Milan is a city without possessing any of Boulevard, a non-European capital, with a proper European periphery in which the anonymity and cement are the first the unknown, the second metropolis.
Under a sky perpetually obscured by the smoke of the newest trends who kill older ones to take his place, in a whirlwind of crime from the dressing room, perfectly aligned with the platform, it's been two anonymous characters, head intended to be Olympus even remembered the events in Milan, given an empty room we saw a little shocked, by a print out of any event without profit and dividends.
The Rolling Stone is a hole embedded in an afternoon that promised rain on 1 June 2006, needless to describe both given the passage of flyweight and welterweight average weights of the music, with the entire audience, you, you've crossed dozens of times that input stealthily that seems to embody the shame of those who enter into a peep-show.
entrance to one of the many bars employed to deliver a courteous environment where courtesy is free after the first drink as a kind of Charon ferries us from the entrance to the "second tier" word which raises some concern in the eyes of the undersigned, Francesco and Andrea elected cameraman who accompanied me with one of the best poker face to the interview. The "second tier" turns out to be nothing more than the second floor of a metal structure obtained above the entrance.
The pole takes his leave with a smile - for a change - and we are in the "living room" of the Rolling Stone interview, the field of battle where they had just passed a journalist and TV Rock Republic page of Milan. Amanda appears in nature, as well as any other would be presented after 8 hours from Vienna and several other interviews with all the same questions always, no make-up (except for eyebrows painted as usual), no comb, no waxing, in short: no milan. Brian Viglione wheel, with motorcycle collar and looked slightly less sleepy.
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Abandoned the "level two" and returned without pass between humans, outside the room begins to generate that air of a typical pre-concert Dolls, always enough to result in part above lines, the brigade's two nice Dutch and two equally good Italian dressing starts out as a street vendor of t-shirts to take tarot ends with Emily White - who looks after the tour as always - when it is deep in a sermon public and inviting fans to buy the original Ecomate and support the band (despite this, it must be said that even the street vendors - on the order of - we camp with the sale of T-shirts). In the small
Rolling Stone starts around 19.30 the performance of the two pairs of artists, people on both sides of the circle to collect the thousands of people who will feed slowly.
It is a human puppet performance, deftly maneuvered by two positions articulated by a balcony and some music. Intermezzo
Amanda Palmer, mixed among the public (and no longer recognized in the first instance), he begins to make photos and movies for personal use.
is created, when deploying a small gathering of fans readers and related fanzine, where a poor and unidentified sent the press tries to extract information for his article.
Opening the evening is Thomas Truax, New York solo and quite simply with his presence and his unique inventions to entertain any audience for hours. After the initial suspicion, aroused the unknown artist unknown, Truax performs some of his pieces are supported by musical instruments of his invention: the Hornicator - the merger of the trumpet, guitar and foot percussion - and the Sister Drumster, a sort of gimmick that serves as a battery through a series of gears and rollers made of tin.
Truax performs a note, the sample with a micro synthesizer and repeated ad infinitum as the reason for building the basis on which to play songs like My friends on the Internet and other grotesque caricatures of humanity.
public into a frenzy when he leaves the stage and begins to run, without a microphone and amplifier from one point in repeating the auditorium to break the chorus of every song.
Truax leaves the stage, a representative of the Rolling Stone announced that the Dresden Dolls would like to thank the audience and are pleased to show in Italy in front of their fans. Thanks that usually do in person, in English. They enter
suddenly throwing the audience of violets and attack immediately with a cover And You Will Know of us by the Trail of Death - Will You Smile Again that will leave room for the best-known songs from Coin Operated Boy, Missed Me, Girl Anachronism, Backstabber to even a few surprises as Shores of California, certainly not among them best compositions. Out of the lineup remains dramatically the last single "Sing", by choice antimediatica the band itself and Dirty Business, a song that deserved but also set the radio in the United States.
The cover is replaced with language pas Je ne veux Travailler of Edith Piaf, in the absence of time required to prepare a duo of Italian song (or perhaps lack of one that is appropriate to their style).
The public is more lively provided, someone hires a few jokes with Amanda that does not hold back and answered, joked, causing the audience several times.
The concert closed with a curtain on Good Day, which requires the use of the guitar. Brian had told us this afternoon that the guitar was broken and was not used. Amanda first known attacks, but Brian turned to pick up the guitar goes into a panic. Amanda attacked several times, they go out of time, then enter an employee who gives him his guitar when he was just called for the introduction, Brian kicks, yells, but this time taking the time fully grasping chopsticks. One of the many embarrassing that the Dolls are fun to pass off as setbacks stage but that are part of their repertoire like the songs.
The auditorium empties near midnight, the two appear in the lobby to sign anything (as ironically wrote Amanda "from your Bible to your underwear") and talking to the audience. Only the intervention of bodyguards in Milanese style detached from both their public and led to power has left the room.
