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| | Martyn Jacques |
 | | Martyn Jacques (composer/vocals/accordion) is the founder of The Tiger Lillies and spent much of his early years living above a brothel in London's Soho. | | | Martyn and the Tiger Lillies have performed in Shockheaded Peter since its conception and, despite winning an Olivier Award for his role, they had to take some time off from the show this spring to pursue other Tiger Lillies projects for which Martyn has written the music. | | | These include The Tiger Lilles Variete, Circa with the Holy Body Tattoo (the Tiger Lillies perform in both), and a new theatrical production of the Golem which will premiere in Basel in May 2002. |
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http://www.shockheadedpeter.com/martyn.html
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| | Tiger Lillies :: news |
| | MARTYN Jacques, frontman of British cabaret trio The Tiger Lillies, spends his time in two different worlds. | | | Together with drummer Adrian Huge and double bassist Adrian Stout, Jacques uses The Tiger Lillies as a way to show people the side of life they don't normally see, but one that is still equally real. | | | I'm just singing about things the way they are.' Even Jacques' own band members were initially uncomfortable with his songs when the group first got together over 15 years ago. |
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http://www.tigerlillies.com/2003/index.php?main=news&id=63
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| | City Pages: Torture for Tots |
| | Jacques and his band, the Tiger Lillies, almost never leave the stage; if they are gone for a moment, a cast member will reach down into a trap door on the floor and drag Jacques back onstage by his ponytail to play another number. | | | These were the words and the sorts of lyrics that I would sing." Indeed, the pairing of Jacques and Hoffmann seems somehow inevitable; the Tiger Lillies first U.S. release, The Brothel to the Cemetery, contains morbidly funny odes to the crucified Jesus ("Banging in the Nails") and the ravages of age ("Decline"). | | | Jacques wrote all of the songs for the play, adapting them from Dr. Heinrich Hoffmann's notorious 1844 children's book Struwwelpeter. |
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http://www.citypages.com/detail.asp?ArticleID=8627
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Music: The Gorey End |
| | This disc obviously divides listeners into two camps: those that love the Tiger Lillies and those that love the Tiger Lillies but wish they had more than one singer, or that the singer Martyn Jaques used a greater vocal range. | | | Martyn Jaques certainly knows how to bring the melodramatic words alive and make the humorous words,deadly! | | | Jacques: Shockheaded Peter - A Junk Opera ; Audio CD ~ Martyn Jacques (Composer) |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00008XRSX
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| | Wicked Tales Of Naughty Kids / Tiger Lillies' macabre `Peter' comes to ACT |
| | Subtitled ``A Junk Opera,'' it showcases the uniquely twisted British band the Tiger Lillies, led by the accordion-pumping castrato-style singer Martyn Jacques. | | | Huge, who played in a calypso-style comedy band before joining the Tiger Lillies, says he always knew that conventionally ``pretty'' music was not for him, either: ``I shared a flat with a guy who had 50 Miles Davis albums. | | | Jacques makes no bones about his distaste for mainstream music and entertainment. |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/06/04/PK98753.DTL&type=performance
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| | Climb Your Wall: A Kinks Fan Kommentary Page |
| | Martyn Jacques, leader of The Tiger Lillies, once planned a Good Friday concert of "bizarre and blasphemous balladry" at the Union Chapel in Isslington. | | | The Tiger Lillies have recorded one cd (Farmyard Filth) the sole subject of which is the delights to be had in the practice of trans-species intimacy. | | | Martyn Jacques' response: "How dare they call us a 'rock' band." |
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http://www.kinkdom.net/anythink_nov01.htm
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| | The Tiger Lillies |
| | Imagine my surprise when the support act, The Tiger Lillies took the stage and I discovered that the voice belonged to a guy 'Martyn Jaques', the group's lead singer and accordion player. | | | The Recital Studio at the Esplanade lacked the informal atmosphere of the London pubs, where I had seen the Tiger Lillies perform before, but in compensation it boasted great acoustics and a beautifully toned grand piano, which Martyn took full advantage of (musically not sexually). | | | Martyn's voice and gentle manner did not match his appearance. |
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http://web.singnet.com.sg/~tonym/tiger.html
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| | Guardian Unlimited Arts features Gorey by name ... |
