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The Tiger Lillies
The Tiger Lillies during a concert
Background information
Origin	London
Genre(s)	Dark Cabaret
Years active	1989–present
Label(s)	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, based in London. Formed in 1989, they have toured world-wide and won acclaim with their opera Shockheaded Peter. Their surreal style has been described as dark, darkly humorous, strangely humourus, random, Brechtian, and gypsy cabaret. They are also notorious for singing controversial songs involving bestiality, prostitution and blasphemy, shocking unsuspecting audiences. 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/illustrator Edward Gorey and the Kronos Quartet.

1 Band members
2 Discography
3 Trivia
4 See also
5 External links

Band members

Martyn Jacques - vocals, accordion, piano, guitar, harmonica.
Adrian Huge - drums and percussion, backing vocals.
Adrian Stout - double bass, musical saw, backing vocals.

Discography

Albums and Songs

1994 - Births, Marriages And Deaths

Boatman, Hell, Normal, Heroin And Cocaine, Prison House Blues, Jacky, Despite, Autumn Leaves, Lager Lout, Open Your Legs, Down And Out, Tears, Her Room, The Flowers, War, Obscene, You're World, Sense Of Sentiment, Wake Up, Repulsion, Sodsville, Bones, Circle Line, Haunting Me, Lily Marlene

1995 - Spit Bucket

Stitch Me Up, Gouge My Eyes Out, Violin Time, Crappy, Weak, Blind Willy, Doctors & Nurses, Just Because, Fallen Hero, Sinner, Heaven, Promised Land, Weird, Way On Down, Our Hearts, Suffering, Ealing, Thank You

1995 - Ad Nauseam

Larder, Dribble, Bumhole, Darkness, Beat me, Swine, Whore, Disease, Ghetto, Gypsies, Shoot your load, Pimps, pushers and thieves, Smell, Snakeskin shoes, Old, Social reject, George, Five O'Clock, Jesus, Suicide, Crap, Murder, Violet, Snip Snip

1996 - The Brothel To The Cemetery

Roll Up, Tiger Lillie Line, Banging in the Nails, Sailors, Slough, Alone with the moon, Terrible, Russians, Gypsy Lament, Heaven to Hell, Mortuary, Nightingale, Crime, Old Gracefully, Reap what you sow, Pretty soon, Arthur, Decline, Millionaire

1997 - Farmyard Filth

Hamsters, Waiter, Vagina, Aunty Mabel, Heinrich, Sheep, Maggots, Motor Car, Piglet, Kick a stick, Cowboys, Flies, Happy End

1998 - Low Life Lullabies

Same old story, The pimp song, Pervert, Piccadilly Lilly, Queen for a day, Bank robber blues, Gas bill, Maxwell, Billy's blues, Crude, If you knew, Soho news, Le Havre, Dead

1998 - Shockheaded Peter

The Struwwelpeter Overture, Cruel Frederick, The dreadful story about Harriet and the matches, Bully Boys, The Story of the man that went out shooting, Snip Snip, Augustus, Fidgety Phil, Johnny Head-In-Air, Flying Robert, Shockheaded Peter

1999 - Bad Blood and Blasphemy

Bad, Killer, Car Crash, Maria, Start a Fire, Soho Boy, Neighbour, Angel, XYZ, Crack Of Doom, Clown, Rapist, Salvation, Dead Souls, Swing 'em High

2000 - Circus Songs

Souvenirs, Sleep with the fishes, Freakshow, Danced All Night, Bearded Lady, Cheapest show, Send In the Clowns, Pretty Lisa, Circus Clown, Over you, Pall Bearers

2000 - Bouquet of Vegetables - The Early Years

Thousand Violins, William, Quick and Slow, Marseille, Palace of St James, Wrong Attitude, Little Boys Blues, Wake Up, Deluded, Overtime, Holy Men, Born to Fail, Angels, Don't Mean a Thing, Right to Wrong

2001 - 2 Penny Opera

Moon over Soho, Why (Mackie's childhood song), Piss on your grave, My Daughter, Mary, Wedding Song, Police, Bastard, Money, Depends on Baby, Fisheads, Darling, Hang Tomorrow, Your Suicides, Bitch, Wise, Wise, Twenty five minutes, Finale, Divine

2003 - The Sea

Louis, Pressganged, Chicago Sunset, Drunken Sailor, Luis Miller, Devil's Child, By the Shore, Captain Bligh, Cadavours, Fishermen, Jackies Bar, King Neptune, Skull and Crossbones

2003 - The Gorey End (with Kronos Quartet)

Hipdeep Family Intro, ABC, Weeping Chandelier, Gin, QRV, Dreadful Domesticity, Hertha Strubb, Learned Pig, Jesus on the Windshield, Besotted Mother, Histoire de Kay, Trampled Lilly, Hipdeep Family

2003 - Live In Russia 2000-2001
2004 - Punch and Judy

Mummy, Lonely Schizophrenic, Tick tock, Body Hanging, Hardest Bastard, Deranged, Mummy Loved Me, Why Am I Alone, Punch and Judy, Going South, Polly, Sick, The End, Lilly of the Valley, Fountain filled with Blood, Why are you Laughing?

2004 - Death and the Bible

Incontinent, Bleeding Hands Of Jesus, Scars, Bleeding, Fairground, Thieves, Graveside, Mary Magdalena, Strawberry Jam, Satan, Meat, Purgatory, Neon, Judas, In my Hearse, Mourn, Green Hill, Die.

2005 - Huinya (with Leningrad)
2006 - Die Weberischen

Fame, Life's a bitch, Mozart's in Mannheim, Love for sale, Abort the child, Just another loser, Father's Song, Never marry a man, Screw You, Lending Song, The merry birdcatcher, Death Song, Murdered Mozart, Nothin'

2007 - Urine Palace

Manure, Cancer, Kick a Baby, Drowning, Yellow Angel, Getting Old, My Funny Valentine, Masturbating Jimmy, She’s a Whore, Gonorrhoea, Eternity.

2007 - Live in Soho
2007 - Love and War

Love And War, Card Game, Kill you on a Monday, There is no glory in battle, Devil, Love it is a luxury, A river of tears, Trancred and Clorinda, Kill you, Lover's return, Winners and losers, Nightingale, Enemies of love, Love a Whore, Venus.

DVD

Alexander Hacke & Tiger Lillies & Danielle de Picciotto live with "The Mountains of Madness" (2007)

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

Books

1998 - The Ultimate Shockheaded Peter Book - ISBN 3-932909-99-2
2003 - Farmyard Fantasy Book
2007 - "The Tiger Lillies Book" - www.tigerlilliesbook.com

Trivia

The Romanian band Spitalul de Urgenţă translated the Tiger Lillies song Whore into a new track, Curva, included on their album Alcool Rafinat (2005).
The music for Whore was also used in the Leningrad song Dikij Muzhchina.
Their music has also been integrated into dance performances by critically acclaimed Canadian contemporary dance troupe Holy Body Tattoo.
They covered the Shel Silverstein song 25 Minutes to Go on 2 Penny Opera.
They covered Send in the Clowns on Circus Songs.
They covered My Funny Valentine on Urine Palace.
Martyn Jacques appears in the 2007 Channel 4/Artangel film Exodus, singing "Hailstones".