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The Dresden Dolls🎹🥁
@dresdendolls

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They say don’t meet your heroes, and sometimes it is true. But in this case, it was not. There are few words to explain deep musical lineage, and certain kinds of meeting-moments. That’s why we have the music itself, maybe. The Cure meant everything to The Dresden Dolls. If our band has a progenitor, a guide who machete’d a path for us, it was this band, this music, this songwriter, this man. The @dresdendolls played right before @thecure this year at @riot_fest. Robert Smith watched our entire set and, after the whole show wrapped, spent a long time talking with us. There was so much to say, and so much we didn’t need to say. Our hearts are overfull. We are recovering from the chaos and the travel home but before too much time goes by: people, this is what it’s all about. The moments where we are faced with why we chose this strange job; the loud and joyful reminder of what happens when music pulls us out of ourselves and into one other. This is what The Cure did for us growing up. This band was our teacher. This band taught us how to band. There were a lot of tears shed for many reasons on Sunday night. So much happiness for such a buncha goths. 🌈☔️🎉🥀 Deep thanks to the Riotfest crew for having us all, and to all the folks who came to this festival from around the USA and further afield. And thanks beyond words to our whole backstage crew, who flew from all over to be with us for this life-changing show. We bow. More show pictures coming, as we surface from the fever dream. But for now…just…oh my god. So much love. 🖤 Photos: @mulographynyc, @jaron_luksa, @mwmccomiskey Dolls Setlist: Sex Changes Gravity Modern Moonlight My Alcoholic Friends Astronaut Fight for Your Right (with Melissa Auf der Maur - @xmadmx - on Bass) Coin-Operated Boy War Pigs Half Jack Girl Anachronism Cure Setlist: Alone Pictures of You High Lovesong And Nothing Is Forever Cold Burn Fascination Street A Night Like This Push In Between Days Just Like Heaven At Night Play for Today A Forest Shake Dog Shake From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea Endsong #thedresdendolls #thecure #robertsmith #amandapalmer #brianviglione #riotfest #goth #punkcabaret #darkwave #meetingheroes