Post of Many things! All four dolls cities, Niki McQueen prints/shirts...you have 4 hrs to get on the list. (Patreon)

Hello My loves...

🥁 QUICK ONE: SAVE THE TIME/DATE, THIS FRIDAY March 17th - St. Paddy's Day! - at 5-7pm EST....I am trying to put together (crossy crossy crossy fingers) a BEAUTIFUL SURPRISE FROM-HOME WEBCAST for ALL PATRONS... with my illustrious surprise house guests & local pals (writers/poets/musicians). What do we call it? Prairie Home Webcast? Tiny House Livestream? Deep Woods Livecast? Stopping by a Livestream on a Snowy Evening? St. Patrick's Digital Hootenany at Amanda's? Maybe I'll do a poll. Gimme a sec. And gimme ideas. We're gonna thing this thing.

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AHEM - Now, THE DOLLS! ITS ALL HAPPENING!!

As I've been saying, my beloved band, The Dresden Dolls (and if you don't know about my band, just trust me that my Band is Great, and Especially Great When We Play Live) is GEARING UP TO TOUR AND MAKE A NEW RECORD. SLOWLY. Real slowly. We have been gradually announcing four weekends in four cities in four TINY clubs that all fit less than 500 people.

ALL FOUR CITIES HAVE NOW BEEN ANNOUNCED, and the password to access tickets is going to be revealed to The Dresden Dolls mailing list at 5pm EST, TODAY. The tickets themselves for ALL CITIES go on sale this MONDAY, March 13th at 10am (local time in each city).

MAKE SURE YOU ARE ON THE DRESDEN DOLLS EMAIL LIST, this is your last chance y’all!!

The tickets will almost deifnitely sell out on Monday when they go on sale. Set alarms. (And if you're not in one of these cities, WHY NOT CARPOOL? Go to the shadowbox of the FB group and start a thread. All links to those are pasted way down below.)

HERE IS THE LINK TO THE MAILING LIST. 

On top of that, ALL FIVE TOUR DESIGNS have now been revealed, all created by South African artist Niki McQueen and graphic designed by Andrew Nelson, and oh my GOD are they beautiful....

We also heeded the call for all those of you who are FAR AWAY but still wanted poster prints and t-shirts made from Niki's art.

All five designs are on sale for pre-order NOW on the band's website. The individual four city designs as less expensive poster prints; the main "trapeze" image is being printed as a higher archival-quality print and as a t-shirt. 

ALL THE MERCH IS ready for pre-order here on the dolls site, and will be shipped right after the whole tour ends (at the end of June/start of July...give us a second to recover.)

https://dresdendolls.com/

This dolls/design collaboration with Niki MCqueen - who's been surviving and navigating a very dark era of her life, just like me (just like...many of us) - has been one of the most nourishing and beautiful synchronicities of art/music/life I've gotten to experience in a long time.

Niki reached out to me on instagram and her images really spoke to my heart. It just so happened that it was RIGHT around the time I needed to find an artist to work on the dolls tour.

I missed this bit. It's about a lot more than just the art.

It's about the dot-connecting, especially with other survivors and wayfarers who are on the same road, and getting to give work to artists who need to work, not just for money, but for soul-healing.

Niki wrote up a whole little piece about it on her site,

...It was a dark time when I messaged Amanda Palmer and sent her a couple of pictures I had made, which she’d inspired.....

you can read the whole thing here.

And if you wanna support Niki directly and buy a print of JUST the raw art, she's got very very small number of prints for sale in her Etsy store. I know the extra cash would mean a lot to her. I want to support her, so if you're into real-ass art collecting....do it.

MEANWHILE.

I've been a little quiet over here, but that's not because I've been quiet. It's because it's been CLEANING SEASON. Michael and I (and an assortment of friends and helpers) have been knee-deep in cleaning out old tour boxes, fan mail boxes, costume boxes, finding treasures...it's been a beautiful time of intense reflection as I get ready for whatever (and wherever) this next chapter is going to bring my life.

First sort, then figure.

It feels so, so good to finally have the bandwidth - emotionally and physically - to do the DEEP sort. I have been wanting to have the time to do this since coming back from New Zealand in June. 

I just opened up three boxes that I mailed to myself from Melbourne in 2020...thinking I would see the stuff in three weeks.

Books I was reading. Clothes I was wearing. Drawings Ash was working on.

It was like looking in to a time-capsule of a softer time, a different version of me, and the kiddo. That poor girl had NO idea what was about to happen to her life, and that she wouldn't see the stuff in those boxes for three years. 

Ooof.

I love that my friends are here to help.

Want a pot?

A metal rod?

A knitted uterus? (We have several).

A melotron?

A sequined corset-costume rejected from the Leeds United video shoot in 2007??

So. Much. Crap.

LOVE.

I'm reading/responding to comments. Say hi.

I love you.

AFP

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