Okay, listen up. This is pretty amazing.

To make a long and beautiful story short, Trent Reznor went to the Dresden Dolls show in San Francisco the night before we played with them, loved the show, and from what Amanda told me especially loved the Dresden Dolls Brigade. We all busted our asses for this show, and all the hard work paid off in a way that we couldn’t have even expected – get this:

Trent has personally offered a few guest list spots to us at each show, specifically for the Brigade and its beautiful performers! As I’m sure you realize, this is enormous for The Dresden Dolls, and it is incredibly important that we live up to the standard the performers set at the S.F. show. I have tons of last second work in front of me, so I’m reaching out to all of you.

The really really important stuff:

This is not a Dresden Dolls show like you know them. This is a Nine Inch Nails show, and therefore the Brigade will have to be a bit different. I need to be incredibly selective in who we let on the list, but if you don’t get on it, it isn’t because we don’t love you with all of our hearts – it’s just that these shows are critical, as I’m sure you understand.

As there are only a few spots, it is very important that we get the ones who will fit these shows the best, and I’m mainly looking at professionalism, costuming (very important), visibility and odd and surreal performances.

The details are as thus, so you have a better idea: There will be a HUGE line, so we would want performers outside about 1/2 hour before doors entertaining them and coming in with the doors opening to continue until The Dresden Dolls go on, which is abut 1.5 hours. Then relax and watch the 45 minute DD set, and after that another 15(ish) minutes of performing and passing out Dresden Dolls CD samplers. We did this at the San Francisco shows, and people were literally lining up for the CD's. (This would be in the lobby area, or close to where they are doing their signing at intermission.) Then, enjoy the NIN show or just hang out. After the show, we would really appreciate it if the performers could then continue handing out the samplers. We like this because it associates the performers with The Dresden Dolls - not to take away from NIN, but this is us and we, and we try to portray a taste of what to expect at a DD show.

There won’t be backstage access, so you will need to get ready at home or in the bathroom at the venue. We did this at the SF show and it was no problem.

Okay, that’s it for now. Please email me at thebrigade@dresdendolls.com with NIN and the city/date of show in the subject line if you have any questions or are interested. Please, do NOT message me on the boards as I don’t want the emails to get lost or forgotten. Thanks!

I love you all,

~ Casey

PS - Sorry that my writing is so bland in this message, I’m kinda tired right now.