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Hola Comrades.


Greetings from Denver, Colorado.




What’s with the dismal effin weather, Denver? Don’t worry. The Dresden Dolls are officially in town and we are gonna fix everything. Your hearts will be aflame and your souls smelted like iron in a vat of punk cabaret by the end of the night.

I arrived here last night after my plane was diverted to goddamn Colorado Springs due to storms and I’m tired and slightly grumpy but mostly excited as FUCK to play with my band tonight - really kn tour - for the first time in YEARS. I am punchdrunk on the music in my head. Brian and I are ready to Sleigh.

In hopeful news: we MAY be able to thing/stream one of the New Orleans shows. We are researching a livestream team, hold the phone.

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This is mostly a housekeeping post for the people coming to Denver - and Santa Fe (and Orlando and NoLa, read along)…so if you’re not coming, spare yourself the pain and skim or skip.

First of all: IF YOU ARE A PATRON AND COMING TO ANY of the DOLLS SHOWS, how will you identify each other, hmm?

Back in the old days of 2019 I came up with a clever little patron-identifying tactic: playing cards. Everyone has one or can find one. Pin one to your bag or garment, or get creative, or even just take a pen/eyeliner and stick a heart or club or slade or diamond on your cheek.



Cheap and accessible!!! If any patrons wanna make my day, bring an extra set of cards and safety pins and share. LOVING YOU.

if you see a another patron, you have my express permission to be a dork and start talking to them. It’s a magic wand. You have something in common. Chat! Go. Okay. Friends.

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NEXT UP:

PATRON MEET-UPS in DENVER / SANTA FE!

We are talking to Meow Wolf about the potential of using their space for a patron meet-up, but it’s not guaranteed. If you locals know a great central gathering space, I would love you to self-organize and I may be able to swing by, esp if it’s Saturday or Sunday late morning. I’m committed to family time those days but it may just work out magically.


DENVER! The magic happened and organizing was organized and I just got a text from Dahlia that the shadowbox went into action and picked an time and place. I can 90% be there tomorrow, Sunday less likely but who knows? - forgive my waning and waxing energy levels - and here’s the info:

DENVER MEET UPS FOR PATRONS

TOMORROW/SATURDAY MAY 19:

12:30pm

17th & California St




then also

SUNDAY, MAY 20

12:30pm

patron meet-up @ RED ROCKS AMPHITHEATER…which I have played and goddamit can’t wait to play again!!!

it’s open to the public on non-show days.

meet at the Trading Post….


AND SEND ME PICTURES. (tagging me on IG or sending me a FB link in comments here is probably easiest).

THATS THA PLAN

Find each other - and use the shadowbox link to iron out details.

https://forum.theshadowbox.net/t/denver-meet-up-weekend-of-5-19-21/11426/5

I’m disappearing into show mode - see many of you soon.

I likely won’t be signing/coming out after the show tonight, but may tomorrow or Sunday if I have the energy. Stay tuned. Mama is still recovering from Covid, 2020-2023, divorce, trauma and all that. Mama is tired and is gonna leave it all on stage tonight.

xxx

A

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Jenny Hippensteal

Always sad to miss a show but sending you an infinite amount of hugs and love! 🖤

Piper Shepherd

Amanda. I got you covered with cards and pins. I’m in drag with a symbol on my cheek. I’ll be a part of the Brigade and can help organize with patrons.

Terry O.

Denver weather is awful due to smoke from the Canadian wildfires.

Allen Steigerwald

Have a great show, wish I could be there. We will be seeing you at Riot Fest, and of course anything local to Woodstock.

Joanna Lindblad

So, I was supposed to fly to Denver to meet a woman I'm "getting to know" (wink wink, oh the possibilities... mmm) AND was hopeful see you all play live. But... everything's been postponed. Oh... the stars were lining up, and then they fucking moved lol. Booo... you all have fun!! (((❤️)))

Nicole Werner

It’s actually basketball. The playoffs. Rained the whole time we played the Phoenix Suns and now we’re playing the LA Lakers.

