Brian Ritchie Assembles a Violent Femmes Supergroup For Australian Festival

Former Violent Femmes member Brian Ritchie is the curator of the Mona Foma Festival in Hobart, Australia and has assembled a supergroup to perform the groups's debut album.

Amanda Palmer and Brian Viglione from The Dresden Dolls will join former Bad Seed and current PJ Harvey collaborator Mick Harvey and John Parish and Ritchie to form the one-off band to perform the Violent Femmes album from start to finish.

The self-titled Violent Femmes debut album was released in April, 1983. Most of the songs were written while singer Gordon Gano was still at school in Milwaukee.

The album wasn’t a hit in its day, it reached number 171 on Billboard, but went on to become a consistent seller from then on.

Tracks on Violent Femmes:

• Blister In The Sun
• Kiss Off
• Please Do Not Go
• Add It Up
• Confessions
• Prove My Love
• Promise
• To The Kill
• Gone Daddy Gone
• Good Feeling

The Violent Femmes supergroup will perform Violent Femmes at 10pm Friday, January 20 at the PW1 Stage 1 at Mona Foma in Hobart.