| | No one in the Tiger Lillies is sure how it happened, but towards the end of 1999 Gorey discovered them, too ("I assume someone saw us performing in New York - he probably had some weird little friends there - and told him about the music," says Jacques). | | | He wrote about death, unmentionable vices and people who went mad and vanished without trace - everything the Tiger Lillies' lyricist Martyn Jacques had been putting into song for the past decade. | | | Jacques spent a few months learning the songs so he could perform them to Gorey in person. |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,954737,00.html
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| | theatreguidelondon- shockheaded peter - 2001/2 |
| | Composer-countertenor Martyn Jacques and the Tiger Lillies gloat over the horrible fates of Phil, who was always fidgety at table, of Johnny, who never looked where he was going, and the rest. | | | That's a loss, since Tiger Lillies singer Martyn Jacques added a note (literally) of the bizarre with his countertenor that Thomas's elephantine figure only vaguely replaces, and since the original band played with more assurance and polish than the newcomers have yet developed. | | | Several of these interspersed tales, notably the ones about the hunter who lost his rifle (and the hare who found it) and the boy who wouldn't stop sucking his thumb, are accompanied by skilful and inventive puppeteering by the rest of the cast.. |
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http://www.theatreguidelondon.co.uk/reviews/shockheadedpeter02.htm
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| | Tiger Lillies' odious adventures; Café du Nord goes up for sale; Kitchen Sink joins the mag world |
| | 'm lying in a pool of piss," trilled Martyn Jacques of the London cabaret act the Tiger Lillies, as the table next to me joined in singing along with him. | | | Tiger Lillies' odious adventures; Café du Nord goes up for sale; Kitchen Sink joins the mag world | | | With songs that delve face-first into the odious and putrid sides of human nature, the band has built up a loyal Bay Area following since they first played the Hotel Utah to a handful of people a few years back. |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2002/11/20/lisick.DTL
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| | Tiger Lillies - BUDU.cz |
| | Hudba Tiger Lillies je překvapivým mixem opery, cikánské muziky a hudby dekadentní Paříže. | | | Tiger Lillies, které není jednoduché (kdyby to bylo nutné) popsat či někam zařadit, vznikli v roce 1989 v Londýně. | | | Tiger Lillies máte možnost potkat a nasát z nich silnou atmosféru v Divadle Archa, na jejich jedinečném koncertě pouze v neděli 1.8.2004 od 21 hodin. |
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http://www.budu.cz/budu/index.php?zobraz_kategorii=4&subkategorie=19&clanek=755
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| | Criminal Castrati: The Tiger Lillies |
| | The Tiger Lillies, with a keen eye for publicity sent out a press release stating, "What better day could there be to hear songs such as 'Banging in the Nails,' 'Jesus,' and 'Hell' and what more appropriate place for such a performance. | | | The Tiger Lillies are named after a famed murdered Soho hooker named Lillie who dressed exclusively in animal prints. | | | In fact, we've made a freak of theater." The other director, Julian Crouch, says "The Tiger Lillies are a theater band in the Kurt Weill tradition. |
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http://www.wfmu.org/~kennyg/popular/articles/tigerlillies.html
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| | PerformInk Online |
| | Dance has appropriated the language of theatre; theatre now regularly avails itself of multimedia technology; in fact, theatre itself is no longer necessarily the place where the most interesting theatrical events take place." This judgment may inform the Tiger Lillies’ decision to work for the first time with dancers, albeit unconventional ones. | | | The boundaries between dance and theatre are about to blur a bit more, as are those between "performer" and "accompanist." That’s because dancer-choreographers The Holy Body Tattoo and theatrical musicians The Tiger Lillies are working together in residency at the Dance Center of Columbia College. | | | The London-based Tiger Lillies, whose avant-garde music claims to combine "opera, Gypsy song and Left Bank Paris," are more recently known for their work in Shockheaded Peter, a cult-hit performance piece whose recent Chicago engagement was eclipsed by September 11. |
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http://www.performink.com/Archives/features/HolyBodyTatoo.html
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| | Tiger Lillies :: recordings |
| | The Tiger Lillies played live for Irwin Chusid on WFMU for 30 minutes on November 3 2004. | | | Artist Edward Gorey, known as "master of the macabre," collaborated with the cabaret trio The Tiger Lillies to translate Gorey's ironic, gruesome images into song. | | | The final missing piece of the Tiger Lillies cannon, our first recordings from 1989/91. |