Nicole Werner

Oh my God I am so happy. I feel like Penny Lane in Almost Famous. It’s all happening! I’m crying!

Laura Morland

Advance congratulations, break a leg!!!

Nicole Werner

The answer about the weather is basketball. The playoffs. Rained the whole time we played the Phoenix Suns and now we’re playing the LA Lakers.

Dawn Means

Cannot. Wait. For. Tonight. My first ever Dresden Dolls show! The Denver weather has been way too dreary as of late. First the vast amount of rain (or as the Boulder National Weather Service tweeted, our "Life in the PacNW free trial"), now the chill and clouds and smoke. But it should warm up this weekend. Looking forward to a much-needed soul-smelting tonight!

Joshua Hodas

I have two Floor/GA tickets to the show Sunday but cannot make it to Denver after all, unfortunately. Please message me if you'd like them. Selling at cost. (The Denver show is not set up on the Lyte system and Ticketmaster says sales are not enable there.)

Julie Steele

You’ll be amazing. Here’s to the return of The Dresden Dolls

Anna Bruce

I can’t wait for tonight. Of course sad I’ll likely miss you, no after show, I have birthday drag brunch tomorrow that conflicts, and Sunday…. We’ll see here too. Life happens, as always. Much love, can’t wait for tonight 🖤🖤🖤

Heather H

Just wanted to mention that there are a few of us not able to make the Denver shows tonight and this weekend that have posted on Shadowbox need a ticket/ have a ticket thread (scroll to bottom of thread) if there are people that need tickets to check out the posts there. 😊 If you are a Patreon and not shadowbox member, you should be able to log in with your patreon account https://forum.theshadowbox.net/t/need-a-ticket-have-a-ticket/4177

Amy Gleixner

Dear Denver, you stole our Seattle weather. We want it back. 90°F in May is dumb and we're over it. Also, give Amanda our love and enjoy the concert!! Mwah! Luv, Me

Drew Miller

I was sadly never able to grab any tickets to the show tonight :/ - but I signed up on patreon - to support anyway. Hopefully there is still room to come hang out at the meet up tomorrow :) - Drew x

Jeremy Sliwoski

Fun story, I have a deck of cards I bring to every concert I go to because I've been working on having them signed. The Ace/Jack of spades are set aside for the next time I meet Amanda/Brian. My dream is having a wall that's covered in signed playing cards.

Heather H

Would you like a ticket to the show tonight? I can’t make it and have a ga ticket available. Email me. Hinth86@gmail.com

Drew Miller

You are so damn sweet, thank you! I'll let you know when I get home from work if I can make it or not <3

Rose Macabre

Excited for the meetup! I managed to miraculously get one ticket on ticketmaster and one on lyte for tomorrow but if lyte isn't set up in denver I'm kind of worried about if there will be a second ticket waiting for me at the box office 😳

Jeremy Sliwoski

I could also make some "Trauma Land - Opening Day" cards for everyone...

Rose Macabre

Scroll up the comments, there are a few people who have tix available and canct make it!!

Drew Miller

I saw, I'm going to try and wrangle my best friend to come out of hiding tonight ha - will see what happens when I get home from work, :)

Erinn

Take care Mama! I love you! 💕

Tracey Stokes

Goodmorning grumpy bum😁😜🥺😏😝🙂💜💜💜💜 stay warm.

Alison Nishi

It’s the weather, but it’s also the air quality—REALLY BAD. All the smoke from Canada. Be careful with your voice when you’re outside this weekend!

Dean Alejandro

Just got to Denver! I'll go for a heart near my eye 😻

cory

i could use a ticket for tonight! i have saturday and sunday, but want to go all three nights <3

Dallas - San Diego Pacific Beach

Wish I was there this weekend for the shows. I do have tickets to Santa Fe. I might have one ticket available for each night in Santa Fe and wondering what the process is of reselling tickets and thru what platform?

