As promised, on Friday night at the MONA FOMA Festival in Tasmania, former Violent Femmes bassist Brian Ritchie and an ad-hoc supergroup featuring The Dresden Dolls, former Bad Seeds multi-instrumentalist Mick Harvey and PJ Harvey collaborator John Parish performed the Femmes’ classic 1983 self-titled debut album in its entirety.
Below, you can see some pretty high-quality audience-shot video of at least six of the album’s 10 tracks, as Amanda Palmer leads the one-off group through dorm-room staples such as “Add It Up,” “Blister in the Sun,” “Kiss Off” and “Good Feeling.” Check it out below, and, of course, we’ll add more as the rest of the set (hopefully) surfaces on YouTube.
VIDEO: Dresden Dolls and Friends, “Blister in the Sun”
VIDEO: Dresden Dolls and Friends, “Kiss Off”
VIDEO: Dresden Dolls and Friends, “Add It Up”
VIDEO: Dresden Dolls and Friends, “Prove My Love”
VIDEO: Dresden Dolls and Friends, “To the Kill”
VIDEO: Dresden Dolls and Friends, “Good Feeling”
PREVIOUSLY ON SLICING UP EYEBALLS
- Brian Ritchie enlists The Dresden Dolls, Mick Harvey to perform Violent Femmes’ debut
- Midnight Oil, Violent Femmes members form instrumental surf-rock band The Break
Thank you so much. Brilliant.
Brilliant, thanks for posting.