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http://tigerlillies.com/2003/index.php?main=recordings
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| | BBC - Wiltshire Theatre and Arts - Review: The Tiger Lillies Circus |
| | The Tiger Lillies, that twisted, compelling cabaret trio, renowned for their award winning 'junk opera' Shockheaded Peter were back with a new show - The Tiger Lillies Circus. | | | As the lights dimmed Martyn Jacques, the Tiger Lillies front man, hobbled out looking like Mr Grainger in 'Are You Being Served' meets 'Clockwork Orange'. | | | 'FreakShow' from the 2000 Tiger Lillies album - Circus. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/wiltshire/entertainment/theatre/tiger_lillies_review.shtml
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| | BBC - Wiltshire Theatre and Arts - Review: The Tiger Lillies Circus |
| | The Tiger Lillies, that twisted, compelling cabaret trio, renowned for their award winning 'junk opera' Shockheaded Peter were back with a new show - The Tiger Lillies Circus. | | | As the lights dimmed Martyn Jacques, the Tiger Lillies front man, hobbled out looking like Mr Grainger in 'Are You Being Served' meets 'Clockwork Orange'. | | | With their reputation preceding them it was understandable that as the lights dimmed on the opening of The Tiger Lillies Circus in Salisbury that I heard a querulous voice behind me whisper "I really don't know what to expect." |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/wiltshire/entertainment/theatre/tiger_lillies_review.shtml
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| | The Tiger Lillies |
| | It is possible that the Tiger Lillies were asked to tone things down after the first performance, or decided to do so themselves, because on the first evening I'm pretty sure that Johnny had 20,000 whores, but on the second evening he only had 10,000 of them. | | | I don't know if the Tiger Lillies themselves thought the applause was muted, but regardless, by Singapore standards it was not. | | | It is now nearly 1:00am on June 13th 2004 and one hour ago I was watching the Tiger Lillies finishing their second performance here in Singapore. |
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http://web.singnet.com.sg/~tonym/tiger.html
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| | Kronos Quartet, The Tiger Lillies - Last.fm |
| | We don't have an image for Kronos Quartet, The Tiger Lillies yet. | | | Listen to music, see charts for Kronos Quartet, The Tiger Lillies - Hipdeep Family Intro, Kronos Quartet, The Tiger Lillies - ABC | | | 2 people recently listened to Kronos Quartet, The Tiger Lillies. |
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http://www.audioscrobbler.com/music/Kronos+Quartet%2C+The+Tiger+Lillies
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| | BBC - Wiltshire - Music and Gigs - The Tiger Lillies - A band unlike any other |
| | Fronted by a spooky, falsetto-singing accordionist, The Tiger Lillies' outrageous cabaret fuses the spirit of punk with the passion of the French chanson and the savagery of Dickensian underculture. | | | One of the most extraordinary bands alive, The Tiger Lillies, is coming to the Salisbury Arts Centre on October 5th. | | | The Tiger Lillies play at Salisbury Arts Centre on Saturday October 5th. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/wiltshire/entertainment/music/tiger_lillies.shtml
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| | The Tiger Lillies |
| | Martyn Jacques (vocals, accordion) is the founder of The Tiger Lillies and spent much of his formative years training his voice while living in London’s Soho. | | | This coincided with the formation of The Tiger Lillies and the start of his bashing re-cycled drums, toys and kitchen-ware. | | | Adrian Huge (drums, percussion, toys) is a 'James Joyce on drums' as exclaimed David Byrne when he saw Adrian Huge in The Tiger Lillies. |
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http://www.changeperformingarts.it/tigerlillies/tigerlillies.html
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| | Tiger Lillies :: home |
| | It's been a long time since The Tiger Lillies turned from a band popular solely among London boheme to a legend of international underground movement. | | | The Marquis de Sade, owned by one of the more unsavory patrons to provide a venue to the Tiger Lillies in the early days of our Prague adventures, has meet its final demise. | | | The Tiger Lillies, once a frequent guest in Russia, will return after a two-year hiatus. |
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| | lillies - Auctions |
| | 1 CENT CD: Kronos Quartet Tiger Lillies 'Edward Gorey' - $3.51 | | | The Gorey End - The Tiger Lillies (CD 2003)-SEALED - $10.50 | | | White Calla Lilly Flower Girl Basket Lily Lillies - $9.99 |
