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Äàòà: 16.08.06
What happens when a band chooses an opening act they absolutely adore but their fans absolutely loathe? In the case of Panic! At the Disco and openers the Dresden Dolls, you make a video about it.
For the past month, teenage-drama darlings Panic! At the Disco and gothic cabaret punks the Dresden Dolls have been sharing stages across Canada and the U.S., but their fans have been feuding in the crowds. Fans of the more mainstream headliners, Panic!, would taunt the Dolls as they sweated out their unique brand of theatrical piano and drum masterpieces, screaming “You suck!” So, the dolls decided to document the madness and shoot a video with their friends in Panic!
“People are just arrogant and ignorant. We’re actually going to make a movie with the Dresden Dolls about that one thing [the fans fighting] to kind of poke fun at our fans for not being nice to each other,” Panic! frontman Brendon Urie told Dose.ca mid-way through the tour. “We’ll see how that goes.”
Dresden Dolls singer Amanda Palmer released more details of the project in a recent post on her MySpace page.
“Brian and I were getting along fine. We were bonded through our vehement frustration of a common enemy, the Panic! fans,” Palmer recounted of the tour. “We went out on stage every night ready for battle, but I turned to myself for a solution, and I found it in this: why not make a video with these guys [Panic! At the Disco]? They're here; they're bored like we are; they're hilarious. So, we did. We decided to film a home-movie video of the two bands trying to kill each other, Spy vs. Spy style, and the results will be forthcoming. They were all excellent actors.”
Unfortunately, the record label has been giving the Dolls some grief over the film, but the always resourceful songsters are still planning to put the footage to good use by using it in their next video for the fittingly titled “Backstabber.”
“The label nitpicked us until we couldn't handle it anymore and the deal was broken,” Palmer wrote of the film project, hinting at her next approach. “We aren't making a ‘real’ video for our next single, ‘Backstabber.’ What's more real than this? We keep asking. Nothing.”
Palmer also revealed some details about how the tragic death of Panic! guitarist Ryan Ross’s father during the tour caused a huge amount of grief for everyone.
“We almost didn't want to get the call that the shows were on, because we assumed that that would mean that Ryan had been talked into coming back on tour when he should be at home, dealing. Dealing with who, with what?” Palmer wrote. “Ryan came back on tour after three days off, we finished up in California. The whole crew felt strange, their whole gang seemed out of sorts. No wonder. I took a long walk with Ryan around the parking lot in Anaheim. I felt like the whole world had been thrown at him, in all it's shitty ugliness, and what could I say? Better to say nothing. We walked, saying nothing and occasionally something. We started at the hooters billboard, hoisted five stories in the air to reach the passing traffic from the highway. We walled to the Bud Light billboard, hoisted five stories in the air to reach the passing traffic from the highway. Do you have anyone real to talk to? I will. I’ll talk to you. When you're ready. Don’t lose me. I’m an ally. Really. I hugged him and I went back to the bus, getting into my bunk with a heaviness I couldn't describe.”
