eclipse presents THE TIGER LILLIES (UK) - AUSVERKAUFT! / SOLD OUT!
"The godfathers of alternative cabaret" - MISERY GUTS MUSIC
"There is nothing else like them. Any description of them is an injustice – they are completely peerless." - Alex Kapranos, FRANZ FERDINAND
"Phenomenal" - THE GUARDIAN
"A decadence that touches on the divine!" - THE TELEGRAPH
"Devilish but Delicious! 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
"Garishly guady and gloriously obscene...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." - TIME OUT
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Sie sind definitiv nicht die richtige Wahl für zart besaitete Gemüter, die sich schnell mal auf den Schlips getreten fühlen: Berühmt-berüchtigt für ihre provozierenden und kontroversen Songs, drehen sich diese gerne mal um Sodomie, Prostitution, Blasphemie und alle anderen vorstellbaren Laster. Musikalisch sind sie zu einem grossen Teil von Berthold Brecht und Kurt Weill's "Dreigroschenoper" sowie dem Cabaret des Berlins der Vorkriegsjahre inspiriert, aber auch Elemente von Gypsy- und Zirkusmusik, Französischem Chanson, Jacques Brel und dem Britischen Varietétheater lassen sich ausmachen.
Die Welt der Tiger Lillies ist finster, absonderlich und mannigfaltig, mit Momenten tiefer Trauer, unbarmherzig schwarzen Humors und gewaltiger Schönheit. Das einzigartige "Brecht'sche Anarcho-Strassen-Oper-Trio" singt über alles, "was keine schönen blonden Mädchen und Buben, die durch saftig grüne Wiesen streifen beinhaltet", um es in den Worten von Leadsänger Martyn Jacques zu sagen. Was auch immer auf der dunklen Seite des Lebens geboren ist - Prostitution, Drogenabhängigkeit, Gewalt und Verzweiflung - das hingegen gute Chancen, ein Stück der Tiger Lillies zu inspirieren. Mit ihrem schwarzen Sinn für Humor und der bissigen Ironie zeigt das Trio gleichsam mit dem Finger zurück zum Publikum “what on Earth are we doing, laughing at this stuff?”
Mit seinem ganz eigenen Sound und provokativen Stil stach das Trio in den 90er Jahren sofort hervor, und spielte nach kurzer Zeit nicht mehr an den Strassenecken und in den Pubs Londons sondern am Piccadilly Theater und am Sydney Opera House. Es folgten Welttourneen und Engagements in verschiedenen Kunst- und Theaterprojekten.
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One year after their sold-out show in Basel, London's cult Grammy-nominated and Olivier Award-winning three-piece returns! Their twisted fusion of pre-war-Berlin-cabaret & avant-garde-music-hall is irresistibly delivered in deranged anarchic-gypsy-circus-styl
Notorious for singing controversial songs of all vices imaginable, The Tiger Lillies are not for the easily offended. Their musical style is influenced by Bertold Brecht and Kurt Weill's masterpiece "The Threepenny Opera" as well as French chanson and British music hall tunes. Formed in 1989, a quarter of a century later The Tiger Lillies remain one of the most unique, provocative and genre-defying bands one could come across. Thank God they are none the wiser, softer or nicer and they keep finding new ways to shock, enchant and amuse their audience with their breath taking live performances that will utterly bewilder yet fully entertain you.
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. It took him a good ten years to turn that strange world into art, while training as a singer and songwriter. The avant-trio stood out immediately for its distinct sound and style and the band quickly worked its way up from London pubs to the Piccadilly Theatre, and from buskers’ benches to the Sydney Opera House. Soon they were touring the world giving concerts and involved in art and theatre projects, collaborating with artists of all disciplines: from circus performers to Shakespearean actors, experimental dancers to avant-garde photographers, and burlesque puppeteers to classical music ensembles.
The world of The Tiger Lillies is dark, peculiar and varied, with moments of deep sadness, cruel black humour and immense beauty. Their songs cover the dark aspects of life, from prostitution and drug addiction to violence and despair. Always with a touch of twisted humor and sharp irony. Echoeing the voices of Bertolt Brecht and Jacques Brel; their music shocks, amuses and entertains in a postmodern vaudeville way, with inimitable in-yer-face shows, where no limit should be taken for granted.
This new Tiger Lillies’ album and live show is a series of snapshots of a vanished Soho: women trapped in the endless cycle of turning tricks in clip joints, career alcoholics of Soho’s legendary drinking dens, starched soldiers of the Salvation Army making forays into these degenerate streets. It’s also a memoir of Martyn’s experiences as a busker in Finsbury Park as well as the Tiger Lillies very first gigs at the King’s Head in Islington. Significantly, this is also the band’s first album not connected to a theatre show in about ten years, thus representing a return to song-writing for the sake of the songs alone. To mark this high-profile occasion the album is released on a CD as well as a limited-edition vinyl pressing.
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Taste-Tips:
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Doors: 19:30
Show: 20:30
AUSVERKAUFT! / SOLD OUT!
