Tiger Lillies
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| The Tiger Lillies | |
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| Image:Tigerlillies.jpg 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, based in London.
Formed in 1989, they have toured world-wide and won acclaim with their opera Shockheaded Peter.
Their surreal style has been described as dark, darkly humorous, strangely humourus, random, Brechtian, and gypsy cabaret. They are also notorious for singing controversial songs involving bestiality, prostitution and blasphemy, shocking unsuspecting audiences. 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/illustrator Edward Gorey and the Kronos Quartet.
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[edit] Band members
- Martyn Jacques - vocals, accordion, piano, guitar, harmonica.
- Adrian Huge - drums and percussion, backing vocals.
- Adrian Stout - double bass, musical saw, backing vocals.
[edit] Discography
[edit] Albums and Songs
- 1994 - Births, Marriages And Deaths
Boatman, Hell, Normal, Heroin And Cocaine, Prison House Blues, Jacky, Despite, Autumn Leaves, Lager Lout, Open Your Legs, Down And Out, Tears, Her Room, The Flowers, War, Obscene, You're World, Sense Of Sentiment, Wake Up, Repulsion, Sodsville, Bones, Circle Line, Haunting Me, Lily Marlene
- 1995 - Spit Bucket
Stitch Me Up, Gouge My Eyes Out, Violin Time, Crappy, Weak, Blind Willy, Doctors & Nurses, Just Because, Fallen Hero, Sinner, Heaven, Promised Land, Weird, Way On Down, Our Hearts, Suffering, Ealing, Thank You
- 1995 - Ad Nauseam
Larder, Dribble, Bumhole, Darkness, Beat me, Swine, Whore, Disease, Ghetto, Gypsies, Shoot your load, Pimps, pushers and thieves, Smell, Snakeskin shoes, Old, Social reject, George, Five O'Clock, Jesus, Suicide, Crap, Murder, Violet, Snip Snip
- 1996 - The Brothel To The Cemetery
Roll Up, Tiger Lillie Line, Banging in the Nails, Sailors, Slough, Alone with the moon, Terrible, Russians, Gypsy Lament, Heaven to Hell, Mortuary, Nightingale, Crime, Old Gracefully, Reap what you sow, Pretty soon, Arthur, Decline, Millionaire
- 1997 - Farmyard Filth
Hamsters, Waiter, Vagina, Aunty Mabel, Heinrich, Sheep, Maggots, Motor Car, Piglet, Kick a stick, Cowboys, Flies, Happy End
- 1998 - Low Life Lullabies
Same old story, The pimp song, Pervert, Piccadilly Lilly, Queen for a day, Bank robber blues, Gas bill, Maxwell, Billy's blues, Crude, If you knew, Soho news, Le Havre, Dead
- 1998 - Shockheaded Peter
The Struwwelpeter Overture, Cruel Frederick, The dreadful story about Harriet and the matches, Bully Boys, The Story of the man that went out shooting, Snip Snip, Augustus, Fidgety Phil, Johnny Head-In-Air, Flying Robert, Shockheaded Peter
- 1999 - Bad Blood and Blasphemy
Bad, Killer, Car Crash, Maria, Start a Fire, Soho Boy, Neighbour, Angel, XYZ, Crack Of Doom, Clown, Rapist, Salvation, Dead Souls, Swing 'em High
- 2000 - Circus Songs
Souvenirs, Sleep with the fishes, Freakshow, Danced All Night, Bearded Lady, Cheapest show, Send In the Clowns, Pretty Lisa, Circus Clown, Over you, Pall Bearers
- 2000 - Bouquet of Vegetables - The Early Years
Thousand Violins, William, Quick and Slow, Marseille, Palace of St James, Wrong Attitude, Little Boys Blues, Wake Up, Deluded, Overtime, Holy Men, Born to Fail, Angels, Don't Mean a Thing, Right to Wrong
- 2001 - 2 Penny Opera
Moon over Soho, Why (Mackie's childhood song), Piss on your grave, My Daughter, Mary, Wedding Song, Police, Bastard, Money, Depends on Baby, Fisheads, Darling, Hang Tomorrow, Your Suicides, Bitch, Wise, Wise, Twenty five minutes, Finale, Divine
- 2003 - The Sea
Louis, Pressganged, Chicago Sunset, Drunken Sailor, Luis Miller, Devil's Child, By the Shore, Captain Bligh, Cadavours, Fishermen, Jackies Bar, King Neptune, Skull and Crossbones
- 2003 - The Gorey End (with Kronos Quartet)
Hipdeep Family Intro, ABC, Weeping Chandelier, Gin, QRV, Dreadful Domesticity, Hertha Strubb, Learned Pig, Jesus on the Windshield, Besotted Mother, Histoire de Kay, Trampled Lilly, Hipdeep Family
- 2003 - Live In Russia 2000-2001
- 2004 - Punch and Judy
Mummy, Lonely Schizophrenic, Tick tock, Body Hanging, Hardest Bastard, Deranged, Mummy Loved Me, Why Am I Alone, Punch and Judy, Going South, Polly, Sick, The End, Lilly of the Valley, Fountain filled with Blood, Why are you Laughing?
- 2004 - Death and the Bible
Incontinent, Bleeding Hands Of Jesus, Scars, Bleeding, Fairground, Thieves, Graveside, Mary Magdalena, Strawberry Jam, Satan, Meat, Purgatory, Neon, Judas, In my Hearse, Mourn, Green Hill, Die.
- 2006 - Die Weberischen
Fame, Life's a bitch, Mozart's in Mannheim, Love for sale, Abort the child, Just another loser, Father's Song, Never marry a man, Screw You, Lending Song, The merry birdcatcher, Death Song, Murdered Mozart, Nothin'
- 2007 - Urine Palace
Manure, Cancer, Kick a Baby, Drowning, Yellow Angel, Getting Old, My Funny Valentine, Masturbating Jimmy, She’s a Whore, Gonorrhoea, Eternity.
- 2007 - Live in Soho
- 2007 - Love and War
Love And War, Card Game, Kill you on a Monday, There is no glory in battle, Devil, Love it is a luxury, A river of tears, Trancred and Clorinda, Kill you, Lover's return, Winners and losers, Nightingale, Enemies of love, Love a Whore, Venus.
[edit] DVD
- 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
- Dark Cabaret
- Punk Cabaret
- The Dresden Dolls
[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
- 2005 article from the North Adams Transcript
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