The Tiger Lillies

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The Tiger Lillies
The Tiger Lillies at the TFF Rudolstadt 2013
The Tiger Lillies at the TFF Rudolstadt 2013
General information
Genre (s) Cabaret , chanson , theater music
founding 1989
Website http://www.tigerlillies.com
Founding members
Martyn Jacques
Vocals, bass
Phil Butcher
Adrian Huge
Current occupation
Vocals, accordion, piano, ukulele
Martyn Jacques
Bass, singing saw , theremin , background vocals
Adrian Stout
Drums, percussion, backing vocals
Jonas Golland
Drums
Timothy Remfrey
former members
Drums, percussion, backing vocals
Mike Pickering

The Tiger Lillies are a British trio founded in 1989 around the singer-songwriter Martyn Jacques. With his clown mask and falsetto singing , which he himself accompanies with accordion, piano, ukulele or banjo, he shapes the weird-macabre, tragic-comedic style of the band. The Tiger Lillies connect this British humor , punk - attitude and art music in the tradition of Brecht / Weill with circus sounds , vaudeville and cabaret of the Weimar Republic .

Career

Band history

The band found themselves on an ad from Martyn Jacques. Drummer Adrian Huge and bassist Phil Butcher were the only ones who responded to the ad, shaping the group's concept and style until 1995 when Adrian Stout replaced Phil Butcher. In spring 2012 Mike Pickering came to replace Adrian Huge and played with the band until 2015. In early 2015 Pickering was again replaced by the current drummer Jonas Golland.

It is often rumored that the band name was borrowed from a murdered prostitute in Soho with a preference for tiger outfits . But Martyn Jacques contradicts this and says that he was simply inspired by a picture on his wall.

Shortly before his death in 2000, Edward Gorey gave Martyn Jacques unpublished writings and text fragments with a personal letter in which he admitted himself to be a great appreciator of the works of the Tiger Lillies and asked Martyn Jacques to set his works to music. The band was honored and produced the album The Gorey End together with the Kronos Quartet , which was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2003 .

In 2011, the Tiger Lillies performed as part of the protests on Syntagma Square in Athens .

At the beginning of 2011, the band was contacted by the directors of the MuseumsQuartier in Vienna and asked whether they were interested in working on a musical version of Georg Büchner's Woyzeck . The band agreed and so the piece was edited musically. The band played from September 24 to October 15, 2011 alongside Ben Becker , Joachim Bißmeier and Ruth Brauer-Kvam . With their 13 songs they illustrated the agony and emotional confusion of Woyzeck. The soundtrack was also released in 2011.

Her album A Dream Turns Sour , released on June 28, 2014 - the anniversary of the assassination attempt in Sarajevo - is dedicated to the outbreak of World War I 100 years earlier. It is the first Tiger Lillies album that Martyn Jacques did not write the lyrics for. It contains only texts by British, Canadian and Australian poets who died on the battlefields of war.

In 2015, the film music composed by Martin Jacques for Ewald André Dupont's silent film Varieté from 1925 was premiered at the Berlinale .

Due to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic , Martyn Jacques in Berlin and Adrian Stout in Athens were each in quarantine at home . All appearances had to be canceled. During this time they recorded the album COVID-19 , which was released exclusively on Bandcamp at Easter with a cover by Lebanese artist Eugene Cavill .

concept

Band members sign autographs

The Tiger Lillies mostly release concept albums . Often they refer to literary models such as Struwwelpeter ( Shockheaded Peter ; 1998), The little girl with the sulfur woods by Hans Christian Andersen ( The Matchgirl ; 2006) or plays such as Hamlet ( Hamlet ; 2012). Other album cover topics such as the circus life ( Circus songs ; 2000), the Seven Deadly Sins ( Seven Deadly Sins ; 2008), or freak shows ( Freak Show ; 2009). Again and again they address prostitution , perversions , blasphemy , murder, dirt and the like. The texts often deliberately play with provocations in a distant, ironic way .

The Independent described the Tiger Lillies as a "provocative avant-garde trio that combines cabaret, vaudeville , music hall and street theater ."

Time Out's critic Tim Arthur describes it as follows: “Imagine Kurt Weill bringing pre-war Berlin to our minds while a falsetto singer screeches, squeaks and squeaks through each piece like a wandering lunatic, then you have a concept . "

Discography

Albums

DVDs

  • 2000: Shockheaded Peter and Other Songs - Live in Concert in New York
  • 2006: Mountains Of Madness with Alexander Hacke and drawings by Danielle de Picciotto
  • 2009: The Tiger Lillies - The Early Years
  • 2011: The Tiger Lillies Live in Prague
  • 2015: variety

Books

  • 1998: The Ultimate Shockheaded Peter Book. ISBN 3-932909-99-2
  • 2003: Farmyard Fantasy Book.
  • 2007: The Tiger Lillies Book.

Web links

Commons : Tiger Lillies  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. whatsonstage.com ( Memento of the original from January 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed July 29, 2013) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.whatsonstage.com
  2. fasterlouder.com ( Memento of the original from March 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed July 29, 2013) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fasterlouder.com.au
  3. The band's website ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed January 26, 2015) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tigerlillies.com
  4. Interview with the band ( Memento of the original from March 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed July 29, 2013) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tigerlillies.com
  5. bloom.de (accessed on July 12, 2013)
  6. occupiedlondon.org ( Memento of the original from July 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed July 12, 2013) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.occupiedlondon.org
  7. Weird Album Review: The Tiger Lillies, "A Dream Turns Sour"
  8. berlinale.de (accessed December 4, 2015)
  9. COVID-19 on Bandcamp
  10. Dark Tales of the Unexpected ( Memento of the original from July 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed July 29, 2013) "... a provocative and avant-garde three-piece band that combines cabaret, vaudeville, music-hall and street theater." @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tigerlillies.com
  11. www.tigerlillies.com ( Memento of the original from July 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed December 27, 2015) "Imagine Kurt Weill conjuring up images of prewar Berlin while a falsetto vocalist screams, squeaks and squawks his way through every number like some rambling madman, and you've got the picture." @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tigerlillies.com
  12. www.b7ue.com