Martyn Jacques, the band's front man, songwriter and founder, spent most of his twenties in a flat above a brothel in London's Soho, peeping through his window at the buzz of Soho’s lowlife. The Tiger Lillies were formed in 1989 and as the decades go by their sound remains one of the most unique and original things one could come across. You & the boys are maximum & solid gold!! You've grown more complex + secure than ever! I am SO proud to be working w you! - Nan Goldin Just get a ticket by hook or by crook, if there's any left (which I doubt) and catch them while you can. Just brilliant and utterly fantastic!! You'll never hear more perverse and twisted as well as haunting and sorrowful songs. Viva La Tiger Lillies from your fan Mark Mothersbaugh/Devo Any description of them is an injustice – they are completely peerless. Ladies and Gentlemen, The Tiger Lillies - Matt Groeningintroduction at ATP Minehead, UK May 05, 2010 "It's not surprising that their cult following is worldwide - a Tiger Lillies gig is a journey into wild emotion which passes right through melodrama and out the other side into bizarre beauty" - Evening StandardĪll these bands are my favourites, but here is a favourite, favourite. "Bigger, prouder and fleshily engorged with the pustule throb of the garishly gaudy and gloriously obscene." - Ross Fortune, Time Out The Tiger Lillies perform Hamlet nominated for a 2012 Reumert AwardĪrgus Angel Award - Winner 2013 Rime of the Ancinet Mariner QUOTES Grammy Nomination 2003 The Gorey End - Best Classical Crossover Album - Tiger Lillies/Kronos Quartetĭie Weberischen - Dir. Stephanie Mohr - Winner Nestroy-Theaterpreises 2007 Spezialpreis Shockheaded Peter - Winner Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical (Martyn Jacques) Shockheaded Peter - Winner Best Entertainment
~ James Christopher Monger, Rovi AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS Early in 2017, A Cold Night in Soho took a gritty, poignant look back at Jacques' time in '80s Soho. In 2016, they released the Cole Porter homage Love for Sale and Goosebumps Alive, which celebrated R.L.
Later in the decade, the trio explored more modern sources of inspiration.
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Along with more expected fare like 2014's Lulu: A Murder Ballad, which took inspiration from 19th German playwright Frank Wedekind's daring series of plays about his ill-fated heroine Lulu, the trio also tackled subjects such as World War I (A Dream Turns Sour) and the work of Søren Kierkegaard (Either Or). As the 2010s continued, the group's range of influences expanded. Huge left the group in 2012, with touring drummer Mike Pickering taking his place until 2015, when Jonas Golland joined the fold. Over the years, the Tiger Lillies interpreted well-known works including Punch and Judy (2004), The Little Matchgirl (2006), The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Hamlet (both 2012), and collaborated with artists ranging from the Symphony Orchestra of Norrlandsoperan (on 2007's Urine Palace) to photographer Nan Goldin (on 2011's The Ballad of Sexual Dependency). Inspired by a box of unpublished stories and drawings that Gorey sent the band, the album was released shortly after his death and was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Classical Crossover Album. In 2003, the trio worked with the Kronos Quartet and illustrator/writer Edward Gorey on another career highlight, The Gorey End. The production spawned a Tiger Lillies album of the same name that year and won two Olivier Awards in 2002. The band was prolific during the '90s, issuing albums including Spit Bucket (1995), The Brothel to the Cemetery (1996), and Farmyard Filth (1997) before contributing music to Shockheaded Peter, a gleefully macabre musical theater adaptation of a 19th century German book of cautionary tales for children, in 1998. This version of the Tiger Lillies issued their first recordings on cassettes (which were later gathered on the compilation Bouquet of Vegetables: The Early Years) and 1994's Births, Marriages and Deaths before bassist Adrian Stout replaced Butcher in 1995. His only responses were from Adrian Huge and Phil Butcher, respectively, who completed the band's original lineup. The group began its revels in the bawdy vaudeville traditions of prostitution, opium dens, and the seedy life of the eternal street musician in 1989, when singer Martyn Jacques placed an ad for a drummer and bass player. With their signature blend of chanson, opera, and Gypsy music, London-based experimental rock trio the Tiger Lillies are difficult to define in one sentence.
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