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The Tiger Lillies band history and film/theatre/dance credits
Grammy Nomination
The Gorey End Best Classical Crossover Album
Olivier Award 2002 winners
Shockheaded Peter - Winner Best Entertainment
Shockheaded Peter -Winner Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical (Martyn Jacques)
“Bigger, prouder and fleshily engorged with the pustule throb of the garishly gaudy and gloriously obscene.” - Ross Fortune, Time Out
“Brilliantly twisted” - The Guardian
“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 Standard
The Tiger Lillies defy any singular description and operate within their own eccentric definitions. Formed in 1989, they tour the world both with the Shockheaded Peter production and by themselves, developing a dedicated following from New York and San Francisco in the US to St Petersburg in Russia. Their songs (once described as ‘Surrealist Pornography’) are captured on numerous self-released albums including Brothel to the Cemetery,
Farmyard Filth, Ad Nauseam, Shockheaded Peter and Circus Songs.
Misery Guts Music
PO Box 10578, London SW1P 4DY, UK
Tel/Fax: +44 171 821 9457
LIVE SHOWS
2010 – Edinburgh Fringe Festival – Live In Concert
2010 – First UK Tour after 20 years of performing together worldwide
2009 – Edinburgh Fringe Festival - The Songs of Shockheaded Peter and Other Gory Verses
The Songs of Shockheaded Peter and other Gory Verses
The Tiger Lillies are the Godfathers of alternative cabaret. Selling out London’s West-End and the Edinburgh Festival The Songs of Shockheaded Peter and other Gory Verses celebrates 20 years of dark and deviant theatrics. Performing songs from the Olivier award-winning smash Shockheaded Peter, their Grammy nominated album ‘The Gorey End’ and other deranged favourites, The Tiger Lillies will embark on their first UK tour in 2010.
‘Fleshily engorged with the pustule throb of the garishly gaudy and gloriously obscene’ Time Out
‘There is nothing else like them, they are completely peerless’ Alek Kapranos of Franz Ferdinand. By Mina Courtauld 17/5/96
The Criminal Castrati’s Anarchic Brechtian Blues Trio
The Tiger Lillies are an extraordinary three piece band with a large cult following in London. They are fronted by singer Martyn Jacques who trained himself as an opera singer with a castrati style voice of heartbreaking beauty, whilst living alone above a strip joint in Soho for seven years. Accompanied by drummer Adrian Huge, whose appearance was described by David Byrne as James Joyce on drums, and double bass player Adrian Stout, Jacques plays accordion and sings savage and passionate songs about prostitutes, drug addicts and losers, his voice soaring and growling like a man possessed. Ken Campbell has described him as “the criminal castrati”, and with his dickensian style of dress, long pigtail and bowler hat, his corrosive lyrics and his astonishing voice, all the while singing with his eyes closed, he makes an indelible impression. Jacques sings about life at the bottom of contemporary Britain with the voice of an angel.
The music is a startling mixture of opera, gypsy song and left bank Paris, but what really marks out this band from any other is the emotional charge and raw passion of the delivery. Because they are impossible to pigeonhole, the band has not yet had a wide commercial success, despite being picked up by David Byrne, with performances at the South Bank, as well as festivals and foreign tours, but this cannot last for much longer as their reputation is spreading very fast in the art culture underworld.
BBC STAND UP SHOW BBC
EDINBURGH NIGHTS BBC2
11 O’CLOCK SHOW Channel Four
STAGE
Production / Character Director Company
THE LAMP Paul Byrne Edinburgh 2009
SUPERNATURAL Edinburgh 2008
Production / Character Director Company
WAXIN Paul Byrne Pleasance, Edinburgh 2007
VICAR STREET Paul Byrne / Hannah Springham Vicar Street, Dublin
SECRET POLICEMANS BALL David Tyler Royal Albert Hall
BELFAST FESTIVAL Elmwood Hall
MAXWELL’S FULLMOONERS Paul Byrne Underbelly, Edinburgh
ROUND TWILIGHT Paul Byrne Pleasance, Edinburgh
MONTREAL JUST FOR LAUGHS Various, Montreal
KILKENNY CAT LAUGHS Various, Ireland
HBO COMEDY FESTIVAL Dave Morley Caesar’s Palace, Las Vegas
GRAND ROYALE Paul Byrne Pleasance, Edinburgh
THIS IS MY HOUR
HERALD ANGEL BANK OF
SCOTLAND AWARD FOR COMEDY
Paul Byrne Pod Deco 2, Edinburgh Festival
THE LITTLE SULTAN SPEAKS Melbourne Comedy Festival
RADIO
Production / Character Director Company
LEE MACK SHOW Will Saunders BBC Radio 4
DARA O’BRIAN AND FRIENDS Will Saunders BBC Radio 2
THE BLAME GAME BBC Radio 4
BEST OF THE FEST Clare Bartlett BBC Radio 4
SERIOUS ABOUT COMEDY Ed Morrish BBC Radio 7
A GLASTONBURY TRIBUTE TO
MALCOLM HARDEE
Testbed BBC Radio 4
THE UNOFFICIAL ELECTION SHOW Adam Bromley BBC Radio 4
THE SOFA OF TIME BBC Radio 4
SUNDAY SHOW HIGHLIGHTS
REPORTER
BBC Radio 2
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