Band, interrupted. The Dresden Dolls turn 25 today. 🤘🔥♥️🎉 (Patreon)

Happy Halloween, my loves. 

The photo above is of The Dresden Dolls in around 2001, photgraphed by Lisa Gordon.

It's that time.

Come one, come all with your Dresden Dolls stories from across time and space. Brian and I could use the fire. We’ve been - as you may have noticed - interrupted. 

And…nothing reflects the interpreted poetry of art life like this here mom video. Mom, interrupted in her birthday band speech by a kid waking up SUPER early and coming down to the living room in his full Halloween costume, needing mom. 

But this is how it is right now, and in the sort of person who will never shy away from the collision of art, artwork, and life. 

Today, my band, The Dresden Dolls, turns 25. 

Here’s what we posted to socials:

Twenty-five years ago today, in Boston, Massachusetts, a young drummer walked into a young songwriter’s house for a Halloween party she was throwing with her art-friends. He came dressed as a severed head.

The songwriter was dressed as a temporary office worker, having grabbed some clothes she had stashed in a paper bag in case she ever had a “real” job interview. 

She sat down for the assembled party and played her sad and angry songs for the piano. The drummer listened. He gave his number to the piano player, telling her that he was a drummer and that he liked her songs. 

They were both looking for a band. 

They got together a few days later at a Boston basement practice space and they both looked up and both thought: “there you are” and….the rest is history. 

Twenty five years, people. We did it. 

There’s never been a real job interview. This is the job. 

We toured the world, we played thousands of shows, we bled, we cried, we played with colds and fevers, we never canceled a single show, and we hugged you after our shows, often sweaty and often broken. We did what we saw our heroes doing; we tried to find some kind of bigger truth through music. 

With your help, we did. 

We plan to do it all again, soon. 

We know you’ll be there when we do. 

Thank you to all our community all over the world, to our management, agents, publicists, assistants, lawyers and relentlessly humorous touring crew; to the dancers, photographers, filmmakers, bodypainters, drink-shakers, ticket takers and coat check folks at every gig. We have had so much help along the way. Without you all we are nothing. 

Here’s to another 25 years of The Dresden Dolls, everyone. We have been through a lot. 

We’ll check in on Oct 31, 2050. But hopefully we’ll see you sooner than that. We had plans scuttled, but we’ll be back. 

Life is no Cabaret. 

We don’t care what you say. 

We’re inviting you anyway. 

Just sing. 

Just sing. 

……….

Sept 2025 in Los Angeles at Hollywood Forever cemetery, by Laura Vogel:

Sept 2025 in Austria, by Laura Vogel:

Sept 2022 in New York, by Hayley Rosenblum:

Sometime somewhere in 2006 - by Lauren Goldberg:

……..

The band had so much planned for this year, and it was sideswiped by forces so far behind our control. 

But this band was also forged in fire and came from a place of survival and resilience. 

We wouldn’t be the Dresden Dolls if we gave into the darkness and the hatred.

We wouldn’t be us and I would be me

So on we forge, and we will have huge new music news soon, I am happy to announce. 

Please, if you wanna give us something for our birthday, share our music any way you know how, share the posts on socials and above all just make sure you’re on the band mailing list. 

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Back with more doll news, soon. 

Love, hope, and Long Live the Punk Cabaret. 

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Today in Harvard Square. Saying hello to the dead, who are all no doubt still with us