Monday, January 3, 2011
Over the Weekend / Photos
NYE in Photos: Dresden Dolls and Pomplamoose Howl in 2011 at the Warfield
Posted
By Ian S. Port
on Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 7:30 AM
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Gil Riego
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The Dresden Dolls' Amanda "Fucking" Palmer
Dresden Dolls
Pomplamoose
December 31, 2010
@ The Warfield
Better than: Ringing in the new year in 1939.
All those chicks wearing corsets you saw on New Year's Eve? Most likely they were either coming or going from
the Warfield, where the
Dresden Dolls stopped to unfurl the S.F. iteration of the band's current reunion tour. And what a strangely fitting way to step into the future: The Dolls' strong, bitter taste of an imagined "cabaret-punk" past, an emo-Weimar piano-rock fantasy replete with hits, a number from
The Threepenny Opera, and enough technical difficulties to feel irritatingly like the digital age. Oh yes, and corsets. The past is not dead, nor past, indeed. But I guess it is 2011 now.
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Pomplamoose began the night by dragging their innocuous bedroom pop onstage. But once through their quick set of famous covers like "September" and "Single Ladies," and a few smooth originals such as "Be Still," another opener began. Some lad (Dolls pal Jason Webley) dressed in a supremely old-worldy suit stepped out with an accordion, and proceeded to rile up the swelling audience with a dusty drinking song. Ordering us to hold our fingers up in the air and watch them intently as we turned in a circle 11 times, Webley upped the singalong enthusiasm; and as he pointed out, it was a cheap way to maximize the impact of those $7 drinks.
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Gil Riego
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The Dresden Dolls
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