The one and only Dresden Dolls have announced a series of eagerly awaited live dates. The shows begin October 31st with a Halloween spectacular at Washington, DC’s 9:30 Club with This Way to The Egress supporting, followed by a landmark intimate three-night-stand at Boston’s famed Paradise Rock Club on November 3rd, 4th, and 6th. There is no support band for the Boston shows. Tickets for the 9:30 Club go on sale this Thursday August 17th at 10am ET and for the Boston shows, this Friday, August 18th at 10am ET. For complete details and ticket information, please see dresdendolls.com/shows.
THE DRESDEN DOLLS
LIVE 2017
OCTOBER
31 – Washington, DC – 9:30 9:30 Club
NOVEMBER
3 – Boston, MA – Paradise Rock Club
4 – Boston, MA – Paradise Rock Club
6 – Boston, MA – Paradise Rock Club
The world has not seen the last of The Dresden Dolls,” promised Amanda Palmer upon the conclusion of last year’s sold out run of shows in Brooklyn, Kingston and Boston – The Dresden Dolls’s first official live performances in close to a decade. True to her word, she and drummer/multi-instrumentalist Brian Viglione are teaming once again for a pair of celebrations near and dear to their mischievous and theatrical hearts. Halloween has a long-held special relevance for the duo; the band met at a Halloween party at Palmer’s home in 2000. In addition, the November dates will commemorate the Paradise Rock Club’s 40th anniversary as one of Boston’s most important live venues. Famed for hosting legendary artists long before the rest of the world takes notice, the Paradise Rock Club was an early stomping ground for the Dolls. The band threw their first record release party (for their eponymous album “The Dresden Dolls”. In 2005, after signing with a major label and touring the world several times over, the band returned home to film their first live DVD at the club, calling on a huge cast of local street-performing and circus-world compatriots, – a.k.a. The Dresden Dolls Brigade – to join in an unforgettable party. Unforgettable is was: an unexpected late-spring power outage shut the club’s electrify and air-conditioning down for the entire evening, during which the collective took to the streets of Boston, celebrating and causing a ruckus, before returning to the venue for a very late and now legendary marathon performance, captured for posterity on the acclaimed DVD, The Dresden Dolls: In Paradise.
Amanda Palmer and Brian Viglione first united as The Dresden Dolls in 2000 and immediately made an impact with their ingenious punk cabaret and darkly original songcraft and visceral and no-holds-barred live shows. Blending performance art with an array of sonic and lyrical influences, the duo reaped global attention for creating a uniquely cathartic, often confrontational sound and vision all their own.
Brian Viglione, on the upcoming shows: “Halloween and the act of transforming yourself outwardly to strut your inner, totem-animal are in the very life blood of The Dresden Dolls. From the very first time we played the Paradise in autumn 2003 for our debut album release, we called on our fans and friends to come dressed to the nines for the occasion, and soon it spread world-wide via our most spunky followers in The Brigade. It’s a perfect time to celebrate the Ruby Red 40th Anniversary of this classic Boston rock venue, and the 14th Band-iversary of the cities stripiest duo.”
Amanda Palmer: “The Dresden Dolls never really die, we just hibernate eternally, crawling our of our coffin when we are hungry for blood. But seriously…these shows will be an epic and heartfelt communion with our roots and our oldest and dearest fans. We were happy to play massive shows in 5,000-seat venues this past summer, but there’s nothing like playing to a sweaty club of Especially in these dark political times, we’re in need of some good old-fashioned political satire and fresh reasons to howl at the sky. Expect the Unexpected, and come ready to weep and dressed to kill.”
