Dadaist Vaudeville - Amanda Palmer (Dresden Dolls)

F#@THE BACK ROW!
PRESENT.

A NIGHT OF SHORT FILMS AND DADAIST VAUDEVILLE
WITH A SPECIAL PERFORMANCE FROM AMANDA PALMER

Amanda Palmer, of the critically acclaimed sensation The Dresden Dolls, will be hitting the road this summer in support of the band's sophomore album, Yes Virginia, 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 Palmer herself 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.

True to punk cabaret form, The Dolls will be calling on their vast network of local performance artists to deck out the local venues, which have been lovingly handpicked for this event, with suitable décor. 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!!

F#@THE BACK ROW! TOUR DATES:

The ticket price is $10
Doors at 8:30pm, show at 9pm

Sunday July 16th, Montreal (QU), TBA
Mile End
5390 St. Laurent
Montreal, Quebec
Tel 514 285 2611
www.mileend.ca

Saturday July 15th, Toronto (ON), Bloor Cinema
Bloor Cinema
506 Bloor Street. W
Toronto Ontario
416-516-2331
www.bloorcinema.com

About The Dresden Dolls' new album, Yes, Virginia:

YES, VIRGINIA is a sheer rock opera minus the bombastic guitars. It thrashes tempestuously from one emotional tenor to another, recalling in no small measure the grandiosity of glam-era Bowie and Queen, but is clearly informed by a post-punk sense of strident dynamics," says SOMA Magazine. When it was released on April 18th, 2006, it became the #1 selling new release in the U.S., debuting at #42 on the Billboard Top 200 Album chart with 19,000 albums sold. The album which has also received critical acclaim from Blender, Entertainment Weekly, Elle, Seventeen.com, Stuff Magazine, Jane, Alternative Press, LA Times, Spin, The New Yorker and more features the exceptional premiere single "Sing," which is getting significant airplay around the country. Additionally, the video for "Sing" which premiered on the MySpace.com homepage, has been receiving spins on MTV2, Fuse and MTVu. The band has performed on Jimmy Kimmel Live and will soon appear on NPR's World Café.

The Dresden Dolls' singer/pianist/lyricist Amanda Palmer, who has been called "one of the most powerful and smartest songwriters in rock" by Seventeen.com and drummer Brian Viglione, whose drumming has been called "dynamic and impressive" by Pitchforkmedia.com, will hit the road on June 27th with a tour that kicks off in Washington, D.C. The duo will also be playing Bonnaroo in Manchester, TN on June 17th and Lollapalooza in Chicago, IL on August 5th. The Dolls' live shows are the stuff of legend, drawing rave reviews worldwide and a recent cover of the touring magazine, POLLSTAR.

Yes, Virginia, is the follow-up to the 2004, critically acclaimed self-titled debut, which slowly built from selling 275 copies first week to a total of over 100,000 copies sold in the U.S. alone.

For interview opportunities, review copies of YES, VIRGINIA or review tickets for upcoming tour dates, please contact Dean Pogue at (416) 718-4154 or pogue@roadrunnerrecords.com.

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