Then a crazed, wonderful improvisation that slowly crashes into Amanda’s song about parents, ‘Half Jack’. ‘They fuck you up, your mum and dad,’ said Philip Larkin long before either of The Dresden Dolls were born, in a line that sounded like it could have swaggered out of an Amanda Palmer song, and ‘Half Jack’ is just all about that. Jack Palmer, Amanda’s father, is up on the balcony near me, beaming proudly.
