Tiger Lillies
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| The Tiger Lillies | |
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 The Tiger Lillies during a concert
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| Background information | |
| Origin | London |
| Genre(s) | Dark cabaret |
| Years active | 1989–present |
| Label(s) | Misery Guts Music |
| Website | Official website Tiger Lillies Forum |
| Members | |
| Martyn Jacques, Adrian Stout, Adrian Huge | |
The Tiger Lillies are a three-piece band, formed in 1989 and based in London. They have toured world-wide and won acclaim with their opera Shockheaded Peter.
Their surreal style has been described as dark, darkly humorous, strangely humorous, random, Brechtian, and gypsy cabaret. They are also notorious for singing controversial songs involving bestiality, prostitution and blasphemy. In 1999 their work was featured in the film Plunkett & Macleane.
The Tiger Lillies were nominated for a Grammy award for their 2003 album The Gorey End, which was a collaboration of sorts with the writer and illustrator Edward Gorey and the Kronos Quartet.
Their newest show, 7 Deadly Sins, started on 7 April 2008 at the New Players Theatre in London. The show is based on the traditional seven deadly sins in Catholic mythology, and an album was due to be released at the same time.
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[edit] Band members
- Martyn Jacques - vocals, accordion, piano, guitar, harmonica, ukelele and the banjolele.
- Adrian Huge - drums and percussion, backing vocals.
- Adrian Stout - double bass, musical saw, backing vocals.
[edit] Discography
[edit] Albums
- 1994 - Births, Marriages and Deaths
- 1995 - Spit Bucket
- 1995 - Ad Nauseam
- 1996 - The Brothel to the Cemetery
- 1997 - Farmyard Filth
- 1998 - Low Life Lullabies
- 1998 - Shockheaded Peter
- 1999 - Bad Blood and Blasphemy
- 2000 - Circus Songs
- 2000 - Bouquet of Vegetables - The Early Years
- 2001 - 2 Penny Opera
- 2003 - The Sea
- 2003 - The Gorey End (with Kronos Quartet)
- 2003 - Live in Russia 2000-2001
- 2004 - Punch and Judy
- 2004 - Death and the Bible
- 2005 - Huinya (with Leningrad)
- 2006 - Die Weberischen
- 2007 - Urine Palace
- 2007 - Live in Soho
- 2007 - Love and War
- 2008 - "7 Deadly Sins"
[edit] DVDs
- 2006 - Mountains of Madness (with Alexander Hacke (Einstürzende Neubauten) and drawings by Danielle de Picciotto)
- 2006 - Shockheaded Peter and Other Songs - Live in Concert in New York
[edit] Books
- 1998 - The Ultimate Shockheaded Peter Book - ISBN 3-932909-99-2
- 2003 - Farmyard Fantasy Book
- 2007 - "The Tiger Lillies Book" - www.tigerlilliesbook.com
[edit] Trivia
- The Romanian band Spitalul de Urgenţă translated the Tiger Lillies song Whore into a new track, Curva, included on their album Alcool Rafinat (2005).
- The music for Whore was also used in the Leningrad song Dikij Muzhchina.
- Their music has also been integrated into dance performances by critically acclaimed Canadian contemporary dance troupe Holy Body Tattoo.
- They covered the Shel Silverstein song 25 Minutes to Go on 2 Penny Opera.
- They covered Send in the Clowns on Circus Songs.
- They covered My Funny Valentine on Urine Palace.
- Martyn Jacques appears in the 2007 Channel 4/Artangel film Exodus, singing "Hailstones".
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- The Tiger Lillies Official Website
- The Tiger Lillies Forum
- Shockheaded Peter Official Website
- The Tiger Lillies Book - The complete lyrics from 1989-2007 and 340 most unreleased pictures shot by b7UE
- concert pictures (2005)
- Pictures of the concert in St.-Petersburg (11.09.2005)
- Pictures of another concert in St.Petersburg, Russia (13.06.2007)
- "The Little Match Girl" - a theatre production of a different kind
- A Tiger Lillies Video Interview
- Interview with Martyn Jacques
