Amanda Palmer: performance artist, nappy MacGyver-er, op-shop connisseur, punk legend.
After being stranded in New Zealand during lockdown, Amanda Palmer decided to stay. Since then she’s been exercising her renowned skills at making both friends and enemies. Amanda Saxton caught a boat over to Waiheke to meet the controversial US musician and make up her own mind. Amanda Palmer needs to find a 1960s-ish outfit, stat, when I meet her in late-March at a Waiheke Island cafe. She needs it for a 60s-themed Seder, the ritual feast marking the first night of Passover. While Palmer – a controversial American performance artist who’s been in New Zealand since the first lockdown of last year – is not Jewish, her husband is. He is also renowned British author Neil Gaiman.