The Dresden Dolls

The Dresden Dolls are a duo founded in 2000 from the vicinity of Boston. Members of the band are Amanda Palmer (vocals, piano) and Brian Viglione (drums, percussion). The two describe their style as " Brechtian punk cabaret ", a phrase that was done by Palmer because she " feared " that the press would invent a name that " would contain the word Gothic. "

Band name

The band's name may also be an allusion to the porcelain dolls that were made in the located in Dresden Meissen porcelain factory, as well as the name of the band New York Dolls, as well as an amalgamation of two opposing symbols (Dresden with the bombing and Dolls, so toys and thus something beautiful, childlike ) be understood. In the book Flowers in the Attic by Virginia Andrews the name of The Dresden Dolls also happens - the delicate doll-like children ( the protagonists of the drama ) will be referred to as such - there is also a song of the band The Fall called " Dresden Dolls".

History

They have released two albums in 2004: The self-titled debut album, and the live album A Is for Accident.

In addition, the DVD Paradise appeared on 22 November 2005, the recordings of a live show and an interview as well as private recordings ("A Life in the Day of The Dresden Dolls - A Day of Documentary " ) includes. On 21 April 2006 the second studio album Yes, Virginia ... has been published.

The band's music is an unconventional mix of alternative pop-rock, punk and Riot German cabaret music of the 1920s. Amanda Palmer brings a classical vocal training with a. Refer to themselves as The Dresden Dolls Brechtian Punk Cabaret.

Amanda Palmer has lived a year in Cologne and this brought about some of the links there experienced with their own influences from the Boston environment. The fact that it incorporates Brecht and theater performance in their demanding and entertainment -oriented music also shows proximity to Laurie Anderson as to the equally imaginative Georg- Ringsgwandl or Tom Waits stage acts.

2005 The Dresden Dolls toured as support for the band Nine Inch Nails.

As a conclusion of their world tour, the Dresden Dolls played on November 3rd and 4th of 2006, two concerts at London's Roundhouse. These were recorded for a second live DVD, which was released in July 2007.

In 2006, she also worked at a theater piece entitled The Onion Cellar (inspired by a chapter from Günter Grass' The Tin Drum ). The piece was premiered on December 9, 2006 at the " Zero Arrow Theatre" in Boston and was seen there until 13 January 2007.

Since 2007, their song Coin- Operated Boy for an advertisement for a fruit dessert ( Fruchtikuss ) of the Austrian company Darbo used.

On 16 May 2008, her new album No, Virginia ... published. It contains unreleased and newly recorded material of the Yes, Virginia ... sessions.

Discography

Albums

• 2003: A Is for Accident
• 2003: The Dresden Dolls
• 2006: Yes, Virginia ...
• 2008: No, Virginia ...

• 2005: Paradise

Singles

• 2003: Good Day (7 " Vinyl)
• 2004: Coin- Operated Boy
• 2004: Girl Anachronism
• 2006: Sing
• 2006: Backstabber
• 2007: Shores of California
• 2008: Night Reconnaissance