Magic & Dresden Dolls

Last Saturday I went to see theDresden Dolls perform at the Enmore theatre in Newtown. They were amazing!!! They really played it up for the crowd, going through my favourites like "coin operated boy" and "Missed Me". She is one of my regrets about not having a twitter account buti already have Facebook, this blog and 4 email addresses dammit you have to draw the line somewhere!

Thee more was webcast last weekend but they archived a copy over at moshcam.com and I'll try to embed the video here if it will let me...

Watch Enmore Theatre and other great gigs on Moshcam.

If you find it, WATCH IT! It will change your life and leave you crying on the floor for mummy. You will never settle for anything that does not have Amanda Fucking Palmer and Brian Fucking Viglione. If your lucky you may see me jumping and screaming in the audience, or maybe not for though I did get caught up in the concert and their seductive spell so fully that I waited at the back entrance for them to leave and beg for an autograph (I have NEVER done something so stalkerish in my life, managed to justify it to myself by saying it was only polite to say thank you for the show as they put so much effort into it. It was worth every second of being squashed and knocked over by a drunk and beaten -once by one of Brians drumsticks - in the mosh pit.) Amanda very generously and happily -for someone who must have been trashed after a show that good, leaving at 1 in the morning - signed my ticket and gave me a hug, awwwwww I'm in love all over again.

That was last weekend, this one I went so see a magic show, "the illusionists". Seven very talented magicians currently playing at the opera house. I loved the show, saw some old ones and some new ones. Before yesterday I had never seen a live magic show, I didn't realise the difficulty you have deciding where to look - which is exactly how they want it.

From the people sitting next to me I realised another thing too, people don't go to magic shows to be entertained they go todo battle! Each one secretly thinks they can outsmart the guy onstage, quietly guessing how they do it and muttering the imagined secrets to a partner (or in my case, random stranger) and feel secretly smug about the whole thing.the only time I felt myself justifyably smug was when they said the ball and cups was the oldest trick in magic*. Not true, see the link below.

http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2F&gl=AU#/watch?v=SipLcrPmPOQ

The rest of the time I just sat back and was entertained by the Anti-conjurer playing Russian roulette with a broken bottle and a little girls hand.

If you have the chance to see any of these people perform, do so. I certainly had fun (especially when the Trickster got the watches off six people without them realising it. )

Live shows are spectacular!