Leeds United
Her debut solo single, with the Born Again Horny Men of Edinburgh.
Amanda Palmer, from Who Killed Amanda Palmer (2008)
Track 4 of the album runs 4:55, featuring the Born Again Horny Men of Edinburgh, and a Lounge Version of 4:33 is a bonus track. Wikipedia dates the single to November 2008, but NME already called it her debut solo single on August 28, 2008, inviting fans to be extras in a video shoot in London on August 31. Palmer told Songfacts it began as a really ironic bold united statement, where everything was falling apart, and ended up a song about everything and nothing, starting from being pissed at herself for constantly losing things. Wikipedia ties it to losing a football shirt given to her by Ricky Wilson of Kaiser Chiefs, via the same interview, though the Songfacts page we read frames it around losing things.
Alex de Campi directed the video. According to Wikipedia, Palmer refused the label's demand to remove shots of her stomach, fans staged a protest called the reBELLYon, and she was later dropped from Roadrunner; that detail comes from Wikipedia alone. She closed Heaven in London on September 2, 2011 with it as the final encore, with the horn section down in the crowd and hundreds of fans on backing vocals, and ended the Enmore Theatre show in Sydney on September 14, 2013 with it. A Cork Opera House set on October 23, 2019 listed it. We found no covers or samples and could not retrieve a setlist.fm count; PopMatters called the song raucous, with swaggering horns.
On stage
- 2011-09-02, Heaven, London Final encore.
- 2013-09-14, Enmore Theatre, Sydney Closing song.
Sources
- Who Killed Amanda Palmer, Wikipedia
- Amanda Palmer, Leeds United, Songfacts
- Amanda Palmer wants fans for video, NME (2008-08-28)
- Amanda Palmer at Heaven, A Model of Control (2011-09)