Array

I posted two tickets to tomorrow night 5/20 on shadowbox! Still looking to find them a home! Super sad I can't make it this time :(

Annapurna Moffatt

"What’s with the dismal effin weather, Denver?" Probably part of what you're seeing is smoke from fires in Alberta. Currently the smoke is covering about half of the US, including Denver.

Joshua Hodas

Note that Lyte apparently only works for the events that were sold through that site in the first place. (I have no idea whether Santa Fe was.). I was not able to list my spare tickets for Denver show Sunday there, unfortunately.

Kimberly Bradshaw

I brought a deck of cards with Shakespearean insults printed on them to a 2018 “evening with Amanda and Neil” show in Tucson for precisely this reason! Another patron set up an afterparty at the bar across the street, I dealed ‘em out while we waited for you to magically appear with your uke ❤️

Amanda Kennedy

Flash floods in Northern New Mexico today. My flowerbeds were almost creating a moat around my house. 🤣

DebbieG

Denver have funnnnn!

David Scott Moyer

I wish I could come to a show, but the whole playing card thing REALLY makes me want to teleport from Oaxaca just to participate.

Dorit

Oooh livestream! Yes!

Lee Granas

Ok that new song was AMAZING tonight, wow.

geek grrl

So glad you made it here

Kelly Adlington

Can't wait for the show tonight! And a silent hello this afternoon on 17th and California <3

Holly Smith

Looking for 2 tix to Sunday show. Preferably seated tix because I have a back injury.

Anna Bruce

Any tix left for this weekend?

Piper Shepherd

Hello I indulged some crying fans in your presence and in the process didn’t get my moment. Your music has been important to me for over a decade and has shaped my artistry in the process. I stopped participating in the standup community because it was too gross and capitalism-y. I am the worst at meetups. Too nervous to say what I had to get off my chest. Jesus. I’m not a stalker or crazy, just a fan from OG troubled teenage years and erratic and bad at the meetups. I don’t need anything from you guys. I just want to be seen. Genuinely you have influenced my whole life and I am not trying to be weird about it but it means something to me and I don’t want to live in a world where my favorite musician thinks I’m an annoying piece of shit. I just find similarities and want to make connections.

Ash

Tree_rex

I have seats, but I'm also wondering what time to show up this evening. It'll be my first time at Ophelia's so I don't really know what to expect. I definitely want to get there early enough to see some of the before show shenanigans since I won't be able to get to the meetup in time.

Jesse D

Hey! Last night, we showed up around 7 for 9 pm show time. It worked great because doors opened at 8, and Ophelia’s has a restaurant/bar upstairs that we were able to wait in. We ended up right up front by going downstairs around 7:30ish

Ashley Cummings

My wife had a migraine crafted from the makings of Lucifer himself yesterday, otherwise we would have been there last night. She’s made a full recovery, thankfully, so we’re beyond stoked to be there tonight! If the mood strikes you, we’d love to hear Sing. It’s a song that has helped us so much to deal with the heaviness of the naked and ugly truths the world has spit up these last few years, and we’d love an opportunity to get lost in it live. Anyway, play whatever is on your heart tonight. We just love you. So. Fucking. Much.

Marl

You might need to bump everything up an hour since tonight's show is at 8:00 PM instead of 9:00 PM.

Ash

Oh for sure! We are arriving at 6 if not slightly sooner.. just to be safe haha. Thank you friend!

Erin Kennedy

Thank you for all that you do ✨ An amazing weekend ♥️ ♠️ ♦️ ♣️

Jonathan Sabar

I feel a combination of sorrow that I'm so late to the AFP party, and joy that I finally made it! This was my first Dolls show, and Tacoma was my first time seeing you solo (thank you for signing my shirt!!). 30-year-old me would have loved to be part of your tribe! I know you were kidding about bringing a bagpiper on tour, but if you ever decide you want one to join you on stage in the Denver area, I can introduce you!