Symphony Hall, Palmer is settling down in her hometown of Boston this fall to work on the Kander & Ebb musical "Cabaret" with the legendary American Repertory Theater in the role of the Emcee. Palmer has won numerous Boston Music Awards (including Best Female Vocalist), has been included on the AfterEllen.com's list of "hot 100" celebrities, and has been named "the most stylish woman in Boston" by the Boston Globe. Palmer also tends a widely-read blog and twitter-feed and has been dubbed "The Social Media Queen of Rock N Roll" by The Huffington Post.

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