The blurb announces:
FUCK THE BACK ROW!
A Night of Short Films and Dadaist Vaudeville with The Dresden Dolls & Co. coming this July to a city near YOU
Amanda Palmer will be hitting the road this summer with a typically ambitious experiment: Celluloid vaudeville! A program consisting of short films selected from submissions by the Dolls' feverishly creative fan base will be peppered with thought provoking vaudeville antics in cities across America. Amanda will cap off the night in typical piano-destroying fashion, singing songs culled from popular and not-so-popular film soundtracks (expect John Hughes, Pink Floyd AND Disney Classics. Deep Throat? Oklahoma? She’s still working on it).
Curated by long-time collaborator and indie film-iconoclast Michael Pope (director of the band’s award-winning videos and live DVD), and BriAnna Olson (producer of the band’s music video ‘Sing’) these film shorts are a mixture of high art, humor, sexiness and downright weirdness. Including never-before-seen band documentary footage and amazing fan-made music videos inspired by and set to the music of The Dresden Dolls, this program is a celebration of true underground filmmaking.Every city promises to be a unique event including local MC’s, artist installations, theater groups and other oddball performance artists who will beguile the crowds with entre-act entertainment. This will be a truly intimate, bizarre cinematic experiment not to be missed!!
The events will be held in Boston, New York, Columbus, Chicago, Minneapolis, Toronto, Montreal, ST Louis, Denver, Portland, Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Unfortunately it doesn't look like the art experience is visiting these shores but I'm assuming the show at the Roundhouse on 3 November will at least have a flavour of the event as the Dredsens take over the Roundhouse and cabaretify it for the evening.
In the meantime, of course, I am more than happy to browse through my lovely new book from Amanda, The Dresden Dolls Companion. Full of photos, background to songs, lyrics and sheet music, it will keep me mightily entertained for some time to come. The photos include a couple of Amanda in all her loveliness but none of Brian in drag that I've noticed so far (apparently he enjoys a bit of cross-dressing now and then). Copies are available, as you'd expect, from all good bookshops (of which there are remarkably few) so best to order it here to avoid disappointment.
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