More News of Dresden

The Dresden Dolls played at the Reading Festival last weekend and I've just been pointed to the review of the festival in the Independent online which states:

If you haven't caught on to The Dresden Dolls yet there's probably no hope for you, but despite an unsuitable daylight timeslot and unusually dressed-down stagewear ("Death To The Pixies" T-shirt, faces cleansed of pierrot make-up), the Bostonian cabaret-noir duo of Amanda Palmer and Brian Viglione, both with their own material and covers of Brel's "Amsterdam" and Sabbath's "War Pigs" are the most compelling, thrilling thing of the whole weekend.

And, luckily, the BBC website about the festival includes a photo of Amanda in that very t-shirt!

Even better - new Dresdens music will be available on Monday 11 September. 'Backstabbers' (from 'Yes, Virginia') is being released as a digital single with the 'b' side being, 'Lonesome Organist Rapes Page Turner', a track only heard so far on their MySpace site. It will, naturally enough, be heard in Streatham from Monday, quite possibly rather loudly.

And where did I gather all this information from? I had an email alerting me that The Dresden Dolls UK Forum has been launched so I automatically logged on. As you do.