Dear Daily Mail

[joggerjayne]

This is is a genuinely unique music moment. Which will disappear forever.

And it's brilliant.

Last night, I saw Amanda Palmer at the Camden Roundhouse. Yes yes, I know, for anyone who is really on the ball ... she's playing Brighton tonight, and I went all the way to Camden last night.

Anyway, it was just the best gig I've ever been to.

As part of her encore,mAmanda had written a song (following her recent appearance at Glastonbury). The Daily Mail, reporting on Glastonbury, were not interested in her music or her band. They were only interested that she had an accidental "nip slip" on stage.

So, last night, Amanda sang her response.

And it's already on YouTube!

But ...

As is the way in the censorious times, the Daily Mail will find a way to have it censored. It might even be censored from AB.

Amanda is never going to sing it again. And she's never going to record it.

So it was a genuine musical one-off.

I'll post it below. Enjoy it briefly, while you can.

[joggerjayne]

Here it is ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGPDWEjjN3Q

[joggerjayne]

And someone who was at the gig has transcribed the words ...

http://pastebin.ca/2426262

[sandyRoe]

Oh, I say! She's very brave to confront the Mail. :-)

[factor-fiction]

Thanks JJ- I couldn't follow a word she said when she was speaking but the lyrics were quite clear. She's done Glastonbury for a few years now I believe but has fallen below the radar I feel

[joggerjayne]

As Amanda said last night ...

The Daily Mail is a bully newspaper.

And, like all bullies, they only enjoy picking on people who don't confront them.

So ... she's confronted them.

Well, she's called them a "misogynist pile of t**ts"

I think that counts at confronting, LOL !

[joggerjayne]

f-f ... yes, fallen below the radar is a good way to put it.

[joggerjayne]

I'm also anticipating the usual "is this just another anti Daily Mail thread, you Guardian reading tree hugger?" sort of response.

[emmie]

gender bias in the media generally,

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/dec/06/women-representation-media

[sandyRoe]

You've left out the epithets, pinko, sandal-wearing, meusli munching.

[joggerjayne]

He, em x

Sandy, yes I did, sorry, lol

[emmie]

as i said, it's a male dominated industry.

[joggerjayne]

I love these lines, which seem to sum up the Mail's entire reporting ethos ...

"When Iggy, or Jagger, or Bowie, go shirtless
The news barely causes a ripple,
Blah blah blah feminist, blah blah blah gender Sugar,
Blah blah blah OH MY GOD NIPPLE"

[joggerjayne]

em ... only Susanna Reid is flying the flag for the girls.

[rockyracoon]

Haha, that was very funny, good for her.

[emmie]

amazingly they do mention women's issues in the Mail, quite often. It's not all doom and gloom. And they had Mick Jagger almost bearing all, not a pretty sight

[joggerjayne]

Well, I suppose they have to wear a "women's issues" tee shirt now and again, because a lot of their readers are women.

But, you know ... leopard, spots, etc.

[Sqad]

Oh! That Amanda Palmer.

( who the hell is Amanda Palmer)

[Sharingan]

I love Amanda f***ing Palmer, she has quite a witty twitter too:)

[factor-fiction]

" a witty twitter too"
Easy for you to say...

[douglas9401]

Is she part owl?