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http://www.nationalstate.com/s/lillies/index.html
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| | Wild flowers |
| | For Martyn Jacques, angel-voiced frontman of London's devilishly debauched trio the Tiger Lillies, it came in the shape of an accordion. | | | The two Adrians had worked together in assorted blues, rock and jazz ensembles before donning lederhosen to join forces with Jacques, whose pre–Lillies years were fraught with misadventure: The singer tells lurid if far-fetched tales of backstreet drug dealings, and of getting brutally stomped by skinheads in seedy London dives. | | | Jacques had collaborated transatlantically with Gorey, the American master of the macabre, but in a plot twist worthy of the morbidly ironic tales beloved by both, in April 2000—just days before the composer was to arrive in America to perform the songs in person for the author—Gorey dropped dead of an apparent heart attack. |
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| | Amazon.com: The Gorey End: Music |
| | The Tiger Lillies are not for everyone, but damn, once you start really listening to them, and accept their vocal stylings on their own terms, they are pretty addictive. | | | Edward Gorey loved the Tiger Lillies, and toward the end of his life sent them a slew of his unpublished writings so they could do an album of his works. | | | Gorey's premature death silenced any true collaboration, but the Tiger Lillies have taken the words Gorey sent them and, with slight revision, set them to their own offbeat music quite well. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00008XRSX?v=glance
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| | All A: lillies Z: lillies |
| | The Tiger Lillies defy any singular description and operate within their own eccentric definitions Formed in 1989 they... | | | The Tiger Lillies, once a frequent guest in Russia, will return after... | | | Lillies Lillies are one of the most popular flowers, buy them on... |
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| | Fliegende Bauten Produktionen - Theater Restaurant Bar |
| | The Tiger Lillies´ weird concoction of proletarian Liederabend and Brechtian lowlife-theatre is quite traditional for Germany - even if the Germans are less skilled in the art of mockery than the British. | | | The Tiger Lillies have stunned and amazed audiences world-wide for the past 11 years with their mix of Brechtian blues, opera, black comedy and chanson. | | | Jacques is the founder of The Tiger Lillies and spent much of his formative years training his voice while living in London’s Soho. |
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http://www.fliegende-bauten.de/html/booking/tl_engl/tl_infos_engl.html
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| | Excursia London, EN, UK Theatre: Now Showing in Theaters |
| | Music and song are provided by Martyn Jacques, with his barrel organ, and his sidekicks, the Tiger Lillies. | | | Jacques sings in a precise falsetto, the perfect vehicle for the very nasty, very funny, little stories he recounts. | | | The show as a whole sets out to evoke the lost world of Victorian theatrical illusion, the music hall and the fairground sideshow. |
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http://excursia.com/destinations/UK/EN/london/stories/20010413/the_theatre.shtml
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| | TheatreNet.com - The Performing Arts Center |
| | The show features Julian Bleach, Anthony Cairns, Ewan Hunter, Tamzin Griffin and Rebekah Wild, with music by the falsetto trio Martyn Jacques and The Tiger Lillies. | | | Based on Heinrich Hoffmann's gothic children's cautionary tale Struwwelpeter, but given a Rocky Horror style workover, Cultural Industry's combination of puppetry, music and narrative drive has swept all before it. |
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| | Fliegende Bauten Produktionen - Theater Restaurant Bar |
| | Jacques is the founder of The Tiger Lillies and spent much of his formative years training his voice while living in London’s Soho. | | | Jacques plays the accordion and sings savage and passionate songs about prostitutes, drug addicts and losers, his voice soaring and growling like a possessed man, his eyes rolling up and his head wrenching from side to side. | | | Jacques sings about life at the bottom end of contemporary Britain with the voice of an angel. |
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http://www.fliegende-bauten.de/html/booking/tl_engl/tl_infos_engl.html
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| | The Tiger Lillies |
| | Watching the Tiger Lillies feels like being a child reveling in gruesome stories and naughtiness, and provides us with cathartic release. | | | Jacques' glinting eyes and arching brow sent a seductive shiver of fear down our spines. | | | Jacques used to live above a strip joint in London's formerly seedy Soho, while training himself as an opera singer. |
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