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The Tiger Lillies 
The Tiger Lillies during a concertBackground information Origin London Genres Dark cabaret Years active 1989–present Labels Misery Guts Music Website Official website Tiger Lillies Forum Members Martyn Jacques, Adrian Stout, Adrian Huge 
The band after a concert
The Tiger Lillies are a three-piece band, formed in 1989 and based in London. They have toured worldwide and won acclaim with their opera Shockheaded Peter.
Their surreal style has been described as dark, darkly humorous, strangely humorous, 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, Cockatoo Prison, starts on 20 May 2010 at Cockatoo Island in Sydney. The show is based around songs about a group of prisoners, each of whom is introduced song-by-song.
The band were chosen by Matt Groening to perform at the edition of the All Tomorrow's Parties festival he curated in May 2010 in Minehead, England.
Contents
Band members
- Martyn Jacques - vocals, accordion, piano, guitar, harmonica, ukulele and banjolele.
- Adrian Huge (born Adrian Hughes) - drums, percussion and backing vocals.
- Adrian Stout - double bass, musical saw, theremin and backing vocals.
Discography
Albums
- 1994 - Births, Marriages and Deaths
- 1995 - Spit Bucket
- 1995 - Ad Nauseam
- 1996 - The Brothel to the Cemetery
- 1996 - Goodbye great nation (with Contrastate)
- 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
- 2006 - The Little Match Girl
- 2007 - Urine Palace
- 2007 - Live in Soho
- 2007 - Love and War
- 2008 - Seven Deadly Sins
- 2009 - Sinderella
- 2009 - Freakshow
- 2009 - Live at the New Players Theatre - London 2009
- 2010 - Cockatoo Prison
- 2010 - Here I Am Human!
- 2011 - The Ballad of Sexual Dependency(with Nan Goldin)
- 2011 - Woyzeck
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
- 2009 - The Tiger Lillies - The Early Years
Books
- 1998 - The Ultimate Shockheaded Peter Book - ISBN 3-932909-99-2
- 2003 - Farmyard Fantasy Book
- 2007 - "The Tiger Lillies Book" - www.tigerlilliesbook.com
- 2007 - "The Tiger Lillies - Selected illustrations of songs" - by Anne-Sophie Malmberg
- 2008 - "The inquisitorial skeleton shooting" - limited edition www.tigerlilliesbook.com
See also
- Dark cabaret
- Punk cabaret
External links
- The Tiger Lillies Official Website
- The Tiger Lillies Forum
- 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
- Outdoor Session with 'They Shoot - Music Don't They'
- Tiger Lillies video "Living Hell"
Categories:- British comedy musical groups
- Dark cabaret musicians
- Musical groups established in 1989
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